We have just completed the roll-out of a nifty, new feature to the WooFramework, which now includes support for URL Shortening. The basic idea is to offer you a template tag which would output a shorter URL – currently only supports TinyURL (default) and bit.ly (with your API key) – which you can then [...]

Dear iThemes Community, I just wanted to take a second to briefly share some news and events with you this month ….
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For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been doing a live video stream for our customer community. This is our chance to share product news [...]

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to listen to @CarlSmith talk at a local design group meet up I attended. If you aren’t familiar with Carl, he works at wicked cool company called nGen Works and is the mastermind behind Happy Webbies. But, enough about that guy…
Being the big usability expert [...]

Last week I talked a little bit about the importance of joining social media design sites like Behance and such. This got me thinking abut how to decide what work to put up on these sites. After all, if the point in joining these sort of sites is to get more work, it [...]

I know we all tend to have the same exact workflow with every client we work with. It only makes sense. I mean, if something works well, why do it any differently? Well, what if by doing it differently you could actually do it better? That’s what today’s video is [...]

In a user sample released on Friday by the online advertising network Chitika, most Twitter users (28.49 percent) click on links embedded within tweets to news-related stories. Even though this may not impact you, especially if you don’t use Twitter at the moment, it confirms the idea that Twitter users want to stay up-to-date on [...]

Traditional drawing is certainly way harder than digital and it is true that people are able to progress much faster digitally, but one should learn the traditional type of drawing and painting before starting digital drawing, since it often lays out the [...]

In the last 2 weeks, we’ve been deliberating what to do with WooCamp, because whilst we really think it’s a good idea, we’ve just found the strain of being continuously inspired to publish unique content a bit draining. Well, that and the fact that everyone seems to be suffering from a little information overload and [...]

After rebooting my personal blog yesterday, I thought that I’d throw this one out there for some feedback… during the previous 6 months, I got a lot of positive feedback on the design I previously used on my blog, and my readers seemed to like it due to it’s clean, uncluttered style (which made reading [...]

In this post we release Android GUI Starter Kit, a set that comes with several button elements as well as different interface options for Android GUI. This set was designed by Pavel Maček and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. [...]