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Using WordPress As A Bug Tracker – Quality Control
Whether it is a website for a customer, a web application or a software, it is always a good idea to write down the list of bugs.
It simply helps us not to forget any of them and analyze the process better (the time they require, better listing and solving them according to priorities, etc.).
Previously published WRD post: 9 Free And Open Source Bug Tracking Softwares is featuring very handy resources for managing the issues better. And, here is a new one:
Quality Control is a free WordPress theme that functions as a bug or ticket tracking system.
It allows users to submit new requests and track the process on them easily.
The theme places requests under categories, displays them according to their priority and shows the latest activities.
Quality Control calls itself as a "base framework" for bug tracking as it is flexible and open to every improvement.
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Our Favorite Freebies from the Past Week
For today’s news we have collected our favorites design and development related freebies from the the past week and thought they were that good, that we simply had to share them with our readers.
“Buddycons” – Vector Social Media Icons
The icon set is called “Buddycons” and includes 126 vector social media icons. Included in the set are PNG versions of all 126 icons in both circular and rounded variations as well as a vector source file for easy resizing. The icons are free to use for personal and commercial usage, however, redistribution is not allowed.
“Buddycons” – Vector Social Media Icons
Free PSD Templates: vCard Personal Portfolio Minisite
This PSD design comes in 4 pages: Homepage (About), Works (Portfolio), Portfolio Pop-Up, and Contact.
All the pages are in Photoshop (.PSD) format with all layers neatly organized in layer groups for easy identification and editing of the logo, text and graphics.
Free PSD Templates: vCard Personal Portfolio Minisite
Modernist: Free WordPress Theme with Focus on Typography
This theme supports widgets, is SEO optimized and has clean and documented code. It loads very quickly, and has various WordPress 3.0 features. Works in IE 6+ and all versions of Safari/Firefox/Opera. The theme is absolutely free to use in private and commerical projects.
Modernist: Free WordPress Theme with Focus on Typography
Typominima: Free typography based minimal WordPress theme
Typominima is a free typography based, gorgeous, minimal WordPress theme fit for the writer inside you.
Typominima: Free typography based minimal WordPress theme
Coda Shortcuts Cheat Sheet (PDF)
Coda Shortcuts Cheat Sheet (PDF)
By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).
Five Free Icons Sets for Web Designers and Bloggers
Icons are one of the most sought after design elements within web design, and the great thing is there is no shortage of new and creative icon sets that are freely released for general consumption and satisfy our design appetite. In today’s news round-up we have collected five fresh icon-sets specifically designed for web designers, developers and bloggers.
gCons – All-Purpose Icons for Designers and Developers
gCons are a set of free all-purpose 32×32px icons for designers and web developers consisting of 100 icons. The icons come in 12 different colors and are available in PSD, PNG, JPG and GIF formats.
gCons – All-Purpose Icons for Designers and Developers
PixeloPhilia2
This set contains 44 beautifully crafted icons designed specifically for software and web developers.
PixeloPhilia2
ComFi Telecom Icons
Sketchy Social Media Icons
Every icon in this set are in .PNG format (making them easy to edit) and include four sizes for each icon: 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 57×57.
Sketchy Social Media Icons
Rubber Stamp Style Social Media Icons
The Rubber Stamp Style Social Media Icons set contains 12 creative icons in .png format and sized at 256×256px.
Rubber Stamp Style Social Media Icons
By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).
WRD Is Featured At WordPress Showcase – Your Support Would Be Great!
As you already know, WebResourcesDepot uses WordPress as the blogging engine (which is clearly an awesome application).
Lately, WordPress added WRD to their showcase which features websites built with the platform and uses its functions deeply.
Rating is open to anyone and thought it would be the best if the readers who experiences WRD regularly rate us too.
Besides that, WordPress Showcase is a great place to find inspiration on WP-built websites which are categorized well.
Thanks so much in advance for your support and being an awesome reader with your comments, tweets, suggestions and everything.
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WordPress 3 Coming This Week!?!
With WordPress 3 rumored to be out any day now, we thought you would like a sneak peak of what some of the changes are.
Twenty Ten
To start, we finally have a new default theme. Its called Twenty Ten and is a two column layout with support for custom background and header images, a widgetized sidebar, and a horizontal drop down menu. Matt Thomas says this: “Our goal with Twenty Ten was to create something stylish, customizable, simple, and most of all,readable. Since every new WordPress user will be seeing Twenty Ten, we wanted to design an example of what a WordPress theme can do.”
Custom Menus
We’ve been playing with these a bit over here at Blueprint Design Studio and let me tell you, this is one of the most useful features WordPress 3 has to offer theme developers. This will allow you to register any number of menus and display them in your themes template files using a simple function call. For the user this simply means you’ll get a new page with some tools on it to help you add, delete, and arrange. 
Custom Post Types & Taxonomies
This is my personal favorite of the mix thus far as it enables developers to easily create a more robust CMS, meeting criteria we may not have been able to do before. Custom taxonomies were brought into WordPress with release 2.8 and had some improvements made with the release of 2.9 but WordPress 3 improves this greatly by including hierarchical (category-style) taxonomies, and giving users a custom UI for pages as well as for posts.
