Web designers have the job of coming up with the right colors, and part of the challenge is matching. I have found ladies are extremely good at this as they seem to really have an eye for colors. Anyway, if your not a lady:) or you just need a little bit of help matching colors [...]
Videos are all the rage now days. The ability to create them using iphones, digital cameras and the flip video have made it super easy for all ages to jump on the video wagon. Yet not all video cameras come with solid editing software, that allows you to change the size, sound quality, cut out [...]
Hey it’s always nice when you can learn something for free and even better when it’s in a format which makes learning easy!. Video tutorials have become so popular now days as they are super fast to create and they are by far the best way of showing someone how to do things… just like [...]
Social networks are huge at the moment and it does appear as only a few make it to the very top. Yet that doesn’t mean you couldnt integrate a social aspect into your existing blog or regular site.
Having the ability to be able to give your visitors the options of creating their own blogs, adding [...]
I’m always on the look out for new online and offline web applications that can be useful in my business, whether that is design, productivity, management or general useful tools. Here is a collection I have recently come across that you might find useful for different areas of business.
Design
1. 280 Slides A very neat alternative [...]
Every business and general household at one time or another will need to make use of sending or receiving a fax. Unless your one of those that heads off down to your local staples and does it there, or one who has their own fax machine at home.
You might find it useful to know that [...]
Unless your a dab hand at developing your own logos, the alternative is to have a company create it for you through a graphic design business or the alternative is to use one of the online logo creation sites for free.
1. Logo Ease -Where you can develop your logo and then after download it for [...]
I’m always on the look out for new content management systems. I love wordpress and Joomla but it’s always interesting to find other upcoming or unheard of content management tools. Some of the ones that are out there can have really steep learning curves and are overkill for certain projects, but there are a lot [...]
For those who are designs, photographers, artists this will really come in handy. Web portfolios are important and having a way to display your work in a clean fashion is critical.
If your looking for a way to do it withouth hand coding try these five out
1. Simpleviewer
2. Photosnack
3. Scriptocean Accordian Menu
4. Carbonmade
5. Flickr Slideshows
Managing any small or large business smoothly requires a number of things to be in place, one of which is having the right tools and services available to get projects done.
So here are 20 projects management tools which should help
1. Huddle Provides collaboration, sharing tools for your team and clients
2. Planzone Keep track of your [...]
It’s always handy to know a few places where you can pick up some icons for web designing or spiffing our your site. Yet that can be quite a tast so I have gathered together 10 places where you can find icons for free. There really is some good ones online that make the whole [...]
Being able to track topics on the internet can be pretty tricky as there is so much out there. So what I have below is a list of tools which you can use that use both feed, email and services to deliver the information you need
Feed and Email
Google Alerts
PubSub
Yahoo Pipes
Topikality
Swammii ( No RSS )
Woofeed ( [...]
If you’re attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn’t, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income. – Jay Abraham
Great for managing small business these 12 companies have really pushed forward the envelope in the world of web 2.0. They are here to help small businesses be more productive and run smoother. See if any of them help you.
1. Mint – Expense Tracking and Money Management
2. Instacalc
3. Wesabe
4. Collaboration Basecamp
5. Campfire
6. Gotomeeting
7. Meebo
8. [...]
Using images online for your blogs and websites at times can get really expensive unless of course you use flickr images following the guide about copyright
Personally I use istockphoto or shutterstock as they have by far some of the best images around, but of course they do cost quite a bit so how about some [...]
its always nice to come across free stuff online and if you are heavily into graphic design or just looking for some free things to spruce up your wordpress site, then I’ve gathered together 22 items for you to use.
Brushes
Massive collection of 1,000 floral photoshop brushes
350+ smoke brushes for photoshop
Free high res heavy watercolor spatter [...]
I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?- Sheldon Adelson
Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.- Alvin Adams
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. – Agha Hasan Abedi
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.- Andrew Carnegie
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. – Thomas Jefferson
All great achievements require time.- Maya Angelou
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.- Albert Einstein
When your looking to find a good domain name there, there are a number of sites online that can make the job a lot easier. Personally myself I use a customized tool that I had created which works with Google Keywords Tool in establishing untapped keyword domains which are getting lots of traffic but you [...]
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. – Buddha
If you are designing sites, creating graphics or looking to spice up your website. It’s always nice to have a large selection of fonts too choose from. There are a lot that are free out there that are quality. Essentially you shouldn’t have to buy a premium font unless you really cant find one among [...]
Want to create an online store to sell different products? The ability to create a good looking ecommerce store that is powered by wordpress has become so much easier with the introduction of wordpress e-commerce plugins, some which are free and others which you will need to pay for. The nice part about building a [...]
A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.- Tony Robbins
The ability to present your wordpress site content to different countries in their own language is becoming even more easier now with the release of multilingual plugins for wordpress, So decide which of these you think is the best and away you go..
1. WPML
2. QTranslate
3. ZdMultiLang
4. Lanaguage Switcher Wordpress Plugin
5. Xlanguage
There are tons of plugins being created each month, people more and more are using wordpress as a Content management system due to its easy navigation and open source code. These 12 plugins below should help you if your looking to extend the features of your wordpress blog.
Flutter – Admin control allowing to you to [...]
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