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2. Free Web 2.0 Services Vector Package

3. 3D Luggage Tag

4. Trendy Circles

5. Web Stickers Round

6. Collection of 90 free ‘Web 2.0′ Style Buttons

7. New RSS Icon

8. Bright Web Banners

9. Promotional buttons by ~unicko

10. theCoffeeandTvMilkBox by ~HappyStalin

11. 165 Lovely Vector Icons (for free)

12. Bright! - a free icon set

13. 30 Free Vector RSS Icons

14. Milky, a free vector icon set

15. Free Vector Blue Icons

16. Free Vector Buttons and Icons - Metal and Glass

17. Designrific: 90 Free Vector Icons Set

18. Retro Vector Icon Set

19. Globe Icon Set | You the Designer

20. Sticker Icons

21. Mini Vector Car Icons

22. Free Vector Web Stickers

23. 20 poppy Color Stickers

24. Vector Wooden Labels

25. Classy Banners Set1

26. 72 Free Vector Glass Buttons and Bars

27. Free Vector Glass Orbs

28. Free Vector Icon Set 1

29. Speech Balloon Shapes

30. Free Vector Badges - Glass

2. Richard Roseman Plugin Downloads

3. Cybia - Plug-In Filters - The Works Series

4. Photoshop Filters Factory

5. The Plugin Site

6. Mehdi - Plugins Photoshop

7. Xero Graphics : Freeware plugins

8. freephotoshop.com - Adobe Photoshop Plugins and Filters

9. Free Photoshop Plugins | TechnoTarget

10. Free Photoshop Plugins » Photoshop Tutorials Blog

and the rest…

11. Free Photoshop Brushes and Plugins | PhotoshopSupport.com.

12. Telegraphics - Free plugins for Photoshop.

13. Adobe Photoshop Plugins DIRECTORY | PhotoshopSupport.com.

14. Plugins - Photo-Plugins.

15. The Plugin Site - Adobe Photoshop plugins and filters.

16. Telegraphics - Free plugins for Photoshop and Illustrator.

17. Little Ink Pot - Free Plugins.

18. HDR photo software and plugins.

19. VanDerLee - Plug-ins.

20. Red-Field Photoshop Plugins.

21. Luce site.

22. Pog’s Notes » Plugins.

23. Adobe - Adobe Photoshop CS3: Plug-ins.

24. AFH Systems Group - Plug-ins.

25. Mysterious Ways (Almathera Plug-in Collection).

The power and flexibility of WordPress never ceases to amaze me!

But WordPress isn’t powering only personal blogs these days. Corporate websites, news sites, online magazines, and others are powered by WordPress.

Something we’re seeing more of lately, is WordPress as a content management system (CMS). With some knowledge of how WordPress Pages work, and a few handy plugins, you too can have your very own WordPress powered content management system, or CMS.

Here’s a few screenshots from some of the finer looking sites which are currently powered by WordPress as a CMS:

WordPress as a CMS

Camacho Cigars

I Love Nelson

Think Vitamin

Stanford University

Ford Auto Show

Nathaniel Stern

Twist ‘n Shout

Equal Design

As you can see, there are plenty of quality sites utilizing WordPress as a content management system. The way in which some of them are constructed is quite remarkable.

If you notice a super cool or unique site which is powered by WordPress, I’d love to hear about it.

Below you will find some less unusual examples of creative modifications of the standard Themes for WordPress.

Thanks to WeLoveWP, WP Cube and WP-Premiums, which made me write this article easier :)

• 1. News Theme

  

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• 2. Blogging Experiment Theme

  

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• 3. CSS Gallery Theme

  

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• 4. Fresh News Theme

  

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• 5. The Original Premium News

  

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• 6. Dilectio Theme

  

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• 7. News Theme

  

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• 8. Dilectio Theme

  

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• 9. Graph Paper Press Deadwood

  

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• 10. CSS Gallery

  

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• 11. MagNews Theme

  

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• 12. Revolution Magazine Theme

  

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• 13. Smashing Theme

  

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A rather standard blog layout was replaced with a grid-based structure. The most recent article is featured more prominently with an image and a two-paragraph excerpt, while the four previous posts are showcased in an attractive two-column arrangement with thumbnails and shorter extracts. This setup whets readers’ appetites and leads them to a deeper exploration of the blog’s archives.

