Wordpress Themes, Website Design, and Design Inspiration - SmashingWebs http://smashingwebs.com Website Design Inspiration Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:30:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Web Apps – Using Website Applications in Your Website Design http://smashingwebs.com/2011/08/web-apps-using-website-applications-in-your-website-design/ http://smashingwebs.com/2011/08/web-apps-using-website-applications-in-your-website-design/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:30:54 +0000 admin http://smashingwebs.com/?p=858 SiteApps is a fairly new site that I’ve started using and I want to share it with you. This site has tons of cool apps and widgets you can add to your own site and it lets people develop apps and put them on the marketplace. If you create a free account you can have 2 apps for free. So to help you choose here are some of my favorite apps that I’ve tried.

1. Floating Social Media Widget: This is by far the best app currently available in the marketplace. It creates a floating toolbar on the side of your site with icons for your social media profiles. Currently supported are links to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Flickr and RSS. This is a fantastic way to display your profiles since it is noticeable, but not distracting to your visitors.

2. Corner Peel Ad: This is an interesting app to add to your site because it could potentially make you money. This app shows a small image in the corner of your site, which when hovered over peels back to show a larger image that can lead to a link. There is potential for money here if you can make a deal with an advertiser in which you show their image on the peel back for a certain amount of time in exchange for payment.

3. Twitter Bird Flying: This is an interesting because it has a novelty aspect to it. What this app does is create a blue bird that will fly onto a page your visitor is reading. It will follow your visitor as they scroll and perch somewhere on the page. When you scroll over the bird it will give you options to tweet the content you are currently following or follow a designated twitter account. Although some may find it annoying, the novelty aspect means that more people will be inclined to see what it is and in turn you will have likelier Twitter exposure.

4. Share This: Now many of you may already know of ShareThis and may even have its widget on your site. But this app version lets you create a different style of the widget. This creates one of those sidebar style share widgets that can follow your visitor as they scroll down a page. This also gives you the option of including the +1 button in addition to the traditional share so you can kill two birds with one stone and not need to get the button separately.

5. Google+ Floating Button: Google+ is relatively new, but its +1 button is gaining popularity and this app makes it very simple to add one to your site if you want it separate from a sharing widget. The floating button can go on any corner of your website and can be adjusted to be fixed or floating.

You can preview these apps and others to see how they look on your site before you implement them at http://siteapps.com/

For other reviews and more web design resources check out this website too http://www.siteunleashed.com/

 

Cheers!

]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2011/08/web-apps-using-website-applications-in-your-website-design/feed/ 0 Blogging Tools – Essential Free Tools for Bloggers http://smashingwebs.com/2011/02/blogging-tools-essential-free-tools-for-bloggers/ http://smashingwebs.com/2011/02/blogging-tools-essential-free-tools-for-bloggers/#comments Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:02:23 +0000 admin http://smashingwebs.com/?p=795 Do you have a blog?

In the digital age, it seems that almost everyone has a blog or website where they can showcase their skills, talk about issues that are important to them, or just go on about everyday life. Some children as young as eight or nine years old even have their own blogs, so you know it can be made simple and easy to use. While there are many blogging platforms to choose from, the main players in the blogging industry are Blogger and WordPress. Web hosting solutions make hosting your blog very inexpensive. Both of these platforms are intuitive and easy to learn to use and here we’re going to take a look at some free add-ons and plug-ins that you can use to make the most out of your blogging experience.

Tracking Traffic and Visitors

You’re going to want to know where your visitors are coming from and a little bit about them. For this reason, one of the first things you’ll need to add to your blog is a tracking plug-in. One of the best free tracking plug-ins is by Google. It’s called Google Analytics and the entire setup process doesn’t take more than a couple minutes.

Google Analytics allows you to track where your visitors are coming from, what time they’re coming to your blog, how long they’re staying on your blog, and what they’re reading. From this information, you can extrapolate a bit to figure out what you could write about to keep them coming back. Google Analytics will also tell you about repeat visitors and what Internet browsers they use, which can be useful information in the future.

A Subscription Form

If someone comes across your blog and likes it, that doesn’t necessarily mean that they will bookmark it, or even come back to it. How many times have you found a website you liked, but forgot to bookmark it, and was never able to find it again? Many other people do this as well, and one way you can combat that is to offer them a chance to subscribe to your blog.

When someone subscribes to your blog using a free service like Feedburner they will receive an e-mail once per day listing any posts you added for the day. If you haven’t added any posts that day, they won’t receive an e-mail. This is an easy and simple reminder for readers, and will also help you to build a reader base more quickly.

Choosing Keywords for Blog Entries

If you want to choose topics that interest your readers, you can use a keywords tool to figure out what people are searching for and what people are interested in. The Google Keyword Tool is really great for this. The Google Adwords Keyword Tool is free to use, and has a lot of features that are normally only found in pay-to-use software.

The general process for using this tool is that you choose what topic you want to write on before you write your post. Let’s say, for example, you want to write about cooking. Then you search for cooking-related keywords in the Google Adwords Keyword Tool. Next, you go down the list until you find a few keyword phrases that would naturally fit in the blog post you were considering writing, and you throw them in where they fit. This method allows you to come up in search engines much easier, which means more traffic in the long run.

Keeping Readers on Your Blog Longer

When a person comes across your blog, they will probably start reading a post of yours. If they don’t immediately see something they want to read after they have finished reading that post, they will probably hit the back button and leave your blog. Instead of making them look for something else to read on your blog, there’s a way you can make it easier on them by using what’s called a “related posts” plug-in.

The way a related posts plug-in works is that a website script will look over each of your posts and find the main keywords and topics in each of them. Then, at the bottom of each post, it will give a list of three to five other posts that have similar topics. This way, related posts are listed right in the reader’s line of sight when they have finished reading a post. A free related posts plug-in keeps readers on your blog longer by giving them more posts to read that they are likely to be interested in.

Keeping an Eye on Your Blog’s Performance

Once you have your blog up and running, it can be interesting to know how your blog is performing in the search engines for certain important keywords. A free plug-in that allows you to track these results is called Google Webmaster Tools. Google Webmaster Tools is free, easy to install and tells you everything you want to know about your blog’s performance in the search engines.

]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2011/02/blogging-tools-essential-free-tools-for-bloggers/feed/ 2 Best Premium WordPress Themes – 11 Great New Themes http://smashingwebs.com/2011/01/premium-wordpress-themes-11-great-new-themes/ http://smashingwebs.com/2011/01/premium-wordpress-themes-11-great-new-themes/#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:38:11 +0000 admin http://smashingwebs.com/?p=770 11 of the Best Premium WordPress Themes

Why use WordPress?
If you are going to start a website, I highly recommend using WordPress as the backbone of your site. WordPress is super easy to use, is highly customizable and gives you trememdous power to keep your website rocking and rolling for years to come. WordPress Themes come in all shapes and sizes and you can easily change your wordpress theme at anytime to give your website a new, fresh look and feel as often as you like.

Why use a Premium WordPress Theme?
Premium WordPress Themes are more customizable, have better support, have regular security and feature updates, and generally look better than free themes. Of course there are some good free themes out there, and of course there are some premium themes theat just don’t stand up. But If you are serious about your website, using a premium theme like those listed below will take a lot of the guesswork out of choosing a great theme, and will ensure that your website visitors will love your site and keep coming back. And you can get any of these themes for under 40 bucks, some cost even less.

Enough chit-chat, lets get on to the wordpress theme collection….

Fast Blog

Fast Blog is a WordPress theme with some extra tumblr-like features. It’s perfect for easy blogging and thanks to the WooTumblog plugin (included) you can add posts quickly even from a mobile phone or you can create regular WordPress posts and pages too. Fast Blog can also work as a regular website. There is also no need to install WooTumblog plugin, theme works without it with no problem at all



Amplify

Amplify is a feature packed, multipurpose wordpress theme that that is perfect for business, blogs, and portfolios among other things. It contains 17 color schemes, valid xhtml that looks virtually identical in all modern browsers, and a sleek professional design. Amplify is completely customizable using the theme options page. Take a look at the list of features below to see everything included in this theme.



Repro

Repro is suitable for content producers at all levels, personal bloggers, newspapers, online magazines, community blogs… you get the idea. Repro looks great out of the box but also acts as the perfect black canvas for those looking to customise and develop their own content-focused site.



Carta – All in One

Carta is a Powerful WordPress Theme that comes in 5 completely different versions that make it suitable for any kind of project and also extremely open to any kind of personalization. It was built taking advantage of the new WordPress 3 features like the Menu System, Featured Images and Custom Post Types.
One of the strong point of this Theme is the customization, it comes with Two Sliders that you can choose whenever you want with a custom Slides Manager to manage each slide and other great additions like a Cufón Font Selector, Custom Widgets, many Shortcodes, a Ajax Contact Form and much more.



WP FlexiShop

This theme utilises the powerful WP E -Commerce plugin to create a versatile and feature packed WordPress powered shop, with 3 different layout options and unlimited color possibilities. Make this theme your own.
Mix up content on the homepage with swappable content areas, and change between 2 different footer areas, or use both! A theme so versatile that you can re-brand it to suit your business by simply changing a few settings.



Entrepeneur

There are quite a number of features packed into this theme and all are controlled via custom posts with built in metaboxes (no more custom fields). The admin panel and theme options are quite straightforward and I spent a great deal of time on the documentation and testing. This theme comes with professional support and requires PHP5.



Clearly Modern WordPress

WordPress version of the very popular HTML /CSS version by Cudazi. Very powerful, clean, and flexible.



Dandelion

Dandelion is a Powerful Premium WordPress Theme. This theme provides all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. The Dandelion theme is highly flexible, so changing the color scheme is super simple and for the most parts you won’t need an image editor. The theme is best suited for any business, portfolio, photography and personal sites.



Maximus

Maximus is Professional WordPress Theme, best suited for any type of Business, Portfolio and Webdesign studio sites. It comes with some JQuery scripts which makes it better view.
Maximus WordPress Theme uses a great deal of white space, combined with a light background to create an ultra-clean feel to this site. The elements of this web design are nicely spaced out, combined with a limited color-palette to create a clean overall design. The white background and elegant typography combines to make a very fresh design. This website is far from minimal, yet uses very clean edges, accentuated by the contrasts between content areas and backgrounds to create a highly clean web experience. This website includes quite a lot of content, yet uses a simple clean background and plenty of white space to create a minimal feel.



Titanium Folio

Titanium Folio is a professional developed, clean designed Theme. That is well suited for personal portfolio, blog, or any kind of business website. A wide range of page layouts for any needs. You can easily setup layout and choose custom sidebar for each page. This theme comes with 23 different color variations that suits anyone taste, fully styles typography etc.



Stealth

Stealth is a sleek, stylish and simple theme that you’ll be able to setup for you or your client in no time. Stealth comes with SEO built right in. Stealth also allows you to easily take full control over fonts used in your site.
When you’re working with Stealth, you have so many resources available to you. I’ve built-in documentation all through the theme when you’re working in the WordPress admin panel. Don’t get something? Click the “Learn More” link and I give you more information about whatever you’re working with. I also have a little thing I like to call Theme Hints. When you turn it on and browse the front-end of your website, you’ll see hints on how to edit your site and be given links to the pages in the admin panel where you can edit those sections.

]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2011/01/premium-wordpress-themes-11-great-new-themes/feed/ 8 SQL injection – How to avoid it http://smashingwebs.com/2010/09/sql-injection-how-to-avoid-it/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/09/sql-injection-how-to-avoid-it/#comments Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:46:21 +0000 admin http://smashingwebs.com/?p=710 What is SQL injection?

An SQL injection, which is also referred to as a “failure to preserve SQL Query Structure”, is a common and dangerous security issue. SQL injections are dangerous because they allow hackers to compromise your system through your web interface, letting them wreak havoc at will – i.e., modify databases, delete tables, and control your corporate network. An SQL injection is a programming error; it isn’t because of your managed hosting provider. If you’ve been looking for web hosting packages for php or secure jsp, you should know that your hosting provider isn’t responsible for preventing SQL injections; that is a web developer’s responsibility.

Why do SQL injections happen?

SQL injections are common but easily preventable. They happen often because there are many vulnerabilities present and when they are successfully exploited, the hacker can be rewarded handsomely (e.g., by having an entire database to tamper with on dedicated servers).

There are SQL injection risks whenever dynamic database queries with user input are created by programmers. The two ways to prevent SQL injections are to keep from writing dynamic database queries and to keep from allowing user input in those queries. These are simple solutions but they’re also impractical because of how useful and inevitable dynamic queries and user inputs are. You can still prevent SQL injections, however, with coding techniques that apply in all programming languages.

How can one prevent an SQL injection?

Although different programming languages will require different codes, the essential steps to prevent SQL injections are similar. The following examples can be used as guides:

1. Only use dynamic SQL if you have to. Typically you can replace them with parametrized queries, prepared statements, or stored procedures. For example, you can use PreparedStatement() in Jave with bind variables, or parametrized queries like OleDbCommand() or SqlCommand() in .Net, or strongly typed parametrized queries in PHP via PDO (using bindParam()).
Besides prepared statements, stored procedures also work. These are kept in the database unlike prepared statements, but you’ll need to define your SQL code with both before passing parameters.

2. Escape user input. This isn’t as effective as stored procedures or parametrized queries but if you can’t use those two, it’s still better to go with escaping user input than nothing. Your syntax will vary with your database, soc heck your DBdocs so you’ll have examples and proper syntax.

3. Assume magic quotes are off. When that gpc variable is off, some, though not all, SQL injection attacks will be prevented. They aren’t an ultimate defense, however, and sometimes they might be turned off without your knowledge. This is why you want to have code for substituting your quotes with slashes. Jon Lee suggested the following code piece:

$username=$_POST['username']; followed by
$pw=$_POST['pw']; followed by
if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { followed by
$username=addslashes($username); followed by
$pw=addslashes($pw); followed by
} where pw is password.

Install patches often and on time. Even if you don’t have these vulnerabilities, when your development tools, operating system, or database server do, you’re still at risk. Install patches as soon as they become available.

4. Remove useless functionality. Database servers are complex and include more things than you need. More isn’t better when it comes to security. For example, xp_cmdshell is an extended store procedure that allows anyone (including hackers) to access the shell in MS SQL. Disable this and similar settings that are easy to misuse.

5. When making SQL injections, use automated testing tools. Even if developers keep in mind the rules above and try not to allow dynamic queries that include unsafe user inputs, it’s still important to confirm compliance via testing. Automated tests will check for SQL injections and you should use them on all the code included in your database applications.

A relatively reliable and easy tool for testing SQL injections is SQL Inject Me, a Firefox extension. Install it and you will be able to use it in the context menu when you right click it. You can also reach it from going from tools to options.

You can decide which tests you want to run and which values you would like to test. You can start your selected test or tests by pressing one of the buttons for testing. Once the tests are finished, you’ll receive a report that shows you what came up in the tests. There are several options you can select for the extension.

As you can see, there are lots of simple steps to take if you want to keep your code clear from possible SQL injection vulnerabilities.

]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2010/09/sql-injection-how-to-avoid-it/feed/ 2 Get Ready for Autumn 2010 Shopping Boom! http://smashingwebs.com/2010/08/get-ready-for-autumn-2010-shopping-boom/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/08/get-ready-for-autumn-2010-shopping-boom/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:42:12 +0000 admin http://smashingwebs.com/?p=690 The Fall is almost here and as every year it will bring the never-ending sweet season of sales. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Cyber Monday, Black Friday – we as online store customers are all waiting for them impatiently, and so does the audience of your online stores. The owners of online shops know that this time is the real shopping boom and the best time to get the maximum profit out of their projects.

According to PriceGrabber.com (one of the most trusted and effective online comparison shopping services) last year 80% of customers of online shops were planning to make a purchase on Black Friday and 66% on Cyber Monday. Can you even imagine this boom that drives everybody online to take advantage of all those discounts? And is your online project ready to meet all your clients and give them what they want?

Today is the right time to think about redesigning your online shop in order not to miss the autumn shopping boom. The latest news announced that TemplateMonster starts the eCommerce promo that can help us get utterly amazing results in this season. They offer 20% discount for all high-grade eCommerce products such as osCommerce Templates, Magento Templates, Zen Cart Templates, VirtueMart Templates, CRE Loaded Templates. According to the company, all these products correspond to the contemporary web design standards for eCommerce projects, feature catchy layout and are optimized for the maximum conversion. Besides, their designs feature the main principles of the successful eCommerce design – they’re self explanatory, they focus customer’s attention on your stores’ main points and of course they’re professionally done.

ecommerce templates discount

Remember – it takes few seconds for a customer to take a purchase decision. If your online shop doesn’t attract attention, you’ll fail. To succeed and convert your visitors into customers you’d better start your preparations now and perhaps TemplateMonster’s 20% discount is a nice chance to do it!

]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2010/08/get-ready-for-autumn-2010-shopping-boom/feed/ 2 Why multilingual websites are the future, and four tips for creating them http://smashingwebs.com/2010/08/why-multilingual-websites-are-the-future-and-four-tips-for-creating-them/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/08/why-multilingual-websites-are-the-future-and-four-tips-for-creating-them/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:53:03 +0000 admin http://smashingwebs.com/?p=653 Why create multilingual websites?

Native English-speakers are no longer the online majority
Of the 1.8bn people online around the world, only 495.8m are native English-speakers – that’s less than one third, and the number of non-English speaking web surfers is increasing all the time. In fact, Chinese speaking web surfers are set to overtake English-speakers in the not too distant future, with 407.7m already online (internetworldstats.com).

Online consumers shop in their own language
A study by the Common Sense Advisory found that 85% of all online consumers would only buy from a website if they could read about the product in their own native language, even if they had some competency reading in other languages.

Properly localised content is essential for trust
If you visit a site that’s trying to entice you to buy something, but the page is littered with spelling errors, awkward grammar and cultural references that make no sense to you, are you likely to hand over your credit card details to them? Hardly – and the same is true for speakers of any other language. Relying on Google Translate to do the translating for you is not going to instil confidence in your customers – you need to build fully localised sites for every market. In fact, the base standard now for a website to be considered truly ‘global’ is having more than 20 localised sites.

Non-English SEO is less competitive
Purely because there are currently fewer pages overall in languages other than English, that means there’s also lower keyword density for other languages. For instance, let’s say you’re selling baseball caps online. If you’re targeting the American market, then your keyword ‘baseball cap’ is competing with potentially hundreds of thousands of other instances of that keyword on English-language pages; however if you decide to expand into the French market, you’ll find much less competition online for the French term for ‘baseball caps’, ‘casquettes’.

