Articles Tagged 'free'
20 WordPress Theme Frameworks And Starting Resources
Dainis GraverisA theme framework is a theme that is designed to be a flexible foundation that can serve as a parent theme for building child themes. The use of WordPress theme frameworks may ease theme development by reducing the volume of work which may be needed in creating a backbone for your theme (usually by using PHP and WordPress Template Tags). Theme frameworks also make theme development more accessible, removing the need for programming knowledge. I listed here the best Wordpress theme frameworks available as well as several child themes and related articles to help get Your foot with Wordpress theme developing.
22 Professional WordPress Themes And Resources:Less Is More
This article actually should be considered as less is more. At first I thought I should create massive list full of newest WordPress themes, but then I thought again, how much actually of these themes I would want to use myself. Number was a lot lesser than I thought. So in this article I listed only very well designed,feature rich and truly impressive themes. And with so much themes available for free, it's really a hard task to find really good and not so overused theme, which could be right choice for Your own blog. I tried my best on this article, tell me how did I do!
101 More Quality CSS, XHTML Free Templates: Part 2
As promised second part follows, here I continue free XHTML and CSS template and free layout article, which actually at first was supposed to be one really long article, but WordPress doesn't allow to have such long posts. Anyway those post are directly linked with each other, together there are 202 templates, I picked only those which I found to be interesting for research for people just starting out and looking for new techniques. If You are really advanced user You should consider going straight to this post however - 12 Really Handy CSS Framework, Template And Snippet Sites For Smart Web Designer. Hope this helps in Your development process.
101 High Quality CSS And XHTML Free Templates And Layouts: Part 1
If You have been following to latest articles, I compiled 43 PSD to XHTML, CSS Tutorials article some time ago. This should be considered as next step to web development process. There are a lot of really professional and high quality XHTML, CSS templates available for free - if You are familiar with coding, You can learn many new techniques just by studying code. Those templates are free for charge, however don't forget to check license from each one of them before using. Don't forget that You don't need to copy those layouts, play with css, images to get complete fresh look. Here I represent to You the first part of free templates - every template is hand-picked, I picked only those templates I thought were interesting in code or really exceptional according to standard layouts.
1000 Business Card Giveaway Contest from PrintPrintPrint.biz
Today we've got really special announcement for You - 1stwebdesigner readers! We have got 1000 full color 2 sided business card giveaway from PrintPrintPrint.biz online printing company and rules to win are very simple. Just leave a comment under the post writing suggestions, ideas for new articles You would want to see in the near future. Also don't forget to write your e-mail so we can contact you if you win! Contest will last one week and winner will be decided with Random Integer Generator help.
57+ Premium And Free Image Gallery, Slideshow And Lightbox Solutions
Actually at first I wanted simple image gallery solution for web design project, but when I started to search I changed my mind and thought how great would be to create article about all the best image gallery solutions available on the Internet. So here it is - this list is separated in 3 big categories like Ajax, JavaScript and Lightbox based galleries, CSS based galleries and FLASH based galleries, so You can easy switch to category You got interest in. I think here You'll find gallery for every needs, should be enough to choose from!
45 Sites, Free Icons And PSD Resources For Web-Design
Since previous graphic design related article turned out to be really popular, I decided to do similar article about web-design related resources. In this list You'll find many free icons, psd files in good quality, Photoshop layer styles for easier icon creation and many websites specialized to deliver good quality freebie related content. You could say, it's better to create icons Yourself, but I think there is no sense to create something that's already there available for free, however if there isn't something, this is only way to know it. Also yes, here is many *.psd files, so You have a chance also to see how really these icons are created and learn something. At least I think it's worth bookmarking! One more time, before You use these icons read licence terms and legal agreements.
45+ Free Design Template And PSD Files
Here is many useful graphic design files with guidelines, resolutions for better and faster design creation like business card, credit card, icon, document, sticky note, dvd cover, cd cover templates and much much more. I believe in the right hands this collection will become marvelous time saver at least I feel so ever since I found these resources. Why should You create again and again something, that's already out there? Also be aware about license terms and agreements before You put them in use.
30 Free Stock Photo Sites: Ultimate Collection
Huh, I know there are maybe even too many articles about places, where to search for photos and images, but those articles were usually very old, many sites do not work anymore and that kind of stuff. So my goal was to create ultimate collection with the best places where to search for and get nice quality images. I think every site of this list is worth checking out, although in most cases with sxc.hu site alone is enough.
70 Free and Premium WordPress Themes
WordPress becomes more and more popular, so there a lot bigger demand for free and premium themes. We all are used to see themes like this not for free, that's amazing what can be found all around the web. All themes are hand picked and elected from the best of the best! I didn't want You to bother with standard or low-level themes - I chose only those ones, as I would be searching for myself and wanted to use! So here You have it - 70 Premium and Free WordPress themes!!! Cheers, friends and use them well!
