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Gain More Traffic with a Killer Flash Facebook Fan Page

ramon — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:01:50 +0000

Create a Facebook fan page that will definitely stand out using Flash Facebook fan page templates. These are not like the usual fan pages that you see on Facebook because these are added with excellent audio and visual effects using the Flash technology. The cool but sophisticated interactive features will give your page the wow factor that you won’t find in a typical fan page in Facebook. This is ideal if you want to highlight or showcase your works or photos in a more animated yet professional way. And since it uses Flash, the outcome is just incredible and not just the same old boring and dull ones that you usually see on the social networking site. Find a theme or design of your choice from this superb collection of Flash Facebook templates and feel free to apply your creative skills to create that killer Facebook fan page.

FaceBook FanPage v2 – FlipBook

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Premium Facebook Page Template Bundle

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Casual Facebook Template

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Natural Facebook Fan Page

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Video Facebook FanPage

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Music Facebook Template

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Omnia XML Driven Flash Gallery for Facebook

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uLike Facebook Fan Page Template

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Photograph Facebook Fanpage Template

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27 Stunning Bokeh Photographies

nikolshapoval — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:54:49 +0000

Nowadays, in photography, the term of blur has become to be known as Bokeh. Bokeh in terms of photography referring the area in the photo which are out of focus light to increase beautiful and dramatic image. For good Bokeh, ideally points and lines would blur smoothly as they fell out of focus, in the manner. Most of the photographers tell that the “bokeh style” in a photo doesn’t depend on your camera type (to achive good results, it must be proffessional), but relies on the lens type you own. To improve your inspiration limits, we have collected a beautiful and stunning pack of bokeh photography you will surely love! Watch these photos come to life with UPrinting Sticker Printing.

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Getting things done with free task tracking by Comindware

ramon — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:08:01 +0000

You surely can manage your tasks in a notepad but it’s way better to access your task list from the Internet. In search of a simple task tracking solution for our website team, I wanted to find software to help us publishing articles and developing our blog. We have editor, writer, guest writer, designer and web-master here and we all need two things:

share task lists to see where we are
discuss what to do

and I myself truly need to see what’s going on righ tnow, who’s doing what. I went to Comindware.com in search of a solution because it’s business edition freeware: was glad that I found it. Here is how we tried Comindware Task Management.

Comindware offers you so called Workspaces which consist of projects that you either work on alone or in collaboration with your team via email or comments inside the application.

Workspaces can be both public and private. It’s up to you what workspaces you set for task tracking. It might be a following set: marketing campaign, sales, expenses. Depends on the activity field. I made a workspace for content management and another one for the web-mastering issues.

Each workspace can have a simple list of tasks that need to be completed by a certain date. Tasks are assigned to members of your team. You can filter tasks by assignee, due date and other parameters. You can set statuses to show if your task is started\in progress. I liked the ‘play’ button to start a task! You can log the time you’ve spent on a task.

The user interface of Comindware lies between the desktop client and the online platform. It’s neat, based on MS Ribbon, and I had no problems with the navigation.

With a web-application you can use any OS as you will access the interface through your browser window. Sadly for Apple and Linux evangelists, you need at least one Windows machine to install the on-premise solution. The upcoming cloud version gives me hope this problem will be solved within the next couple of months.
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The solution is made on a new ElasticData platform. The main benefit of the platform is the possibility to link data together in a more flexible way. Thus data is processed much quicker: search, reporting, and items management becomes easier.
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Each task has a discussion thread layer, so you leave comments without leaving the application. If you hit “follow this task”, you get email notifications about new comments, task modifications and completion. Easy to stay on top.

In case when just a to-do list is not enough, you might want to split your task into smaller subtasks. The task tracking system will watch you doing all in the right order: it is not possible to complete your task unless all subtasks in dependences are completed.

If you deleted an email notification upon a task status without reading (this happens to me when I am too busy), you can take a look in to the history log that has all the task modifications recorded in it.

One of the best thing about this system are Dashboards, I really loved them. They give reports on all of your tasks in a form of colorful diagrams.

