As you probably know by now (or not?) I’m WordPress Theme Developer so I must follow a lot of links to get my job accomplished on time. If I intend to create top quality themes that exceed ones provided by my competitors I must get somewhat inspired so I’ve decided to share some of my top inspirational links that really help me accomplish my tasks and satisfy my customers as well as users in general:
1. Smashing Magazine – http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
- Design Inspiration
- Freebies
- Tutorials
2. Google Almighty – http://www.google.com/
- Troubleshooting
- Ranking Competitors
- Having fun!
3. Google Insights – http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
- Exploring them WP theme market
- Looking for best search terms to name your theme/blog
- Searching for currently ‘hot’ WP terms
4. Hosted Screencasts – http://screenr.com/
- Creating vibrant tutorials
5. Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/
- Top Quality Images
- Design Inspiration
6. WuFoo Forms – http://wufoo.com/
- Best Hosted Forms Solution
- Top Quality Forms
- Free for Basic Use
7. LogoPond – Identity Inspiration – http://logopond.com/
- Best Logo Inspiration Ever
- Top Quality Logos and Designers
- Best Place to Find Affordable, yet Quality Logo Ninja
8. PatternTap – http://patterntap.com/
- Best Designed Web Patterns
- UI – Interface Design Inspiration
- If you copy other peoples work than make sure you copy from the best, heh.
9. Thesis Theme – http://diythemes.com/
- Top Selling WP Theme
- WP Theme with Best SEO
- Best Theme Functionality Inspiration
10. WordPress Org – http://wordpress.org/
- Theme WP Core Updates
- WP Documentation
- WP Future Development
SuperMario290
15 years ago
Wow, awesome list! I’m really diggin screenr and logopond! 😀
Željan Topić
15 years ago
Screener is really cool but I hope they incorporate some basic features competitors have – I currently use it as ‘beta’ tool.