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Noupe on Twitter…500 Followers or else…

2008-10-09T15:13:34Z

You can follow Noupe on Twitter now. Feel free to share, discuss and spread the word.

Psst! Each time one friend out of 500 will get a direct link on Noupe’s home page for one month.

WooContest - Submit your design and win!

2008-10-09T10:19:38Z

As you all know, WooThemes loves collaborating with industry-leading, creative designers and launching stylish and unique Wordpress themes every month.

So they thought it would be a good idea to launch a competition where readers and users can get involved, and gain some exposure, designing a theme concept for Woothemes. Not to forget, you stand the chance to win some big money ($2000 and a 6 month develop license)!

Check out Woo Themes and find out how to enter!

25+ Incredibly Useful Twitter Tools and Firefox Plugins

2008-10-09T10:36:55Z

Twitter is an amazing service that we all love, everyday we notice a new twitter tool or service that makes using it more easy and fun. Today we wanted to highlight more than 25 of our favorite Twitter add-ons, tools and services that won’t resist. This list is not intended to be all-inclusive, let us know your favorite twitter tool and why you like it.
I just got my new twitter account nourayehia, feel free to add me if you want to know what we are up to.

1. Just Tweet It

Just Tweet It was created to make it easier for people using the popular micro-blogging service Twitter to find other “Tweeters” with similar interests.

2. Twitter Patterns

Check out these nice backgrounds and use it to style your twitter page.

3. Twitturly

Twitturly is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter.

4. Twitterrific

Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or “tweets” to the Twitter community website. The application’s user interface is clean, concise and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac’s desktop.

5. LessFriends

Do the people you follow on Twitter, follow you? Find out.

6. Twitter Mail

When you provide your Twitter credentials they supply you with a TwitterMail email address. For instance abcdef1234@twittermail.com. If you send an email to that address it will be posted to Twitter.com. Also you can receive your latest twitter-replies automatically by e-mail

7. Twitter Feed

This is a fantastic application that automatically post your blog entries to your twitter account by using a tweet feed

8. Snitter

Snitter is “Snook’s Twitter”: an Adobe AIR-powered application for twittering. Features include: auto-updates tweet list, highlights messages sent to you via @ syntax (and makes a chirp), clear current list of tweets, refresh list of tweets, view 20 most recent items in your timeline and more…

9. TweetDeck

Aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces. TweetDeck enables users to split their main feed (All Tweets) into topic or group specific columns allowing a broader overview of tweets.

10. twhirl

twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform. Some of twhirl’s features: runs on both Windows and Mac OSX, connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic accounts, notifications on new messages, shorten long URLs, post images to TwitPic and more…

11. EasyTweets

EasyTweets is a set of tools that can help online marketers leverage the power of microblogging. You can use it to post to and switch between multiple Twitter accounts in seconds, check replies, and track new followers.

12. TwitterKeys

TwitterKeys is a javascript bookmarklet developed to provide you with a floating window with all the funny symbols you can use in Twitter. Emoticons, warning symbols, religious symbols, and more are a part of the palette of characters available to you via TwitterKeys. So you can actually write something like this: “I’m going to ? to ? in the morning after I make a ? to make sure my ? is ? with it. ? for now and don’t forget to ? and lets have ? soon!”

13. StrawPollNow

Run your own poll on twitter with the new StrawPoll Platform, where you can use your own Twitter account to ask the questions you find interesting.

How to track keywords and search conversations?

14. Quotably

An interesting services that enables people to follows threads woven throughout twitter conversations.

15. Hashtags

#hashtags are an easy way to track a specific topic or event such as the San Diego Fires using the Twitter network. This allows for hyper-instant communication surrounding disaster relief and reporting.

16. Twemes

Twemes.com follows public Twitter.com tweets (messages) that have embedded tags that start with a # character. These are sometimes called hashtags. Through the use of twemes, we can all view what people are talking about across the whole Twitter universe.

17. TweetBeep

TweetBeep is like Google Alerts for Twitter! Put in a keyword or website, and get emails when others tweet it!

Firefox Plugins for twitter

18. TwitBin

TwitBin is an extension for firefox that brings the power of twitter right in your browser. Where you can quickly and easily send and receive messages via twitter in your firefox browser.

