Post Types & Custom Post Types
Post types are available in WordPress for publishing your content like Post and page. While in custom, we can create our own content publishing type.

Lets get some more idea and hands on custom post type with the help of some awesome tutorials.

1. Create a WordPress custom post type

2. WordPress Custom Post Types Guide

3. How to display custom post types on your WordPress blog homepage

4. How To Use Custom Post Types To Organize Online Marketing Campaigns

5. Custom post types in WordPress

6. Using Custom Post Types to Create a Killer Portfolio

7. Custom Types – Codex

8. Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0

9. Create your first WordPress Custom Post Type

How useful is Custom Post Type for you? Share your ideas below!

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Pros:

1. Free Trial Subscription – You can enjoy free subscription for 7 days and download 5 images per day. This means you can enjoy 35 images absolutely free.
2. Pay per Credit – You can pay for the images depending upon its size. Depositphotos follow credit base currency. So can buy an image in exchange of credits.
3. Various Subscription Plans – There are various subscription plans available ranging from 3 days to 12 months.
4. Loads of images – Lots of images are available to choose your favorite one.

Cons:

I searched for keyword ‘color’ on Depositphotos.com and Shutterstock.com and got following result.

Depositphotos.com

Shutterstock.com

Noticed any difference?

Conclusion:

Depositphotos.com is a good place where loads of Royalty free images and vectors are available to choose a best one for yourself at descent price.

Rating:

3.5/5

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1. Halftone Navigation Menu With jQuery & CSS3

2. Editable CSS3 Image Gallery

3. CSS3 Techniques You Should Know

4. Coding a CSS3 & HTML5 One-Page Website Template

5. The Hidden Power of border-radius

6. An Awesome CSS3 Lightbox Gallery With jQuery

7. The New Hotness: Using CSS3 Visual Effects

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14. CSS3-Only Tabbed Area

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Diving into PHP

This is the excellent place to get started with PHP and advance slowly with each screencast. Jeffrey has made these screencast very easy to understand and follow. If you are beginner then start from the first episode or otherwise look for the topic you are interested in.

jQuery for Absolute Beginners

So everywhere you look, you see “jQuery this” and “jQuery that”. For the last year or so, this library has been the darling of the Javascript world. But do you feel that you just can’t seem to learn the dang thing? This daily video series by Jeffrey Way will teach you PRECISELY how to use the jQuery library in your own projects.

Converting a Photoshop Mockup

This is the first screencast by Chris on CSS-Tricks. In this series you will learn to convert PSD mockup website into perfect CSS based website. This is the 3 episode series which will guide you to create awesome CSS website.

Converting a Photoshop Mockup: Part Two

This is the part Two of previous series. In this series also Chris has taught the conversion of photoshop website mockup to HTML/CSS website. You can see the prequel to this series that is creating a photoshop mockup in this screencast Creating the Photoshop Mockup

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CodeIgniter from Scratch

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. This series of 10 video by Jeffrey Way teaches exactly how to use this framework.

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Another series by Chris. But this time you can learn to create Photoshop mockup from scratch, convert it into HTML/CSS website and finally creating the WordPress theme. Yup; 3 days 3 tasks. Go for it!

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So following are the Most Promising Blog of 2009. These are the blogs which provided quality contents all the time. If you are looking for the top articles or posts related to Design/Webdesign then I will recommend you to go through Brian’s 50+ Highest Ranked Posts in 2009 article.

Enjoy the following great blogs and tell us about your favorite one!

1. Smashing Magazine

2. CSS-Tricks

3. Abduzeedo

4. Six Revisions

5. PSDTUTS

6. Web Designer Depot

7. Design Informer

8. Fuel Your Creativity

9. Freelance Folder

10. WP Recipes

11. 1^st Web Designer

12. The Design Cubicle

13. Woork Up

14. Blog.Spoongraphics

15. Web Design Ledger

16. NETTUTS

17. Noupe

18. Line25

19. Digging into WordPress

20. Colorburned

21. InstantShift

Update:

22. Hongkiat

23. DesignM.ag

24. CatsWhoCode

25. Productive Dreams

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Remember that the traffic to your blog strongly depends upon the contents. So if you have excellent contents then submitting it to the following site will definitely make difference.

