Creative Community Bulletin 19 April 2009 Through 22 April 2009

These are the arti­cles, blogs, and resources I found inter­est­ing and wor­thy of shar­ing for 19 April 2009 through 22 April 2009:

• Why Personal and Business Branding Work Best Together –
• word­press cre­ate short­code functions.php insert – Google Search –
• Mastering WordPress Shortcodes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine – Introduced in WordPress 2.5, short­codes are pow­er­ful but still yet quite unknown WordPress func­tions. Imagine you could just type adsense to dis­play an AdSense ad
• Using WordPress short­code to cre­ate beau­ti­ful down­load box­es – Since short­code was intro­duced in WordPress 2.5 it’s been pos­si­ble to do many cool things. Everything from sim­ple donate but­tons to more advance things. In this arti­cle I will show you a sim­ple but effi­cient way to cre­ate one of those download-boxes that I and many oth­er use on their blogs.
• PHPCamp: learn some­thing new every­day –
• How to: Remove /category/ from your WordPress url – Ever want­ed to be able to final­ly remove the use­less /category/ from your WordPress cat­e­gories perma­links? If yes, read on and get ready to hack your .htac­cess file!
• 30 Free Vector Twitter Buttons | Siah Design – A while back I did a blog post with sev­er­al free “Follow Me On Twitter” but­tons avail­able. I took time the make up a cou­ple more and make the down­load avail­able as a vec­tor down­load. Once again, hav­ing a twit­ter button/icon or a “Follow Me On Twitter” but­ton can real­ly draw more atten­tion to your feed and in turn gath­er more fol­low­ers.

  Feel free to cus­tomize the but­tons for your twit­ter username!

  Here are the but­tons that will be includ­ed in the EPS file:

  twit­ter buttons

• 50 Pro Logo Designers to Follow on Twitter | Siah Design – A list of over 50 pro­fes­sion­al active logo design­ers for you to fol­low on twitter.
• free hr image replace­ment images | Siah Design – free hr image replace­ment images png.
• A Better Calling Card: Twitter Challenges Facebook Connect – ReadWriteWeb – In the old days, self-important peo­ple use to car­ry call­ing cards. Now we have Twitter, Facebook and oth­er social media sites to turn us all into mini-celebrities. So what’s the new call­ing card online? That posi­tion’s being jock­eyed for as we speak, and dif­fer­ent con­tenders are tak­ing very dif­fer­ent approaches.