WordPress Theme Releases for 08/22

Dust

A fluid three column outfit with a header image rotator built in: widgetized sidebar and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Delicio bookmarks, Twitter and Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel.

Brown Stitch

2 columns theme with widget ready on right sidebar. The bottom 3 columns were fixed though.

Notepad Chaos

The theme has 2 columns, a quite vibrant design including “personal” design elements such as handwritten headings, stick-it-notes, clips and pins....

The Best Web Development Books - As Voted By You!

Some of you are aware that I’ve been quietly collecting vote for the best web development books available. After roughly three weeks, I’m ready to reveal the results. The books will be categorized according to their subject matter...

The Contest

What is <hr />? Basically, it is an old HTML-tag which has been used since the very beginning of the Web. hr stands for the horizontal rule and represents exactly what you would expect — a horizontal line or a horizontal divider. By default, web browsers render hr as a simple horizontal line. In terms of semantics the tag is supposed to clearly separate content blocks. This is often used in design of footers, but also makes sense in other situations — for instance, if you want to separate two blog posts or make the divisions within the content structure sharper...

Create the Classic Look of an Engraving in Photoshop

Give your illustrations the traditional look of an engraving without actually drawing all those pesky little lines! The technique is simple, but requires some experience with the Displace Filter and knowledge of basic shading techniques. The result will have people thinking you spent hours and hours on your design… which you probably will, but at least you don’t have to actually engrave anything!...

Luminescent Lines

In this tutorial, it will explore you the technique of using brush tool and you will also learn how to create custom brushes and use them effectively, combined with some interesting layer styles. Have a go!

SitePoint Marketplace Reports Record Sell-Through Rate

Who says the Zune isn’t worth anything? Earlier this month 15-year-old Hansup Yoon cashed out by selling his Zune-centric community web site, aptly called ZuneBoards, to the tune of $62,000 on SitePoint’s Marketplace. Yoon, who lives in Fullerton, California, started his site just under 2 years ago and grew it to 60,000 members and more than 270,000 posts. ZuneBoards was bringing in about $1,000 per month from AdSense and Tribal Fusion ads when he put it up for sale on SitePoint....

Twitter Gets Serious About Spam

Spam on Twitter has apparently become a fairly large problem. I’ve never really noticed it, but I also only have a couple of hundred followers, so maybe I’m not visible enough to be a target. Before its founder got disillusioned by Twitter’s downtime woes, the unofficial Twitter Blacklist site identified 561 known Twitter spammers — most of whom have been removed...

Debugging JavaScript: Throw Away Your Alerts!

One JavaScript statement that rarely surfaces in the wild is throw(). The throw statement allows you to throw a formal error — sending details of the error to the browser’s error console — and halting further execution of the script....