19. Power Twitter

This Firefox plugin greatly enhances twitter to include: photo sharing with embedded flickr photos, video sharing with embedded youtube videos, shared tinyurls are unwound so you know where they link to, all links are mapped to their web page titles and more…

20. Yoono

In a single browser sidebar, Yoono users can interact with the best of the Web by discovering, communicating, and sharing with friends across multiple networks and platforms all in one place. Gather all of your social networks in one place including Facebook, MySpace, iMeem, Twitter, Flickr, FriendFeed, Youtube, Last.fm, Seeqpod, Piczo.

21. Twitzer

Twitzer is a Firefox extension which lets you post text longer than 140 characters on Twitter.com. It also provides a feature where you can resolve all TinyURL links to actual links so that you are sure you are clicking on safe links.

22. TwitterFox

TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ statuses of Twitter by adding a tiny icon on the status bar to update their statuses. Also it has a small text input field to update your status.

23. TwitKit

TwitKit is a Twitter sidebar for Firefox. TwitKit has a 6-section interface, using tabs to separate content. You can view the Twitter public timeline, your user timeline, a list of your friends and their latest tweets, a list of your followers and their latest tweets, @replies made to you, and stats about your account.

24. TwittyTunes

Allows to post your currently playing songs to Twitter with a click. As a bonus, you can also post the websites you’re visiting, videos you’re watching and more!

Why we should use Twitter

25. The Big Juicy Twitter Guide

Caroline Middlebrook has written an excellent guide to Twitter, everything from signing up and getting started to making the most of it as a marketing and communication tool.

26. 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter

A quick summary of all the ways you can use Twitter for both your professional or personal life. Some of these methods go beyond the use of Twitter as a lifestreaming device

5 Trends of Popular WordPress Blogs- Part1

2008-10-07T00:34:39Z

In this post we’re going to outline 5 WordPress trends for web developers who know their stuff.

There are plenty of WordPress techniques and hacks out there for beginners. Everyone knows about the routine tricks like:

These features are all fine and very important, but today we’re going to look at WordPress trends that are a bit more challenging. They’re not the run-of-the-mill techniques you’d teach a WordPress beginner. These 5 trends are slightly more difficult, but if done well they can add an extra special something to your website layout.

1. User Contributed Link Feed

Many sites in the design blogging niche have their own community news sections where users can submit a link to one of their own posts on their sites. This is a feature that i included here at Noupe and on devsnippets as well to spread the word about great content.

1.1 Manually

There are only few tutorials that explain how to create a user link feed module, my favorite one is the one that Collis Ta’eed wrote here, he explains in details how to allow the users to submit links and to create a public link feed out of it using WordPress’ comments.

1.2 TDO Mini Forms (WordPress Plug-in)

This brilliant plug-in was written by Mark Cunningham, allows you to add highly customisable forms to your website that allows non-registered users and/or subscribers (also configurable) to submit posts. The posts are kept in “draft” until an admin can publish them (also configurable).

2. WordPress Post Thumbnail

2.1 Manually

Giving each WordPress post a thumbnail, and displaying the thumbnail on the home page is one of the most used trends among many WordPress websites to help attract traffic to these posts by the use of images. Wordpressgarage has an interesting tutorial on creating thumbnails for each post on your blog and using Custom Fields to add and display them on your front page. Also, check out another Custom Fields thumbnail tutorial.

2.2 Post Thumb Revisited (WordPress Plug-in)

There is a nice WordPress plug-in that scan posts for images. Then, it can do the followings:

Loop display: show a thumbnail linked to the post.
Sidebar display: it can shows thumbnails from the most recent posts or thumbnails from random posts.

3. Tabbed Content Section

Tabbed content section is a great design technique that can save a lot of vertical space and make the layout look less cluttered. Many websites use it to set apart a bit of the most important text so that the reader’s eye is drawn to it. Tabs are essentially a piece of eye candy for the reader. Here are a few ways a designer could create tabs on their blogs.

3.1 Manually

You can manually create a tabbed based interface on your WordPress blog to help rotating older content. There are many great javascript Tab-Based Interfaces using different javascript libraries like jQuery, script.aculo.us and others.

