No matter what kind of website or blog you own, you’ll definitely find something that will make your site better. Just like with clothes some plugins are one size fits all, and other are quite specific. Almost every blog will encounter spam, security concerns and will want to expose their content to the largest audience possible. This two article series focuses on the most essential and useful WordPress plugins every blog will find useful. Whether you’re bored with the default comments platform, want to try custom fonts or just add neat social sharing options, continue reading to find the best WordPress plugins out there. The plugins are sorted into categories and only a few of them have the same features so you can find the very right ones for you.

The first part will cover optimization, forms, comments, site backup, posts, security, design & theme customization and media. Stay tuned for part 2 which will contain even more specific and targeted WordPress plugins.

The second part will cover ecommerce, SEO, social media, marketing and lot of great miscellaneous plugins.

Optimization

1. WP Super Cache

WP Super Cache is a very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

2. WP-Optimize

WP-Optimize is a WordPress 2.9++ database cleanup and optimization tool. It doesn’t require PhpMyAdmin to optimize your database tables. It allows you to remove post revisions, comments in the spam queue and un-approved comments within few clicks.

3. W3 Total Cache

W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your site by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download times and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.

Forms

1. Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail content flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

2. Fast Secure Contact Form

A super customizable contact form that lets your visitors send you email. Blocks all automated spammers. No templates to mess with.

3. Gravity Forms (Premium –  $39)

Gravity Forms is hands down the best contact form plugin for WordPress. Build and publish your WordPress forms in just minutes. No drudgery, just quick and easy form-building.

4. AJAX Contact Forms (Premium – $10)

This is a jQuery based AJAX powered HTML / PHP contact form with Twitter Direct Messaging, easily integrated into WordPress via shortcodes and functions.

Comments

1. Disqus Comment System

Disqus, pronounced “discuss”, is a service and tool for web comments and discussions. Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community.

2. GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up an advanced rating and review system for post types and comments in your blog using single, multi and thumbs ratings.

3. Wizzart – Recent Comments

This plugin offers a highly customizable widget to show recent comments of your visitors in your sidebars.

4. Facebook Comments

Full Facebook Comments moderation and management for your WordPress site. Quick and easy to set up. Insert automatically or via a shortcode.

5. Thank Me Later

Automatically send a ‘thank you’ e-mail to those who comment on your blog. This plugin engages visitors by reminding them to check back for new comments and interesting content.

6. Disable Comments

Allows administrators to globally disable comments on their site. Comments can be disabled according to post type.

7. WP Customer Reviews

WP Customer Reviews allows your customers and visitors to leave reviews or testimonials of your services. Reviews are Microformat enabled (hReview).

Site Backup

1. WP-DBManager

Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of back ups, optimizing and repairing of database.

2. BackUpWordPress

BackUpWordPress will back up your entire site including your database and all your files once every day.

Posts

1. Editorial Calendar

The Editorial Calendar makes it possible to see all your posts and drag and drop them to manage your blog.

2. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.

3. SimpleReach Slide

The Slide recommends related posts from within your site on a widget that “slides” in at the bottom of the page.

4. WordPress Popular Posts

WordPress Popular Posts is a highly customizable sidebar widget that displays the most popular posts on your blog. You can use it as a template tag, too.

5. Raw HTML

Lets you use raw HTML or any other code in your posts. You can also disable smart quotes and other automatic formatting on a per-post basis.

6. Auto Post Thumbnail

Automatically generate the Post Thumbnail (Featured Thumbnail) from the first image in post or any custom post type only if Post Thumbnail is not set.

Security

1. Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

2. SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the forms for comments, registration, lost password, login, or all. For WP, WPMU, and BuddyPress.

3. Secure WordPress

Secure WordPress beefs up the security of your WordPress installation by removing error information on login pages, adds index.html to plugin directories, hides the WordPress version and much more.

4. BulletProof Security

WordPress Website Security Protection. Website security protection against: XSS, RFI, CRLF, CSRF, Base64, Code Injection and SQL Injection hacking att

Design & Theme Customization

1. Widget Context

Widget Context allows you to specify widget visibility settings – you can choose to display them only on certain posts, front page, category or tag pages etc.

2. WP Google Fonts

The WP Google Fonts plugin allows you to easily add fonts from the Google Font Directory to your WordPress theme.

3. WP Maintenance Mode

Adds a splash page to your site that lets visitors know your site is down for maintenance. Full access to the back- & front-end is optional.

4. Genesis Simple Sidebars

This plugin allows you to create multiple, dynamic widget areas, and assign those widget areas to sidebar locations within the Genesis Theme Framework

5. Shortcodes Ultimate

With this plugin you can easily create buttons, boxes, different sliders and much, much more. Turn your free theme to premium in just a few clicks.

6. All In One Favicon

Easily add a Favicon to your site and the WordPress admin pages. Complete with upload functionality. Supports all three Favicon types (ico,png,gif).

7. Font Uploader (Premium – $10)

This plugin lets you upload your own font files and apply them to any element of your website without requiring a knowledge of html or css.

8. WPtouch

WPtouch: A simple, powerful and elegant mobile theme for your website. WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress website into an application-like theme.

9. Widget Logic

Widget Logic lets you control on which pages widgets appear using WP’s conditional tags. It also adds a ‘widget_content’ filter.

10. WP Content Slideshow

WP Content Slideshow is the perfect Slideshow for WordPress. It displays up to 5 Posts or Pages with Tile, Description and Image for every Post.

Media

1. Easing Slider

The Easing Slider comes with various options that allow you to choose different sources to get the images from and also multiple styling options so that you”ll never have to edit any files directly & with ease. Create your own unique elegant slider.

2. NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with dozens of options and features.

3. flickrRSS

Allows you to integrate Flickr photos into your site. It supports user, set, favorite, group and community photostreams.

4. WordPress Video Plugin

A filter for WordPress that allows easy video embedding of supported sites. Support for 65 different video sites.

5. oQey Gallery

oQey Gallery is a premium grade plugin for managing images and video, creating photo slideshows with music, photo & video galleries that works fantastic.

6. uBillboard (Premium – $20)

uBillboard is a Premium Slider for WordPress. It is a jQuery based slider with a multitude of transitions and options so you can customize it all you want without being overwhelmed with options you never wanted or needed.

7. WP Lightbox 2

This plugin used to add the lightbox (overlay) effect to the current page images on your WordPress blog.

Commerce

1. WP e-Commerce

WP e-Commerce is a free WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin that lets customers buy your products, services and digital downloads online.

2. Jigoshop

Jigoshop is an eCommerce plugin for WordPress developed by professionals with years of experience delivering online shops for global brands.

3. WooCommerce

Transform your WordPress website into a thoroughbred online store. Delivering enterprise-level quality & features whilst backed by a name you can trust.

4. uPricing (Premium – $15)

uPricing is the ultimate and unique solution for all your WordPress related pricing page needs. Creating pricing tables has never been easier. uPricing comes with easy to use jQuery powered admin interface that lets you create and edit your pricing tables.

5. PayPal Donations

Easy, simple setup to add a PayPal Donation button as a Widget or with a shortcode.

SEO

1. All in One SEO Pack

All in One SEO Pack is the best SEO plugin out there which will automatically optimize your WordPress blog for search engines.

2. WordPress SEO by Yoast

WordPress SEO is the most complete WordPress SEO plugin that exists today for WordPress.org users. It incorporates everything from a snippet preview and page analysis functionality that helps you optimize your pages content, images titles, meta descriptions and more to XML sitemaps, and loads of optimization options in between.

3. Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently.

Social

1. Add Link to Facebook

Automatically add links to posts or pages that are being published to your Facebook wall, pages or groups. Simple one time setup and forget. The way links appear on Facebook can be customized.

2. WP to Twitter

Posts a Twitter update when you update your WordPress blog or post to your blogroll, using your chosen URL shortening service. Requires PHP 5 and cURL

3. Digg Digg

Digg Digg allows you to integrate popular social buttons into WordPress easily.

4. ShareThis

The ShareThis plugin seamlessly enables users to share your content through Email,Facebook,Twitter, Google +1, Like, Send and many more.

5. BuddyPress

BuddyPress lets users register on your site and start creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups and much more. A social network in a box, BuddyPress lets you build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community.

6. bbPress

bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress.

7. The Google+ plugin

The Google + Plugin integrates WordPress with your G+ Profile and Page – now with BuddyPress and Post Format support.

8. Twitter Widget Pro

A widget that properly handles twitter feeds, including parsing @username, #hashtags, and URLs into links.

Marketing

1. Newsletter

This plug-in lets you collect subscribers on your blog with a single or double opt-in subscription process. Double opt-in is law compliant and it means the user has to confirm the subscription following simple standard instructions sent to him via email.

2. WP125

Easy management of 125×125 ads on your blog. Ads can be run for a specified number of days, and will automatically be taken down. Track clicks too.

3. s2Member

s2Member (membership with PayPal) offers powerful membership capabilities. Protect members only content. The s2Member Framework integrates with PayPal very easily and fully supports recurring billing.

4. MailPress

The WordPress mailing platform.

5. Subscribe2

Subscribe2 provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog.

6. MailChimp Widget

Adds a widget that allows your users to sign up for your MailChimp mailing list.

7. Simple PopUp

A simple, attractive, extremely fast and non annoying pop up box for your WordPress Blog. It’s power lies in its ease of use.

Miscellaneous

1. WP-PageNavi

Want to replace the old ← Older posts | Newer posts → links with some page links? This plugin provides the wp_pagenavi() template tag which generates fancy pagination links.

2. Jetpack by WordPress.com

 Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.

3. Exclude Pages

This plugin adds a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, which is checked by default. If you uncheck it, the page will not appear in any listings of pages (which includes, and is usually limited to, your page navigation menus).

4. Broken Link Checker

This plugin will check your posts, comments and other content for broken links and missing images, and notify you if any are found.

5. ManageWP Worker

ManageWP Worker plugin allows you to remotely manage your blogs from one dashboard. You can read our review here.