Comindware is a web task tracking system. You access it via the Internet with your email and the password. You will need them first to download the installation file. A small registration is needed, but I was not spammed with any follow up emails afterwards.

When our online business grows, we will have processes rather than just tasks. Then I will think of integrating Comindware Task Management with Comindware Tracker, maybe. All my data will be available for the Tracker and the functionality will be much larger in this case. By the way, the Comindware Task Management comes with a 30-day free fully functional trial of Comindware Tracker so it’s possible to try playing with the processes right away. It’s free.

Pros
Neat interface and an unlimited task hierarchy. MS Outlook integration. Cloud version is coming.

Cons
No mobile platform yet. And you need at least one Windows machine to run the soft.

Verdict
We will keep on using it for our team. Task tracking systems help consentrate on work, avoid procrastination and work together. I choose Comindware because it’s a professional and free solution at the same time.

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40 Great PhotoShop User Interface Tutorials

Swat Chap — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:10:48 +0000

Every website needs to be designed which are called web layouts. And one of the leading tools available and possibly for many more years to come is photoshop.

Photoshop has become a favorite among designers for various reasons. In this collection, we look at 50 of the best web layout tutorial around the web. The collection contains tips, and tricks that can be handy for both beginers or advanced.

how to design an elegant website layout in Photoshop

Software Layout #4

Photoshop a Paper Texture from Scratch then Create a Grungy Web Design with it!

How To Create a Clean and Colorful Web Layout

Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch

Design a trendy business & finance layout

Design a creative portfolio in Photoshop

Create an awesome soft portfolio layout in Photoshop

Create a Bright and Sleek Web Design in Photoshop

Design a clean sports web layout in magazine-style with Photoshop

Learn To Create A Photography Style Web Layout

How to create a distinguishable textured web layout in Photoshop

Design a Warm, Cheerful Website Interface in Adobe Photoshop

Create a Theme Store Website Layout in Photoshop

Design The Brilliante Website Layout in Photoshop

Creating a Stylish Blog Design Layout in Photoshop

Create an Elegant Photography Web Layout in Photoshop

Create a Stylish Portfolio Site Design in Photoshop

How to design a psd layout in Photoshop

Design a creative unusual layout

Web Layout for Italian Restaurant

How to create a restaurant psd template in Photoshop

Design a Cartoon Grunge Website Layout

Design an impressive web hosting layout

How To Create a Rockin’ Website Layout In Photoshop

How to design a landing page or a light psd layout in Photoshop

Product/Business Style Layout

How to create a modern portfolio layout using Photoshop

Create a Magic Night Themed Web Design From Scratch in Photoshop

Create a Game layout – Clan Layout

Create a company/business web layout using Photoshop

Watercolored Design Studio Blog Layout

Create a real estate web layout in Photoshop

How to create a wordpress theme in Photoshop

Create Colorful Blog Web Layout Using Photoshop

Making the ‘Clean Grunge’ Blog Design

Create A Minimal Portfolio Site Design

Portfolio Layout Design Tutorial with 3D Look

Many of these tutorials show detailed steps, so even the beginners can try them and for the advanced you can easily find some tips and tricks that are sure to come in handy. As they say, practice makes perfect, so try out a couple of tutorials and with photoshop here to stay for the long haul, you don’t need to worry about it becoming outdated. Did we miss any of your favorite tutorials? Which one was your favorite? Please let us know by commenting below.

25 Extremely Useful WordPress Plugins for use in 2011

Swat Chap — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:27:43 +0000

WordPress plugins are what make WordPress one of the best CMS around. Plugins can extend your site to do anything you can think of. There are over 12,000 plugins to do all sorts of things. These plugins can greatly enhance your site.They are all made to fulfill certain tasks and make it easy for the website admin to implement new stuff. It would take a lot of coding by yourself to complete these task which is why plugins are so helpful. Here is a list of some of the best wordpress plugins around in their category. These plugins are from a variety of categories to meet different needs, not just one or two groups. This plugins can be used in 2011 and you can start your year with using these plugins. So, here they are.

