Creative Community Bulletin 10 December 2013

Great con­tent found by Pariah and shared to the design and cre­ative com­mu­ni­ties on social media.

  • A Step-by-Step Checklist for Publishing Your Blog Posts

    “Let me begin by ask­ing you a ques­tion: how many times have you been guilty of writ­ing a blog post, hit­ting Publish then sim­ply get­ting on with your day? This post is for you, because each post that doesn’t get a lit­tle post-publishing TLC will nev­er live up its full poten­tial. If you build it the peo­ple will not come — you need to build it and then take it to them.”

  • 44 Alluring Websites Powered by WordPress

    “There are mil­lions of dif­fer­ent web­sites pow­ered by WordPress run­ning online, with new launch­es hap­pen­ing each month. I put togeth­er this gallery focus­ing on 44 eye-catching web­sites run­ning on WordPress. You can use these designs as inspi­ra­tion for your own ideas. WP them­ing is a big top­ic and it’s worth study­ing so that you can build your own themes.”

  • A Step-by-Step Checklist for Planning Your Blog Posts
    “If you do lit­er­al­ly just write and hit Publish you are prob­a­bly miss­ing out on a trick. In real­i­ty there are a num­ber of actions you should take to make the most out of each post that you pub­lish, and with­out a check­list to fol­low you are prob…
  • 50 Wonderful Free WordPress Plugins – October 2013
    “Thousands of peo­ple are using WordPress plu­g­ins because all WordPress plu­g­ins pro­vide awe­some fea­tures, great flex­i­bil­i­ty to the users, are editable and also save time as well. All expe­ri­enced per­sons are using WordPress plu­g­ins and even the b…
  • 50 Brilliant WordPress Tutorials for All Skill Levels
    “Want to build a new web­site, or add some­thing new to your exist­ing one? Then check out these awe­some WordPress tutorials…”
  • Are You a Font Groupie?

    “The font meis­ters at Extensis have released a fas­ci­nat­ing glob­al font usage report and a nifty relat­ed info­graph­ic. More than 2250 design­ers were sur­veyed regard­ing their font usage and the results show that some folks are def­i­nite­ly going to be on Santa’s naughty list for vio­lat­ing their font licens­es. See how you com­pare to the sur­vey respondents. ”

  • 12 Ways to Optimize Speed of Large WordPress Websites
    “A slow load­ing site can be frus­trat­ing some­times and ulti­mate­ly fed up the vis­i­tors to shut it down and switch to next one. Whenever new vis­i­tors vis­it your web­site they first notice the speed of your web­site (i.e. How quick­ly it is loading?) …
  • The 10 Best Typewriter Typefaces
    Want to add typewriter-style text to your designs? We bring togeth­er a selec­tion of the most effec­tive type­writer fonts, from authen­tic to unusu­al, for you to use in your designs.
  • WordPress Lite Released as Ghost Blogging Platform
    “Ghost is an Open Source appli­ca­tion which allows you to write and pub­lish your own blog, giv­ing you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do. It’s sim­ple, ele­gant, and designed so that you can spend less time mak­ing your blog work and more…
  • Mark your cal­en­dar: Design Your Own Business: Episode 1 #DYOB #Freelance

    “Design Your Own Business is a month­ly Internet tele­vi­sion show for free­lancers and small busi­ness own­ers with a focus on, but not exclu­sively for, design­ers and the cre­ative professions.”

  • design:related Closing December 15th
    We are sad to inform you that as of Dec. 16, 2013 design​re​lat​ed​.com will no longer be open as a pro­fes­sion­al social net­work­ing web­site. In short, the costs of run­ning the web appli­ca­tion and sites have made it no longer pos­si­ble to con­tin­ue pro…

Curated by Pariah Burke