6. Redirection

Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge of Apache .htaccess files.

7. FD Feedburner Plugin

Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed seamlessly and transparently to Feedburner.com.

8. Hotfix

Provides unofficial fixes for selected WordPress bugs, so you don’t have to wait for the next WordPress core release.

9. Google Analytics for WordPress

Track your WordPress site easily and with lots of metadata: views per author & category, automatic tracking of outbound clicks and page views.

10. WP-Polls

Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can also easily add a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page.

11. Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu

The lazy and the productive will love it : all admin links available in a neat horizontal CSS driven drop down menu. No need to click on “Manage” then “Pages” to edit pages. And plenty more space on your screen.

12. Pretty Link Lite

Shrink, beautify, track, manage and share any URL on or off of your WordPress website. Create links that look however you want using your own domain name.

13. 5sec Google Maps (Premium – $8)

Integrate Google Maps into your WordPress blog easily without using API or any code.

14. Advanced Access Manager

Advanced Access Manager is a new way of controlling access to your single blog or multi-site setup. This easy to use interface is a very helpful tool for experienced WordPress users.

Conclusion

Do you know and use any other plugins besides the ones we suggested here? We would really appreciate your feedback here, but we are pretty sure this list will be very comprehensive for you and will satisfy most peoples needs!

1. FlexSlider

( Demo | Download )

FlexSlider is an amazing, totally responsive jQuery slider plugin. It bears uncomplicated, semantic markup, slide and fade animations, and is supported in all major browsers, therefore you won’t have any compatibility issues. Flexslider is built for novices and pros in a similar way.

2. Bubble Slideshow Effect with jQuery

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In this tutorial we will be building a jQuery-powered bubble animation effect. It will be a great way to present a set of images on your website as an interesting slideshow, and as the code will be completely modular, you will be able to easily use it and modify it.

3. Responsive Image Gallery with Thumbnail Carousel

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With this plugin you can create a responsive image gallery with a thumbnail carousel using Elastislide. The gallery will have a view switch that allows people to view it with or without the thumbnail carousel. We’ll also add the possibility to navigate with the keyboard.

4. Circular Content Carousel with jQuery

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With this circular content carousel, you can have some content boxes that can slide substantially (circular). Clicking the “More” link will move the respective item to the left and slide out the content area, so that you can navigate through the carousel where every step will disclose the next or previous content box with its extended content.

5. Lateral On-Scroll Sliding with jQuery

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In this tutorial we are going to show you how to create a “slide-in on scroll” effect. You’ve probably seen this cool effect on some websites, like on Nizo or in the portfolio section of brilliantly designed La Moulade. The main idea is to laterally slide in elements depending on the scroll position of the document. Dividing the page into a left and right side, we want to move the elements from “outside” of the page to the center when they are in the viewport.

6. Scrollbar Visibility with jScrollPane

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Sometimes it can be very useful to hide the scrollbar of elements in a website and only show it when the user really needs it. The real-time activity feed in Facebook is an example for such a behavior. In this tutorial we want to show you how to use jScrollPane and extend it with the functionality to hide the scrollbar and show it on hover.

7. Timelinr

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This simple jQuery plugin will assist you in providing more life to otherwise your lifeless timelines. With this plugin, you can easily parameterize the majority of attributes: speed, transparency, etc. It also supports horizontal and vertical layouts.

8. SmartGallery

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SmartGallery is a lightweight, lightening up fast and completely customizable image gallery that has been exclusively designed to support huge data. SmartGallery comes with 12 different transition effects together with some inimitable transition effect and thumbnail navigation.

9. Xml Driven Vertical News Scroller Script

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vScroller demonstrates classified and color-code content is an upright or vertical scroll. Feeds originate from regular XML file and styled with plain CSS3 for a fresh and good-looking interface.

10. jQuery Sliding Content Bar Plugin: PushUp Content

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This smart and fast content bar is easy to integrate in any web design or web based application. You can seamlessly integrate this in your website and it will pop up whenever needed. Apart from this, it is highly easy to customize this plugin. You can add your contact details, location map by means of Google Maps, and a plain contact form that visitors can use to make contact with you.

11. Skitter

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Skitter is a plugin for producing good-looking slideshows. You can modify every aspect of your slideshow.

12. Diapo

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Diapo is a free of charge and open source jQuery slideshow plugin. Most interestingly, you can also use it in your projects and sell it as part of a bigger work (donations are not required, but asked to be considered in this case).

13. Craftyslide

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Craftyslide is a small slideshow that is built on jQuery with the intention to be unique by furnishing a simple, no-frills process of displaying images packaged into a small, clean and competent plugin.

14. Responsly.js

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Responsly.js is a band of simple responsive widgets, written by means of CSS3 transformations and accessible as a jQuery plugin.

15. Elastislide

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This is another very responsive jQuery carrousel that will adjust its size and its performance so as to work on any screen size. Putting in the carousel’s structure into a container with a fluid width will make the carousel fluid as well.

16. Blueberry

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This one is an experimental open source jQuery image slider plugin that has been designed with the aim to work with fluid/responsive web layouts.

17. Slidorion

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Slidorion is an amalgamation of an image slider and an accordion; and therefore, it demonstrates attractive images together with a changeable length description. Slidorion is a great alternative to the traditional jQuery slider seeing that images are linked to each tab and accompanied by a large array of effects.

18. bxSlider

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bxSlider is a jQuery HTML content slider and image slideshow.

19. Minimit

( Demo | Download )

Minimit Gallery is an exceedingly customizable jQuery plugin that does practically everything: galleries and slideshows to carousels and slides and any other thing that has multiple states.

20. Galleria

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Galleria is a JavaScript image gallery framework that has been built on the jQuery library. The aim is to make the process of creating professional image galleries easier for the web and mobile devices.

21. jQuery Image Gallery

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This is an effortless jQuery image gallery plugin.

22. rlightbox

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rlightbox is antoher jQuery UI media box that can put on view several kinds of content for instance images, YouTube and Vimeo videos. It bears several matchless features like Panorama and Live Re-size. Like other jQuery UI widgets, it is ThemeRoller ready.

23. jQuery MB Bgnd Gallery

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With this jQuery plugin you can make a suggestive slide show of images as the background of your page; the images will adapt their size to the window size. You can either navigate the gallery with your keyboard or with a control panel displayed where you want in the page.

24. PikaChoose

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PikaChoose is a lightweight jQuery Slideshow plugin that make allowances for unproblematic presentation of photos with carousels and lightboxes! Pikachoose is created to be effortlessly installed, trouble-free to setup.

25. Fluid Thumbnail Bar with jQuery

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With this plugin you can make a fluid thumbnail bar that pages through the images it contains.

27. Elastic Image Slideshow with Thumbnail Preview

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Here we want to show you how to create a simple elastic slideshow with a thumbnail preview. The slideshow will adjust automatically to its surrounding container and we can navigate through the slides by using the thumbnail previewer or the autoplay slideshow option.

28. Fullscreen Slideshow with HTML5 Audio and jQuery

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In this jQuery tutorial we’ll create a fullscreen photo slideshow to illustrate a New York picture series. We will add sound with the HTML5 audio element in order to give life to the gallery and try to recreate the ambiance of this vibrant city.

29. Image Wall with jQuery

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With this plugin you can create a neat image wall with jQuery. The idea is to scatter some thumbnails with different sizes on the page and make a ribbon slide in when we click on the picture. The ribbon will show some description next to the picture and when clicking again on the thumbnail, the ribbon will close and open again with a large version of the image.

30. Rotating Image Slider with jQuery

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31. Moving Boxes Content with jQuery

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With this plugin you can create a website template with some really sweet animations using jQuery. The idea is to have little boxes scattered around at the top of the site and when a menu item is clicked, the boxes animate to form the main content area.

32. Supersized 3.2 – Fullscreen Slideshow jQuery Plugin

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With this jQuery plugin you can create a beautiful full-screen slideshow.

33. Flip Box

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Flip is a jQuery plugin that will easily flip your elements in four directions.

34. Innovation Slide – Slide jquery plugin

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With this plugin you can create a simple, lightweight, effects-laden and very versatile photo slide. It will allow us to flow in a “different” our content: images, text, etc.

35. TN3 Gallery

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With TN3 Gallery you can easily create amazing photo galleries and slideshows with slick transition effects, as well as multiple albums, CSS skinning, XML and Flickr support with a host of additional features. No browser plugins required.

36. Shutter Effect Portfolio with jQuery and Canvas

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In this jQuery tutorial, we will be using the HTML5 canvas element to create a simple photography portfolio, which displays a set of featured photos with a camera shutter effect. This functionality will come in the form of an easy to use jQuery plugin that you can easily incorporate into any website.

37. Photobooth with PHP, jQuery and CSS3

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In this tutorial, we will be building a jQuery and PHP powered photobooth. It will allow your website visitors to take a snapshot with their web camera and upload it from a neat CSS3 interface.

38. Making a Flickr-powered Slideshow

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In this tutorial we will be developing a jQuery plugin that will make it easy to create slideshows, product guides or presentations from your Flickr photo sets. The plugin will be using Flickr’s APIs and YQL to fetch the photos in the sets, after which it will create the markup of the slideshow and listen for events.

39. How to Make Auto-Advancing Slideshows

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With this plugin we can create HTML5 Slideshow auto advance with a few lines of jQuery.

40. Sliding Contents With JQuery

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The purpose of Slider Kit is to gather common slideshow-like jQuery functionalities (such as news sliders, photos galleries/sliders, carousels, tabs menus) into one lightweight and flexible plugin combined with ready-to-use CSS skins.

41. Slides

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Slides is a slideshow plugin for jQuery that is built with simplicity in mind. Packed with a useful set of features to help novice and advanced developers alike create elegant and user-friendly slideshows.

42. Slidy

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jQuery Slidy is a plugin that generates a customizable transitions automatically.

Without further ado, let us move towards the collection of amazing tutorials. Kindly note that some of these tutorials may also require the use of Photoshop intended for finer details.