Even Goodlatte’s rebranding has gone through a major overhaul: the original logo mark was ditched from the header (though kept as an icon in the footer’s breadcrumbs), leaving the beautiful Sabon to speak for itself and the designer’s maturing taste.

sifr, comprende moi?

Both previous and the current versions of Goodlatte’s site rely on the power of sIFR to display article headlines. However the choice of type has progressed from the over-stretched, though fashionable, DIN to the elegant, contemporary, tall and condensed Chalet Comprimé.

Yet a few design elements were kept: the burgundy-chocolate background from the previous version now decorates the new site’s header, Rob’s illustration in the about section stayed the same, and the distinctive brush strokes once again embellish the site’s grunge look in the header, footer and in the comments area with artistically alternating posts.

impressive details

What I like about Goodlatte’s site is the meticulous attention to details and a clever approach to some of the things that are often overlooked on other blogs. Items such as the date formatting below the headline that reads: “Published 5 days ago, in the early morning under Personal”, rather than your dry May 26, 2008. The text that greets commenters on individual posts is rotating with quick-witted remarks such as: “5 comments from the Think Tank” or “74 comments from Snooze-Ville”. I’ve seen similar approaches on several other blogs, so there’s nothing ground-breaking here. Nevertheless, I get amazed every time I see such detailing.

It’s always nice to come across blogs with an inviting and user-friendly information architecture. Rob’s categorized showcase of recommended posts in the footer allows new readers to better familiarize themselves with the blog’s past articles. I like how the post’s meta data received lots of breathing space by getting placed on the sidebar rather than in a typical for blogs fashion – below the headline, all squeezed on one line. An interesting styling of the Archives on the homepage’s sidebar is worthy of attention as well.

There’s a sort of playful beauty that results from the combination of typeface choices, and for some reason brown seems to have been the perfect color to accentuate the palette without overwhelming a viewer.

I’m also quite fond of the image replacement technique for the titles of the three most popular posts on the single post’s sidebar, with the poster-like look and feel. The column-set Garamond here is a beautiful touch.

Rob also makes use of some small typographical enhancements, such as replacing all ampersands with a version in Baskerville rather than the default Lucida Grande ampersand which is rather bland. If you’d like to do this on your blog you could use a plugin such as WP-Typogrify. Small changes like this can make a huge difference even though most normal users won’t pick up on them.

criticisms

As much as I love this site, there are a few things that I would personally change if I was the designer.

It makes more sense to position the search bar somewhere near the top of the site. I would prefer to see it above the Archive, rather than at the very bottom of the right sidebar.

However, what puzzles me the most is Rob’s decision of using one long image for the homepage sidebar, where he uses a precise positioning in pixels for displaying each of the sidebar links. That leads to a rather horrible outcome whenever I try to increase the font size by a notch.

As a reader and commenter, I would also prefer to see the trackbacks at the bottom of the page, rather than mixed with the rest of the comments. As a designer, I’d like to see Rob’s portfolio page updated with some of the newer pieces of work. His latest featured site, Wiser, is an absolute beauty, and I can’t wait to see more of Rob’s talent at work.

Column A: Task ID (WBS) (an unique ID which identifyes each task with a progressive number).
Column B: Task description (a short description of the activity).
Column C: Percentage of completion (0%-100%).
Column D: Predecessor (finish-start relationships between tasks).
Column E: Start date (task start date).
Column F: Finis date (task finish date).

Tutorials

How To Fix Video Slowing Down Your Page Load Time

A short and sweet tutorial on fixing videos that slow down page load time using jQuery and XHTML.

Photo Transfer Edge Effect

Create a vintage photo edge effect.

Create a Nature Inspired Painted Background in Photoshop

Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

CSS Decorative Gallery

Style images in your gallery with this CSS-based technique. There is also a download package associated with the tutorial.

Easiest Tooltip and Image Preview Using jQuery

Create a tooltip for links that opens a modal window with an image preview of the web page.

Become a Greasemonkey Ninja with jQuery

Easily create Greasemonkey scripts using the jQuery framework to reduce the amount of JavaScript you have to write.

Parsing Strings With jQuery

Make regular expressions/pattern-matching simpler with jQuery.

Using jQuery to Produce Rich User Interfaces

A tutorial by the wonderful folks at OnWired, on how to use jQuery to provide rich user interaction to websites.

Writing Your First YUI Application

An introductory tutorial on how to use the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) library to create rich-internet applications.

Freebies and Downloads

Milky, a free vector icon set

A three part collection of beautiful vector icons. Also check out part 2 and part 3 of the collection.

