Image Decoration and Optimization Tutorial in WordPress

November 30th, 2009 Posted in Blogging, How-To by Ayaz Malik

WordPress is used widely for showing images and photo contents, such as designs, illustrations, inspirational images, and more.  Because of this, it is critical not to neglect the possible decoration and optimization that you can apply to images.

This can help draw the attention of users, and can also bring traffic from search engines.  It can also save you valuable bandwidth, improve  your website performance, and make for an overall more appealing website.

So, let’s look at some ways to apply decoration, and how to optimize your images.

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40 Top Ranked Flash Websites Showcase

November 25th, 2009 Posted in Inspiration by Daud

Many top brands use Flash and ActionScript to give their websites a more dynamic edge, and to engage the user. While Flash does have some drawbacks, it can also be used to achieve some really awesome effects. In this showcase of the latest and greatest Flash-based websites, we’ll show off 40 Top Ranked Flash Websites from FWA (http://www.thefwa.com/).

These websites demonstrate the true power of Flash and some really unique and creative ways that it can be used.  Hopefully these Flash websites inspire you to use Flash for your own projects, because it really is a powerful technology.  Let us know what you think about Flash and show us what projects you’ve used it on in the comments!

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29 Incredible Black and White Photographs of Cityscapes

November 24th, 2009 Posted in Inspiration by Tom Cohn

Cities look amazing in black and white. A lack of color adds definition to cityscapes, making the straight lines of roads and skyscrapers appear crisp and distinct. Black and white photography does more than simply mirror the greyness of the urban jungle landscape, it brings urban morphology and architecture into clear focus, while capturing the sense of isolation one can feel in a city, even when surrounded by thousands, even millions of people.

Below you’ll find 29 stunning black and white photographs taken in cities around the world, from Paris to New York, London and Tokyo. These fantastic images capture the world’s major cities as you’ve never seen them before. Hopefully they’ll inspire your own creative endeavors!

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24 Free Professional WordPress Photo Gallery Themes

November 23rd, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Freebies by Eric Shafer

WordPress is an incredibly easy to use content management system.  It is also very versatile, able to function as a blog, e-commerce site, or photo gallery.  Many photographers have elected to use WordPress to host their photo gallery sites, and with good reason.  However, finding a quality free theme for a WordPress photography site is a bit more challenging, as many of the themes provide either mediocre functionality, or are visually unappealing.  That’s why we made this post, to make your lives easier.  In this post, you’ll find 24 free, professional looking, premium-like, functional themes for WordPress photography blogs.  Simply click the thumbnail, and you’ll be taken to the download page for that theme, and you’ll be up and running in a flash.  Did we miss a theme?  Let us know in the comments so we can add it to the list!

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CreativeFan Official Launch

November 23rd, 2009 Posted in Articles by Eric Shafer

Greetings everyone!  I’m very proud to announce the launch of CreativeFan, a network of websites aimed at creatively oriented people.  Whether you’re a designer, developer, artist, musician, filmmaker, photographer, or just an appreciator, CreativeFan will be bringing you useful tools, tutorials, resources, articles and inspiration to keep you going.

The first site in the CreativeFan network is our main site, which you are currently viewing.  This site will bring you articles and roundups full of useful ideas and resources.  We’ll be updating often, so you won’t ever be without a new dose of awesomeness.  If you’re a blogger, we also have a community link feed that you can submit your articles to, located on the sidebar.  If you’re an author or you want to contribute to the site, please check out our Write For Us page. Lastly, if you’re an advertiser, please consider supporting creativity and promoting your brand to our excellent audience, and check out our available advertisement spots.

We’re working on launching other sites as well.  The next site that we’ll be launching is a design tutorials site.  Instead of focusing on only Photoshop, we figured it would be better to just have a solid topic, and allow authors to use a variety of software in their work, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Cinema4D, Xara, and more.  We’ll be launching that site soon, so stay tuned.

We recognize that we’re a new and growing network.  Therefore, we need your input on pretty much everything in order to know how to best meet your individual needs.  Although we rigorously tested the site before launch, we recognize that new sites occasionally have functionality issues.  If you find any, please let us know, and please leave your thoughts on our posts in the comments section, or if you’d like to contact us directly, please check out our contact form.

On behalf of everyone here at CreativeFan, welcome to our community!

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