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50 Fresh and Creative Logo Design for your Design Inspiration

Faisal Raj — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:26:24 +0000

Logo is a uniquely set and arranged typeface of a company or brand. It is a trademark or commercial brand of a company. Logos are also used to recognize organizations and other non-commercial entities.

If you are going to develop your logo by a designer or any firm or your own, and finding the idea then the following showcase will must inspired you. These logos are highly good-looking and creative for your design inspiration.

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62 Gorgeous Visually Attractive Twitter Backgrounds

Faisal Raj — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:41:58 +0000

For the daily web users, it is sure that I don’t need to recognize them with twitter; they already know that how powerful free social networking it is. It is one of the most powerful social media tool that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates. There is no doubt that Twitter has expanded exponentially in the last year and still, it’s increasing its popularity like crazy. From web developer to normal user everybody loves to use it.

But a designer or creative person try or represent him different. So, many designers and creatives make use of illustrations and images in their twitter background to attract the viewers’ concentration. In previous, I made a showcase of 22 Websites for Free Twitter Backgrounds, which was one of the most popular post of my blog. Today here I gathered 62 really gorgeous visually attractive Twitter Backgrounds which uses different illustration lovers. Oh, never forget me to follow me in twitter.

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35 Extremely Useful Addons for Web Developers

Faisal Raj — Thu, 06 May 2010 05:55:17 +0000

Firefox offers a lot of benefits over other browsers. Apart from the well web browser that Firefox is also a web developers’ best friend. You can do about all of your web page testing inside Firefox and make use of it as a tool along with graphic and code editors to assist you design more improved and faster. One of the best advantages is that, it has ability to install add-ons. There are huge amount of great plugins are available for web developers to use to assist them make better websites and make them easier to find the way.

Here I mention some of the exciting Addons of Firefox which makes it different from others for the Web Developers’.

1. Web Developer

A must have option for any web designer. This extension adds a toolbar that has a long selection of webmaster tools and resources. It has ability of view source of CSS easily in new tab, validation of HTML, CSS, Feeds, and many more access. Other it is included with information and manipulation of forms, images, and cookies.

2. CSS Validator

Validates a page using the W3C CSS Validator. Adds an option to the right-click context menu and to the Tools menu to allow for easy validation of the CSS of the current page. Opens the results in a new tab. Will only work on pages that have a CSS file associated.

3. ColorZilla

With this exciting feature you can get a color reading from any part in your browser and can quickly adjust this color, then can easily use of it into another program. It is obviously much better than searching for a particular color code all over in a stylesheet.

4. Aardvark

Cool utility for cleaning up a page (for printing or better viewing) as well as for web development. Displays a red rectangle on the element under the mouse — hit “w” to go wider (get the containing element), then hit other keystrokes to remove, etc.

5. Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

6. FireFTP

For the developer FTP application is so much important. And FireFTP is an FTP client that you can launch right in your browser’s window. So you don’t need any separate FTP application, if you are a user of Firefox.

7. FirePHP

FirePHP enables you to log to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP method call. FirePHP is ideally suited for AJAX development where clean JSON or XML responses are required. All data is sent via a set of X-FirePHP-Data response headers. This means that the debugging data will not interfere with the content on your page.

8. HTML Validator

It is simple to use, efficient in its performance, provides helpful feedback. Validates HTML documents using the CSE HTML Validator engine for Windows. Requires CSE HTML Validator for Windows.

9. Screengrab

This extension allows you to take full mode screenshots of web pages. With this you can capture the visible portion of web page and able to copy it to clipboard.

10. IE View

Lets you load pages in IE with a single right-click, or mark certain sites to “always” load in IE. Useful for incompatible pages, or cross-browser testing.

11. JavaScript Debugger

This extension offers feedback for JavaScript errors which provides a lot of detailed information to assist you troubleshoot and fix the problem.

12. CSSViewer

No Web designer should be working without CSSViewer. The add-on informs you of all the CSS information you’ll need from a site. Simply click on the page you want, open it in the Tools menu, and it will display CSS information. I use it almost every day.

13. Window Resizer

This a great feature which allows you to change between different resolutions and screen sizes for testing your layout.

