Archive for March, 2011
Seven Excellent Business Tools You Might Not Know About (But Should)
There are many web apps out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing The Seven Excellent Business Tools You Might Not Know About But Should. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.
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SohoOS
Managing your business was never this easy. All of your contacts, clients, vendors and leads are bundled together in a simple, easy to use interface. It also maximizes the potential of your business by tracking the full life cycle of your marketing activities. Ultimately, you can get the inside scoop on how your business operates. Every report you ever needed, now available at your fingertips, easily created and viewed using an intuitive interface with built in templates.
Groupion
Groupion combines a multitude of Groupware, CRM and ERP in one modular platform, which make it the perfect platform to design and automate various business processes. Businesses have a lot of different requirements, ranging from standard applications, such as e-mail and shared calendar, to complex billing processes and this tool unites this broad set of features in one sophisticated and user-friendly platform.
Really Simple System
It has all the features and functionality you need to keep track of your customers and prospects – their names, when to call them back, what you said to them last, what they bought, what they might buy. And as the name implies, Free Edition is a completely free CRM system. You can also upload documents such as letters, faxes, spreadsheets and keep them on the system. In CRM jargon, it is a complete Sales Force Automation system: Account Management, Contact Management and Opportunity Management with Sales Forecasting.
Brix
BrixHQ makes online agile project management and collaboration easy and cost effective. This is a flexible and adaptable agile project management system to meet all your needs. Agile Project Reporting that you can customize and filter based on what you need.
Podio
Podio is an online work platform with a new take on how everyday work gets done. It gives people more power than they’ve ever had before to do manage their work better, smarter and in their own way. Combining hundreds of specialized and flexible work apps with messaging, tasks, reporting, workflow and contact management, Podio lets you build and shape the online workplace most fitting to your role. It eliminates scattered, unorganized work routines, and replaces multiple products from different companies with a single environment and a single login.
TeamSpinner
Teamspinner is a flexible tool to guide your projects. It does not constrain the structure of your projects and organization. With Teamspinner you can easily work together on a project with an outsourcing party or a freelancer without the need to expose anything else. Teamspinner allows users to participate in an unlimited number of projects and initiate new projects. The flexible structure makes it perfect to collaborate with remote teams, your clients and freelance specialists.
Appointy
Appointy is one of the best and simple scheduling software. You can schedule appointments, accept pre-payments, send reminder alerts, update social networks, update personal calendars, create promotions, create discount coupons, manage, and grow virally.
40 Excellent (Yet Free) CSS Tools And Generators For Developers
For a developer, finding useful CSS tools is like finding a magic lamp that can make his toughest task a fun activity. CSS tools help developers in numbers of ways and let them create stylish, functional and optimized websites.
In this post, we are showcasing a precious collection of 40 useful and powerful CSS tools and generators that save your time and energy while giving the best possible results. Take a look and feel free to share your comments with us.
The Builder is designed for rapid development of CSS layouts, that are based on YAML.
Grid Designer is an online tool for designing grids. It comes with different options to allow you customize columns, pixels, gutters and margins.
My CSS Menu provides the average webmaster with tools to create custom, cross browser compatible CSS menu. Our menu generator makes it easy to create web navigation: Horizontal, Vertical, Drop-down menu without having to know all the complicated HTML and CSS.
Csstxt helps you in illustrating the lots of different ways to add a style to a text file with the help of ‘a’, ‘p’ or ‘div’ tags.
Simple CSS allows you to easily create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a familiar point-and-click interface.
Firdamatic: the Design Tool for the Uninspired Webloggers
Firdamati is an online tableless layout generator that allows you to create and customise layouts easily by completing a simple form, making creating skins for your Firdamatic-based layout a breeze.
Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator by ColorZilla
This ultimate CSS gradient editor and generator, created by ColorZilla, is a powerful tool to create CSS gradients having cross-browser support.
Sky CSS allows you to create CSS classes almost without using manuscript code. JavaScript compatible browser is needed for the proper functioning.
This is a brand new procure on the CSS grid that aims to be light weighted. You can use it to simplify page templates in support of content management systems.
Free CSS Template Code Generator
This HTML – CSS template generator yields a three column layout without using any Tables. This HTML & CSS Style Sheet template generator outputs a full featured 3 column template. Resulting in an instant web page with a customized template that can be used to control the look n feel of an entire site.
