DivageekDesigns.comFree Online Resources for Designers and Developers

I’m gonna try this out, it looks interesting and I’m always up for a challenege and learning more then I think I know..it’s called the 30 day challenge and it’s an program video blog/website that guides you through the process of learning how you can create your business online, or optimize your current business and how to make your first dollar or more money. It is completly free and claims all you need to know to follow along is how to send an email..hmm..sounds challenging. Anyway.. it looks interesting to me, it is highly recommened and I like the guys accent so far and after watching a couple of his videos I decided he does seem to know what he’s talking about and he also seems to be worth recommending to you guys.

Check them out and learn to make some money with your website, can’t hurt can it?

I think this video explains what’s what ..

After you watch that go and sign up at
http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/starttheprogram.php

Oh and he seems to be a Flock fan so if you don’t know what Flock is you will learn watching his videos. I personally already use and love Flock.

Flock - The official web browser of the Thirty Day Challenge
http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/members/training08/preseason/preseason-flock.php

The Cheat Sheet - A quick review of all the 30DC Pre-Season Training
http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/members/training08/preseason/preseason-cheatsheet.php

Twhirl - A time-saving Twitter management tool
http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/members/training08/preseason/preseason-twhirl.php

Here is a list of websites that offer resources for webdesigners and developers that have been Geek approved. :)
Free Photoshop tutorials, wordpress themes, css templates, tips and tricks..

Here’s a website for all you Wordpress Theme designers! JungleTango Wordpress Theme Marketplace! You can sell your themesbuy themes people are selling. Pretty Cool. Now I just need to get my butt in gear and design MY own theme…
Website: http://wpthememarket.com/

Learning Resources for Adobe Photoshop
Website: http://psdlearning.com

I love this website. They offer some really cool tutorials, Wordpress themes, tips and plugins. A must see website.
Website: http://wpcandy.com

DailyWP.com offers free Wordpress Themes, Tips and news
Website: http://www.dailywp.com

HV Designs offers Photoshop Tutorials.
Website: http://hv-designs.co.uk

2Photoshop.com offers Photoshop tutorials too help advance your Photoshop skills and techniques.
Website: http://2photoshop.com

Tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator.
Website: http://www.tutorial9.net

Thanx to webdesigninforesourcecenter.blogspot.com the great list of respurces..make sure to visit their site for more resources.

Check out their list of Stock Image Providers

Here are 30 cutting edge Wordpress themes that I think are the best online right now and there are plenty of them. I change my theme so much and I’ve used almost all of them. I’m also in the process of designing a Wordpress theme for the public so keep your eyes open. I want to offer a few different ones. A couple for free and one Premium one that I’m going to design with a friend. He just doesn’t know it yet. Haha!

I’ve also listed resources and tutorials for designing with Wordpress.

Themes by justintadlock.com

• Options
  
• Aura
• Bliss
• Blue Danube
• Options
• Options Light theme
• Shadow theme
• Structure theme
• Visionary theme

More Themes:

• Cleaker 3.0 by pomomusings.com
• Probama by category4.com
• Wordpress Themes by Scribblescratch.com/
• Stilbruch by amypink.com
• Textback by amypink.com
• OpenBook premium by catswhocode.com
• DailyPress by blogohblog.com
• Techlure by free-css-templates.net
• Myapril Reloaded
• Notepad Chaos: by Evan Eckard
• Infinity: Theme by Zhang Yichi

Themes by briangardner.com designer of the famous Revolution Templates

• Silhouette
• Vertigo

Premium WordPress Themes

Get quality and professionally designed templates for your business or news blog. Perfect for modern web 2.0 start-ups or designers looking for a quick solution.

• Revolution - - Premium WordPress Themes
• One Theme - Webmaster - A Premium WordPress Theme
• BobV3 - A Premium WordPress Theme
• Sketch’d theme- A Premium WordPress Theme
• Ashes Pro - Premium Wordpress theme
• Mod Blogger - Tech - Premium Wordpress theme
• Expression - Premium Wordpress theme
• Venice - Premium WordPress Theme

Wordpress Admin Template:

• OS X Leopard For WordPress by Teddy Hwang

This theme is a simple plugin, but when activated can change the way you think about wordpress entirely.

• Spotmilk Admin Theme

Design Tutorials:

• Design an Elegant Wordpress Theme by pstut.info — A detailed walk-through on how to create a beautiful theme for wordpress in Photoshop
• Blog design 101: Creating your own Wordpress theme cre8d-design.com has created a great 3 part tutorial on the basics of how to create your own Wordpress theme either from scratch or by adapting a theme. It’s a great tool for someone who is interested but doesn’t know where to start.
• Quick Start Your Design with XHTML Templates by particletree.com — Kevin Hale’s templates used in his workflow to help get a running start on new web development projects. In addition to the XHTML templates, Kevin will go over some CSS templates and some XHTML markup examples made to help him create style guides for various sites. This is a great resource, check it out.

Resources:

• Test your web design in different browsers at browsershots.org
• Stock.XCHNG - FREE stock photo site!

PSD Resources:

• High Res Sunbursts (Free Download)
• Grunge Essentials Pack
• Free and Exclusive Paper Textures

Brushes:

• More Brushes - 4 Photoshop CS
• Getbrushes.com
• Resources at ndesign-studio.com
• Flash Resources

Theme Sites

Fresheezy.com

Themelab.com

I’m working on a website for a customer who happens to be hosted at Dotster. Can you believe I can not get a WordPress installed on his webspace after working there for a freaking year!? Me either. It’s so wack. I’m so frustrated. I know it’s not me I did everything right. Grr!

Anyway’s I ended up installing him on my webhost! Haha! WTF? Uh yeah. I was sick of messing around with their wacked out settings. I got everything installed I’m just waiting for his name servers to propagate. What I’m gonna try and do is export it over to Dotster once it’s created..will that work? Well..that’s the plan.

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This post is mainly for my Wordpress site but I know some of my LJ friends have WordPress blogs and some who also use programs that allow them to add pinging services to Live Journal..like Windows Live Writer which I just started using myself.

What is blog pinging service?
The Blog Pinging services inform blog directories and search engines online whenever your blog has been updated and this helps more people discover your blog and increases your traffic.
Below I’ve listed some pinging services that you can add to your Blog.

How to add a list of ping services to your blog?

go to your wordpress dashboard >> click on the Settings Tab >> Go to writing sub tab >> scroll down the page and you will find “Update Services” section at the bottom of the page >> paste urls into the box >> click save

If you use Windows Live Writer:  Go to Tools >>Options >>Ping Services>>click OK

http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

I wrote in a Live Journal for 7 years so I didn’t have much exposure to the whole trackback link concept or at least that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.

Now I’m using word press to write my blog and I see “track back link” everywhere I turn and I wanted to know more about this little blogging mystery.

So I searched and I found a WordPress Trackback Tutorial..so now I know and if your like me..you can too! :)