14. Image Zoom

Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on individual images within a web page. All this can be done by using the context menu or a combination of mouse buttons and scroll wheel. Handy to see the finer details of smaller pics or to make very large pics fit within your screen.

15. Font Finder

FontFinder is created for designers, developers and typographers. It allows a user to analyze the font information of any element on a page, copy any piece(s) of that information to the clipboard, and perform inline replacements to test new layouts.

16. JSView

All browsers include a “View Source” option, but none of them offer the ability to view the source code of external files. Most websites store their javascripts and style sheets in external files and then link to them within a web page’s source code. Previously if you wanted to view the source code of an external javascript/stylesheet you would have to manually look through the source code to find the url and then type that into your browser.rnrnWell now there’s a much easier way. You can use the JSView extension to solve the problem.

17. Palette Grabber

Creates a color palette for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Flash, Fireworks, Paint.NET, or OS X based on the current page.

18. Style Sheet Chooser

Style Sheet Chooser II allows you to choose author-provided alternate style sheets for a web site, and have those choices be persisted for all pages on the same site. Style Sheet Chooser II replaces Firefox’s built-in style sheet switcher – its functionality is available via the [View]->[Page Style] menu item, one-click stylesheet rotating Toolbar icon and Statusbar icon. Icons can be switched on/off via Extension Preferences.

19. W3C Offline Page validator

Validates the source of a HTML/XHTML page via the W3C Markup Validation Service using the direct-input form.

20. Greasemonkey

Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.

21. Codetch

Get the feel of Dreamweaver in a Firefox extension. Edit your documents right next to your web pages as you surf.

22. OperaView

Open pages in Opera from Firefox context menus. Very usefull for web developers!

23. FireShot

FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages (entirely or just visible part). Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers.

24. LinkChecker

Check the validity of links on any webpage. There’s also a toolbar button that can be added for easier access to LinkChecker. Just right click on your toolbar, choose “Customize” and look for the button with the underlined blue check.

25. Java Console

The Java Console enables you to monitor status and debug running applets and Java Webstart application that use Sun Java technology.

26. Poster

A developer tool for interacting with web services and other web resources that lets you make HTTP requests, set the entity body, and content type. This allows you to interact with web services and inspect the results.

27. YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and why they’re slow based on Yahoo!’s rules for high performance web sites.

28. Fasterfox

Performance and network tweaks for Firefox. Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay. Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with the unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing. A popup blocker for popups initiated by Flash plug-ins is also included.

29. CS Lite

30. IE NetRenderer

Adds buttons, tools menu and contextual menu entries to get a screenshot of the current page with IE NetRenderer. Keyboard shortcuts are also available: Ctrl+Shift+F5/F6/F7/F8 to render the page in IE5.5/6/7/8 Beta 2 (Cmd+Shift+F* on Mac). Really useful for webmasters which are not using Windows!

31. Adblock Plus

Adblock Plus allows you to regain control of the internet and view the web the way you want to. The add-on is supported by over forty filter subscriptions in dozens of languages which automatically configure it for purposes ranging from removing online advertising to blocking all known malware domains. Adblock Plus also allows you to customize your filters with the assistance of a variety of useful features, including a context option for images, a block tab for Flash and Java objects, and a list of blockable items to remove scripts and stylesheets.

32. Cooliris

Meet Cooliris, the 3D Wall that speeds up search on Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, and more. Enjoy the richest way to view photos from Facebook, Picasa, and even your own computer. On our infinite 3D Wall, you can effortlessly scroll though thousands of images and videos in seconds without having to click from page to page. Our Channels feature even lets you surf the latest news, TV episodes, and more.

33. Load Time Analyzer

The Load Time Analyzer allows developers to measure and graph how long web pages take to load in Firefox. Load Time Analyzer produces graphs that show the occurrence of events such as requests for the page, images, stylesheets and scripts, along with events like the execution of an onload script.

34. ChromEdit

A Simple User Profile File Editor. Giving access to userContent.css [for adding user styles that are applied to webpages], userChrome.css [for overriding UI styles], read-only access to prefs.js and access to user.js [to make more permanent preference changes - though you need to grok the structure and possible values first ].