Multiple Sites With Single WordPress Install
Another great update is the merging of Wordpress MU into the standalone. If you don’t already know what that means, WordPress MU makes it possible for those with a website to host their own blogging community, as well as control and moderate all the blogs from a single dashboard. This is a good thing because your install can work with sub-domains or sub-directories. The multisite feature in is disabled by default so you will need to enable it.
To do this navigate to Tools > Network under WordPress admin menu and specify Network settings. Create “blogs.dir” in wp-content folder and add the following line in your wp-config.php file:
define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);
You may also need to modify your .htaccess file.
When your done with that, you will see a new menu section called “Super Admin”. This will allow adding and managing of the additional sites in your network with your install now being the ‘controller’.
In Conclusion
Hopefully we’ll be able to see the official release sooner than later. As always, for more information on this and other WordPress related news, consult the Codex.
image courtesy of robcubbon.com
Wordpress 3.0 is on its way!
Wordpress 3.0 should have been with us by now, but due to a few bugs and glitches it is now going to be released at some point in the next few weeks.
There are big changes in this new WP version, with a lot of exciting features like multi-site and custom post types. Brace yourselves, its coming!
In today’s news we have collected the best resources to give you the low-down on Wordpress 3.0.
List of Wordpress Version 3.0 Enhancements and Fixes
This is the official list of the many enhancements and fixes you can expect with the imminent release of Wordpress 3.0.
List of Wordpress Version 3.0 Enhancements and Fixes
WordPress 3.0: The 5 Most Important New Features
The list of new features in WordPress 3.0 isn’t very long in comparison to previous releases. However, the changes that are coming will certainly have a significant impact, particularly if you use WordPress as a CMS. Here is a rundown of the most important new features arriving in version 3.0.
WordPress 3.0: The 5 Most Important New Features
WordPress 3.0: Ultimate Guide to New Features
In this article, from SixRevisions, they will give you a head start for 3.0s release, and will walk you through the notable new features of WordPress 3.0.
WordPress 3.0: Ultimate Guide to New Features
By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).
Showcase of Amazing Wordpress Sites
The design of most Wordpress powered sites will always have a fair few similarities and traits. Sometimes you may have to look a little bit closer, but the tell tale signs will be there, and they will be shouting: “I am a Wordpress site!“. Of course not all WP sites are like that, there are some that will dare to break the mold, dare to extend it to its CMS limits, and create a site design unique and inspiring. Below you will find three showcases that show such sites.
40 WordPress-Powered Websites With Awesome Designs
40 WordPress-Powered Websites With Awesome Designs
Exceptional Web Sites Built on Wordpress
Exceptional Web Sites Built on Wordpress
30 Insanely Awesome Websites using Wordpress as a CMS
30 Insanely Awesome Websites using Wordpress as a CMS
By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).
20+ Free Portfolio Templates, Themes And PSDs
For a designer, developer, photographer or anyone/any business creative, the website of their own is the best place to showcase their skills and services.
You may be "about to design your new portfolio website" and thinking whether you should start from scratch or get inspired from/use a template.
And, not sure to use a CMS or maybe considering to start designing it in Photoshop?
No worries. Here is a collection of 20+ free portfolio templates, Wordpress themes and PSDs to help you get started or inspired for a beautiful website.
XHTML/CSS Portfolio Templates
WaterColored Web Portfolio (With PSD) (demo)
This XHTML portfolio template is the result of a series of 2 tutorials which also includes the PSD of the design.
It has an image slider that is built with jQuery to display the featured works and a sidebar to display any other updates (from the blog, Twitter, etc.).
Seven Seas (demo)
A single page portfolio template with a unique design that has a slider and tooltips integrated.
Your Inspiration Folio (With PSD) (demo)
Your Inspiration Folio is a one page template that has an integrated Lightbox to display images and an Ajaxed contact form.
There is also a tutorial provided on the design process of the template.
Cosmos (demo)
The template has a spot for Twitter integratiion to display the latest tweets (not integrated) and a slider that can also show any content besides the images.
YIW Minimal (With PSD) (demo)
A minimalistic template with a content slider in the homepage to display featured projects.
It has an about, portfolio and a contact page (and a contact form with validation). The template also has a Photoshop tutorial.
A Simple Folio (demo)
Just like the name says, it is a simple XHTML-CSS portfolio template with a huge slider.
The template only comes with the front-page and doesn't have any sub-pages inside the download.
Woody Portfolio (demo)
Woody Portfolio is a single page template with a slider to display the latest works and a contact form.
Sweet Dreams (demo)
A portfolio template with a beautiful background and a huge slider.
Wordpress Portfolio Themes
FolioGrid (demo)
FolioGrid enables you to display your portfolio in a grid where users can sort them according to their categories and comment to each.
It comes with 3 different styles: dark, light and yellow.
Irresistable (demo)
A high quality theme with a multimedia focus that integrates some video options-widgets for Flickr and Twitter.
It has an integrated banner manager and a video player.
Cumulus (demo)
A very nice and clean portfolio theme with an image slider in the frontpage that displays the latest images from the portfolio.
