Archive for the ‘General’ Category

I've collected a few twitter accounts together that retweet certain #hashtags that you apply to your tweets, id reccomend adding one or two to the end of your tweets of the related subject.

You may or may not know I’ve been working on a little side project and now its ready to be launched so here it is Texture Lovers, and a little bit about it...

The new project is actually almost finished and ready to be released its sort of like a directory for textures from around the web but only for free textures that can be used for commercial and personal use without giving attribution, but i need your help!

Felix from RichWP has agreed to give you all a special treat he has activated a discount code specially for Design Shard readers to get 15% off any of his themes till 30th of April 2009 just use discount code designshard, you can also win 6 of his themes!

I closed the competition on Saturday to allow for any more entries, There has been a great response to this theme both about the design and the admin features, so the guys over at Obox / from the couch can be really proud of them selves.

Hash One is the first theme to come out of the Obox Signature Series. This theme is aimed at those who want their personal blog to stand out well above the rest with a unique design which has a subtle, stylish impact on your visitors.

Please excuse the title, Wings can be one of the hardest things to draw other than the human figure, well Gomedia have been very busy and only yesterday released one part of set 14, these had to be hand drawn wing vectors!

Are you thinking about changing your hosting company because i have, and its great, the value and support is mind blowing. I’ve recently changed my hosting from Godaddy to WP WebHost, and its going great.

The random number generator has spoken, and we have our 3 winners for the competion kindly sponsored by U-Printing print company. Congrats to the winners and hopefully youll beable to make good use of your prize.

U-printing is a trusted online printing service for products such as postcards, canvas prints, business cards and many more product ranges. They also have a great give away for the readers of design shard too.

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