3.2 Tabbed Widgets (WordPress Plug-in)

Tabbed Widgets features:

Use other widgets for the tab content and specify a custom tab title.
Make tabs rotate in a set interval so that they become more noticeable and prominent.
Set a random start tab on each page load so that all tabbed content gets equal exposure.
Make unlimited number of tabbed widgets that can be then used as regular widgets under ‘Design’ ‘Widgets’.

4. Show del.icio.us and Digg count

4.1 Show Plain Digg Count

Many websites use the popular Digg badge on their post to show how many diggs a web page has, and provides a link for the user to digg it. However, you can go one step further and display a digg count for a whole range of articles. For example:

You can skip the usual digg badge and use the stylish digg icon in list of articles to show the digg count and inside paragraph. Leon Chevalier from http://aciddrop.com has an excellent tutorial that goes into some detail about how to retrieve the counts in PHP and via AJAX.

We don’t want to give every link on the page a digg count, so this nice script has a few options that decide which links should be digg-count-ified. Style hasn’t been forgotten, there are a few options to manage the opacity, pad_links and the box_type.

Live Example:Here
Download the PHP for the digg proxy here and you can download the JavaScript for the dynamic AJAX digg counts here.

4.2 Show Plain del.icio.us Count

Now when we have learned how to customize our count for Digg, it’s time to learn how to do it for del.icio.us. Dejan Cancarevic from http://stylizedweb.com has a nice and simple tutorial to make del.icio.us count into plain text by using small JavaScript and JSON feeds.

Today i came across a new WordPress plug-in, Delicious Count WordPress Plugin is a great tool to help assess blog post quality. The plug-in displays the number of Delicious saves of each post in a blog in a user friendly ’summarized’ format.

5. Featured Posts

It’s becoming more and more common for blogs to feature certain posts at the top of the page. One of the common trend is to highlight the first post on the home page to give it different style and more exposure. Check out youthedesigner, designreviver’s featured post section to get an idea of how such a simple technique can provide more focus to your latest or featured post.

You can achieve this in 2 ways:

5.1 Manually

Many tutorials explain gow to create a featured post or sticky post on your home page and other pages as well. I will highlight 3 amazing tutorials that will teach us how to do this in a few minutes.

5 ways to highlight your first post in your WordPress theme- This post features 5 different methods you can use to highlight your first post on every page or on the 1st page only.
creating a “dynamic sticky”- Using two loops. One would query and show only posts in one category. The other would query all posts in all categories.
Build a Featured Posts Section for WordPress- This tutorial covers process of creating the index page of a magazine/news theme for WordPress. The main features of this page will be: Featured Posts, Latest Posts, Using PHP Variables for easy customisation of the above for users of your theme not familiar with PHP/WordPress, Retrieving a post image from the ‘Custom Fields’ section of a post.
- Live Example:Here
- Download here

5.2 Featured Posts WordPress Plugins

Featplug- Featplug is a Wordpress plugin that can mine your blog’s content and generate ‘featured content’ section for your site using the suitable stories. Output can be rendered as slideshows or banners. You can download it here.

15 High Quality Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes

2008-10-06T00:20:34Z

Everyday we see many beautiful WordPress themes, many are good and only a little are just one of a kind. The choice is big enough, but the search is worth it. Today we present only 15 Free Premium-like WordPress Themes that are truly impressive and you might be willing to use for your next project, which have been released over the last few months.

1. Agregado Lifestream

A free professional Wordpress-theme created by Darren Hoyt and Matt Dawson. The theme features a built-in lifestream module and contact form with custom control panel options. Features include: Lifestream module with carousel, Custom archives page, Animated js dropdown menus, Built-in drop caps for lead paragraphs and much more…

Demo can be viewed here
Download from here

2. Guzel

This is a 2-column layout with a nice header at the top displaying the latest posts and comments there. Features include: integration with Flickr account, inbuilt RSS and other social bookmarks like Digg, del.icio.us and stumble upon.

