How to Build the Perfect Web Community

By nature human beings are creatures who crave social interaction. We are forming relationships with friends and networking deeper with colleagues every passing day. The evolution from physical to digital has been an interesting one and is still ongoing. We have seen many social networks rise and fall in just a few short years.

Building a credible website community from scratch takes a lot of dedication. Even more so than dedication is the requirement for patience. Networks take time to build and will require daily care in order to mature into a strong web entity.

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Cyber Monday Bundle from MOJO Themes

As one of our WDL Premium partners, MOJO Themes provides our members with awesome WordPress themes. Since we value their partnership and believe they’re a true asset to the WordPress community, we want to help spread the word about an awesome deal they just announced. Today they announced an incredible Cyber Monday Bundle. The bundle includes a variety of files and is worth $579, but they’re selling it for only $30. (more…)

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35 Inspiring Headers and Footers

Almost a year ago, 12/31/2009 to be more precise, I wrote my first article here at WDL, Headers and Footers that Grab You Coming and Going. So now, 11 months and 47 articles later, I decided to do a new showcase of headers and footers to inspire you.

Headers and footers are extremely important in web design, as we mentioned last year, they are powerful sections of a website and it’s very important that you take good care of them while putting together your site. From clean and minimal to colorful and illustrated, you can really get your viewers attention with beautiful and well designed headers and footers. Check out some inspiring examples we’ve gathered. (more…)

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Best Free Fonts of 2010

Last week we kicked off our “Best of 2010″ series by showing you the best free WordPress themes released in the past year. This week the focus is on fonts. There were a ton of remarkable free fonts put out in 2010, so it was very difficult picking our favorites. Nevertheless, we did it and here they are…the best free fonts of 2010. (more…)

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WDL Premium: Orion WordPress Theme

Today we’re releasing a premium WordPress theme for our WDL Premium Members. Orion from Mojo Themes brings functionality with a high-end design to power up your company’s website or whatever website you need this for. Built up with custom jQuery scripts like an image slider, portfolio content sorted and others. Orion gets the most out of every page. (more…)

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Best Practices for Mobile Web Interfaces

We’ve seen tremendous growth in the mobile market since smart phones have taken over. Most of the tech-savvy adopters who understand the benefits couldn’t go a day without their precious iPhone or Android device. Websites are continually required to hold up to these standards and have adapted to fit a dire need.

The increase for demand of mobile-fashioned websites will drive webmasters into a scuttle. Website layouts have to be updated and require tweaks to the formatting so everything will display properly on mobile devices. I’ve described some best practices below and how you can re-build your site to be entirely mobile friendly.

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30 Inspiring Website Navigation Menus

The navigation and menu system is one of the most important aspects of a website. A website navigation can take on many forms, from horizontal to vertical, from minimalistic to well developed buttons. No matter what the nav looks like, there’s one thing for certain: it should be intuitive and easily accessible. So for your Monday inspiration, we’ve rounded up 30 websites that we believe have exceptional navigation menus. (more…)

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7 Useful Tools for Mobile Website Testing

It seems like everybody has a smart phone these days. This means that more and more people are turning to these mobile devices to do things that they would normally do on their desktop or laptop, like checking and sending email and viewing web content. That’s why it’s almost a must now to pay more attention to how your website looks on mobile devices. Yes, this does just add one more thing to the list of ways that web designers have to test their work, but thankfully their are tools out there to make our lives a little bit easier. So here are 7 useful tools for mobile website testing. (more…)

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Best Free WordPress Themes of 2010

At the end of 2009, we published a series of posts highlighting the best freebies and resources from that year. It turned out to be a great way to show our readers what they may have missed, and to give some recognition to the people that worked very hard at producing such amazing stuff. It’s difficult to believe that another year is drawing to a close, but here we are at the end of 2010. This means it’s time for another “Best Of” series. So to kick it off, we’ve rounded up the best free WordPress themes of 2010. These are in no particular order. They’re simply the ones we felt stood out from the rest this year in terms of design quality and features. (more…)

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WDL Premium: Grungy Stone Textures

Today we’re giving our WDL Premium members a premium texture pack from PremiumTextures.com. These Grungy Stone textures are great for adding a rough and aged look to your designs. There are 7 high-quality textures included in this pack. (more…)

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