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50 Ways to Get Your Site Noticed

Mark Dijkstra — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:34:29 +0000

Carl Heaton wrote a couple of day’s ago 50 Ways to Get Your Site Noticed on the blog of ThemeForest.net. These tips can be of use if you want to boost your stats. I must say there are a couple of very useful tips. Read the whole article here.

Three (printed)books from Packt Publishing giveaway

Mark Dijkstra — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:41:48 +0000

This time i will give away 3 printed books that are gladdly provided by Packt Publishing (notice that Packt has a huge collection of great books). Two of the hot items on the web are WordPress and jQuery, so i will give away three books about these two subjects. Two of these books are very new, they just been published last month.

The three titles that will be given away are:

How can i win one of these books?

Just leave a comment below and follow the next two steps:

Step 1: place your top three of your choose (the title that you want the most will be on top)

Step 2: go to Packt Publishing and choose a top three of titles that you want to see in our next book giveaway.

Example:

Present top 3:

Future top 3

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The end date of this give away will be one the first of the next month (01-08-09).

Good luck!

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Another great list of social icons

Another great list of free social icons

The Hunter — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:17:53 +0000

A couple of months ago i posted a list with some really nice and useful social icons which you can find here: A list of very nice and free social buttons. We had a lot of nice comments and emails about this list so i have decided to create another great list of social icons and i must say i have found some really nice and useful social icons, and all are for free! I think that this list is even better then the first one.

This list contains some different styles of icons!

Social Network Icon Pack · Komodo Media

Set of social icons by Tydlinka

Web 2.0rigami

Socialize Icons - DryIcons

Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers

Handycons 2 - another free hand drawn icon set

Social Icons Made of Wood

Set of social icons 2 by Tydlinka

webtoolkit4.me releases the first icon set

Free Vectors - 20 Free Social Bookmarking Icons

Heart: A Free Social Icon Set

Handycons - a free, hand drawn social media icon set

Social Icons hand drawned by TheG-Force

Free ebooks from Packt publishing

Mark Dijkstra — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:10:18 +0000

Packt is a UK based publishing company specializing in focused IT books. Packt has published over 200 books on many different subjects and technologies like jQuery, Joomla, WordPress, PHP/MySQL, AJAX and more.

To celebrate there 5 years existence Packt is giving a way some nice ebooks for free. One of these free ebooks is “Building Websites with e107“. You can read all about these books here.

Also Packt has provided us with 3 (print)books that i will be giving a way next month so stay tuned for this contest!

Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3

The Hunter — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:19:56 +0000

Smashingmagazine has recently published an article about new cool features of CCS3. Read the whole article here.

WordPress 2.8 “Baker” released today

Mark Dijkstra — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:49:05 +0000

Today WordPress released there newest version of WordPress, WordPress 2.8 “Baker”. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker.

This version is way faster to use because they have changed the way WordPress does style and scripting. Also they have fixed over 790 bugs.

You can read the full list of over 180 new features, changes, upgrades, and improvements on the Codex. The list is exhausting!

I have tested this new version and i must say it looks and works very good!

30 HTML best practices for beginners

The Hunter — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:05:54 +0000

A couple of weeks ago Jeffrey Way published an article about 30 HTML best practices for beginners on NETTUTS. This article contains some basic need to know stuff and some tips&tricks for beginners. If you are new to HTML then go have a look.

Project2Manage, a free project management solution

Mark Dijkstra — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:59:22 +0000

A couple of weeks ago i decided to work in a more organized way, so i went on a search for a useful project managemt tool. On my search i came across a couple of well known project managementy tools like BaseCamp, Lighthouse and Springloops, all great tools but sadly not free (yes i am looking for a free tool). After lots of hours searching i finally found a project managent tool thats free. Project2Management is free to use and its almost the same like the paid versions on the web. Project2Management has lots of useful functions like, assign multiple levels of permission to different clients & users, manage your projects from anywhere, manage unlimited projects, post messages to keep everyone up to date, manage tasks with To-Do lists, create milestones to stay on task and lots more.

I think this is very useful project management solution, if your looking for a tool that is free.

One day in the life of web designer Chris Coyier

Mark Dijkstra — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:31:42 +0000

While reading one of my favorite sites (ccs-tricks) i came across a really nice article(i dont have seen a similar one yet) by Chris Coyier about a day in his life as a web designer. I am always very interested in how other people work and which programs/tools they use, and Chris has showed me in this article some really nice programs/tools. Notice that Chris is a mac user.