35. Dust-Me Selectors

Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension (for v1.5 or later) that finds unused CSS selectors. It extracts all the selectors from all the stylesheets on the page you’re viewing, then analyzes that page to see which of those selectors are not used. The data is then stored so that when testing subsequent pages, selectors can be crossed off the list as they’re encountered.

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12 Awesome WordPress SlideShow Plugins

Faisal Raj — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:36:26 +0000

Everyone love to see image on any website and if it is a slideshow people like to see it much. Furthermore, perfect use of slide show gives gorgeousness to a site. And why the WordPerss users will stay away from the use of slide show.

I got some magnificent looking WordPress plugins for slideshow which I showcase in here. Hope the WordPerss users will love to use these.

1. WordPress Gallery Slideshow

NextGen Gallery plugin is a small plugin with less configuration settings and no extra tables for the WordPress Database. Straightforwardness should be the guide for the adventure of raising this plugin. It is just a Slideshow to set your images in the right context. Nothing more nothing less.

2. WordPress Plugin: iSlidex

iSlidex is a WordPress Plugin that will showcase, in an elegant and minimal way (the Apple way), images taken from posts in a specific category. It is indeed a slideshow plugin, completely automated once you set the number of slides you would like to feature, the size and the category from where iSlidex will pull the images. iSlidex comes also with a widget, which can be set independently from the main slider, from the same settings page, however recommend the use of the plugin only inside big sidebars, in order to be displayed in the best way.

3. (a)Slideshow

This plugin and widget allows you to create dynamic, controllable slideshows or presentations for your website.

4. Sponsors Slideshow Widget

This plugin is designed to be used as sponsor’s slide show widget. It can show a certain link category as slide show in the sidebar, using the jQuery Cycle Plugin. It automatically excludes the chosen slideshow category from the WordPress internal links widget. Below is a list of options.

5. Google AJAX Feed Slide Show Widget

This is a WordPress widget that displays a photo slide show using Media RSS as a source. It uses Google AJAX Feed API Slide Show. You can easily display a slide show from photo feeds from all popular sites, such as Expono, PhotoBucket, Flickr, and Picasa Web Albums.

6. Vertical scroll Image Slideshow Gallery

This plug-in will make the vertical scrolling image slideshow gallery at side sidebar widget. It is simple, easy installation and Easy slideshow size (width & height) override option.

7. WP Content Slideshow

WP Content Slideshow shows up to 5 Posts in a very nice and powerful Javascript Slideshow. On the left side of the Slideshow it displays an image for every post. On the right side, there are all the titles (and a small description under the Title) of the Posts. The Slideshow highlights the active Post and repeats automatically after getting to the 5th Post. You have a powerful administration area to adjust the category, the number of posts, the width and height, and many colors for the Slideshow!

8. Xili Floom Slideshow

For integration inside wordpress, Xili-floom-slideshow can be awesome! It tries to install it automatically but also allows personalization. Xili-floom-slideshow inserts the javascript and CSS file inside the header of the theme. The images attached (but not inserted) to a post (or a page) are listed for the slideshow. And after adding a [xilifloom] shortcode inside the content of the post, the slideshow of the images of the gallery are automatically displayed.

9. Portfolio Slideshow

A shortcode that inserts a clean and simple jQuery + cycle powered slideshow of all image attachments on a post or page.

10. Global-flash-galleries

Ready-made harmonic color layouts are offered in this plugin. It is possible to preview a gallery created from several albums in a convenient mode of slide show (full size) or in thumbnails (streaming tape). It’s easy with Global Flash Galleries to create different galleries from numerous grouped albums even if you don’t have much experience in it. There are many various and apprehensible settings and styles with which you can easily change the size of images preserving its original proportion and put the required tags.

11. Featured Posts Slideshow

Featured Posts slideshow shows as many post images as you want. It displays a certain image for every post of a category that you have defined. You can slide through your slideshow with the help of nice navigation buttons. The images are directly linked to the specific WordPress post.

12. GRAND Flash Album Gallery

With Grand FlA Gallery you can: upload unlimited number of pictures for your slideshow galleries and albums; customize color of all the user controls and background for embedded flash skin to fit your blog colors and can change width and height of flash or leave width 100% to fit your blog.

