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Wordpress: Tutorials and Resources for Designers and Developers
Every so often you come across a site that makes you wonder why you never found it before, and Andy Gongea's GraphicRating site is one of those for me. This collection of favorite WordPress Tutorials and Resources is extremely helpful, as is his WordPress Cheat Sheet. I often gauge the quality of sites by who they link to, who they cite as authorities, and who they admire. Andy's heros are my heros: Zeldman, Molly, Meyer, Shea, Moll, Croft, Snook are some he specifically names in his Ten Things a Web Designer Should Consider article.\n\nIn this Tutorials and Resources article, he links to quality tutorials from other designers I know and respect, like Chris Coyier's CSS-Tricks and Ian Stewart's ThemeShaper.com among many others. In other words, if I hadn't already found a lot of these great sites, this one post would have set me up really nicely! I look forward, therefore, to exploring all the great tutorials and resources I haven't yet discovered on my own that he lists.
Inappropriate Uses | CSS-Tricks
I like this summary of what each type of thing should and should not be used for as a general rule - good advice and clarification. I especially like this:
"What’s kind of funny about JavaScript is that if something can be done in another language, it probably should be done in that other language."
I've seen so much abuse of Javascript it has made me not like it very much, even though I realize it's actually a very useful and powerful tool that does great stuff.
WordPress Resources - 48 Resources, Tips, Tricks & Themes | Think Design
So many... just a collection of links, but useful ones.
31 Simple WordPress Tips and Tricks | WordPress eCommerce
Wow - so many resources on one page... I'm a little overwhelmed. These seem VERY useful.
Powerful guide to master Your WordPress
includes the following:
Part One: Mastering Your Theme Hacks and Techniques: some of the best WordPress tips and techniques to make your dream WordPress theme.
Part Two: 45+ Must See WordPress themes: the best WordPress themes with a user-friendly interface that you might be willing to use for your next project.
Part Three: Powerful List of WordPress Lifesavers Plugins: WordPress Plugins that we (Really) need : Better Administration, security, fighting splogs, commenters, backups, coding, etc…
Part Four: Elegant and WordPress Designs- Best Practices: excellent blog designs which impress with creative approaches and attention to details; hopefully you’ll find new ideas you can develop further on your own.
The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress
from Noupe, one of my favorite web design sites, is a real find. It is a “an attempt to show off a number of WordPress features, tips, tutorials, hacks, plugins and best practices from the World’s Leading WordPress web-developers.” The series includes the following:
Part One: Professional Tips for Improving WordPress’s Performance for a powerful CMS: how to make your WordPress CMS even better with some simple bits of code and great techniques.
Part Two: 25+ Great Websites Using WordPress as CMS: a showcase of some of the best Websites powered by WordPress with creative approaches and attention to details; hopefully you’ll find new ideas you can develop further on your own.
Part Three: 40 Exceptional “CMS Enabling” WordPress Plugins: focus on WordPress Plugins that we might need to expand the functionality of WordPress.
Part Four: The Big Contest – Winning 10 Premium WordPress Themes: Lastly, there will be a really big contest for Noupe readers to put their hands on the best WordPress Premium themes for Free! Ten Leaders in the Premium Theme Industry are offering to give away free copies of their recently-released themes just for you guys.
18 Things You Don’t Need on Your Packing List : TravelBlogs.com
Great list! I have such trouble packing light, but I always aspire to it. Unless space and weight are not an issue, then I carry the kitchen sink. "Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it" has been my motto in that regard, but freedom, and ease of transitions, when traveling by plane or bus or train or through multiple countries trumps that, especially when you can have an adventure buying what you need in a new place.
Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction
Simple good advice - and actually easy to do
The Woork Handbook
Antonio Lupetti has put together a nice web design handbook from his Woork blog posts - I've found many great tutorials and tips on his blog and I also enjoy his Italian "accented" use of English :)
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