Web optimization is a vital part of web development and maintenance but also something often overlooked by webmasters. Just think of the money you can save, and how it can potentially help increase your readership and traffic when they are properly done.

If you have not done any optimization to your website (or blog) so [...]

Wordpress is no doubt one powerful blogging platform but the problem is if you don’t customized your theme you end up having the same layout as some others out there. This week we are giving away 3x Premium Wordpress themes of your choice (Flash Wordpress themes included!). Meaning, you picked them, and if you [...]

Wordpress is no doubt one powerful blogging platform but the problem is if you don’t customized your theme you end up having the same layout as some others out there. This week we are giving away 3x Premium Wordpress themes of your choice (Flash Wordpress themes included!). Meaning, you picked them, and if you [...]

The Smashing Book project is now entering its next phase. Based upon your tremendous feedback, we have finalized the concept and the outline for the book. In fact, the topics have been selected and our writers have already started to brainstorm the ideas for their chapters in the book. The one thing that still remains [...]

Without a doubt, the WWW is indeed a wonderful place. It’s full of beautiful and professionally designed websites; but is there a creative team behind each of these corporate websites? Our guess is probably no.
Most of the time, design studio and agency are the unsung heroes behind most of these great production. Formed by group [...]

Over the last months we focused on releases of icons and themes, so we thought that it may be useful to release Photoshop brushes and vector graphics for a change. Hence, in this post we release a set of Photoshop brushes for space effects, a set of brushes to simulate the effect of a painted [...]

About 6 months ago we got our first official 1 million pageviews/month and today, we are excited to announce yet another big leap and milestone for the blog – 1,000,000 visits/month. According to yesterday’s Google Analytics, Hongkiat.com is serving an average of 1,042,163 visits/month (2,000,037 pageviews/month) and that is an pretty exciting figure.
Thank You
Our gratitude [...]

by Jean-Baptiste Jung
2008 was a very good year for the WordPress community. The software was updated numerous times, leading to the recent release of version 2.7, and many new blogs dedicated to WordPress were created. Of course, tons of new hacks were discovered, which helped lots of bloggers enhance their blogs.
In this article, we’ll show [...]

We may be a little bit late to the Christmas party, but late is usually better than never. In this post we release a very compact, magazine-like theme designed especially for events such Christmas. We hope that the theme may be useful not only for this Christmas, but can also be used in general, for [...]