Tips

Design
 You need a design that’s consistent in its branding message, but also flexible enough to adapt to different cultural preferences in terms of language direction, internet speed (avoid Flash wherever possible as it will slow your load times), color scheme and image density (eastern cultures tend to like a lot of color and imagery while western cultures go for minimalism). Look to the big international sites like Facebook, McDonald’s, and Coca Cola for ideas on how to build site frameworks that adapt easily across cultures, and always aim for horizontal navigation bars and a symmetrical design, to make it easier to switch the direction of your site’s text without having to redesign it all from the beginning.

Unicode UTF-8
You don’t want to have to rebuild your site from scratch for each different language, especially for those sites that require languages with non-Latin characters, such as Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Hindi. By using Unicode UTF-8 as your character encoding tool, you’ll have every character in over 90 scripts covered, which should be more than sufficient for your multilingual needs. Even better, it’s compatible with all the major browsers.

CSS
 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) keep your content separate from your design, which makes it much simpler for you to change the language of your text and your images between sites with different languages, without having to rebuild each site from scratch. Also, CSS makes it far easier to switch from left-to-right languages like English to a right-to-left language such as Arabic – by adding the right-to-left dir=”rtl” attribute to the necessary areas you can easily flip the script.

Content
 Don’t just write the one set of website text and then get it translated into your various languages, as you’ll need a different approach to appeal to different markets. Tailor your copywriting to each individual market – for instance, your site for the UK will likely benefit from a personal, even slightly irreverent tone, but your tone for Germany needs to be strictly business-like and factual, no hyperbole and no frivolity. By researching all your different markets’ tastes in design styles, color schemes, imagery and copywriting style before you build and launch your multilingual sites, you stand a much better chance of succeeding straight off the bat and becoming a serious player in the multilingual web.

About the author
Christian Arno is the founder and Managing Director of global translation agency and localisation specialists Lingo24. Launched in 2001, Lingo24 now has over 120 employees spanning four continents and clients in over sixty countries. In the past twelve months, they have translated over thirty million words for businesses in every industry sector and their projected turnover for 2010 is £6.3m.

]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2010/08/why-multilingual-websites-are-the-future-and-four-tips-for-creating-them/feed/ 1 30,000th Product at TemplateMonster – Promo Kicks Off http://smashingwebs.com/2010/08/30000th-product-at-templatemonster-promo-kicks-off/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/08/30000th-product-at-templatemonster-promo-kicks-off/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:02:58 +0000 admin http://smashingwebs.com/?p=621 On August 10, 2010, Template Monster – the famous templates provider – released its 30,000th template developed for photo portfolio web projects.

This template belongs to Flash CMS product category being designed specifically to fascinate you with professional FlashMoto and Papervision 3D technology. With My Photo Tunnel Flash CMS Template you can create visually distinguished art gallery with intensely modified layout – the theme displays original navigation presented in the style of the tunnel that is placed in the middle of the template. For each photographer this could be a topnotch Flash animated project for an impulsive and catchy online photo showcase.

30000th template at TemplateMonster

On the occasion of this anniversary template launch, Template Monster will hold a special promo for its almighty audience – those customers who buy any of Template Monster’s products (including this 30,000th template) on August 10 and 11, 2010, are able to get one template from the following product range totally free of charge. So, you can choose what product type will it be – PowerPoint Templates, Logo Templates, Corporate Identity Templates, Logosets or Iconsets. Remember, you can obtain only one free template from the above-mentioned manifold variety provided that you purchase whatever template you like within the specified time period.

If you are interested in this special offer from Template Monster team, visit their official blog entry to read the detailed description of this festive promo terms. This is a perfect chance to get a premium class template with a nice freebie, so be ready to take advantage of it.

]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2010/08/30000th-product-at-templatemonster-promo-kicks-off/feed/ 2 10 Premium Business Card Templates http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/10-premium-business-card-templates/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/10-premium-business-card-templates/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:08:28 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=474 Business cards are cards bearing business information about a company or individual. They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience and a memory aid. Now a days, your business card determines the standard of your company. Modern trends introduced a lot of new ideas in the case of business cards. So it would be nice if you have one smart, good looking, interactive business card for your firm. I’m pretty much sure that your customers will not throw away if you have a nice business card. So here I’m introducing you some of the premium business card templates that you can purchase for just $3. So enjoy the showcase :)

]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/10-premium-business-card-templates/feed/ 11 49 Amazing Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/49-amazing-premium-wordpress-portfolio-themes/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/49-amazing-premium-wordpress-portfolio-themes/#comments Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:50:59 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=469 If you are going to launch a new portfolio or blog with no time to design or code, I think it’s better to go for some cool premium wordpress themes. I think it’s okay to spend few bucks for great theme with full support and many features for fast projects. Many of my friends refer this way for their fast works. So in the showcase below, I’m presenting you some of the amazing wordpress themes that you dont wanna miss. So just have a look at these themes and have fun. I got a lot of inspiration from these themes for my future works. I think you will also get the same.

Levitation

Levitation is a WordPress Template, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. It comes with 5 sleek skins and 2 different front page designs (if the WordPress Live Preview is not enough for you, please check out the html templates that are already available, the look stays the same in the WordPress version)

Gateway Studios

Gateway Studios, Simplicity Overhaul features a simple yet beautiful design, that will impress your visitors with its delicate form. The theme comes with many great features that just work out of the box, without the need for plugins, making Gateway a very smart decision with everything Integrated.

RT-Theme

RT-Theme 6 wordpress edition is best suited for business, corporate or service websites.

  • 5 style options
  • Highly Customizable
  • Many backend options
  • Widgetized Slider with unlimited slide support and more…

DISCOVERY – WORDPRESS

Discovery WordPress theme is a full website for every web design studio, photographer, fashion company or even for a corporate website. Further more it features a wide variety of featured and design capability’s. And a custom WordPress admin panel

Minimal WordPress Portfolio

This template is packed with great features:

  • Custom Fading Taglines
  • Easy to edit, large home promo items
  • Custom admin page: edit colors, options, tagline, footer and much more!
  • Custom widgets: Social Media, Stylish Recent Posts
  • Contact form with validation
  • 4 Sidebars!

Clean Modern Simple

Main Features:

  • Extensive theme settings page (see screenshots above) filled with useful options for managing your site colors, logos, layouts, and more!
  • Very easy to customize, 8 home page layout options, one or two column layout for pages or posts.
  • Custom category template (see bottom of description), just create a page and tell it which categories to include (or exclude) and you’re set. Perfect for multiple blogs, portfolio items, sub-items and more!
  • Change the default “Read More” text site-wide or on a per-post basis!

Simplified WordPress Theme

Clean and appealing Portfolio/Corporate Worpress Theme.
- Widget ready
- JQuery Stepcarousel homepage slider – enable/disable option from Theme Options custom page
- JQuery Lightbox
- Jquery Form
- Working Ajax based contact form
- Live form email validation
- Valid XHTML /CSS
- Clean, commented code.

Simplified2 WordPress Theme

Clean and appealing Portfolio/Corporate Worpress Theme.
- Widget ready
- Easy to setup, Theme Options Page
- Ads support with enable/disable option
- JQuery Stepcarousel homepage slider
- JQuery Lightbox
- Jquery Form

Wordfolio

WordPress + Portfolio = Wordfolio, a wordpress theme which is suitable for graphic & web designers. Special thanks to Jon for his Badass WordPress Logo tutorial.

Concise

Concise is a very easy to customize theme which best suits business or portfolio sites. This theme has a feature loaded theme options page with over 50 options you can play with to make this theme Yours! – check out the screenshots to see what you get. Concise has a jquery featured slider where you can showcase posts in a specific category.

BOSSPRESS

BOSSPRESS , a wordpress theme which is suitable for web developers, designers, photographers and small corporates.

BOSSPRESS

BOSSPRESS , a wordpress theme which is suitable for web developers, designers, photographers and small corporates.

Flexolio

This incredibly versatile theme not only has 12 (Flexolio skin) +15 (Interline skin) basic themes variations available, not only does it come with the wonderful cu3er Flash Sliding component for increased eye candy and an alternative Javascript Slider…it also provides for 6 separate Widget areas with the incredible number of 54 layout combinations each. This theme meets all your layout and design needs in one smart package. Be ready for today’s requirements and tomorrow’s projects all at once.

Sleektabs

Sleektabs is a jQuery enhanced, premium WordPress Theme that loads all contents dynamically via AJAX and displays this content with a smooth sliding transition.
Sleektabs comes with 3 different skins you can choose from: standard, grunge and coffee

FolioTheme

It was created to be VERY easy to maintain using common WordPress posting and writing convention. No need for custom fields! Simply write a post like you normally would and use the WordPress Gallery “AddMedia” to upload your image, select “medium size” and “insert into post”. The image can be added anywhere in the text and it will create everything you need including the thumbnail.

W-PhotoStudio

WordPress as CMS for Photostudios, Photographers or anyone who’d like to showcase his photo albums/gallery sets.

Folio Theme

Folio is a theme designed with the intent of being platform for your personal portfolio showcase as well as working blog. The themes homepage highlights your most recent featured project as well as posts in an easy to navigate format.

Fancy Theme

A powerful WordPress theme special for online blogging and business/personal portfolio (webdesign, photography, interior design…)

Viso

Clean Photoblog theme with some very useful features.

  • All in one. Photoblog, gallery and blog.
  • Three display modes: Single Image, Munltiple Images & Blog
  • Make images private. (Private images are displayed logged in users only)
  • Allready integrated Lightbox (Slimbox & Imagezoom)
  • Title Imageslider

Kreativik

Kreativik is a result of our work on an easy, clean and solid design, which would be universal, cool and featured-packed at the same time. Finally available as wordpress theme!

Modern Portfolio/blog theme

BVD-Beautiful Website Design

FEATURES :

    Theme options Page

  • Jquery Slider
  • Auto resizable thumbnails
  • Built In Twitter widget
  • Footer widgetized
  • Sidebar widgetized
  • Built?in contact form

Business Professional Package

  1. Clean & Valid Code
  2. SEO friendly – Search engines see the content before the navigation (in the code)
  3. Dashboard panel to notify you of any future updates
  4. Tested in all major browsers
  5. “Widget-Ready” with built-in custom styling (Calendar, Archives, etc.)
  6. All major page templates included, including the 404 page

Memex Business WordPress Template

Memex Business WordPress Template is a feature-packed portfolio/blog theme that includes a full-featured, Admin Panel to change numerous options like theme switching to different colors, Homepage big heading. Homepage content below Heading, Homepage content below slider/ With its clean layout, Memex provides you with a theme that is extremely easy to install and setup with clear descriptions in the 15 pages Readme PDF .

Gallerific – Photography WordPress Theme

  1. Clean & Valid Code
  2. SEO friendly – Search engines see the content before the navigation (in the code)
  3. Dashboard panel to notify you of any future updates
  4. Tested in all major browsers
  5. “Widget-Ready” with built-in custom styling (Calendar, Archives, etc.)
  6. All major page templates included, including the 404 page

IdealCorp

This wordpress theme is ideal for the business, corporate site. It includes everything you possibly need for presenting your business online.

Sidebar consists of sleek modern sidebar widgets that let you display the information very effectively. Sidebar widgets can also display any kind of advertisments (the main width goes beyond 300px). All fonts are safe for web, no need to worry – the site will be displayed the same way on any computer.

Dark Atlantica

This theme is a complete WordPress Theme, designed from the ground up to function first and foremost as a portfolio, then as a comprehensive WordPress theme that can be used for just about any site that needs a beautiful layout. This theme is ideal for artists, designers, photographer, and other creatives that are in need of a portfolio template that is professional and “to the point”. Even if you don’t need the huge image gallery page, this template will also work great for sites that need to showcase a few images above each content-page in a slick, sophisticated way.

Creative WordPress Theme

  • New Admin menu in wp-admin (no more editing source of files)
  • Easier customization
  • You can add video files in Gallery section
  • Fixed bugs mentioned on Discussion Board
  • Pages with and without sidebar
  • Dynamic map on Contact page
  • Improved Testimonial and Advertisment widgets

Agivee

Agivee is WordPress Theme is suitable for your company website, looks more elegant and simple to make your image company is professional. Easy to customize and rich of features.

Delericon Business/Portfolio

Features:

  • 3D XML Slider: Cu3er
  • Alternate jQuery Slider: Alternate
  • Multiple Page templates
    • Index Page with 3D Slider
    • Index Page with jQuery Slider
    • Static Page with sidebar
    • Blog Overview

Cubit 6 in 1

Main Features:

  • The theme uses a javascript image transition at the mainpage only seen in flash before which suports an unlimted number of images. Take a look at the live preview and wait a few seconds for the image to transform
  • Highly flexible admin area, you are able to edit every content from the wordpress backend
  • 6 different cholor schemes
  • Multilevel Dorpdown menu, Breadcrumb Navigation, Post Pagination
  • jQuery Lavalamp for main menu
  • Advanced comments with reply function

Bluelight WordPress

Included Features

  • Installation Screencast!
  • Theme Options Page (makes setup very easy)
  • Quick Change Color Schemes (managed from theme options page)
  • jQuery Graphic Slider (managed via theme options)
  • Blog/Portfolio mash-up on Homepage
  • Featured Project

Atlantica (WordPress)

This theme is a complete WordPress Theme, designed from the ground up to function first and foremost as a portfolio, then as a comprehensive WordPress theme that can be used for just about any site that needs a beautiful layout. This theme is ideal for artists, designers, photographer, and other creatives that are in need of a portfolio template that is professional and “to the point”. Even if you don’t need the huge image gallery page, this template will also work great for sites that need to showcase a few images above each content-page in a slick, sophisticated way.

Sintagma

“Sintagma” is a Clean And Elegant WordPress Theme. It is great for any business, portfolio or personal sites . It includes different skins and page templates in order to present your information in a professional style.

Pacifica WP

This theme is a complete WordPress Theme, designed from the ground up to function first and foremost as a portfolio, then as a comprehensive WordPress theme that can be used for just about any site that needs a beautiful layout.

Pandora

More than 10 professionally-designed and easy customisable themes comes as standard: Aqua, Crimson, Eco, Egypt, Modern, Mystery, Nebula, Ocean, Olive, Parquet, Podium, Startup.

Unite

Unite is a merger of crisp design and powerful communication. It takes a clean, organized approach to presenting content so it’s easier to find what you want.

This is a premium WordPress theme with 5 pre-made skins including a dark theme and textured background theme. The theme is easy to modify and ready to be up and running out of the box. The PSD files included have been customized to allow fast skinning.

Los Angeles

This theme is a complete WordPress Theme, designed from the ground up to function first and foremost as a portfolio, then as a comprehensive WordPress theme that can be used for just about any site that needs a beautiful layout.

The PaperCore

There are 4 different professionally designed and unique styles. There are 2 stylish Portfolio/ News/ Featured Item sliders that are great to emphasize and present your products. The PhotoShop files are easy customizable and well organized.

Centita

Centita is WordPress Theme with minimalist and elegant look that suitable for your professional corporate website, easy to customize and rich of features.

Photo & Graphic Studio

Features

  • Valid CSS /XHTML Files (1.0 Strict)
  • Commented and clean CSS /XHTML, and theme files
  • Full layered PSD Files
  • All browser compatible
  • Flash like, jquery based 2 type showcase (Easy setup with custom fields)
    • Fullscreen background for photography and graphics
    • Fixed size in content for web works

Innovation+Science

Innovation+Science WordPress Edition is a clean, beautifully complex and very customizable theme, with many applications in personal and business use. It’s perfect for online magazines, personal/company portfolios, blogs and corporate sites. This theme comes with an unique, massive and functional backend CMS , that gives you almost unending possibilities

London Creative +

London Creative + comes with fully working contact form, awesome slider for your featured images, nasty spinning slider buttons (never saw them anywhere else, so you can call it unique), 2 message buttons under the slider and PrettyPhoto plugin (better clone of Lightbox).

ShapeShifter

This is easily the most fun I’ve ever had working on a WordPress theme to date! ShapeShifter is a single-page WordPress template that has been designed to be just about the simplest theme you could possibly use. This theme is lean, mean, and ready for you to install in minutes.

Display 3 in 1

DISPLAY is a WordPress Theme, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. It comes with a fantastic 3D Image slideshow that can be controlled from your backend with a custom tool. The Theme has a huge wordpress custom backend (8 additional Admin Pages) that make customization of the Theme easy for those who dont know much about coding or wordpress.

Twicet Business & Portfolio

Twicet is a WordPress Template, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. It comes with 5 sleek skins, if the WordPress Live Preview is not enough for you, please check out the html templates that are already available, the look stays the same in the WordPress version:

inFocus

inFocus is a Powerful Professional Premium WordPress theme. It comes with an impressive fully customizable jQuery homepage slider with 3 different staging effects.

Octofirst Business

  • easy to customize
  • theme options panel with color picker included
  • custom write panels
  • drop down menus
  • 4 sidebar-enabled areas for widgets and more…

]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/49-amazing-premium-wordpress-portfolio-themes/feed/ 19 10 Free WordPress Themes: April Package http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/free-wordpress-themes-april-package/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/free-wordpress-themes-april-package/#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:07:22 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=455 Now a days, Free WordPress themes are overtaking the premium themes while comparing the options, interactive view, overall outlook etc. You guys may be looking for some of the most popular free wordpress themes. If we go through the famous blogs, we can see a lot of free wordpress theme packs. If you are just staring a new blog of your own, you can simply go for the free wordpress themes, since your site isn’t not so popular. But once you got some good traffic, its better for you to switch on to a unique theme. This will help you to get your own identity in blogger’s world.

So in the show case below, I’m presenting some of the cool free yet professional like wordpress themes that will definitly help you in someway. I hope you will get some nice inspiration for your future works also. If you have some awesome free wordpress themes, lets share here and make this post contentful. So enjoy the showcase :)

Marahan Free WordPress Theme

Marahan is a really nice Free WordPress Theme developed by Padd Solutions that comes really close to being a premium theme, except its free!

The theme comes with a customizable homepage with a welcome section and a featured post section. It comes with 5 different color schemes to choose from and an easy to use admin control panel where you can change several settings.

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DesignPile Free WordPress Theme

DesignPile is a beautiful premium-like Free WordPress theme that is perfect for almost any blogging site.

