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100 Amazing Free Wordpress Themes for 2009

Tue, 19 May 2009 07:55:34 GMT

In January 2008, we put together a list of 100 Excellent Free Wordpress Themes. Over a year has passed and Wordpress development has progressed very fast and gained even more in popularity. We felt it was the right time to put together an updated post and offer our readers the best free themes that Wordpress can offer.

High quality free Wordpress Themes have become harder and harder to find in the past year, with the influx of premium themes, more and more designers and developers are selling themes (and rightly so, they do amazing work). But, that aside, the quality is certainly there, and we are sure you will be impressed with this Wordpress theme compilation for 2009.

About the author

Paul Andrew is a freelance web designer. He is chief admin for Speckyboy - Design Magazine, a web design, web development and graphic design resource blog. You can follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/speckyboy.

Sitepoint releases HTML reference as a beta

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:23:58 GMT

While this is not strictly Ajax or JavaScript related, it is noteworthy to point out that Sitepoint just released a HTML reference that is quite handy to have around if you wonder if what you are building is really HTML or just tagsoup.

Good HTML references are really hard to come by, either they are just listings, like W3schools.com or terribly outdated. Sitepoint have done quite a good job in listing all the HTML elements and categorizing them into different use cases. There is also a list of deprecated elements and attributes to avoid (which could be considered dangerous to still bring up as some of them are too handy to simply add to solve an issue) and a Microformats primer.

We know for a fact that other portals/article sites are working on similar projects and consider it a really good way of flushing old and outdated tutorials on things as simple but important as markup out of the search engine result pages.

The reference also gives a legend of browser support, something that so so far was only available on the German SelfHTML reference.

Firecookie: Put you hand in the cookie jar with Firebug

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:33:04 GMT

Jan Odvárko "missed two movie nights" to create cookie support in Firebug. His Firebug plugin, Firecookie, gives you access to view, search, create, remove, and manage the permissions of a cookie, all from within a Firebug tab.

Firecookie creates a log entry every time when a cookie is created, changed, deleted or rejected (an option you can change).

Jan is looking for comments.

He has also written a nice tutorial on extending Firebug. It is great to see sub-plugins for Firebug such as YSlow, Firecookie, etc. Do you know of any other good ones?

NOTE: There are, of course, separate Firefox plugins for cookie management.

CSS Text Wrapper

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:31:29 GMT

You can make text wrap around curves, zig-zags, or whatever you want.

Moo table plugin

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:31:12 GMT

MooTables are created from standard html tables, they degrade nicely.

Drastic Cloud

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:31:01 GMT

DrasticCloud is a Moo Tools based Tag Cloud visualization.

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100 Amazing Free Wordpress Themes for 2009

Blog & Portfolio Themes

Magazine & Corporate Themes

Photoblog & Gallery Themes

Minimal & Clean Themes

Smashing Magazine Themes

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