The variable grid system is a quick way to generate an underlying CSS grid for your site. The CSS generated file is based on the 960 Grid System.
Gridinator lets you generate grids for the 960.gs, Golden Grid, 1KB Grid along with the basic generic grid.
This tool will help you generate more flexible versions of Blueprint’s grid.css and compressed.css and grid.png files.
Use the CSS Grid Calculator to quickly visualize page layout and draw grids in a variety of ways. It provides accurate visual feedback on how text blocks and page divisions will appear within a browser window, and returns style declarations for divisions and text to copy and paste into style sheets.
You can create an individual design for your Blog online with templatr which is a Template Generator and no knowledge of HTML or CSS is required.
Markup Generator is a simple tool created for xhtml/css coders that are tired of writing boring frame code at the very beginning of slicing work. It’s main purpose is to speed up your work by generating xhtml markup and a css frame out of very intuitive, shortened syntax so you can jump directly to the elements styling.
Spiffy Corners – Purely CSS Rounded Corners
Spiffy Corners is a simple way to generate the CSS and HTML you need to create anti-aliased corners without using images or javascript.
Spritebox is a WYSIWYG tool to help web designers quickly and easily create CSS classes and IDs from a single sprite image. It is based on the principle of using the background-position property to align areas of a sprite image into block elements of a web page. It was made from JQuery, CSS3 and HTML5, and is totally free to use
SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished site maps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It’s suitable for most web sites – accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links – and can easily be customized to meet your own personal needs, branding, or style preferences.
CSS Layout Generator – CSS Portal
This generator will create a fluid or fixed width column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header, footer and menu. Values can be specified in either pixels or percentages
CSSMenuMaker.com provides the average webmaster with tools to create custom, cross browser compatible website menus.
CleanCSS is a powerful CSS optimizer and formatter. Basically, it takes your CSS code and makes it cleaner and more concise.
Display the output of your code instantaneously with CSS3 Please and adjust the element with this simple but powerful tool.
A CSS Navigation Tab Menu Generator that lets you twist size, colors, corners and more. In this way, you can create your own design and afterward download and utilize in your CSS style sheet.
Now you can organize CSS rules alphabetically to make maintaining your CSS files an easier task with the help of CSS Sorter.
A concrete typography tool named CSS Type Set lets you assess and find out how to style their web content.
The CSS Layout Generator helps you create the structure of your website template using valid HTML and CSS. You can create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages.
Generating multi-column and grid layouts with CSS 2.0 techniques using %, px, or em.
Em Calculator is a small JavaScript tool which helps making scalable and accessible CSS design. It converts size in pixels to relative em units, which are based on a text size.
Upload an image to generate a color palette based on the image’s primary colors. Useful for quickly grabbing a particular color within an image for inspiration. Generates also Photoshop swatches and CSS styles.
CSS Menu Generator by Webmaster Toolkit
This CSS Menu Generator will generate both the CSS and the HTML code required to produce a text-based yet appealing set of navigation buttons. As text links are fast becoming preferred over images where search engine optimization is needed, a CSS menu can give the effectiveness of text links with a better look than standard text links. For an example of a CSS menu, look at our navigation on the left.
Use this wizard to experiment with table border styles and generate style source code. This wizard uses dynamic HTML to change the style of the table in-situ, without loading another page.
CSS Layout Generator is online web 2.0 tool for creating HTML+CSS templates (layouts). This tool generate an archive (in just a few clicks) containing two files: HTML & CSS, which represent the basic layout for your future site.
Font Tester is a free online font comparison tool. It allows you to easily preview and compare different fonts side by side with various CSS font styles applied to them. It is very useful for web developers who are looking for just the right font/style/color to use in their pages.
The CSS font-style property is used to set the style of the font to italic or oblique.
CSS color codes comes with two options; hexadecimal color codes and RGB color codes so that you can easily pick the color with the help of Color Picker and get its hexadecimal value from the bottom field.
CSS Colors provides you a comprehensive chart showing the color values in hexadecimal as well as RGB. You can easily find out combinations of RGB colors from 0 to 255 that give you a total of over 16 million colors.
This online generator creates your own custom unique WordPress Theme. Without any need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge. Change the colors, settings, layout, preview live, click “save” and download your unique WordPress theme zip-file. Extract, upload, set, and you are done!
