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Showcase: Typography in WordPress Blog Design & Resources

22nd Jun 2010 | Posted by Yahya | 10 Comments

Typeface is the most important element used in a blog or website. When people come to your blog they don’t care much about background image, sound, or effect you use. First, they wanna see your title, then about …

How to Create a Redirect Page Template in WordPress

19th Jun 2010 | Posted by Eko S. | 27 Comments

You may have noticed a theme that has completely different looking pages, like archive page, contact page, redirect page, fullwidth-no sidebar page, homepage, etc. A custom page is helpful if you want to have a page that looks …

Quick Tip : Make A Post Automatic Excerpt With Image Thumbnail on WordPress 2.9+

7th Jun 2010 | Posted by Eko S. | 46 Comments

Excerpt is a wordpress feature which will facilitate you to display a summary of the article on index pages automatically without requiring you to add a function readmore (more tag). However, this feature has a weakness, namely a …

How To Code The Mockup Search Box Design from PSD to WordPress Theme

4th Jun 2010 | Posted by Eko S. | 6 Comments

A couple of weeks back we went through the process of creating a search box design concept in Photoshop. The tutorial covered the process of designing our search box in photshop to an inspiratian for creating more color …

Quick Tip : Replace The Horizontal Page Menu With The Categories in WordPress Navigation Bar

30th May 2010 | Posted by Eko S. | 26 Comments

In some wordpress theme, usually the category navigation menu often we get on the sidebar, but I think the position of the category navigation menu on the header section will be more beneficial, because it helps the reader …

How to Create A Simple and Elegant Search Box in Photoshop

25th May 2010 | Posted by Eko S. | 6 Comments

In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create a search box in photoshop, with simple and elegant design. This design will become a mockup for the search box in WordPress. We will learn how to use …

Quick Tip : Exclude Pages From Menu Navigation Bar Manually

23rd May 2010 | Posted by Eko S. | 17 Comments

Sometimes we wanted to create pages in WordPress but don’t want them listed in the header navigation areas. For example you want to make the page ‘Guides for using RSS feeds’, and you think this page should not …

Showcase: Simplicity in WordPress Blog Design

18th May 2010 | Posted by Yahya | 14 Comments

Showcase theme of this month are simple and minimalist. In web design, Simplicity or minimalist not really mean ugly, bad or poor of creativity. Its can mean clean, neat, light, elegan and professionalism.

Sometimes making a simple and clean …

Quick Tip : How to Enable Threaded Comments Function in WordPress

16th May 2010 | Posted by Eko S. | 6 Comments

Threaded comment is one of cool function from wordpress, this feature is very useful, even in our opinion, this feature is very important and must be owned on a blog. Why?

It enables users to reply on a exist …

Showcase: 30+ Creative WordPress Blogs Design Layouts

16th Apr 2010 | Posted by Yahya | 12 Comments

Before this article, I have been made showcase about wordpress blog use paper in their design and showcase about blog design in Indonesia, I saw a lot people like it, so now I made showcase again with more …