If you think we have missed some cool tutorials out there, then let us know or share them with us in the comments. Enjoy!

1. Create a Slick Golden Text Effect with Adobe Illustrator

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a slick golden text effect. Although it’s a pretty short tutorial, the sixteen steps cover many techniques and effects that can be used for other projects. The Pen Tool steps may be a bit challenging, but with patience and some basic knowledge you will succeed.

2. How to Build Letter Art From Bricks In Illustrator

In this tutorial we’ll use 3D-rendering, Blends, and an Art Brush for creating the final brick art. The skills you will learn here can easily be transferred to creating various brick letters. Enhance your vector skills as a digital brick artist in today’s Illustrator tutorial. So let’s get started!

3. How to Create a Neon Text Effect

In this tutorial we will learn how to create a neon text effect using Gradient Mesh, 3D Modeling, Art Brushes and Transparency palette. Let’s begin!

4. How to Create a Sparkly Text Effect

In the following quick tip you will learn how to create a sparkly text effect in fifteen simple steps. It’s a another tutorial focused on the Appearance panel. Basically, almost the entire text effect is made using only one compound path. A compound path with a simple fill, eight strokes and some basic Illustrator effects.

5. How to create candy cane typography.

In this tutorial we will create a superb candy cane type design using Illustrator and Photoshop. Apply this effect to your own text and create cool and unique Christmas cards!

6. Meltdown Text Effect

Create a super cool meltdown text effect for a typeface in this premium illustrator tutorial. Have fun with your imagination and artistic skills. Learn how to create glows and a liquid drip effect for text in this tutorial. You will learn the techniques which I used to create beautiful text effects.

7. Create a cool water effect

In this tutorial the artist will walk you through the process that he has used in one of the design projects I finished recently. You will learn how to use the mesh tool to create water droplets, use the symbol sprayer tool using symbol of water droplets and dispersing them.

8. Tron Legacy Tutorial

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a beautiful effect like the Tron Legacy Style, for this tutorial the artist used Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Cinema 4D.

9. Create a Jar Illustration and Splashy, Purple Text Effect

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a jar illustration and splashy, purple text effect. We’ll craft this with numerous, layered shapes and with various opacities. We’ll work with paths and the Pathfinder tools to enhance our text, give it dimension, and style. Let’s get started!

10. How to Create a Delicious Chocolate Text Effect

For all the chocolate lovers out there, here is how to create a delicious chocolate bar text effect in Illustrator. You will use the Blend Tool, effects like Roughen and Chrome, different Blending modes and also the 3D Extrude & Bevel effect to create perfect chocolate squares. Enjoy!

11. Create Colorful, Layered Paper Type

In this tutorial the artist will show you how to brighten your mood by creating vivid illustrations with layered paper text and ribbons. We’ll create custom type and use Illustrator effects extensively to enhance our work.

12. Create a Variety of 3D Lettering Effects for Poster Design

In this tutorial the artist showcases three different approaches for creating simple 3D lettering effects in the context of poster design. Onward and upward we go!

13. Create a Furry Calligram

In this tutorial artist will walk you through creating your own calligram inspired by a dog named Poppy. You’ll learn how to manipulate a typeface through to rendering fur, adding doggy features, and various details.

14. Create a Mummy Text Effect

In this tutorial you will learn how to create this treatment with some gradients and, of course, heavy use of the Appearance panel. There isn’t a lot of steps but the tutorial is slightly more advanced.

15. Golden Text with Diamonds

In this illustrator tutorial, we will learn how to create a golden text style with diamonds using the appearance palette and scatter brushes. You will learn lots of new techniques on applying transform effect, offset path and seamless pattern on appearance palette.

16. How to Make a Flesh Ripping Zombie Type Treatment

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a Flesh Ripping Zombie Type Treatment.

17. Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment

In the following Illustrator tutorial, the artist will teach you how to create a green type treatment. It works great for logos and other design elements.

18. Create a simple blood text

In the following steps the artist will show you how to create a simple blood text effect. You’ll start with a simple text then you will use the Roughen and the Warp effects. Finally, you will need multiple gradients and some simple brushes.

19. How to Create a Zodiac Themed Graphic Style

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a complex graphic style, using only the Appearance palette and commands from the Effect menu. We will be creating a style based on the signs of the zodiac. All the style elements are created from a single character. Is it hard to believe? Let’s get started!

20. How to Create Smoky Brushes and Type In Illustrator CS4

In this tutorial, the artist explain how to create realistic smoke, make it into a brush and use it for type. Let’s light up our vector cigarettes and get smokin’!

21. Old School Type Line Gradients

A detailed tutorial on how to create old school style type.

22. How to Make a Wooden Text Effect

In the following tutorial you can learn how to create “wooden text”. Using the 3D Extrude and Bevel Tool combined with some clever gradients and layer effects you can make this great effect that’s perfect for text and symbols alike.

23. Creating stunning, detailed typography with illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create stunning, detailed typography with illustrator

24. Let’s Make a Playful Yet Robust 3D Letter Design

This tutorial is perfect for the confident beginner who wants to take her skills to the next level. We’ll explore how to create 3D text and use depth-of-field to enhance a design.

25. How to Create a Trendy Retro Type Treatment

In this Illustrator tutorial, the artist will show you how to create a trendy retro type treatment with a free font, gradients, blends, and some scatter brushes. It’s a relative easy tutorial containing techniques that can be quickly applied to many other type treatments and various graphic elements.

26. Bling Bling Text Effect

In this tutorial the artist will be teaching you how to create this eye-catching bling bling effect in illustrator. You will learn how to create the texture and apply it to any text. So let’s get started.

27. Create a glossy, smooth text effect

In this tutorial the artist will show you how to create a glossy, smooth text effect using multiple fills and strokes with different blending modes and varied opacity percentage. For some discrete details, the Star Tool, the Pathfinder options and some other basic effects will come in handy.

28. Create a Stitched Type Effect

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a stitched type effect. You will create simple geometric patterns, a pattern brush and use the appearance panel to create the final look. Let’s get started!

29. Create a Grimy Text Treatment with a Pen Tablet

In this tutorial the artist will show you how to create a grimy text treatment utilizing Illustrator’s Blob brush, Live Paint, and a pen tablet. You can easily apply these techniques to other illustrations, type treatments and logos.

30. Create An Editable Metal Type Treatment

You can easily create this effect without the Appearance panel, but creating this effect like in this tutorial you can easily adjust anything with the text without changing the effect. It is also a good idea to create a Graphic Style for easy implementation to other text and objects within Illustrator.

31. Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography

In this tutorial, we’re going to create a 3D Typography based design. All the elements will revolve around the centerpiece and theme: dreaming. The word will dictate the entire layout and control the space by allowing everything else to emerge from within. The trees will grow out of the letters; the mountains will show themselves behind the word and overshadow the glowing moon.

32. Grungy 3D Text

This tutorial will teach you how to use the 3D tools in Illustrator along with some simple but clever shadow techniques to create some awesome looking grungy 3D text.

33. How to Create a Hand Drawn Style Text Effect

In the following tutorial you will learn how to use different brushes and effects to create a hand drawn text effect. Perfect for illustrative designs, you will create a cute and fun lettering effect.

34. Create a Bending 3D Text Effect

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a 3D Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator. In addition to using the 3D tools, you’ll layer letter shapes to create color shifts with gradients and highlights. You’ll also work in subtle patterns controlled with Opacity Masks.

35. Create a Green Viscous Text Effect

In the following tutorial expand an existing font, use illustrator’s 3D tools to add dimension, and then add a green viscous text effect. If you want to add a fun, vector text effect to your portfolio, then get started now.

36. Create a Vibrant 3D Pixel Type Treatment

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a fun 3D pixel font type treatment. Using a free font, gradients, and Illustrator 3D filter, you will easily create a type treatment that you can apply to many other fonts.

37. Illustrator Tackle Twill

This tutorial will show you how to simulate a tackle twill look with Illustrator’s Appearance palette. When we’re done you will be able to apply this style to any text or shape within Illustrator.

38. How To Create Detailed Gothic Linework Typography

Follow this step by step walkthrough of the design process for my recent gothic typography design. We’ll be customizing a blackletter font with various black and white elements and creating a range of tones with detailed line work to create a cool gothic style design that would be right at home as a logo for a heavy metal band or dark apparel brand.

39. Retro 3D Arcade Text Effect

In this tutorial we’ll make clever use of Illustrators built-in 3D capabilities, gradients and opacity masks to design a Retro 3D Type Effect.

40. Create a simple folded paper text effect

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a simple folded paper text effect. Also, to improve the look of the final result, you will learn how to create some ink blobs and stains from some simple ellipses and brushes.

41. Create a Silky Ribbon Text Effect

In the following tutorial you will use the Pen and Gradient tools to create a swirling ribbon text effect. Even though we’re applying the ribbon to text, you can use this effect to make shapes and scrolls. Let’s get started!

42. How to Create a Smokin’ Western Type Treatment

In this easy tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a western type treatment primary using Illustrator’s Effects. Using the effects from this tutorial, you can easily apply them to other type treatment and logos. Let’s get started!

43. Stylish text effect tutorial

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a beautiful text effect with a subtle vintage look that’s going to be applied to a specific typeface, just to help you get an idea, we will try to generate an old school text that can be implemented on modern web designs.

44. How to Create a Colorful, 3D Text Effect

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a colorful three-dimensional text effect. We’ll use several Illustrator effects, built-in patterns, a modern font, and more to bring this effect to fruition. Let’s get started!

45. How to Create a Glossy, Colorful Text Effect

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a glossy, colorful text design in Illustrator CS5. We’ll use an interesting font choice, opacity masks, shape building techniques, and more to create this text effect.

46. Create a Glassy Text Effect Filled with a Green, Acidic Substance

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a glassy text effect filled with a green, acidic substance. You’ll use shape creation tools, Opacity Masks, and filters. This project could work well to add a mad scientist feel to your next creative design project.

