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Cool business card designs. May go with the “Hello my name is” design someday myself.

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I think this is a very good move. Small Potato–who is no small potato when it comes to WordPress themes–it looks like he has well over 30 well designed themes–has just committed to switching all his themes from Creative Commons licensing to GPL.
What he’s done is very good for the WordPress community. It has been [...]

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I’m get questions about what themes I’d recommend for WordPress. Here’s a list of themes that I find most suitable for tweaking for most website needs.
Cutline
Pressrow
K2
Kubrick - WordPress Default 1.5
MistyLook 2.3
Tarski 1.2
Fauna
blog.txt 1.2
Simplr 1.4.1
k2redux-warhol white
Most of the themes at wpthemes.info are quite good
WordPress.org also lists a few good themes
And of course Heminway [...]

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Had to point you to First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman which has a beautiful new website that is a great example of what you can do with WordPress as a content management system (CMS). Have we mentioned lately how much we love WordPress?

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Here’s a place to find templates for popular blogging systems: CMS Styles

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Run your web design by the web standards checklist.

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Writing effective link text is a helpful article that highlights what to keep in mind when you create links in articles and such.

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Free on-line website accessibility tool

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456 Berea Street does it again with this nice Flexible box with custom corners and borders. I’ve got ideas for this one and you may find it in use soon on a site I’m working on.

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I’m enthusiastic about this—very cool use of CSS and images to create a list of items for news or links—Flexible news list.

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This is a nice looking implementation of an expanding menu.
The script can be downloaded here—Switch Menu
An example of how it can be used can be seen on Jon Hicks website.

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CSS Teaser Box

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This almost makes one want to put buttons on their site—Styling Form Widgets

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color palette creator

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Your Redesign Toolbox—where to go to prepare for a total redo of your current site design.

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Hiveware - Image Rotator—a dash of php to rotate images on each page reload.

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Design inspiration and how to find it and use it—Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal

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Give font size control to the user of your website with this solution from A List Apart—Power To The People, Relative Font Sizes.

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Here’s a thorough article on card sorting for the purpose of designing the structure of information. This would be helpful for structuring a site’s navigation.

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A very handy color tool for web design—Color Toy

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o2b has some clean icons for use with your web designs.

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Good ideas to help you tack down the trouble with your CSS—CSS Problem-Solving

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Installment two of CSS From the Ground Up has been published in the March issue of Web Page Design for Desingers.

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pixel and led fonts - useful addition to the wed design tool box

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Very nice tool to help in the task of choosing a color scheme for a web design.

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Definitly strange and possibly helpf when looking for a design idea - StrangeBanana: Computer-generated webpage design.

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I was browsing through Dean’s latest post and found a link to this handy resource: the Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition

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Dean points to an article about 15 trends shaping logo design. There are some good logo samples here for inspiration.

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