Friday, 24 August 2007

Online Generators - smashingmagazine.com

One can discuss, whether web-generators are useful or not. On the one hand, they don’t challenge our creativity, but on the other hand they make our life easier and save our precious time.

34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog - problogger.net

Via Problogger, leo un interesante artículo en el que mediante 103 opiones, recogen 34 razones por las que la gente elimina feeds de los lectores

Use an XHTML Sitemap for Better Indexing - pearsonified.com

As a Webmaster, one of the things you always need to be aware of is how well your the pages of your site are interlinked.

How to Find Your Creative Zen - 69 - peaesonified.com

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Top 10 Greasemonkey scripts to improve your productivity - lifehack.org

Great list, but one note. You describe what Greasemonkey is in the opening paragraph but don’t give any explanation of Stylish is. You simply link directly to the xpi installation file. I’m sure it’s great, but I’d like a little more information about what it is before I install it. Maybe a short note concerning Stylish in the first paragraph is in order

The Seven Essential “Stations” Every Home Should Have - lifehack.org

When organizing our clients’ homes, we teach people there are some common “stations” that virtually every home should have. Here are the seven that we feel are most important

5 Phrases You Never Want To Hear In A Presentation - instigatorblog.com

Giving good presentations is hard. Public speaking is a true skill that you can develop over time; a combination of art and science.

GTD with RTM: Getting Things Done with Remember The Milk - geektronica.com

it’s a little hard to figure out how to leverage the available information- and task-management tools most effectively to actually help me get things

CSS Shorthand Guide - dustindiaz.com

Ok. Let’s set the record straight. There is no official guide for each and every CSS shorthand property value. So let’s work together and put one together shall we? Ok. Straight to the business. Anytime I’ve ran into a specification (besides the confusing mess at the W3C), it turns into showing off a couple of examples and you’re supposed to be set on your way. Well well. Over the years, I’ve found quite some interesting unknown quirky facts about these shorthands… hence this Guide was born.

Top 40 sites according to FeedBurner stats - franticindustries.com

is a popular RSS feed manager, with over 600.000 feeds in their roster. One of the advantages it offers is tracking the statistics for your RSS feed usage. Publishers can also choose to go public with this data, and many of them are displaying the number of their RSS subscribers, according to FeedBurner, on their site.

5 cool ways to use Yahoo! Pipes - franticindustries.com

I’ve had some time to play with Yahoo!’s new RSS mixing service, and I’m impressed with the possibilities. Unfortunately, there’s still a hefty number of bugs, and some features are sorely lacking (experienced coders will probably be most annoyed by being forced at working in a visual environment and not being able to look at the actual code). Still, even in its current state Pipes is offering a myriad of interesting possibilities. I will, of course, leave out the simple stuff which you can do with any RSS mixer, and focus on remixing that can only be done with Pipes. Without further ado, here are five cool ways to use Pipes.

10 tips for time management in a multitasking world - blog.penelopetrunk.com

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12 ways to pimp your office - positivesharing.com

12 ways to pimp your office I’m partial to the Bibliochaise and the Softwall (of Justice), but the Wood Wall (of Justice) and the Conference Bike might be interesting. (tags: design inspiration office furniture Business lifehacks work ergonomics)

30 Dark Designs You Should’ve Seen - smashingmagazine.com

Dark designs can be really stunning. I mean, really. In Web 2.0 designers try to do their best to impress their visitors and in many cases they definitely succeed in doing so.

50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006 - smashingmagazine.com

when i see this websites i am become a friend of css and i try to make this type website by Css really it is super

The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes - plaintxt.org

I’m sharing some of the best—and more interesting—minimalist WordPress themes that are publicly available. Many may react to these by thinking of all the ways they could be enhanced, altered, etc., and I think that’s a big reason so many people are searching for a “simple” theme.

