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33 Wordpress Plugins To Power Up Your Comment Section

33 Wordpress Plugins To Power Up Your Comment Section

By Dainis Graveris on September 30, 2009

As always I am trying to mix up topics I cover and this can be considered as continue to previous article. Last time we got inspired and examined many good blog comment form examples, but this time I went further and found 33 Wordpress plugins, which can be used effectively to power up and evolve [...]

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77 Inspiring Blog Comment Form Designs – Good Examples

77 Inspiring Blog Comment Form Designs – Good Examples

By Dainis Graveris on September 28, 2009

I am continuing to do separated web-design roundups and research, this time we will look at good blog comment design examples. Maybe you can argue, how similar are such comment forms, but still I believe such huge roundups can help to see differences and compare many designs in one place.
Usually forms are pretty classic with [...]

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76 Dirty, Extreme And Creative Free Grunge Fonts

76 Dirty, Extreme And Creative Free Grunge Fonts

By Dainis Graveris on September 25, 2009

Grunge, dirty, fancy typography and artworks are very popular design trend in our days, so I wanted to showcase here most popular and professionally executed fonts in my opinion. Unleash your dirty side and create some fresh design mixing font size, color, textures together – try something new if you haven’t done it yet!
Such fonts [...]

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46 Outstanding Web Layouts From DeviantArt: September 2009

46 Outstanding Web Layouts From DeviantArt: September 2009

By Dainis Graveris on September 22, 2009

I am starting to think, I will create this as monthly feature, maybe not only picking beautiful web design scratches from DeviantArt, but also featuring latest month best web design related articles. There is a reason why domain name is 1st web designer – I really want to make even bigger focus to just web [...]

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51 Form Element Resources and Tutorials Using CSS And Javascript

51 Form Element Resources and Tutorials Using CSS And Javascript

By Dainis Graveris on September 20, 2009

I featured many good looking contact forms some time ago – 91 Trendy Contact And Web Forms For Creative Inspiration, so you should know how looks good example. Now let’s take a look how to create outstanding and beautifully designed form elements from scratch ourselves. Things can get tricky even if you are experienced [...]

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How to Create a Minimalist and Typographic Blog Layout From Scratch

By Tom Walker on September 16, 2009

Typography is probably one the most important and powerful design element ever, so I created this WordPress theme with minimalism and typography in mind. Today, you will learn how to create this minimalist theme scratch including XHTML, CSS and WordPress. Please keep in mind that this theme doesn’t have all the bells and whistles you [...]

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40 Inspiring High Quality Typographic Wallpapers

40 Inspiring High Quality Typographic Wallpapers

By Dainis Graveris on September 12, 2009

I have always enjoyed and admired, how much simple, smart typography can tell and inspire. Simple words can sometimes tell more than amazing digital time-consuming artworks. Basically this wallpaper roundup will enjoy everybody, who likes smart, mostly minimalistic and clean typography. As always I tried to find really high quality wallpapers so almost everybody can [...]

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35 Stylish And Modern Wordpress Plugins Using jQuery UI

35 Stylish And Modern Wordpress Plugins Using jQuery UI

By Dainis Graveris on September 8, 2009

In this post you’ll find out about very flexible and stylish Wordpress plugins, which are based on Jquery UI. For a long time now jQuery has been very popular and modern approach displaying text, images, search, comment boxes etc. in modern way without any use of flash!
Release jQuery power and enjoy benefits right now – [...]

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38 jQuery And CSS Drop Down Multi Level Menu Solutions

38 jQuery And CSS Drop Down Multi Level Menu Solutions

By Dainis Graveris on September 5, 2009

Hello again, it’s time for comprehensive programming article. Here you’ll find 38 mainly jquery and CSS based drop-down or just multi level menu tutorials with down loadable files and explanations as well. My favorite here is the first pick – Outside the box with very unique navigation menu. It’s always good to have such reference [...]

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