Tutorial: Grabbing Popular Dribbble Shots Dynamically via jQuery

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Compared with any other design network Dribbble always seems to come out on top. The quality of submissions is beyond comprehension to most graphics designers, especially with mobile/web user interfaces. There are so many amazing shots published every day but it’s tough to keep up with the constant flow of new publications.

In this tutorial I want to demonstrate how we can build a small webapp which dynamically pulls all the most recent popular shots from Dribbble. The interface is very simple to work with and we want to create all these effects without refreshing the page. For organizing the backend data I’ll be using a custom jQuery plugin named jribbble. It suits our needs perfectly and it’s so easy to get started – even a newbie JavaScript developer could pick this up in a couple hours.

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Useful Tutorials For Creating Your First WordPress Plugin

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WordPress plugins allow you to extend your default WordPress installation with almost any kind of functionality, you can download a vast collection of plugins from the WordPress plugin repository or you can create your own. In today’s post I wanted to focus on quality tutorials and resources that I have found useful to reference whilst learning how to build WordPress plugins. the tutorials I have included are thorough and well written and in Gilbert Pellegrom case – he has included a whole plugin boilerplate, which although not a tutorial – a seriously good resource to take a look at.

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Best Pinterest Style WordPress Themes

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Pinterest allows you to collect and share images, videos and other media content types with your follower base, many people do not know that WordPress supports many different post types, allowing WordPress users to post quotes, galleries, videos and images to their blog. Today I wanted to focus on the best WordPress themes that are built similar to Pinterest, these Pinterest themes mostly use the jQuery masonry layout and WordPress custom post types to display the content in a similar fashion to Pinterest.

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Useful Color Combination Apps For Designers

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When designing a product you have to take into consideration a lot of things including a color scheme. Colors can make or break the right image of your production. There are millions of different colors in the world so it is really hard to find the right ones. Also psychology is very important when perceiving the colors. Make sure you check the meanings of the colors in general and in specific cultures to get the best effect of using them.

In this post I would like to present to you some of the useful design tools that will help you to choose the right color palette for your design production. Here are 15 online tools for making, analyzing and collecting color combinations.

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Showcasing: 20 Aesthetical Business Cards From August 2012

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If your a regular DesignWoop reader you will know that at the end of each month I feature a fresh set of business cards that I collected over the course of that month. By doing this each month I have provided you with a pretty comprehensive collection of business card designs that are hopefully inspirational to you. I know each time I look over the business cards I always want to get my hands on some fresh new edge painted letterpress cards!

This month I have pretty diverse mix of business card designs and card printing techniques, as usual my favorite business cards are the ones using a combination of thick stock and edge painting – finished with gorgeous typography. Drop me a comment and let me know which business cards you like and why.

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