Many people have asked me how I designed the lonelytree artwork ? Well it is a compilation of many brushes which I found on deviantart.com an excellent source for designers to share and display their work.

Tree image Source:

Photoshop Brush by ~Snowiee

Illustrator Vector from freevectors.org

Cloud Image Source:

Photoshop Brush by ~JavierZhX

Regal is a theme that boasts both sophisticated style and functionality. With incredible flexibility complimented by its conservative main body, it allows for simple and quick changes to showcase your content in a visually stunning and effective manner.

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== Changelog ==

07/07/2010 – v2.1
Fixed option page
Added Support forum link
Added Donate Button
Changes to css

30/06/2010 – v2.0
Removed Author Page
Fixed some content code
Changes to sidebar
Changes to css

22/06/2010 – v1.9
Added post-thumbnails
Added custom background support
Added custom menu support
Added Author page
Added booknmark feature to post pages
Changes to sidebar
Changes to themes settings page
Fixed css to menu
Changes to css

14/05/2010 – v1.8
Added widgets in footer for additional option
Added German language translation thanks to Lars C. Bernstein
Added few more options to themes settings page
Fixed css for menu, comments, rss feed and the post layout

12/11/2009 – v1.7
Added Childmenu to the pages menu
Many changes made to theme files for full translation thanks to Georg from Team Blogos
Language files added

05/11/2009 – v1.6
Added Trackback and ping feature
Fixed css

04/11/2009 – v1.5
Added nested quotes
Minor changes to threaded comments

28/10/2009 – v1.4
Fixed the normal layout

26/10/2009 – v1.3
Changes to the theme settings
Minor changes to the header

07/10/2009 – v1.2
Fixed minor changes

02/10/2009 – v1.1
Fixed minor Category issue

25/09/2009 – Intial release 1.0

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Design Websites for the Apple iphone

The Apple iPhone is part of a class of mobile phones called smartphones. It has an impressive battery lifespan and allows users to surf the Net even while on the go. Research has shown that the iphone is used nine times more than the next Smartphone which is the Windows mobile.

If you are a web designer like me, you may have started wondering what you can do to improve your website by not only making it look fantastic on PCs and laptops but also on mobiles too. With the iPhone’s display size of 480-by-320-pixel resolution, it takes a little bit more than designing your website to fit a smaller screen size.

Here are a few ideas to keep in mind when building your website:
• You can design web pages for wide-screen and Flash enabled browsers, however check that the important information is easy to see even on a small screen that cannot manage any special applications (such as Ajax, Flash, Javascript, cookies, etc.). Anything more than XHTML Basic will be more than what some mobile phones are able to handle.

• The iPhone automatically scales websites when necessary. Therefore, build web pages that have multiple thin columns instead of pages with one big column. If the content is narrower on a normal web page, the less the Web page will be scaled down to fit into its window.

• Try putting your content on multiple pages to make them easier to read as it can be hard to read huge sections of text on one page on your mobile phone.

• Images on a website often make websites look nicer when seen on a full screen. However, by keeping images small and optimized, users are much happier as they do not need to wait long for the images to be downloaded.

• Keep your links short as they may get annoying after a while if users are often visiting your website and need to type in long URLs.

Hope these tips help. Happy designing!!

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Seawater wordpress theme

Free Blogspot Template, a clean looking template designs available in black /white.

Pligg is an open source content management system that is designed for social news gathering websites where members submit and rate news.