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If you build and develop Wordpress themes often, you will probably be fed up of all the repetitive code writing, the constantly checking of your mark-up and all you really want to do is focus on the design and the project-specific features. The answer is a Wordpress development framework. A framework is designed to speed up the process of designing and coding a Wordpress theme by minimizing your time, and balancing your patience, on Wordpress’ back-end code that is repeated within every theme. This post lists some of the best Wordpress theme framework available along with several child themes for use with them. - Ian

Increasingly, employers are searching Google for prospective employees name, even my own sister has asked for help in covertly monitoring employee Twitter accounts. The advent of social media is encouraging transparency online, this means people using their real names and taking responsibility for their words to become reputable and trustworthy. This brilliant post asks whether this honesty will backfire on people who do not grow up with the advent of social media. Generally speaking, that typically means people who are outside the 20-30 age range now. There are of course many exceptions, from young teenagers to old pensioner, which suggests it makes no difference. Only time will tell, when we have a good decade of status updates indexed and search able by Google. However older data is less relevant and I've heard Twitter only retains your previous 3200 tweets. What do you think? - Ian

Increasingly, employers are searching Google for prospective employees name, even my own sister has asked for help in covertly monitoring employee Twitter accounts. The advent of social media is encouraging transparency online, this means people using their real names and taking responsibility for their words to become reputable and trustworthy. This brilliant post asks whether this honesty will backfire on people who do not grow up with the advent of social media. Generally speaking, that typically means people who are outside the 20-30 age range now. There are of course many exceptions, from young teenagers to old pensioner, which suggests it makes no difference. Only time will tell, when we have a good decade of status updates indexed and search able by Google. However older data is less relevant and I've heard Twitter only retains your previous 3200 tweets. what do you think? - Ian

The gallery includes 30 clever implemented logo design ideas. Stunning wordmarks, strong icons and intelligent combinations. Take a look how designer’s ideas are transformed into to full-rate brands. It’s also an excellent source to find out what are today’s leading logo design trends. - Ian

We're familiar with operating systems like Windows and Mac. Google are planning a web-based operating system based on their Chrome browser, using Google services, such as Maps and Gmail. This post reviews 11 alternative web-based operating system that you can use today for email, file storage, web browsing etc. - Ian

Microblogging keeps users connected to other users with simple message creating a conversation and improving community among local areas or within businesses. Here are 9 open source microblogging applications which with a little technical knowledge can be used to build a community through your website. - Ian

This week, the true power of Twitter was revealed and oh boy was it a sight to behold. Who said Twitter was just a bunch of willy waving celebs polishing egos and plugging books, followed by a bunch of sad geeks with nothing better to do? - Ian

Wordpress enables you to build Blogs, Web sites and powerful online applications. Wordpress is the most popular blog software available. Best of all, Wordpress is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. There are hundreds of Wordpress themes online waiting to be paid for. Some of them are worth it, some are not. Here are some of the best free Wordpress themes around which help you to take your website to a whole new level! - Ian

Wordpress enables you to build Blogs, Web sites and powerful online applications. Wordpress is the most popular blog software available. Best of all, Wordpress is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. There are hundreds of Wordpress themes online waiting to be paid for. Some of them are worth it, some are not. Here are some of the best free Wordpress themes around which help you to take your website to a whole new level! - Ian

With the amount of time we spend tapping away at our keyboards, it’s no wonder there are hundreds of tools dedicated to making that time more efficient. So, to make your life easier, we’ve gone and done some of the work for you. Here are ten incredibly useful productivity tools for those of us who can’t seem to eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner away from a computer screen. - Ian

If you visit most freelancers’ websites these days, you’ll find a blog, links to various networking sites and other signs of social media marketing. There are freelancers who spend hours perfecting their LinkedIn profiles and blog posts. But at some point, we each have to ask whether social media is really bringing us new clients. - Ian

Facebook’s fan pages are easy to set up, but not so easy to master. Unfortunately, Facebook’s system for setting up and maintaining pages is needlessly complicated and sometimes buggy. It can be a little frustrating, but that’s the price of reaching a network of 300 million people. It’s worth the effort to put Facebook to work for your business. - Ian

If you use Wordpress as a CMS for your client websites, you’ve probably faced that issue: regular people find Wordpress hard to use. Yes, it is quite user-friendly, but apparently not enough for people who double-click on links when browsing or worst, enter their website’s url in Google to get there. To make it easier for these people to maintain their own website, try these tips. - Ian

There are two primary ways you can have a presence on Facebook as a user: You can have a personal profile (what the vast majority of Facebook users have) or a fan page, which is more of a business- and personality-oriented page. We’ll explore the difference and help you make the most of Facebook. - Ian

