Gone are the days when designers only wanted to create high glossy web2.0 gradient rich website designs. Now a days designers are coming up with rugged, retro & vintage themes for their website designs. Colorful or subtle with that worn out look the website seems like a masterpiece. It is not hard to pick up on such Photoshop techniques to master the art of making themes that are retro & vibrant. We have complied a list of tutorials you would like to learn from..rest is in your hands & creativity.
Photochrom Vintage Postcard effect
Turn your high definition photos into vintage postcards and use them in your website concepts. Learn More
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Working on a new website design? or Redesigning your website? There is a lot more to consider now a days not just user experience, clean code, CSS etc. one of the important attribute one must not miss, which is making them mobile friendly!
With the growing use of handhelds & unlimited data plans, people browse on their cellphones! and All come in different sizes! it is tough to make a website that would look great not just on a high resolution widescreen monitor/LCD, but also should look equally impressive on the low resolutions of cellphones.
We are today going to discuss about such factors that can help you make a website Cellphone Friendly.
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When we talk about Drupal SEO, there are two things to consider one is about the relevant SEO practices and about appropriate Drupal Modules available. Optimizing your website for search engines is one of the most important aspect of launching & promoting your website especially if ranking matters to you.
Understanding SEO
For starters, you have begin with Keyword research and then optimize your content according to your findings by tagging, meta tags etc, Drupal modules once installed help you manage a lot of such parameters.
- Identifying the target keywords
- Using the Page Title and Token modules
- PathAuto configuration
- <H1> heading tags
- Optimizing Drupal’s default robots.txt file
- Etc.
While Drupal gives you a lot of ability to make your website content worthy & search engine friendly it is important for you to make sure you are not crossing the line or you could get penalized.
Modules Overview
Drupal Power is at its best when you have these modules & great brain working together. The basic SEO improvements can be achieved easily with the modules enlisted below, but you can win magical rankings if you use them logically & wisely. Understanding your keyword competition & enhancing your content is the basic key to success and ofcourse the modules:
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Drupal users have high satisfaction with Drupal compared to the Joomla users, for a number of reasons. If you are thinking of choosing a high performance platform to run your high traffic website.. Drupal Installation is your forte!
Overload Scenario
Drupal is scalable high performance CMS and is stable under heavy load. If your server is pushed beyond its capacity, Drupal shuts off gracefully and doesn’t crash. As soon as the server is back within its traffic capability, Drupal handles all requests smoothly again. For example if your dedicated server can handle a maximum of 50,000 visits a day, and on lucky days when your news created the buzz in social media and your traffic rose to 70,000 on one day, then your server will be overloaded and usually it crashes causing permanent damage to your database at times.. But if you have used Drupal CMS it closes down gracefully an as soon as traffic goes down to within the server’s capacity, the Drupal running site accepts all requests again.
Extensibility
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A discussion at Drupal.org forums prompted me to give my input about commercial ecosystem around Open Source Content Management Systems.
WordPress and Joomla have been growing rapidly since past few years. But, growth rate of Drupal seems to be almost flat. Despite being the most powerful CMS around, Drupal is still not being adopted by masses. Many people will argue that Drupal is not targeted towards masses, but developers.
I agree, Drupal is more of a development platform than a consumer CMS. Drupal is ‘many things to many people’, and I can build almost any type of website with it. Drupal is being used for building blogs, corporate websites, Intranet portals, social networking and even a project management system. Looking at the wide array of Drupal implementations, it deserves to be the most widely adopted CMS.
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Some time back when I was looking for some tutorials to create a website from scratch i.e. the process from designing the PSD to slice it and CSS/XHTML it, then not many quality results appeared. But that was like almost an year back and a lot of water has flown down the river Thanes since then. In this list I will give you links to some wonderful tutorials teaching you in a step by step way to design a website. These tutorials are ideal for someone who is learning web designing and has grasp of basic CSS, XHTML and little designing on Photoshop.
How to Design and Code Web 2.0 Style Web Design
Designing and Coding a Grunge Web Design from Scratch
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This tutorial will take you to the installation steps required to install Sweetcron in the XAMPP. I am taking the liberty to assume that you have already installed XAMPP. I
First of all download sweetcron and copy the extracted “sweetcron” folder inside the htdocs folder in the XAMPP directory.
You have to get few things in place before installing sweetcron:
1. Create a sweetcron database using Mysql. You can just put a name “sweetcron” and leave all the other settings such as Mysql connection collation as it is.
Now that you have the database ready you can configure few settings before making sweetcron to work on XAMPP.
2. Open the config-sample PHP file with your text editor (something like Notepad++ or Komodo Edit is recommended) which is located in Sweetcron/system/application/config. You have to make few changes in it.
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It’s been quite a long time since we showcased the recent free WordPress themes on JustSkins.Some cool WordPress themes have been made in recent times that you may use for your photo portfolio blog. The following list contains both free and the premium WordPress themes. If you happen to be a professional photographer or just one by hobbyist you can expect something in here for you.
The Photocrati SuperTheme!
A next-generation photo WordPress theme
15 photo gallery and photo blog themes built in
Change layout, colors, styles without knowing code
Fanatical customer support
100% Money Back Guarantee
Thousands of happy customers
Amplify is a paid theme with some amazing features and nice image manipulation. It uses javascript image transition at the main page which supports an unlimited number of images.
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There are a lot of online generators which are of no use to any designers, however some can help designers to an extent. Some example of online generators are favicon generators, background generators, button generators, and badge generators. A demo of a CSS layout can be seen at Price in India blog. Some of the useful kinds are the ones that solve one purpose with quick and easy steps, especially useful for new designers, following is a list of some useful CSS grid layout generators.
Grid Layout Generator By PageColumn:
Blueprint Grid CSS Generator:
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It is very important to do backup of your MySql database, you will probably realize it when it is too late. A lot of web applications use MySql for storing the content. This can be blogs, and a lot of other things. When you have all your content as html files on your web server it is very easy to keep them safe from crashes, you just have a copy of them on your own PC and then upload them again after the web server is restored after the crash.
All the content in the MySql database must also be backed up. If you have spent a lot of time making the content and it is only stored in the Mysql server, you will feel very bad if it gets lost for ever. Backing it up once every month or so makes sure you never loose too much of your work in case of a server crash, and it will make you sleep better at night. It is easy and fast, so there is no reason for not doing it.
Step 1: Log into phpMyAdmin on your server.
Step2: You can select the database that you would like to backup from the drop-down menu called Database.
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