After the success of Postcard (most notably for it’s niche use and integration of Google Maps), we decided to team up with Sam Brown (another top designer joining our collaborative design team) to produce another epic, niche theme that uses Google Maps.
So below is a preview of our upcoming theme, CityGuide, which went out to [...]

Today we are glad to release a beautiful, simple and clean portfolio WordPress theme — SimpleFolio, designed by Omar E. Corrales and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. SimpleFolio is a portfolio theme that includes a blog and a very extensive option page that allows you to exclude all your portfolio items [...]

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. It’s one of those holidays that presents plenty of design possibilities, from cards to website modifications. But sometimes it can be a little puzzling when trying to figure out where to start. And other times, you just don’t have enough free time to create what you had in [...]

Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we [...]

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When you open an already existing full trust application in Visual Studio 2010 beta 2, you might encounter this error after the first build.
MSB3134: The permission set requested by the application exceeded the permissions allowed by the Internet or Intranet zones. Select Full Trust or to continue using partial trust, [...]

At Templatic, we are trying to help you build websites easily and affordably and we shown you teasers of different theme under development, releasing this month.
Real Estate is a widely popular niche and if you are a web designer by profession, chances are that you might have build at least one website in this category. [...]

Here’s another round of freebies giveaway and it’s probably something you should not miss if you are a designer. Today we are giving away 10 VIP accounts of Grafpedia.com to Hongkiat readers. These accounts will give you access to more than 70,000 design goodies that will come in handy for your next design job.

A [...]

By Graham Smith
In this font exclusive, we present KnucklePuck, a modular display font created by Austin Roesberg. In my ongoing search for new fonts, I find myself writing to many font designers to see if they would ‘part’ with their digital creation. Sometimes they don’t answer, sometimes they answer ‘no’, and on occasion a ‘yes’ [...]

Well, you have seen the talent of my theme users who have customized my themes in a very creative way. Take the Watercolor theme as an example, the original theme and the user-customized ones can look so different below.
Original Watercolor theme

Indeed, I am so inspired by my users’ customization. So I [...]

Freelance Contracts: Do’s And Don’ts (via @smashingmag) -
In the world of freelancing, the entrepreneur has to take on a number of tasks for themselves that would normally be handled by a separate department at a bigger company. Most of [...]