“Mastering CSS, Part 1: Styling Design Elements” at Smashing Magazine
“20 Kick-Ass WordPress Theme Frameworks For Rapid Theme Development” at Codefusion Lab (which ironically is hosted on Blogspot)
“15 Killer Hacks for WordPress that Are Extremely Useful” at wpbeginner
And here’s an article on Twitter SEO targeted to job seekers
Fluency Integrated Consulting has completed the first phase of a website redesign for the Institute of Social and Economic Development (ISED), a D.C.-based organization that works on sustainable economic development projects throughout the globe.
ISED’s old site, built using ColdFusion, was years out of date, visually unappealing, and had a major lack of focus and interactivity.
I have been using Twitter for Identity Theory (@identitytheory) and Fluency (@FluencyBTV), which is taking up the time I’d have otherwise spent on this blog.
Usability is really important to creating web content, and Twitter’s interface for creating content is about as easy as it gets. No worries about formatting whatsoever, and brevity is encouraged. Therefore, it’s much easier for me to send a tweet than post to this blog.
About six years ago, I made a hideously ugly mock “fan” website about Kato Kaelin called “Can I Get a Witness?”
The page featured several banal quotes from O.J.’s famous houseguest as well as a “Kato vs. Plato” section.
I’m working on gradually upgrading the look and functionality of Identity Theory as well as this blog and some other projects, so I’ve been reading a lot more articles on web design lately. The following posts and/or resources have proven exceptionally interesting:
1. Smashing Magazine discusses Textures in Modern Web Design.
2. The always insightful Jeffrey Zeldman offers Recession Tips for Web Designers.
3. NETTUTS gives you The 20 Most Practical and Creative Uses of jQuery.
4. A Flickr Creative Commons Search enables you to sift through thousands of photos that will usually be reusable in some way for free.
5. DesignMag features 40+ Inspirational Non-Profit Website Designs.