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- Most Popular WordPress Theme of the Month – April 2012
- Selection of Eye-Catching PowerPoint Templates
- Fresh and Creative Laptop Skins and Decals
- Improve Your Workflow by Breaking Bad Habits
| Most Popular WordPress Theme of the Month – April 2012 Posted: 02 May 2012 02:00 PM PDT Many wordpress themes are created daily for wordpress blogs but most of the theme in that list failed to get attention from readers. People always check themes shared in popular templates blogs and from popular theme providers. Here in this article I tried to compile some of the best wordpress theme collections which are mostly downloaded by the users around the web in the month of April. 1. SMPL SMPL is an excellent and responsive business theme with a clean, modular design crafted with perfection. It is integrated with popular woocommerce, a popular eCommerce platform for wordpress powered sites so you can enable eshop facility for your business. Its features includes responsive design, highly customizable homepage, feature slider powered with flex slider and woocommerce goodness. 2. Drawar
It's a very apt choice for blogger who like to focus content this template will highlight the content area that makes reader to stay long time on your blog resulting in less bounce rate. The Coffeefeatures of the template include fully responsive design, new introduction area, custom search, custom typography and various styling option. 3. Coffee Lounge To say in a word, a perfect theme for anyone who owns a coffee shop or bistro business. This theme will surely attract visitors who visit the site online and create a brand impression about your business. It works in different framework called fuse framework that has a unique backend CMS which suits all your needs. The premium features includes jQuery image lightbox, feedburner reader, auto imge resizing, powerful admin options and much more. 4. Super Biz Super biz is a minimalistic business/corporate portfolio wordpress theme packed with lots of features. It comes with unlimited color with 3 custom widgets, video features slider to showcase your brand video, custom in built html5 video player. It comes with PSD file included. 5. Alpha – fresh WordPress theme Yet another corporate business theme from mojo-themes network with custom modular homepage, drag-drop theme option, filterable portfolio and localization support. It is completely SEO optimized theme which reduces the cost of search engine optimization for this template. 6. The Daily Press A simple and minimalistic publication theme for wordpress powered blogs. The first impression after seeing this theme will make you feel like as you landed in "The New York Times" blog because the font style and its position, magazine format, white background design and other things resembles the NYC blog. 7. ProMotion Responsive This theme is mainly aimed for business, service and product promotion. The features include powerful mover slider, option to change styles, types and colors. It is perfectly SEO optimized and user friendly theme that make promotion a much easier. 8. Flare It is a Responsive WordPress Theme that comes with unlimited colors made for your Business website, Portfolio and Blog. It is highly flexible and you can customize it with its powerful admin panel, which gives total control over all major aspects of your blog. 9. Rustic A highly textured two column templates with widgitized sidebar an custom menu options at the top navigation panel. It comes in various colors like blue light, brown wood and an latest update for this theme includes "No trees" option for those who want plain wood and paper background without trees. 10. ButterCream A fantastic minimalistic wordpress theme with no sidebar and top navigational option which will well suits for personal blog. Most attractive things in this theme is the cute and beautifully designed cupcake at the top that adds real value to this template. This is not the end, you can get even better ones while searching on Google so try to get themes that suits for your business and never compromise with the templates you have at present. Hope the given list will kick start your searching process a little deeper.
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| Selection of Eye-Catching PowerPoint Templates Posted: 01 May 2012 10:00 PM PDT If you are in search of a unique and smart collection of powerpoint templates then don't look any further. Powerpoint is a handy tool when it comes to presenting a sales report or a business. To meet your requirements perfectly, we have gathered a comprehensive list that will be of much help to you. The powerpoint templates differ widely in styles and designs. You will come across bar charts, line charts, puzzle diagrams, cube charts, and arrow charts in various color schemes. These charts are data driven and are proficient in exemplifying your data without wasting time. The templates that are presented here vary widely from social networking to corporate branding, and project management. While browsing through our collection of templates you will see that all the designs have a professional approach. But, their professional aspect has not made them dull and drab in any way. Rather you will feel that they are among the most creative designs that you will ever come across in an online store. The powerpoint design of each of the template is very impressive. So, go ahead and choose one of the best templates so that you can ensure that your seminar is an absolute success. Folio PowerPoint Presentation TemplateUtopia PowerPoint TemplateSharpDesign Powerpoint TemplateArmonio Power Point PresentationI”m an Author PowerPoint PresentationLorem PowerPoint templateBIGIdea Power Point PresentationPresentation Vintage Style PowerpointSimplio Presentation TemplateGraphika PowerPoint TemplateShowcase PowerPoint PresentationLeavitation Media Presentation TemplatesAdvisor PowerPoint TemplateFast Motion Presentation TemplateInteractive – Powerpoint TemplateKreanima Presentation TemplatesGravitation Unlimited PowerPoint Template
