In this week’s quick tip, we’re going to explore how to create a nice, clean, minimalistic portfolio layout in Photoshop in a few simple steps. Utilizing neat background images to stage your icons, logos or other work we’ll create a portfolio that focuses the reader’s eye on your work.

In October’s edition of Neat Stuff, we’re going to be taking a look at some of the unique - and sometimes odd website layouts from around the web.

Over the past six to twelve months, there’s really been a transition from traditional, clean layouts to a somewhat grungy feel around the web. These sites seem to have a warmth and naturalness to them that just isn’t possessed by a traditional website.

In this third and final installment of our “Create a Maintainable Wordpress Theme” series, we’re going to be looking at the meat of your theme - the PHP template files. These files are the files that Wordpress uses to fill your site with content, so getting the job done right is important.

In our first part of this three part series, we covered the foundation of creating your Wordpress theme: The PSD concept, and the directory in which your theme’s files will reside. Today we’ll be looking at the next step in that process: The HTML Template & CSS file(s).

In this month’s neat stuff we’ll be taking a peak at all sorts of cool and inspirational sites from around the web. Everything from small personal blogs, to websites for juggernaut politicians.

In part 1 of this three part series on creating a maintainable, well-coded Wordpress theme, we’ll look at the foundations of your Theme. Learn how to create a well-documented PSD mockup. As well, we’ll take a look at the layout of your theme directory, to show you a great way to organize your theme’s files.