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Using Shortcodes to Speed Up Posting with Popular Services
Today, we're going to look at how to use shortcodes in conjunction with a variety of popular services - including sites like YouTube and Flickr by first...
Connor Turnbull
23 Sep 2011
Code
Using DISQUS Comments for Social Commenting on Your WordPress Site
DISQUS powers the comments system of many blogs, include some high-profile ones. DISQUS has a range of advantages, including better spam prevention and...
Connor Turnbull
22 Sep 2011
Code
14 Top CSS and HTML5 Files for Web Designers on CodeCanyon
If you read WebDesignTuts+ often, you'll probably have seen many references to ThemeForest, our marketplace for web templates and themes. However, there's a...
Connor Turnbull
20 Sep 2011
Web Design
13 Podcasts All Web Designers Should Subscribe To
Podcasts can be an engaging way of learning new techniques or staying up to date with what other designers have to say. Today, we'll look at a bunch of...
Connor Turnbull
14 Sep 2011
Web Design
Stepping Out With Bootstrap from Twitter
Twitter introduced Bootstrap recently, a library of CSS styles aimed at web app developers in need of some design help. The toolkit includes everything from...
Connor Turnbull
7 Sep 2011
Web Design
Resource Roundup! 20 Creative Shortcodes To Use In Your Projects
WordPress introduced shortcodes waaay back in version 2.5 as a great way of adding theme-specific styling through a simple-to-use tag in your post editor, or...
Connor Turnbull
30 Jul 2011
Code
Setting Web Type to a Baseline Grid
Web design is essentially just an evolution of the principles and theories created during the evolution of print. The design industry brought a lot of...
Connor Turnbull
28 Jul 2011
Web Design
Designing For, and As, a Color-Blind Person
Color blindness is a mild disability through which the affected experience a decreased ability to distinguish colors from others. This can be a real drawback...
Connor Turnbull
22 Jul 2011
Web Design
Using White Space (or Negative Space) in Your Designs
Space is a fundamental parameter in web design, but also one of the most underrated. If we grasp control of white space, we can control a subtle, but...
Connor Turnbull
19 Jul 2011
Web Design
Unity in Web Design
Today we're going to take a look at a design principle that plays a major role in the success of a web design: Unity. As with many designed elements in the...
Connor Turnbull
14 Jul 2011
Web Design
Be Inspired, But Don't Copy
Whichever way you look at it, your design has had some influence from the taste or style of another designer. You might not notice it, but you've picked up...
Connor Turnbull
30 Jun 2011
Web Design
Eight Important Factors of Good Web Typography
Good typography can be a cornerstone to a successful web design. Because so much of web design comprises of text, hitting the right mark for your typography...
Connor Turnbull
22 Jun 2011
Web Design