Elegant Themes Membership Giveaway

Elegant Themes Membership GiveawayElegant Themes Membership Giveaway

The generous gentlemen from Elegant Themes have got in touch with us and have very kindly provided us with Three Developer Accounts Worth $89 Each to give away to three lucky DesignWoop readers.

The Elegant Themes Developer accounts are usually worth $89 each, these give you access to all their WordPress themes, their support forums and the complete theme PSD files. Three winners will get all this for free.

Inspiration: A Collection Vintage Business Card Designs

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Today I wanted to share with you a little inspiration piece that is focused on the use of vintage design within the business card niche.

Using the vintage design style can work great on business card designs as the combination of classic vintage typography, dirty textures and geometric patterns can really help create a unique business card that is reminiscent of the design of a bygone era.

A Collection Of 100+ Subtle Brush Sets

A Collection Of 100+ Subtle Brush Sets

Today I wanted to share with you a collection of over 100+ subtle brush sets you can use in Photoshop to help give your designs a little extra depth and feel.

Using these subtle textures is a great way to create grunge backgrounds for your websites, vintage logos and type treatment or provide a useful backdrop to your design mock-ups if you are looking to upload them to Dribbble or Behance.

15 Super Simple WordPress Blogging Themes

15 Super Simple WordPress Blogging Themes

Initially in the early days of WordPress it was primarily used as a blogging tool, you could quickly write up a little blog post and publish it – pretty simple stuff. Nowadays WordPress is used in a whole variety of ways and in all niches on the web. Its common to see WordPress being used as fully fledged CMS powering huge websites rather then just a small blogging tool.

Back To WordPress Blogging Basics

I would say WordPress is still one of the easiest and most professional ways for writers to be able to publish their content online. In a market full of over developed and overly complex WordPress themes I wanted to bring the attention back to blogging basics.

Theme Selection

The WordPress blogging themes I have collected here are simple, to the point and super easy for novice WordPress bloggers to use. All the WordPress themes focus on the blogger’s content and feature only the most basic of theme options so you can focus on the most important thing – writing.

CSS3 Animated Image Slideshows with Flux Slider

CSS3 Animated Image Slideshows with Flux Slider

There are so many JavaScript image slideshow plugins out on the Internet, it can be difficult pinpointing what you need. Developers who are not looking to start from scratch often search the web targeting the perfect solution. And although each technique has its drawbacks, the wide assortment of choices will offer plenty of rewards and something to fit your layout.

In this tutorial I want to focus on using a library called Flux Slider which was created by Joe Lambert. This image slideshow plugin is unique in that it defaults to using CSS3 transitions with JavaScript-controlled alternatives. All modern CSS3-compliant browsers will support the native features which can be set using jQuery or Zepto.js as the core library. Catch a glimpse of the demo we are building in my live example below.