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DotNetNuke Makes It Easier For You To Build Feature-Rich, Interactive Web Sites And Applications

Muhammad Usama Alam — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:58:11 +0000

DotNetNuke Community Edition is a leading free open-source content management system for ASP.NET websites. With DotNetNuke, you can quickly and effectively deploy dynamic web applications with almost no technical knowledge, however if you are an ASP.NET developer, you can customize it in the way you want to fulfill your specific needs. Whether you need to deploy a simple website or a feature-rich dynamic application, DotNetNuke cater your needs in the way you want.

Unlike legacy web applications, you don’t need services of a web developer in order to make changes in your content and locations of different modules. You can easily achieve this task on-the-fly by logging into the administration control panel.

Since DotNetNuke is open-source, you can enhance and extend the functionality of it if you are familiar with ASP.NET programming. In addition to the existing modules in DotNetNuke, you can develop custom modules over it or use from a number of pre-developed modules by different third party vendors to extend the functionality as per your business needs.

DotNetNuke is the world’s most widely adopted framework for building web applications on Microsoft Windows platform. DotNetNuke powers over 500,000 portals, web applications and public web sites. It has a large open-source community to support the development of the system. Furthermore, you can find number of help and support resources and books that help you find solutions to your problems while you work.

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KENTICO CMS For ASP.NET: An All-In-One Solution For Your Web Site And Now With Free Editon Too

AN Jay — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:51:01 +0000

Kentico CMS for ASP.NET is a powerful and fully featured Content Management System. This robust and stable CMS can be used for building and maintaining websites including Intranets, Online Stores and Social Community Networks using the Web 2.0 features on the ASP.NET platform. In addition it comes with a Free Edition that might be used even for commercial purposes!

Let’s find out what Kentico CMS has to offer each of us:

Key Features For Developers

For Web Developers Kentico represents an all-in-one solution that helps you achieve the best of your results with least of effort and in shortest time.

Fast Development Process: Kentico CMS offers ready-to-use framework on ASP.NET platform, which otherwise would have been a tedious and expensive job with hours of coding. Hours of manual coding to write SQL queries and ADO.NET codes has been cut down by Kentico CMS into a few mouse click processes and loads of other ready-made modules.

Open Extensibility and Flexibility: Kentico CMS is featured with unrestricted and extensible architecture and web development framework, which is a real problem with many of the content management systems of the date.

Highly Flexible HTML Code & Design: Kentico offers you high flexibility and full control over the (X)HTML code and customization in design in addition to flexibility in site navigation and structure.

Responsive Support: Kentico CMS provides all clients with a highly responsive and readily reacting Phone and E-mail support.

7 days bug fixing policy: Every reported bug will be fixed within 7 working days. That’s a unique commitment on the market.

Key Features For Web-Masters

Used widely for variety of websites ranging from Intranets, Extranets to Corporate, Community, E-Commerce and many other sites, Kentico CMS indeed has been the preferable choice of most of the site owners.

User Friendly Interface: Kentico CMS is featured with user-friendly interface and WYSIWYG editor that is easy to use and edit, even if you are not a technical guru. With just only the minimum knowledge of Word, you can easily learn the features of it.

Easy Solution To Creating Your Website: There’s hardly to worry about even if you do not have a web developer to create and incorporate your requirements based on Kentico CMS. It helps you with hundreds of Kentico CMS Solution Partners, who are at your service with the complete design and template based on your requirements.

Helps To Build Interactive Websites: Websites does not only mean a good template design and collection of information. With Kentico CMS you can make your website much more interactive by creating online forms, communities using forums, newsletters, blogs and can perform surveys too. It also allows you to add a shopping cart to your website for online selling, which is again an important feature.

Know How Your Site Is Doing: With the built-in feature of Web Analytics, Kentico CMS helps you in tracking your website results such as the visits and campaigns. Furthermore, it helps you in optimizing the content of your website for better results.

System Requirements

Kentico CMS for ASP.NET does not require any high-end technical configuration to work. The minimum technical requirements your system should have to run this CMS software are;

ASP.NET 2.0
.NET Framework 2.0
Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008
Visual Studio / Visual Web Developer 2005/2008 and
Internet Information Services

Security Benefits

Security is one of the vital features for any software and same with Kentico CMS too. It has its own security standards and system based on the standard security features of ASP.NET.

Kentico CMS for ASP.NET supports both Windows Authentication and Forms Authentication service as well. You can even create your own that will work by importing user information from external database. Module based user permissions can also be granted for specific documents or sections of website. In a word, the Permissions Authorization is not just only limited to predefined ones. Moreover, Kentico CMS provides other security features too such as UI Personalization. To know details about the security benefits, visit Security Benefits of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET.

Free Edition, Trial Version and Virtual Lab

It comes with a Free License Edition for use in personal or even commercial projects. There’s no expiration period for this version, however it offers limited features set (like number of items in E-shop etc.). Get a Free License Edition of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET

Good way to evaluate Kentico CMS is to download a 30 days trial version with all its features enabled and 10 support tickets by e-mail at free of cost. Download Kentico CMS for ASP.NET Trial Package and know its incomparable features more closely.

