These days, social networking and bookmarking sites can help you improve your daily blog traffic. It can substantially increase your popularity and increase daily visitor count. Whenever you write a great article, it’s in your best interest to share, bookmark, digg, stumble, or plug it to the world.
When someone reads a great post from you, make them spread it. You must want to make it easy for them to do this. That’s where social bookmarking plugins for your wordpress blogs can help you.
With these wordpress plugins, it gets very easy for the reader to submit your story with the click of a button. These button appear at the end of each post, and you can customize them too.
Digg IT - A great social bookmarking plugin for your wordpress allowing inclusion of the Digg button.
JPF Add to Reddit - This one allows readers to submit your posts to Reddit, if they are already logged in, it automatically posts the title and URL.
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A website designer/ developer is supposed to continuously innovate and raise the bar. Its crucial for any developer to do better and in less time.
There is a dire need for tools which can help designers do things in less time and I have tried to comile a list of applications which can come handy in making you efficient.
CSS Creator is an online layout generator which will let you create up to 3 column layouts.
CSS Menu Generator can create text based navigation buttons in no time. The online tool will generate both HTML & CSS code which you can use in your website.
QrONE CSS Designer is another online tool which can do CSS editing. Read the rest of this entry »
While doing custom projects for Joomla, we have come across plenty of free and paid Joomla extensions some of them are simply great. Following are few which are perfect, especially as they are free and highly usable.
These can be used on any Joomla websites, and have seemed to worked on the sites we have developed. We will continue to use these, try these out.
JoomlaXplorer
This Joomla component is a robust file manager that works within Joomla. Although you must be working with an external FTP program but this is a coolest add on and certainly helps people who are not actively into development. It would be great to see this extension to get integrated into Joomla some day.
Artio JoomSEF
This Joomla component gets you to include SEO and on your Joomla driven website. There are plenty of SEO plugins, but its support makes it stand apart and highly useful. Patched version of Artio JoomSEF is GPL and ad free. SEO is a must for you to get online presence and a lot of effort has to be taken in order to rank better. This Joomla extension is highly recommended for SEO while being on Joomla.
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Sometimes you can not afford to get a custom shopping cart coded, the perfect solution to this situation is to get the best of the Open Source Shopping Carts.
We have used, reviewed and tries our hands on plenty of open source shopping carts and put together a list of the best carts. Following are the best ones:
Magneto is a professional opensource ecommerce solution offering flexibility and control. Magento is amazing and advanced. Unbelievably It is for free. It features clean urls which are great for SEO. The entire set up is completely Scalable, Professional and has a great community support. This Shopping cart also allows smooth Integration with 3rd party apps.
Opencart is an opensource PHP based shopping cart. OpenCart is easy to use and is SEO optimized comes with a very nice interface. A great feature of OpenCart is that customers can put in their reviews of the products.
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Wordpress 2.6, aka “Tyner” is out, and has great new features. Following is the list of astonishing features you would love to know about.
Wordpress is goind great, with all these amazing new features, Wordpress is definitely the most advanced and popular CMS to work with.
- Supports Word count! Now you don’t have to use something else
- Image captions, Now you can add small captions under your images.
- Bulk management of plugins.
- A new revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
- It supports Drag and drop reordering of Galleries
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Are you sick of the wordpress default dashboard theme? While the newest one is so smooth, airy and lovely to work with.
You may want to change it for your taste. The Wordpress control panel theme can be changed with the help of Admin themes.
Following is a list of few popular plugins to change the layout and visual design of the default Wordpress administration area.
Planet X7
WP Tiger Administration
This is one of the top plugins for dashboard customization.
WP Barunio Administration
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Commenting section is very vital, it is just great to see your reader input their views and thoughts about your posts. Keep your comments section spiced up, here are few Wordpress plugins that helps in achieving this.
- Ajax Comments: Ajax Comments is one of the best ways you could spice up your WordPress Blog with AJAX. Readers are definitely going to love this plugin which adds comments without refreshing the page.
- Ajax Edit Comments: WP Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.1+) allows users and admins alike to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a period specified by the admin, and admins can edit all post comments. This is useful for readers to correct typos.
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Illustrator can let you export to Photoshop while preserving important information. You can export Layers, Color Profiles, Resolution Specification, and Text Preservation. This is extremely helpful while you require to export website wire frames etc.
Exporting is simple:
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Joomla 1.5.4 is out, this is just an update, nothing major. This version will fix several issues including some minor security issues, bug fixes and add carries few more improvements. Check following list for the issues which were addressed in this update.
Security Issues Fixed
- Added security to file caching to prevent unauthorized access to cached pages
- User Redirect Spam fix
- htaccess global variable security fix when SEF is enabled
List of Bug Fixes
- Major Cache overhaul, including unit testing for quality assurance
- Router issues related to extending the router
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Add fun to your web blog, let your visitors interact more with you, know who are reading you and what their opinion is, believe me, each comment that you would get motivates you to continue useful blogging and it’s just great to have cool capabilities on your blog like Polls, user avatars and shout boxes. Try out following Wordpress plugins and get popular!
WP-Polls
Is an easy to deploy Wordpress Plugin that lets you add an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog where you can easily include a poll into your WordPress blog.
Gravatar
This Wordpress Plug-in makes available a tag called gravatar that, if used inside the Comment Loop, displays the correct gravatar URL based on the commenters email address. ( this will also display their avatars) Read the rest of this entry »