Demo can be viewed here
Download from here

3. Simple Balance 2.0

Simple Balance 2.0 - a free, simple WordPress theme with enough options to make it “premium-like”. This amazing theme offers many options to adjust through the theme’s Control Panel. This is a Widget-ready, customize banners setting and more…

Demo can be viewed here
Download from here

4. Infinity

The theme has 3 fixed columns, Thumbnail covers style, Flickr, Delicious and Twitter integration as well as an attractive visual design. The theme was designed by Zhang Yichi, the creative mind behind Vikiworks Studio from Shanghai, China.

Free and without any restrictions
Download from here

5. Outdoorsy

If you are looking for a unique theme that is quite graphics heavy then this one is for you. The background images are chosen carfully to give that paper look look and feel, so backgrounds are vital for the uniqueness of the theme. The theme is fully widgetized and easy to install.

Demo can be viewed here
Download from here

6. SCRUFFY

This is a grid based design and layout, built on the popular 960.gs css framework. Features include: Widgetized sidebar with styling for all default WordPress widgets, theme options page for inserting and position a logo. Page Templates include Archives and Sitemap.

Demo can be viewed here
Download from here

7. SubtlyMade

Demo can be viewed here
Download from here

8. WP Coda

Created by modifying several already-existing code snippets and implemented it to a nice layout to mimic the functionality of the Coda website. Every aspect of the Coda website was duplicated and this theme works in every major browser. Code snippets used are: Coda Slider Effect, Coda Popup Bubbles, FancyBox and CSS Image PreLoader.

Free and without any restrictions
Download from here

9. True Elegance

True Elegance is a 3-column wordpress theme with fully widgetized sidebars. The theme also features recent activity in a visually appealing panel on top which can be controlled via AdminCP. With a clean, well commented code.

Demo can be viewed here
Download from here

10. Massivepress

An impressive theme created by WP Elements. Massivepress is 3-column widget enabled WordPress theme featuring a thumbnail based posting style which gives you the ability to get more content in front of your users in a way that is clean and organized. Features include: Featured Articles, 3 unique sidbars that can be configured individually including the “Index Sidebar”, “Post Sidebar” and “Page Sidebar”.

Demo can be viewed here
Download from here

11. Purple Fever

A fresh 2-column styled premium WordPress theme that is now FREE. Features includes: Widget Ready, Monetization Optimized through google adsense or affiliate revenue, featured post at the top, tabbed interface at the right column, highlighted posts and more.

Demo can be viewed here
Download from here

12. Modicus Remix

This is a minimalist WordPress Theme based on Upstart Blogger’s Wordpress theme “Modicus “. Thus aptly titled “Modicus Remix”. This is a 2-column layout design and if you want to use the 3-
column layout you should try the original one.

Free
Download from here

13. Crybook

CryBook is a 3 Column simple theme base on Facebook. Featured include: 2 widget-ready sidebar, live theme swistcher and Custom Admin Panel. It’s compatible with up to WordPress 2.6.2 and has been tested with in Firefox3, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera, and Safari.

Demo can be viewed here
Download from here

14. WP NewsMag

This is a Hybrid blog/portfolio/photo/magazine style theme. Features includes: Widgeti ready with five custom sidebars, 5 different front page category loops, Slider function for bottombar and featured articles, Three level CSS/JS dropdown menu and Utilization of Custom Fields for neat image display on the front page.

Demo can be viewed here
Download from here

15. Simply Ornate

“Simply Ornate” ia a free theme that focuses on typography and patterns and comes in 5 flavours. Features include: a prototype-based tab effect to browse latest posts, comments and tags. The front page is set up to show excerpts of your 4 latest posts, and also includes a mini-nav in the upper right side to allow for page navigating.

Demo can be viewed here
Download from here

DevSnippets Contest Results

2008-10-01T00:21:52Z

5 weeks ago we announced the soft launchDevSnippets, and we have encouraged our readers to participate in our launch contest by submitting the highest number of top quality snippets. It was necessary, since submitting a large number of code snippets in a short time was some how impossible. The result is an impressive collection of 450 code examples, tutorials and demos that designers can use.

Thanks to all participants — without Noupe readers this code snippet gallery [DevSnippets] wouldn’t be possible.

We have considered various details to determine the winner of the contest: in particular, we considered the quality and the number of submissions.