50 Free Icon Sets

A list of free icon sets.

Free eCommerce icons

Useful icons for e-commerce applications and platforms, free to download.

Vertical Flyout JavaScript Menu

This is a light-weight script (weighing in at about 1.6KB) for creating a JS-based navigation menu with sub-menu items. Check out the demonstration.

Horizontal JavaScript Accordion 1kb

A light-weight, versatile script for a horizontal, accordion effect.

Whiteboard - A Free Wordpress Theme Framework

Whiteboard is a plain Wordpress theme that speeds up custom Wordpress theme development by giving you a "blank canvas" to build upon.

1000+ great Photoshop free brushes by PaulW

A ton of free brushes by graphics design PaulW of deviantART (Paul Willocks).

Inspiration

99 Flickr Groups for Design Inspiration

Flickr is an excellent community to stimulate one’s creativity. Here’s some worthwhile groups to check out.

Wooden Web Designs

A collection of designs with a wooden theme.

40 Pricing Design Examples

A showcase of excellent examples on providing user’s with product pricing.

15 Great Examples of Web Typography

A roundup from i love typography of brilliant uses of web typography.

24 Kick Ass Portfolio Designs

A collection of 24 beautiful portfolio designs.

Inspiration: Vexel Style Artwork

A showcase of excellent "vexel" artwork for inspiration.

13 Surreal Artworks

A collection of surreal artworks.

Online Tools

Design Resources Search Engine

A custom search engine that searches various design-related websites such as DeviantArt, Bittbox, PSDTuts, and Vectips.

ICONlook

search for icons using the ICONlook search.

AJAX Libraries API - Google Code

Google has launched that AJAX Libraries API which provides developers access to the most popular open source JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, mootools, Dojo. It follows the same concept as YUI, allowing you to use their readily-available, fast infrastructure for your favorite JavaScript libraries/frameworks without hosting it yourself.

Articles and Lists

100 Killer Web Accessibility Resources: Blogs, Forums and Tutorials

Web accessibility is paramount to the success of any website. If you need to brush up on accessibility concepts and theories, or would like to participate in web accessibility forums, here’s a list of great resources.

What Everybody Ought to Know About Usability and Web Design

A few tips on things to consider about usability of a web design.

5 Tips for Agile and Effective Usability Testing

Usability testing doesn’t have to be costly and tedious. Read these five simple tips on how to effectively conduct quick usability testing.

CSS Drop Caps 101 (with examples)

An introductory article of using drop caps in web design.

Design RSS Roundup 50+ Feeds

A list of 50 design-related RSS feeds; the author provides an OPML file for download in case you want to incorporate all the feeds in your reader.

8 fonts you probably don’t use in css, but should

Some widely available, installed fonts that you may consider using if you’re looking into diverging from the Arial, Times New Roman, Verdana fonts. Always have fall-back fonts though, in case the fonts don’t exist in the user’s computer.

How to Assure a Well-Formed Website

An introductory article that discusses well-formed (a concept from XML) mark-up.

Essential web browser tools for the pro web developer

A list of excellent browser-based tools such as Firebug, IE developer tool bar, and Fiddler.

Drupal versus everybody. A CMS Software review

A review of content management systems set against Drupal.

Most Viewed Photoshop Tutorials

A list of popular Adobe Photoshop tutorials.

Today we have a round up of useful CSS, Ajax, Tutorials, tools, Graphics, WordPress and articles we’ve found in May that is worth your time.

Tutorials

1- Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

How to create a rather cool looking grass-text effect using a photo of grass, the pen tool and a bit of patience. Checkout the Tutorial

2- Creating geometric patterns in Illustrator

It’s just not always that simple to create perfectly seamless patterns, especially with geometric forms. Veerle shows us how to create a geometric pattern shape and fill a background with it using the method described in this tutorial

3- 15 Amazing Photoshop Icon Tutorials

Ever wondered how the great icon designer do it? Well, here are 15 Photoshop Tutorials that lets you peek behind the curtain and get you started. Check it out.

4- Nice ‘n’ Simple Subscribe Badges

In this Photoshop tutorial you’ll be making those cool supermarket-style badges, then you’ll be turning them into subscribe buttons for your website, a must-have for any blog! Visit Tutorial.

5- Amazing Retro Rainbow Curves

In this tutorial, David Leggett will show you how to design some amazing vector based Retro Rainbow Curves using Adobe Photoshop. These retro artifacts have become a popular trend in modern design! Visit Tutorial.