47. Create a Marker Text Effect

This tutorial involves intermediate vector shape building skills in Illustrator to create the markers, along with some layering and script usage to create the text effects. Let’s get started.

48. How to Create a Fun 3D Plastic Text Effect

In this tutorial you will learn how to create colorful 3D plastic letters using the 3D Extrude & Bevel effect and also an all-purpose plastic look that you can save in the Graphic Styles and use it in other projects.

49. Create a Chalkboard Type Treatment

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a chalkboard type treatment with some gradients, a bristle brush, and some freebies from Vector Mill! The tutorial is relatively simple and can be applied to many other Illustrator projects. Moreover, you can use the Vector Mill freebies in other projects!

50. Create a Reusable Retro Type Treatment

In this tutorial the artist will show you how to create a simple retro type treatment. Even though its simple, it uses some powerful Illustrator features. If you have read my tutorials before, you know this means the Appearance panel! Along with the Appearance panel, we will be using some texture effects, Warp effects, and some simple layering.

Content Management Systems meant for wiki websites, too, like wiki sites themselves, need to strike the right balance between robustness on one hand and ease of use on the other. In this article, we take a look at some of the most popular wiki CMSs out there!

1. MediaWiki

Who doesn’t know Wikipedia? MediaWiki is used by Wikipedia as well as many other projects of Wikipedia’s parent organization Mediawiki Foundation. If you’re looking for a CMS for your wiki website, MediaWiki should be your safest bet! Not only is the CMS powerful, it is also very versatile and is ideal for any sort of wiki website.

MediaWiki

2. DokuWiki

DokuWiki is meant for developer workgroups, collaborating teams and small enterprises. As a CMS, it restricts itself mainly to documentation websites. The syntax is powerful and creation of structured texts is simple. Further more, DokuWiki does not need any database to run on as it stores all its data in plain files.

DokuWiki

3. PhpWiki

PhpWiki is another versatile wiki CMS. Unlike DokuWiki, it uses databases to store the information and is therefore, a slightly bulkier CMS. If you are looking for a nimble wiki CMS, PhpWiki might not suit your purpose. However, overall the CMS is a worthy competitor to all the others in the game.

PhpWiki

4. PmWiki

PmWiki attempts to bring the WYSIWYG approach to wiki websites. In general, you do not have to employ extensive knowledge of HTML in order to develop a website using PmWiki. Indeed, such features make PmWiki ideal for users who are not well-versed in HTML. On the downside, PmWiki’s update frequency has been erratic in the past.

PmWiki

5. TikiWiki

TikiWiki is known to offer many features ‘out-of-the-box’, such as setting permission levels for even the home page. It is loaded with numerous features, many of which might leave even the most experienced user overwhelmed. Currently standing at version 8.1 (stable), TikiWiki is a very popular CMS for wiki sites. It also features a bug/issue tracker mechanism as well as native support for RSS feeds and Calendar/Productivity addons.

TikiWiki

6. WikkaWiki

While WikkaWiki may not be known due to its modest feature set, it is one of the swiftest CMSs coded in PHP to date. Its speed and ease of use are remarkable, and if you plan to create a small wiki site that may not require heavy CMSs, you should consider WikkaWiki as an option. It uses MySQL databases to store information.

WikkaWiki

7. JAMWiki

JAMWiki is a JAVA clone of MediaWiki. Thus, it uses the same syntax as MediaWiki and is one of the leading wiki CMSs coded in JAVA.

JAMWiki

8. Enterprise Wiki

Confluence Enterprise Wiki is an enterprise CMS that targets teams, workgroups and other collaborative entities. It is a paid CMS – for a website with 11-25 users, you’ll have to shell out $800. You can also opt to host it on their servers, for a monthly hosting fee. In any case, Confluence is an option mainly for enterprises and is definitely not the CMS for your not-for-profit website.

Confluence Enterprise Wiki

9. Canvas ColdFusion Wik

Canvas ColdFusion Wiki is a CMS built using Model-Glue. It keeps track of all the editing and revisions performed on each page and is a decent CMS for teamwork.

Canvas ColdFusion Wiki

10. XWiki

XWiki offers a generic platform for developing wiki websites. It is built using JAVA and is licensed under the LGPL open source license.

XWiki

11. TiddlyWiki

TiddlyWiki is a unique concept in its own right. In fact, it is not even a full-fledged CMS. It is a single file, that brings to you all the characteristics and functionality of a wiki (including the style sheets, editing, saving, searching, tagging, etc.). Since it is nothing more than a single file, it comes with the added advantage of portability – you may upload it on your web server, copy it on to your USB drive or email it to your friends.

TiddlyWiki

12. DekiWiki

MindTouch DekiWiki is another enterprise solution. It aims to boost the productivity and efficiency of enterprises by offering a simple and non-interfering CMS.

MindTouch DekiWiki

13. ScrewTurn Wiki

Don’t let the name fool you! ScrewTurn Wiki is a fast, powerful and simple ASP.NET wiki engine. It is free and open source (commercial licenses are also available). The installation process is straight-forward and ScrewTurn Wiki has also been localized into multiple languages.

ScrewTurn Wiki

14. TWiki

TWiki is an enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management solution. It is a structured wiki CMS that can act both as a groupware solution or a collaborative resource over the internet or intranet. TWiki’s niche lies in the fact that it is backed by a massive gallery of plugins/extensions.

TWiki

With that, we come to the end of this round-up. If you’ve used any/all of the above CMSs, do share your experiences with us!

Despite cool things like Safari Mobile that makes any (non-flash) website “browsable” it’s easy to see that conversion rates are much higher on interfaces design for mobile viewing.

So be ready to see A LOT of tools to help you create cool things for mobile with just what we know (HTML, CSS, JS).

Frameworks, plugins and development tools

Many of us know how to do things with HTML and JS. Sometimes seriously cool stuff using HTML5 effects and some of the newer coding options. Now you’ll see a lot of tools to help you to bring all your knowledge to create mobile interfaces easily.

App Inventor (beta)

If you like drag & drop, this one is for you. Actually you don’t need to know a single line of code to build your android apps with this great software. I’ve tried it myself and it works great despite a final app sizes being a little large.

DHTMLX Touch

One of the most well-known frameworks. Helps a lot when you know a little JS and HTML5 and want to create powerful apps.

EmbedJS

EmbedJS is a JavaScript framework for embedded devices (mobile phones, TVs, etc.). It takes a different approach than other frameworks by shipping just the code needed for each device. That means, there’s less code going over the wire, less code branching at runtime and less memory usage.

Gury

Gury (pronounced “jury”) is a JavaScript library designed to aid in the creation of HTML5/Canvas applications by providing an easy-to-use chain based interface.

iOSFrameworks.com

For those who knows basic Objective-C, this one is a really useful collection of frameworks to help you in your projects. Really useful!

iWebkit

iWebKit is a file package designed to help you create your own iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad compatible website or webapp.

iUI

Web UI Framework for mobile devices – iOS, Android, Palm, and others.

JoApp

Framework for mobile development with a lot of cool features, like native-like widgets, multiple ways to code, and heavy use of CSS3.

jQuery Mobile

How could I forget this one? Well, this is our well known jQuery with a lot of mobile-optimized features. With its recent 1.0 launch it will be a default script for many sites (just like jQuery “normal” is now).

jQTouch

At first it may look like just another plugin for responsive layouts. Well, it’s actually almost a UI framework with a lot of cool features that will save you a lot of development hours. :)

Kendo UI

Kendo has a lot of cool features for responsive UI. It does a lot of amazing things, like responsive charts being one of the most impressive performances you’ll find.

Lime.JS

Do you like games? Yeah, you, me and Lime.js do. Build games faster than ever with this HTML5 game framework.

MOBL

Feel like learning a new language? Mobl is a new programming language for mobile devices. Sounds cool, huh?

NEXT Interfaces

NEXT is a free, open source Java and HTML5 framework for building Native Looking web applications for smartphones and tablets.

NimbleKit

NimbleKit is the fastest way to create applications for iOS. You don’t need to know Objective-C or the iOS SDK. All you need is to know how to write an HTML page with JavaScript code.

PhoneGap

Using the free open source framework or PhoneGap build you can get access to native APIs.

Sencha Touch

You’ve probably heard about this one, Sencha Touch allows you to develop mobile web apps that look and feel native on iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry touch devices.

The M-Project

It’s a really good framework, with great documentation, built to allow you to develop easily cross-platform mobile apps.

Titanium

Titanium is different because after your development process it generates a compiled app for iOS or android, so you can get a higher performance with native apps without learning a line of Objective-C or Java.

Touchy

More than just a boilerplate, it has a lot of built-in functions to do all the heavy lifting, so you can focus on getting your app out there. Touchy goes beyond just an HTML/CSS template, adding performance optimization tools, hardware accelerated animation, device API, fixed positioning and much more so you can really rock the mobile web.

WebApp.Net

WebApp.Net is a light weight, powerful JavaScript framework taking advantage of AJAX technology. It provides a full set of ready to use components to help you develop, quickly and easily, advanced mobile web applications.

Wink Toolkit

Wink Toolkit is a lightweight JavaScript toolkit, designed and developed to meet the specific constraints of the mobile environment. The toolkit’s core offers all the basic functionalities a mobile developer would need from touch event handling to DOM manipulation objects or CSS transforms utilities.

Zepto.Js

Zepto.js is a minimalist JavaScript framework for mobile WebKit browsers, with a jQuery-compatible syntax.

Miscellaneous tools

Here we have everything from validators to image gallery plugins.

320 and up

The ‘tiny screen first’ boilerplate extension. It prevents mobile devices from downloading desktop assets by using a tiny screen’s stylesheet as its starting point.

960 Grid on jQuery-Mobile

jQuery-mobile-960 is a port of 960 grid to jQuery mobile. It merges the flexibility of 960.gs, and the ease of jQuery mobile.

Animatable

It’s not ready to use…yet. But you should bookmark this one. It’ll help us create animations for desktop, Android, Blackberry QNX, iOS and WebOS mobile devices.