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35 Attractive Single Page Website to Inspire You

Faisal Raj — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:29:17 +0000

There is no other best way to show your own personal information than single page website, moreover some business companies are also using this type of websites to express them. It is one of the modern time interesting trends.

From one point of view, it is an easy way to express anyone, but from another point of view, it is hard for a designer to describe all things in a single page. It just shows the creativity of a designer. Here, I showcase 35 creative single page websites which attract me so much.

8. Artcore illustrations

18. James Lai Creative

19. Gotta Get to FOWA

27. Alexandru Cohaniuc

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A Complete Guide to Integrate your Site with Google Buzz

Faisal Raj — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:20:31 +0000

Google Buzz is a most recent way to start conversations about the things you find interesting. And it is quickly becoming an interesting and popular way to share content with your friends. So, why developers will stay away from this social media? Here I collect 7 impotent individual topics/posts that are enough to know the whole thing about the integration of Google Buzz with your site.

1. Simplest Way To Add A Google Buzz Share Button

In this simple tutorial, you can able to teach you how to put together Google Buzz button which opens in same window and has a shut button too at top right hand side. This also picks the post excerpt automatically.

2. How to Make a Google Buzz Desktop App

In this post you will able see how you can create your own Buzz Application for Windows, Mac or Linux. Moreover, as an extra benefit, you can make use of this system with practically any web application out there.

3. 11 Fresh Google Buzz WordPress Plugins

Google Buzz is growing rapidly these times, and who ever don’t know the popularity of WordPress. So, it more of a necessity to have Buzz integrated to your WordPress blog theme right now for more interacting with your readers and fans. I hope these Google Buzz Plugins will help you integrate Google Buzz in your WordPress blog.

4. A jQuery Plugin for Google Buzz Widget

This is a jQuery widget for the brand new social network , Google Buzz – that you can embed anywhere to integrate your buzz stream into your page.

5. Addons for Firefox to Share with Google Buzz

Shareaholic is an ultimate add-on for the link sharing addict. With Google Buzz, this works with 100+ services including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more. It makes sharing webpages faster and easier dramatically enhancing your sharing productivity!

6. Google Buzz Free Icons And PSD Files

For sharing update, photos, videos and more with your friends Google buzz is the best social product launched by Google. So if you want to go social with Google buzz you can use this wonderful Icons and PSD Files.

7. Also Check out How to Use Google Buzz Video

Here is a video that shows how to share any text, music, photo or video through Google Buzz.

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95 Fresh Logo Design for Your Inspiration

Faisal Raj — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:27:29 +0000

Logo is the best graphical representation that uses as unique trademark or commercial brand for your any kind of business. So a unique trademark needs lots of thinking. That’s why around us there are lots of logo design companies. In one of our previous post we made a list of quality logo design companies.

But, it is not mandatory to take the service of logo Design Company for your logo design. If you have basic knowledge on the using of different graphic design tools, then you can try it yourself. For your help here we showcase 95 brilliant and simple logo designs for growing more idea and inspiration.

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10 Cool WordPress Plugins for Ratings

Faisal Raj — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:24:13 +0000

Rating is one of the most exciting parts of a website. It is enjoyable for both of admin and visitors and also measured the popularity of post or comments. And the most interesting news is that like lots of exciting features WordPress support this feature very easily. There are varieties of WordPress Plugins for Rating; for example, there are rating plugins for posts, pages and even for comments. Here I gathered 10 mostly usable and rocking Rating plugins of WordPress.

1. WP-PostRatings

All the information (general, changelog, installation, upgrade, usage) you need about this plugin can be found here: WP-PostRatings Readme. It is the exact same readme.html is included in the zip package. – Download

2. GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating. – Download

3. Post Star Rating

Post Star Rating is a plugin that allows blog users to rate posts in a classic five stars way. – Download

4. Star Rating for Reviews

Star Rating for Reviews is a simple WordPress plugin that inserts pretty rating stars based on the score you assign using intuitive, inline [rating:] tags. It can also calculate and output overall ratings for you based on all previous scores you have assigned, useful for reviews that have multiple categories or an album review where each track is assigned a score. – Download

5. PollDaddy Polls & Ratings

The PollDaddy Polls plugin allows you to create and manage polls and ratings from within your WordPress dashboard. – Download

