Free Stock Cog Icon Pack
As a thanks to my readers I’m giving you this free stock cog icon pack. I designed these over the summer for a t-shirt project that never took off. I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard to find a use for these somewhere. You are free to use this on your personal and/or commercial projects without limitation. The only thing you can’t do is redistribute the source file. If you would like to link to this, please link to this page instead of the file.
WordPress Security Plugins and Precautions
About: Web Design
On Mar 22, 2010
Written by: Ash Blue
Tags: content management systems, plugins, security, WordPress
Lets say that on your way to work a very shady man with a brown paper bag over his head follows you. Before entering your workplace, he asks for your social security number and credit cards. Willingly you hand them over to him… why would you do that? In the same way why would you leave your WordPress installation open for hackers? A security failure can put your users private information at risk, hijack all transactions, and turn your email accounts into porn spam machines. Perhaps your website has already been hacked and you don’t even know it. Below I’ve listed some plugins and tips that will make WordPress’s simple security more like a mobile fortress.
Quotes Vs. Fixed Service Pricing
Since I’ve been pricing services with quotes, I thought it would be a good idea to try standardized pricing for services. As an experiment I’ve created a services page for my website with a shopping cart that allows users to sign up for services on the spot. While standardized prices seem to be frowned upon in the web design community, they can be quite beneficial. First lets look at the pros and cons of using the traditional quote method I’ve relied upon for so long.
Fun With CSS 3 Shadows
A few weeks ago I became engaged. I must confess though, I’ve been secretly contemplating the wedding website’s design for a few months. I wanted it to be graphically spectacular, but anybody who has created a powerfully graphic driven website, knows they can be frustrating when converting everything to CSS. Instead of spending an extra 20 hours on the project I thought “Why not create as many graphics as possible with CSS 3?” Playing with the new CSS 3 Web Kit I managed to discover some extremely interesting uses for the new shadow property with rounded corners.
Create a WordPress Portfolio Tutorial
WordPress tutorials tend to be spread out and hard to find, especially information on using it to build a portfolio. After drinking large quantities of coffee to run through countless hours of Google results, I found nothing… You might ask “Come on, you didn’t find anything?” Well I did find a few simple WordPress tutorials that started me on the long journey of developing a portfolio, but nothing that took me through step by step. It seems that you must master WordPress syntax tags or buy a theme template to develop a basic portfolio these days, but alas! I will show you how to build a really cool portfolio thats 100% WordPress CMS powered. Check out the demo below for what we’re creating (this demo has only been tested with version 2.8 and 2.9).
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