Dynamic carousel

Responsive carousel script. Check it out!

Galleria.Aino.Se

Galleria is a cool image gallery script that works nice from desktop to mobile.

HTML5 Boilerplate / mobile

HTML 5 Boilerplate has a set of cool features for mobile interfaces with a lot of guidelines to get the most from your mobile app.

Initializr 2

Since it uses the HTML5 Boilerplate it has the same cool features.

Masonry

It allows you to use crazy grids that would be just impossible with CSS floats. Plus, with a touch of creativity, you can do cool things, like this Scroll Wall with jQuery Mobile and Masonry.

Mobile Emulators & Simulators: The Ultimate Guide – MobileXWeb

A complete guide of mobile emulators and tools to help you test your apps.

Not Just A Grid

Not Just a Grid is a flexible and modular CSS  framework that is designed to assist in the rapid prototyping and development of websites. It has been designed for the future with larger screen sizes and the use of CSS3 for progressive enhancement and richer user experiences.

MobiReady

The mobiReady testing tool evaluates mobile-readiness using industry best practices & standards.

Treesaver

Treesaver is a JavaScript framework for creating magazine-style layouts using standards-compliant HTML and CSS.

W3C Mobile Validator

It’s from W3C.  No more description needed, right?

Wijmo

Wijmo is a complete kit of over 30 UI widgets with everything from interactive menus to rich charts.

WP Touch

WPtouch: A simple, powerful and elegant mobile theme for your website. WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application.

Tutorials and Articles

Mobile Web Design Trends and Best Practices – DesignModo

A long and very well written guide with all the basics you need to know before getting started with this mobile development thing.

Building Mobile Web Apps the Right Way: Tips and Techniques – SixRevisions

Good guide with a comparison of what you’re used to doing for desktop development and what you should be doing for mobile interfaces.

10 handy jQuery mobile tips and snippets to get you started – WebDesignerDepot

jQuery mobile is a great tool, indeed. But you need to know how to use it. This really helpful guide will help you get started with jQuery mobile!

Build a Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Web Page With Skeleton – DesignShack

I didn’t mention skeleton because this guide will help you understand it better. You can use these principles in all other mobile boilerplates out there.

Awesome Mobile Image Gallery Web App – Codrops

Check it with your mobile device and be as amazed as I was at first. Pretty cool :)

When it comes to fashion, everyone’s a critic. “High-fashion” means taking things over-the-edge. Seeing designs in an unusual or unique way that would actually gain signature. Sometimes, high-fashion could also mean ” going totally whacko” – Just like the ever notorious fashion icon, Lady Gaga. But of course, a high-fashion website can be played well with great Photography and cutting-edge web designs. In this article, I will be gladly sharing what websites are highly fashionable and edgy enough to get fashionistas’ attention.

1.Isabella Oliver

A very minimal design, this website focuses its marketing strategy by using a large photo background. Showcasing the product with a beautiful model.

2.Whistles

This design is calm and features vivid buttons to navigate. If you hit the play button in the middle a video showcases the eccentric concepts like a  fashion show.

3.Topshop

Another simple design, using a white background with nice photography. The photos don’t distract from the  concept of the design. Easy navigation lets shoppers navigate their way around the site without a problem.

4.Louis Vuitton

One of the most expensive brands in the whole world has lived up to fashionistas’ expectations. The website offers a clear page with a huge photo background. Hover on the Logo banner, and you can choose from a selection of countries. When you get to the country specific page, the navigation is easy and vivid. There’s even a little bit of history about how this huge brand started.

5.Hugo Boss

Many high-fashion websites show the most edgy and beautiful shots of  their newest designs on models. These sites could easily catch fashionistas’ attention.

6. Shop at Anna

This website uses simple typography combined with bold & edgy images. This website gives the shoppers fast & easy navigation.

7.net-a-porter

Net-A-Porter gives a good jump-start showcasing the newest trends and designs. Minimalist design with no eye strain.

8. Liberty

Other fashion websites use all-white or all-black on the wallpapers, Liberty.co.uk uses a very bold shade of purple, with medium-sized screenshots in the middle. The thumbnails on the bottom are  just enough to lure shoppers.

9. Paul Smith

An amazing example of functionality and minimal design. This website gives you a fashion show slide show for a background, and on the bottom are thumbnails categorized according to design.

10. Nine West

A nice clean layout with a unique video concept. This website is both edgy and high-fashion.

11.BCBGMAXAZRIA

Using a catchy phrase is how this website design makes its mark on fashion. Using a bold red color, with shades of black and white.

12. Aquascutum

Keeping it plain and simple with an all black background and an artistic photo in the middle, this website just says high-fashion.

13. Miss Selfridge

A color combination of softer color tones adds a feminine touch. Minimal typography,vivid layout and simple navigation make it welcoming.

14. Madras 641

A very feminine background, minimal typography and a simple layout. It makes it easy for shoppers to navigate with vivid buttons in black and white fonts.

15.Ralph Lauren

Making a statement that simplicity is indeed beautiful. This website design goes clean with an all-white background and dark-blue fonts.

16.Armani Exchange

The website lives up to the edgy and beautiful designer clothes it sells. With amazing flash effects, if you click on a design you’re treated to an awesome group of pop-out photos.

17.You

Displaying a wide array of artistic and beautiful pictures combined with minimal typography and buttons. This website takes a different, but edgy, approach.

18. Amanda Wakeley

Simple, yet it has a major impact! This design makes it look like a page from a magazine.

19.Anti Sweden

Composed of hand-drawn images and big fonts,  this Norwegian clothes line showcases their dark fashion and love of graphic design. Amazing concept all around. Shoppers can zoom in on the fashions they like.

20.Giorgio Armani

Very impressive layout and the background is very conceptual. It’s a teaser that encourages the viewer to explore the site further.

21.Prada

Going for bolder and stronger color tones with side buttons for better and easier navigation. This website is a major high-fashion page.

22.Lisa Shahno

Although eccentric in design, there is still a minimalistic feel with just enough context to awe the viewers.

23.Gucci

Great marketing strategy and amazing color combination, this site is aiming for real shoppers willing to buy their high-end bags, shoes and other amazing products.

24.ASOS

Warm color tones, great photographs and very bold fonts. This web design is very simple, yet edgy.

25. Marks and Spencer

A good combination of black, red, gold & white. This website is also minimal in approach, while giving the shoppers a clear view on the buttons to navigate with ease.

26.The Vestry

Because black is a very safe shade to match with any color, this color scheme works perfectly fine. The site has a soft touch because of the use of powder blue and carnation pink, not to mention a lovely huge photograph.

27.My Wardrobe

This layout makes it very easy to determine where the shoppers should click.

28.Wallis

For this very minimal layout, the photos complete the look.

29. Mulberry

A great photo concept and easy navigation are used to lure and invite viewers to explore the site.

3o. fashion-conscience

This website’s target is mainly e-commerce. However their teasers are amazingly high-fashion & trendy.

31. Start London

Another good example of minimal design with great categorization to make online shopping easier for fashionistas.

32. Matches Fashion

Using hand-written fonts and a large photograph for the  background, this website is just catchy.

33. Kurtgeiger

Selling high-end labels is made easy by using really good photographs and great arrangement.

34. Martin + Osa

A very cool shade of blue used on the layout makes it nice to look at. The photographs add to the overall design, rather than distracting from it.

35. Vogue

Using simple color schemes and minimal typography, this website is mostly articles on or about fashion and has some great photos.

36. My Tights

Very attractive color scheme and background makes this website very pleasant and inviting.

37. Blaguette

As elegant as their products are, this web design pulls it off with exquisite taste in color combination, fonts & layout. Not to mention, great photos of their high-end pieces.

38.Lacoste

This site shows a mini fashion show on the website.  It’s a very nice strategy to lure shoppers.

39.Coast

A very feminine color scheme and minimal in design makes it pleasing to the eye and easy to navigate.

40.A.P.C.

Another great combination of minimal design and great photography to improve e-commerce.

41. Alex Monroe

This site gets away with their detailed photos and eccentric banner by placing it all on a minimal background.

42. Boudiche

This lingerie line makes it sexy with a purple & black color combination. The images of sexy models adds a kick to the sexy layout.

43. Pepe Jeans

Very nice layout with an exceptional concept. Click on the model’s image and you can view a short video of them strutting their stuff on the runway.

44. Calvin Klein

Another thing about high fashion websites, is that they use amazing photographs to tell a story. That way it makes it more realistic. Just like this web layout.

45.Sean John

Modeled by the entrepreneur himself. Using music icons as models work great!

46.Dolce & Gabbana

Great display of the products always gets the shop-a-holics.

47.Oilily

A simple layout with red, white & pink. Very feminine and classic.

48.Victoria’s Secret

Victoria’s Secret is that they have really hot models. This website showcases their products with a boom.

49.Liz Claiborne New York

A simple layout with great photography. Very high-fashion.

50. Agnes B.

A great use of hand-written fonts and bold colors of red with shades of black & white.

-Arranged in no particular order. These high-fashion websites make their products look pricier than they actually are. High fashion is about making a statement.

Photography is an art, and art needs passion. With passion, there’s learning. These outstanding Photographers are able to “wow!” us because they learn photography by heart. They have passion for the art and through learning they combine all the elements to a degree of perfection!

These 50 Most Outstanding Photographers’ Portfolio reflects the true passion of some of the world’s top Photographers towards what they do best.

Each of these Portfolios contains some of the most amazing photos perfect for inspiration.

1. Alberto Oviedo

Simple, interactive, and easy-to-navigate portfolio website containing a very beautiful photography.

2. Andrew G. Hobbs

A very direct portfolio website. The intro is fun and the portrait style is very outstanding.

3. Andrew Gransden

His photographs capture the emotion and joy of the moment whether it be of the happy wedding couple, your family or the natural world. The joy and beauty of his photography is clearly seen in this portfolio website.