6- Pastel color menu with dynamic submenu using CSS

This tutorial illustrates how to design a nice pastel color menu with a dynamic submenu which appears when you select a link in the main menu, using CSS and some lines of javascript code. Checkout ou the demo here.

7- Three Simple Uses For The ‘Clouds’ Filter in Photoshop

Here are three simple uses of the “clouds” filter (Filter > Render > Clouds) in photoshop. Using both the foreground and background color, it creates a misty/cloudy fill. This simple filter can be used for all kind of interesting things, especially when combined with other filters, layer effects, and layer modes.
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Ajax and Javascript

8- How to Load In and Animate Content with jQuery

How to add ajax functionality so that the content loads into the relevant container instead of the user having to navigate to another page. With awesome animation effect. Checkout out the demo here.

9- Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

Yahoo! Design Pattern Library are thrilled to be sharing patterns and code with the web design and development community. Checkout it out.

10- Animated Collapsible DIV v2.0

This script collapses any DIV on the page and lets users manually toggle its appearance via a smooth “Web 2.0 style” animation. It’s a popular effect on many social networking/ comment sites. Checkout it out.

11- Horizontal JavaScript Accordion 1kb

1kb horizontal accordion script can be used for menus, images, presentation content and more. Checkout it out.

12- Context Hover, adding context & feedback to your links

When you put focus on a link in Opera Mini it puts a hover effect on not only the current link, but all other links with the same URL. This script gives you the same effect when used in your website. Checkout it out.

13- jQuery iPod-style Drilldown Menu

An iPod-style drilldown menu to help users traverse hierarchical data quickly and with control. This drilldown menu provides easy navigation of complex nested structures with any number of levels. Checkout it out.

CSS

14- A parallax illusion with CSS: The Horse in Motion

An impressive optical illusion using the CSS parallax technique. Check out the demo page and resize your browser to see the effect.

15- Which CSS Grid Framework Should You Use for Web Design?

In this article you’ll get an overview of the current batch of CSS Grid Frameworks and which you should choose to use.

16- Building a Unique Contact Form

How to build a contact form using HTML/CSS, as well as add some validation with jQuery, and make it tick with PHP. Checkout the Demo

17- 5 free HTML editors that get the job done

An excellent review by bitsonewmedia to five solid HTML editors that get the job done.Visit Review

18- CSS Diseases: Divitis & Classitis

Are you one of the CSS coders that use div-tags for anything and add classes to every element? Learn why it’s wrong to do that and how you can cure your CSS disease.Visit Post

19- Typogridphy

Typogridphy is a CSS framework constructed to allow web designers and front-end developers to quickly code typograhically pleasing grid layouts.Check it out.

Design

20- Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs

This article explains what is the Divine proportion and what is the Rule of Thirds and describes how you can apply both of them effectively to your designs. Visit Article

21- Footers

Footers can be much more than an afterthought containing the fine print of a web site. With the right design they can reinforce brand awareness and drive internal traffic. Here is an awesome collection of some of the best designed footers on the web.

22- 6 Ways To Subliminally Tell Users “Don’t Come Back”

Here are a few ways to tell the user to never come back to your website. Visit Post

23- Make The Web a Less Colorful Place

More color does not necessarily equal a better design. There is no need to jazz things up with buckets of color if the site does not warrant it. This article explains why you might want to use a monochromatic design and how it’s done. Visit Article

24- Getting Away With Murder: Design Rip-Off Horror Stories

If someone’s ever ripped off your site design or theme, some of these stories will truly make your blood boil but beyond that, how to fight back! Visit Article.

25- What Everybody Ought to Know About Usability and Web Design

Usability has become a hot topic and everyone wants a piece of it by writing their own list of guidelines. This article focus on two rule of thumbs. Those two are to make it easy to read and make it easy to find stuff. Visit Article

26- A Design is Finished when… 23 Pro Designers’ Opinions

One of the most important and hardest things to overcome when designing is to understand when the piece you are designing on is actually finished. So 23 Pro Designers share their opinion here .

Freebies

27- Free Vectors: Hand-Drawn Decorative Elements

These were hand sketched on pencil/paper then scanned and converted to a nice decorative vector element. Checkout it Out.

28- Free 278 Page PDF eBook- The Photoshop Anthology

Sitepoint are giving away a free download of an extensive e-book for designers for a limited time only! IF you are interested in downloading the free eBook simply go to the The Photoshop Anthology Home Page.

