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If you design website themes for clients and know how much effort it can be to start from scratch, you might be interested in WordPress frameworks. You’re probably already familiar with WordPress, a versatile, low-end CMS (Content Management System) which is often used for weblogs and a variety of types of websites as well. But are you familiar with WordPress Frameworks, which can reduce your website design time significantly by giving you a functional or near-functional WordPress theme to start with?

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You may have noticed a new addition to the sites detail page on Most Inspired — “Most Used Colors”.

Each site that is showcased in the Most Inspired gallery now shows the 10 most used colors.

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Writing articles and tutorials is a great way to share your knowledge and experience. Even if you have a blog of your own to post on, it can be rewarding to submit articles to popular design blogs and sites.

Some sites will pay you for your writing, whilst others will include links in the article back to your website, which can bring exposure and help with your search engine ranking.

I’ve complied a list of 35 popular web sites that accept submissions of quality content. Get writing…

Most Inspired

Anyone with something interesting and relevant to say is welcome to submit an article, yes that includes you, even if you just getting started or you’ve been at this for years.

Yes you can see your articles right here on Most Inspired. We’re looking for anything web design or development related.

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In honor of Presidents Day I thought I’d put together a small showcase of websites of heads of government from around the world.

I was surprised that many of the websites did not display the current incumbent a little more prominently. Perhaps the hope was that people would know the incumbent well enough already, perhaps that would true for their own country, but lets not forget the rest of the world.

United States

Incumbent: Barack Obama

The website for President Obama is very big upgrade from that of his predecessor, not a surprise really considering how the president made use of the Internet during his election campaign.

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For a web designer or developer getting credit for your work is hard. At a design studio or agency you might get a link at the bottom of a website you designed or develop linking to your web site. As a freelancer you probably won’t even get that. Even then a general link back to the organization won’t tell you the exact people involved in designing and building the website.

The television, movie and the music industries do a great job of giving credit to everyone who worked on the project. Plenty of time at the end of a movie or television show is dedicated to rolling credits for anyone involved in their production. Music CD inlays provide a similar roll call of people involved in the creation of what you’ve just listened too.

Sites like the Internet Movie Database have been furthering the access to such information, making those credits available online for everyone to browse or search. Until recently there was nothing comparable for people involved in web design and development.

The three sites below are aimed at getting you credit for your work.

I Worked On

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Looking over this weeks submissions I saw a number of great designs using lots of blue, like really a lot of them.

Below you’ll find my selection of 15 great designs that use blue as the main color.

climaxmedia.com

climaxmedia.com

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With unemployment currently sky high, competition for jobs is tougher than ever. Anywhere from 10 to 10,000 people can apply for the most hotly contested places. Your resume is the greatest marketing tool you’ve got at your disposal. If you’re going to stand out from the crowd and get that all-important interview, you need to make sure that your resume’s saying the right things about you.

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Searching for inspiration for a new website design I’m working on I went looking for designs with big bold typography in a light on dark color scheme. I found the following 13 designs that I’d like to share, hope you like them.

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Even if you only designed the website for your client, chances are you’ll still get a call if the site goes down. There are a number monitoring services that can help you or your client get a jump on the situation, alerting you if the website is unreachable. But what then, you know the website is down, but why and how can you get it back up and running as fast as possible.

After the jump you’ll find a list of the common reasons that a website might be or appear to be down.

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Everyone knows the old adage “You can’t judge a book by its cover”, but we don’t seem so lenient with blogs or other websites.

In some cases we often a judge a website before we’ve even seen it.

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