4. Ashley Lebedev

The fantasy-like intro matched with a very nice touch of fantasy music perfects the photographer’s artistic vision which maybe best described as “emotional”, “atmospheric”, and “nostalgic”.

5. Bagrad Badalian

This portfolio website has a very strong and dramatic feel to it matched with rhythmic music to amplify the feel and describe the photographer’s strong and dramatic photography.

6. Ben Hassett

Simple and effective portfolio with white background showcasing the photographer’s artistic combination of different styles.

7. Brent Stirton

The black background mixed with very strong and hard-hitting Photography grabs us with strong photojournalism.

8. Chase Jarvis

The photographer has a big, soft spot for raw and visual impact and you can feel it with his seemingly alive photographs. The simple white background in contrast of the black heading of this photographer’s portfolio website lets you feel his photography even more.

9. Christian Oth

“One of the Top Wedding Photographers in the World.” The intro music of the photographer’s portfolio site and fast slides of some of his wedding photographs will make you think no less.

10. Ciril Jazbec

A very interactive portfolio showcasing this young photographer’s passion for the art.

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11. Corey Arnold

This cute little fella on the front of this portfolio reveals the amazing world of the photographer . The effective collection style of this portfolio totally grabs us to the photographer’s world.

12. Cornelia Adams

Artistic and creative. This refreshing and beautiful portfolio site will tell you all about the photographer’s love and passion for creative photography and magazine photography.

13. Daniel Kennedy

Angelina Jolie, Keira Knightly, David Beckham, and yes, that’s Lindsay Lohan right there on the front. London-based celebrity and fashion photographer Daniel Kennedy showcases this very glamorous portfolio.

14. Dave Hill

Unique and quite tricky portfolio. The front design of this portfolio advertises the photographer’s passion for the art and editing. But navigate through the site and you’ll enter the amazing world of portrait and landscape photography.

15. David Lindsey Wade

“Directorial realism coupled with an aggressively graphic finish”. With almost pure black background and a rebellious font, this portfolio clearly illustrate the artistic, and rebellious photography of a world class photographer.

16. Dimitris Theocharis

Easy-to-navigate portfolio website and a very beautiful font header, this design is a complete contrast to the photographer’s bold and daring photography.

17. Frederick Clement

This amazingly designed portfolio of the photographer matches all the drama and explosiveness of the world of sports photography with full screen enabled to have the perfect impression.

18. Gavin Gough

The front page contains the navigation field on the left and a big picture on the background. This brilliant photographer will inspire you with the fast playing background of his portfolio website showing the happy and vibrant colors of his photography.

19. Henrik Knudsen

You will like this portfolio website arranged with experience by the photographer Henrik Knudsen.

20. Hervé Lefebvre

I love how you can simply navigate through the portfolio. The gray and black combination and the blurry image of the photograph on the back emphasizes the photograph.

21. Jeremy Cowart

Beauty, mood, raw, texture and more…All the different styles of a graphic designer turned full-time photographer Jeremy Cowart will inspire you directly up front with the slick design of this photographer’s portfolio website.

22. Jill Greenberg

This is a quiet and simple yet one of the most effective photographers’ portfolio website I’ve ever seen. The simple white background and small fonts without too much flashy effects on the side makes this portfolio unique and very easy to navigate.



23. João Canziani

Executing slick, highly-lit fashion shoots, this young photographer has made his way to becoming one of PDN’s 30 Young Photographers to Watch. He displays his intensely personal images he shot in Lima that attracted magazines such as Fader and Travel & Leisure to this simply designed portfolio…Simple yet effective.

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24. Joel Rhodin

Large image on the right, and a very arranged gallery on the left. This easy to navigate portfolio with a “start slideshow” option on the side reveals all of this amazing photography.

25. Joey Lawrence

This amazing shots on the front is greatly amplified by the photographer’s portfolio with black background.

26. Jonathan Glynn Smith

The nice flash intro up front tells us that this portfolio belongs to a top fashion and magazine photographer.

27. Kalle Gustafsson

Beautiful in its simplicity. The front page consists of a big, bold picture up front and gray typography below with the navigation menu. Note the high quality and sophisticated look of the portfolios which makes it clear that the photographer operates at the high end of the market.

28. Kazuha Matsumoto

This portfolio website welcomes the viewer with a very cool slide followed by the main content flashing the photographer’s unique style of expressing strength and luxury. Note the smooth and easy-to-navigate feel of the site.

29. Koen Demuynck

The combination of the big flashy images in the front and the smooth navigation on the right gives of that “what’s next” and exciting feel to this cool portfolio.

30. Lara Jade

The design of this portfolio is very unique and very direct, you won’t notice it right away but you can actually view all the photographs horizontally with the scrollbar below. This internationally acclaimed fashion, portrait and commercial photographer’s most compelling quality is the ability to colour her images with strong elements of romanticism, fantasy and a hint of darkness which is completely visible through this uniquely designed portfolio.

31. Les Forrester

This high class photographer’s site is a display of very simple and amazing design. With black background, complemented with white, gray and a little bit of red typography, this portfolio effectively showcases the work of top class photography.

32. Levon Biss

Award winning sports and portrait photographer exhibits his world class photography in a gray background with easy to navigate menu with full screen enabled to “wow!” us even more.

33. Lisa Bettany

This amazing picture welcomes you to one of the world’s top portrait photographer. The beauty and elegance of her photography is absolutely magnified by the portfolio’s black background and gray typography.

34. Luigi Bussolati

A slide of some of his best works in a dark black background welcomes the viewer. It has a dynamic feel to it with full screen enabled and also autopilot enabled suggesting to us to just sit back and enjoy the ride.

35. Lyndon Wade

“Does the name Lyndon Wade Mean Anything to You?” You can enjoy this part of his portfolio website when you view his “about” page. This is a very cool portfolio website. You can feel a very cool and glamorous feel when navigating around this world class photographer’s portfolio website.

36. Micah Albert

Big and Bold Micah Albert intro. You can enter this amazing portfolio with the images flashing smoothly. With a dark background and cool sound effects when hovering through the menu, this portfolio gives off that professional photojournalist feel complementing his strong and marvelous photography.

37. Mitchell Kanashkevich

Capturing culture and human conditions in unique and challenging situations, this curious world wanderer and a travel/documentary photographer exhibits his extensive collection in an effectively designed portfolio.

38. Nicholas Samaras

The dark background and nostalgic music, plus the giant octopus in the front tells us that this new photographer is one of the best in the world of underwater photography.

39. Paolo Boccardi

This is another example of amazingly designed portfolio website. The glamorous portraits in the front and that horizontal gallery makes it very easy to navigate and the gray background gives emphasis to the glamor.

40. Rinze Van Brug

This top class photographer’s passion for art, in general, is magnified with his magazine-like portfolio with the white background and wonderful shots up front.

41. Robert Dann

It always gets me. The amazing horizontal gallery style. The smoothness and continuity of wonderfully shot photographs. And who thought that brown, pink, and white would go well together.

42. Sarah Cheng De Winne

Another one with full screen enabled suggesting that you can only get world class photography when browsing through this world class photographer’s portfolio website.

43. Seb Janiak

Very cool game-like user interface effectively shows the photographer’s love for photography and graphic art.

44. Senol Zorlu

Again with the cool horizontal gallery, this flashy portfolio with gray background and pink headings is complementary to this photographer’s top class photography. But the best feature is the very interactive menu.

45. Simon Hoegsberg

The “100 meters of existence” in front of the picture is a very catchy feature of this amazing photographer’s portfolio.

46. Steve McCurry

One of today’s finest image-makers, Steve McCurry captures the essence of human struggle and joy. The red background and “folk-lore” like structure and typography of his portfolio really brings emphasis to his evocative color photography.

47. Thomas Kettner

White really works with fashion and lifestyle photography. It lets the viewers focus more on the wonderfully shot images. With simple background and smooth slides, his photography seemingly capture the eyes of his viewers.

48. Timothy Hogan

What better way to introduce magazine photography than using pure black background with white and gray typography to further intensify the power of each photograph.

49. Yuri Yasuda

Even with Japanese typography, you can still appreciate works of amazing fashion photographers such as Yuri Yasuda through their simple and effective portfolio website.

50. Zhang Jingna

Last but definitely not the least. Just wait for the page to load and you’ll see “something beautiful” by top fashion photographer Zhang Jingna.

Inspirational Articles

1. 40 Stunningly Creative Resume Designs on DeviantArt

Give your resumes a creative effect with these 40 great resume design roundups created by some Deviantart users.

2. 60 Extremely Creative Movie Posters

Movie posters are a great way in advertising films. Let’s take a read on this showcase of sixty creatively done movie posters to give you an idea on how can movie posters be attractive to viewers.

3. 55 Trendy Web Design Interfaces From Deviantart

Be inspired with this article roundup of trendy web interfaces design by some Deviantart users.

4. 50 Superb 3D Flash Websites You Must See

Flash websites really capture viewers’ attention. As what this article say, they can be considered as different kind of art in the website community. This article showcases 3D Flash websites for you to get inspired.

5. 45 Interesting Examples of Big Backgrounds in Web Design

Small in size monitors are now going out of the trend and fast and large monitor resolution are now advancing. To give better look on websites, web designs with large backgrounds are now created. Be inspired with this article that showcases websites with big backgrounds.

6. 50 Examples of Drop-Down Navigation Menus in Web Designs

Drop-down menus are great way to group your contents into categories, and it helps viewers to find what they are looking for easily. In this article, you will find a collection of different types of drop-down menus used in several websites.

7. Beautiful Footers in Modern Web Design for Inspiration

Read and get inspired by this collection of several modern designed footers of different kinds of website.

8. Excellent Examples of Using Photos in Web Design

Photos used as a background gives your viewers specific information on what you are advertising for. In this article, you will find several websites that use a large photo as the background or header.

9. 60 Beautiful Clean and Light Web Designs for Inspiration

Clean and light web designs give professional and elegant look on websites. This article showcases websites with clean and light design.

