By the end of 2000, many European and American business companies offered their services through the internet. Since then people began to associate the word, “e-commerce” with the ability of purchasing various goods through the internet using secure protocols and electronic payment services. The biggest e-commerce sites are such sites like Amazon and eBay, but today we’ll be taking a look at some of the best e-commerce designs on the net.

Martique

Serene Order

Nike Store

Cellar Thief

Unformal Wear

Hunter’s Wineshop

Heartbreaker

Adorn

Candy Direct

Tropikalny Ogród

Better Closet

Perfume Point

4-rth

Equip Your Trip

Under Armour

Code Canyon

Hello Themes

Bonjour Mon Coussin

Galante

Bridge55

Dripping in Fat

Free People

Perfect Order

Doorstep Dairy

This is Nation

Caribou Coffee

Chocomize

Novica

Design by Humans

Sena

Social

Wpvote.com

A Digg style bookmarking site focusing purely on WordPress related articles and resources. They have naturally used WordPress as the site’s content and member management system.

Exectweets.com

ExecTweets aggregates the tweets of top business execs and IT pros for you to find and follow

Tweetmydesign.com

Submit your web design related website, article, resource etc for and the site will tweet it to its followers for you (if they think it is worthy)

Wordtaps.com

A web design and development social bookmarking site using WordPress to power its CMS

Ecommerce

Soapandglory.com

A fun and irreverent tone supports their brand values perfectly and their use of WordPress is top notch!

Mojo-themes.com

A premium WordPress developer they have used WordPress as the framework from which to sell their work

Icondock.com

The click and drag basket is worth a visit alone. This is one of the best in its class.

Mailbakery.com

Send you PSD files and get back a working HTML Email/ newsletter to send to your contact list. Granted, the ecommerce function is not fully integrated in the site, but it sure looks good!

Thetypefac.es

One for the fan boys, buy playing cards with images of famous web designers on them.

Resources

Webdosanddonts.com

Short, punchy and to the point web design and development “do’s and don’ts”

Cssgallerysubmission.com

Submit your website to dozens of galleries and showcases quickly and easily

360floridakeys.com

360 degree pictures of the Florida Keys, both underwater and on land.

Parttimepost.com

An incredibly attractive website, this Malaysian part-time job board twists excerpts in the stub description, and blog posts in full job descriptions.

Searchinsidevideo.com

An example of a one page site combined with slick animation. You will probably check the page source before you believe it is using WordPress.

CMS

Appletonestate.com

Appleton Estate Rum’s corporate website built using a mixture of flash and WordPress amongst other things. One of those sites you need to double check the source code a few times to be sure it is using WordPress. Perfect!

8tracks.jp

A Japanese band’s website, offering free MP3 downloads and information about the band. Its an amazing design and shows how less can be more!

101holidays.co.uk

101 holiday destinations chosen by two of the UK’s leading travel writers David Wickers and Mark Hodson. It also comes in ’short breaks’, ‘honeymoon’ and ‘family holiday’ flavours.

Clouds365.com

Since Beginning July 1, 2009, artist Kelly DeLay has shot an image or video of clouds every day with the aim of doing it for 365 days. Here are the results.

Themanyfacesof.com

I’m unsure how to describe this site, it’s probably better just to visit it to be honest.

Portfolio

Svenprim.com

Glossy and beautiful high-res photography, this is a fantastic showcase for this amazing work.

Lindseybreeden.com

Lindsey incorporates a unique way of displaying the sidebar within an oversized iPhone

Mcjdj.com

This is another example of how using just one page combined with creative navigation can create a unique site.

I2g.com.br

Striking colours and a smooth left to right swiping navigation effect all held on one super wide page.

Serj.ca

Striking graphic on the home page with nice clean and clear navigation, plus you wouldn’t know it is WordPress if you didn’t look at the source file.

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1. WpRecipes.com

Wprecipes.com has a huge collection of wordpress tips and is updated frequently. It gives a lot of advice to help you customize and hack your existing theme to its full potential.

