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Performance optimization is a key element of every website development and often is not considered in the process of designing and theming. We have put together several tips which can help you to improve your site's performance from the Drupal's front-end perspective. I hope you will find these tips useful.

Use YSlow to identify problems

As on most of our projects we use YSlow as a tool for front-end performance testing and optimization. It helps us to identify problems and suggest a way to improve performance based on the set of rules for high performance websites.

Each month our designer Jaro Mlkvy @jaro_mlkvy - designs wallpaper calendars, some of them get showcased in the @smashingmag wallpaper posts and some of them even got to the 2010 wallpaper calendars top list by Smashing Magazine. In this quick Adobe Photoshop tutorial he will show how he made this awesome wallpaper calendar with a 3D type effect. Enjoy! Final preview:

Whether you are learning Photoshop and you are looking for resources or you are a Photoshop guru looking for an inspiration, tutorials are one of the best ways to lear new stuff and get inspired. In this post I present 24 high quality sources that bring top class Adobe Photoshop tutorials for designing website layout. Add them to your RSS reader, so you would not miss any of these great tutorials.

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PSD.TUTSPLUS.COM

Drupal is one of the most powerful open source content management system, voted by community and professionals as the best Open Source CMS in last two years. I have built many websites with Drupal, and found it a great solution for almost all kind of websites from simple blog to large corporate presentations. If you don't know Drupal, or want to know more about it, watch the great Drupal song and take a look at the About section of drupal.org

Wordpress is probably the most used blogging CMS in the whole universe. Starting a blog on Wordpress is very easy and the amount and variety of great Wordpress tutorials is really helpfull to everyone interested in blogging . I found Wordpress really easy to use and almost-perfect solution for my webdesign blog and many of these tutorials helped me to build my blog succesfully in a very short time. Enjoy!