List-O-Matic is a tool that makes the process of creating list-based, CSS-styled navigation just that little bit easier.
The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.
Easily compress multiple CSS and JavaScript files into one and run it directly on your desktop with this small AIR application.
Cartoon: I Am An iPhone Killer! No, You Are Not
iPhone is considered as the best and most intelligent smart phone now a days. That’s all because of its beauty and uniqueness iPhone made few enemies as well who are trying to compete it and become the best smart phone. The best part is that iPhone never had to worry about having so many enemies just like this comic illustrates, iPhone’s enemies have been fighting each other as well and never got to actually beat iPhone.
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30+ Amazing Techniques And Tutorials That Help You Become A Master Cartoonist
Who don’t love cartoons? Yes, majority of us do and some of us also like to create/draw cartoons too. Today, we have decided to collect a good variety of Photoshop tutorials to learn how to create cartoons. All of these tutorials are very much beneficial and have much more to learn including some new techniques to enhance your cartoon creation skills.
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Drawing a cartoon look cheerleader
Create A Vector Art Twitter Bird Character Icon In Adobe Illustrator
Create a Vector Style Illustration in Photoshop
How to Draw a Little Monster Licking Lollipop Using Pen Tablet
How to Draw a Portrait in Photoshop
Copying Cartoon To Illustrator
How to Ink and Color a Cartoon Portrait Using a Pen Tablet
Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Bug Tutorial
Adobe Illustrator Mummy Gradient Tutorial
Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Tutorial with a Wacom Tablet
Drunken Monkey Photoshop Tutorial
Creating a Colored Shape for Your Line Drawing Without Retracing It
Vectorial character design with Illustrator
How to Draw Nemo from Finding Nemo
Drawing a character’s face in Illustrator
How to Add Fur to Vector Animal Illustrations
How to Create a Cartoon Character with Expressive Line
The Evolution Of Web Browsers (Infographic)
As we know web browsers are a necessity for us to browse the world wide web and web browser isn’t just a software which was once created and we have been using that same application today. Like technology, it has evolved from time to time, and there are a few big companies who are constantly participating and struggling in the browser’s war. This infographic shows us the perfect comparison over different web browsers from 1994 to 2011. Some of these browsers perished with time while some are still competing.
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The Breathtaking Photos Of Spectacular Places On Earth (Earth Hour Special)
Earth Hour is globally celebrated environmental event organized by World Wide Fund for Nature. This is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth hour was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney’s lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008. Earth Hour 2011 is taking place on March 26, 2011 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., local time and we are trying to showcase few of the millions of stunning photographs to give it a tribute and to create some awareness about this event. We would appreciate all of you who can create awareness in your circle and do whatever you can for our beautiful earth. You might be interested to see how we celebrated Earth Day in 2009 and how we celebrated Earth Hour in 2010.
I appreciate to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these photographic wonders from their creative eyes. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing these in detail it will surely refresh you and force you to know more about Earth Day and motivate you to save your planet. These are the wonder creations of photographers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.
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Overflying Egypt desert, 10000m above by Pablo de Gorrión
Colors of earth by Dionys Moser
Blue Laguna Hvar by Ilija Veselica
Forest like a Dream by Silviu Vlasceanu
Return as always by Peter Svoboda
Highway to Hell by Mikel Lastra
A Day on The Top of Mount Titlis by Evan Pratama Ludirdja
Godzilla’s footprint by Ilan Shacham
Diablo Beach by Örvar Atli Þorgeirsson
Every day like this by Dorin Bofan
Way trough the woods by Adam dobrovits
Rising Shadow by Karsten Wrobel
Tuscan coast by Antonio Grambone
Winter on Plitvice by Kresimir Tubikanec
Shelf ice on the shores of the IJsselmeer by Bas Meelker Photography
The Outer Shadows by Alexandre deschaumes
Enchanted little canyon by Norbert Maier
Six Browsers For Most Intuitive Web Surfing Experience On Your Android Phone
There are many apps out there for android phones, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing The Six Browsers For Most Intuitive Web Surfing Experience On Android. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.