WassUp

WassUp is a new WordPress plugin to track your visitors in real time. It has a very readable and fancy admin console to keep tracks of your blog’s users visits.

Mass Page Maker

From a simple admin panel, Mass Page Maker makes it easy to create multiple pages or posts. This is dramatically faster than doing it manually. Options are available to customize every aspect of the page — from the date to page excerpt.

SexyBookmarks

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.

WP-PageNavi

Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress site.

GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog.

Contact Form 7

Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup.

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.

HeadSpace2 SEO

HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks. With it you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and a whole lot more.

W3 Total Cache

The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin.

Google XML Sitemap

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.

Broken Link Checker

This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found.

BackUpWordPress

BackUpWordPress is a Backup & Recovery Suite for your WordPress website. This Plugin allows you to backup database as well as files and comes with a rich set of options.

wp-Typography

Improve your web typography with hyphenations, space control, character replacement, CSS hooks and much more.

SecurePress

SecurePress is a “Live” patent pending security system for WordPress.

BuddyPress

Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress.

Twitter Tools

Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

WP-Optimize

WP-Optimize is a wordpress 2.7++ database cleanup and optimization tool. It doesn’t require PhpMyAdmin to optimize your database tables. It allows you to remove post revisions, comments in the spam queue, un-approved comments within few clicks.

GZIP Enable

Speed Up Your WordPress with GZIP Comppression.

WP-Cumulus

WP-Cumulus allows you to display your site’s tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting.

Theme Test Drive

Theme Test Drive WordPress plugin allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one.

WP-Print

Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page.

WP e-Commerce

The WP e-Commerce shopping cart plugin for WordPress is an elegant easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online.

WP125

The WP125 plugin can help you manage your ads more efficiently, leaving you with more time to write new posts. The plugin adds a new “Ads” menu to the WordPress admin, featuring submenus for tweaking display settings and adding and removing ads.

WP Greet-Box

This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url.

Conclusion

As you can see, these list has a compilation of very versatile plugins. These plugins are from different areas and can greatly enhance your site. I hope that you can find some of these plugins worth implementing in your site. Even in 2011, these plugins are still some of the great plugins yet. Hope everyone has a wonderful 2011. Please feel free to share your favorite ones in the comments below.

Well Designed Interfaces From Financial Businesses

Hein — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:52:53 +0000

Financial businesses that provides services like Online Banking, Insurances, Savings, Investments, Online trading etc. have been hit hard the last few years, some of them didn’t make it through the crisis and the ones that did make it had a difficult time, Yeah i know, it’s their own fault but that doesn’t mean they’re all the blame of this.

To have a website with a trustworthy, user friendly interface and appealing design is now a days more important then ever. While more people are getting known on the world wide web they need to know what the company stands for, when they visit there site. A potential customer also needs to see the most important things in a easy and understandable way without any distractions.

It was a tough job finding great and usable designs in the financial industry, 80% of the financial related services which have a website should think twice before they continue with there outdated, not-usable and terrible looking designs.

Today we’ve selected a few of these interfaces from financial related businesses. You will notice that a lot of Dutch businesses are shown, this is because they’re some of the best in this field.

AEGON

Amsterdam Trade Bank

Insinger de Beaufort

Bank of Ireland

National Australia Bank

US Bank

Xero

Dexia

Santander

Robein

Nationale Nederlanden

MoneYou

Centraal Beheer Achmea

Mint

oanda

GFT Forex

Unbelievable don’t you think. Just a few worth mentioning in this showcase, they make so much money out of us and they simply just can’t give a better and more usable web in return. Do you think I’m wrong and you’ve seen more great designs in this line of business then feel free to either send me the link or post it in here. Thanks.

26 Useful Textures and Texture Packs for Better Designs

Stelian — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:37:03 +0000

A texture is usually a high-quality background image that is used in a lot of different ways: from website layouts to icons and high-quality tutorials. The usual aim of the texture is to improve the design with a new, fresh look. In the careful gathered collection below, we have compiled 26 textures and texture pack that can be very useful when you’re in the moment of design process.

