WordPress is undoubtedly the most popular blogging platform available today. Thousands of most visited blogs around the globe run on WordPress. Not to mention My Random Guides also run on WordPress. One reason for it’s popularity, other than it being free, is its ability to use 3rd party plugins. As of this writing, there are more than 7,500 plugins are available to download from WordPress. These plugins extend the functionality of WordPress. There are many free and premium 3rd party plugins. Let’s look at seven must have plugins that are available for free. Most of these plugins focus on SEO of your blog. You can see some of these plugins in action on this blog. Images are given to point you in the right direction. [Read more...]

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Tags: WordPress

DesignRFix has assembled a set of beautifully designed Twitter icons, which you can use on your blog or website. It is distributed free so go ahead and download them.

If you are looking to get more people to follow you on Twitter, placing one of these beautifully designed Twitter icons on your blog or website will certainly help. I have assembled an amazing collection of free Twitter icons from which to choose from. I am confident that one of these cute little birds will fit your design needs. So go ahead and use one of these Twitter icons in your next project. Enjoy!

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Tags: Twitter, Web Design

This is yet another time-limited offer. This time it is for Web Designers. Tutorial9 is giving away “The Ultimate Resource Package for Web Designers“, which is worth a $100! This includes:

• 400 Icons
• 4 Premium WordPress themes
• 3 Tumblr themes
• PSD files and
• Vector file

Tutorial9 allows you to use these freebies on personal as well as commercial projects, which makes it truly amazing. Sounds too good to be true? Then here’s the catch. You have to subscribe to their newsletter first. Then they will email the download link. But you can unsubscribe anytime so it is not bad after all. Download page is available only from 9 November 2009 to 16 November 2009. So hurry up and grab this great opportunity!

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Tags: Downloads, Offers, Web Design

You’re probably thinking how in the world I added text like this. Well, join the club! I too thought the same way when I first came across CSS Text Wrapper in action on MeAndMyDrum.com. It had arranged text in a weird looking shape. Best part was it was text and not an image! As a web designer, I found it really interesting.

What CSS Text Wrapper does is, it takes your text and let you create a shape you want. Once done, you can easily include the shaped content using inline XHTML/CSS, XHTML with classes or JavaScript. All the details are provided and very easy to implement.

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Tags: Online Tools, Web Design

Many of us get very excited when a new browser releases hoping it has bug fixes and improvements. However this could be a burden from a Web Designer’s perspective. It will be another web browser and/or version to the existing list of browser compatibility checks.

Good news is there are few free tools out there to check for cross browser compatibility of your web design work. Out of the lot my favourite for checking on different version of Internet Explorer (IE) is IETester. As of this writing, it supports IE 5.5, 6, 7, and 8. It runs independently from installed version of IE so your current installation will not be messed up. This works on Windows Vista but not without occasional crashes. Nevertheless it is the best tool I found so far to check the work on different versions of IE. [Read more...]

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Tags: Browsers, Downloads, Freeware, Web Design