10. 25 Beautiful Examples of “Coming Soon” Pages

There are times that websites has a Coming Soon message on the page. This article

11. 20 Logos with Clever Negative Space

Designers used different kinds of techniques now to give twists on their designs. Logo designers use negative space to form figures to convey some message. In this article, you will see several logos that have negative spaces.

12. 30 Fresh and Beautiful Web Designs

A roundup of websites that are beautifully made and gives a refreshing look for viewers.

13. 35 Colorful Web Designs to Inspire You

Colors capture viewers’ attention, that’s why most designers create websites that are colorful. In this article, you

14. 30 Hilarious Print Advertisements

An effective way to advertise is by using print outs or print ads. These are commonly found on magazines, billboards and other periodicals. This article gives you an inspiration by presenting hilarious print advertisements.

15. 40 Sexy And Creative Typographic Logo Designs

I haven’t thought that even logos can be modern and creative. Take time to read this article to get amazed and be inspired with this collection of sexy and creative typographic logo designs.

16. 30 Powerful and Compelling Public Awareness Print Ads

Public awareness print ads tend to promote goodness for the people. These ads should encourage people to follow what the ad is saying. This article compiles effective print ads of public awareness.

17. 20 Amazing Creature Illustrations by Imaginism

Take a look at these creatures that were done by the imaginative minds of designers.

18. 20 Amazing Watercolor Masterpieces

Watercolor paintings are one thing I really admire, I find them refreshing and creative. This compilation offers beautifully painted masterpieces with the use of watercolor.

19. 20 Hilarious and Effective Outdoor Advertisements

Here is a fun post of collection of advertisements that have awesome concepts for inspiration.

20. Showcase of Transparency in Web Design

Transparency is one trend designers use in designing a website. Here is a collection of beautifully designed websites with transparency.

Freebies

21. 30 Stylish jQuery Tooltip Plugins For Catchy Designs

Here are jQuery tooltip plugins that you can use to make your web designs more attractive.

22. 84 of the best vector wallpapers

To give a creative look for your desktop, take a look at this article that compiles the best vector wallpapers.

23. 30 Free Fonts Best for Business Logos

Check out these free fonts you can download and use in creating a business logo.

24. 45 Web Builders to Create an Insanely Awesome Free Website

Here are forty-five web builders you may want to check to create a free website in an easy way.

25. Free WordPress Theme: Zexeev

Zexeev is a free theme you can use in WordPress. Take a look on this article to find out on what it can offer.

26. 25 Must Have iPhone Apps for Graphic Designers

Other than iPad, iPhone is also having its way to be popular. This gadget can also be useful for graphic designers for it offers several applications that are for designing purposes. This article compiles iPhone applications dedicated for graphic designers.

27. Social Sketches: Exclusive Free Hand-Sketched Icon Set

Social Sketches offers free icons that are in sketch style to give a personal touch on your designs.

28. 40 New and Trendy Free Social Media Bookmark Icon Sets

These are compilation of social icons in different designs that you may use in linking to social media such as Digg, Stumble Upon, Delicious and Twitter. And these are for free!

29. 40 Essential CSS Templates, Resources and Downloads

This is a great article for those who are searching for CSS templates and resources.

30. 20 Useful Free PDF ebooks for Designers and Bloggers

Books are great tools when you would like to freshen up your memory or wants to learn new things, good thing that PDF e-books are born. In this way, we can read books with the use of monitors and this is very useful for tech-y persons like me. This article rounds up free PDF e-book that designers and bloggers can download and read.

31. 40 High Quality Free PSD Files Released In 2010

Who doesn’t wants free high-quality of PSD files to use in your designs? You may find 40 free downloadable PSD files on this article.

32. PSD Website Templates: Free High Quality Designs

How about website templates? These are free and high in quality. Read and choose what you like the best, then download.

33. Desktop Wallpapers for Minimalist Lovers

I think wallpaper with minimal designs are the best as desktop backgrounds. Try reading this article that rounds up desktop wallpapers for minimalist lovers.

34. 200+ Exclusive Free Icons: “Reflection”

Webdesigner Depot created a stylish and elegant icons named, Reflection. Click the link or the picture below to download the icons.

35. 10 Must-Have FireFox Plugins For Web Designers

Here is an article that compiles must-have plugins for Firefox browser that can be useful for web designers.

How-To’s

36. 40+ Best Cinema 4D Tutorials that You’ll Love to Learn

This is a compilation of the best Cinema 4D tutorials and practices you may use in creating 4D designs.

37. 140+ High Quality Categorized Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Typography also affects on what message a design conveys. Here are tutorials that will guide you in creating beautiful effects on your texts.

38. Create A Detailed Blue WordPress Blog Layout In Photoshop

Here is a detailed tutorial of on how can you create a WordPress blog layout in a Blue color.

39. Essential Photoshop Poster Tutorials

This article presents you great compilation of Photoshop tutorials you may use in creating poster designs. You will not only learn how to use Photoshop, you may also learn different techniques when creating such designs.

40. Matte Painting: Create A Distressed Surreal Cityscape

This tutorial helps you transform a picture in a matte painting with a distressed effect by using Adobe Photoshop.

41. 60 Cartoon Character Illustration Tutorials

This article gives you good cartoon character tutorials with the use of Adobe Illustrator.

42. How to Use The Pencil Tool and The Paintbrush Tool to Pimp Your Picture

In this tutorial, you will be learning how to use Pencil Tool and Paintbrush Tool and some techniques on how to polish a simple picture with the use of these tools.

43. How To Create A Grungy And “Sticky” Icon With Photoshop – Free Icon Set Available!

Create a grungy and sticky icon using Photoshop with this tutorial.

44. 17 Tutorials for Designing Your Own Business Card

For freelancers, business cards are very important in finding clients and promoting yourselves. This article is a compilation of seventeen business card tutorials.

45. Design a clean sports magazine-style web layout with Photoshop

This very simple and easy tutorial lets your create a magazine-styled layout for a sports website.

And that’s it. Those are some of the most read articles on different design blogs for 2010. You can share with us your personal choice of designing article for 2010, just put the link on the Comment section.

In this article, I’ll be presenting free and paid questions and answer builder for your website.

1. Question2Answer

Question2Answer is an open source platform for Q&A websites. It will help you to create your online community in different area you want to worked into. There are over 100 websites who are using Question2Answer to their websites. The good thing is that it has a SEO built that makes a search-engine friendly. This mean that you will get a respond quickly and easily and users will regularly come to your website.

Features:

• Five minutes to install.
• Easy styling with CSS themes.
• Simple to translate into any language.
• Fast integrated search engine.
• Points-based reputation management.
• Categories and/or tags (with auto complete).
• Email notifications and RSS support.
• Voting, comments and follow-on questions.
• PHP/MySQL scalable to millions of posts.
• Built-in user account management.
• Supports Facebook single sign-on
• Custom single sign-on for existing sites

2. QSQA

QSQA is a free Q&A website with an online community that is written in Python and powered by Django application framework. Users can earn points while participating in your question and answer community. It is a full featured Q&A system that you need in your website. QSQA is not only a Q&A website but you can also create an online forum, blogging platform, mini social network, simple CMS, wiki platform and more.

Features:

• A question and answer engine that’s dead simple to use, has wiki-like features and a voting system
• A social networking engine that allows you to connect with and follow other people and topics and send private messages to each other
• A reputation system that lets you give and receive props for positive contributions to the community
• A powerful search function that helps you find relevant information quickly and easily
• The ability to create groups to help narrow content focus
• The ability to export site data
• The ability to easily federate content that’s created on your site (federating content = reusing content generated on one of your sites in another)
• The ability to import data from your current or old Stack Exchange site
• Support for widgets to expand functionality
• Automatic site activity reports
• The ability to customize your site using themes
• The ability to embed videos, audio and images

3. Shapado (49$)

Shapado is a free and open source Q&A software. It is a hosting service that allows anyone to create his own Q&A site for free in less than 8 seconds. There is also a pointing system when user participate in the question and answer community. The interface is simple yet it is full of content. The area is being maximize of the question and answer, tags, recent badges, top groups, recent groups, and recent users. It is rolled in one page.

4. Qwench

Qwench is a StackOverflow clone based in PHP/mySQL. It has a cool and clean interface that makes it easier to understand that it is a Q&A website. Like StackOverflow, you can view the how many answers and also you can vote.It also have the basic Q&A website features. Try checking StackOverflow to see the similarities.

Features

• Allow users to post questions and answers
• Points system similar to StackOverflow
• Ability to post an article as a knowledge-base (for corporates)
• Ability to lock site to registered users only
• Clean CSS layout
• Works in all major browsers

5. Qhub

Qhub promises to have a simple way to add a Q&A area to your website.Adding a questions and answers section to your website is a great way to engage, understand and help your users. It has also a google optimized that makes it a search-engine user-friendly so that when user google for a question, Qhub will be one of the first resources.

Features:

• Members can easily share their questions and answers with their friends by connecting their Twitter and Facebook profiles.
• Powerful and easy to use moderation controls.
• Optionally prevent members from using abusive language in their contributions.
• Easily promote members to administrators to help manage your site. Quickly block users who are misbehaving.
• When enabled the spell checker prompts members to evaluate their spelling before posting.
• Create a collaborative community where anyone can ask and answer or choose to select who can contribute answers.
• Let anyone join and view your Qhub or create an invitation only private forum
• Easy to use customization tools help you stand out from the crowd.
• Its simple to integrate your Qhub into an existing website.
• With extensive stats your users will be able to interact with the questions, answers, and other members. They’ll be able to do anything from voting on answers to viewing the most popular and active questions. and more.

6. WP– Answers ( 89$)

WP Answers is a WordPress plugin that will turn your WordPress theme to question and answer site.The users can register to ask and answer questions posted by others. A great way to foster interaction between your site members.It also has a system that pulls questions from Yahoo Answers and auto-posts them to your site. It promises to dominate search engine results, earn cash in auto pilot, advanced admin panel and social integration.

