links for 2008-04-10

• WordPress Theme: Pro Profile 1.0 - eXtra For Every Publisher
  a three column, widget ready theme with a really nice and simple look to it. One nice feature is the ability to allow users to select a colour set they like
  (tags: design inspiration templates theme wordpress wp xfep)
• Wordpress Automatic upgrade « WordPress Plugins
  ‘nother ‘must have’ plugin for wordpress
  (tags: automation backup plugins todo wordpress wp update)
• Top 10 Security and Protection Plugins for Wordpress
  minimising the security risk posed by using the web’s most popular blogging software
  (tags: plugins security wordpress wp speckyboy protection)
• 63 Essential Wordpress Hacks, Tutorials, Help Files and Cheats | Speckyboy - Wordpress and Design
  a fairly comprehensive list of the Best Wordpress Tutorials, Hacks, Help Files and Cheatsheets
  (tags: wordpress tutorial tips blog hack design articles cheatsheet CMS hacks plugins speckyboy tools toread tutorials wp)
• WordPress Tutorials | Theme Lab
  and a few more tutorials - the loop looks like a ‘must read’ but there’s some good stuff for seo and site monetisation pundits here too
  (tags: tutorials wordpress wp themelab seo google)
• 45+ Must See WordPress themes
  the whole ‘powerful guide’ is great, but I had to highlight this page, featuring minimalistic solutions, Elegant Themes, Artistic Themes, Photo Blog Themes, 2 and 3Column themes, Unique Theme Ideas, and Mobile Themes
  (tags: blogging css design gallery inspiration templates themes wordpress wp)
• scot hacker’s foobar blog » Notes on a Massive WordPress Migration
  on how wordpress was tricked out to become a content management system for UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism
  (tags: blogging CMS wordpress wp plugins howto)
• 48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress
  with WP, you don’t always need to pay $50,000+ for a proprietary, difficult to learn CMS
  (tags: blogging CMS inspiration tutorials webdesign webdev wordpress wp)
• WPDesigner » So you want to create WordPress themes huh?
  ease into wordpress hacking with this well paced set of step by step tutorials
  (tags: blogging CMS wordpress php themes howto tutorials)
• SEO for your Wordpress Blog
  Automatic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) out of the box for your wordpress blog
  (tags: wordpress wp seo blogging plugin)
• Fluency Admin at deanjrobinson.com
  while not nail screechingly ugly, the admin sections of wordpress aren’t quite what you’d call a fashion statement - fluency goes some of the way towards addressing that lack.
  (tags: addons admin blogging CMS design plugin template theme wordpress wp fluency)
• The Unstandard WordPress theme
  Farewell to the blase reverse chronological text heavy front pages, and hello to visuals & imagery to lure visitors deeper into your website / blog. A WordPress theme comprised of a - grid aligned - images for forward facing pages, and clean textual prese
  (tags: blogging css inspiration Layout templates theme wordpress wp)
• The Featured Content Gallery Plugin
  integrating the excellent smoothgallery javascript library into wordpress - a gem
  (tags: blogging javascript photoblog photography plugin slideshow themes wordpress wp smoothgallery)
• 1001 Free Fonts - Download Free Fonts - Find Fonts Fast
  i think i must have been haning around the design students too long - suddendly i’m finding fonts interesting (note to self: must get a life)
  (tags: fonts free typography graphics design)
• Query_Posts and Your Homepage Design : The Blog Herald
  how to make any page into your wordpress homepage
  (tags: blog design software tutorial wordpress wp homepage)
• app2you: Customize. It’s up to you.
  an interesting web service that allows you to create your own simple web application without any coding or web designing experience
  (tags: applications dreamweaver flash generator mashup momb tools web2.0 webapps app2you)
• » 55+ Color Tools for Color Palettes, Color Combinations, Color Schemes & More for Graphic Designers & Web Designers Graphic Design Blog & Graphics News Blog
  find beautiful new color schemes - a huge list of online color tools and utilities to find new color schemes for your layouts and designs
  (tags: color colour design tools webdesign)
• Unbelievable! Paper Toy Transformer … Video - Metacafe
  fun with paper
  (tags: art crafts cube diy folding origami video paper howto)
• Fontennium
  must be my day for collecting font links - another great collection (nice presentation and taxonomy too)
  (tags: arts computer fonts free download typography font graphics webdesign)
• PerspTut
  undermine your world view. We always assume that what we are taught about perspective is the way we actually see. But it’s not.
  (tags: architecture art camera cognition perspective drawing tutorial graphics)
• 20+ Free Web Design Ebooks And Guides
  a list of free web design ebooks and guides that will get you started building accessible, usable, and useful web sites in no time.
  (tags: accessibility webdesign ebooks design reference css free tutorial guides)
• pdf-mags.com
  links and information about nearly 175 free PDF mags from all over the world with main focus on art, design, illustration and culture
  (tags: advertising aggregator art artist books magazine pdf design inspiration illustration magazines free)
• Pencil - a traditional 2D animation software
  animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.
  (tags: 2d animation applications art avatar opensource graphics cartoon drawing software free pencil flash)
• KToon: 2D Animation Toolkit
  a pro quality 2D Animation Toolkit for linux designed by animators (Toonka Films ) for animators, focused to the Cartoon Industry. This project is covered by the GPL License using G++, OpenGL and QT
  (tags: 2d animation art cartoon editor flash linux software opensource)