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An interesting view of Manhattan - horizonless. The perspective of these images gives the viewer two distinct vantage points - one from above the city, and another from street level.

Ian Stewart (ThemeShaper) has compiled a collection of responses from 15 WordPress theme developers in response to the question: "What is the future of WordPress themes?" My response to the question challenged the idea of distribution & updates vs. design ...

Built on top of the popular 960.gs grid, Gridmaker for Photoshop CS4 provides you with a small configurable panel for building your grids right inside Photoshop.

There is no denying it has been a little quiet around these parts. I decided to brush the dust off the site with a new look. Something I had been chipping away on for the past few weeks whenever I ...

Yesterday I was in a state of panic. Adobe's Photoshop CS3 was crapping on me at the most unexpected and inopportune time. The Photoshop icon would do its dance in the dock a few times, load the splash screen, then ...

For WordPress users, there are certain scenarios when the typical reverse chronological presentation of content is just not enough. I have experimented with different methods of presenting content on 5thirtyone.com each time a redesign is uploaded - from the text-centric ...

Smashing Magazine recently polled 35 different individuals whose livelihood deals in some shape or form with web design. If you're not already a subscriber, I highly recommend their feed which regularly publishes some of the most detailed and exhaustive resource ...

Anyone who inserts contextual advertisements into their pages - like Google Adsense - are aware of the fact that some readers block advertisements. Oftentimes, methods for removing advertisements from view alter the structure of a page, in turn, changing ...

Quite a number of months back I released the Foliage Mod WordPress theme which included a Table of Contents (TOC) styled navigation block in the header. A recent post on ScriptyGoddess prompted me to upload the download & tutorial post ...

Designers who receive email inquiries for work are undoubtedly familiar with emails from potential clients requesting additional background info, portfolio links, questions regarding previous jobs, or samples. For those that do receive these inquiries, never fall victim to "clients" requesting ...

Progress is finally being made on is.derekpunsalan.com. Let's throw some bets down for expected update intervals - work permitting. There is a worthwhile story behind my decision to setup a second domain. We'll save that discussion for a lengthier post.

Well this is pretty much the design. I really love the contrast of white on top and charcoal black. To the right under "pixellife" I will have the highlight content, downloads, projects, for easy access and noticeability. "Freshness" will hold ...

Ben Bleikamp, also known for his entrepreneurship blog College Startup, has been hard at work coding and compiling his design community share Lovely Blogs. Now some may jump to conclusions stating that the only reason this post was created was ...

Although I may be a little preoccupied at the moment with work, I do make an effort to check Mint on a daily basis for traffic and referrer logs. The routine can be rather mundane at times: check active browsers, ...

UPDATE: Content removed as per requested. Personal email credentials removed from the original post. Check the comments for the explanation. I thought I would try the nice route by sending a few emails directly to the domain owner but it ...

Inspired by Phu's Many colours of a reboot, I've decided to share my favorite sites which utilize "fat" footers. I think the more appropriate title for the trend would be faux footers. Rather than one line footers including contact information ...