29- Free Calendar Icon Set

A new calendar icon set has been released on graphic design forums! Simply head on over the design forums to download the free calendar icon set.

30- Free eCommerce icons

32 free icons to use or remix in your eCommerce projects complete with master SVG file. Enjoy.

31- Milky, a free vector icon set

Milky is a fresh, crisp and beautiful vector icon set. You can use Milky for both personal and commercial work with free of charge. Milky is available in vector format (EPS), as well as transparent PNGs.

General

32- Find Similar Users on del.icio.us

A short Python script that lets you know how to find similar del.icio.us users who share similar interests. Check it out.

33- Duplicate images finder

This application can search through your images collection and find duplicates not only by file name or size, but also by visual similarity.
It done by implementation of some public domain algorithm to do its work. Check it out.

WordPress

34- Unraveling the Secrets of WordPress’ Comments.php File

Dissecting the default WordPress theme’s comments.php structure and giving you various snippets of code to make your skinning easier. Visit Tutorial.

35- How to separate comments and trackbacks

Explanation on how to separate comments from trackbacks. Visit Article.

36- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site. Visit Article.

37- 45+ Free Premium WordPress Themes with Magazine or Grid Layouts

A stunning collection of Free Premium WordPress Themes, most of them have magazine or grid layouts. Checkout it Out.

38- How To use a Frontpage Slideshow on your Wordpress-Blog

How you can create a fancy frontpage slideshow on the frontpage of your WordPress powered site. Visit Tutorial.

Inspiration

39- 30 Inspiring Poster Designs

By looking at great posters, you can learn a lot about composition, typography, and use of color. Here is a list of beautifully designed posters guaranteed to leave you inspired. Visit Post

40- Calligraphy

Calligraphy is the art of writing and the best thing is that you just need to things to start learning and improving your skills: a pen and a paper. Here are some examples what you can do with it. Visit Post

41- 36 Cool Business Cards You Should’ve Seen

A well designed and printed business card can impress and make people take notice and remember you . A badly designed or printed card can leave a bad impression or even worse be simply forgotten. Here is a collection of cool business cards to inspire you. Visit Post

New Lanuches

42- Free Clipart & Vector Art search engine

A new search engine for finding free Clipart works by searching through millions of web pages to bring you back the most accurate free clipart and free vector art search results possible. Visit Site

43- AudioJungle

Eden launches a FlashDen sister site, with AudioJungle, growing the microstock audio market and targeting musicians and sound effect creators.Visit Site

Resources

44- 40 Options for Converting PSD to HTML

Steven Snell compiled a list of 40 different options for Converting PSD to HTML with some details on their services.Visit the article.

45- 25 resources for ornaments, fleurons, and “frilly bits”

An excellent set of resources for ornaments, fleurons, and frilly bits compiled by Cameron Moll. Visit Post.

46- 50+ Designers to Follow on Twitter

An amazing compilation by Steven Snel to over 50 designer’s Twitter profile, which should give you a great start to following some talented designers.Jonathan Snook, Jeffrey Zeldman, Veerle Pieters and more. Check it out.

47- 30 Websites to follow if you’re into Web Development

A post highlighting some of the best sites that covers fields relating to web development - such information architecture, user interaction, and web/graphics design. Luckily Noupe was one of them :). Visit Post

Interviews

48- There is No Pattern: an Interview With Chuck Anderson

Chuck Anderson worked for clients for whom the words ‘high-profile’ seem like an understatement: Adidas, Microsoft, Pepsi, Absolut, Rolling Stone, Nokia, Sony, Reebok… the impressive list goes on. Collis Ta’eed, recently had the opportunity to ask Chuck how all this success came his way. Checkout the interview

49- Braintalk with Andrew Egenes

Andrew, the creator of Designfloat, answered 15 questions about his work. So if you want to know the guy behind Designfloat a little better: here you go. Checkout the interview

50- Success Secrets from Rick Valicenti

An exciting interview with Rick Valicenti sharing his secrets of success and his thoughts on having faith in his creativity.Visit the interview.

SEO

51- Effective Internal Linking Practices

Eric Odom had put together a fairly solid list of tips to use when linking to your own content via a new post or page.Visit the article.

52- SEO Guide for Designers

This is an SEO guide for designers who want to learn about making it easier for websites or blogs to be found by search engines. Visit Article.