1. Hacker News

This is the project by Y Combinator, a venture firm specializing in funding early stage startups. Anyone can submit the news here by creating an account. The news can be voted and discussed here. The most active news is moved to front page generating excellent traffic. This is one of the best places to get instant traffic to your blog.

Submit here

2. QBN

This is the Design News & Discussion board by Krop. It has two news sections, Editor’s choice and Public Choice. You can broadcast your post by creating an account here. I got most traffic followed up to this site.

Submit here

3. Design Newz (Moderation Mode)

This is the best site of its kind. It features excellent articles, resources, tutorials, interviews on the design. You can submit your article here. It takes about 24 hours to appear your post.

Submit here

4. Smashing Magazine (Moderation Mode)

The .NET Award winning magazine for Best Blog is also a good choice to put your news. Although it accepts only the best contents of its niche but the traffic generated is really huge.

Submit here

5. PSDTUTS Community Link Feeds (Moderation Mode)

We all know PSDTUTS, the best blog available for the Photoshop tutorials. The good news is that it also accepts the Link Feeds from the users.

Submit here

6. Twitter

You can make use of the huge number of users of the Twitter. Today almost everyone is on Twitter which is good for all of us!

Submit here

7. Facebook

Likewise Twitter you can put your status update in the Facebook also. You can also put the links in the Facebook fanpage of your blog.

Submit here

8. StumbleUpon

You can stumble your post and share it with your friends. While the above sources generate traffic for a limited time but this site sends traffic even after months of publishing the post. So I guess this is the most important advantage of SU.

Submit here

9. Abduzeedo User News

This is also instant traffic generating site. You have to register yourself before submitting the user news.

Submit here

10. DesignM.ag Community News Section (Moderation Mode)

The last but not least is News section of DesignM.ag. I get really amazing traffic from this site.

Submit here

More places to submit your news:

CSS Globe

Delicious

Reddit

Instantshift

Digg

Colorburned

Web Design News

The Web Blend

Design Bump

Design Float

Faqpal

In my blog, I get most traffic from these sites. If you have any other source for this, then please share it with us. We would appreciate it.

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This is really a huge list of tutorials for you. I would recommend to bookmark this post on delicious or stumble it so that you can get back here easily whenever you want.

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2. Freelance Switch
3. Problogger
4. Daily Blog Tips
5. Skelliewag

1. Bittbox
2. Brusheezy
3. Vector Vault
4. QBrushes
5. Brush King
6. Function
7. GoMediaZine

1. Favorite Website Award
2. Abduzeedo
3. Fuel Your Creativity
4. Creattica Daily
5. CSS Gallery

1. Smashingmagazine
2. Naldz Graphics
3. Colorburned
4. Instant Shift
5. Noupe
6. Vandelay Design
7. DesignM.ag
8. Hongkiat
9. AndySowards

1. PSDTUTS
2. Tutorial9
3. PSDFan
4. PSD Vault
5. 10Steps

1. Vectips
2. VECTORTUTS
3. Fuel Your Illustration
4. Blog.SpoonGraphics
5. Learn Ai
6. N.Design Studio

1. NETTUTS
2. CSS-Tricks
3. In the Woods
4. Line25
5. Web Designer Depot
6. Sohtanka
7. CSS Globe
8. Woorkup

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PHP is the most widely-used language for programming on the web. Here are thirty best practices for beginners wanting to gain a firmer grasp of the fundamentals.

2. PHP for Beginners: Building Your First Simple CMS

It’s safe to say that nearly every website that’s up-to-date these days is using some form of content management system (CMS). While there are a ton of great free options that provide us with a CMS to power a website (WordPress, Drupal, etc.), it doesn’t hurt to peek under the hood and get a feel for how these systems work.

