ZinePress is free and nice looking magazine theme for wordpress. The goal of Andrew Lindstrom with this design was to create a theme that could present oodles of information to the visitor in a straight forward and non-threatening way. It’s some of his proudest work and he hopes you will like it.

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Facebox is a jQuery-based, Facebook-style lightbox which can display images, divs, or entire remote pages.

It’s simple to use and easy on the eyes. You just need to follow some steps and its done!

Features:

• Lightweight
• Cool Curved Borders
• Easily Customizable

Requirement: jQuery 1.2.1

Website: http://famspam.com/facebox

Make a baby without actually “making” a baby!

VW came up with a crazy idea: The Routan Babymaker 3000. Upload picture of mum and dad and look at the result.

Website: http://www.vw.com/vwhype/babymaker/en/us/

The easiest way to have a fancy and useful live search on your blog! Just grab our code and place it anywhere on your site and you are good to go.

The search works just like Google suggest and you have all the power to customize it the way you want.

Features:

• Easy to install and use
• No programming required
• Extremely fast and lightweight
• Fully customizable via skins or CSS
• Image search support
• Free as in beer

Website and Demo: http://sikbox.com

GrungeEra 1.0 is a free, W3C-compliant, CSS-based website template for wordpress. A fixed width, single column website template designed for small sites and personal blogs. It features a stylish grungy theme design and uses a warm colour scheme.

This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, which means that you are free to use and modify it for any purpose. All they ask is that you include a link back to their website in your credits.

Requirements: WordPress 2.x

License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5

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Calling all WordPress Themers! Do you ever wish that you could easily preview your wordpress themes while working in Dreamweaver? Well wish no more! The other day i came across an awesome Dreamweaver Extension called ThemeDreamer.

This amazing extension enables you to unlock Dreamweavers potential and turns Adobes’ Dreamweaver into a faster design environment for wordpress themes. ThemeDreamer provides a WYSIWYG feedback within Dreamweaver’s design view editor in real time. This means you do not need to deal with a server to view your CSS and template changes! Alterations are immediately reflected in Dreamweavers Design View.

Well before you have a complete design orgasm take a quick look at some of its features as stated by the website:

Real Time Design View

• Enables instantaneous WYSIWYG feedback on common CSS and WordPress Template Tags.
• Automatically combines theme file dependencies, eliminating the need to combine and splice header.php, index.php, footer.php, search.php, sidebar.php, etc.
• Supports both function-style and query-string-style Template Tag parameters.

Code View Hints

• Provides WordPress Template Tags, Include Tags, and Conditional Tags at your finger tips.
• Hints reveal syntax, parameter defaults, and common enumerated optional values.

Graphic Designer and Application Developer Benefits

• Offline theme development - There is no need for a server connection or a need to install WordPress locally to view most common style edits.
• Accelerate theme development time by reducing hassels with server round trips (’download-edit-upload-view’).

Website: http://www.themedreamer.com

1- CSS font shorthand rule

When styling fonts with CSS you may be doing this:

There’s no need though as you can use this CSS shorthand property:

Much better! Just a couple of words of warning: This CSS shorthand version will only work if you’re specifying both the font-size and the font-family. Also, if you don’t specify the font-weight, font-style, or font-varient then these values will automatically default to a value of normal, so do bear this in mind too.

2- Two classes together

Usually attributes are assigned just one class, but this doesn’t mean that that’s all you’re allowed. In reality, you can assign as many classes as you like! For example:

Using these two classes together (separated by a space, not with a comma) means that the paragraph calls up the rules assigned to both Class1 and Class2. If any rules overlap between the two classes then the class which is below the other in the CSS document will take precedence.

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Your time is your product. Every minute you spend working that goes unaccounted for is like giving away your product for free. Tracking your time accurately is essential to staying profitable.

In addition, knowing how much time you spend on past projects, can allow you to better estimate future projects. Do you know how much time you spend in meetings? On the phone? Promoting yourself? Making sales calls? Keep track of anything with Klok’s simple work timer and get visual display of how your routines.

Requirements: AIR 1.0

Website: http://klok.mcgraphix.com/klok/index.htm

The Sexy Curls jQuery Plugin is an open-source jQuery plugin by Elliott Kember which lets you share in the beauty of the page fold.

It has nice curl effect and that curl could be manual or automatic in its behavior. You can easily customize this plugin.

Website: http://www.elliottkember.com/sexy_curls.html

Font Squirrel is a growing Collection of free fonts which can be used in commercial work. Feel free to download and use in any of your project. Font Squirrel has collected very nice (looks premium) fonts for us and categorized them beautifully for our ease.

Website: http://www.fontsquirrel.com