Read the whole story here.

Beautiful designs build on WordPress part 2

Mark Dijkstra — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:58:57 +0000

Yes it’s time for beautiful designs build on WordPress part 2. This time another 10 beautiful design that are build on the world famous WordPress. You can find part 1 here.

If you know some great designs that run on WordPress please place a comment here and if there are really nice designs then i will place them on the next parts that will come.

See you at part 3

Tutorial9

We are Tutorial9 - a collection of teachers, experts, and caring folk from around the world, all gathered in one place to pass along our knowledge to absolutely anyone interested in learning.

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Made In Space

Hello there! I am Fabrice and this place is where you will find my Web Development Portfolio and soon some of my discoveries or experiments in Flash, Flex or Air.

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Namie Taniguchi’s Design Portfolio

I am a web designer working in New York. My inspiration came from my hometown, Nagano Japan where is surrounded by beautiful mountains.

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Zinaz

My name is Hendrik van Zwol and during my training Communication & Multimedia Design, I created zinaz to work with customers to develop ideas and various new Internet concepts to remember.

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ReservoirBuzz

Culture web, buzz, communication…

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Light Echo

Founded in 2003, LightEcho is a premier web development, design, and programming team. Our expertise extends beyond that of a traditional design company as we have extensive knowledge rooted in online businesses and successful business practices. The LightEcho team includes best in class designers, programmers, and online business experts.

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Deborah Cavenaugh

Deborah Cavenaugh is a self-taught American watercolor artist working in Wilmington, North Carolina. Her colorful and inspirational fine art and prints invite viewers into a world where she explores the familiar subjects of home and family.

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Hooverdust

Hooverdust is a pop culture blog designed and developed by James Sann. I cover a range of topics such as Film, Music, TV, Photography, Design and teh internets.

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Narfstuff

Wordpress Development, Web and Graphic Design

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Octwelve

Welcome to Octwelve - personal blog of web designer,Luc Melgar. This is my crib on the world wide web, a journal where I will post and share my interests, thoughts, experiences and some stuff that might be useful for you hopefully.

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10 Beautiful blue themes from ThemeForest

Mark Dijkstra — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:21:29 +0000

ThemeForest is the third of the Envato digital goods marketplaces and offers a place to buy and sell website templates and themes for content management systems like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. Because blue is one of my favorite colors i have made a small list of blue themes on ThemeForest.

Sadly to say that these themes are not free, but they dont cost a lot of money(where living in dark times so we don’t want to spend a lot of money). The prices range between 10 - 30 dollars. Notice that these blue themes aren’t the only blue themes that are available on ThemeForest there are lots more of blue themes.

This list contains HTML and WordPress themes. All with layerd PSD and help when needed(just send the author a message). A couple of these themes comes in more then one color.

Business Layout with Smooth Blue Color

Corporate / Business Layout with Smooth Blue Color is a clean layout for corporate / business, web agency or anything you want. This template have two column layout, fix width and blue color.

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EZI theme

This is a modern template which uses a lot of jQuery to create great user experience. This theme comes in 4 colors(red, green, blue and black).

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Mezzo Folio | Designer portfolio

A portfolio for creative designers, artists or companies. This is a full pack HTML / CSS with 5 different graphic themes (GRAY, BLUE , RED, GREEN and OCHER ). All sections are included in a page, which are managed by javascript, with a highlighting presentation of your work. Everything is ready for use, managing the update of your work is very simple to make.

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Bluelight Wordpress | 2.0 Portfolio and Blog

Bluelight is a mash-up of a 2.0 business website and a personal portfolio site. It can be used for either, or both. This template will get you up and running in no time!

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Memex Business + Portfolio + Blog Template

Memex Business + Portfolio + Blog Template ( 960 Grid system)

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CleanCorp - Business template

CleanCorp is a clean, simple and professional looking html template for businesses.

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Corporate Business - Simple Template (3 colors)

Corporate Business – Simple Template is great for corporate companies and personal portfolios. This template is flexible and can be customized with ease.

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Corporate Business + Blog + Portfolio Template

This theme is a fixed layout with two columns. This site is best suitable for a business, company, Blog, portfolio, or freelancer portfolio website as well.

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QuikTab

Introducing QuikTab, a standards-compliant, one-page theme powered by WordPress and jQuery. All the content is loaded in one place, then navigated through with jQuery so users get smooth animations and no page reloads.

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IceBreaker WordPress Theme

Clean, modern with cool colors WordPress Theme. It can be used as a personal portfolio, business website or blog. Easy to customize and use.