The design of this theme is sort of grungy like with dark colors and some hand-drawn graphics. It comes with 3 different color schemes; Design Pile Blue, DesignPile Pink and Designpile Green.

PREVIEW DOWNLOAD

Florance WordPress Theme

Florance is one of the latest Free WordPress Themes from web2feel.com. This  theme has a very beautiful floral design accompanied by bright colors throughout.

Florance is a great theme for personal bloggers, especially those that love bright colors and flowers and it comes with some great premium-like features.

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Mag Prince Free WordPress Theme

MagPrince is a really Beautiful Free Magazine WordPress Theme that will make your site look awesome. Although Free, this theme comes with many features you would typically find in a Premium theme, due to the fact that it has an encrypted footer with some links on it.

Overall the design of the magprince wordpress theme is quite nice, with light blue colors and some white to blue gradients. And it would fit well almost any type of a blog.

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GamerPress Free Gaming WordPress Theme

Gamerpress is a really great premium-like Free WordPress theme that can be used for any site, yet it has been designed with Gaming sites or blogs in mind.

This theme is designed with a dark grays and yellows and with a grungy loook throughout the site.

Gamerpress, as the name suggests is a very well suited theme for gamer blogs. But it is also great for those that simply want a dark and grungy site.

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Bright Sky Free WordPress Theme

Bright Sky is a really beautiful WordPress Theme developed by KreativeThemes.com and is perfect for almost any time of site. Whether you are looking for a WordPress theme for your blog or news site, this theme could definitely be what you are searching for.

PREVIEW DOWNLOAD

Spectrum Free WordPress Theme

Spectrum is a very bright and colorful Free WordPress Theme created by Ignacio Ricci and is unlike any other other theme we have seeing.

This theme keeps up to modern design trends with cool out-of-the-box headings that exceed the main container and seem to pop-out, it has a really nice “see-through” background and neat fonts.

Overall this is a very Flashy WordPress Theme and is great for people looking to create a blog that really stands out the second you see it.

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Wise Business Free WordPress Theme

Wise Business is a Free WordPress Theme that is perfect if you are looking to create a site aimed at selling a product or service.

This theme has a really great layout with a dynamic main section on the homepage with subsections below.

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Notepad Free WordPress Theme

Notepad is a modern WordPress theme with a subtle touch of the sketchy effect. Key features include: multi-level dropdown menus, social media buttons, threaded & paged comments, and widget support. Users with a CSS3 compatible browser will see the visual enhancement such as rounded corners and drop shadow.

PREVIEW DOWNLOAD



]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/free-wordpress-themes-april-package/feed/ 13 How to Make Your Blog as a Membership Site http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/how-to-make-your-blog-as-a-membership-site/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/how-to-make-your-blog-as-a-membership-site/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:21:20 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=450 I think you may come across with a lot of sites that may have a membership program. Through this, you can give away your stuffs for free or for $$. You can fix a monthly membership price and can get some members if you have some awesome stuffs to deliver in a periodical time. That means only those members who have taken an account in your blog will only get the valuable things that you provide.

We have a lot of sites like this who provides membership programs. If you want to download some tutorials, you will have to get the premium account. Through this way, the blog owner can get some revenue.

Another feature of this membership site is that, your content will be available only at the safest hands. Since you are not providing your contents (tutorials, packs etc) for free only those people who are really interested in your stuffs will download it. So no worry about any kind of missuse.

So if you are about to start or have a blog of your own, you can simple convert your existing or starting blog in to a membership blog or site though a simple process. You will get wordpress plugins to convert the same. So no need of going for another coding works. You can simply install the plugin and start making a new membership blog.

In the resource below, let me introduce you a wordpress plugin that will convert your blog in to a well defined membership blog. Simply sit down and maintain your blog. That’s all what you have to do in this plugin.

Magic Members Plugin is such a plugin that will help you to convert your blog to a fully functional membership blog. Just download the plugin and install it in your blog (wordpress) and start creating a brand new blog of your own.

Wordpress Membership Plugin

You will have full access on this control panel. The main features includes;

  • Multiple Membership Levels
  • Easy Integration with Existing or New WordPress Blogs
  • Flexible Membership Options
  • Payment Integration Modules
  • Unlimited Coupon Creation
  • Login Redirection
  • Pay Per Post Access

and much more..

So if you are interested in Magic Members Plugin, just have a try. So enjoy the show :)



]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/how-to-make-your-blog-as-a-membership-site/feed/ 12 Google Officially Launched Google Buzz Share Buttons http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/google-officially-launched-google-buzz-share-buttons/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/google-officially-launched-google-buzz-share-buttons/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:58:27 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=447 We know that the search engine giant has recently introduced a new micro bloging service called Google Buzz. Through this, you can simply share the most valuable contents with your friends which includes images, videos that twitter really can’t do.
But Google never introduced the official sharing buttons for Google Buzz. Now the things gone up down and Google Officially introduced the Google Buzz share buttons for website owners, bloggers etc.

You can simple customize your button from the Google Buzz page. All you need to do is to simple copy and paste the code in to your blog. That’s all. Google Launched this stuffs Yesterday (13th April) and the button contains a counter to count the number of buzz that a link got, so that the visitors can easily understand whether the content is hot or not :)

Google Buzz Stuffs includes
1. Post to Stuffs
2. Follow on Buzz

You can create two different buttons for the Google Buzz. One for following the Buzz and another to count the buzz.

Easy to Customiz the Buttons

These button are also integrated into number of sharing platforms like ShareThis, Meebo, Shareholic, AddThis etc.



]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/google-officially-launched-google-buzz-share-buttons/feed/ 4 Top RSS icon packs for your blog http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/top-rss-icon-packs-for-your-blog/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/top-rss-icon-packs-for-your-blog/#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:46:12 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=436 You may probably come across with a lot of blogs and a variety of designed themes. Some of them attracts us to visit the blog regularly. But what if you have some good articles and no one to read it? So you should have some regular vivitors. For that, you can give them the RSS feeds. But what if you put that rss link simply in a normal or a normal image? I think that will definitly look very crappy. So if you have a good RSS button in the right place of your blog, that will definitly bring you a lot of subscribers than you expected. So just wanna try it? Today I have some cool rss icon packs for you to amaze your visitors. So enjoy the show case.

RSS Feed Buttons

Coffee cup, Bilboard, Balloon and Dude reading RSS Icon pack

RSS on Fire Icon Pack

Glossy Orbs RSS

Blue Jeans RSS Icons

Wax Seals

Feedsessive Icon Set

Seasonal RSS Icons

Circle Feeds Icons


The New RSS Icon

Web 2.0 Lean RSS Icons


Feedicons 2



]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/top-rss-icon-packs-for-your-blog/feed/ 10 10 Testing and Check Before Launching Your Web http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/10-testing-and-check-before-launching-your-web/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/04/10-testing-and-check-before-launching-your-web/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:15:09 +0000 denbagus http://smashingwebs.com/?p=404 Your web site is designed, CMS works, the content has been added and the client happy. It’s time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a new web site was difficult to keep track of everything you need to check before you life. This can be even harder if you have a tight deadline and you’re in a hurry to get something done.

Therefore be useful to have a list of things to help ensure that you’ve got all the main things discussed. Thus, this post discusses some important tests you want to finish before launching your web site.

Titles and Meta Data
Your page title is the most important element in SEO and also important to let users know what’s in the yard. Make sure that changes on every page and is associated with a content.Meta description page and keyword tags are not important for SEO (at least for the major search engines only), but still a good idea to include them. Change the description on each page to connect with the content page, because this is often what Google displays search results in the description.

Cross-Browser Check
It is important that your website works well on all browsers. Everything should work, and users will not see a problem. Make sure your site works well in popular browsers such as Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8, Firefox 3, Safari 3, Chrome, Opera and the iPhone.

Link
Make sure your logo links to home pages. Also, think about how your links work. Is it clear to new users that they are the links? They must stand out from other text on the page. Do not just assume all your links work. Click on them. You may often forget to add “http://” to link to external websites. Do not underline text that Is not a link because it will confuse users.

Validation
You should aim for 100% valid website. That said, it is not the end of the world if your website does not validate, but it’s important to know the reason why not, so you can correct any errors that disgusting. common gotchas include no “alt” tag, with no closing tag and use “&” instead of “&” to ampersands.

RSS Links
If your website has a blog or news, you must have an RSS feed that users can subscribe. Users should be able to easily discover RSS feeds. It is common to put a small RSS icon in your browser’s address bar.

Sitemap
You need to make sure to add a sitemap.xml file to your root directory. Because this allows the major search engines easily index your site. From search engine crawlers will be to all pages of your website. XML-Sitemap automatically creates a sitemap.xml file for you. After creating the file, upload to the root directory so the location is www.mydomain.com / sitemap.xml.

404 pages
The most frequently overlooked design element is 404 pages. When visitors access the user page that does not exist, your page is displayed 404. This can happen for various reasons, including other websites that link to a page that does not exist. Get your users back on track by providing a useful 404 pages that refer them to the home page or other pages that showed they might be interested in.

Optimize
to configure your website for optimal performance not just once. You must do this continuously after the start, but you can take some simple steps before starting as well. Reduce HTTP requests, using CSS sprites as much as possible, optimizing images for the Web, compressing JavaScript and CSS files and so on can all help load pages faster and uses less server resources.

Back Up
If you are using a database on your website, you need a back-up strategy. If you use WordPress, installing WordPress Database Backup, you can set to automatically backup your emails. Or do you regret not having a back-up on the day will come

Analytics
important analytical tool to measure the statistics to see how your web site to do and how successful your conversion rate. Track unique hits daily, monthly page views and statistics on the browser, all data that is useful to start from the 1st day of tracking. Google Analytics is the most favorite tool for website owners.







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So in the show case below, let me introduce you the most popular Firefox personas. Try it on your pc. Enjoy the show case and have fun :)

Groovy Blue

Abstract Black

Mozilla Firefox

Japanese Tattoo

Abstract Electric

Firefox B

Abstract splash

Avatar 2009

Leaves

Yosemite

Colorful

Firefox Tail Twister

Cherry Hotmail skin

Fractal elemental

Hippie vintage

FCBarcelona – Mes Que Un Club

Aurora Australis

Tiger Eyes

Audi R8 LMS







]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2010/03/most-popular-mozilla-firefox-personas/feed/ 13 20 Most Wanted Chrome Extensions for Web Developers and Designers http://smashingwebs.com/2010/03/20-most-wanted-chrome-extensions-for-web-developers-and-designers/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/03/20-most-wanted-chrome-extensions-for-web-developers-and-designers/#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:46:17 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=396 Yesterday was the world of WordPress plugins and today, the era of Google Extensions and what will be tomorrow ? Before going to the future, lets think of today. Most of you don’t know (including me) what all things Google does for us. Google Chrome made a history in the field of Fast Google product surfing. Now google came with Chrome Extensions just  like Addons. Community made a lot of useful Extensions for the Google Chrome users to make the surfing more easy and user interactive. With these chrome extensions you can do what ever you want.

Here in the following showcase, you can experience some of the most wanted Chrome Extensions that will defenitly help the designers and web developers. So Enjoy the show case and have fun :)

Color Picker

Color Oicker lets you quickly get the Hex and RGB values of any color! Also adjust Hue, Saturation, and Balance.

Domain Availability Checker

This extension checks the availability of a domain name. What’s the point of going to another page when you can check it from your toolbar.

MeasureIt!

MeasureIt! gives you the ability to draw out a ruler that will help you get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

Speed Tracer

Speed Tracer is a tool to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them as your application runs.

Lorem Ipsum Generator

Lorem Ipsum Generator gives you an easy and convenient way to generate dummy text for your design mock-ups.

IE Tab

Use Internet Explorer to display web pages in a Chrome tab. Some sites can only be displayed using IE, and with this extension you can now see those sites without leaving Chrome.

LastPass

LastPass is a free password manager and form filler. LastPass is also available for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari (Mac).

Chrome SEO

The Google Chrome SEO Extension. Make your SEO tasks easier with Chrome SEO Tools, includes ‘all’ the stats and data you need.

Google Share Button

Use the Share extension to share webpages via your social networks, email and blogs.

Delicious Tools

Quick access to saving Delicious bookmarks. Customizable keyboard shortcut. Selected text populates your notes field.

Aviary Screen Capture

Take a screenshot of any webpage and edit it directly in your browser with Aviary.com applications. Plus convenient access to the Aviary website and tools.

Google Translate

This extension adds a button to your browser toolbar. Click the translate icon whenever you want to translate the page you’re visiting.

Google Dictionary (by Google)

With this extension, you can:
1) Double-click any word to view its definition in a small pop-up bubble.
2) View the complete definition of any word or phrase using the address bar dictionary.

RSS Subscription Extension (by Google)

This extension auto-detects RSS feeds on the page you are reading and upon finding one will display an RSS icon in the Omnibox, allowing you to click on it to preview the feed content and subscribe.

Webpage Screenshot

Fast&Simple solution to save JPG screenshots of any webpage. The first extension that captures the whole page.

Shareaholic for Google Chrome

The easiest way to share interesting webpages using Facebook, Twitter, Email, Gmail, Reader, Bookmarks, Buzz, and more…

Google Mail Checker

Displays the number of unread messages in your Google Mail inbox. You can also click the button to open your inbox.

SendTo Extension

Send currently viewed page to various internet services directly from your Chrome browser.

Google Reader Checker

This extension adds a button to the menu bar which notifies when a Google Reader feed has a new item

BoogleMarks

Simple Google Bookmarks extension. Integrates the use of the online Google Bookmarks service with the Google Chrome Browser.

]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2010/03/20-most-wanted-chrome-extensions-for-web-developers-and-designers/feed/ 6 10 Amazing iPhone PSD Resources http://smashingwebs.com/2010/03/10-amazing-iphone-psd-resources/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/03/10-amazing-iphone-psd-resources/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:57:54 +0000 denbagus http://smashingwebs.com/?p=380 .psd source files are truly amazing and unique. Not only talented artists, but also offer the opportunity to dig deeper and discover how they were created. It will give you the opportunity to learn, as opposed to tutorials, step by step. With the PSD extension. , can your sleeves and plunge your hands dirty in the internal life.

Whether learning new techniques to your last wireframing Mobile App, or just curious about how the design, everything. PSD files below have one thing in common: they are very detailed and high quality.

iPhone PSD Vector Kit

iPhone GUI PSD

Apple iPhone Mobile Phone Design

Apple IPhone Case

iPhone Photoshop Template

iPhone 3G PSD

iPhone/Windows Mobile-Hybrid Sexy Cell Phone

Another 3G PSD

iPhone Interface 320480

Found Freebie – iPhone

And thats it. Enjoy!

]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2010/03/10-amazing-iphone-psd-resources/feed/ 5 SmashingWebs Jillz Icon Pack Free Download http://smashingwebs.com/2010/03/smashingwebs-jillz-icon-pack-free-download/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/03/smashingwebs-jillz-icon-pack-free-download/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:47:14 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=383 Hello friends, smashingwebs proudly presents our first free social networking icon packs before you. This pack includes 12 icons with 2 different color formats. We will be having updated versions in the upcoming days. We are dedicating this icon pack to the webdesigners, graphics designers, webdevelopers and for those who finds it very helpful for their design works. This icon pack is licensed under free distribution and no sale or any commercial use of this icons is strictly prohibited. You are free to use this pack in any design works. You can download the psd file plus entire view of the icon pack from the following link. So enjoy the showcase and have fun :)

Download Now

]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2010/03/smashingwebs-jillz-icon-pack-free-download/feed/ 3 Famous Fonts for Famous works http://smashingwebs.com/2010/03/famous-fonts-for-famous-works/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/03/famous-fonts-for-famous-works/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:14:41 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=347 While you create some awesome logos, webpages, bussiness cards fonts takes a major role. If you have a great font, you can definitly convert it in to a text based logo just like puma, espn, yahoo etc. So in the showcase below, we have some great logo that conquired the world by some awesome brands. I’m pretty much sure that you will come across with these logos at any part of your net browsing. So enjoy the show case.

Hollywood style font

SF Sports Night

Willin Grace

Yahoo

Lion King

Metro DF

Honest Johns

Packard Clipper

Rebuffed

USUZI

  • ]]> http://smashingwebs.com/2010/03/famous-fonts-for-famous-works/feed/ 5 Top 10 Tutorials to Replace Flash With jQuery http://smashingwebs.com/2010/03/top-10-tutorials-to-replace-flash-with-jquery/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/03/top-10-tutorials-to-replace-flash-with-jquery/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:34:30 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=342 We know that  Flash webpages and flash items for a website will be something awesome and interactive.  It provides smooth running of the webpage once its fully loaded. Designers can explore their creativity in the flash. But the only drawback for the flash is that it needs the flash player to be installed in the web browser to view the Flash items.

    Now a days, we are dealing with the Java scripts and it finds a great scope ite n the field of Animation. Yes, jQuery(java scripts) is about to overtake our Flash elements. There is no need of any flash plaers to view this animations. So do you know how to make some awesome stuffs that will help you to make your blog, webpages to stand out? Here we have some great tutorials to create your own jquery items. You can also suggest your favorite and more in the comment section. So Enjoy the Gallery :)

    Dock Menu

    If you are a big Mac fan, you will love this CSS dock menu. It is using Jquery library and Fisheye component from Interface and some of the nDesign icons. It comes with two dock position: top and bottom. I’m pretty much sure that you will like this tutorial.

    Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS

    Do you ever think that, when a user visits your webpage, they will look at your navigational menu. If that is organized and well structured, they may get interested in your blog :) So try this jQuery tutorial that will help you to build a custome navigational bar.

    Sliding menu using jQuery

    Bored with plain menu bar? Then you should take a look at this tutorial. This will help you to create a Sliding menu bar using our jQuery. It’s something awesome. I just come across with this tutorial day ago.

    liScroll (a jQuery News Ticker made easy)

    Just Look at this simple tutorial for making a simple scroll bar for your webpages. Since it’s a simple tutorial, you can definitely learn the basic things of jQuery.

    Adding to Our Leopard Desktop with jQuery

    Hey, try this one. Are you interested in the Leopard Desktop? and do you want to show it in your webpage? It’s simple like anything. So you ought to try this tutorial. Make the visitors to feel something different when they visit your webpage.

