Are you a fan of WordPress? Us, too! We came across the We Love WP site and quite enjoyed frolicking around in their gallery of sites built using WordPress. The nicest thing is that to qualify for inclusion, a site has to be custom-designed or a drastically-altered pre-built theme, so you get a nice variety of sites instead of a zillion blog-looking sites that are all nearly identical. You can even submit your own WordPress sites for inclusion in the gallery. All in all, a very cool site to check out.

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Mashable has put together a list of 10 must-follow web design bloggers. The list incorporates blogs that focus on tutorials or creative techniques, CSS tricks of the trade, logos and typography and a lot of other topics of interest to designers of all stripes.

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As designers in general, and web designers in particular, most of us have run into the age-old, “Oh, my God! You charge THAT MUCH to design a web site?”  It’s sad, but still the case that many clients are still unaware of the skill and time that goes into designing and building an effective web site.

Grace Smith has written a great post on why good design costs more than dinner at a so-so restaurant.

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If you ever thought that WordPress was only good for blog sites, this article will make you think again. WordPress is a robust and flexible system that has evolved into more than blog software, but a full-featured content management system capable of handling web sites of many different types, sizes and styles.

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A good article on fundamental strategies to build better, more relevant web sites, from research to design, testing and modification.

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Check out this collection of 12 great tutorials on the ins and outs of building a WordPress theme from scratch.

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Wrangling with CSS can be a challenge at times, depending how technically-inclined a designer you are. Never fear, there are lots of great tools to help you make quick work of designing a CSS-based site.

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HTML Kit provides a quick and easy way to create a custom favicon for your web site. Just select a photo and it gives you the option to customize the icon on the fly. Or, for an even quicker way to create your favicon, enter your Twitter account URL and your icon will be created from your Twitter userpic. Sweet!

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Web Designer Wall is a beautifully-designed site that includes tutorials on WordPress, Photoshop and other topics of interest to web designers.

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The definitive resource list for designing, developing, marketing & maintaining websites. You want it, they’ve got it. Great resource for web designers and developers.

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