Free Book Competition “WordPress 3 Site Blueprints”, Comment to Win

It has been a while since we last ran a good web design book giveaway, and if you are a WordPress developer or you are currently learning WP, you will certainly love this competition. What we have on offer is the chance for two of our readers to win one of two PDF ebooks, entitled WordPress 3 Site Blueprints that usual sells for $32. It has been written by Heather R. Wallace and its a book that will show you everything you will ever need to build a varied collection of feature-rich customized WordPress websites.

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.53)

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter , on Facebook or even by subscribing to our RSS feed . The New Digg Periodic Table of the Elements – Josh Duck Why working at home is both awesome and horrible – The Oatmeal For The Record 45 Free Applications For Designers And Developers – Noupe Design Blog 12 Standard Screen Patterns 10 Useful Frameworks To Develop HTML-Based Webapps for Touch Devices 55 Excellent Examples of Websites Using HTML5 20 Very Useful Comment Page Hacks for WordPess Users Lifehacker Pack for Android: Our List of the Best Android Apps Getting to Work with CSS3 Power Tools Toucan CSS reset Smoothie Charts jQuery Html5form WanderWall – A jQuery, CSS3 & HTML5 Hover-Based Interface How To Create A Google Android 3D Logo in Photoshop TL Tweets – Free WordPress Tweet Archive Theme Dynamic Bokeh styles for Adobe Fireworks Dragnet website wireframes kit for Adobe Fireworks Freebies: Facebook, Twitter & RSS Feed Icons Previous Weekly Design News… Design News Roundup Archives →

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.56

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers. Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like this selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let us know what you think. For The Record Icelab · A design studio in Canberra CARBO Mooze Design Spring: Supporting Local Biodiversity design mind Deconstruction Records Doodle Pad creative payne Yes I am Precious You might like… previous Weekly Inspirations Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration Archives »

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Wix Competition: Win One of Three $150 Premium Unlimited Plans

Today we have great pleasure in offering our readers the chance to win one of three Premium Unlimited Plans, worth $150 each, from our friends Wix . We do have a lot of love for Wix, they were our first long term sponsor and do hope that our readers will show there appreciation by entering this competition and supporting Wix. About Wix Wix is a free website builder tool, for quick and easy creation of quality Flash websites. Wix’s advantage is that it’s search engines friendly, allowing you to create a website that looks great wit no knowledge of coding or programing.

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.52)

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter , on Facebook or even by subscribing to our RSS feed . As always, if you have any cool links that you would like to share, do not hesitate to share them here: Submit News . Kill The Spill Typominima – Free Typography Based Minimal WordPress Theme 10 Underused Html Elements, and how you should be using them! 100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition CSS3.0 Maker Polymaps How To Add a Custom Facebook Like Box to Your Site HTML5 Quick Learning Guide Coda Shortcuts Cheatsheet 10 Great Tips for Writing Better And More Comprehensive CSS Do You Know Why It’s Important To Collect A Deposit For Design Work?

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Admin Template Competition Winners Announced

Last week we published the competition 3 Free Web Templates from Admin Template + Discount , the competition has now ended and it is now time to announce the winners. Thanks to everyone who took the time and commented, they were all great. The winners have been chosen at random and here they are: The Winners Congratulations to all of the winners and hopefully you would have by now received the winner confirmation email. Winner: Jônatan Fróes .

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.53

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers. Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like this selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let us know what you think. Phenomblue Armitage Online Stephen Caver Actual Size Creative Less Framework 2 Swink Harry Ford – Web Designer & Illustrator Proxy Apparel BrewShop Vince Angeloni You might like… previous Weekly Inspirations Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration Archives »

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Comment to Win a Design Treasure from BundleHunt!

BundleHunt is a new project of Noura Yehia (the founder of Noupe ) that provides designers with a wealth of resources for a fraction of the price. Bundle Hunt has offered to give free bundles to five readers of the Vandelay Design Blog! Bundle Hunt offers $1,400 worth of resources for a ridiculously low cost of $49. The bundle includes the items shown below. We’re especially excited about BundleHunt because we have the privilege of being a part of it.

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.52

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers. Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like this selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let us know what you think. Hendrick's Curiositorium BBQWar – What Kind of Meat Is On Your Grill? Word Refuge Made By Water Adham Dannaway An HTML5 Interactive Infographic featuring Dribbble Baker Thomas Bishop G2 Geogeske STRUCTO You might like… previous Weekly Inspirations Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration Archives »

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Top 10 Free WordPress 3.0 Ready Themes

Just a few ago ago, WordPress introduced there 13th major release, the much anticipated ‘Thelonious’ (WP 3.0). As with every other major release, to accommodate all of the new features there has been some (mostly minor) compatibility issues with a number of themes. As such, the WP community has been working hard to update all of there themes and plugins to make them WP3.0 ready and to make best use of all of the exciting and new features. After some extensive research from todays author (Sven Salmonsson ) we have a list of his top ten favorite free WordPress 3.0 fully compatible themes.

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