    How to Load In and Animate Content with jQuery

    In this tutorial we will be taking your average everyday website and enhancing it with jQuery. We will be adding ajax functionality so that the content loads into the relevant container instead of the user having to navigate to another page. We will also be integrating some awesome animation effects.

    jquery Hover Sub Tag Cloud

    You may be fed up with the old wordpress plugins that shows the tag clouds of your articles. Want to makeyour own tag cloud? then you should try this article. Atleast read this one. I’m sure you will definitely like this one.

    LavaLamp for jQuery lovers!

    I think you should have some sort of flash menu bar to attract your visitors. But this is not so good when talking about the flash players and all. So you just try this jQuery tutorial that make some navigational bar animation whan you rolls your mouse over the menu.

    jQuery Tutorials for Designers

    This article contains 10 visual tutorials intended for web designers and newbies on how to apply Javascript effects with jQuery. In case you don’t know about jQuery, it is a “write less, do more” Javascript library.

    Animated Sharing Bar With jQuery & CSS

    This is the one I don’t wanna miss. I really really liked this tutorial. Basically I’m fedup with the old share buttons and its performance and appearance. But when I found this tutorial, I really really liked it and Book marked it. I”m pretty much sure that you also will like this one.

    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/03/top-10-tutorials-to-replace-flash-with-jquery/feed/ 10     Embed Article WP Plugin: Builds SEO & Earns http://smashingwebs.com/2010/02/embed-article-wp-plugin-builds-seo-earns-ad-revenue/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/02/embed-article-wp-plugin-builds-seo-earns-ad-revenue/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:18:38 +0000 kris http://smashingwebs.com/?p=328 Embed Article launched a WordPress Plugin yesterday giving any Publisher, big or small, the chance to build some great SEO while earning extra ad revenue from their content. And best of all, it’s free…

    Here’s how it works: People who copy content from an Embed Article enabled website or blog are presented with the Embed Article Widget Window offering a unique code snippet as an alternative to their copied text. This unique code snippet, when pasted into their website’s HTML, will render out the portion of the article they copied, a link back to the article source and a display ad which the Publisher can use to monetize their content on the embedding website. Publishers also get access to reporting on what sites are embedding which articles, and how many impressions the embedded articles are receiving.

    Here are the benefits explained in more depth:

    Links Back: Every time someone embeds one of your articles using this technology, you’ll be getting a link back. This is a proven method to build SEO for your website. You’ll also be getting additional traffic to your blog from people clicking these links to read more articles from your blog.

    Ad Revenue: Every embedded article will also display an ad. This ad can be earning you money by submitting your ad code to Embed Article during your account registration. Your ads can  be Google AdSense or any ad network you choose.

    SEO Protection: When bloggers or aggregation sites copy and paste text from your original articles, they unfortunately end up competing for search engine position with the source of the article – your website. To counteract this issue, the Embed Article technology renders out the text from an article on the embedding blog in JavaScript making it invisible to search engines.

    Reporting: Wouldn’t you like to see where your content ends up? Now you can. You’ll be able to see all the websites that are embedding your articles, as well as how many impressions they’re generating.

    Another feature Embed Article gives you is the option to chose a button design to place somewhere on your blog (similar to retweet and FB Share) to encourage people to use it and show some pride. The more people that embed your articles, the better you look.

    So if you’re one of those bloggers looking to build SEO (who isn’t), and earn additional ad revenue (Yes, please), then install their WP Plugin by Registering Free here: http://www.embedarticle.com/register

    Soon you’ll be telling everyone to “Take my content! Embed my articles!” It’s also a great way to trade links and share posts between friendly bloggers or partner sites.

    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/02/embed-article-wp-plugin-builds-seo-earns-ad-revenue/feed/ 7     Google Buzz button for your Blogs http://smashingwebs.com/2010/02/google-buzz-button-for-your-blogs/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/02/google-buzz-button-for-your-blogs/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:57:27 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=300 We are now having another twitter from the Search Engine giant Google. It has been now three days since Google launched Google Buzz service. Due to this, I think Google hasn’t given any Share buttons so far. So Lets try to create one for our blogs. It’s very simple. Anyone who have a basic knowledge in html/css can do this.

    First of all, create a Buzz button for the blogposts. Here I have one for you :)

    You can download this for free. Now, all you need to do is to find the suitable position in your blogpost to setup the share button.

    I think its better to add that to the end of the post or at the beginning. Go to your source file of the wordpress/Blogger page and find the suitable for to place the code. Now Just copy the code and paste it into the source code and save it. That’s all.

    COPY AND PASTE THIS CODE FOR BLOGGER

    
<div style='float:right;padding:0px;'>
<a expr:href='&quot;http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=&quot;
+ data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title'
target='_blank' title='Buzz this'><img alt='Buzz this' border='0'
class='icon-action'
src='http://smashingwebs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/2/googlebuzz/th_google32px.png'/>
</a></div>

    Now, copy and paste code that you have downloaded, after data:post.title/> and then click on preview to check if everything works fine. If no, then check for uncompleted tags else click on Save template. You canuse your own images instead of the one given here. That’s all now refresh your page and you can see the fully functional Google Buzz button for your visitors :)

    COPY AND PASTE THIS CODE FOR WORDPRESS

    
<a href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=
<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" title="Buzz this Content">
<img src='http://smashingwebs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/2/googlebuzz/th_google32px.png'/></a>

    Enjoy with the stuff :)

    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/02/google-buzz-button-for-your-blogs/feed/ 1     How do you Keep your Desktop ? http://smashingwebs.com/2010/02/how-do-you-keep-your-desktop/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/02/how-do-you-keep-your-desktop/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:37:36 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=294 In my hostel, we had a lot of friends with latest model laptop. Most of them have Win 7, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD, 1GB GC etc.. But once a new person logs in to their account, he may get stuck there. All you can see is ugly wallpaper, a lot of icons with no arrangement, poor booting speed etc.

    So I tried to find a good answer for keeping the desktop clean. I was searching for this a long time and I couldn’t found a single informative item (nothing new). So I did some research and found some great things.

    If you are using Windows 7, why don’t you go for a circular dock? You can simply download it from the internet for free. This will give you a clean look for your icons in the desktop. Also please avoid keeping large sized files or icons in the desktop since it will badly affects the Booting speed.

    The most important point is that of selecting a suitable wallpaper for your monitor. If you are using wide screens, definitely go for wide wallpapers. Also look at the clarity of the image (mainly resolution). Please avoid selecting such wallpaper which contains over works in it since it will cause a bad impression on the icons over the desktop. I found a lot of wallpaper which can be used for circular dock.

    Another thing relating to the wallpaper is that, please try to select wallpapers matching to your Laptop color. I personally prefer Black color since it will also bring me a large  power save. So go for black wallpapers and attach the circular dock. So this will give your desktop a clear and clean look :)

    Below are some of my old desktop screenshots. Look how good was them.

    SCREEN SHOTS

    Download the Images

    You can have these wallpapers. Simply download the following wallpapers and have fun.

    1. SmashingWebs1

    2. SmashingWebs2

    3. SmashingWebs3

    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/02/how-do-you-keep-your-desktop/feed/ 3     New Look to SmashingWebs http://smashingwebs.com/2010/02/new-look-to-smashingwebs/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/02/new-look-to-smashingwebs/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:33:15 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=291 Almost one month from the day I started blogging and SmashingWebs is taking a huge leap!
    Initially I was wondering how I can make up this blog since I’m an Engineering Student as well as an online freelance graphics designer. I havn’t got a chance to write something in any blog. But sincerely Im pretty much sure that I can contribute something to you people even if it doesn’t meets the required quality
    Today SmashingWebs got a high traffic and increased its rank to 1,30000+ within a month according to alexa. So I’m very happy with this blog now. But few days back, we got a major technical problem from the side of server and was not able to shown you new contents. Now, we came back with a new look to smashingwebs. I hope you guys enjoyed the new look a lot.

    So Kepp in touch with us and we will bring new quality stuffs soon.

    Winner Announced

    Another important thing is that, we just got the winner for the give away contest held a couple of days ago. We are very happy to present out lucky winner FreePostia. The winner is selected through random.org

    So congrats to FreePostia.

    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/02/new-look-to-smashingwebs/feed/ 0     Create a Welcome Page for your Facebook Fan page http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/create-a-welcome-page-for-your-facebook-fan-page/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/create-a-welcome-page-for-your-facebook-fan-page/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:37:14 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=272 I think most of you have a fan page of yours in the famous social networking site, facebook. Having a facebook fan page for your webpage or your service will provide you quality traffic from facebook and also visitors can get the latest news from you.
    So if you have a fan page, then definitely you should have a Welcome page. That mean your visitors will come to this page where you have some welcome messages. I’m pretty much sure that they will enjoy your fan page.
    So how to make your own welcome page in facebook? It’s that much easier. All you need to have is an image which contains your welcome message. (it’s better to have a ads like image). If you don’t have any image, don’t worry you can simply enter any text in the welcome page.
    Today I will show you how to make a Welcome page in Facebook for your fan page.

    This is the Tab you can see in your fan page. This contains the welcome Tab also.

    So in order to get your own welcome Tab, login to your facebook fan page account, then search for FBML in the top search bar.

    You can see 2 results for the key word. Click the static FBML. This application allows you to create your welcome page smoothly.

    Once you reached the application page, click the “Add to my page”. This will add FBML to your page and hence can be easily used.

    Now go back to your profile and click the “Edit this page”.

    Now you can see a box called FBML 1. Click the pencil icon in the right side of the box.

    Now you will get the space where you can add your welcome messages. Give the title as “Welcome” (or as your choice). Now enter the content to be displayed in the welcome page. You can add images, videos or anything as your wish. Just add the html tags for them. If you have a welcome image which displays all your details, then you can simply put the image there. :)

    Once you got all your content in the box, save it. If you want to change it, you can do it later.

    Now You need to add a welcome tab. Initially your Tab section may look like this.

    So click the “+” symbol. You will get a list  like as shown below. There you can see your welcome page. Here it’s shown as the “Welcome”. Click on that.

    Now your welcome page tab is added to fan page :) Now if you need to make this welcome tab as the default page, that’s if a visitor comes to the page, they want to see your welcome message first, then use the following steps.

    Click on the “Option” button just below the share button.

    Now click the icon “Settings”.

    Now you will get the settings for the Tabs. Change the “Default landing Tab for Everyone Else: ” to your WELCOME page and Save.

    That’s all. Now your Facebook fan page is ready to show your visitors. :) Just try and Have fun. Ask me if you have any questions.

    Update: This page refers to the old Facebook process. Facebook changed the process earlier this year. We are working on a new tutorial, but in the meantime, check out this Like Page Builder….free edition. Let us know how it works for you!

    Facebook Like Page Builder

    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/create-a-welcome-page-for-your-facebook-fan-page/feed/ 51     Give away from SmashingWebs http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/give-away-from-smashingwebs/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/give-away-from-smashingwebs/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:39:52 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=268 Hello friends, SmashingWebs is conducting another great give away. Do you have a twitter account? Connect with us. You will get $100 for your twitter account. We are now looking for some great followers to SmashingWebs. As a part of that, we are here to give a lucky winner $100.

    To be eligible to win, all you need to do is leave a comment with your Twitter account name after following it with SmashingWebs’s twitter account. Make sure to include your correct email address with your comment so that we can contact you. This giveaway is open worldwide, but make sure to get your comment in before midnight, Sunday,  January 31st, 2010, Eastern Standard Time. We’ll announce the winners next week, after they have been confirmed by email. Remember we had a great give away in the 1st weeek of Jan.

    So Start Connecting right away.


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/give-away-from-smashingwebs/feed/ 17     10 Most Wanted Magazine Themes http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/10-most-wanted-magazine-themes/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/10-most-wanted-magazine-themes/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:26:11 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=246 I just post some portfolio themes last time and I got some emails telling that they need to have some professional WordPress Magazine Themes. So here we go. I got the most wanted magazine themes ever. This is Just a continuation of Top 15 Premium WordPress themes. So go ahead and find your favorite theme now. Also have a look at our First PSD wordpress Template design

    Our Magazine

    Wordpress Magazine Theme

    Price Just $32.00

    I just liked the arrangement of elements in the page. Clean effect. I’m sure that you will definitely love this one. Unique slidebar. Overall fell is like the same as tutplus.com

    Other Features:

    • JFlow – Slider using jquery
    • SuperFish – Dropdown menu
    • User Link Feed – Readers can submit links
    • Unique page template for pages, archives, search result, author, user link feed etc.
    • Feed counter in text
    • No need to key in any custom field value, custom input field is already provided. Simply key in the url/image path when writing a post.
    • Ad Management system.

    BigFeature – WordPress Theme

    Wordpress Magazine Theme

    Price $27.00

    One of the Most sold themes. I really liked the simplicity. Just have a look at this one.

    Features

    • Content based design, with big images and nice typography.
    • Many page templates (see demo website).
    • Very many theme settings. Preview.
    • Search Engine Optimized
    • Localized (easy to translate).
    • RTL stylesheet.
    • 3 Free Childthemes.
    • Cufon font replacement enabled (with cufon uploader).
    • Logo uploader.

    WP Distinctive – WordPress Community Theme

    Wordpress Magazine Theme

    Price $27.00

    Great look. You will defenitly like it. Good color combination also.

    Features:

    • Two Column Tabless Layout – based on a grid utlizing the rule of thirds
    • Custom Theme Administration Panel – Allows you to edit template and home page content including the logo, footer logo, flickr group url, about me verbiage, google analytics code as well as many other options. No need to go searching through code to make template changes.
    • Custom Write Post Panel – Adds all the necessary image and video fields without the use of a plugin. This is built in and ready to go once you activate the theme.
    • Video Capable – add video into your posts, by just copy/pasting the embed code from your favorite video service (YouTube, Vimeo, etc) into the Video field on the Write panel – no plugins required!

    Sofa Rooster, WordPress theme

    Wordpress Magazine Theme

    Price $37.00

    Wow.. One of my most favorite theme.

    Key features

    • jQuery featured content slider
    • Widget ready sidebar
    • Built-in Plugger system
    • Built-in Contact form
    • Built-in Pagination
    • Built-in Breadcrumbs
    • Built-in Post related document downloads

    QuickRise WordPress Theme

    Wordpress Magazine Theme

    Price $27.00

    The front-end is powered by jQuery – Page loading, featured content slides, pop-up menu with smooth fade in and out, and Lightbox powered post images.

    • Valid XHTML and Valid CSS codes.
    • Unobtrusive Javascript/jQuery code.
    • Neatly organized theme files.
    • Support for WordPress 2.7’s threaded and paged comments.

    Javazine

    Wordpress Magazine Theme

    Price $32.00

    I can see some black beauty. At the administration page you can define which javascript improvements you want to enable. (jQuery support, tooltips, tabs, smooth scrooling for anchor links… ) You also have the possibility to add your Google analytics code here.

    Other features:

    • Breadcrumb navigation with nested page/category support
    • CSS Drowpdown Menu enhanced with jQuery
    • Gravatar Support
    • Comments of Post Author and admin are highlighted
    • Seperation of comments and trackbacks
    • Multiple PSDs included


    Our Community

    Wordpress Magazine Theme

    Price $32.00

    Something on my mind.. But can’t express that. Yo should have a look at this one.

    Features

    • Threaded comment ( up to level 3) and paged comments supported.
    • 2 widget sidebars for different pages.
    • Login on any pages.
    • Custom admin menu.
    • 3 column
    • Drop down menu ( for categories and Pages)
    • Featured post in main page.

    Imperial

    Wordpress Magazine Theme

    Price $32.00

    Main Features

    • 2 full colour schemes – dark and light.
    • User specified “accent” colour can be chosen from a colour picker in WP-Admin for easy customization.
    • Flexible photo area supports an image of any height. No need to resize, as the overflow is hidden automatically.
    • Dynamic image resizing for post thumbnails used through-out the theme.
    • Custom built theme settings panel within WP-Admin that allows you to customize the theme without editing any templates.
    • Flexible logo space allows images up to 900px wide and any height. Image path and dimensions are entered in WP-Admin.

    Sharp

    Wordpress Magazine Theme

    Price $27.00

    I think the Slim sidebar gives more space for the content area.

    Template features:

    • WordPress 2.6 & 2.7 Theme
    • Easy logo change
    • Sidebar Widget Ready
    • Valid CSS and XHTML 1 .0 strict
    • 2 columns tableless fixed layout
    • 4 PSD files
    • Easy customization

    NewsPress – WordPress

    Wordpress Magazine Theme

    Silver beauty. The Blue color gives more impressive look.

    • Threaded Comments
    • CSS3 Dropshadows
    • Admin Options Page
    • Clickable Logo
    • 3 Pages
    • jQuery Dropdown Menu
    • Separate Logo PSD
    • Cufon Font Replacement
    • Featured Content Fader
    • Toggle Widgets


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/10-most-wanted-magazine-themes/feed/ 4     WordPress: Basic to Advanced http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/wordpress-basic-to-advanced/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/wordpress-basic-to-advanced/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:06:21 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=241 I get a lot of emails asking for some tutorials on wordpress installation and usage. For the first couple of emails I made reply but its still continues. So I’m thinking of some tutorials on WordPress; Basic to Advance. But I think its very hesitating to write down and read all those things. Its better to view the things to understand easily. So I just collected some Youtube videos on the WordPress tutorials. I made some researches on this topic and found these tutorials will definitely help you. So enjoy the showcase.

    WordPress Tutorial

    This tutorial shows you how to set up a WordPress blog, change its template, add categories, password-protect a post, and add a blogroll.

    Dashboard Basic Introduction

    This beginner-level WordPress tutorial shows you how to use the new WordPress  Dashboard, also called the WordPress site administration “back-end” or editing interface. It’s a very basic…

    WordPress tutorial–installing on a local server

    A tutorial on how to install wordpress on a local webserver

    WordPress.com – Step-by-Step Tutorial on How to Blog

    WordPress Tutorial – How to Insert an Image & Make It a Link

    How to Change Install & Activate a New Theme


    eCommerce – Setting Up eShop

    Easy Way To Replace The Header Image

    JQuery Intergration

    Howto Make a “Back to Top” of Page Link

    Use Text Widget to Customize Sidebar 2

    Put Text Over Image – Image Behind Text


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/wordpress-basic-to-advanced/feed/ 9     Top 15 Premium WordPress themes http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/top-15-premium-wordpress-themes/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/top-15-premium-wordpress-themes/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:32:16 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=227 Hello friends, today I have something interesting for you. Do you have a blog? or Do you wish to start a great website? Then you should have a check on this post. If you are about to launch a wordpress website, why are you looking for some free wordpress templates? You should have some uniqueness. So I think its better to through out some $$ for this theme. Hey, You don’t want to pay much. But as little as $20 to $50. You can select your themes from the amazing collection.