3. Simple Layouts with PHP

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4. Getting Clean With PHP

Data security is important and often undervalued by designers, developers, and clients alike. Since PHP 5.2.0, data sanitization and validation has been made significantly easier with the introduction of data filtering. Today, we’re going to take a closer look at these filters, how to use them, and build a few custom functions.

5. Organize Your Next PHP Project the Right Way

When starting out with PHP, it can be daunting figuring out how best to organize a project. If you’ve ever been confused with where to put your images, external libraries, or keeping your logic separate from your layout, then check out these tips; they’ll get you heading in the right direction.

6. 3 Ways to Speed up Your Site with PHP

These days, with broadband connections the norm, we don’t need to worry as much about internet speeds or the filesize of our pages. However, that’s not to say that we still shouldn’t do so. If you wish to reduce the load times on your server, decrease the number of HTTP requests, and go that extra bit for your visitors, there are a few techniques that you can use. This tutorial covers a number of PHP tricks, including caching and compression.

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8. Sending Nice HTML Email with PHP

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10. Supercharge Your CSS with PHP Under the Hood

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In this tutorial, we are going to be creating a user signup form that adds a user to a database, and then sends out a confirmation email that the user must click on before their account will be activated.

13. PHP Security: Fortifying Your Website- Power Tips, Tools & How to’s

PHP is the most popular web programming languages in use today due in large part to the fact that it’s a highly flexible syntax that can perform many functions while working flawlessly in conjunction with html – Plus it’s relatively easy to learn for beginners, yet it’s powerful enough for advanced users as well. It also works exceptionally well with open source tools, such as the Apache web server and MySQL database.

14. Getting Started with PHP Regular Expressions

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15. Working with Sessions and Cookies in PHP and MySQL

Security is an essential component for any site to be successful. However, adding security can increase overhead and annoy your users if not done properly. In this tutorial, I will discuss common problems that are encountered when using sessions and cookies.

16. 10 Advanced PHP Tips Revisited

Here, on the Smashing Editorial team, we always try to meet the expectations of our readers. We do our best to avoid misunderstandings, and we try to spread knowedge and present only the best design practices and development techniques. However, sometimes we do make mistakes. And when we do, we apologize and do our best to correct what we’ve done.

17. Discussing PHP Frameworks: What, When, Why and Which?

PHP is the world’s most popular scripting language for many different reasons – flexibility, ease-of-use, among others – but often times coding in PHP, or any language for that matter, can get rather monotonous and repetitive. That’s where a PHP framework can help.

18. Rotate Product Listing with PHP and jQuery

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19. Creating a Crypter Class with PHP

In this article I will explain how to create a PHP Class that will encrypt and decrypt any data with a given password. It is object programmed and uses existing PHP algorithms.

20. The Definitive Guide to htaccess Techniques: Do’s and Don’ts

Of all the elements of web design and coding, htaccess can be one of the most intimidating. After all, it’s an incredibly powerful tool and one that has the potential to completely break your site if you’re not careful.

21. 10+ Mod_Rewrite Rules You Should Know

Mod_rewrite is an Apache-based rewrite engine for dynamically rewriting URLs. It’s built into Apache servers natively, though not enabled by default.

It’s capable of functions beyond simple rewrites, though, some of which are included below.

Videos

22. Diving into PHP: Video Series

Today marks the beginning of a brand new series that will show you EXACTLY how to get started with PHP. Just as with the “jQuery for Absolute Beginners” series, we’ll start from scratch and slowly work our way up to some more advanced topics. I hope you enjoy it. As always – feel free to make requests via the comments form.

23. Write Your First PHP Script

KillerPHP has compiled a simple, informative screencast on how to create a tidy little “Hello world” PHP script. Great for novices and those wanting to brush up on their PHP practices.

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