Features:

• Question and Answer system
• Point System
• Profile Pages
• Automatic Content from Yahoo Answers
• Customize content
• Facebook and twitter integration
• Full advertising management
• Free online support

7. Question Answer Script ( 79$ – Up)

Question Answer Script is PHP Answer Script that is large and highly customizable with set of key features. It is acclaimed as the Best Yahoo Answer clone.It has the question & answer publishing including poll question, images & videos, with highly secure environment to sustain any attack.

Features:

• Quick & Easy Wizard for InstallationPoll Question, Video Question, Picture Question.
• Admin has the control to enable or disable the different type of Question.
• You can embed Youtube videos within Question & AnswerCommenting facility on Question & AnswersEmail Administration for New Question, Answers, users added or for any modification performed.
• Modify all the custom text available on the website i.e. you can site language to you own language.
• Point Redemption System to offer attractive gifts in exchange of points earned by user.
• Admin can ON/OFF this feature.
• 100% Search Engine Friendly Website with SEO friendly URL’s & Meta tags.
• Admin can write their own rule for the meta tags.
• Spam Proof – All forms are CAPTCHA Protected and more!

8. Instant Q&A WordPress Theme (35$)

Looking for a questions and answers theme? This is the template you have been searching for. Instant Q&A is a custom WordPress template that can turn any WordPress blog into a robust question and answer site. This is for starter Q&A because all your basic need for a Q&A website is here. The good thing is that the questions are categorize per interest so that you will not be having a hard time looking for a specific question. I may say that the user interface is really cute yet elegant looking. All the features fall into the right place, so grab one of this and try it.

Features:

• Turnkey Question & Answer website solution
• Custom User Log In
• Custom Sign Up with user-generated passwords
• Custom Forgot Password option
• Ability for member to change their password
• Member Profile Pages
• My Account Page
• Edit Profile Page with Custom About Me text
• 6 Custom User Avatars to choose from
• Gravatar Integration
• Custom Ask a Question Form for Posting Questions
• Unique Answer pages for Answering Questions
• Popular Questions Section – Top Answered Questions in the Last 30 Days
• Star Rating System – Members Earn points for Asking and Answering Questions

If I will be choosing one of this Q&A website, I’ll be highly recommending WP-Answers because it has everything that you need for a Q&A website not only the basic features but also the advanced features. With the feel and look of the website, it is very clean, social and corporate at the same time. I know that it cost a little, but the features that being awaits for you is really usable and recommended. But still, it is your decision to make. Try to read and explore in every Q&A website and look for one that fits your needs, personality and interest.

I hope you like this question and answer website to integrate on your website. If we missed something, please tell us and we will be happy to update it. Thank you.

1. Fantasy by: ghostnat

I like how the red clouds and bright colors blend together. Very nice and attractive!

800 x 600

2. Seasons by: chiplegal

This is why I love vector graphics so much! If you want to put creativity on your photos, make them in vector. Cool!

1280 x 960

3. Sloorp For Candy by: giorgos93

This wallpaper makes me want to eat sweets! Pretty and sweet one to use.

1280 x 800

4. Butterfly by: expansiondesign

The lady was perfectly done in vector with the curves and details of the body.

1280 x 1024 | 1680 x 1050

5. Paprika by: softmeanie

Putting different kinds of objects to form the woman’s body. Cool, isn’t?

1920 x 1200

6. Spring by: chiplegal

I really like this one. It’s so clean, a creatively done vector wallpaper.

1024 x 768

7. Gift from Paradise by: MagicalViper

I like how all the elements are combined together to form such a wonderful nature-themed vector wallpaper. The colors are nicely chosen too.

1600 x 1200

8. Rainbow Concepts II by: jugga-lizzle

The combination of shapes are nice. I think it would look better if the colors are brighter than the current ones.

1024 x 768

9. Rainbow Concepts IV by: jugga-lizzle

Comparing this one with the previous wallpaper, I like this one better. The concept is nice and the placing of elements are greatly done.

1024 x 768

10. Rainbow Concepts V by: jugga-lizzle

If you will look at the design, there is not much shapes used. But it still looks nice because of the simplicity plus colors used.

1024 x 768

11. Dibujo Rarro by: spinix

A wonderful example of vector design, putting different geometrical shapes to create a design.

4665 x 3406

12. Reinas del Poker by: vikifloki

Nicely done in details. Clean and beautiful ladies in vectors.

1024 x 768

13. Morning Fantasy Wallpaper by: jugga-lizzle

I like the pink color and the blur effect of the flow. Very peaceful and feminine look design.

1024 x 768

14. ‘Fallin by: jugga-lizzle

The silhouette trees made the design look romantic, while the shapes in bright colors made it look very childlike.

1280 x 1024

15. Skyline by: webby85

One thing that I like with some designs is the story behind each. This is like a love battle between good and evil.

1600 x 1200

16. My Favourite Mistake by: mariux

The lady in vector looks so lovely. It looks nice and fancy.

1280 x 1024

17. Wallpaper by: illustrator

Cool! I love the concept of putting no face and the wings too. Music makes us fly.

2000 x 1500

18. Mushtopia by: ScaryDeadGirl

If you want your eyes to be refreshed, put this as your desktop wallpaper. Very refreshing.

1600 x 1200

19. Geisha Wallpaper by: Tabbathehutt

Simple but nice lady figure in kimono. It fits well on the design.

1024 x 768

30. Mario and Sonic by: !darkdevil

Wonderful work of vector! Very nice Super Mario in vector, isn’t?

1600 x 1200

31. Super Mario by: bad-blood

Do you remember those times that you play the game of Mario? Very nice game like this one in vector.

1024 x 768

32. Fantasy Island by: celsojunior

I find this one very cute. The rainbows and ray light effect of the heart shape give life to the design.

1280 x 960

33. A Trip To Wonderland by: secroit

Wonderful art and style. The colors used are not too dull yet not too bright. I like the objects used, perfectly combined.

1600 x 1200

34. Niponisation Wallpaper by: vikifloki

Nice and clean. I like the swirls that was put around the lady, very sophisticated.

1280 x 1024

35. Disco by: celsojunior

Very cool! Awesome colors and graphics used.

1600 x 1200

36. isoCologne by: yofikus

What do you imagine on this wallpaper? I imagine a city with lights and trees. Have you noticed the ribbon-like object that represents a river? It’s so cool!

1280 x 960

37. Sasusaka Wp by: RavenxCorpse

Vectors and silhouette are perfect combination, right? And this design is one good example.

1600 x 1200

38. Missin’ Like Candy – Portrait by: incredibledarlz04

Beautiful colors! A wonderful example of vector.

1440 x 900 | 1920 x 1080

39. Vector by: jrbamberg

The objects stand out with the background color and the swirls with a leaf on the tip are wonderfully placed.

3296 x 2542

40. Until She Comes by: $chixor

The lashes are nice and the hair gives the woman a sexy look. And the background color fits so well on the design.

800 x 600

41. The Four Seasons – My style by: onutzaC

The silhouettes are great that they blended well on the background. Awesomely done wallpaper!

1280 x 1024

42. Little Happy Hilly Wallpaper by: acrylicana

Have you notice the wings that was put as mustache? Cutie! The colors are very attractive!

1024 x 768 | 1280 x 1024 | 1366 x 768

43. G6 Monkey by: Y0o

Hah! This one so so cute. Very creative to put together objects to form a monkey.

1280 x 1024

44. Touch You by: ghostnat

Don’t you find designs with stories behind each very creative? I do. I think designing is one way of speaking your emotions.

1024 x 768

45. Beyond The Rainbow by: dreaming-star

The rainbow is like a slide made of candies. The sun rays work well with the background color and the silhouette are very nice.

800 x 600

46. Nature by: celsojunior

The design is so smooth in style, good choice of colors. I wish there can be a place exactly like this one. It’s like paradise.

1280 x 960

47. The Lady Awaits by: ekster

The lady in vector is sexy and chic. If I were just a guy, I would not let this woman wait. Haha! Amazing work indeed!

1280 x 800

48. Like The Wind by: webby85

The clouds and other elements of the design fit well together. The details are well-created.

1600 x 1200

49. Wallpaper by: mixmasterangel

Very nice vectors. The curves and the details are nicely done. I also like the woman holding a gun, very strong in personality.

1600 x 1200

50. Summer Dream by: jlluesma

I love the effects of the light. Also, how the colors and shapes are blended together are awesome.

1600 x 1200

51. Little Yellow Submarine by: sourcow

When I am seeing this, I can imagine lollipops. Very sweet and the submarine looks great.

1280 x 960

52. Love by: koden

Don’t you remember your puppy love when seeing this? I do. LOL. This wallpaper is simple yet cute and romantic.

1600 x 1200

53. Wind by: princel3d

Though the colors are not so bright, it still look good because of the blending effect. Nice work.

1600 x 1200 | 1280 x 960 | 1024 x 768 | 1920 x 1200

54. Vector Vortex by: SpritzTheVik

Good choice of colors and well-done curves.

1024 x 768

55. Fueled with Smartness by: imrik

The curves and colors used on this design struck me the most. Very beautiful.

1920 x 1200

56. Shot by: Andycap

Very emotional design. I like the effect of the soul and lady in silhouette. The clouds and vectors are beautifully combined.

1600 x 1200

57. Panda Remix by: MagicalViper

I find this one unique for seldom vector designers use two colors only. The pandas combined with different shapes are very cute.

1600 x 1200

58. Heaven and Hell by: Joker84

A vision of what is heaven and hell. I like the silhouette used and the blending of background colors.

1600 x 1200

59. My Freedom Begins Here by: celsojunior

Nice silhouette and choice of colors. Simple, bright yet nice.

1280 x 960

60. Retro Profile by: jugga-lizzle

The colors are nice and the creator did a great work by just using one shape and having a creative output.

1400 x 1050

I hope that you enjoyed browsing these beautiful vector wallpapers as I have enjoyed them. Personally, I appreciate and I love viewing vector designs. I find them really nice and creative! You won’t get tired looking at them, right?

What about you? How well do you like vector designs? You can share your thoughts with us!