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Dolphin Browser HD, most popular and powerful browser on Android Market, is built on Android 2.0+ platform. Beside some basic features, like gesture commands, multi-touch zooming, bookmarking (that syncs to Google bookmarks), Dolphin HD supports more powerful features such as versatile add-ons, better HTML5 support, customizable bookmarks sorting, innovative UI, Download Directory changing, and etc.
It is fast, smooth, and makes surfing the Web on a mobile device more fun and efficient than ever. A refreshed user interface looks better with your device and gives Opera Mobile a sleek, modern appearance. Pinch zoom and smooth panning let you surf in a natural and intuitive way. You can also share web content with others on popular social networks. Opera Mobile is the ultimate browser when connected over WiFi or wireless broadband.
Miren browser brings you the most intuitive browsing experience with full tabbed browser with smart full-screen mode, top site navigation and smart suggestions. It has a Flash support with multi-touch Pinch zoom. You will have excellent bookmark management with folders as well as you can export/import bookmarks via SD.
Skyfire Browser makes your mobile web experience richer, smarter and more fun. It also makes browsing more social. You may have easy access to Facebook and Twitter news feeds, profiles, friends, inbox, events and places. Find popular pages your friends have shared based on the sites you are visiting. Explore related ideas to the pages you browse. And see more from your searches with video and social results.
By compressing pages with Opera’s servers, Opera Mini not only loads webpages faster, but it saves on data charges since it uses about a tenth of the data of normal browsers. Opera Mini is the ultimate browser for browsing on slow
Internet connections or while paying per megabyte of data used.
Boat Browser is a fast,clean and ease of use android browser. This is a fast, simple and pretty web browser, which will bring you the greatest user experience on Android.
36 Aspiring Galleries You Should Visit To Get Amazing Web Design Inspiration
Inspiration can be received from a variety of different sources such as nature, print publication, music, art, photography and etc. In World Wide Web, this inspiration can come from variety of different websites and galleries or blogs that serve as excellent source of inspiration for the web and graphic designers. This is the reason why design galleries have become so popular among web designers. In this post, we are also featuring some very exciting and aspiring design galleries to boost your imagination and creativity. Do not forget to check out our previous article where you may found 27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration.
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The Best Designs
WPBeginner Gallery
CSS Bay
WP Inspiration
Boxed CSS
CSS Exchange
Design Bombs
ArsCSS3Gallery
The Fwa
Teespiration
Creative Adawards
CSS Remix
CSS Blaze
Web Design Showcase
CSS Design Yorkshire
Best Web Gallery
CSS WebSites
SiteInspire
CSS Nature
Web Creme
CSS Perk
Minimal Exhibit
Inspiration King
CSS Mayo
Cart Frenzy
Designer Source
First Hand Web
Design Shack
CSS Collection
Urban Trash
CSS Brigit
Swell Css
Blazing Gallery
My3w
Selected WebDesign
Who Likes What On Social Media (Graphic)
I have recently came across to really interesting infographic about “Who Likes What: Social Media By Demographic”. This graphic was beautifully executed to demonstrate that who likes what and how different social media channels make an impact. This well-presented infographic breaks down the top social networking sites by gender, age, income, and education demographics. The sites included in this graphic are Digg, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, StumbleUpon and YouTube. To acknowledge this amazing work I want to give 5 stars to KISSmetrics who created this infographic.
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Five Web Apps That Are Worth Checking Out
There are many web apps out there for routine usage, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing The Five Web Apps That Are Worth Checking Out. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.
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RemindThis
The use of RemindThis is simple, efficient, powerful and easy to implement. Moreover, the service is given free and helps many websites around the web to increase traffic to them and also to pleasantly and quickly remind them to return to websites they were interested in.
messageHop
messageHop is a simple yet fast and easy way to create a special animated message for loved ones.
Convore
Convore is a quick way to instant message with groups of friends in real-time. You can join in on conversations about topics that interest you, or start your own conversations. Don’t worry about missing anything, because we keep track of what you’re not seeing, so that when you return, you can easily catch up.
SlideBomb
This is absolutely not your typical slideshow. With SlideBomb, You can add Youtube videos, Google Maps, images, links to images, text, and more to your slides for sharing and embedding anywhere.
Greplin
Greplin is a personal search engine that allows you to search all your online data in one easy place. Greplin indexes the information you create on different websites (like Gmail, Twitter and Facebook) and provides lightning fast search of all your information.
