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Movable Type tutorials and resourcesNovember 7 2008

There are numerous blogging platform out there like wordpress, mephisto, expression engine etc. Movable Type is one of that category blogging platform initially developed by Six Apart the project is now opensource (GNU General Public License) . The main features of this blogging platform are multiple blogs, static as well as dynamic publishing features, user role management, customizable templates, categories and sub categories. The static publishing features of Movable type makes it easy to use as content management system for other types of website apart from blogs. It requires both perl and php platform for full features compatibility. As for database it supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQlite.

Official Resources

Official Forums

Official Wiki

Documentation for latest versions

Guides

Movable Type 4 installation step by step with screenshots

Here is a clear and easy to follow movable type (version 4) installation guide with screenshots

Designer's Guide to Movable Type

Movable Type Developer Guide

Movable Type Administrator's Guide

Collating and displaying content from multiple sources using Movable Type

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Pixelart - Pixel Patterns and fonts resourcesMay 27 2008

Pixel art patterns are new trend in digital art. It can add detail to otherwise plain art. So we collected resources that will get you going. Resources include patterns and pixel fonts that you can use in your artworks.

(1) Squidfingers Patterns

A gallery of 158 quality pixel art patterns that can used for making numerous artworks even in webdesign.

(2) k10k Pixel Patterns

Gallery containing 953 user submitted pixel art patterns

(3) Pattern4U

272 background patterns subdivided into categories like lined, dotted, squares etc.

30+ E-commerce websites for inspirationMay 19 2008

E-commerce websites are more complex than static websites or blogs. Here we have collected 30+ e-commerce websites which are nicely designed and can be source of inspiration for web-designers and developers working on such type of projects.

They can draw some of design ideas from here. Though there is big difference between inspiration and design plagiarism that we highly discourage. Be creative and experimental.

(1) Abercrombie & Fitch

(2) Meomi cloud house

(3) Alienware

(4) Checkout App

Creative png transparency web-design examplesMay 11 2008

Png transparency can be used to add creative effect to web-design. Though there are some accessibility issues with certain browsers (IE Mainly) which can be overcome with use of javascript fix.

Here we have collected 8 creative examples of web-design using png transparency one way or another. If you know any other website please let us know in comments.

Speaklight

Speaklight uses layers of png images to give a glassy look with vibrant colors in background. It uses 3 layers of divs first body background second wrapper or container background and using another background colors and images over that.

Blue Flavour

Bluflavor uses fixed background with content overlay over it. Everthing is designed with detail.

Strawpoll

The green surrounding images is fixed at bottom of pa