Eight Fantastic WordPress 3.0 Themes

Eight Fantastic WordPress 3.0 Themes

Posted Thursday, June 10th, 2010 in Favorites,Featured,WordPress

Now that WordPress 3.0 is officially out, there have been a lot of new WordPress 3.0 themes and theme updates taking advantage of the new features. Custom menu navigation areas, custom post types, etc. I present to you eight of my recent favorites, available from DIYThemes and ThemeForest.net. These are some of the Best WordPress 3.0 Themes out there today.

Design Snack Adds “Like” Buttons to Items and Blog Posts

Design Snack Adds “Like” Buttons to Items and Blog Posts

Posted Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 in Updates

After Facebook announced their new “Like” button API, we immediately went to work and got them integrated into blog posts and item detail pages. You can now “Like” gallery items and blog posts right from Design Snack! The integration was extremely easy, too.

Design Snack: Voting Rules have been Changed

Design Snack: Voting Rules have been Changed

Posted Friday, April 9th, 2010 in Updates

After a slew of unverified members registered and mass-down-voted quite a few sites, we’ve decided to change the way we allow votes to be made on the items on Design Snack. We are no longer going to allow voting for people who have not verified their email addresses.

Winners Announced: Two Premium Gallery-Style WordPress Themes!

Winners Announced: Two Premium Gallery-Style WordPress Themes!

Posted Monday, March 15th, 2010 in Contests

We are excited to announce another great contest exclusive to Design Snack. Our sister site, Theme Snack, providing premium WordPress themes, has given us three(3) developer licenses to give away on Design Snack. These include Foliotastic, a unique and great looking portfolio-style theme; as well as Phototastic, a photo-centric gallery-style theme.

Winners Announced: Design Snack Feedback Contest

Winners Announced: Design Snack Feedback Contest

Posted Monday, March 15th, 2010 in Contests

Design Snack is looking for some great, honest feedback about our features, benefits and our website in general. We really want to focus our efforts in the next update push and want to know what you want to see. To make this request as successful as possible, we’re offering a $15 Apple iTunes (music, movies and apps) gift card to the top 3 comments, suggestions, etc.

The Smashing Book: An In-Depth Review

The Smashing Book: An In-Depth Review

Posted Saturday, February 6th, 2010 in Design,Reviews

Unless you’ve been huddled in a corner for the last few years, you may have stumbled into a little website called Smashing Magazine. All sarcasm aside though, Smashing is one of the most popular and fastest growing websites in the design community. It has become a source of inspiration and education to thousands of designers and developers—beginners and professionals alike.

Our Favorite New Flash-Powered Sites

Our Favorite New Flash-Powered Sites

Posted Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 in Design,Featured

There has been an influx of great Flash-based website submissions coming in lately, and I wanted to take some time to showcase a few of them. Whenever I start to think Flash websites are a dying breed, websites like this come out and force me to think otherwise.

Phototastic: A Premium Photography WordPress Theme

Phototastic: A Premium Photography WordPress Theme

Posted Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 in Design,Favorites,WordPress

ThemeSnack — our sister site — announced the availability of Phototastic, a new premium WordPress theme for photographers, designers, illustrators and any other creative people wanting to show off their work in a highly visual way.  Phototastic’s sleek and modern design allows users to showcase their work on a beautiful, interactive canvas.

Five Brilliant & Beautiful jQuery-Powered Sites

Five Brilliant & Beautiful jQuery-Powered Sites

Posted Thursday, November 19th, 2009 in Design,Favorites

Javascript has been around for many years now. But with the explosive introduction of fantastic new frameworks like jQuery, MooTools and Prototype, there are some amazingly creative designers & developers out there that still find new and exciting ways to use it.

Featured Designer of the Week: Otterball

Featured Designer of the Week: Otterball

Posted Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 in Featured

A member since April 2009, Otterball has built up quite a nice portfolio over the past several months. With a modern but texture-rich style, all of their designs are clean, easy to use, and layered with depth.