The designs listed here have logo’s and images on them that relate to the particular contest they were entered in, this will be rectified upon sale to match your logo and images etc. They are currently just in PSD format, however if you do need them coded into HTML/CSS I can do this also.

Thanks for reading, I hope you find a design worth buying.

1. CB Bonus Domination

Click for Large Version – The image has been scaled down to 600×2495. The actual size is 900×3743.

2. Miss Gadget

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3. Dogs Galore

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4. Duct Tape Marketing

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5. Got Vape

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6. Holiday Supermarket

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7. Martin Ehrenhauser

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8. Net Games

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- The image has been scaled down to 700×1104. The actual size is 1143×1802.

9. Pousadas.net

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I was tasked with upgrading the blog to the current version and I wanted to do it quickly and efficiently.

After surfing the Internet I came accross a great plugin that upgrades wordpress for you.

Download “Wordpress Automatic Upgrade”.

When running this plugin please be aware that it creates a backup folder in your root directory called “wpau-backup” which is accessible for writing to. You may want to rename this folder and change the permissions to 444, or you can delete it (I’d advise you download a copy before doing this).

All in all though, this plugin allowed me to upgrade wordpress automatically within 5 minutes, and it will alert me when a new version of wordpress is available, to which it will upgrade automatically too.

Yesterday I came accross a slight problem when adding a Dropdown Menu to a site.

I had 3 divs – one to the left, one to the middle, and one to the right.

The left and middle div both had float:left in their style, while the right div had float: right to its style.

I tested the site and all looked great… until I added a Dropdown Menu to the middle div and Firefox starts playing up.

Basically, what Firefox did was keep the right div floating to the right, but underneath the middle div. This wasn’t what I wanted at all, and after about half an hour of fiddling with the code I managed to fix it.

The Solution

All I did was cut the right div out of the code and placed it before the middle div. It still had the same style attributes, all that was needed was a quick swap. And hey presto! It worked!

The CSS

#left {float: left;}
#middle {float: left;}
#right {float: right;}

The HTML

Change this:

<div id="left">Left Content</div>
<div id="middle">Middle Content</div>
<div id="right">Right Content</div>

To this:

<div id="left">Left Content</div>
<div id="right">Right Content</div>
<div id="middle">Middle Content</div>

I feel it’s time for a new start, and with a new start comes a new theme! I downloaded this one from Smashing Magazine. As you can see, it’s slightly different from their version.

Luckily it came with the PSD so I could change the colour scheme easily and get rid of the things I didn’t want. I also had to alter the CSS to make it work properly in 800×600 resolution. I know the majority of users nowadays use 1024×768, but I didn’t want to take any chances.

Also with this new start comes a new service. I’m offering a PSD to HTML service with prices ranging from £20 to £50 ($40 to $100). Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about this.

I guess that’s all for now. Posts will become more regular from now on so please keep checking back.

I’m not going to list every single Plugin available as there are plenty of resources that already do that, I’m going to list the ones that this blog is using and how it is useful to me.

Let’s start!

Adman [ VISIT PAGE ]

Adman is a useful plugin that allows you to insert adsense into your posts. Usually with the standard Wordpress installation it won’t allow you to insert adsense code into posts, therefore losing any adsense revenue you could potentially earn from your post.

With Adman it’s easy. You choose if you want Adsense at the beginning, middle, or end of every post (you can have all three!) and it will automatically do it for you for each post you make. If you only want the Adsense to appear on certain posts there’s a tick box when creating a new post that lets you choose if you want to disable it for that post.

Akismet [ VISIT PAGE ]

This plugin comes with Wordpress but you can’t use it until you’ve registered an account at wordpress.com which will give you an API key you need to activate it. You don’t need to create a blogging account at wordpress.com, a simple non-blogging account will do. Once the plugin is activated you will notice its usefulness straight away.

When you’ve posted a blog, did you ever receive lots of spam comments?? Akismet will catch all the spam comments for you. Don’t worry though, you can check through the comments its caught to make sure no “real” comments went through. If any did, you can select it and tell Akismet that it isn’t spam, and it won’t catch any future comments from that poster. The same goes with normal comments, if any spam comments did get through, you can tick the spam tickbox and Akismet will remember that for the future!

All in One SEO Pack [ VISIT PAGE ]

Ahhh the SEO’s dream. This one allows you to create your own Title tags and Meta tags for each individual post. With the standard Wordpress installation you can’t do that – usually it would create the Title tag from the Title you gave your post, and the meta Description from the first few paragraphs of your post. With the SEO Pack you can create your own tags that will mean something in the search engines.

Code Markup [ VISIT PAGE ]

I don’t use this one often, but sometimes if I’m writing about HTML/PHP code and want to display the code in a post, with this plugin all I have to do is place the code in < code > tags, otherwise the code wouldn’t appear correctly, or wouldn’t appear at all! Very useful to have if you write about HTML/PHP, or any code, alot.

Comment Relish [ VISIT PAGE ]

I only found this one recently but I think it’s a great way to increase readership. This plugin will send a thankyou email to new commenters on their first comment. A quick “thank you for your comment, we hope to see you again soon” is always nice to receive in an email from someones blog. The email is customisable so you can put whatever you like in there.

Dofollow [ VISIT PAGE ]

I’m a firm believer in the “Do as you would be done by” method. I’d like to think that when I write comments on other peoples blogs the link to my site will be worth something. This plugin allows all the links in my comments to be worth something.

Standard wordpress installation applies the rel=”no-follow” tag on all links left in comments, which basically means it isn’t seen as a “proper” link, therefore Google disregards it. It’s worthless. Adding the Dofollow plugin removes all rel=”no-follow” tags on all links in my comments meaning if you post your link here it is worth something.