6. Xavin’s Review Ratings

This plugin adds a shortcode tag that will display a rating in one of several formats. – Download

7. Visitor Like/Dislike Post Rating

Let your visitors rate your posts, using simple AJAX and jQuery to update the posts’ ratings dynamically. Visitors can either like or dislike your posts, which should provide you with simple, yet constructive, feedback of the content you include in your posts. – Download

8. Mombly Review Rating

Mombly Review Ratings allow you to easily insert ratings for your reviews on your wordpress blogs. The format to add a rating is simply just [Rating:3.5/5]. You can even use your own pictures for the stars of the ratings. There is also text support for RSS feeds. – Download

9. Comment Rating

Comment Rating makes “user moderated content” possible. This plugin automatically embeds clickable images in comments using simple AJAX javascript (no heavy jQuery) to allow visitors rate comments in Like vs. Dislike fashion. The votes are displayed along with the comments in either two numbers, one combined, or both. – Download

10. Comment Rating Widget

This plugin is an add on to the Comment Rating plugin (version 2.9.0 or later). It displays ratings along with the most recent comments in the sidebar in formats of your design. The comment rating and images on display can be “Likes only”, “Dislikes only”, or Both. – Download

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14 Great Posts on jQuery Plugins

Faisal Raj — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:19:01 +0000

We use jQuery, we love jQuery. With jQuery we can create interactive web sites without any hard coding. For easy to use, everybody loves to get various types of jQuery plugins for their web development.

In my today’s presentation, you will get 14 really attractive and useful posts on jQuery plugins. Hope the use of these plugins in your project will be useful for you and will impress your client.

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1. 15 jQuery Plugins To Create A User Friendly Tooltip

Tooltip is a good way to show extra information when user hovers the cursor over an element. The “hover box” will appear when the mouse hover in, and disappear when the mouse hover out. Here are 15 jQuery plugins to create an user friendly tooltip.

2. 10 jQuery plugins for better user interface

Numerous designers have been working with jQuery when it comes to effects on their website. Following is a list of jQuery scripts and plugins to help you improve your website’s user interface.

3. List of Really Useful Plugins and Resources For MooTools

MooTools is a fantastic object oriented JavaScript framework; It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API. Most of us who have ever used MooTools will testify that it is as good as jQuery if not better. But if you compare the popularity levels between the two frameworks, jQuery is far ahead of MooTools.

4. 23 jQuery Fade in Fade out Effect

23 really useful jQuery for fade in and fade out effect. These jQuery plugins will help you to make your web site special from the rest.

5. 25 Hand Picked Best jQuery based WordPress Plugins

In this post you’ll find out about amazing WordPress plugins based on jQuery UI. Here is a list of 25 surprisingly amazing best jQuery based WordPress plugins. I hope you will like the list and will use one of these plugins on your blog.

6. 26 jQuery Plugins for Superb Navigation

Check out these 26 incredible jQuery plugins for creating excellent website navigation. Download the pre-built scripts and add the code along with the jQuery framework to quickly and easily enhance your web designs. In this useful list for every webdesigner and developer you’ll find 26 tutorials that will show you how to create amazing navigation with jQuery and CSS.

7. 9 Useful jQuery Calendar And Date Picker Plugins For Web Designers

In this article, you would get 9 really useful jQuery Event Calendar and Date Picker plugins that every web designers and developers should know.

8. 15 Great jQuery Plugins For Better Table Manipulation

Table is the most difficult object to be styled, due to its browser compatibility and markup. This article will share 15 useful jQuery table plugins for you to display, sort, filter and manipulate your data in table.

9. 20 jQuery Tutorials And Plugins To Impress Your Friends

Here you will find 20 awsome jQuery plugins with tutorials for you and your friends use(most of them have working demos).

10. 30 Amazing jQuery Plugins To Play With Tables

Play with tables and present table data as you wish with these Table Enhancement jQuery Plugins.

11. 14 jQuery Plugins for Enhanced Content Viewing

With jQuery you can easily create accordion style content boxes, image galleries, and content sliders. Here are 14 excellent jQuery plugins for adding this type of functionality to your site.

