Best WordPress Themes Of The Year – 2012

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In no particular order, I wanted to share with you a collection of the best WordPress themes 2012 had to offer the WordPress theme market. The themes I have listed cover almost every niche from Portfolios, Blogs, eCommerce and Photography – WordPress has it all.

2012 has seen the WordPress theme market grow and the quality of themes that are being released just get better and better – massive kudos to the authors/theme shops that are putting these out.  Again, I wanted to be clear the WordPress themes are not listed in a rating order, so be sure to have a good browse and download your favorites. Enjoy.

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A Showcase Of iPhone App Landing Page Designs

A Showcase Of iPhone App Landing Page Designs
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iPhone & iPad app design has come a very long way in a relatively short time, nowadays users expect a pixel perfect, polished interface and smooth user experience. Transferring the iOS app branding to a web landing page to promote your app is essential, the app landing page needs to convey the app look & feel and deliver the ‘elevator pitch’ all on a single page design. The aim of an app landing page is essentially to push users through to the download page, conveying all the required information onto a single page can be tough – today I wanted to showcase a collection of iPhone app landing pages that do all of the above and retain their aesthetics appearance.

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20 Gorgeous Design Studio Web Designs

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Designing for yourself or for your own company is often one the hardest things to undertake, today I wanted to showcase some recent new designs created by web design studios and freelancers.

These new designs also provide us an opportunity to take a look at some emerging web design trends we may see in 2013, a common feature I see more and more right now is the use of fullwidth images or sliders in the site header combined with a text/marketing blurb overlay.

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Coding a Minimalist Portfolio Layout with Dynamically Sorted Projects

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Freelancers and designers are often looking for ways to spice up a typical portfolio layout. You want to show off your most recent works to potential clients, while also offering a quick way to learn about your talents and get in contact. Single-page layouts are great if you have the design capability. But there are also other unique types of portfolio user interfaces which are stunning as well.

In this tutorial I want to demonstrate how we can build a dynamic filtered portfolio list using jQuery. To speed up the development process we can use a jQuery plugin Quicksand to help with the sorting animations. This is a lucrative method for people who build various types of products and want to showcase their work together in one place. You could also link the portfolio images to display embedded text or photobox modal windows.

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15 Perfect WordPress Themes For Bloggers

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WordPress now has evolved into a fully fledged content management system then a specialised blogging platform, often I feature WordPress portfolio themes or eCommerce themes that are so far from the WordPress blogging roots that today, I wanted to bring proceedings back to the roots of WordPress and feature some new WordPress blog themes that are perfect for bloggers.

With the introduction of WordPress post formats in version 3.1, bloggers are now able to post styled content rich posts such as statuses, galleries, quotes and audio/video. In today’s post I will be focusing on awesome blogging themes that utilise the post format feature.

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