There are an amazing amount of Wordpress plugins to choose from (over 3000!), some of them are great, some of them leave a lot to be desired. Here’s a list of 10 wordpress plugins that have proved their worth and are definitely worth a look!

Instead of trying to constantly impress users with snazzy graphics and smooth flash movies lets go back to the basics and think about the what they like and what they hate. You may think your site is usable, good-looking, easily navigable and fast… but do your users agree?

So, here are seven things you can do to make sure your users stay for more than five seconds:

Lots of "blogs" nowadays have one of those "top links from this month" kind of post every so often. To be honest, I rarely find these posts very useful; most of them seem rushed and contain pretty average links to pretty average content.

So, in rebellion of the above status quo I have put together an awesome list of all the articles which I feel will be useful to the great majority of people who read this. I won’t be doing this regularely - that’s why there are so many. Some of them are very techie, some of them are inspirational, some of them are preaching usability, some of them are just for beginners and some of them are quite old (but still relevant)… Regardless of what type of web developer/designer you are I think there is a mixed enough blend of content linked to, to keep you satisfied.

There are a certain number of stock JavaScript functions which I tend to use on most projects. Normally I’ll create a function if a task needs to be carried out quite a few times. So, here we have a newElement function, a style function and a toggleVisibility function. It’s pretty obvious what each of them do…

I thought I’d share my favourite (and what I believe are the most useful) jQuery plugins out there. There are tonnes of plugins available though, so if you’re looking for something particular then check out Google and the offical jQuery plugins website. If you want to have a go at building your own jQuery plugin then check out this guide ("Developing a jQuery plugin") written by Jonathan Snook.

I have scoured every inch of the net to find the 6 most useful resources for those web developers who are not quite worth their salt yet… Ok, well actually I just picked these out of my bookmarks and wrote a little description for each! Enjoy!