There has been a long debate in web development community about the CMS capabilities of WordPress. Recently WordPress won Overall Best Open Source CMS Award of 2009 and got 2nd position in best Open Source PHP CMS category.

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After one year using that greyish layout the time for a change has come.
With over 7,000 subscribers, it’s been a great year. We’re celebrating the new year -2010- with a new look and a new series of posts highlighting some of the best techniques and design related posts.

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High quality 25 step photoshop tutorial for advanced designers. You will learn in this tutorial how to create good looking text effects, lightning, shadows, work on grid and a lot more. Must see tutorial!

now we’ll take a look at the Dumb Blue Sucker Monster! Again, using mostly the basic tools and shapes making the tutorial suitable for beginners to Illustrator.

We always try to find some best ever roundups, Today we just select some Professional Free Flash Most Wanted Image Gallery Tutorials using XML which is web based script, mostly flash developers use this script for data integration. Listed tutorials helping to learn more about flash intermediate level scripting and user helping in modern flash website designs, as follow Gallery slideshow, flash image gallery, flash slideshow with free XML templates, XML random image slideshow, XML slideshow and thumbnail and there is also SWF slideshow make for better design idea about Flash Slideshow using XML, hope you like all inspirations about mentioned stuff.

Favicons are those little 16 x 16 icons that appear next to the URL in the address bar of a web browser. They also show up on the tabs (if you’re using a tabbed browser), in your bookmarks.

Enjoy the newest, latest 10 fresh and helpful jQuery plugins in jQuery Plugins series before closing the year 2009.

In this tutorial you’ll read again about a simple but very efficient Adobe Illustrator feature used in creation of a logo icon. I am sure that you already read plenty tutorials from where you had learn how to make a custom art brush used often for swirls creation. You will see that a simple custom art brushes can help you not just on decorations and pattern designs, but also on logo design.

Everyone loves having beautiful desktop wallpapers on their computer. It helps us to de-stress and gives us something else that’s pretty to look at when we have been working on our computers all day.