The Winners

Congratulations! We hope you’ll enjoy your prizes. We should have already contacted you.

Submitters are still welcomed!

We express sincere gratitude for all participants of the contest! Stay tuned for our next contest and prizes soon! We also appreciate all the submissions, to help us keep a place to share and organize your favorite codes and tutorials.

Devsnippets Areas

I would like to provide stats of the different categories i have created and would appreciate your feedback about other categories you feel it will be needed.

1. Design Elements, has different sub categories below it :

Tabs, Forms, Menus, Tables, Tooltips, Gallery and more…
2. CSS Techniques, has different sub categories below it :

Layout, IE Hacks, Image Sprites, Rounded Corners, Positioning, Font Styles and more…
3. WordPress, has different sub categories below it :

WordPress Hacks, Wordpress Layouts, Wordpress Plugins
4. News

Big Thanks to our Generous Sponsors

48 Mind-Blowing Ideas and Designs

2008-09-29T23:29:52Z

Over the last years designers came up with a number of interesting concepts which have somehow stuck between the prototyping stage and the production stage. Today we wanted to present innovative designs and concepts that give us an idea of what we should expect from designer’s creative mind over the years to come.

In this issue we provide you with over 48 fresh ideas to spice up your environment with a number of innovative gadgets, advertisements, product designs and concepts.

1. Hand-Made Art

1.Decoder Rings

Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing is getting a decoder ring to use as a wedding ring. This one has three rotating bands that can be lined up to decode secret messages. He’s now looking for a proper code.

2. Claire Coles

One-of-a-kind works of art, Claire Coles stitched cup and tea plate.

3.Wicked Witch Cupcakes

These great-tasting, ghoulish-looking cupcakes are a wickedly easy treat for a Halloween party!

4.Spider Cakes

“To make these sinister-looking cakes, you’ll need six 1 1/2-by-3-inch dome silicone baking molds, a medium pastry bag with coupler”.

2. Photography

5.Sisters

“Silver umbrella/speedlite above camera, speedlite diffused with a sheet of white paper below for fill, and plenty of gaffers tape.” What a cute idea!

6.Zot in a Knot

“Zot is a red-phase western hognose snake. Has approximately the size of a pencil, and is about 4 months old. This was taken with a point and shoot digital fuji”

7.Source

Long exposure 30 seconds, located in a church in Ars en Ré, town on the “Ile de Ré” island.

8.Life

This is an amazing shot and the details are really good.

9.Amazing Shot

10.Butterfly Shot

“somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB
CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop! No —
wait — sorry. That’s just my USB flash drive.”

36.DODGE ‘EM- the desktop dodgeball game

37.Plush Plush

38.Bike

39.Anti-Theft Lunch Bag

40.World Wild Life foundation

41.Flee Digital Cam

42.Corian Calendar

43.Reactable- Electronic music instrument

6. Architecture

44.Rotterdam Cube

45.Bridge to Photosynthia

46.Hydropolis, the world’s first underwater hotel.

47.The famous colorfull village on the sea

48.Creative work enviroment

Top 20 Greasemonkey Scripts to Boost Your Google Experience

2008-09-25T01:14:29Z

Greasemonkey Firefox extension adds a bit of Javascript to certain web pages and runs it every time you visit, to change the functionality and appearance of those pages.

There are thousands of scripts that you can install to customize just about anything you can think of. However, there are a few scripts that are quite useful and popular that you should consider using if you’re not already doing so!

So Today, we’ve brought together the top 20 Google related Greasemonkey scripts to enhance your Gmail, Google Reader and Google search experience.

If you are a Greasemonkey newbies, you need to do the following:

First you need to install the Greasemonkey Firefox extension.
To use a certain script, you need to go to the script page and click on the “Install this script” button if the script is on the UserScripts website. Otherwise just right-click on the link and choose “Install User Script” from the context menu.
Reload the page to see the script in action.

I know I must have missed tons of Google Greasemonkey scripts. Please share your favorite Greasemonkey scripts in the comments.

Gmail Greasemonkey Scripts

1.Google Account Multi-Login

Replaces “Sign Out” link on Google pages with a select box of accounts.