A WordPress Plugin for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) - netconcepts.com

The SEO Title Tag plug-in allows you to override a page’s or a post’s title tag with a custom one you define, it reverses the order of the blog name and the title (giving more keyword prominence to the title instead of the blog name). Or you can drop the blog name altogether

Custom fields de WordPress - lamateporunyogur.net

Durante los últimos días he estado conociendo un poco más a fondo que son los y algunas de las utilidades que pueden desempeñar. Al ver que la información al respecto es bastante escasa, he decidido hacer un resumen con el fin de popularizarlas y aprovechar su potencial.

Akon - kineda.com

Akon is a two column, simplistic, minimalist, light colored theme for Wordpress with a very nice header image

How to Create an Animated, Sliding, Collapsible DIV with Javascript and CSS - harrymaugans.com

How to create functions to slide DIVs up and down. It supports multiple animations happening simultaneously, as well as a variable animation length. It’s also time-based, rather than increment based, so it’ll animate the same speed on most computers.

WP-ANDREASOI 1.7 - themes.wordpress.net

WP Theme: WP-Andreas01 1.3 Sobre, yet different, organized and bold three column theme for Wordpress by the talented Andreas.

The Skittlish Theme for Wordpress - journal.barleyhut.com

I spent all day Saturday glued to the NCAA Basketball tournament but required something to fiddle with during the down times. So I dusted off an old theme I started porting to Wordpress long ago and finished a first version of it.

CSS+Javascript power. Fancy menu - devhought.com

Devthought - Guillermo Rauch’s Blog » CSS+Javascript power. Fancy menu pretty!! (tags: css javascript webdesign menu navigation mootools web design)

AJAX Comment Preview - blogwaffe.com

AJAX Comment Preview Click Button Coment Preview which filters content through WordPress filters. Inspired by Bitflux GmbH via Jeff Minard. Requires SACK. By Michael D Adams.SCREENSHOT

Where to get recent MySQL version ? - mysqlperformanceblog.com

Just came across interesting and really disturbing information about MySql : As you might noticed there are no recent MySQL Community versions available for download from MySQL Download Area This applies both to binaries (which is expected with new polices) but also to the source files which were promised to be available.

Exclusive: Google’s Click Fraud Rate is Less than 2% - marketingpilgrim.com

Marketing Pilgrim brings us some exclusive Google information, which confirms my theory that click fraud numbers are generally being misrepresented

30 One Page Websites - tutorialblog.org

Who said websites need more than one page ? The one page website can be very effective - especially when used as a portfolio website as they let the site take a back seat and let the work shine through. Here we take a look at some examples of the best

25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part1) - tutorialblog.org

There are loads of handy scripts, bits of html and widgets that you can incorporate into your websites and blogs - here we bring together 25 of the most helpfull in the first part of this series

12 ways to pimp your office - positivesharing.com

12 ways to pimp your office I’m partial to the Bibliochaise and the Softwall (of Justice), but the Wood Wall (of Justice) and the Conference Bike might be interesting. (tags: design inspiration office furniture Business lifehacks work ergonomics)

10 Pipes for Your Tubes - newteevee.com

10 Useful Yahoo Pipes (customized RSS feeds) Yahoo Pipes is a tool to customize, filter, or focus one or more RSS feeds. This list of feeds primarily contains top media files, which could of course be imported into an existing media application for new experiences. I foresee these types of filters to continue to provide contextual and relevant information for individuals

Top 40 sites according to FeedBurner stats - franticindustries.com

Sciencebase does not quite make the Top 40, we topped out at 2503 subscribers last week, with the usual weekend drop. We’re hoping to get to at least 3000 before year end, and there will be a special treat for subscribers when we do

CSS+Javascript power. Fancy menu - devthought.com

CSS+Javascript power. Fancy menu – Fantastické menu pomocou CSS+Javascriptu

Free CSS Editors - blog.lxpages.com

Style sheets are a very powerful tool for the Web site developer. They give you the chance to be completely consistent with the look and feel of your pages, while giving you much more control over the layout and design than straight HTML ever did. We’ve come up with a list of FREE CSS Editors that you can work with to improve your website design with with CSS by wasting the least amount of time.