12. 10 Amazing jQuery Plugins To Improve Your Forms

In this article you will get 10 jquery plugins for improving forms that you will like the most.

13. 9 jQuery Twitter Plugins

Integrate Twitter tweets into websites with ease using jQuery. These jQuery twitter plugins are a road-map for creating twitter widgets, live feeds and related tweets bars.

14. 25 Fresh and New jQuery Plugins and Tutorials

With jQuery becoming ever more popular, the volume and quality of plugins and tutorials that developers are releasing and writing are increasing rapidly. If you are looking for the latest in jQuery this is the post for you, all the plugins and tutorials in this post are new and fresh, they have only recently been published.

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11 Great Post on WordPress Plugins

Faisal Raj — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:32:22 +0000

WordPress is the most popular and user-friendly blogging platform. Lots of sites and blogs are powered by WordPress. People love to use WordPress, like me!

From a web developer to a normal user who has limited knowledge on development, all likes WordPress for its easy managing system. Moreover, lots of free plugins are available for extending the basic features. But it is true that, sometimes a WordPress user faces problems to choose a plugin. Problem is, which pluings will be suitable or which plugins are needed for their blog. For them, I think the following posts from different web design related blogs are most valuable.

1. 16 Excellent WordPress Security Plugins To Secure Your Blog

It couldn’t imagine running a site that brought in some decent money a month and not taking a few minutes to secure it. From attacks like the hidden iFrame injection (Trojan virus) or even someone hacking the password and attempting to blackmail you, the work needed to fix these problems is much greater than the effort it takes to make sure it doesn’t happen to you. Google takes it very seriously if your site is spreading malware content (which you will more than likely have no clue your site is even doing it) and will post an advisory to such sites in the search engine results.

So, this post will very much help you for securing your WordPress Blog.

2. WordPress Plugins for SEO Rankings

We know that from the very beginning of creating a blog in WordPress, it’s always our desired to optimized the site for SEO Rankings. There’s a lot of plugins in WordPress for that but here you will get summarize the best SEO plugins for your blog.

3. Best 5 Social Bookmarking Plugins For WordPress

Cool Social Bookmarking menu on the blog always attracts all, moreover, it brings huge visitors for your blog. These 5 Social Bookmarking Plugins will make easier of your work.

4. WordPress Anti Spam: 12 Great WordPress Plugins To Help You Fight Spam

There are thousands of spammers flood your blog everyday, and spam comments is a serious problem for all bloggers. Everyday, we need to go through the comments and read them to make sure these comments are not spam. These spam comments not only waste our time, but also the internet bandwidth.

These 12 great WordPress anti spam plugins, which will save your time by blocking spam bots to comment on your blog, prevent them from stealing email address from your articles, and help you fight against these spam bots.

5. 15 Tips And Plugins To Monitor, Speed Up And Optimize Your WordPress Blog

In this article, you are going to look into 15 different plugins and tips to optimize your WordPress site.

6. 33 WordPress Plugins To Power Up Your Comment Section

These 33 WordPress plugins can be used effectively to power up and evolve comment form possibilities and security. If programming is not your strongest side, then such automatized plugins will be irreplaceable for your blog! If you know some more effective comment form plugins, feel free to add them in your comment section!

7. 12 Useful Facebook WordPress Plugins For Bloggers

If you are a WordPress user and looking for WordPress plugin to connect, integrate or share stuffs with Facebook, then you had came to the right place. You are getting here 12 useful WordPress Plugins for you to work with your Facebook account.

8. 35 Stylish And Modern WordPress Plugins Using jQuery UI

In this post you’ll find out about very flexible and stylish WordPress plugins, which are based on Jquery UI.

9. 8 WordPress Plugins for Page Management

Here are 8 plugins that are compatible with at least WordPress 2.5 that will allow you to change their order, make sub-pages easier to navigate, add tags and more.

10. 8 Google AdSense Plugins for WordPress

Google AdSense is one of the easiest ways to monetize your blog, but adding it to WordPress isn’t always the easiest thing to do. Many people don’t know where to put the code or how to keep track of it. Luckily there are lots of plugins that can simplify the process as well as provide more flexibility. Here are eight Google AdSense plugins for WordPress 2.5 and above.

