WordPress is unquestionably the most popular blogging platform today due to its excellent functionality and simplicity, and its latest 3.1.2 version has come with even more exciting features that are likely to make posting, updating, and managing comments even easier. However, the platform is not SE-optimized off the bat and instead of manually tweaking the permalinks, the code, or the different elements, you could use a number of WordPress plug-ins that can increase your site’s chances of higher rankings.

This tutorial will guide you how to make an ordinary photo into a comic styled image. Comics usually have their distinctive halftone effect and heavy …

If you have been developing and designing websites for quite some time, you are definitely reusing CSS, HTML, PHP, or JavaScript code repeatedly, just like most computer programmers do. Luckily for all of use, there are quite a few websites, which we can use to find some great pieces of code, post our own, or even build collection of code snippets, nicely and neatly organized and stored on a remote server. Here are 15 websites, where you can find code snippets.

Are you running low on creative ideas? Having a designer’s block? You are not alone and even the most talented and inspiring designers, authors, and artists are constantly looking for new sources of inspiration, and we have come up with a number of suggestions that you could find interesting and useful.

It is Friday and I have another huge list of links for you. There is some great stuff here, including a CSS Spritemap Generator, tons of Photoshop tutorials, web design and development tools and a lot more. Check them out!

What makes the work of the web developer challenging and exciting at the same time are the ever-changing trends! With the exponentially increasing popularity of the mobile Internet surfing and the very strong user base of the social media sites, the latest design and development trends seem to be heading towards functional, less busy, and with larger logos and image backgrounds web sites, which incorporate the latest Web development technologies as well

We may have already a similar effect and tutorial for this on the same site, but I would like to share a much magical and …

Regardless if you are just starting out as a web designer or you have more than a few hundred designs under your belt, you could …

Even though WordPress 3.1 was released only in February, WordPress 3.2 Beta 1is already available for download and it comes with a number of new features. The most notable of them are the new admin layout, the Full screen editor, which facilitates destruction free writing, the new Twenty Eleven theme, new PHP and MySQL requirements, the enhanced admin bar, and the faster loading speed. What else has changed in WordPress 3.2 and are these changes going to make the most popular Content Management System even better?

TGIF. Since I couldn’t post all the awesome links I wanted to last week I thought I would follow-up this week with another huge list. …

While Google has been the unquestionable search engine leader for quite some time, it is not without its alternatives. A number of (other than Google) search engines, some of which have been around for years, and some that have just started up, are well worth using and might surprise you with their functionality and accuracy. Yahoo! and Bing are the two names that might come to mind to anyone, who is Internet and computer savvy, but there are others, which are smaller, regional, specialized, or haven’t gained popularity yet, but could prove useful to anyone that is frustrated with Google or is after more targeted results.