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Useful FireFox add-ons for web developers

Mark Dijkstra — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:18:30 +0000

I make a living by building website/apps so i really like to do some things fast and easy that’s why i use a couple of FireFox add-ons in my FireFox brouwser. By using add-ons in my FireFox brouwser i can test, validate, debug, measure, autofill forms, upload and much more in my brouwser without using other applications/programs(i dont like a crowded toolbar). I will name a couple of them which i really like and find very useful.

There are many more developer add-ons but i won’t name them all, check here for a more developer add-ons.

Also a very useful FireFox add-on is one of our sponsors(big add on you right so you cant mis it). Visit there site and test it for your self.

Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse.
You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

Go to this add-on

ColorZilla

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies. With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program.

Go to this add-on

Web Developer

Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

Go to this add-on

CodeBurner for Firebug

CodeBurner is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug, to extend it with reference material for HTML and CSS.

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YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool.

Go to this add-on

Html Validator

HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing.

Go to this add-on

Extended Statusbar

A Statusbar with speed, percentage, time and loaded size (similar to Opera’s one)

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Autofill Forms

Autofill Forms enables you to fill out web forms with one click or a keyboard shortcut.

Go to this add-on

Clear Cache Button

Adds a clear cache toolbar button. After installing the extension, find the clear cache button in the toolbar customization panel.

Go to this add-on

FireFTP

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

Go to this add-on

Live HTTP Headers

View HTTP headers of a page and while browsing.

Go to this add-on

Google analytics API launched

The Hunter — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:55:09 +0000

A couple of day’s ago Google finally launched the API of there free analytics program. There where a lot of people waiting for this API but now it’s available for everyone. Go and read the whole post so you can see if this API can be of use to you.

You can find the Customer Examples here.

Beautiful designs build on WordPress part 1

Mark Dijkstra — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:57:46 +0000

I really love WordPress and nice designs so i made a list of beautiful designs build on the world famous WordPress. This list contains just 10 websites but as you can see this is part 1 so there will be more…………many more.

If you know some great designs that run on WordPress please place a comment here and if there are really nice designs then i will place them on the next parts that will come.

See you at part 2

TUT Candy

TUTcandy is a new site bought to you by freelance designer Che McPherson of PixelPimps.net. There are not that much video tutorials so if you have one submit it to them.

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Outlaw Design Blog

Outlaw Design Blog is founded and run by Danny Outlaw. This site contains lot’s of good resources, tutorials, news and many more.

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Dezignus

Dezignuz was founded by Stanly. Dezignus offers lots of great design resources and more. Check out the cool effect in the header (hover the mouse over it).

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Vector Lady

Vector Lady was founded and run by Ann. This site contains lots of free vector illustrations.

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MauRusso

Maurizio Russo is a illustrator/creative designer living in Italy. Recently Maurizio publish a tutorial on vector tuts how he has design his site.

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Webdesigners Wall

Web Designer Wall is designed and maintained by Nick La, who also runs N.Design Studio and Best Web Gallery.

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Absolute Bica

Absolute Bica is founded by Bryan Kohlmeier. Check out the switch of the theme’s of this site, you can choose between 4 themes (Sunrise, Afternoon, Sundown or Night)

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Afflecks

Afflecks is an emporium of eclecticism, a totem of indie commerce in Manchester’s Northern Quarter and above all else a fantastic place to SHOP for anything from Top hats to tattoos.

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Getting crazy on the waltzers

Well the site is in italian so a little description for the owner “the blog is about inspirational songs, I take a quote from a well known song and comment it, referencing it to everyday life”.

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Eric’s Empire

Eric Franklin is a Web Designer residing in Raleigh, NC.

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22 nice and useful php with jQuery tutorials

The Hunter — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:26:37 +0000

I came across some nice and useful tutorials on the web about php in combination with the fast growing JavaScript library jQuery(te most of you know what php and jQuery is, if not go and click on the links that are blue). These tutorial include, twitter API, form validation, directory tree, slideshow, login and more nice stuff.