    So today here I have some most wanted wordpress premium templates that will definitely help you to build a unique view to your site. I tried to include as many categories as possible. So enjoy it. Also have a look at our First PSD wordpress Template design

    Magnifizine: A Magazine & Business WordPress Theme ($32.00)

    This is a stylish and modern looking WordPress theme designed primarily for magazine and business websites. It comes crammed with features including a custom slider, which has a slide-in description and thumbnails panel. The thumbnails panel can be scrolled horizontally allowing you to add unlimited content to the slider. It also supports Flash and YouTube videos. The lightbox has also been customized to support flash videos, something not generally seen on ThemeForest.

    Features:

    6 Theme Colours

    • Blue, red, green, orange, purple, yellow

    7 Custom Templates

    • Full width page
    • Two column page
    • Two column post
    • Contact Page
    • Blog
    • Portfolio
    • Alternative Category Display

    MAJALAH ($27.00)

    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, and also 2 colors available in dark dan white color with 4 combination background.

    MAJALAH Features :

    • Two color scheme (Dark and White with four background combination)
    • Two Slideshow type (3D and JS slideshow)
    • Archives templates
    • Cufon Text Replacement (on/off)
    • 5 option fonts for Cufon
    • Page to box Widget
    • Post to box Widget
    • Flexible Widgetable sidebar (Allow to assign different sidebar for each pages)
    • Popular post

    stylish theme v2.0 – 4 in 1 ($27.00)

    1- 4 templates colors ( red , garnet , purple , bleu )

    2- add full width pages ( index page and portfolio )

    3- jquery image zoom in the portfolio page

    4- jquery fadein effect for thumbnails .

    5- jquery tooltip for the silder posts titles .

    included:

    1- full theme for wordpress

    2- documentation pdf

    3- psd for logo customization .

    Caulk ($27.00)

    Caulk is a modern, sleek WordPress custom theme built especially for magazine-style blogs, but also customizable for personal use, making use of multiple jQuery sliders. It is clean, organized, and easy to read with plenty of white space and nice typography. There is a nice big featured post rotator at the top to grab your readers’ attention right off the bat, and a popular posts slider underneath it to keep them there. Caulk comes out-of-the-box ready for you to populate with all of your unique content, with a very quick and easy install process. Here are some of the awesome things Caulk does for you:

    • 8 color schemes + 2 background types (dark/light) = 16 combinations
      1. Blue
      2. Grey
      3. Green
      4. Red
      5. Yellow
      6. Orange
      7. Deep
      8. Seafoam
    • Multiple discrete post areas – featured, popular, sticky, and recent posts
    • Extensive theme options admin panel
    • Requires no plug-ins!
    • Upload your own custom logo via admin panel
    • Related posts under each article
    • Random posts in the sidebar
    • 4 separate advertising panels
    • Widget-ready


    My WordPress ($27.00)

    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, breadcumb integrated and many more!

    Features:

    • 6 Colors
    • Feedburner Integration
    • Powerful Theme Option Page
    • User Link Feed Ready
    • Able to switch sidebar position by a single click
    • Auto image resizing
    • Flickr Showcase
    • Wp-navi and breadcrumb integrated
    • Ad Management System
    • Social Linking (Digg, StumbleUpon, etc.)
    • Modern footer display
    • Smooth tabbing system

    iMaxell Premium Corporate Theme – WordPress ($32.00)

    This theme is a Portfolio and / or a Corporate template for companies, portfolios, webdesigners, eBooks sites, etc, to showcase your services and work. This theme comes with CU3ER a brand new 3D slider easy to customize, I’ve added 2 more sliders for your customization, s3Slider and jQuery innerFade.

    Features:

    1. 4 different Admin Custom Panel
    2. Everything is Dynamic
    3. 3D Sliders
    4. jQuery Sliders
    5. Multifunctional
    6. PSD Included
    7. 2 Different Contact Forms (Try the slider)
    8. Very Easy to customize
    9. Very Well documented
    10. Tested in all major browsers

    Network WP ($32.00)

    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
    - 5 colours
    - Social Bookmarking
    - Threaded Comments
    - Integrated Breadcrumb
    - jQuery Effects throughout
    - Widget Ready Sidebars
    - Extensive Theme Options
    and much more

    DesignNews Community Template – WP Version ($27.00)

    Community theme is an easy to use, configurable theme with features oriented on community blogs, where posts are published by multiple authors.

    New features

    • Custom Skinning (An infinite number of skins, limited only by your imagination)
    • Twitter auto updates
    • Featured posts
    • CSS bugs resolved
    • Logo upload bugs fixed
    • Miscellaneous code improvements

    Marketplace Community WordPress Theme ($27.00)

    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. This themes comes with 5 different color options to choose from.

    If you’ve ever thought about starting a community based site, then this is your theme. Purchase today and be up and running in no time at all. Themes features include: Advertisement Slots, Tabbed Sidebar Navigation, Flickr Group Integration, Post Images, Clean Comments, Social Links, RSS For Posts and Comments, and many more.

    UNUSUAL -Wordpress Beautiful Theme ($27.00)

    The theme has been upgraded and include the following improvementes:

    • HD Panel integration (Theme Options)
    • jQuery dropdown menu support
    • LavaLamp top menu effect
    UNUSUAL THEME BEST FEATURES

    Unusual is a WordPress theme that is best suited for individual designers, artists, bloggers, photographers. It is a beautiful theme, warming and inviting, that will ensure the best environment to catch your audience’s attention.

    Major Features:
    1. W3C compliant, clean and commented code,
    2. 4 different page templates + 3 sidebars
    3. Comprehensive documentation,
    4. Image load optimized with LazyLoad,
    5. Sleek portfolio items hover with caption,
    6. Font replacement with Cufon, with the beautiful Museo from Exljbris,
    7. Full Width template page,
    8. 6 PSD ’s included + Icons PSD ’s.
    9. Nice pop up window with contact form with prettyPhoto. (Give it a try clicking on the top right corner button – freelance status)
    10. Client support – mail answers/solutions within 12 hours maximum

    Midnight Sun | WordPress Theme ($32.00)

    Midnight Sun is a stylish and elegant WordPress theme designed for blogs, magazines, portfolios and pretty much any kind of informational site you need it for.

    The theme features a classic brushed black look with some transparencies that help to highlight the content and bring the site to life.

    Midnight Sun is not only a good looking theme, it is also very powerful under the hood. It was designed with ease of use in mind and allows you to tweak it even if you have zero knowledge or experience using HTML or CSS .

    Features include

    • Multiple layout support: You like your sidebar to the right instead of the left? No problem, there is a setting for that. You want to show the featured content at the bottom instead of the top? Just a click away. It´s like having multiple themes built into one.
    • Automatic Menu. Add your pages to the main menu with a couple clicks, no more HTML editing.
    • Automatic image resizing. Forget about preparing multiple versions of the same image. FolioTime does it automatically.

    Affair ($22.00)

    A 2 column, magazine flavoured WordPress theme, designed to put your content at the forefront and give your blog a modern, stylish and professional feel. Featuring automatic thumbnail generation and custom social media links.

    The perfect theme for bloggers wanting a magazine look!

    Affair is coded in Valid Xhtml and CSS , is ready to run straight out of the box and for those who like to tinker, customizing the theme is also super easy!

    Features Included

    • 2 column magazine layout
    • Automatic thumbnail generation
    • Custom social media links – helping to promote your posts without any effort whatsoever
    • Pretty looking comments with Gravatars
    • SEO ready!

    Evolutionary Theme ($27.00)

    Evolutionary is a clean, jQuery animated WordPress theme.

    Features include:

    • Four Color Schemes: Blue (default), Green, Red, Black (inverse)
    • Featured Posts section: No plugins required.
    • jQuery animations in navigation and sidebar
    • Widget Ready Sidebar and Footer
    • Featured Posts, Color Scheme, Copyright, and more easily customizable through a Theme Options Panel
    • Built-In “Who’s Talking?” Widget
    • Support for popular Twitter Widgets
    • Coded in XHTML 1 .0 Strict
    • Tested in IE6 , IE7, IE8 , FireFox, Safari, and Opera 10
    • Main and Logo PSDs included
    • Well Documented: Overview and Instructions in easy to use HTML format

    Monte Cristo ($27.00)

    Monte Cristo is a unique and professional theme created for the traditional WordPress site. Its sharp edges, fine gradients, and crisp shades are sure to spice up your everyday blog. It is has a standard right sidebar that is fully widgetized, multi-threaded comments section that supports gravatars, a content slider that pulls real content from your posts, a built in “ligthbox” effect for all your images, options from the admin panel that controls the theme, – plus more! Be sure to test drive Monte Cristo!

    Filthy ($32.00)

    Filthy is a personal blog theme that’s been through the ringer. This thing is just down right dirty! And best of all, it comes it 2 shades of filth – brown and black.

    Main Features

    • 2 full colour schemes – brown and black.
    • User specified “accent” colour can be chosen from a colour picker in WP-Admin for easy customization.
    • Super hot CSS3 goodness supported by most modern browsers. Embedded fonts used for headings and the logo give this theme a unique feel. Degrades gracefully in browsers that don’t support these frills.
    • Unique article/comment toggle saves vertical space and is just plain awesome. This can be disabled via the Theme Settings panel if you prefer the more traditional approach of having comments below the article.


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/top-15-premium-wordpress-themes/feed/ 4     10 Best PSD to XHTML/CSS Tutorials http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/10-best-psd-to-xhtmlcss-tutorials/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/10-best-psd-to-xhtmlcss-tutorials/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:59:11 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=222 I think we all are dealing with PSD templates. Most of the clients get the PSD file from the designers and give it to the coding company. The rest of the things will be handled by the coding partners. So they do not want to think of coding. But I think it costs too much than the designing work most of the time. :( So today here I have some awesome PSD to XHTML/CSS tutorials that will help you to code your PSD templates to the HTML file. :) Happy? So enjoy now. I will post more tutorials on this category soon.

    1. PSD to HTML, Building a Set of Website Designs Step by Step

    2. Creating a CSS layout from scratch

    3. Coding: Design Lab TV Styled Layout

    4. BLOOpress WordPress Mockup (XHTML & CSS)

    5. How To Build Your Own Single Page Portfolio Website

    6. Slice and Dice that PSD

    7. Portfolio Layout – Learn To Code It

    8. PSD to CSS to WordPress

    9. How to Convert PSd to Html

    10. Create a clean modern website design



    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/10-best-psd-to-xhtmlcss-tutorials/feed/ 9     Most Wanted HTML 5 Tutorials http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/most-wanted-html-5-tutorials/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/most-wanted-html-5-tutorials/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:38:43 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=217 We just got some fabulous CSS3 tutorials.. Now all you need is to have some HTML 5 Tutorials. HTML 5 is the most modern version of Html that you must learn. So here I have them for you guys.. :) I hope this will help you to understand more. Your comments are very essential for my improvement. So Kindly do comment here.


    1. Create a simple web page layout with HTML 5!

    2. HTML 5 Visual Cheat Sheet by Woork

    3. Web Designers’ Browser Support Checklist

    4. webOS HTML5 Database Storage Tutorial

    5. HTML5 Doctor, helping you implement HTML5 today

    6. Rounded corners on HTML 5 elements

    7. Designing a Blog with HTML5

    8. HTML 5 Cheat Sheet

    9. Designing a Blog with HTML 5

    10. Coding an HTML 5 Layout From Scratch

    11. Preparing for HTML 5 with Semantic Class Names

    12. HTML 5: Nav Ambiguity Resolved

    13.  A Basic HTML 5 Tutorial To Show Simple Page Structure

    14. HTML 5 Visual Cheat Sheet by Woork

    15. HTML 5 Pocket Book

    You can also suggest some nice HTML 5 tutorials if you have some. Lets make it large :)


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/most-wanted-html-5-tutorials/feed/ 3     50 CSS3 Tutorials That Makes Your Works Perfect http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/50-css3-tutorials-that-makes-your-works-perfect/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/50-css3-tutorials-that-makes-your-works-perfect/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:11:30 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=206 I’m pretty much sure about this post. Everybody looking for a nice tutorial on CSS3 to improve their skills in coding. I know this will help you. I was searching for some awesome CSS3 tutorials to give you guys… :D For the begginers also these articles will defenitly help. So enjoy friends.. :)

    1. How To Create A Sexy Vertical Sliding Panel Using jQuery And CSS3

    2. CSS 3 selectors explained

    3. Using CSS 3 selectors to apply link icons

    4. CSS3 and International Text

    5. 12 Really Useful CSS3 Tips And Techniques

    6. CSS3 Quick Reference Guide

    7. 7 New Essential CSS 3 Techniques Revealed

    8. Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3

    9. CSS: border-radius and -moz-border-radius

    10. CSS 3 selectors explained – Overview of CSS 3 selector syntax

    11. Old School Clock with CSS3 and jQuery

    12. The Shadow effect in CSS3

    13. Create the accordion effect using CSS3

    14. Cleaner Code with CSS3 Selectors

    15. Get Started with CSS 3

    16. CSS3 Background Images (Sizing and Multiple Images)

    17. Introduction to CSS3—Part 5: Multiple Columns

    18. HTML 5 and CSS3: The Techniques You’ll Soon Be Using

    19. CSS3 Unleashed Tips, Tricks and Techniques

    20. CSS3 Exciting Functions and Features: 30+ Useful Tutorials

    21. 20 Useful Resources for Learning about CSS3

    22. CSS Trick: Hidden Messages

    23. Overriding the Default Text Selection Color with CSS

    24. Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBA

    25. Multiple Backgrounds (CSS3)


    26. 3 Easy and Fast CSS Techniques for Faux Image Cropping

    27. CSS3 Exciting Functions and Features: 30+ Useful Tutorials

    28. Get the best out of CSS3

    29. Liquid Faux Columns with Background-Size

    30. Rounded Corner Boxes the CSS3 Way

    31. Six Questions: Eric Meyer on CSS3

    32. Progressive Enhancement with CSS3: A Better Experience for Modern Browsers

    33. Push Your Web Design Into The Future With CSS3

    34. CSS text shadows and background sizing

    35. Making an image gallery with :target

    36. CSS3 Transparency: The Opacity Property

    37. Overriding the Default Text Selection Color with CSS

    38. CSS3 property tests

    39. Handcrafted Bulletproof CSS

    40. Styling Forms with Attribute Selectors

    41. CSS text shadows and background sizing

    42. Dan Cederholm’s Handcrafted CSS Workshop

    43. Semantic code: put more in, get more out with CSS3

    44. Border-image: using images for your border

    45. A mock-up interface using CSS3 Colour

    46. Rounded Corner Boxes

    47. Multiple background Images

    48. Box-sizing and Box-model

    49. Push Your Web Design Into The Future With CSS3

    50. The Shadow Effect in CSS3


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/50-css3-tutorials-that-makes-your-works-perfect/feed/ 8     Facebook at Childhood http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/facebook-at-childhood/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/facebook-at-childhood/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:33:58 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=201 Hello friends, I’m posting this article for let you know the roots of Facebook. Did you know one thing? Facebook is now at the 2nd position. Just below the search engine giant Google and Just above the another giant Yahoo. In between two seach engines, there is a social network site. This is according to the Alexa’s rank list. I hope this will continue for the coming days. So how it come here? in between these two giants…? That’s fascinating. This Facebook has something to tell us.
    I’m not going to describe that. But I hope after reading this post, you will also be able to find the truth. A social Website started just 5 or 6 years ago is now at the 2nd position. Lets check out it’s initial stages. On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook“. Don’t confuse that was the old name of our Facebook. Initially it was at thefacebook.com. Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College. After the launching, Zuckerberg and his room mate were sitting infront of their computer for checking how the registrations going on ! For the first 24 hours they got almost 12 hunderd to 50 hundred users. And then it continues to grow to the outside world. Now I or you can’t count the users :P So just wanna check out the First FaceBook Page ?? Just look at the bottom snap. This was the first fb page.

    How these guys get in to the 2nd position is still a wonder to me. Also the main growth of this Facebook was on 2009 I think. Most of the websites promoted Facebook by informing their users to be a part of Facebook so that they can share the contents easily. Not talking too much.. I know you know all things.

    I have some more interesting facts to share with you about Google’s visitors. Check out for the next post which will be posted within 2 days.


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/facebook-at-childhood/feed/ 0     World’s First Webpage http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/worlds-first-webpage/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/worlds-first-webpage/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:04:00 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=195 I think most of the time we were talking about the design stuffs. So its better to have a light deviation from the topic. I thought it will really make you enjoy if I show you the world’s first webpage. This is the era of Web 2, and we are about to leave the it soon. So I thought if I bring you the World’s first webpage, you can realize the actual growth of our own Internet. We are now designing corporate level clean professional webpages for our clients. So just think of the First webpage :) Below is a screenshot of the website. Click on the image to go to the live site.

    Have you ever heard about CERN ? Its Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire. And the worlds first website was made by them on 6 August 1991. The address was “Info.cern.ch“, running on a NeXT computer at CERN. The first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which centred on information regarding the WWW project. That page mainly contained tutorial for newbie’s on creating hyperlinks, setting up their own websites and doing a search on web and so. Unfortunately, I cant show you how the page looked in the past (they updated it several times) :( I hope this will serve you as a historical evidence about the origin of websites, since we are mostly dealing with webpages :)   Just imagine how far we had developed in terms of webpages and web development. Feel free to express your thoughts as comments. :)


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/worlds-first-webpage/feed/ 5     Most Wanted Sidebar Plugins For WordPress (Part 2) http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/most-wanted-sidebar-plugins-for-wordpress-part-2/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/most-wanted-sidebar-plugins-for-wordpress-part-2/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:30:51 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=192 So here comes the second part of the Most Wanted sidebar plugins for wordpress. I think you will get some more plugins that you should be used in your wordpress. I have selected the plugins in such a manner that every wordpress user should have one to selec from this list. I hope you will like this showcase also.

    1. del.icio.us – Bookmark this!

    This plugin will allow you to add an “Bookmark this page on del.icio.us/digg/furl/newsvine/blinklist” link on you sidebar / posts / wherever.