11. 32 Extremely Useful Twitter Plugins for WordPress

If you have a site or blog based on WordPress then it is more easy to spread your site content through Twitter, because there are lots of Twitter plugins for WordPress.

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78 Websites with Community News option to Promote Your Design Related News

Faisal Raj — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:11:44 +0000

Design related articles are now one of the most popular choices for the visitors among all of the articles. But every design related article writers can’t carry his article to all of the interested visitors. Basically it is harder for the new comers. For them, showing design related activity to all, there is no other best thing than community news submission.

Community news submission in popular sites brings huge number of visitors for your site. So here, I have gathered a list of 78 websites who has community news feature. By submitting your design related article in these sites you can gain huge traffic. Hope these will useful for you. So keep the page in your BookMark for submitting your every article.

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25 Exceptional Contact Forms to get Inspired

Faisal Raj — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:20:28 +0000

Contact form is one of the most important parts for most of the website. It plays a vital role to interact with your clients or well-wishers. So, many of the designers pay plenty of concentration to design a contact form.

So, when you will design a contract form think about a nice design of it. For this, you can try to achieve inspiration from various designers’ design. For taking inspiration about contact form here I am going to show 25 nice and exceptional contact forms. And keep connected with us through our Feed to get more new inspirational articles.

19. Brian Handley Design

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32 Extremely Useful Twitter Plugins for WordPress

Faisal Raj — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:22:57 +0000

Twitter is a recent time craze for communicate with each other. And Twitter is not only so much valuable for interacting with your friends or community but it is also a great media for marketing your service.

If you have a site or blog based on WordPress then it is more easy to spread your site content through Twitter, because there are lots of Twitter plugins for WordPress. Here I gathered, 32 useful Twitter Plugins for WordPress users, hope these will help you and make you smile.

1. Twitter for WordPress: Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog. The plugin is easily customizable and only uses WordPress resources, no extra files needed.

2. WordPress Twitter Widget: Useing the Javascript, adds a sidebar widget to display Twitter updates. It’s not sophisticated and there’s only 3 configuration options: Twitter account name, widget title and number of updates you want shown.

3. Twire: This plugin will extend Buddypress to have Twitter and BuddyPress combined to get a Twire.

4. WP Twitter Pitch: WP-TwitterPitch is all about getting the pitch delivered to you in the form you want to get it delivered – in other words in Twitter format.

5. Twitter Blaster: Twitter Blaster is a plugin that will allow your visitors to post to your Twitter account. Once installed it, your users can update your Twitter. Twitter Blaster will post the users submission as a pending post. Thrn you can approve them as a twitter update and/or a post. You can also delete any spam post.

6. Twitter style links: If you write something like “@grayme, how are you?” this plugin will search for @grayme’s url in the comment list of the current post and will convert his/her name to a link.

7. Twitter Feed: The control functions such as connecting to a Twitter account and storing information on the tweets/blogs, can be accessed through the “Twitter Control” in the WordPress admin panel. Any changes in the currently active Twitter account tweets can be immediately updated by clicking on the “Update Blogs” button.

8 Twitter Updater: This plugin will let you automatically update your Twitter.com status with your most recent blog post. There are a few options to how the display will look when it updates.

9. Post to Twitter: Post to Twitter is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Post to Twitter is a very simple WordPress’s plugin to send your post to your Twitter account. Just install the plugin, configure your Twitter account, set your custom tweet prefix and star to post.

10. Tweet Suite: TweetSuite, a Twitter-WordPress integration plugin that includes with TweetBacks, ReTweet- This buttons for each TweetBack, digg-like tweet-this button, automatic tweeting of new posts, most-tweeted widget, recently-tweeted widget, my-last-tweets widget, my-favorited-tweets widget etc features.

11. Twitter Links: This plugin will convert valid Twitter usernames mentioned in comments into a link to their Twitter profile page.

12. Top Twitter Links: Widget that displays currently popular links that have been tweeted.

13.Thread Twitter: Thread Twitter fetch your tweets and display them in thread style.

14. WP Widget: Twitter: Twitter Widget displays your tweets on your sidebar. There’s lots of switches to tuen on/off what you want to display.