Google XML Sitemaps [ VISIT PAGE ]

If you have a Google Webmaster account you can submit a sitemap for your site, either in .txt or .xml format. Once the sitemap has been submitted Google will visit your sitemap regularly to see what’s new there.

The Google XML Sitemaps plugin automatically updates your .xml sitemap for you every time you create a post, a page, or even edit a post or page. This makes it a whole lot easier than having to do it manually.

Show Top Commentators [ VISIT PAGE ]

This plugin is useful to encourage commentators back to your site. It will list the Top Ten Commentators for the month with a link to their site. Obviously the more comments they leave the higher their chances of being in the top ten are, and with the plugin shown on all pages, if you have a blog with 100 posts that means they’ll have at least 100 links to their site. If that isn’t an incentive to comment I don’t know what is.

Subscribe Remind [ VISIT PAGE ]

If you have a RSS feed that you’d like people to subscribe to, sometimes having a nice RSS image at the top of your site isn’t enough. This plugin will create a line of text after every post reminding people to subscribe to your RSS feed.

Subscribe to Comments [ VISIT PAGE ]

This plugin is must-have in my opinion. If you’re leaving comments at different blogs, and some of them you may want feedback on, it can be difficult remembering which blog and which post you commented on to go back and look at a future date. If they had this plugin, however, you wouldn’t have to remember.

This plugin allows you to receive emails when someone else has made a comment at a certain blog or post you’ve commented at. This is not only good for the commenters, but it’s good for blog-owners as if people have subscribed to comments, they’re going to receive an email every time someone else comments which means those people are likely to visit again to see what else is new.

WP-ContactForm: Akismet Edition [ VISIT PAGE ]

This is basically a script that allows you to insert a contact form into your blog. You will need to activate Akismet before it will work, but it’s a very useful plugin to have if you don’t know how to create a contact form. You’ll be amazed at how many people contact you if you have a contact form ready to hand.

For further plugins, check out 101 Wordpress Plugins you may not have known about.

For example, if you’re having problems with a certain aspect of HTML you can use this widget to tell me to write an article about it.

The widget is by Skribit which you can see on the right hand side of the site. To submit a suggestion all you need to do is click on the text “Need Web Design Help? Suggest a topic for me to write about in my next article!”. This will generate a form for you type in your suggestion.

All you need to do is type in your suggestion and click submit. You don’t have to have an account with Skribit to do this so there’s no registration forms for you to fill in. Just type in your suggestion, click submit and it’s done!

A great thing about this is when a suggestion has been made, a Vote button is added to it so people can Vote for your suggestion as well. Obviously the suggestions with the most Votes I will concentrate on first, but all suggestions will get an article dedicated to it.

It doesn’t even have to be web design help, you can suggest anything web related for me to write about!

So don’t be shy! Submit a suggestion for me today!

This site is a Web Design Bible and I think everyone from beginners to professional web designers should at least have this site saved in their favourites / bookmarks.

Here is a list of categories the site has. Each category has a ton of resources listed.

• Specifications
• Webmasters Reference
• Web Authoring
• Articles on Web Authoring
• HTML Tutorials
• HTML Resources
• HTML Tags
• HTML Colour Codes and Swatches
• HTML FAQs
• CSS Tutorials
• CSS Resources
• CSS Compatibility Charts
• CSS Layouts & Examples
• Perl Resources
• PHP Resources
• MySQL Resources
• Search Engine Optimisation
• Site Submission
• Browsers

This list is about 40% of the categories on this site, you will have to visit the site to check out the rest: Web Design Resources.

I think this is an amazing list of Web Design Resources that shouldn’t go un-noticed. It’s definately one for my favourites. What do you think?

It’s a well-known fact that the use of professional and attractive graphical elements on websites increase the proportion of user generated activity such as sales, newsletter subscription, and the amount of time spent on a particular site. Having appealing graphics on your sales page can make the difference between 100 sales a month and 3 sales a month.

I have to agree with that statement 100%, but if you’re not graphically inclined you may struggle when it comes to attracting sales via your website.

I came accross a site that has a huge selection of Web 2.0 style banners and buttons that are ideal for attracting more sales. The only downside about this is they’re not free.

There are alot of sites that offer free banners and buttons but most of them aren’t customisable and only come in a select few colours.

This site Marketing Graphics Pro offer 6,749 for $29.95, which considering what you get for the price is worth it.

Take a look at their site and decide for yourself. They show alot of previews of what you’ll receive if you buy them and I think you’ll agree, they do look pretty snazzy!

If this applies to you this article may interest you.

After reading a post at Web Forumz I became inspired to write this article.

The poster in general has their own web design company and their website is getting 2000+ visitors a month, yet no one is biting the bait or even enquiring about their services.

I took a look at their site and I could see the problem straight away. It wasn’t obvious to the visitor that this site offered web design services. Sure enough, the text in the content specified that, but the site itself didn’t look like that.

In fact, the first thing I noticed was an image of a woman in a bikini on the right hand side. It looked like an advert to an adult-related site, and without looking at the content closer you’d think that is what it was.

Sure, a woman in a bikini will please the majority of men searching for a woman in a bikini, but for someone who wants a professional website and is searching for a professional website, the chances are they will be put off by this and go elsewhere.

When you create a website you must project what you do in the layout rather than rely on the content. In some cases this isn’t a huge problem, but if you’re a Web Design company you need to project what you do, especially if you want customers to know they’ll be getting a high quality website.

Let’s face it, if they see your website as something that doesn’t immediately project what you do, they’ll probably think you’re going to repeat that process with their website.

Do as you would be done by.