    Download Now

    2. Gengo

    Gengo is a full featured plugin that provides multi-language blogging for WordPress 2.5+. It allows for an unlimited number of translations and summaries for any post and provides template tags to display language information. It allows you to edit translations side by side, detects and filters by language automatically when a visitor comes to your site and automatically generates semantic information for links and content blocks. It is configurable via an options page.

    Download Now

    3. Get Custom Field Values

    Use widgets or template tags to easily retrieve and control the display of any custom field values/meta data for posts or pages.

    The power of custom fields gives this plugin the potential to be dozens of plugins all rolled into one.

    Download Now

    4. Get Recent Comments

    This plugin shows excerpts of the latest comments and/or trackbacks in your sidebar. You have comprehensive control about their appearance. This ranges from the number of comments, the length of the excerpts up to the html layout. You can let the plugin order the comments by the corresponding post, or simply order them by date. The plugin can (optionally) separate the trackbacks/pingbacks from the comments. It can ignore comments to certain categories, and it offers support for gravatars. It only gives extra work to the database, when actually a new comment arrived. You can filter out unwanted pingbacks, which originate from your own blog. And it is a widget.

    Download Now

    5. Google Ajax Search

    Using this WordPress plugin you can add AJAX Search to your site. Version 1 allows for the option of having Blog Search and/or Web Search with another option for a secondary url search, ideally for flickr or another photostream. Full Style options and Widgetized for you pleasure.

    Download Now

    6. In-Series

    In Series provides a way for you to manage stringing together posts in a series. You can add and remove individual posts from series, and reorder posts within a series, all from the post writing screen. The plugin also allows you to customize how series information (like tables of contents and next/previous links) are rendered across your site. Best of all, In Series does not require any template hacking, or knowledge of PHP — it will work just fine right out of the box.

    Download Now

    7. Kramer

    Kramer will add inbound links to a post on your weblog as pingbacks without the need for the author of the post on blog A to send a ping to blog B by using both Technorati and by monitoring incoming referrers.

    Download Now

    8. Link Harvest

    Link Harvest will go through all of your posts and pages and compile a list of all external links. Then it will create a live updating linkroll for you, based on your actual linking activity.

    Download Now

    9. Photo of the Day – flickr widget

    Adds a sidebar widget to display photo of the day images from flickr photo stream

    Download Now

    10. PictPress

    plugin that automatically generates a post with thumbnails and picture posts for all images found in a directory. Thumbnails and pictures are resized on the fly and stored in a cache directory.

    Download Now

    11. Popularity Contest

    Popularity Contest keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. There are numerical values assigned to each type of view and feedback; these are used to create a ‘popularity score’ for each post.

    Download Now

    12. Subpage Listing

    Subpage Listing allows you to take full advantage of WordPress Pages’ hierarchy by generating a navigational tree of the pages below them (subpages).

    Download Now

    13. Technorati Tagging Plugin

    Technorati Tagging allows you to add Techorati http://www.technorati.com tags to your posts. It also allows you to create a tag frequency blob that displays your most frequently used tags. The tags change size and colour depending on how frequently each tag is used.

    Download Now

    14. Theme Switcher

    Allow users to switch which theme they use on your WordPress, WordPress MU, or BuddyPress site. Includes a widget for easily putting the theme-switcher as a list or dropdown in your sidebar.

    Download Now

    15. TubePress

    Displays gorgeous YouTube galleries in your posts, pages, and/or sidebar. Please visit http://tubepress.org for more info!

    Download Now

    16. Feeds Widget

    This WordPress widget will display links various relevant feeds for your WordPress blog. It will always at least display links to the two standard feeds: All Entries and All Comments. It will also display links to category feeds, post feeds or search feeds, depending on the current page being viewed.

    Download Now

    17. Library Thing widget

    Adds a sidebar widget to display your LibraryThing widget

    Download Now

    18. WP-Hashcash

    WP Hashcash is an antispam plugin that eradicates comment spam on WordPress blogs. It works because your visitors must use obfuscated javascript to submit a proof-of-work that indicates they opened your website in a web browser, not a robot. If the javascript check fails, WP Hashcash now gives you three options; it can either put the comment into moderation (default), put the comment in the akismet queue, or delete it.

    Download Now

    19. WP-Weather

    Weather.com widget – shows forecast information for a city. Displays image related to current conditions. Weather can also be inserted into a post or page via the shortcode [weather_display].

    Download Now

    20. Akismet

    Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

    Download Now


    21. Comment Timeout

    This plugin automatically closes comments on blog entries after a user- configurable period of time. It has options which allow you to keep the discussion open for longer on older posts which have had recent comments accepted, or to override the timeout on a post-by-post basis.

    Download Now

    22. Around this date in the past..

    It shows around this date entries/posts in the past (if they exist). It is highly customizable. By default it retreives a week around the current day 1 year ago.

    Download Now

    23. Around this date in the past… – Widget Edition

    It shows around this date entries/posts in the past (if they exist). It is highly customizable. By default it retreives a week around the current day 1 year ago.

    Download Now

    24. Skype Online Status

    The plugin Skype Online Status allows you to add one or multiple, highly customizable and accessible (!) Skype buttons to your blog. You can pick any of the available Skype button themes that will show your online status and place them in your pages and posts content (with a neat little Skype quicktag button in the WYSIWYG editor), in your sidebar via widgets (unlimited number) or anywhere in your theme template files.

    Download Now

    25. Quick SMS

    This latest v3.x release is thanks to the hard work of Alex P. Gates bringing a character counter, textarea entry and Akismet spam checking to Quick SMS.

    Download Now

    26. RSSImport

    Import and display Feeds in your blog, use PHP, a Widget or the Shortcode. The plugin use the standards of WordPress, non extra library; use MagpieRSS or SimplePie for parse feeds.

    Download Now

    27. Sub Pages widget

    The Sidebar Widget Plugin is easy to integrate and maintainable content provider for your page, but one aspect was missing from my side. The pages widget displays all pages, but I liked only to display the pages which are children from the current root page. For this reason I wrote the SubPages widget for the Sidebar Widget.

    Download Now

    28. Flickr Tag Cloud Widget

    This is plugin for the Widget Sidebar in WordPress. It will display your flickr tags as a tag cloud in your blog’s sidebar.

    Download Now

    29. Battlefield 2 Stats

    This plugin creates a function which outputs your Battlefield 2 profile statistics. The data is fetched via a XML feed from BF2S.com. It’s intended for your sidebar, but can also be used on a WordPress page.

    Download Now

    30. GeneralStats

    Counts the number of users, categories, posts, comments, pages, links, tags, link-categories, words in posts, words in comments and words in pages.

    Download Now

    31. A Year Before

    With »A Year Before« you can show the titles of the articles which were written a certain time ago. So you can show in a »historical corner«, what happend in your blog e.g. 30 days, 6 months or a year before. You can use it as a wordpress-widget or put it in your theme as a php-function with parameters.

    Download Now

    32. KB Countdown Widget

    Ever wanted to track a pregnancy, or the time until the next elections, or your baby’s precise age, or something else that will surely fascinate all your readers? Maybe you even wanted a cool bargraph showing how far you’ve progressed between two dates? Introducing KB Countdown, which does just that. You give it a start date, an end date, or both.

    Download Now

    33. The Hacker’s Diet

    The Hacker’s Diet is a simple way to count calories and track your weight to make sure you are really losing the pounds. By calculating your average weight, you don’t have to be scared of those days when you “gain” 2 pounds overnight. You’ll see exactly your rate of weight loss and be able to predict when you will hit your weight goal.

    Download Now

    34. WordPress Navigation List Plugin NAVT

    The WordPress Navigation Tool (NAVT) plugin is a powerful tool designed to provide you with complete control over the creation, styling and contents of your web site’s navigation. T

    Download Now

    35. KB Advanced RSS Widget

    WordPress comes with a default RSS widget, but you get no control over how the feed shows up in your sidebar. Want more control? The KB Advanced RSS widget gives it to you.

    Download Now


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/most-wanted-sidebar-plugins-for-wordpress-part-2/feed/ 1     Most Wanted Sidebar Plugins For WordPress (Part 1) http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/most-wanted-sidebar-plugins-for-wordpress-part-1/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/most-wanted-sidebar-plugins-for-wordpress-part-1/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:41:51 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=185 WordPress themes are attractive if the sidebar is interactive. For a good WordPress blog, it’s necessary to have almost all the plugins that may brings the visitors great happiness. Also, these plugins should be of high quality. So, here I have some of them for your wordpress blog. This showcase is of 2 parts. First part is now posted. 2nd will come soon. So stay tuned. I hope you never wanna miss it.

    1. Sidebar Widgets

    It’s called Sidebar Widgets because it allows you to move things (widgets) around, in and out of your sidebar. A widget is something that you might want on your sidebar, such as a category list or the most recent comments or a link to your admin pages. There is even a widget that lets you type whatever you want in the sidebar, such as some HTML or Javascript code.

    Download Now

    2. Core Sidebars

    A plugin that enables you to have dedicated content and/or widget sidebar for each specific page or post. For example, on a featured blog post you may want to place additional contact while on a calendar page you might want to place a calender widget or some text events or both.

    Download Now

    3. Gaboinked! Chipin Sidebar Widget

    hipIn allows you to collect money for a personal cause, group purchase, or fundraiser using your own custom Chipin Widget which is displayed on your blog or website.

    With your PayPal account, you are able to create an interactive widget that allows you to raise money directly through blogs and other social media. Non-profit organizations are empowered to engage a distributed network of supporters in ‘blograising’ campaigns for major fundaising efforts.

    Download Now

    4. Category Selector Back to the Sidebar (MOD)

    WordPress 2.5 changed our blogging life in both good and bad ways. One awful change is the categories section – why the “bleep” does it have to be at the bottom of the page, man? Anyways, this plugin removes that section below and adds a primitive, yet sufficient category selector to the sidebar.

    Download Now

    5. Stock Quote Sidebar

    Stock Quote Sidebar is a WordPress plugin/widget that allows you to put a list of stock quotes in your sidebar (or anywhere you want, really).

    The stock symbol, last price, and change (in dollars and/or percent) are displayed in a tabular format. The full company name is displayed in a tooltip when the symbol is moused-over. The date and time of the first quote in the list is displayed at the bottom of the list.

    Download Now

    6. Sidebar Login

    Sidebar-Login has both a widget and a template tag to allow you to have a login form in the sidebar of your wordpress powered blog.

    It lets users login, and then redirects them back to the page they logged in from rather than the backend, it also shows error messages.

    Download Now

    7. ax-sidebar

    With this plugin you can add extra HTML or just plain text when posting a new page or post. That content will be displayed in sidebar widget. It is tested from WP 2.6 to 2.7.1.

    Download Now

    8. Last.fm Sidebar

    Last.fm Sidebar is a WordPress plugin which allows you to display your last played Last.fm track in your WordPress sidebar along with album art. It’s fully customisable via the widget manager. Last.fm data is cached in a database as not to hinder the performance of your blog.

    Download Now

    9. Simple Sidebar Navigation

    This plugin adds a widget into the Widgets dashboard that allows in a simple way, without writing any PHP code on your part, to create custom navigation in any sidebar pre-defined by your WP theme.

    Download Now

    10. Etsy Sidebar Widget

    Adds WordPress sidebar widget to display your Etsy Mini on the website and offer visitors a chance to view what you are selling on your Etsy page. You can display what your selling or what’s in your Etsy Favorites.

    Download Now

    11. Sidebar Photoblog

    There are several photo blog plug-in for WordPress. Most of them assume that you are a professional photographer who makes lots of money via his/her camera.

    Sidebar Photo blog does not use lots of server resources and doesn’t have any confusing options. It uses WordPress functions to get maximum compatibility and flexibility.

    Download Now

    12. Add Users Sidebar Widget

    Creates a sidebar widget that allows site users to add themselves to a blog based on predefined conditions. Based heavily on the sidebar add users widget by DSader

    Download Now


    13. NextGEN Gallery Sidebar Widget

    The NextGEN widgets only allow showing of single images, I needed a solution to show links to galleries, so I wrote this widget. The widget lets you specify the following parameters

    • Maximum Galleries: the number of galleries you want to show
    • Gallery Order: you can select random, date added ascending or date added descending
    • Gallery Thumbnail: which image should be taken as thumbail in the sidebar (preview set in NGG, first or random image)
    • AutoThumb parameters: if you got AutoThumb installed, the widget will use its functions to resize the image to your needs. Use a string like w=80&h=80&zc=1 here to show 80×80 square thumbnails.
    • Output width/height: if you don’t use AutoThumb, the plugin will set the HTML attributes width & height.
    • Default Link Id: the widget assumes that you set up pages for each gallery and link the gallery to that page (you can use the NGG Gallery Editor to do this). If a gallery has no link set, it will use the default link (id of a page or post).

    Download Now

    14. Dynamic Sidebar HTML Inserter

    Add any text or HTML to a dynamic sidebar

    Download Now

    15. WidgetBucks Sidebar Plugin

    This Plug-in will allow you to copy the generated widgetbucks code into wordpress and display it on the sidebar.

    Download Now

    16. Wowhead Sidebar Search

    This plugin provides a sidebar widget containing a configurable Wowhead search box.

    You can choose from the six search box options shown here.

    Download Now

    17. Social Links Sidebar

    Social Links Sidebar is a sidebar widget that displays icon links to your profile pages on other social networking sites. All the icons has rel="me" tag. (XFN compliant). This plugin is forked from AboutMe

    Download Now

    18. Video Sidebar Widgets

    A Video Widget written in latest Widgets API. It enables the user to embed FlashVideo from various video sharing networks into the widgetised sidebar of a WordPress powered blog. Currently supporting video embed from 15 video sharing networks. Including, Youtube, Vimeo, Veoh, Blip.tv etc.. Now including Random Video Sidebar Widget to randomly display 1 out of 5 preset video.

    Download Now

    19. Simple Sidebar Share Widget

    This allows your users to share any page of your blog on their chosen social network site.

    Download Now

    20. Web Fiction Table of Contents Sidebar Widget

    This sidebar widget will generate a table of contents from a category of posts.

    It is intended for authors of web fiction but should be useful to anyone using posts to write a book or similar in a serialized format.

    Download Now

    21. Thesis Sidebar Teasers

    What does it do? This plugin allows you to insert Thesis Teasers inside a sidebar. It doesn’t include all the options that you would normally expect. In a future release, it might.

    Download Now

    22. Viralogy Twitter Sidebar

    Viralogy’s Twitter Sidebar shows your visitors your most recent tweets and current tweets around tags you’re interested in.

    Download Now

    23. YouTube Sidebar

    Display YouTube videos on individual pages. Let them list on a page, category view or front page or switch them off. You can even let AdSense show when a post doesnt have a video.

    Download Now

    24.  WebReserv EVENT Sidebar Booking Calendar

    NOTE: This is the version 0.9 BETA of the the new WebReserv EVENT Sidebar Booking Calendar. You can read notes regarding the BETA version here.

    The WebReserv EVENT Sidebar Booking Calendar lets you add an Event Calendar to your sidebar that handles bookings and reservations.

    Visitors to your website can view the Event Calendar and book events and/or sessions with your business directly through the sidebar.

    Download Now

    25. Q-Sensei Sidebar Widgets

    This Plugin allows you to quickly and easily include the useful features of the Q-Sensei Search Engine directly into your blog.

    Download Now

    ——————————————————————————

    Part Two will also contain some awesome plugins that you never wanna miss in your wordpress blog. Part 2 will be posted soon within 2 days. I’m getting almost high quality plugins for you :)


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/most-wanted-sidebar-plugins-for-wordpress-part-1/feed/ 12     Create Your Own Twitter BG http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/create-your-own-twitter-bg/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/create-your-own-twitter-bg/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:56:27 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=176 Hi friends, I hope you enjoyed very well our previous WP theme tutorial. Today I have an interesting topic for you to design something for your own Twitter page. Yes It’s the Twitter Background design. I think it’s not so good to put your wonderful twitter account with the default background solid color which they will give to you. It would be better if you create your own Background for your twitter account. Today I have a nice explanation on how to make your own twitter BG. Before that, I have something to point out about the twitter BG designing.

    Live Demo

    Twitter’s design is centred, and shifts left and right across the background image, depending on the size of the user’s display and their web browser’s window size. The background design should support a wide variety of window dimensions. So if you create a BG according to your screen resolution, most of the visitors may not see most of your BG items. So 1280px is a common width to optimize for. This allows for two 250px wide columns either side of the main content area. Also, I do not prefer to design in both the sides since it will be too much crowded.

    So now let’s move on to the design part. Here I’m using a simple theme which you can use for any type of twitter accounts.

    So start with a new document of size 1280 X 768.

    You can use any type of background. Here I’m using a wooden texture to make the feel of the Top of a Table. We are making the background as the table. You should be very careful while choosing your background picture. It should have high resolution. Otherwise the image will be blurred.

    If you have a small piece of the wooden texture which has only a small screen resolution, you can duplicate the images and spread them over the background to fill the entire area. You can make use of the tools like Clone stamp Tool (S), Dodge tool (O), Burn Tool (O) to make the background more attractive.

    So this will be my background Image.

    Now mark with rulers from both the sides with about 250px each. Twitter main page will be within the two rulers.  If you want to check it with your twitter page, you can make a screen shot of that and can be placed within this area.

    Now we can make some table elements like sticky notes, diary, papers etc. You can use the items from the PSD file of this tutorial. You can download this for free. Make sure that there is a small drop shadow for each of the elements. This will give a nice look to the elements.

    You can give a small shadow for the sticky note. For that, make a small selection using the Elliptical Marquee tool.


    Now make a new layer “Shadow” which is below the sticky note layer and fill it with a black color.

    Now go to Filter>>Blur>> Gaussian Blur . And set the parameters as shown in the image.

    Now move the layer to the top right part of the sticky note. So that will give a realistic look for the sticky note.

    You can also add an image of a cup of tea.  I think that will be a great idea. So Choose an image with Top view. Or you can use it from my PSD.

    If you need to include your photos, you can make some of them like ‘photographs’ and add a small shadow to it through the Blending options of the image layer.  Now just make a tilt of that those picture. For that, select the image layer, press Ctrl + T, now  you can see a small rectangle over the image. So just drag the mouse to any direction to make it tilted. Now arrange the images according to your creativity.

    I’m not writing anything on to the sticky note. So you can download the PSD and can add your own content to it. Also feel free to insert your own images.

    Download The PSD

    Live Demo

    One small request, please maintain the Smashingwebs logo if you are using this PSD for your account.

