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Free wordpress theme from Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine often ask designers and developers to do cool stuff to release for free. Today it is a very nice wordpress theme called Fervens.
The design is from Design Disease and their great designer Elena. Clean and fresh, including two widgetised sidebar and two built in plugin it’s a very cool theme.
So if you are [...]

Screencast series from CSS-Tricks

Chris at CSS-Tricks has done many screen-cast in the past and he has just finished the Designing for Wordpress serie.
If you are about to start your own Wordpress theme from scratch don’t go further and have a look at those mini-series. You will learn how to design a professional theme from the beginning. Very easy [...]

Gzip your pages to speed up transfert

Gzip is a powerful compression format. You can use it to compress files but also to compress pages send by the web server to the client. All the recent browser support gzip and can uncompress a gzipped page on the fly without your user noticing it.
There is lots of tutorial to enable gzip but none [...]

Website check up using Webagogo

If you care about standards, accessibility, seo, etc… here is a very good tool to test your website with: webagogo. After singing in you can run a series of test on a given address (you need to be the owner of the site). The results worth a look.
The results includes:

markup validation
CSS validation
Accessibility
Usability
Features (rss, …)
Speed
Seo
Security
Privacy
Compatibility

I’ve got [...]

Freebies for your toolbox

If you don’t have Smashing Magazine in your rss feed reader yet it’s about time to add it. Being one of the best web media related web magazine, they always pretty cool articles, giveaways and..free stuff. Have a look at the Freebies section to see what you can get for free. There is some pretty [...]

“Web 2.0″ Loading gif, your own in 10sec

Here is a website that create loading gif for you. You choose the skin from a list of predefined skin and press create. That’s it. Useful when you want a common loading shape. You can even give it a color or make it transparent, change the background, etc…
Always good in a toolbox: http://www.ajaxload.info/

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