Hopefully, by the time my 6th grader gets out of high school, his teachers will be using a web-based learning management system (LMS) like Moodle to receive and track student assignments. There are LOTS of reasons a LMS can make life easier for both teachers and students. A big one is it can eliminate student [...]

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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 [...]

Chris Jean was hard at work this week to release the beta version of the Builder Style Manager. He’ll be using this time to fix issues that rise up and collect input from you on what things you like, or would like to see added, etc.
The Style Manager beta version is available in your member’s [...]

Delegate is a professional business theme from WooThemes. The custom homepage provides a large slider section to showcase your services or products (with call-to-action buttons if desired), and a sub-featured section to provide more information.

Features:

Choose to display the custom homepage or a standard blog view
Custom woo widgets: Search, Ad space, Flickr
19 color [...]

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 [...]

Website security is an interesting topic and should be high on the radar of anyone who has a Web presence under their control. Ineffective Web security leads to all of the things that make us hate the Web: spam, viruses, identity theft, to name a few.
The problem with Web security is that, as [...]

A great number of excellent comments and suggestions have come in over the past couple weeks about iThemes Builder since the Dec. 16 launch, we’ve heard your requests and this new version is our first step to meeting a large number of the big requests.
So just now we sent email updates to customers for iThemes [...]

I’m in Allen, Texas, today, and helped my brother in law install Ubuntu on a very old Windows system he has, to extend its useful life. We needed to see if it is possible to login to the Citrix system used by the Allen school district, however, and it turns out this IS possible. We [...]

2009 was a very successful year for Smashing Magazine. It was a year of ambitious goals and an intense time schedule, which brought many changes over the past year. In 2009 we published more posts than ever (on average, 8 posts per week). We broadened our areas of interest: for instance, we explored [...]