2.Right Click Menu in Gmail

This greasemonkey script shows a special “right click menu” (also known as a “context menu”) when using Gmail. Currently, the menu lets the user navigate around the site. He or she can jump to “inbox”, “compose new”, “sent messages”, “contacts”, etc.

3.Folders4Gmail

Organize your labels in a folder-like hierarchy

4.Gmail Super Clean

Beautifies and customizes Gmail’s interface.

5.Gmail HTML Signatures

Automatically inserts HTML signatures into your Gmail messages based on which address you are sending from. Can be replaced by a stand-alone Firefox add-on (Blank Canvas Gmail Signatures)

6.Gmail Filter Assistant

Add an embedded filter management module in message display page, which makes adding a filter much easier

7.Gmail Addons

Addon any functionality to the gmail interface. The script comes with Calendar and Chat.

Google Reader Greasemonkey Scripts

8.Google Reader: Show Feed Favicons

Decorates the Google Reader subscription list with icons corresponding to the website from which each feed originates. This replicates an effect currently available in other feed-readers such as Bloglines.

9.Google Reader Subscribers Count

Shows how many subscribers to the feed with google reader.

10.Google Reader Redux

A simple Greasemonkey script that adds a “Feeds” in Gmail. When clicked, Reader’s list view is loaded on the right.

11.Google Reader Preview Enhanced

Adds a “Preview button” to Google Reader that allows you to view actual article in a frame. Clicking again on that button goes back to RSS view. Does work both in List view and expanded view. You can also see and post comments right from Google Reader.

12.Google Reader for wider screens

Changes the maximum width of Google Reader items, for better viewing on wider screens with higher resolutions.

13.Google reader full feed changer

This script gets contents of reading item on Google Reader.

14.Google Reader Minimalistic

Removes all the chrome from Google Reader and just gives you a bare bones interface

3. Google Search

15.Google Thumbnails

Adds web site thumbnail images to google search results.

16.GoogleTagCloudMaker

Make Tag Cloud from Google search result by enabling you to find relative word of your search query!!

17.Google 100

Let Google show 100 results per page instead of the default 10. If you think 100 is too much, you can also customize the number of results per page

18.Google Air Skin

Script to use Air Skin in GMail (Google Mail), Google Calendar, and on Google.com and now also an Google Reader

19.AutoPagerize (Pagination)

AutoPagerize is a Greasemonkey script that loads next page automaticaly and appends it into current page with no-overhead.

20.Google Ad Remover

Removes ads from Google search result pages

WordPress Archive that works: StepxStep Guide and Plugins

2008-09-22T05:54:09Z

One of the advantages of using WP Archives page is the amount of information that it can provide to help the visitors easily browse your blog and find what they’re looking for. It can also act a your blog’s sitemap which is perfect for search engines.

Most WordPress themes already have archives.php template file in your theme’s folder. In this episode of WordPress series we are presenting some basic and advanced techniques to create a more user-friendly and more appealing archives page.

You might e interested to check other posts in this WordPress Series:

So lets get started, and don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS Feed as there is a small gift on its way.

Create Archives.php Template File

First, if you don’t have the archives.php file in your theme’s folder, create a new file and put the following code in it.

<?php
/*
Template Name: Archives Page
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>

	<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

	<div id="content">

	<h2 class="entry-title"><?php the_title() ?></h2>

	<?php the_content() ?>

		<h2>Archives by Month:</h2>
			<ul>
				<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
			</ul>

		<h2>Archives by Subject:</h2>
			<ul>
				 <?php wp_list_categories(); ?>
			</ul>

	</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

After that you need to create a new page and change the “Page Template” option to the new “Archives Page” template file.

Planning your Archive

Probably the most prominent ways to display data on the Archives page is by using either one or two of the following concepts:

Display all posts on the blog
A monthly(or yearly) list
Show all categories

1. Listing all Posts

1.1. Archives recent # of Posts

Displays archive list of the last twenty most recent posts listed by post title.

