Pixlr is a FREE online photo editor loaded with some awesome tools. It is not Photoshop but it does have some equivalent features. There is no software to download, it’s all online.

• Work and build in layers
• Multiple adjustments: color, hue, curves, exposure, brightness, etc.
• Crop, Marquee and Lasso Tools
• Wand Tool to remove backgrounds
• Eraser Tool with many brush types and opacity levels: round, square, star, etc.
• Transparent Background
• Brush and Pencil Tools
• Paint Bucket
• Shapes Tool with or without borders
• Red Eye Reduction
• Type Tool
• And Much More

This is perfect for enhancing photographs, editing images for your website or blog. Easily create and build headers, leader boards, skyscrapers  or logos. You can adjust the canvas size, rotate and free transform. You can save your projects in JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF and PXD formats. You can also save them to your computer or upload them straight to Facebook, Flickr, and Picasa.

If you want to spruce up your website without any expenses then check out Pixlr Photo Editor.

Artisteer 3.0 is an easy and very powerful web design, theme, template and HTML creator. It is a do-it-yourself website generator for creating Web Design Templates, Joomla templates, Drupal themes, WordPress themes, DotNetNuke skins, Blogger templates, Standard and Stand Alone Websites. Artisteer is very user friendly even for someone who knows nothing about web design. Whats great is you do not need to know HTML or coding. You do not need Dreamweaver, messing with tables and div tags. 

Almost every aspect of your website can be customized. Website length in pixels and percentage, custom headers with Flash, custom image backgrounds, gradients, dynamic menus vertical and horizontal, sheet width and margins, custom fonts and colors and so much more. You can even upload a custom Favicon.

If you are creative and want to have a custom header with a logo, you can use Pixlr. Pixlr is a FREE online photo and image editor. It has some Photoshop features that are perfect for creating your own designs or enhancing your own images.

When you have completed your design in Artisteer, just click export and Artisteer will save it in the proper file format. Save it to your computer and then easily upload it into your desired Content Management System (CMS) or Blog.

You can download Artisteer for free and try it out, but in trial mode it does not support saving your web design projects. You can however, create and export your web design as HTML, theme, template or skin in trail mode.

The Google +1 Button is a personal recommendation, or tip, from a person you trust. It allows you to share something you think is interesting that your friends, family or colleagues should check out. It is kind of like the Facebook Like Button but it shows in Google search results and is more personalized. For website traffic purposes, this is definitely something to consider adding to your website or blog. According to Google Webmaster Central, a recommendation from an expert is useful, but a recommendation from a friend who shares your tastes can be even better. “Because of this, +1’s from friends and contacts can be a useful signal to Google when determining the relevance of your page to a user’s query.” They also say, “personalized annotations next to your page in search results may increase your site’s visibility and make your site’s snippet more compelling, which may in turn increase the odds that users will click through to your page.”

The Google +1 Button is a free and comes in 4 sizes: Small (15px), Medium (20px), Standard (24px), and Tall (60px). See photo for actual sizes. Click here to get the Google +1 Button. The code for the Google +1 Button is very easy to install, just copy and paste it where you want it to show on your web page or pages. For WordPress, there is a plugin for the Google +1 Button that you can get by clicking here: WordPress Google +1 Button Plugin. I just use the First Footer Widget in WordPress with a Text insert and paste the +1 Button code. Then I can manage where this will display with the Dynamic Widget Plugin. I can choose exactly where I want it to show up, individual Pages, Posts, Categories, etc.

Bing Business Portal is replacing the Bing Local Listing Center. It is a fantastic way to get free exposure to customers searching locally for specific businesses. Bing Business Portal is for locally owned businesses such as restaurants, salons and shops to provide information about their local business so customers can easily find them when searching on Bing. Bing lets you provide a lot of information about your business such as:

• photos
• logos
• contact information
• payment types
• menus
• maps
• and other business details

You can also create deals for mobile devices, PCs and even publish those deals to Facebook. When customers are searching Bing to find businesses and services in their local area, the more details you provide, the better your search results will appear in Bing. This can get your business on the first or second page of the Bing search results depending on the competition of your business and the area your business is in.

Most of us these days look to the internet first to research a business or location we want to visit. If you have a tight niched business in a local area, you should be coming up on the first page of  Bing search results. This is something every local business owner should take advantage of, and best of all, Bing Business Portal is free!

Here is how to easily remove the Next Post and Previous Post Links along with the box and border in WordPress.

1. Get into your WP-Admin
2. Under Appearance, Click “Editor”
3. On the right side under Templates, Click “Single Post” (single.php)
4. Look for these 2 lines of code, you should not have to scroll down. It should be right in the middle:

‘next_link’ => theme_get_previous_post_link(‘« %link’),

‘prev_link’ => theme_get_next_post_link(‘%link »’)

Just Add these 2 forward slashes in front of each. It should look like this:

//’next_link’ => theme_get_previous_post_link(‘« %link’),

//’prev_link’ => theme_get_next_post_link(‘%link »’)

Be sure to hit Update

Here is how to easily remove the “Comments are closed” text, and the box and border from your WordPress Post.

1. Get into your WP-Admin
2. Under Appearance, Click “Editor”
3. On the right side under Templates, Click Comments” (comments.php)
4. Look for the Words “Comments are closed”. You should not have to scroll down. It should be right at the bottom.
5. Follow the code all the way to the left and look for this:

} elseif(‘open’ != $post->comment_status && !is_page()) {

Just Add these 2 forward slashes in front of the curly bracket. It should look like this:

//} elseif(‘open’ != $post->comment_status && !is_page()) {

Be sure to hit Update