    So this is our final image. The twitter main page will be automatically placed within the region that we already reserved.

    So this will give a nice look for your Twitter Background. Finally, you can change the color of your twitter sidebar using the options that they provided in the account settings page. So this will give a much blending look for your page.

    So see you with new tutorials soon. Feel free to add your comments here so that I can make changes in my tutorials to make it perfectly fit for you people.


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/create-your-own-twitter-bg/feed/ 7     Create Your own wordpress Theme http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/create-your-own-wordpress-design/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/create-your-own-wordpress-design/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:53:43 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=171 Today lets try to create our own wordpress design using Photoshop. It’s a very easy step to create a wordpress design. But the most difficult part is to get a thorough idea about what we need and how to design. So lets try something today. This is a model theme. You can use this tutorial for getting your own themes.

    So start with a new document of size 1024 X 768. This will be the base size for a website or a wp theme. Now a days the resolution is above this. So lets make it out in this resolution.

    Now pick a foreground color (#dddddd) and fill it in the whole area using the paint bucket tool. This will be the background color for our theme.

    Now we have to start designing the page elements. Take the rounded rectangular tool from the tool bar and set the radius of the round to 10px.

    Now draw a single rectangle using the tool as shown below. Remember there should be some space at both the sidebars. This will act as the bas for our menu bar.

    You can give custome gradient effects to this menubar. For that go to the layer panel and right click on the menubar layer and select the Blending options. There you can add the gradient effects.

    Now it’s the time to add some menu contents. Just give some items such as HOME, CONTACT, PORTFOLIO, ABOUT etc. Leave a space in the right side to create a search box.

    You can use the rounded rectangular tool and rectangular tool to create the other part of the page such as Slide bar, content area, Side bars, Footer etc.

    Now lets have some effects to the content area. Choose the content area layer from the layer panel and go to the blending options. Add a small stroke with slight grey color. Please note that the color overlay should be white. Now reduce the opacity of the stroke to 50% for more efficient look.

    So now we can go for a magical touch. Go to the Eliptical marquee tool and draw an ellipse as shown below.


    Make a new layer ‘Shaddow’ (Layer>>New>>Layer or Ctrl + Shift+N) fill the ellipse black color using the paint bucket.

    Now with this layer selected, go to the Filter >> Blur >> Gaussian Blur and make the changes as shown in fig.

    Now make the Shaddow layer below the content area layer in the layer panel. Then bring the shaddow layer to the edge of the content area so as to get a look as shown below.

    You can use this methode for the sidebar also and add some rectangular block with grey color filled, it may act as a advertise here button :)

    Now you can add some data to the content area as I done. Now this is how the page will look like.

    Now we can make some special effects to the sidebar. Select the rounded rectangular box and draw a box as show below. Go to the layer panel and right click on the current layer and select Rasterize the layer.

    Now go to the rectangular marquee tool and make a selection as shown below.

    Now press delete. Now you can add some cool gradient effects to this layer. Check the image below for a refference.

    You can get some custome shapes from the tool bar and make something like this.

    Now add some content to the slide bar also (This portion will preview the most recent post of the blog). You can add two icons to go the next and to the previous. You can make use of the custome shapes for this. Color overlay should be white and reduce the opacity so as to get a transparent look :) Now this is the current look of our page.

    Lets do something on the menubar. Draw a small rounded rectangular box and fill it with some gradient. Place this layer below the HOME text layer. This will be the active page indication of our wp theme :)

    Now make a small rounded rectangular box with light black color fill in the right side of the menu bar. This will be the search area for the webpage. You can use a lence image from the custome shapes to give more attractive look to the search box.

    Now you can give your Blog’s title and tag line above the Menu bar. So we are finally at the finishing touch of the webpage.

    Have a look at your page and check for any changes.

    This will be the final look of our webpage.

    This tutorial is just for a initial purpose only. That’s for the beginners. We will bring some more good tutorial on this category soon. So see you soon. Enjoy the post.



    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/create-your-own-wordpress-design/feed/ 16     Top 10 Comment Area Designs http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/top-10-comment-area-designs/ http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/top-10-comment-area-designs/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:49:26 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=165 Happy New year friends. Since today is Jan 1st, I knew there will be a lot of postings from all the design related websites. We come across with a lot of such websites I know that. So today I have some good stuffs for you friends. In the case of a blog, commets plays an important roll. It will help the author to get know about the quality of his post also there is a Good chance for the commentors to share more information related to the same.

    So the comment area plays an important roll in a blog. The more is the comment more will be the quality of the upcomming posts.So letes have a look at some of the comments sections? In the showcase below I have Top comment section designs from some of the popular websites. I hope this will serve as an Inspiration for your future works.

    abduzeedo.com

    Clean Look and Glow when mouse over

    tutorial9.net

    Simple Look

    Psd.tutsplus.com

    Nice comment box. Clean look

    1st Webdesigner.com

    This comment area inclueds a backlink to your latest blog. If you give your blog’s URL, it will automatically add the link to your latest post. This enables the users to read the comment along with the commentor’s latest blogposts.  :)

    animhut.com

    Comment area is like a talk bubble pointing to the avatar. Nice arrangement of the elements. Also backlinks to the latest posts of the commentor.

    Carsonified.com

    Some cool page flip effects :) Love it



    All-for-design.com

    Look at the design of this comment area. You will definitly love this one. This also offers a backlink to your latest blog.

    Pvmgarage.com

    Nice design. If you roll your mouse over the reply button, you can see some cool rollower with pencil like sketches. I like the simplicity :)

    from-the-couch

    Nice 3D look for the comment dividors

    workawesome.com

    Clean and Nice arrangement

    you are welcome with new comment area links :)



    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2010/01/top-10-comment-area-designs/feed/ 7     New Year Give Away from SmashingWebs http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/new-year-give-away-from-smashingwebs/ http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/new-year-give-away-from-smashingwebs/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:28:30 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=156 Hi again,

    Happy New year to all the SmashingWebs readers. :) We are now at the end of 2009 and at the begining of 2010. So SmashingWebs offers our readers an excellent gift in the New Year. As a part of the SmashingWebs promotion, we are offering 8 Smashing Revolution PSD themes for our readers. You will get it for free. Yes, completely for free. We will be having the contest in 4 sections. That is 2 winners from each contest will get the Theme for FREE of cost. Also one lucky winner from the comment post, twitter follow and Facebook fan will get $25 each :) :) :)

    All you have to do is to just comment, follow, Retweet, become a fan of SmashingWebs.com in Facebook. You can find the links in the below section and you can comment in the bottom comment area. We will select the winners at random and will give away the winning awards on 3rd January 2010.  So don’t waste your time. Just start commeting, Retweeting, following and becoming a fan of SmashingWebs.com Contest is open till 2nd January  2010. Go and get the cash  :)

    Once again a very HAPPY NEW YEAR to all the readers. We will have our daily post along with this one.

    Start checking your luck

    1. FOLLOW US on Twiter

    2. Become a FAN of SmashingWebs (or you can find the Facebook fan box in the right sidebar)

    3. Retweet This post using the retweet icon in the TOP or in the Bottom icons.

    4. Comment in the region below.

    Winners Announced …………………… :)

    Hi, Thanks for participating this contest :)

    All the winners are selected through www.random.org

    Winners from all the category

    Commenting

    1. Bharani M  ( Smashing Revolution PSD theme)

    2. Desigg.com ( Smashing Revolution PSD theme)

    3. Rohith ($25 Cash prize)

    Twitter Follow

    1. DavidGumpper ( Smashing Revolution PSD theme)

    2. lolo2774 ( Smashing Revolution PSD theme)

    3. tobinctom ( $25 cash prize)

    Facebook

    1. Lawrence Adam ( Smashing Revolution PSD theme)

    2. Tutorials Terrific ( Smashing Revolution PSD theme)

    3. Tharun Jose ($25 Cash prize)

    Retweet

    1. netastica  ( Smashing Revolution PSD theme)

    2. vishnumittal ( Smashing Revolution PSD theme)

    Congrats to all…!!

    All the winners requested to contact at contact@smashingwebs.com to claim there prizes.


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/new-year-give-away-from-smashingwebs/feed/ 14     Promotional Sites for Your Blog or Website http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/promotional-sites-for-your-blog-or-website/ http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/promotional-sites-for-your-blog-or-website/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:07:56 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=151 Since I just started up my blog, I was totally in a big confusion how to get a good traffic to my blog? Even if I post relevant contents, there is no hope for me. So I just search for how to promote my blog posts through internet. I just found some social bookmarking site where we can give away the links to our blog posts. So the users will get notice our content and will drive through our website. Initially I had only 2 or 3 websites for these Social Book Markings. But currently I found some great websites where you can post your links You will receive definite amount of visitors.

    In the showcase below, let me post some of the most wanted promotional sites where you should give your links. Some of them Needs Registration. :)

    1. Digg

    2. Stumbleupon

    3. Mixx

    4. DesignMoo

    5. Design Dazzling

    6. The Web Blend

    7. ZaBox

    8. Reddit

    9. Delicious

    10. Graphic-Design-Links

    11. DesignBump

    12. Noupe

    13. DesignFloat

    14. Vectortuts

    15. DesignM.ag

    16. PsdTuts

    17. Abduzeedo

    18. PSDFan

    19. Joyoge

    20. DesignShard

    21. QuandNet

    22. WebDesignTuts

    23. Spoonfed Design

    24. Directory For Designers

    25. Naldzgraphics


    26. FreeLance Folder

    27.Woork

    28. Whofreelance

    29.TripWire Magazine

    30. 10Steps

    31.Web Design News

    32. Smashing Post

    33. Spoonfed Design

    34. Colorburned

    35.InstantShift

    36. BoogiesBC

    37. TheCreativityWall

    38. Noupe

    39. Kailoon

    40. Speckyboy

    41. Visual Blast

    42. ScripyAndStyle

    43.Dezinerfolio

    44. DeadWings Designs

    45. Design Jojo

    46. Little Box OF Ideas

    47. KnowTeBook

    48. BrushKing

    49. NetTuts

    50. PSDLearning

    if you have some more, please add it in the comment section. I’m sorry if I miss any important sites :)

    Listing from Users

    51. vulka

    52. desigg

    53. aext.net


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/promotional-sites-for-your-blog-or-website/feed/ 8     Get the Smashing Revolution WordPress PSD Theme http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/get-the-smashing-revolution-wordpress-psd-theme/ http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/get-the-smashing-revolution-wordpress-psd-theme/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:32:22 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=141 Hello Friends,

    We are proud to present our FIRST wordpress psd theme in front of you, Smashing Revolution Theme. We are now at the end of 2009 and at the beginning of 2010. Let’s celebrate it with the New WordPress theme. SmashingWebs introduces our first WordPress PSD theme, Smashing Revolution.This is a General Theme that can be used for any type of blogs.

    Features

    1. Nice, Clean, Professional, Modern, Corporate Stylish Look.

    2. Two Column Layout.

    3. Sidebar are large enough to display two 125×125 banners side by side

    4. Banners & Adsense Ready

    5. Featured Homepage Post with Image

    6. Featured Categories

    7. Latest Comment section.

    8. Transparent Latest Blog Entry Background.

    9. Integrate Videos

    10. Flicker Gallery at the bottom

    11. Twitter Posts.

    12. Colorful Look

    13. PSD to WordPress theme Ready File.

    14. Fully Layered PSD file.

    15. Easy to Code to WordPress theme.

    Screen Shots


    Top Portion


    Side Bar with Spaces for the Ads to Display

    Stylish Look at the Post section

    Sidebar


    Bottom portion contains Twitter Updates, Flicker Gallery, Random Posts

    Happy New Year to All Readers :)


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/get-the-smashing-revolution-wordpress-psd-theme/feed/ 1     25 Social Bookmarking Plugins for WordPress http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/25-social-bookmarking-plugins-for-wordpress/ http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/25-social-bookmarking-plugins-for-wordpress/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:39:53 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=137 Most bloggers are using wordpress as their content management software. Now a days if they need to get a good no of visitors, the posts has to be shared with the world. But how it is possible? Surely using social bookmarks. Digg, Stumbleupon, reddit etc are some of such websites as you know. So how to share your blog posts with your friends and the world? Here comes the use of wordpress plugins for the social bookmarking and sharing. These plugins will allow you to share your contents with the world and you will receive a good many no of visitors to your blog.
    In the showcase below , I have included almost all the most wanted plugins for the social bookmarkings. Fell free to add your comments here :)

    1.Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button

    Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. The button comes with AddToAny’s customizable Smart Menu, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor’s browsing and usage history.

    Download Now

    2. SexyBookmarks

    Though the name may be a little “edgy” for some, SexyBookmarks has proven time and time again to be an extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites.

    Download Now

    3. Sociable

    Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites! WordPress 2.6 or above is required, if you use an older version, please download this version, please keep in mind that version is not maintained.

    Download Now

    4. Light Social

    This is a super lightweight plugin to insert a set of social share links at the bottom of each post, focused on technical blogs. With this plugin you don’t have options to configure. Simply activate or deactivate to show or not the bookmark social links.

    Download Now

    5. Tell A Friend

    Adds a tell a friend, Share/Bookmark/Email/Social Bookmarking button in a widget position. The service which is used is freetellafriend.com which supports e-mail address book, social bookmarks and favorites.

    Download Now

    6.  OnlyWire

    OnlyWire syndicates your content and articles to the web’s top social networking sites with a single button click. Used by thousands of bloggers and publishers, OnlyWire simplifies the process of submitting your content to over 30 social networking sites at once — including Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Twitter and many others.

    Download Now

    7. Simple Facebook Connect

    Makes it easy for you to add Facebook Connect functionality to a site. Modular: activate only the pieces you need.

    Simple Facebook Connect consists of series of plugins, to add any sort of Facebook Connect functionality you like to a WordPress blog. This lets you have an integrated site without a lot of coding, and still letting you customizeit exactly the way you’d like.

    Download Now

    8. AddThis

    Help your visitor promote your site! The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows your users to bookmark your site easily with over 45 popular services, and to share it with friends via email. Our button is small, unobtrusive, quick to load and recognized all over the web.

    Download Now

    9. Social Bookmarks

    The Social Bookmarks plugin for WordPress adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts and/or pages that allow your visitors to easily submit them to a number of social bookmarking sites.

    Download Now

    10. Instant Highlighter

    Ever used a yellow highlighter? It’s the most natural publishing tool that was missing on the Web until now.

    Download Now


    11. Social Bookmarking RELOADED

    The Social Bookmarking RELOADED plugin for WordPress adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts and/or pages that allow your visitors to easily submit them in a number of social bookmarking sites. Furthermore, the plugin adds a page in the WordPress admin section that lets you customize it.

    Download Now

    12. Simple Social Bookmarks

    Download Now

    13. Bookmark Me

    The Bookmark Me plugin will add buttons that let your visitors share your content on social media sites such as Buzz Up!, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Mixx, Reddit and StumbleUpon.

    Download Now

    14. Social Dropdown

    Version 2.0 features a new fresh look which is much easier to use and is extremely search engine friendly. Nonetheless, if you do not like the new layout, you can always use the old one via the administration panel. The new layout should go well with most layouts.

    Download Now

    15. Simple Sidebar Share Widget

    This allows your users to share any page of your blog on their chosen social network site.

    Download Now

    16. Social Bookmarking JP

    Social Bookmarking JP plugin embeds links and icons of Hatena Bookmark, Livedoor Clip, Yahoo!JAPAN Bookmark, BuzzURL, Twitter, Tumblr, FC2 Bookmark, newsing, Choix, Google Bookmark, Delicious and Digg to the heading or ending of the post. These are Japanese major social bookmark services (except Delicious and Digg).

    Download Link

    17. Bookmarkify

    The Social Media Marketing Plugin that lets you put social bookmarking links in your posts and other pages. Help your readers promote your blog!

    Download Now

    18. Social Web Links

    Displays beautiful web 2.0 social bookmark icons on your sidebar. Two sizes available for icons 26×26 and 16×16. Three styles of display available.

    Download Now

    19.  Simple Social Bookmarking Plugin

    Will add bookmark icon for each post and page to share with popular social bookmarking sites.

    Download Now

    20. DamnSexyBookmarks

    It includes all the features of SexyBookmarks v.2.1.2 with the following changes/additions:

    • Customizable display order of bookmarks.
    • Uses WP Custom Fields to store the short URL for each post/page. This minimizes the need to make a remote request for a short URL each time the post or page is processed.
    • Fix to remove inline CSS when DamnSexyBookmarks is displayed in the feed.
    • Added an option to hide or display DamnSexyBookmarks in feeds.
    • Added an option to hide “Sharing is Caring” or “Sharing is Sexy”.
    • Streamlined code for easier maintenance.

    Download Now

    21. HB Social Bookmarks

    The Social Bookmark plugin is a “ready to run” addon for the WordPress blogsoftware. It adds a list of 16x16px icons of the most common social bookmark services to your wordpress blog. It comes as a sidebar widget that can be activated and positioned in the admin’s widget configuration interface. The plugin takes care of the correct transfer of bookmarking titles, URLs and descriptions individually generated from your content. You can activate or deactivate each social bookmark service individually through your wordpress administration interface. The Plugin is fully XHTML 1.0 Transitional compatible.

    Download Now

    22. Bookmark Me

    A simple and light plugin to add social bookmarks buttons to post and pages. I’m focusing in collecting non-english bookmarks services.

    Download Now

    23.  Addmarx

    The Addmarx Bookmark, Share, Email, Link Dropdown was developed as a customizable, integrated method of distributing your content to various social bookmarking platforms. The plugin provides four basic functions:

    • Bookmark content using different services including a web browser
    • Email content to friends/colleagues
    • Share content via social websites
    • Link to a page/posting with pre-populated HTML code

    Download Now

    24. Simple Submit SEO

    This plugin is for adding submission links for Digg, Delicious, Buzz, and Stumble to pages and posts.
    This plugin is useful for building traffic to your website and also for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It allows you to choose between six options of pages/posts to add to.

    Download Now

    25. Sociable-Italia

    Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 105 different social bookmarking sites! Extension of joostdevalk plugin sociable for italian bookmarking sites.