It offers an easy navigation to browse any content created and the portfolio itself.
SimpleFolio (demo)
SimpleFolio is a beautiful Wordpress portfolio theme which is widget-ready and has an image slider.
It has drop-down enabled navigation menus and threaded/paged comments.
FotoFolio (demo)
FotoFolio is a Wordpress theme that is focused on displaying images which is great for designers, photographers, etc.
It has a jQuery-powered slideshow and zoom functionality.
Sharpfolio (demo)
The theme enables anyone to showcase any creative in a simple and clean way.
Infinity
Infinity is a creative theme which is suitable to showcase portfolio.
It is integrated with Flick, Delicious and Twitter.
Portfolio-WPESP (demo)
This portfolio theme is simple-yet -functional with features like a slider and customized project showcase page with custom fields usage to present the client, company and so.
PSD Portfolio Website Layouts
Simple & Cloudy Portfolio Layout in Photoshop
This Photoshop portfolio template is a simple and clean one which presents the featured works, latest items from the blog and a contact form at the homepage.
Portfolio Website Template In PSD
A simplistic template to display featured items and short info about the content you prefer (about you, testimonials, etc.).
Free Portfolio PSD
It has a modern typeface, a slider for featured items and more modules to display information about you.
There is also sidebar to integrate the tweets.
Grunge Layout
This grunge PSD portfolio layout focuses on the showcase of the items and has icons/links to the social networks the site owner uses.
Clean Portfolio PSD
A portfolio layout uses a pleasant color scheme and a clean design to give designers a place to promote their work.
This PSD portfolio template also has a tutorial that shares the steps of how it was created.
Simple PSD Portfolio
This is a pretty simple and clean design of a portfolio website with a slider and display of projects.
Any suggestions of other good portfolio templates? Please share them and we'll be happy to include them to the list.
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How Did You Get Into Web Design?
As we do every week, we like to offer a question to our readers that has been previously asked on Answers, we love to hear your thoughts and read your comments.
This weeks question is: How did you get into web design?.
You can leave a comment below or you can leave an answer on the original question on Answers.
How did you get into web design?
This question was originally asked on Answers by Tim.
Answer from Chris:
I was working full time, doing some thankless job. At the same time I was starting up a blog, but I could not get past looking at all the Wordpress themes available, then installing them, and trying to tweak it just so. Then, I got laid off from work, and now I am taking a web design course. So I am just getting into it, still in school, but, I love it! I am 36 years old, and I can honestly say this is the first time I am going to actually enjoy what I will be doing for a career. Very exciting.
Answer from Just_linda:
I created a fan site for a filmmaker friend of mine and from there he hired me to do his official site which led to more exposure and more paying clients. Other than taking a few Photoshop classes I’m pretty much self-taught. The internet is ripe with information and all I can say is practice as much as you can, follow design blogs to stay current and learn how to utilize social media for optimum networking.
Answer from Audee:
It started when I wasn’t too happy with default Blogger theme. I wanted to create a blog theme that fits my need at that time, so I did few experiments to tweak it and it came to be my first blog (Graphic Identity Blog). I attempted to design another blog themes for friends and have been so interested to CSS. Delivering PSD to CSS-HTML always makes me excited. I love the challenge to discover solutions for any kind of web design project and how to make them look nice in all browser. My main interests at this moment in web designing are jQuery and Wordpress.
Answer from Heri Setiawan:
I went to vocational school majoring at Networking and Computer Tech. But i spent most of my time at school doing Need For Speed and Counter Strike. One day i got a flyer entitled Web Design Competition with big prizes. And i was starting to design my first website for the contest… And i was failed. But that’s what gave me a passion on website design.
Answer from Abhinav Sood:
A couple of years ago, I used to write at my “Inspirit Blog” where I wrote Free Blog Reviews ( www.inspiritblog.com ) and guided my readers on how to lay out their websites, and play with the design elements to generate maximum traffic and revenue and beautify their websites and blogs..
About an year after I started Inspirit, I was inducted into CSSJockey where Mohit Aneja ( web designer ) was about to start his freelance web design n development business.. So I helped him get started with CSSJockey and he got me deeper into xHTML / CSS.. Later, I learned to develop WordPress themes… Currently, I serve as the Lead Developer, Designer and Social Media Expert at CSSJockey ( www.cssjockey.com ) ..
I haven’t had any formal training in web design and development ever.. But I do wish to go to a school for web design and polish my skills further, after I finish my under-grad school in about 3 semesters from now..
Answer from Dan:
I’ve started it as a hobby – same as Darren but much earlier I guess. My first steps I made where in MS Paint, And then my teacher showed me Corel Draw and Paint Shop Pro. I was amazed by its possibilities. It was about 18 years ago. Now I’ve got pretty good skills in Photoshop/Dreamweaver. I can do stuff in Flash and Illustrator as well.
What about you, how did you get started in web design?
You can leave a comment below, or leave an answer here: How did you get into web design?
Thanks again, firstly to everyone who asked a question, but most importantly thanks to everyone that took the time to offer always helpful and useful answers.