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The most popular CMS out there, WordPress has a ton of great features; probably the best of which is its extensibility.

Taking advantage of that Lizatom Shortcodes provides literally thousands of shortcodes and countless shortcode combinations, to give you a simple, easy to implement solution for improving your site’s design.

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Web designers have a wealth of tools available to them, for doing everything from organizing their thoughts about a particular design to debugging the final design.

But with so many tools out there, how do you ever determine which ones are really useful and which ones are just going to waste your time?

We’ve compiled a massive list of some of the best and most useful tools out there for web designers.

Purposely left off the list are common tools most designers are likely already using (like Dreamweaver or Panic’s Coda, Photoshop or GIMP, and similar common...

Unless you’re a one person web shop with no team to collaborate with, you’ve experienced the frustration that goes along with file sharing. No matter how hard you try, when multiple people are working on a single project without a version control system in place things get chaotic.

If you work with developers on the buildout and implementation of websites, the merge between front-end templates and back-end functionality can be a scary black hole.

Issues like overwrites, lost files, and the all-too-common “working off a previous version” phenomenon crop up constantly. And once back-end functionality has been put into your templates, you become terrified to touch them for fear of breaking something a developer spent a great deal of time getting...

As a webdesigner (and technologically savvy user of the Internet), there is no excuse for you not to be using Firefox as your primary web browser.  If you aren’t using Firefox yet, you need to go and download it right now.  Not only does Firefox provide a top of the line Internet browsing experience, but it also provides an endless amount of functionality that you simply won’t find in any other Internet browser.

Because third parties can develop add-ons for Firefox, by downloading the best add-ons that are available, you can transform Firefox into a tool that dramatically increases your productivity and saves you a countless amount of time.

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Ready to start your own blog or online portfolio? Interested in downloading and incorporating WordPress into it? Or maybe you need to spruce up your current site?  Well here are 10 essential WordPress plugins to get your blog started today.

Maintaining a blog requires some work, but with WordPress plugin capabilities it has become a lot more convenient and less time consuming.

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