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Brand guideline design tips from the experts, Saatchi & Saatchi. - Alex Cristache

10 useful WordPress code snippets, hacks and tips to help you create a WordPress theme that stands out from the crowd. - Alex Cristache

This jQuery plugin, developed in the iHwy Labs, allows you to easily convert a long, hard to navigate list into a compact, easily skimmable 'first-letter' based menuing system, allowing quick and 'out-of the-way' access to hundreds of items. - Alex Cristache

You can either spend hours every week accumulating little backlinks, or you going after the big score. The one big backlink that is worth a 100 little ones. - Alex Cristache

CKEditor is a text editor to be used inside web pages. It's a WYSIWYG editor, which means that the text being edited on it looks as similar as possible to the results users have when publishing it. It brings to the web common editing features found on desktop editing applications like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice. - Alex Cristache

Mega menus are a growing trend in web design. For sites that involve a lot of pages and/or products, a mega menu may be able to improve navigation and usability. In this post we’ll look at 25 examples of megamenus in action. - Alex Cristache

Here is a collection of free vector world maps that you can use in your projects. - Alex Cristache

"What's your take on the matter?" - Alex Cristache

The discussion around this always seems to evolve into “open source” versus “author protection”. As Alex King pointed out, theme authors should be aware of what the GPL license exposes them too, while it provides freedom for basically everyone els - Alex Cristache

JS Charts is a free JavaScript based chart generator that requires little or no coding. With JS Charts drawing charts is a simple and easy task, since you only have to use client-side scripting (i.e. performed by your web browser). No additional plugins or server modules are required. Just include our scripts, prepare your chart data in XML or JavaScript Array and your chart is ready! - Alex Cristache

In this selection we’re glad to present you Chunk, Titilium, Amputa Bangiz, Serif Beta, Quatro, Rough Draft, Comfortaa and a couple of other high-quality free fonts. - Alex Cristache

We’ve put together this CSS support in email clients guide to save you the time and trouble of figuring it out for yourself. With 21 different sets of results, all the major email systems are covered, both desktop applications and webmail. - Alex Cristache

Create a jQuery slideshow that enables you to click through each slide when JavaScript is disabled, without having to display all slides one under the other. - Alex Cristache

A jQuery plugin that will replace the typical browser tooltip with something a little flashier. - Alex Cristache

A grab word is a word that grabs the reader's attention. Use grab words correctly and your content will have more personality. Your readers will love you for it. - Alex Cristache

An options page has become a must have for any WordPress theme, be it free or premium, in order to get mass appeal. - Alex Cristache

A “grab word” is a word that grabs the reader’s attention. Words such as “attention, free, money, sex, radical, new.” There are tons and tons of grab words that you can use to enhance your content. The best part? Your readers won’t even know or care that you’re using specific words to make them listen! If you use them correctly, your content will have more personality and your readers will love you for it. - Alex Cristache

Design studio of Alex Cristache, the man behind Blogsessive.com, an appreciated blogging and WordPress tips blog. - Alex Cristache

Here you will find 12 content management systems and quotes from reader comments about each. - Alex Cristache

WPML is a WordPress plugin that can turn any WordPress or WordPressMU site into a full featured multilingual content management system. - Alex Cristache

A nifty simple way to add a cool Tweet This button to your WordPress posts including automatic creation of TinyURL / Bit.ly url for your post - Alex Cristache

Definitely a good collection, but certainly not corporate websites. - Alex Cristache

"By not including the comments template in the page / post template files. ( < ?php comments_template(); ? > )" - Alex Cristache

The time when WordPress was used strictly as a blog platform is long gone. WordPress has evolved into a mature CMS that gives designers and developers the right tools to create amazing non-blog websites for their clients. As proof for that stand these 10 beautiful websites powered by WordPress. - Alex Cristache

WordPress is extremely versatile.You can employ it for various projects and oftentimes you don't even recognize it's WordPress at first sight. - Donald Townsend

Donald, that's the designer's skill. And even if you recognize the WordPress behind it, what's the harm? It makes me appreciate the creator even more for his creativity and skill. - Alex Cristache

"The time when WordPress was used strictly as a blog platform is long gone. WordPress has evolved into a mature CMS that gives designers and developers the right tools to create amazing non-blog websites for their clients. As proof for that stand these 10 beautiful websites powered by WordPress." - Alex Cristache

A gallery of 10 beautifully designed non-blog websites that use WordPress as CMS. Explore the power of WordPress. - Alex Cristache

The time when WordPress was used strictly as a blog platform is long gone. WordPress has evolved into a mature CMS that gives designers and developers the right tools to create amazing non-blog websites for their clients. As proof for that stand these 10 beautiful websites powered by WordPress. - Alex Cristache

The time when WordPress was used strictly as a blog platform is long gone. WordPress has evolved into a mature CMS that gives designers and developers the right tools to create amazing non-blog websites for their clients. As proof for that stand these 10 beautiful websites powered by WordPress. - Alex Cristache

All of these sliding box animations work on the same basic idea. There is a div tag (.boxgrid in my css) that essentially acts as a window where two other items of your choosing “peek” through. - Alex Cristache

Ever since blogging has become “mainstream”, companies has discovered a new marketing tool in blogs. Find out if a corporate blog is the right choice for your company with these 3 essential questions to ask yourself. - Alex Cristache