Millions of iPhone users scour the Internet every day in search of ways to personalize and enhance their iPhone. In search of the latest free themes and icon sets available for the iPhone, I found these amazing new themes which will definitely set your iPhone apart from the rest. Start downloading and enhance your Apple iPhone with these beautiful free themes. - Ian

Are you like me? Whenever I buy a new gadget; whether it be a laptop, ipod or a new phone, I always feel the need to customize it with my personal touch. While surfing the Internet I found that there are many products out there today that do just that. Why not dress up your new Apple iPhone? These visually stunning and gorgeous iPhone skins have been created by some of the best artists and designers around. - Ian

If you’re looking to establish your online presence, and build relationships, it’s not the kind of project where you show up, build your profiles, friend a few people, and call it good. It’s a lot like tending the farm. Here are seven particular “chores” you could do every day that should prove beneficial to your online interests. - Ian

Having a home delivery newspaper subscription is great. Every morning, we acquire our daily dose of news from all around the world right in front of our door step. With RSS, you can receive an infinite number of different news feeds right within one application. To help you choose how you view those feeds on your Mac, we’re listing 8 popular RSS Readers available for OS X. - Ian

The WordPress 5-minute install is great, nothing complicated about getting your blog up and running (most of the time). But once you install WordPress there are a number of other steps that you need to take in order to get the most from your blog. Use the following as a to-do checklist for your future installations and you’ll keep yourself right. - Ian

Everybody loves free. This is especially true for something of value and the icons we’ve listed below have just that. If you’re a designer or developer, you can’t go wrong with adding some spice to your design or application using any of these icons. - Ian

Handy new sharing features on Mashable: hover over any image or video and dragging it over the relevant icon allows you to post Mashable content to Facebook (Facebook), Twitter (Twitter), email or IM. The features come courtesy of Meebo (Meebo), the real-time communications and sharing company that ranks at 39 in Quantcast’s Top Site Rankings. - Ian

Every single user on the web has landed on at least one 404 page in their entire user surfing experience. Often when a user arrive on a 404 page, they end up leaving your site. In this article, we highlight the best WordPress 404 Error Page Designs, and we will give you our insights on creating a beautiful and highly usable 404 page design for your WordPress. - Ian

To help expand my ReTweeting research, please take my new survey and encourage your followers to do the same. My research has shown that the number of followers exposed to a Tweet has only a weak correlation to the number of ReTweets it gets, indicating that the content of the tweet may be more important than the user posting it. - Ian

JQuery is a lightweight, cross-browser compliant, and extremely powerful Javascript framework. Among lots of other things, it can help you building gorgeous and usable navigation menus. In this article, I have selected 10 of the best JQuery menu available. - Ian

Don’t risk real freedom for short-term material gain Our civil liberties are in jeopardy and we are to blame. We have reduced democracy to the right to make and spend money. Why is it that so many people are willing to give up their freedoms in return for an easy life? The question goes to the heart of the political and economic crisis that is afflicting countries around the world, whether they are considered authoritarian or democratic. - Ian

Table is the most difficult object to be styled, due to its browser compatibility and markup. Most of the designers and developers will use div to replace table because it is much more easier to style div than table. But, we still need table in our daily applications, one of the best example is comparison table. This article will share 15 useful jQuery table plugins for you to display, sort, filter and manipulate your data in table. - Ian

Eric Gill, Adrian Frutiger and Max Miedinger are names we associate with the classic typefaces designers use on a daily basis. Their font creations are timeless designs that look right at home no matter what century we’re in. This collection of 25 classic fonts is a round up of the best and most popular fonts every designer should own. You can be sure that they will last your whole design career. - Ian

Stock photography is often used in print and web design and has been around since the 1920s, when it was utilized by the newspaper industry. It has turned out to be such a common element to use now when designing, and has become more and more available, so that designers start using it on a daily basis. In the beginning there were only a few minor resources when it came to utilizing a variety of photos, but now as the times change and technology advances, so does the amount of resources in stock photography. Here are a handful of sites to check out when considering the use of stock photography on your next project. - Ian

An impressive collection of links to tutorials illustrating how to use CSS. Great stuff if you're just learning or needing a refresher on how to get a certain effect. - Ian

Tutorial to create a clear, clean, very modern and simple page - a "Model Window" - to stop unauthorised access to a page. - Ian

More and more we see people using horizontal sliding panels on their websites. And they usually look very nice! Some will put a contact or login form in there, others will put some information about them and their website, or even things like a tag cloud or social networking buttons. Horizontal sliding panels are great for many situations, but like everything else, they’re not always ideal. It depends on the project. To see what I mean by ‘horizontal sliding panel‘, go have a look at my other site Design-Newz, and click on the ‘want more‘ button that’s on the right above the navigation bar. - Ian