Mr. Jon Hicks Over the past couple months we’ve had the pleasure of working with the pixel surgeon, and icon designer extraordinaire that is Jon Hicks. We commissioned Jon to re-design our popular ninja mascot that you would have seen busting moves all around our site. Our ninja was originally traced and vectorized based on [...]

Since we didn’t have an official iThemes.tv show today and have been working on a number of projects for release this week, we’ve decided to do a special launch webinar on Thursday, July 8 at 3 p.m. Central. Here’s what we’re going to be talking about …. and what I think you’re going to want [...]

   When was the last time you made a decision? A big one. What was the outcome? Was it good, and how did you get to that outcome? Every day we all make plenty of decisions without a thought to how we structure them or the basis on which we make them. We simply make [...]

   It is arguable that there is no goal in web design more satisfying than getting a beautiful and intuitive design to look exactly the same in every currently-used browser. Unfortunately, that goal is generally agreed to be almost impossible to attain. Some have even gone on record as stating that perfect, cross-browser compatibility is [...]

What’s New at iThemes? iThemes Builder – Style Manager and SEO Options are still in the works. Chris is doing some “final testing” and hopes to have them out of BETA soon! If you want to stay up to date with Builder and feature development, follow the specific Builder Twitter account @ithemesbuilder – Chris updates [...]

   By Bhanu Ahluwalia Multiplicity is a photography technique in which the same person is photographed from different angles and directions and then the bunch of photographs are digitally re-mastered in Photoshop showing clones of the person doing different things all in one photo. Today we present 35 Surreal Examples of Multiplicity Photography to inspire [...]

James Dalman and Benjamin Bradley lead our WebDesign.com brand, where we offer web design and WordPress training. In our annual membership at WebDesign.com, we already offer a number of courses aimed at helping people start WordPress web design businesses. Here are some of the free WordPress and web design training they are offering through our [...]

We’ve unfortunately always had people in our communities who are bullies and seem to enjoy hurting other people. What’s changed is that gossip which used to remain local has now gone global, and gossip can now be confirmed with images and video. Bullying which used to be limited by time and place can now take [...]

On my Centos 5.4 I installed Virtualbox and run Windows XP guest OS on it. After installation it showed available USB devices but all were greyout or disabled. After searching for the solution on net for 2 days i finally get it working by  following the steps below. Step1: Findout gid number by typing # [...]

Today, we are releasing new set of Web Design Icons, a free icon set designed by Iconshock for exclusive readers of Smashing Apps. Iconshock – stock icons is a professional stock icons for web and software application. If you like, you can contact them for developing of a custom icon design project too.  There are [...]