We would like to share with you the latest free WordPress themes and website templates, freshly selected during last week.  Also, we picked for all designers out there two special articles  that will help you get even more creative. Enjoy!

• 25 Stunning Free Website Templates
• 75+ Awesome Free and Premium Portfolio Themes for WordPress
• The 2010 Web Design Top Picks and Trends
• When Creative Conflict is A Good Thing

You will often hear your clients asking how they can monetize their website without having to use expensive resources or advanced technical knowledge. To start, you could recommend they take a look at Sitefinity as an integration platform. Customers will immediately notice how Sitefinity’s improved SEO drives traffic to their website that is quickly converted into sales.

Sitefinity is an ASP.NET-based platform for managing different types of websites like commercial platforms, community portals, and intranets. Sitefinity is a flexible CMS that delivers a rich user experience and provides developers the freedom to integrate many third party applications.

At CodeMyIMAGE, we have been asked by a number of web design agencies to build Sitefinity websites. And we would like to share with you some of our experience with Sitefinity and why you might consider it:

1. Sitefinity makes it easy to manage content workflow! If your customer wants to engage more people in updating the company website, like designers or content contributors, Sitefinity is a great choice because it enables users to define the workflow as they envision it.
2. It provides a user-friendly interface for your business clients, who can make any changes they want to their website without having to read technical documentation.
3. Sitefinity will help your clients monetize their website by creating a community for their products and services, through blogs, threaded discussion groups, and polls.
4. It is customizable – it’s very easy to create master pages and themes, or to integrate modules and applications into the Sitefinity CMS.
5. Sitefinity is developed in .NET and works well within the Visual Studio development environment. Also, Sitefinity is a self contained and portable solution that relies on a back end database of the user’s choice, and the .NET framework.

This week, we have selected tutorials and resources to help you get inspired and fuel creativity. Enjoy!

• How to Draw a Trophy Icon in Photoshop
• Collection of Excellent Free Fonts
• Get Inspired with 55 Gorgeous Green Websites
• Create Smooth Rotatable Images with CSS3 and jQuery

MODx is a robust, flexible content management system, sitting alongside other popular CMS platforms such as Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress.  If you are not so familiar with MODx, or not convinced, you’ve come to the right place! In today’s post, our goal is to assist you in your search for the best CMS solution with some compelling arguments that should make MODx a strong contender.

Our team at CodeMyIMAGE has been successfully using MODx for websites’ integration, and that’s because MODx is a highly flexible, open source content management framework, helping users to build the exact structure they want for their websites, and the ability to easily manage content.

What else differentiates MODx from other CMS platforms? Here are some of the features highly recognized by users:

1. MODx websites are optimized for search engines, making it one of the most SEO friendly platforms.
2. Using templates in MODx is very easy, as you can create the content parts with simple tags. Also, existing websites can be quickly converted due to rich template variables and free code snippets.
3. Its flexibility is once again emphasized by unlimited custom content fields – or template variables – and widgets to help you easily create select boxes or pop-up lists.
4. MODx enables users to edit content easily, without having to know HTML or other coding. With QuickEdit front end editing, you can log into the manager, surf your website, and click edit buttons when you want to make changes.
5. MODx can be customized to show different views of the control panel in order for different users to see only what they need to.

This week, we selected the most interesting articles regarding future trends and new technologies in web development.  While HTML5 seems to grow more popular, surfing the Internet on smartphones is also becoming increasingly easier, as new features and platforms for smartphones become available on a daily basis, it seems.

• Bing to embrace HTML5
• Enhance your web forms with new HTML5 features
• Seven significant trends in mobile usage
• Magento Mobile was released

Since we are sharing news about mobile optimization, we should also mention our smartphone ready websites service. We hope you enjoy our weekly articles roundup!