One of the major benefits of using WordPress is the large, active community of users. You can find just about anything you need by doing a search. Chances are, someone else has already provided answers to your question on a website, blog, or forum. In this post we'll feature 15 blogs that produce excellent content that is highly relevant to WordPress theme designers. If you do a lot of work with WordPress, either for your own site or for clients, ...

Our friends at UPrinting have offered to give 500 free die cut business cards each to five readers of DesignM.ag! If you've been wanting to impress potential clients with some high-quality business cards, this is your chance to get them for free.

The new O.S. Windows 7 has improved aesthetics to make the user interface at least more appealing. There are huge ultra detailed icons for folders, devices and so on. This time we will use Illustrator CS4 to create a nice briefcase with the Windows 7 style. You need only a few basics on how to copy, paste, rotate, scale and color the shapes. Let’s focus on business. Step 1: Start selecting the Rounded Rectangle Tool (fig. A) and make a ...

Almost every website uses a form of some kind. Contact forms and other types of forms can be enhanced with the use of a number of jQuery plugins that are readily available. In this post we'll feature 25 useful plugins that you may be able to use in your own work with forms. jqTranform jqTransform will make it easy to give your forms a more attractive look as compared to the default form.

Today we have a great new set of vintage wallpaper textures from Caleb Kimbrough. The set includes 8 textures (4 are shown below). You can get any of them individually from the Flickr set, or you can download the whole set at the end of the post. These textures may be used for personal or commercial projects with no attribution needed, although links are always appreciated. They cannot be re-distributed or sold.