After a couple of weeks of letting everyone guess what their new marketplace would sell, Envato finally revealed that it is in fact a premium tutorials marketplace. At first this seems a strange choice, given their existing subscription service with the Tuts+ network, but the new marketplace also includes ebooks and “business tutorials” so it’s sure to have a diverse assortment of items rather than endless photomanipulation tutorials.

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In my role as WordPress superhero, helping the panicking hordes over many sites and forums and under at least 3 different aliases, I encounter newbie WordPress admins with similar problems quite regularly. What may seem obvious to a more experienced user can be very confusing if you’re completely new to this stuff, and not enough people are patient enough to explain things in simple terms. This is a small effort to right that wrong.

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After the success of the new freebies category with the glossy button pack download, I thought it was a good idea to add more. Everyone likes free stuff, right? This time round it’s a WordPress magazine-style theme, originally built to organise a blog that was operating with multiple authors and various regular weekly or bi-weekly features.

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A photographer’s site doesn’t only need to look classy and modern, it also needs a number of features unique to that niche. A complex background, for example, would more often than not just take away from the photos on display, and image sizes will for the most part need to be larger than those on, say, a news site.

WordPress is popular among photographers for it’s easy-to-use interface and sheer abundance of awesome themes, but of course it’s knowing where to look that’s the key. Here are 10 of the best photography themes released in recent months, in no particular order.

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The point of a small corporate website is not really to advertise, it’s not to go out there and grab people by the collar and shout “BUY OUR STUFF!”. Rather, it is to communicate information about your company to the people who are actively looking for it. If I search for “plumber in Paris” I don’t want to see every plumber in a 50 mile radius telling me “we’re the best” “no they’re bad, we’re the best!”. I want clear, concise information on which to base the decision of which companies to approach.

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While the specifics of posting and maintaining your site may vary depending on which theme you choose/build, the basics will always be the same. Here’s a roundup of some useful posts and tutorials, plus a couple of tips of my own, starting from scratch and guiding you through to making your first post.

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