Archive for July, 2009

60+ Beautiful Firefox Wallpapers To Fire Up Your Desktop

July 29th, 2009 in Wallpaper | 30 Comments

If you are a Firefox user and feel bored with your current desktop wallpaper, then this article may comes handy as we are going to share 60+ best Firefox Wallpapers with you.

We had gone through the web and spent a lot of time to collect these wallpapers. We just hope our readers like them and please share with us if you have any other nice Firefox wallpapers.

Firefox Wallpaper by davdiana

Firefox Wallpaper by Envirotechture

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8 Useful Lorem Ipsum And Random Text Generators

July 26th, 2009 in Tools | 39 Comments

As a web designer, before i ship the design i will usually show it to my client and make any final changes. So, i may need to fill in the content with some “lorem ipsum” aka dummy text so that the client will have clearer picture of how the design will look like.

I believe every designer will have their own lorem ipsum content. And i saved my lorem ipsum content into a text file, so that i can copy and paste them whenever i need. Recently, i had found some cool lorem ipsum or random text generators which i think are interesting and would like to share with my readers.

Without talking much, let’s see these 8 useful lorem ipsum and random text generators:

1. Lorem Ipsum Generator

Is it being made for web developers, web designers, web masters, and those who ever need lorem ipsum content. The Lorem Ipsum Generator lets user generates either paragraphs, words or sentences and able able to add HTML tags to the content.
Lorem Ipsum Generator

2. Lipsum Generator

Lipsum.com is one of the most popular lorem ipsum generator and it provides straight forward content with few options. User can specify the number of paragraphs, words, bytes or lists. There are now a set of mock banners available for download. The mock banners are in three different colors and in a range of different standard banner sizes.
Lipsum Generator

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Ultimate Ecommerce Starter Kits for WordPress Users

July 23rd, 2009 in Resources, Wordpress | 109 Comments

Buying and selling items online have become more and more important nowadays. Probably you want to create an ecommerce websites to sell your items worldwide.

There are a lot of popular ecommerce solutions, either commercial or open source. Magento is one of the most popular open source platform for ecommerce websites. We had covered various well-designed Magento themes before. But, if you are familiar with WordPress, you may wish to use it as your ecommerce websites too.

Today, we are going to look into various themes, plugins and tutorials to build your own WordPress Ecommerce website. Let’s look into this WordPress Ecommerce solution starter kits.

Ecommerce Themes/Templates

Crafty Cart

Carfty Cart is a famous free WordPress Ecommerce theme. It is being built by Billion Studio especially for King Cart’s readers. But everyone can download it for free. It requires WP e-Commerce plugin to function properly.
Wordpress Crafty Cart Theme

Shopping Cart Themes From ShopperPress

ShopperPress is a complete WordPress Ecommerce solution. Users can download 6 different color themes for free (some of them required you to tweet them for the download link).
Shopping Cart Themes By ShopperPress

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65 Absolutely Cool And Creative Twitter Backgrounds

July 21st, 2009 in Insipiration | 105 Comments

Twitter is one of the most powerful social media tool. You can have an “One Line Bio” to describe yourself. But unfortunately, the “One Line Bio” is limited to maximum 160 characters. So, creative Twitter users started to use Twitter backgrounds to add more information about themselves.

There are a lot of creative Twitter backgrounds design which able to attract visitors’ attention. Today, we are going to look into 65 absolutely cool and creative Twitter Backsgrounds design.

@graphicidentity
graphicidentity twitter background

@andysowards
andysowards twitter background

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Yooba Flash CMS Giveaway

July 20th, 2009 in Contests | 18 Comments

Yooba is a web based Content Management System specially designed for Flash content. As a Software as a Service it’s scalable, and can be packaged to your requirements. As with a conventional CMS, Yooba enables easy and fast creation, publication and administration of content for web pages, without any programming knowledge.

From an individual creative’s perspective you can work with creation of templates and content, and then deliver manageable Flash objects for your clients. This way a designer with no Flash experience can be part of the Flash content lifecycle, where Yooba would serve as a great resource.

Yooba Studio

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15 Really Useful Web-based HTML Editors

July 17th, 2009 in Tools | 86 Comments

Web-based HTML Editor, WYSIWYG editor, or rich text editor, is a web component that let users enter rich text input within the browser. Most of the time, these html editors are used within content management systems where administrators or authors can easily create posts and contents from the backend system.