    Download Now

    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/25-social-bookmarking-plugins-for-wordpress/feed/ 17     Free WordPress Themes http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/free-wordpress-templates/ http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/free-wordpress-templates/#comments Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:15:40 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=119 I was searching for a professional level free wordpress template. It was very hard for me to search and find such a theme. Whenever I searches for these templates, I gets only some collection of simple wordpress themes which are quite normal now a days. But I got some awesome wordpress themes which are professional in look. Unfortunately that was a premium wp theme. But my friends gave me a lot of links of the free wp theme sites. Fortunately I got a lot of clean, corporate look wp themes which are free of cost. Let me list that here. If you finds something, feel free to add in the comment section :)

    1. Vintage and Blues Free WordPress Theme

    Live Demo Download Now

    2. FreebiesDock Free WordPress Theme

    Live Demo Download Now

    3. FXMAG Free WordPress Theme

    Live Demo Download Now

    4. Jungle Land Free WordPress Theme

    Live Demo Download Now

    5. Magnolia Free WordPress Theme

    Live Demo Download Now

    6. Gallery Free WordPress Theme

    Live Demo Download Now

    7. Splendour Free WordPress Theme

    Live Demo Download Now

    8. Strownes Free WordPress Theme

    Live Demo Download Now

    9. TouchRiver Free WordPress Theme

    Live Demo Download Now

    10. Zaoel Free WordPress Theme

    Live Demo Download Now


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/free-wordpress-templates/feed/ 4     Free Christmas WordPress Themes http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/free-christmas-wordpress-themes/ http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/free-christmas-wordpress-themes/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:08:57 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=103 Hi again,
    Christmas is just a day away from us. Everybody enjoys this Christmas week. So how can you impress your web/blog visitors? Use Christmas themes for your wp blog/site. In the showcase below we are presenting some of the cool, professional wp themes that may suite for your site. Just have a look at them.

    1. Christmas Theme I

    • Widget ready
    • Easy to setup, Theme Options Page
    • JQuery Lightbox
    • Ajax based contact form
    • Live form email validation

    Live Demo Download



    2. Christmas Theme II

    • Modern and beautiful web typeface.
    • Tableless design and 100% CSS-based layout.
    • 2 columns of fixed width.
    • Widget Ready.
    • XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid.
    • CSS 2.1 valid.
    • Delivered with source .PSD file.
    • Well-commented CSS and theme PHP files for flexible customization.
    • Multi-browser compatibility. Tested under modern w3c compliant browsers. Firefox 3 , Safari 2 and IE7.

    Live Demo Download Now


    3. Christmas Days

    Live Demo Download Now


    4. Bluiesh Christmas Theme

    A fun and blueish Christmas theme. Last tested on WordPress v2.6.3 with artwork by Masaki Hoshino, snow by Scott Schiller and icons by N.Design Studio.

    Live Demo Download Now

    5. Winter Red

    Winter red is all about winter, it’s beauty and holidays that are celebrated all over the world.

    Live Demo Download Now

    Do you have a good wp Christmas theme for us? Share it here. Give the link in the comment area and that will be a great help for all :)


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/free-christmas-wordpress-themes/feed/ 3     2009: The Year of Twitter and Facebook http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/2009-the-year-of-twitter-and-facebook/ http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/2009-the-year-of-twitter-and-facebook/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:54:14 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=87 Hi Friends,

    We are about the end of 2009. Shall we have an outlook of 2009? What made you special this year? Are you a web developer or a website or blog owner? Then definitely you may come across with the two famous Social Networking sites Twitter and Facebook. I think this year forced us to move form Orkut to Facebook and from blogspot to Twitter. Why this is happening? I don’t know :)

    Today, most of us can’t live without using twitter. Almost all celebrities, political leaders, sports players etc are now leaving inside the twitter. Followers gets what the exact thing happening with the tweet person. Haven an outlook of Twitter? Twitter began in a “daylong brainstorming session” that was held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo in an attempt to break out of a creative slump.At that meeting Jack Dorsey introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group, a concept partly inspired by the SMS group messaging service TXTMob. That was the starting of Twitter. In 2006, the microbloging comes into attack :) I don’t know whether it is an end of blogspot or not. But most of my friends and me just boarding from blogspot and orkut. Bloggers are now out of fashion :(

    For us, Or’cut’ and now its facebook. This helps to share our posts with the world more easily than Orkut I think. In 2009 the Facebook probably tookover the position of ‘No 1 in Social Networking sites’ from Orkut. In Facebook, Users can join and create up to 200 groups according to their interests or areas of expertise. That make the Facebook outstanding. Facebook Apps are also a great way to explore the websites I think :) When ever I visits a website, there will be a link for “Follow us on Twitter or Connect with Us on Facebook”. I wondered why this is!
    I’m not going to say anything more about these two websites. You know what is going on…! and even better than me. One more, since I’m a Graphics designer, I usually participates in 99designs’s contests. Look there, you can see a new category for Twitter BG’s this year. So a great way for the designers too to earn something for there dinner :) . A no of twitter based websites were also born in this year. These sites will keep us with the latest posts in your websites.
    So this was the year of Twitter and Facebook. Is there any chance for a new Social Networking website or a new technology for the blogging in the upcoming year? Let’s wait and see. Just 3 more years go to until the end the world? ( just joking..!! ) :)
    So friends, don’t hesitate to post your comment here. I’m a beginner. Share your contributions to this post and share this post with your friends. Let them know what happened in 2009 and let us know what will happen in 2010 :)

    Anyways, thanks for reading this article. :)


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/2009-the-year-of-twitter-and-facebook/feed/ 3     33 Great Artistic Flash Websites http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/33-great-artistic-flash-websites/ http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/33-great-artistic-flash-websites/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:35:33 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=71 Now a day’s Flash WebPages are playing an important role in the interactive section of a website. Once the whole site is loaded, flash WebPages can be easily used even in low net connectivity. Websites prepared fully in flash are more eyes catching. A good web developer will think about the various uses of flash items in a webpage. Creative use of flash will definitely lead to a quality website.

    In the showcase below we present 33 artistic, colourful, creative, interactive and beautiful Flash-based web-sites. Hopefully they will serve you as an inspiration for your future works. Feel free to add your contributions at the comment area :)

    1. 2advanceds

    2. catsper1

    3. christiansparrow

    4. creaktif

    5. cubamoon

    6. ecodazoo

    7. cleverkids

    8. ff0000

    9. hellosoursally

    10. northform

    11. okaydave

    12. ownyourc

    13. piotrowskimichal

    14. porliniers

    15. prismgirl


    16. samsung_blackline

    17. sensisoft

    18. sreenilayam

    19. targetscope

    20. tbwahakuhodo

    21. thecoronabeach

    22. coca-cola

    23. rockhall

    24. rolando

    25. v5design

    26. saizenmedia

    27. coraline

    28. experience159

    29. fred-stuart

    30. gtiproject

    31. ldsartcollector

    32. parasol-island

    33. realcasual


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/33-great-artistic-flash-websites/feed/ 1     cPanel Hosting with MX Records Changes http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/low-cost-cpanel-hosting-with-mx-records-changes/ http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/low-cost-cpanel-hosting-with-mx-records-changes/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:03:14 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=62 Hello Friends, We know that for getting the domain verified for the Google Apps, we have to Change the MX Entries. So Some hosting companies doesn’t allow the cPanel users to change their MX Entry. So if they need to use the Google mail associated with their Domain name, they have to Change the MX entry. Since some cPanel doesn’t allows this, the users normally creates one subdomain such as mail.example.com and then redirects the subdomain to Google.com/a/example.com. So here is a Good news for cPanel users. I found a New hosting company that offers a cPanel account which can edit the MX Entries. Here is a Screenshot for the cPanel Home.

    Configuring Your MX Records: cPanel

    1. Log in to your cPanel account.
    2. Click Mail.
    3. Click Modify Mail Exchanger (MX Entry). A list of your current MX records will appear.
    4. Click Change an MX Entry.
    5. In the Change MX for… field, enter ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
    6. Click Change.

    The Changes in the MX records may appear within seconds. No need to Wait for 48 hours :) Website: www.WebandCrafts.com Check this website for the hosting. You can get Unlimited Bandwidth and 250 MB Space.  I selected my feature by myown. That is, you can select your DiskSpace and all feature ans Just sent a mail to them. Thay will contact you ASAP. Feel Free to Comment Here :)


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/low-cost-cpanel-hosting-with-mx-records-changes/feed/ 1     30 Most Wanted WordPress Plugins http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/30-most-wanted-wordpress-plugins/ http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/30-most-wanted-wordpress-plugins/#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:33:18 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=57 Hello friends,

    Wp Plugins are those precoded scripts which you can use in your WP blogs. This will definitely give more professional tough to your blogs. You can download these plugins completely for free. Here is a collection of 30 most wanted WP plugins. Feel free to introduce new if you have some :)

    1. Remind Me

    The Remind Me WordPress plugin is the ultimate deep linking plugin available to WordPress users. A deep link is a link from one of your posts to another post on your website.

    Remind Me helps you create deep links on your blog easily with it’s fancy jQuery look up window in the Write Panel of your Dashboard.

    Download Now

    2. Simple Facebook Share Button

    Painlessly add a Facebook® Share button to your posts and pages. This Supports placing button above or below content, Button can be shown on either posts, pages, or both

    Download Now

    3. Category SEO Meta Tags

    Allow you to add custom meta tags for category pages. This plugin specially designed to work with All In One SEO plugin.

    Download Now

    4. SuperSlider-Excerpt

    SuperSlider-Excerpts automatically adds thumbnails wherever you show excerpts (archive page, feed… etc). Mouseover image will then Morph its properties, (controlled with css) You can pre-define the automatic creation of excerpt sized excerpt-nails.(New image size created, upon image upload).

    Download Now

    5. WebReserv Embedded Booking Calendar

    The WebReserv Embedded Booking Calendar lets you add online booking and reservation handling and management to your website. Choose between Availability Calendar View, Search List View, or Scheduled Events Calendar View.

    Download Now

    6. Vooddo

    Vooddo is a new and easy way to enhance your videos. You can insert interactive hyperlink markers within your videos, and even videos hosted by Youtube and Dailymotion.

    Download Now

    7. Tweet Old Post

    Tweet Old Posts is a plugin designed to tweet your older posts to get more traffic. Tweet Old Posts randomly picks your older post based on the interval specified by you. The primary function of this plugin is to promote older blog posts by tweeting about them and getting more traffic.

    Download Now

    8.  Viralogy Twitter Sidebar

    Viralogy’s Twitter Sidebar shows your visitors your most recent tweets and current tweets around tags you’re interested in.

    Download Now

    9. Extra User Details

    Extra User Details is the simple plugin that allows you to add extra fields to the user profile page (e.g. social media links to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn profiels etc).

    Download Now

    10. All in One Webmaster

    If you are a webmaster you probably heard of Google Webmaster Tool. Both Yahoo and Bing have their own versions called Yahoo SiteExplorer and Bing Webmaster Central. With them you can check how your site is indexed (Webmaster Tool), get detailed statistics (Analytics Tool), earn money (Google AdSense) and more.

    Download Now


    11. TwitPop

    TwitPop is a WordPress plugin with one goal…To make you more popular on Twitter. There are sites that spring up from time to time claiming to get you more followers on Twitter if you follow X amount of people on the follow train. Well, now you can create your own Twitter train on your wordpress blog and really get more followers.

    Download Now

    12. Get Recent Comments

    This plugin shows excerpts of the latest comments and/or trackbacks in your sidebar. You have comprehensive control about their appearance. This ranges from the number of comments, the length of the excerpts up to the html layout. You can let the plugin order the comments by the corresponding post, or simply order them by date.

    Download Now

    13. PollDaddy Polls

    The PollDaddy Polls plugin allows you to create and manage polls from within your WordPress dashboard. You can create polls, choose from 20 different styles for your polls and view all results for your polls as they come in. All PollDaddy polls are fully customizable, you can set a close date for your poll, create multiple choice polls, choose whether to display the results or keep them private.

    Download Now

    14.  Sidebar Photoblog

    There are several photo blog plug-in for WordPress. Most of them assume that you are a professional photographer who makes lots of money via his/her camera.

    Download Now

    15. Photo Gallery XML Export

    The plugin generates an XML feed from your WordPress posts using the Excerpt field, Permalink and five custom fields of your choosing.

    Download Now

    16. Comment Image

    Comment Image plugin enable users to attach an image while leaving comments on WordPress blogs. Comments can be a real user generated content and with images the contribution can be more and more interesting.

    Download Now

    17. Superb Slideshow

    This is a strong, cross browser fade in slideshow script that incorporates some of your most requested features all rolled into one. Each instance of a fade in slideshow on the page is completely independent of the other, with support for different features selectively enabled for each slideshow.

    Download Now

    18. imagoxy

    Imagoxy-WP is a wordpress front-end for Imagoxy. Imagoxy downloads pictures from remote server to local server and relocate corresponding http requests to the local one. It is used to access pictures when the remote server is banned or slow from the network of clients.

    Download Now

    19. Better RSS Widget

    Replacement for the built in RSS widget that adds an optional link target, shortcode, and page conditionals.

    Download Now

    20. Really Static

    Really-static generates static html-files out of your blog. Every time a Post is published/edited/delted or a comment is posted only the changed files are renewed.

    Download Now

    21. MaxRef-Widget

    MaxRef Widgets is a powerful way to add unlimited widgets on your sidebars to display posts only from a certain category, the links from a particular link category, comments and more.

    Downlod Now

    22.  BNS SMF Feeds

    Plugin with multi-widget functionality that builds an SMF Forum RSS feed url by user option choices; and, displays a SMF forum feed. The widget includes the additional option to include in the feed: specific boards and/or specific categories.

    Download Now

    23.  WP-Phanfare

    WP-Phanfare integrates your Phanfare albums and images into your Posts and Pages on your WordPress blog. Phanfare is a popular online Photo sharing

    Download Now

    24. Fuzzy SEO Booster

    Fuzzy SEO Booster increases your sites search engine positions for long tail keywords automatically!

    Download Now

    25. Advanced AdSense

    A simple plugin to help make your Google AdSense Ads display better, more relevant ads.

    Download Now

    26. Recent Google Searches Widget

    The Recent Google Searches Widget collects the query string from Google, Bing and Yahoo. It lists the last 5 as a sidebar widget so that users might click on them and find information using the WordPress search.

    Download Now

    27. Make Me Social

    Make Me Social is the WordPress plugin which will send each new post you make to the most famous social services. It will send your newly published post to Twitter, Diigo, Delicious, Tumblr, etc.

    Download Now

    28. Easy AdSense

    Easy AdSense provides a very easy way to generate revenue from your blog using Google AdSense. With its full set of features, Easy AdSense is perhaps the first plugin to give you a complete solution for everything AdSense-related.

    Download Now

    29. Google Analytics Visits

    This wordpress plugin uses Google Analytics API to fetch data from your analytics account and displays user visits from each country in the widget with Country Flags. You will have to enter your analytics account details in the options page “Google Analytics Visits”.

    Download Now

    30. Google Analytics Dashboard

    Google Analytics Dashboard gives you the ability to view your Google Analytics data in your WordPress dashboard. You can also alow other users to see the same dashboard information when they are logged in or embed parts of the data into posts or as part of your theme.

    Download Now

    If you want to share more usefull plugins, please do it here :)

    http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sidebar-photoblog.zip


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/30-most-wanted-wordpress-plugins/feed/ 7     33 Awesome Artistic Photoshop Brushes http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/33-awesome-artistic-photoshop-brushes/ http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/33-awesome-artistic-photoshop-brushes/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:17:26 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=46 Hey,

    Are you a talented designer looking for some cool, artistic Photoshop brushes? Then here we have a small collection of some cool, artistic Photoshop brushes. You can download it completely for free.

    In the showcase below, we have 33 awesome artistic Photoshop brushes. Hopefully this will help you in making a realistic Photoshopic illustration, that’s for sure:) Enjoy.

    1. Real Smoke

    2. Glossy Blood Splatter

    3. Clouds Brushes

    4. Raging Dawn Brushes

    5. Splatter Plus

    6. Abstract Brushset No 15

    7. Little Birdi

    8. Fur Brushes

    9. Decimation Brushes

    10. Bamboo

    11. botched ornaments

    12. Galaxies

    13. splatIT! Splatters

    14. Assorted Maps

    15. Splatter Tree Brushes


    16. Palm Trees

    17. Waterfalls

    18. The Grasslands

    19. Winter Branches

    20. Flower brush

    21. Tree Brushes

    22. Sidewalk Series Vol. 1 – Cracks

    23. Birds

    24. “Trees” Promo Brush Pack

    25. Religious

    26. Complete Tree Brush Pack

    27. Branches and Foliage Photoshop Brushes

    28. Pine Brushes – MEGA PACK

    29. Abstract Brushset VII

    30. 50 Ultimate Fractals

    31. Plant Brushes

    32. 24 Clouds


    ]]>     http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/33-awesome-artistic-photoshop-brushes/feed/ 2     55 Fabulous Text Based Logos http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/55-fabulous-text-based-logos/ http://smashingwebs.com/2009/12/55-fabulous-text-based-logos/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:22:29 +0000 Jilson Thomas http://smashingwebs.com/?p=3 Hello Friends,
    Here we are presenting a new weblog for designers. We will introduce you a lot more show cases that will definitely give you more inspiration for your future works. We are a group of designers interested in Web, Logo designing.

    In the showcase below we present 55 fabulous text based logos. Here you can see the amazing artistic logo works of some designers. These logos are text based. That is they took the inspiration from the words of the brand for which they are making the Logo. Hopefully they will serve you as an inspiration for your future works.

    1. Pelican

    2. SOUC

    3. Look

    4. Life

    5. Bonita

    6. Rifftime

    7.  HIDE

    8. Lead

    9. drink winery

    10. Brisk

    11. alone

    12. Rincon full type

    13. novo

    14. platinum

    15. DOG


    16. ian

    17. SimiÄ

    18. Aime Paris

    19. Cacao

    20. Togenblik

    21. dog paw

    22. Effort

    23. Lucifer Labs

    24. OXO

    25. Betterfly

    26. grizzy bear

    27. Fuel Fitness

    28. talkmore

    29. KnowIT

    30. Moto-Car

    31. Coffee Point

    32. Time

    33. Down

    34. capo

    35. Rooms

    36. Road

    37. Swamp

    38. Just Beginning _ jb

    39. ADIPE

    40. Chair

    41. moca

    42. we all pee

    43. ELLO

    44. dromader

    45. JIN-DOJO

    46. Diafano

    47. CODOZO

    48. mouvo

    49. pevelo

    50. Killed

    51. Little luna

    52. slide

    53. Avmva

    54. twa


    55. Saviseudun Investointi


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