53- Helping hacked sites

Matt Cutts explains how Google alerts webmasters of potential hacked websites through google’s webmaster console

Contest

54- Smashing Texture Contest Results

Smashing Magazine held a texture contest, and the result was so impressive. A variety of interesting, exotic or creative textures from all around the globe. Wood, stone, metal, nature, ice, sand, fabric, paper, glass, fire, food and plastic textures.

Here are some of last month’s most popular posts:

1. 50 Best Free WordPress Themes Gallery
2. Copyrighted Images - And the Ideal Solution
3. How To: Making a Categories Drop-Down Menu
4. Free Magazine Theme: OpenBook
5. News and Magazine Premium WordPress Themes Gallery
6. Collection of WordPress Resources

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank this month’s sponsor:

• SkinPress - SkinPress provides a large variety of website templates, including over 60 free WordPress templates.

If you have WordPress themes, WordPress plugins, or other WordPress related products and services that you’d like to promote, we currently have a couple advertising spots available. Advertising rates may be going up soon, but all existing advertisers are grandfathered in at their existing rate for a few months, so now is a good time to sign up! Please check out our advertising page, then contact us if you are interested.

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One of the many problems with selling direct advertising is that it can sometimes be a pain to manage, and it often takes you away from what you love to do, which is blogging. It is kind of like small business owners who love their job, but hate all the paperwork and accounting that is involved with running and managing their own business.

Fortunately as WordPress bloggers, there is a solution available to us in the form of a WordPress plugin called OIO Publisher. This is an incredible premium WordPress plugin that will completely automate the entire advertising process on your blog. In fact, chances are that you have seen people using it (including many high profile bloggers), but just not realized this plugin is what they were using to control the entire process from their WordPress dashboard.

When you download OIO Publisher, you’ll receive a WordPress plugin and be able to get an API key for each blog you want to use it on. The plugin will create an OIO Publisher tab in your dashboard where you can manage your blogs advertisements (designate how many links, paid reviews, inline ads, banners, or custom advertising your blog will have available), create and manage an affiliate program for products or services on your blog from your dashboard, and even see statistics regarding your advertisements!  Possibly my favorite feature of this plugin is that you can even set the plugin to send weekly reports to your advertisers or place your statistical information into their marketplace.

The best part about this premium plugin is that it will just about manage everything for you for a one-time fee of $37.00. Once purchased, you then have access to use the plugin on as many blogs as you would like, as well as get access to their downloadable sales platform, marketplace, and all of the other features mentioned above!  You also get free updates each time the plugin is updated.

In my opinion, the value of this plugin heavily outweighs the low price, but if you’d like to see for yourself the plugin in action, I recommend you check out a demo of OIOPublisher and purchase your copy today. The demonstation allows you to view how it will look on your blog and how you can manage everything from your WordPress dashboard.

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Final Image Preview

Before we get started, let’s take a look at the image we’ll be creating. Click the screenshot below to view the full-size image. As always, the full layered Photoshop file is available via our PSDTUTS Plus membership.

Step 1

We’ll start with the grunge image; you can use a web banner, a disk label, or anything you want. This tutorial is about creating a mock-up intended to improve the final presentation of your work. Feel free to use any image you prefer.

First create a new blank document 1000px by 330px, RGB 72 pixels/inch, and paste this image as a background. Then save the document with the name of "My texture." Keep this file handy, as we’ll need it later in the tutorial.

Step 2

Adjust the image Levels using these values.

Step 3

Now add some images to create a grunge collage. Paste this image of a guitar player into a new layer above the background. Then go to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal. Set the Blending mode to Darken. Resize it and place it near the building. Finally use the Magic Wand tool to select all the white areas of the guitar player and delete them.

Step 4

Find more images, and paste them anywhere you like. You can use this image. Select the Magic wand tool. Then delete all the background and paste it at the center of the collage.

Step 5

Use a grunge font to add some text. I used a font called Acid Label, downloaded from here. Then set the type color to (#130900) and try to get something like the image below. Save your document and Flatten the image.

Step 6

Create a new document that is 1024px by 768px and RGB 72pixels/inch. Create a gradient background that goes from (#000000) to (#302013) using the values in the image below.

Step 7

Hide the gradient layer. Then create two more layers above it, and name both "Dark Gradient 1" and "Dark Gradient 2" respectively. Then Press D to load the default palette. Fill both layers using the Gradient tool (black - transparent). Use the values in the image below.</