Designing The Holy Search Box: Examples And Best Practices

By Smashing Magazine Editorial and György Fekete
On content-heavy websites, the search box is often the most frequently used design element. From a usability point of view, irritated users use the search function as a last option when looking for specific information on a website. If a website’s content is not organized properly, an efficient search [...]

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Innocent Invaders Photoshop Brushes Set

Today we are glad to release Innocent Invaders Photoshop Brushes Set, a set that features a curious cast of characters who are ready to infiltrate your creative projects. Inspired by designer vinyl toys, this high resolution set includes a collection of 15 different creatures accompanied by 10 background illustrations.

These brushes are designed by Katie Canada [...]

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10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress

By Jean-Baptiste Jung
RSS is one of those technologies that are extremely simple yet extremely powerful. Currently, RSS is the de facto standard for blog syndication, and it is used widely in both personal and corporate settings; for example, in blogs. And because a large percentage of these blogs run on WordPress, we’ll cover in this [...]

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ASCII One: A Free WordPress Theme

We released a couple of Wordpress themes over the last months. Some of them were praised, the others were torn apart, but we always tried to always offer a variety of different styles. And today is no exception.
Today we are glad to release ASCII One — a free professional Wordpress-theme created by Piotr Godek. This [...]

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100 Free High-Quality XHTML/CSS Templates

by Steven Snell
If you haven’t taken a look at the (X)HTML/CSS templates that are available for free from a variety of sources, you may be surprised by the quality you can find. WordPress themes tend to get a lot of exposure and attention in the design community right now, but there is also a wide [...]

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