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| Fresh and Creative Laptop Skins and Decals Posted: 01 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT Innovative mode of teaching has been considered by a lot of schools and universities nowadays. In the world of technology today, laptops has been tapped to enhance the type of learning that students may acquire as they can grasp most of their lessons through multi-media learning and do some researches online to get more information in broadening their knowledge. However, aside from being technologically savvy and smart such students tend to be trendy. From the usual plain colored laptops like black or gray to more captivating designs because of the new skins made especially for it. The laptop skin designs that are available now in the market are not only saleable to one group of customers but it can cater to any diversified market. This is so because such designs can be customized and is always offered everywhere not to mention by many online sticker printing companies. These laptop sticker designs are not only patronized by trendy students due to its magnificent designs but also by some businessmen who would want to advertise their companies though stickers. They can actually post their logos in their laptops so that during client meetings their client will be enticed to see the brand that they are endorsing while a presentation is being conducted for them to see. This is all possible because of the magnificent designs that was incorporated on those stickers to better showcase their companies leading to a more opportunity in marketing their products. Technologies do evolve so do people who are using it and enjoying the advantage of it. But being cool and stylish can also be incorporated while being technologically savvy, thanks to the makers and designers who thought of having these customized laptop stickers. So if you are already bored of having those plainly-colored laptops why not have some inspiration on the following laptop skins: All image credit
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| Improve Your Workflow by Breaking Bad Habits Posted: 01 May 2012 04:59 PM PDT Bad habits lead to bad work, which leads to no job. Combining an eccentric creative mind with hours at a desk is a recipe for bad habit stew, so it’s no wonder that graphic designers are among the worst offenders. Do you find yourself stuck on the same project for days on end? Maybe you spend entire mornings fending off emails from clients worried that you’re late on their deadline? Worst of all, maybe you’re so disorganized and behind on your work that your end results don’t match the greatness you know you can achieve. If you’re stuck in a bad habit slump, break out of it by reading these common plagues on graphic designers and making the changes necessary to get back on top of your game. Getting to Work at 9 a.m. but Starting to Work at 11 a.m. We’re immediately greeted with distractions when we get to work. Coffee – seven minutes. Catching up with Tom in the cubicle next door – six minutes. Sorting through your inbox – 82 minutes. It’s not uncommon to find ourselves halfway through the workday before we actually get anything done. Here’s the solution: When you leave work in the afternoon, decide what your first priority is the following morning. Skip the office chit-chat (but by all means, get the coffee if you need to) and sit down to work without signing into your email account. Knock out that first project before you allow yourself to do anything else. If you start your morning on a productive streak, that energy will flow into your entire workday. Knocking Out Projects at the Last Minute I’m a writer, not a graphic designer, but the same principles apply to each. We’re tasked with assignments and given a deadline. Ideally, I finish writing something the day before it’s due, allowing me to sleep on it and tweak my words with fresh eyes. That same concept works for designers. Chances are, if you put even a few extra minutes of thought into a logo or layout, you’ll think of an idea to improve it. But if you churned it out just in time to send it in, you’ve already missed the chance for revision, and likely not submitted your best work. If you want to climb the ladder and demand more money for your work, you’ve got to stay ahead of the deadline wall, always revising and producing the very best product that you’re able. The Clutter Trap Artists go both ways when it comes to keeping a messy studio. Some prefer a stark white room, everything neatly in place and labeled. Others work amidst chaos, pulling beauty out of a disheveled world around them. Even those who thrive in a messy environment can benefit from de-cluttering their work space. Is your computer desktop a black hole of icons, stacked atop each other awaiting filing? Maybe your desk itself is an endless pile of knick-knacks and old paperwork. You know yourself best. If you’re someone who works best without distractions (and I think most of us are), ignore those deadlines for a minute and tidy up. With our world generally free of distractions around us, we’re able to produce more efficient, better work. Shunning Criticism Let’s face it — graphic designers put up with more annoying feedback than almost any other profession. You’re a professional in the field so you know what works and what doesn’t, yet your work is constantly judged by people who don’t know a pixel from a pickaxe. Take it in stride — if your client (or maybe even your boss) knew how to design their own ad, logo, or layout, they’d have done a better job telling you what they wanted. Be proactive from the start, asking detailed questions to understand their vision. Designing a project from scratch, without specific direction, is already more difficult, and you take the risk of it being completely rejected and having to start over. Work with your client or coworker from the start, and the criticism and requested changes you get about the finished product will be greatly minimized. In any profession, there’s no reason to work harder than necessary to achieve the same result. As a designer, it’s important to always produce a finished product that you’d be happy to put your name on and include in a portfolio. By recognizing your bad habits and taking steps to remedy them, you quickly maximize both your time and output.
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