2.Themeshaper.com

Themeshaper.com is a great resource for everything about WordPress Themes. They have a great collection of themes to download, and offer great advice on crating your own WordPress theme.

3.Net.tutsplus.com

With the Tutsplus Network, they have a section dedicated to WordPress Tutorials. As always, Envato and the Tutplus.com network always offer innovative and unique tutorials that will make it easy to make your WordPress blog that much better.

4.Themeplayground.com

Themeplayground also offers a great collection of articles that help you design your own WordPress themes, and also offer some wordpress themes.

5.Problogdesign.com

Problogdesign is your destination for the best tips on writing the best articles for your blog, and optimizing your blog with SEO implementations. They have a whole category dedicated to WordPress articles.

6.Hongkiat.com

Hongkiat offers a lot of WordPress tutorial articles,  and showcases many amazing wordpress themes to download.

7.Lorelle.wordpress.com

Lorelle.wordpress.com has an archives of thousands of insightful blogging tips on WordPress. Although not updated frequently, this is still great source of information on WordPress tutorials.

8.Wp-tutorials.org

Wp-tutorials.org, as implied by the name is an rss aggregator on the latest wordpress tutorials and tips from various blogs.

9.Themelab.com

Themelab is a great wordpress design blog, that offers its premium wordpress themes, and also has a tutorial section that will definitely be informational and helpful to readers.

10.WordPress.tv

This is WordPress’ official site, which offers wordpress tutorials in a video format, for those who like viewing than reading info.

11.Wpdesigner.com

Wpdesigner.com is a great resource for those who want to design their own WordPress theme. Here is an example of one of their most helpful posts for me when I wanted to experience designing my own WordPress theme.

12.iThemes.com

iThemes.com offers a variety of interesting wordpress themes you might find of interest. They have a Tutorial Section I was really interested in here.

13.Webdesignerwall.com

Webdesignwall.com is primarily a blog about webdesign, but they also have a useful area about WordPress.

14.Speckyboy.com

Speckyboy is a design magazine that has a section dedicated to WordPress also. Some of the tutorials are very useful in finding a great wordpress theme.

15.DigWp.com

Digwp is an active blog dedicated to wordpress, and created by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr really give some great tips on customizing your blog.

16.Bloggingpro.com

Bloggingpro is your site to find useful articles on blogging effectively, with tips to help communicate your message more effectively.

17.Instantshift.com

Instanshift is another huge and active blog that has a section with great articles on WordPress.

18.Smashingmagazine.com

SmashingMagazine is one of my favorite place to find quality themes , and also checking out their Smashing Netowrk on the latest WordPress articles they have to offer.

19.Noupe.com

Noupe shows us unique ways to take full advantage of the robust WordPress platform, with articles showing us how to fully utilize WordPress more as a CMS then a blogging platform.

20.Wpengineer.com

WpEngineer is a developer’s resource with WordPress Tutorials that help Theme Develops and coders to implement more features into their themes. This is a whole blog dedicated to WordPress, not just a section, so you can be sure to find articles that will help you on everything for adding a metabox, to optimizing your coding.

That is it for today, and I hope you found that these WordPress tutorial blogs were helpful to you, by finding a new theme, finding a way to hack  your own, or finally taking that extra step to develop your first WordPress plugin or Theme.

Magazine style themes are popular in design blogging niche. I’m looking for new theme to redesign WebDesignFan and I decided to share with you my favorite Magazine style WordPress themes. Hope that you’ll find this collection useful.

WooiTuts / $30 / Demo

WooiTuts is an advanced WordPress theme for all of those ever wanted to create a cool Community site, like an Tutorial blog, Tech blog or whatever type of blog you want to setup you can do it with WooiTuts.

Marketplace / $27 / Demo

Marketplace is a both clean and stylish WordPress theme with the intent and focus on creating a community site for industry news, tutorials, etc. This theme includes many popular built in features seen in today’s industry leading community sites.

SilverOak / $27 / Demo

SilverOak is a very easy to customize theme targeted at personal blogs/portfolio websites. It has dropdowns for both categories and pages and a nice featured showcase slider.

