http://www.webdesigngoldmine.com Golden nuggets of internet wisdom Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:43:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are some outsanding themes available for Wordpress at the moment and combined with the power of Wordpress 2.6 there is no better time to switch to this oustanding open source CMS. Here is our list of favourite websites to download premium themes. Woo Themes Cutting edge Wordpress themes at a sensible ... http://www.webdesigngoldmine.com/2008/08/18/top-5-wordpress-premium-themes/ It goes without saying that CSS is now used for layout on a vast majority of websites however for anything but the smallest website keeping your CSS files organized can be tricky. I've complied a list of CSS organization tips that I've found to be invaluable for both saving time ... http://www.webdesigngoldmine.com/2008/03/14/css-organization-tips/ I've always been fascinated by how artists create that authentic retro look and although its not quite the fad it once was it still has its place for certain brands. However designing a retro theme for a website is harder than it looks and its very easy to end up ... http://www.webdesigngoldmine.com/2008/03/05/10-retro-fonts-illustrations-and-websites/ Creating a basic dynamic navigation is fairly straightforward in Wordpress and with a few tweaks or the installation of a custom plugin you should be good to go. However if your using Wordpress as a CMS for a larger content driven site then your going to find yourself running into ... http://www.webdesigngoldmine.com/2008/02/19/two-tier-dynamic-navigation-for-wordpress/ It takes something really special to drag me away from Wordpress development these days but Pligg, the open source content management system for social media/web 2.0 websites is my new passion. It's got incredible functionality out of the box, is perfect for social media sites and has an active community ... http://www.webdesigngoldmine.com/2008/02/12/seo-friendly-version-of-pligg-v-990/ Whilst Wordpress is a great publishing tool it does have it's challenges and one of my greatest concerns is always security. The Wordpress team of developers do a good job of releasing regular fixes but as always hackers inevitably find loopholes and exploits in each new version. Left in its ... http://www.webdesigngoldmine.com/2008/02/11/improving-wordpress-security-in-five-easy-steps/ It seems that freelancing is one hot topic at the moment and everyone seems to be putting their lists of top freelancing websites and tools online. Not wanting to be left out I have put together the following list, but rather than link to specific articles I have compiled a ... http://www.webdesigngoldmine.com/2008/02/08/freelancing-resources-and-tools/ I've always loved that faded worn look and sometimes finding good tutorials on the techniques used can be elusive to say the least. I've documented some of the best on the web for easy reference. Please feel free to add any further tutorials to this list via the comments if ... http://www.webdesigngoldmine.com/2008/01/29/10-photoshop-tutorials-to-create-a-wicked-worn-look/ I thought I would put a post together featuring some of the really useful videos that Matt Cutts (Head of Web Spam at Google) posts on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog as well as some other great interviews at various conferences. Google's Matt Cutts gives tips to small business owners This ... http://www.webdesigngoldmine.com/2008/01/28/matt-cutts-seo-videos/ A couple of useful wordpress tutorials I've come across which I thought I would share with you. Reset wordpress password in phpMyAdmin - Covers how to reset a password in phpMyAdmin using MD5 hash. Protect you wp-config file - How to protect your config file in Wordpress so you reduce the risk ... http://www.webdesigngoldmine.com/2007/12/21/wordpresss-tutorials/