Without talking much, let’s see these powerful Web-based HTML Editors.

1. FCKeditor

FCKeditor is one of the most famous online HTML editor. It brings the power and features of desktop editors to the web. It offers a complete integration pack for ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, Java, Perl, Phyton and etc. It supports skins, spell checker, lightweight, fast and has a lot of cool features.
FCKeditor

2. NicEdit

NicEdit is a Javascript that integrates into any web page easily. It can turns any element/div to become editable or convert standard textareas to rich text editing.
NicEdit

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80 Smart And Creative Advertisements That You Should Bookmark And Stumble

July 15th, 2009 in Insipiration | 37 Comments

There are a lot of funny and creative advertisements around the world. A lot of marketing agencies use creative advertising techniques and ideas to attract visitors as these creative and unique ads will give visitors a very good first impression.

Here, i had collected 80 cool and creative advertisements that will probably give inspirations for your future projects. Please bookmark, stumble, or digg if you like them.

Olay Hide Your Age
Olay Hide Your Age

Nutri Balance
Nutri Balance

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30+ Easy To Follow Photoshop Layout Design Tutorials

July 13th, 2009 in Photoshop, Resources, Web Design | 87 Comments

Photoshop is an excellent application for web designers. No matter you are beginner of expert of Photoshop, you can easily get tutorials and resources by using the search engine.

Most of the theme developers/designers will done their website design using Photoshop, and then slice and convert them into CSS/HTML template. Here, i had collected 30+ easy to follow Photoshop layout design tutorials. You can follow them step by step to learn how to create a website layout design by using Photoshop.

1. Carbon Fiber Layout

Carbon Fiber Layout

2. Business WordPress PSD Layout

Business WordPress PSD

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15+ Useful Firefox SEO Tools For Serious Bloggers And Web Designers

July 10th, 2009 in SEO, Tools | 187 Comments

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO is the process of structuring your web page so that search engines can reach, read and index your page in a higher ranking and finally bring more organic traffic to you.

So, who should perform SEO for our websites, the web designers or the bloggers? Obviously, SEO should be done by web designers as well as the bloggers. Why i said so? Web designers should design the page structure so that the page can easily be read and indexed by search engine while the bloggers should make sure the articles contain keywords that can really generate traffic.

As a blogger, you are encouraged to use WordPress as your blogging platform. Why? Because WordPress has a lot of awesome plugins for SEO purpose and it is well-structure for SEO purpose.

Today, we are going to look into 15+ Useful Firefox SEO tools and extensions for bloggers. Web designers who run blog may also need these tools.

1. SEO for Firefox

SEO for Firefox is definitely the most powerful Firefox SEO plugin. This plugin pulls useful marketing data points and integrate into your search results. For example, it pulls the PR, delicious save counts, Technorati links, Alexa rank, WhoIs information and etc. You can selectively turn it on and off by using the icon at Firefox status bar.
SEO for Firefox

2. SeoQuake

SeoQuake is a program that integrated in Firefox so that users can view a large number of search engine parameters on the fly. It consists of SeoToolbar, Seobar, and output of requested parameters on Search Engine Result Pages.
SeoQuake

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9 Useful Javascript Syntax Highlighting Scripts

July 8th, 2009 in Javascript, Resources | 72 Comments

Syntax highlighting is very important especially when we want to show our code example on the blog. By enabling the syntax highlighting on the blog, readers can read the code blocks easier.

There are a lot of free and useful syntax highlighting scripts around us. Most of the scripts are written using Javascripts, though some of them are powered by other programming languages such as Phyton or Ruby.

Today, we are going to look into 9 Syntax Highlighting Scripts that powered by Javascript.

1. SyntaxHighlighter

I believe this is the most common syntax highlighting script used by most of us. It supports a lot of different languages and you can easily create new “brush” for your language if it is not supported by default. Check out the custom brushes list compiled by Abel Braaksma.
syntax-highlighter

2. SHJS

SHJS stands for Syntax Highlighting in Javascript. It uses language definations from GNU Source-highlight and support a lot of different programming languages. SHJS has been tested and support major browsers sych as Firefox 2 and 3, IE 6 and 7, Opera 9.6, Safari 3.2 and Chrome 1.0.
shjs

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