	<?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&limit=20&format=custom'); ?>

1.1. Archives all Posts (Displaying Date, Category, number of comments, etc…)

We can create a more advanced archives page by using the loop. This will give us more flexibility to display all the info we need to show for each post listed (the published date, number of comments, catgory, and custom fields)

<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<ul>
    <?php $totalposts = get_posts('numberposts=200&offset=0');
          foreach($totalposts as $post) :
    ?>
    <li>
          <?php the_time('M j') ?> : <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><? php the_title(); ?></a>
		  Posted in: <?php the_category(', ') ?>
		  <?php comments_number('No Comments', 'One Comment', '% Comments' );?>
    </li>

    <? php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

<?php endwhile; ?>

1.2.WordPress Plugins to list all posts

-WP Simple Sitemap

WP Simple Sitemap is a Wordpress plugin that automatically lists all your posts with a page number navigation. You can view a demo here.

-SRG Clean Archives

This plugin lists the Month / Year, shows total post count for the month, the day of the month the article was published, the title of the article and the number of comments that have been made on each article. Also you can toggle on/off the moo.fx for collapsing months. You can view a demo here.

1.3. Smart WordPress Archives Solutions Listing all Posts

-CSS-Tricks

-Web Designer Wall

2. Display monthly or Yearly Archive

2.1. Template Tags/wp get archives

The wp get archives is a function that displays a date-based archives list. The parameter arguments are given to the function in query string format. This tag can be used anywhere within a template.

<?php wp_get_archives('arguments'); ?>

Archives Monthly:

Displays archive list by month

	<ul>
		<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
	</ul>

Archives Daily:

Displays archive list by date, displaying only the last fifteen days.

	<ul>
		<?php wp_get_archives('type=daily&limit=15'); ?>
	</ul>

Text to be placed after and before the link

Text to place before or after the link when using the html or custom for format option.

<?php wp_get_archives('before=&laquo;'); ?>
<?php wp_get_archives('after=&laquo;'); ?>

Display number of posts in an archive

Display number of posts in an archive (1 - true) or do not (0 - false). For use with all type except ‘postbypost’.

<?php wp_get_archives('show_post_count=1'); ?>

<?php wp_get_archives(%u2019type=monthly&show_post_count=1%u2032) ?>

Dropdown Box Archive

Displays a dropdown box of Monthly archives, in select tags, with the post count displayed.

<select name=\"archive-dropdown\" onChange='document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;'>
  <option value=\"\">\
  <?php echo attribute_escape(__('Select Month')); ?>
  </option>
  <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&format=option&show_post_count=1'); ?>
</select>

2.2. WordPress Archives Plugins (Sorted by month, year)

-Clean Archives Reloaded

Clean Archives Reloaded generates a list of all of your posts, sorted by month. It’s enhanced with Javascript to allow collapsing and expanding of months. A demo can be found here.

-WordPress Heat Map plugin

The WordPress Heat Map plugin provides you with three new template tags for displaying a heat map (aka weighted list) of your categories, tags and monthly archives.

-Smart Archives for WordPress

Smart Archives is a rather simple WordPress plugin that will allow you to display your archives in a much “cleaner” format. Everything on the page is hyperlinked (years, months, posts). You can view a demo here.

3. Archives Ordered By Category

Display all the categories of your blog and show post count in each category.

<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1') ?>

3.1. WordPress Archives Plugins (Ordered By Category)

-Latest Post from each Category plugin for WordPress

This plugin displays a list of the latest post from each category of your WordPress installation. In the plugin’s options page you can choose the sort order, show or hide the dates, select the date formatting, show the first X characters of the content, display a link to the comments, and show comment counts, as well as other options.

-Extended Live Archive

This plugin implements a dynamic, AJAXified way of digging into the archives of a blog. You can check a live example here.

40+ Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART- Part 2

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One of the most popular post on Noupe is 40+ Extremely Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART. So today we would like to present another 40 incredible icon sets which you can use for your web designs or your desktop. Let’s take a close look at some of the most beautiful icon sets we’ve found on deviantART. Some amazing Icon Sets are missing? Let us know!

1.Colorful Chart Icon

Author: Cemagraphics

2.Mouse Category Season

Author: Denghao

3.I_KID ICONS FOR IPHONE - A spectacular wallpaper and icons full of details.

Author: Kidaubis

4.Notes icons

Author: Mickka

5.Sleek XP: Software

Author: Deleket

6.170 dock icons

Author Adrenn