Turn Google into your own personal (free) Napster - awswebshop.com

Google is good for so many things, among which is searching for all sorts of files, including MP3's. Here's a quick primer

Google AdSense: Facts, FAQs and Tools - smashingmagazine.com

Great resource for just about any AdSense user, beginner or not. We’ll be passing this along to our listeners.

45 Fresh, Clean and Impressive Designs - smashingmagazine.com

I know it’s being done to death right now, but I love the swirly floral patterns! A lot of nice graphic design on those sites. Unforunately, I’m a terrible designer, so these lists always give me an inferiority complex :(

Eight Ways Twitter is Useful Professionally - webworkerdaily.com

was looking for an explanation about why Twitter is useful. This isn’t a video, but here is 8 reasons from my friends at Web Worker Daily. And I can say without doubt I’ve benefited from all

How to use your PC and Webcam as a motion-detecting and recording security camera - simplehelp.net

This tutorial will take you step-by-step through setting up your PC and Webcam to act as a motion-detecting and recording security camera system. And the software required to do this is open source (free).

The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes - plaintxt.org

What very few designers realize, particularly the younger ones, is that most people would rather read something—actually read the words—than look at all of their lines and arrows and silly pictures they’ve screened back.

JSON for the masses - dustindiaz.com

Your co-workers will love you for writing in JSON because it will most likely not conflict with their scripts that are being called within the same web documents

REST for toddlers - diveintomark.org

HTTP status code translated into toddler’s language Here’s some great tech humor: HTTP status code translated into toddler’s language

Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser - alex.dojotoolkit.org

An old web technology is slowly being resurrected from the depths of history. Browser features that have gone untouched for years are once again being employed to bring better responsiveness to UIs. Servers are learning to cope with a new way of doing things. And I’m not talking about Ajax.

Heddon Holistic Therapies Centre -blog.meriwiliams.com

The centre itself was founded by Val Lockey, who is an amazing therapist. Since we moved up to Newcastle 18 months ago I’ve been going to Val for help with my RSI. Even with all the crazy travel I’m doing these days, she helps to keep me pain-free and so I can heartily recommend her services!

Valid Flash, video, and audio embed (object) markup - webstandards.org

Eighteen months ago, I was approached by a longtime friend who works in wedding photography and wanted a proof of concept for serving video (so that he could develop and sell that service, of course). In his previous life this client was a project manager for a Very Large Consultancy and swore by Microsoft platforms, which meant IE-only development over my objections.

53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without - smashingmagazine.com

CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts - and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design of pages can be easily changed, just replacing a css-file with another one.

Fresh theme for WordPress - ilemoned.com

Actually I had been requested by several of my friends to port it long ago. Since Bartelme now allows everyone to use this old design, I filled my buddies' requests and would like to make the port public.

MU 1.0 AND BBPRESS - wordpress.org

The WordPress family has been really starting to grow lately. I wanted to let you guys know about two big releases: WordPress Multi-user 1.0 and bbPress 0.72.

wordTube - alexrabe.boelinger.com

After I get some programming experience with wp-Table I need another easy plugin for my clients. They want to show there own video in the style of Google video or youTube. Again I found serveral plugins (Like WP-FLV) which handle this already , but really not in a easy integration (or I’m to stupid to google for it). Anyway I’m motivated to do it in my own way and learn more usefull things.

Five Principles to Design By-bokardo.com

Technology Serves Humans.

Too often people blame themselves for the shortcomings of technology. When their computer crashes, they say “I must have done something dumb”. If a web site is poorly designed, they say “I must be stupid. I can’t find it”. They might even turn to a book for Dummies to get it right.

The Defenitive Heatmap - Corunet.com

After the interest shown about the clickmaps / heatmaps articles, I’ve decided to gather all the information into an easy to use system. What we are going to make is a complete solution that allows collecting, analyzing and showing the click information our users give us. Now, it works in web pages not center aligned and is quite a bit more robust. Read on…

Wednesday, 8 August 2007

Email Marketing Software Guide

Email Marketing Software Guide - contains articles on email marketing, reviews of popular email marketing software programs, and tips for building effective email marketing strategies.