InVogue / $27 / Demo

InVogue is a versatile WordPress theme that can be used as a blog or as a portfolio. It comes with a theme options panel that lets you set a color style for your blog/site, assign a logo, use categories or pages as your main navigation.

Aperturious / $27 / Demo

Aperturious is a flexible, highly-configurable, gorgeous WordPress theme with the ability to choose between 3 unique designs and 3 different layouts.

LetterPress / $27 / Demo

LetterPress is highly customizable WordPress Theme with CMS Features which can be either used as Blog / Portfolio or full blown Multi-author Magazine / Newspaper / Community site able to handle loads of content.

Majalah / $27 / Demo

MAJALAH is magazine style WordPress theme with clean and modern layout, and also can be switched as community theme. There are 2 Slideshow options in MAJALAH theme, 3D slideshow and Javascript slideshow that easily configurable from admin theme options.

Network WP / $32 / Demo

Network WP is a wordpress template inspired by big TV network sites. It is packed full of features including featured slider, image resizing to fit in with the template, social bookmarking and much more.

Future Blogger / $27 / Demo

Clean and simple theme for professionals. Great theme with cool features: detects images in posts automatically, featured posts widget, integrated wp-pagenavi and related posts, breadcrumbs on all pages and much more.

eQuator / $32 / Demo

This theme is specially designed and developed for anyone who wants to start blogging, community site or personal blog. This theme has all the popular and common features which used by the current trend community websites.

My WordPress / $27 / Demo

My WordPress is a professional WordPress theme with the intent and focus on creating a community site. It is widget ready, print ready, page-navi ready, ad optimization ready, SEO friendly, smooth tabbing and dropdown using jquery and much more.

Sparta / $22 / Demo

Sparta, a simple and ultra-clean WordPress theme. Following the minimal trend in design, Sparta offers a no-nonsense and no-frills approach to theme design, inspired by the Spartans of yore. It’s a differentiated left-aligned two-column layout that makes it really easy to read and navigate.

Gazette / $22 / Demo

A stylish 3 column magazine flavoured WordPress theme with 2 different colour variations. Gazette is SEO optimized and is coded in valid xhtml and CSS and comes with some useful extras including an awesome 3D image slideshow.

If you are a developer you can develop your own plugin to other or use plugins developed by others. If you are web designers and web developers you have to know how to develop wordpress plugin. I just compiled 10 articles.

1. WP Tutorial: Your First WP Plugin

This is a video guide to creating your first WordPress plugin (not more from 5 minutes!).

2. Writing a Plugin

WordPress Plugins is capable to modification, customization, and enhancement easily to a WordPress blog. Instead of changing the core programming of WordPress, you can add the functionality with WordPress Plugins.

3. How to Write a WordPress Plugin – Introduction

Plugins are essential for any WordPress user. WordPress Plugins allow extend the functionality of their blog with just little programming skills.

4. Create a Custom WordPress Plugin From Scratch

This tutorial will describe the implementation of a WordPress plugin which starting from the scratch. The plugin will connect to an external OSCommerce database then display products randomly on your WordPress site.

5. Anatomy of a WordPress Plugin

This tutorial will guide you simple step of building and widgetized WordPress plugin with settings.

6. A Crash-Course in WordPress Plugin Development

Many WordPress users remain unfamiliar with how to create their own custom plugins because an extensive codex. In today’s screencast, we willl start from scratch to build our first usable plugin.

7. WordPress Plugin Development Short Tutorial

WordPress plugin development in a short video tutorial.

8. WordPress Plugin Tutorial – Hello World

Learning to develop a WordPress plugin can be both fun and rewarding. In this tutorial we will find how to make a simple “Hello World” plugin.

9. WorPress Plugin Development with PHP

This is a nice video tutorial on plugin development in PHP language.

10. Releasing and Promoting Your WordPress Plugin

Everyone won’t know your plugin if you not to socialize your plugin. After finished writing your excellent WordPress plugin, there’re a few things to consider before releasing and promoting your WordPress plugin.