40+ Free Responsive WordPress Themes Not every blogger or site owner is code-literate or design-savvy, but everyone deserves to get a responsive design for their site. If you’re on WordPress, have we got a treat for you. Rather than bust your budget to hire a designer for a revamp, why not adopt one of these handpicked WordPress Themes that are available for free? These themes are built to resize and realign itself to cater to the different screen sizes of mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, i.e. they are responsive. No more swiping around to find hidden sidebars, zooming in and out to make the text comfortable enough to read. There will definitely be more out there so if you have a favorite theme, do let us know in the comments below. Constellation [ Demo | Download ] Flexible [ Demo | Download ] Ari [ Demo | Download ] Designfolio [ Demo | Download ] Simple Grid [ Demo | Download ] Unique [ Demo | Download ] Gridly [ Demo | Download ] TumblePress [ Demo | Download ] Twenty Ten [ Demo | Download ] What’s next?
HTML Colors PHP for Beginners: Building Your First Simple CMS The Magic of PHP + MySQL It’s safe to say that nearly every website that’s up-to-date these days is using some form of content management system (CMS). While there are a ton of great free options that provide us with a CMS to power a website (WordPress, Drupal, etc.), it doesn’t hurt to peek under the hood and get a feel for how these systems work. To get our feet wet as back-end developers, we’ll be creating a simple PHP class that will: Create a databaseConnect to a databaseDisplay a form with two fieldsSave the form data in the databaseDisplay the saved data from the database Download Files This class is intended to give you a feel for how PHP and MySQL interact together, and to show the basics of a CMS. Building the Class Our first step is to simply lay out the class in a file named ‘simpleCMS.php’ so we have a road map to work with. As you can see, we’re creating one class with four variables and five methods. The Variables Build the Database Connect to the Database Build the Form <! <?
30 Fresh and Stunning Responsive Joomla Corporate Templates - Mixburn all for wordpress Today we will show 30 fresh and stunning premium responsive Joomla corporate templates, business templates of 2013 with you. We love Joomla, because it is the best of the best content management system in the world. If you have plan to crate your own business website, we recommended you Joomla. So, today we have collected 30 fresh and professional Joomla 2.5 templates and they are one of the best clean, corporate business designs to suit any type of business. Here are some features of these templates; All of templates comes with limitless color schemes, unique featured and content slideshows, professional K2 panels and you can easily select and edit the present styles with the powerful easy to use admin interface elements. JM Corporate JM Corporate is a professional Joomla 2.5 template and is one of the best clean, corporate business designs to suit any type of business. Theme-Org The Theme-Org Template is one of the best light and feature rich responsive Business template for Joomla.
55+ Extremely Useful Online Generators for Designers In 2008 when I launched my personal blog to share my experiences, I decided to call it Balkhis instead of using my full name (Syed Balkhi). As time passed on, I regretted that decision because it created a lot of confusion. People thought that my last name was Balkhis instead of Balkhi. I basically combined my last name with the first letter of my first name.I was @syedbalkhi across all social media platforms, so the brand wasn’t consistent.People didn’t know about my personal blog as much because they didn’t relate Balkhis with me. Well as I focus more on my personal brand in 2015, I made the crucial move of switching domain names. As you noticed with this change, I got a new site design. I didn’t want to spend too much time creating a custom theme, so I used my friend Michael Hyatt’s theme which you too can buy if you like: GetNoticed. I did customize it to give it a bit of personal touch. The main reason why I chose this theme is because of all the amazing functionality it comes with.
25 Free Must Download Design Programs 25 free must download design programs, the article features a range of different design programs including alternative programs for some of the most popular design programs such as Photoshop, flash and illustrator. A great collection of programs available for free which is perfect while currently suffering from a recession. Image Editing 1) Paint.net Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. 3) Xara Xtreme Xara Xtreme is quite simply the best value and fastest all-in-one graphics package you’ll find. 4) Active Pixels Great free app which is very similar to Photoshop. 5) PaintStar PaintStar is a versatile digital image processing software suitable for such tasks as retouching of photographs, composing and authoring images, image morphing, screen capture, and displaying image thumbnail in Windows Explorer context menu. 6) Picasa 3.1 Build 71.43 7) Art weaver 8) VCW VicMan’s Photo Editor 9) Photo Pos Lite 13) Karbon
65 Best Free Fonts From 2012 Font compilation roundups always seem to go down a treat with our readers. This post we have been on a scavenger hunt all over internet, in search of all the best fonts which were created in 2012. The post includes over 65 fonts perfect to use in print and web design projects. Sit back and download some pretty sweet fonts. I hope you enjoy the post, and would love for you to share some of your favorite fonts in the comments section below. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. odstemplik 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. vezus 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 40. sn Blinds 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. akadora 50. 20 Free E-books For Web Designers E-books are great way to learn more about web design. E-books can truly provide you a fountain of knowledge of information and there’s a lot to be learnt. The beauty of ebooks is that there short and insightful not as a long as a book but not as short as a blog post. This blog post we have collected a personal collection of well of thought out web design related ebooks, which can be downloaded and read all for free. I hope you enjoy the blog post and we would love for you to share your favourite free ebook featured in are post, or recommend any good free ebooks which we may have missed out. 1. For too long typographic style and its accompanying attention to detail have been overlooked by website designers, particularly in body copy. 2. Web Designer’s Success Guide is the definitive guide to starting your own freelance Web design business. 3. Does your startup need a designer co-founder? 4. 5. Over the past year I have written a few posts about design guidelines. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
CSS Design: Taming Lists As early as July of 1999 I was pontificating on email lists about the virtues of style sheets. Some things never change. Article Continues Below What has changed is how I think about CSS, and the underlying structure of (X)HTML to which it is applied. For example, I find that most pages on the web contain a menu of links in a navigation area. Of course the reason that we don’t mark them up in that way is that we don’t want a bullet in front of every link in our navigation area. In this article, I’ll demonstrate how to use CSS to bring unwieldy lists under control. Setting the stage#section2 For purposes of this article, I am using unordered lists. <ul><li>Item 1</li><li>Item 2</li><li>Item 3</li><li>Item 4</li><li>Item 5 we'll make a bit longer so that it will wrap</li></ul> Each list is simply placed inside a different DIV, and the CSS is written so that the list’s behavior is determined by the DIV it is in. Item 1Item 2Item 3Item 4Item 5 we’ll make a bit longer so that it will wrap
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Adding Custom Google Maps to Your Website | Stiern Maps are often placed on a company website to help customers find their way there. For that, Google Maps is excellent. But wouldn’t it be nice to add your company logo, parking lots, train stations, etc. to the map, to help the customer even more? It is very simple, and in this article I am going to show you how. Before we start, check out what we are going to create: Now, here is an overview: Overview Google Maps API The Google Maps API allows you to embed maps directly into your website. Getting the Coordinates As I do not expect you to know the precise coordinates of your location, I will explain a very quick way Google has provided to do this. When you enter this in your address bar, you will see this: The coordinates of Apple's head quarter in Cupertino The first number is the status code, and 200 means that everything is okay. Adding the Map to Your Website There’s no need to hesitate – let’s add that map to your website! After the URL, you will notice sensor=false. Write Adding Markers