Monthly Archive:
February, 2008

The Best WordPress Admin Themes You Could Possibly Find

WordPress Administration can be a bland and boring thing, after a while it becomes tiresome. Time for a change, freshen things up. The availabilty of WP Admin themes is not great, so below to make things easier for everyone I have compiled a list of the best admin themes available. These themes are not only good for personal use, but also for your clients, makes it easier to customize to there style. I currently use the Tiger Admin Plugin.

53 Steps to follow if you want to become Freelance Web Designer/Developer (60+ Resources)
February 24, 2008 - 85 Comments.
Popular

In recent months I have been setting myself up as a Freelance Web designer/Developer, if I told you it was a rocky road I wouldn’t be exaggerating . If I had followed the list I have written below it would have made my life so much easier and stress free. But, like most things, entering into a new chapter can make you feel blindfolded and you stumble about trying to find the answers. Hopefully following this list will help. There [...]

Do you remember these Windows Systems? A nostalgic look at Windows.

I was given a pc a while back that had Windows 95 preinstalled, to be honest I never had a PC that far back, I had started out on a Mac. So it was a bit of an eye opener seeing this ancient system, to say the least. My first Windows was ME(Millenium), that came installed on the cheapest, and to be honest, the worst PC I have ever bought. How I stayed with Windows after using ME, I’ll never [...]

The Top 40 Free Ajax & Javascript Code for Web Designers
February 10, 2008 - 131 Comments.
Ajax, Popular, Web Apps

Ajax has becoming very popular recently, but most designers seem to rehash the same script over and over (you’ll see it in a lot of WordPress Themes and Plugins). Perhaps we aren’t using ajax technology to its full potential, myself included. The list below is made up of the best FREE scripts available, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure. Give them a try. I have tried and tested the top 22, and [...]

The Best Icon Search Engines and Features for Designers
February 5, 2008 - 10 Comments.
Free Icons, Web Apps

Searching for that perfect icon for your design can be monotonous, browsing through the multitude of icon sites (my last icon article: Top 25 Free Icon Resources for Web Designers) can take hours, wasting good productive time. Thankfully a solution has presented its self in Icon Search Engines. This is a new idea that has sprung up in the past year or so, a brilliant time saving tool that has gained popularity because of the quality of icons they display. [...]

Top 10 Free Blogging Platforms & Features For Web Designers

The obvious choice for Number 1 is WordPress, it is the most versatile and flexible platform that I have come across. But, that is my opinion, WordPress seems to fit my needs 9 times out of ten. Our needs and that of our clients are different, don’t get me wrong I am not saying that Serendipity, Text Pattern or any of others are not very good, just simply my preference. Thats the key word here preference.