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Blue Texture Tiles

Swiss House Roof Tiles

Drop Texture

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Misc Texture

Shuffled Texture Pack

Paper Texture

Cracked Texture

Random Texture

Old Wall Texture

Fabric Texture

Crinkle Texture

Wood Texture

Grunge Texture

Local Texture

Metal Texture

Glitter Texture

Colorful Grunge Texture

Scratched Texture

Grungy Texture

Bokeh Textures

Hi-Res Stone Textures

Paper Textures

Scrapbook Texture

Aqueous Sun Textures

Designer Texture Pack

The Ultimate Background Removal Guide with PhotoShop

Sergiu Naslau — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:28:31 +0000

A picture is worth 1000 words. But what if I wanna “cut” some of those words and create my own message? GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) and Adobe Photoshop are two of the most popular image editing tools out there. In this article, we will look at Photoshop’s capabilities. Photoshop offers us the possibility to remove a subject from a photo, but how to do that? Which tool will do the best job?

Getting started!

Photoshop offers us a bunch of tools for background removing, but lets take a closer look at this. To actually remove the background or a subject from a picture, first thing you have to do is to select it. Because of this, I have split up this process in two parts:

The selector tools.
The eraser tools.

The selector tools offer us the power to delimit the subject, so in later actions we can copy or remove it. The tools are:

the lasso tools;
the pen tool;
quick/magic selection tools;
quick mask;
the color range app;

The eraser tools remove the pixels from inside the selection, or outside the selection.
This tools are:

the eraser tools.
the extract filter.

Note: even if every tool has a different objective they will not always give the best results, that is why a combination of them all will create the perfect selection/background removal.

Lasso Tool

One of the oldest tools offered by Photoshop, the lasso tool a beautiful way to select something fast and with no headaches. The lasso tool lets us create a continuous manual selection by click around the subject.

Photo Source: Yellow Flower

So we have this nice photo of a flower, with a cleare contrast that will help me show you how to use the lasso tool.But first thing, create a new copy of the photo, in case we do to much damage, or need to compare the final result, we can go back to the original and see.

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28 Beautiful and Modern Logotypes to Get Inspired From

Stelian — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:48:17 +0000

A logo (also logotype) is a graphical representation that aims to show an identity or brand of a company, website, product, location, event or organization. It is usually made of shapes, numbers, different images, charachters, illustrations and much more! The main necessity of a logo is to be representative, unique, and easy recognizable. Below are listed 25+ beautiful, elegant, modern and vibrant logotypes that respect all of the nomitations listed above, and can also be a great source of inspiration. Be inspired with these logo designs and make effective branding with UPrinting Brochure Printing

Stellar Quotes

What the Duck?

What is Love?

Thumbs Up

JobQuote

QuoteBuilder

Fuel Quoter

planB Holdings

StelMM

Brand Events

Albatros

Full Time

Blooming Lens

Particular

Reforger Films

Strada Film

Art Film

Bananas Films

FilmLab

Posh My Pup

Dog Click Training

Devil Dogg

Lucky

Shirt Pepper

Chill

Mexican Grill

Chil Up

La Cazuelita

Hopefully, after reading this article where 25+ beautiful vibrant and modern logotypes were showcased, you’ve gain another great source of inspiration, by this, you may keep your designs (not only logotype ones) fresh, and up-to-date!

33 Kick-Ass Websites for Your Inspiration

Stelian — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:13:15 +0000

Websites are the most powerful sources of getting inspired from. They are such great sources because they contain a lot of space. This space is usually filled with tehniques, skills and knowledge that the designer knows. Below are gathered 33 beautiful, modern, elegant, kick-ass and hand-picked websites that will be a great source to boost your inspiration. The websites collected below contain different styles in it, so if you’re looking for some inspiration to keep your fresh and adapt to current web trends – you’re at the right place.