15. CommentTweets: This plugin reminds the blog reader of their comment when a follow-up comment is created. It sends an @reply to the blog reader with at link to the relevant blog post through your own twitter account or an account created for this purpose.

16. Twitter It: With this plugin an user has the ability to twitter a article that he is your site. So just place the “Twitter it!” template-tag next to your article and every user who reads your article and wants to twitter it all over the web just has to click the “Twitter it!” link.

17. Twitter ReTweet: By using the plugin you could use to output a basic, stylable link anywhere on a WordPress post or page which, when clicked, would allow visitors to quickly and easily ReTweet the current post.

18. Twitter Digest: This plugin uses the pseudo-cron facility available in WordPress to publish a daily post of tweets from the previous day. It is based on Alex King’s Twitter Tools.

19. unfake.it URL shortener for Twitter Tools: unfake.it URL shortener Plugin for Twitter Tools gets an URL as inbound parameter, shortens it by using unfake.it API and sends back the shortened URL as outbound return string.

20. Twitter Poster: The Twitter Poster allows wordpress publishers to automatically post their new posts to their Twitter account. It will take the title of a new post and will submit it to the Twitter account specified in the options. It will also add the link back to the post, allowing your twitter followers to access the post details.

21. Add Twitter RSS: It is a simple plugin that adds your Twitter RSS link to the header of your blog. It allows your readers to easily find your Twitter feed.

22. Twitter Remote Widget: A simple plugin to display the twitter remote widget on your blog.

23. Fresh From FriendFeed and Twitter: Keeps your blog always fresh by regularly adding your latest and greatest content from FriendFeed or Twitter. No external passwords required!

24. Twitter Tag: It adds a Twitter @username in your blog post and automatically create a link to that users Twitter page and send a tweet telling them that they’ve been tagged in one of your posts. It uses Tiny URL to include a URL to the blog post in the tweet.

25. Twitter User: Twitter User is a simple plugin which adds an additional field to the authors profile in which they can add their twitter username.

26. Twitter Friends Widget: Twitter Friends is displays your Twitter friends/ followers in your sidebar in the same way that they appear on your Twitter homepage.

27. Advanced Twitter Widget: Simpler, better, more effective. you can choose to post the twitter updates of your/any account or…. post search results… so far it’s simple and dynamic.. 2 in 1.. hopefully we will update with 3 or who knows what else.

28. Multiple Twitter Widgets: Allows for multiple twitter widgets to be displayed.

29. Twitter News Feed: The plugin has a specific use case, that is to import tweets from defined Twitter users containing specific hashtags into WordPress.

30. TwitterCounter: Allows you to integrate TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog to display how many follows you have on Twitter.

31. TweetMeme: The TweetMeme button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter.

32. Add Twitter Link to Comments: This is a plugin that adds a twitter link to comments if the comment author uses an email connected to a twitter account.

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45 Funny Graphical Presentation of 404 Error Page

Faisal Raj — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:47:48 +0000

“404 error page” – A common term to every internet users. But do you know from where it comes. In an office on the fourth floor (Room 404), an ambitious group of young scientists at CERN (Switzerland) located the World Wide Web’s central database. When the record of database started to increase, not only the amount of requests grew, but also increased the amount of requests that could not be fulfilled. Generally it occurs, because of requested a file in the incorrect name. Soon these error requests were replied with a regular message: “Room 404: file not found”. From where we get our today’s “404 error page”.

But today the error message is not bounded within a simple message, now this message comes with various visual presentations. Here you can see some great examples of this “404 error page” done by great designers.

15. South Park Studios

16. Blue Daniel

17. CSS Tricks

18. Zanami

19. Light Post Creative

25. Surfing on Static

44. Apartment Home Living

45. Acromediainc

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Amazing Realistic Street Arts

Faisal Raj — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:46:20 +0000

Art on the public place or in the streets is not a new trend. In between 1999 and 2000, this art was firstly getting huge popularity among the world. Previously this art work was done by the artists on their own wish, to impress the viewers. But now some of companies or corporate houses are investing on this work for their product or brand promotion. Around the world, here is a few number of street artist and in between them Julian Beever is a popular name.

Here you’ll find some of creative, amazing and realistic street arts. I think it will impress you.

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