To go to the tutorial just click on the image.

enjoy

How to Validate Forms in both sides using PHP and jQuery

Using Ajax to Validate Forms

How To Build Quick and Simple AJAX Forms with JSON Responses

Directory Trees With PHP And jQuery

Dynamic slideshow with PHP & JQuery

Create a Photo Admin Site Using PHP and jQuery

PHP & jQuery image upload and crop v1.2

PHP ajax login form using Jquery

PHP and jQuery upload progress bar

Build An AJAX Powered Shopping Cart

Building a jQuery-Powered Tag-Cloud

Creating a Dynamic Poll with jQuery and PHP

AutoCompleter Tutorial - jQuery(Ajax)/PHP/MySQL

A fancy Apple.com-style search suggestion

Use AJAX and PHP to Build your Mailing List

Using jQuery and Ajax To Create PHP Sessions

Asynchronous Comments with PHP, jQuery, and JSON

jQuery - PHP & Ajax with the Twitter API

Authenticating Twitter API calls with PHP & jQuery

How to Create Your Own Twitter Widget

HOW-TO: Reddit-style Voting With PHP, MySQL And jQuery

Create a shoutbox using PHP and AJAX (with jQuery) January 5th, 2009

Twitter backgrounds

The Hunter — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:31:28 +0000

Almost everybody that spends some time on the web or has a website has a Twitter name, and why not, it has been proven that Twitter is a good way to get more visitors to your website. Last year Twitter has grown with 1382%, and last february Twitter recived about 7 million visitors (feb 2008, 475000 visitors). One of the cool things about Twitter is that you can customize your Twitter with a unique background.

Want to see other peoples unique Twitter background or share your own with the rest of the world? Well go and visit twitterbackgroundsgallery. This site contains Twitter backgrounds, resources, tips and lots more.

Still no (unique) Twitter background? Well go and visit killertweets and buy a stock background or let them design a unique/custom Twitter background for you.

enjoy

Google’s appsstatus, check the status of the Google apps

The Hunter — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:39:06 +0000

A couple of weeks ago the unthinkable happened, Google’s Gmail went offline for a couple of hours, you didn’t excpect that a big company as google has a product that goes offline for some technical problem. But now you can check witch app from google is online or offline and why it’s offline. I use a lot of the apps from Google for my business so if a application goes offline for some reason i can check it and know if it’s my fault or not.

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55 Free and beautiful WordPress themes

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22 useful and free icon packs

55 Free and beautiful WordPress themes

The Hunter — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:16:38 +0000

While searching on the web for some insparation for a new project i came a cross a couple of beautiful free WordPress themes and I thought why not compose a list of best free WordPress themes that i can find on the web and share them here on OpenSourceHunter.

This is not a list just for the numbers but what i think that are the 55 beautiful themes that i could find on the web. If you know more beautiful free themes just share them with us as a comment here.

Please leave a comment as a thank you for the people that taken the time to make these beautiful themes and share theme with us for free.

enjoy

CODA BLUE WordPress Theme

OpenSourceHunter

50 Ways to Get Your Site Noticed

Three (printed)books from Packt Publishing giveaway

Links for 2009-06-28 [del.icio.us]

Another great list of free social icons

Free ebooks from Packt publishing

Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3

WordPress 2.8 “Baker” released today

30 HTML best practices for beginners

Project2Manage, a free project management solution

One day in the life of web designer Chris Coyier

Beautiful designs build on WordPress part 2

10 Beautiful blue themes from ThemeForest

Useful FireFox add-ons for web developers

Firebug

ColorZilla

Web Developer

CodeBurner for Firebug

YSlow

Html Validator

Extended Statusbar

Autofill Forms

Clear Cache Button

FireFTP

Live HTTP Headers

Google analytics API launched

Beautiful designs build on WordPress part 1

22 nice and useful php with jQuery tutorials

Twitter backgrounds

Google’s appsstatus, check the status of the Google apps

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55 Free and beautiful WordPress themes

OpenSourceHunter is going to move to a new hostingcompany

Collection of MooTools menu plugins

Create astonishing iCal-like calendars with jQuery

22 useful and free icon packs

jScrollPane, a jQuery plugin

noobSlide, a MooTools plugin

imgPreview, a jQuery images tooltip

osCommerce, a online shop e-commerce solution

Function icon set, 128 completely free icons

OpenSourceHunter second textures pack on PSDTUTS

Simpletip, a jQuery tooltip

JS Charts, a free JavaScript based chart generator

Lazy loader, a jQuery plugin

Combine & compress CSS or Javascript files with Minify

50 Beautiful And User-Friendly Navigation Menus

Looking for some preloaders?

Javascript jQuery Hotkeys Plugin

IETester, a free webbrowser tool

MooTools ContextMenu Plugin

Blueprint, a CSS framework

Clicky, a powerfull web 2.0 analyzer

Unobtrusive AJAX Star Rating Bar

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