Kentico offers you an amazing feature of ‘Virtual Lab’ where you get the chance to evaluate it more closely online without installing anything on your PC. In this Virtual Lab option, a temporary website is being created on their server. This is a 7 days trial website where you can test almost all the features of Kentico CMS and is available in four options including Corporate, E-commerce, Social Community Network and Personal Web site. Go ahead to subscribe for a 7 days trial of Virtual Lab of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET

Main Benefits At A Glance

To sum up, here are the major beneficial points in part of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET;

It is based on the Microsoft ASP.NET and SQL Server platform
The complete C# source code is available along with the source code license
High level of customization using Visual Studio
Fully featured and SEO friendly solution and available in 200+ web-parts that can be used to build any site including E-commerce, Intranet or Social Network.
It offers tons of ready-to-use modules that helps in fast website development with no complex manual coding
It hardly requires any technical knowledge while the non-technical users can use it with ease
No additional software or add-ons are required as Kentico CMS itself is a complete solution package
Featured with browser based WYSIWYG editor that is easy to use
User-friendly Interface that is easy-to use and translated into 8 languages
It comes with a Free License Edition for use in commercial or personal projects with no time limitation
Support system is highly responsive
Multilingual support that includes right-to-left languages and eastern languages too.
Kentico CMS offers Multisite Support featuring support to unlimited number of websites with just a single instance
Low in bugs with 7 days policy for bug fixation. For the past (4.1) version they also planted a tree for each bug found – Trees For Bugs
A living community at Kentico DevNet (http://devnet.kentico.com/)
Implementation cost is low
Last but not the least, it is a fully re-brandable solution

You can see the Complete List Of Features Of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET for more details.

Words are just not enough to describe the immense number of features offered by this content management system software. One of the best showcases of its popularity is the Windows Web Application Gallery. Inspite of its signing up in the later half of last year, the number of downloads of Kentico CMS is already making its way to the top.

Finally, the price for this outstanding content management system ranges from $0 for free edition to $ 4499 for 1 Web Site Ultimate License.

Be it for your corporate website, a community website or an online store, Kentico CMS for ASP.NET has all the features that makes it an all-in-one solution that stands far ahead of other CMS softwares of the present date.

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15 Most Popular Free Software I Am Thankful For

AN Jay — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:38:01 +0000

Today, we are going to say big Thank You to everyone who support us, appreciate us, love us and always be there for us when we need them. So, how can we forget those that makes our computer life easier and did the tremendous work for us. They delivered us those applications/softwares that help us to get the routine work done for our daily use. There are many that we can not count and list down exactly but we are tried to make a list of 15 Most Popular Free Software I Am Thankful For. And Yes! Happy Thanksgiving all of you too…

You are welcome to share other software you would thankful for and that made your life easier. . Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

WordPress

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

phpBB

With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB will grow with, and complement your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.

Firefox

Firefox 3.5 sets the pace with dozens of new features, including the smart location bar, one-click bookmarking and blindingly fast performance. Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity. View Web pages faster, using less of your computer’s memory.

Drupal

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.

Gimp

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need – a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.

Wine

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available.

FileZilla

FileZilla is a cross-platform graphical FTP, FTPS and SFTP client a lot of features, supporting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server for Windows. It has a powerful Site Manager and transfer queue and drag & drop support.

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment. This is based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

TightVNC

TightVNC is a free remote control software package. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer.This is a cross-platform, available for Windows and Unix, compatible with other VNC software.

Blender

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems. It includes tools for modeling – fast subdivision surface and polygon tools, multi-resolution mesh sculpting, metaballs, NURBS, vector fonts, and curves; uv mapping; shaders and texturing – both paint based and node based; ik and fk animation tools with rigging, constraints, skinning, morph targets, drivers, deformers, and modifiers; simulation tools including hard bodies, soft body, cloth, and fluids; and particle systems including hair. Blender has integrated rendering with both its native renderer and the raytracer Yafray as well supporting many external renderers; and python based scripting.

Audacity

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files, cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together etc.

VideoLAN

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

BitTorrent

BitTorrent 6 is a client that transfers large videos, audios or softwares in a faster and cheaper way. A ‘client’ in this case is a computer program that follows the rules of a protocol. The BitTorrent 6 client will give you access to the world of content on the protocol in a lightweight, fast and reliable package.

OpenOffice

OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

Mozilla Firefox As An Open Source Faster, Safer And Smarter Web Browser

Firefox 3 sets the pace with dozens of new features, including the smart location bar, one-click bookmarking and blindingly fast performance. Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity. View Web pages faster, using less of your computer’s memory.

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GetSimple, The Simplest Content Management System Ever

AN Jay — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:11:48 +0000

GetSimple is an XML based lite Content Management System. To go along with it’s best-in-class user interface, developers of the system have loaded it with features that every website needs, but with nothing it doesn’t. GetSimple is truly the simplest way to manage a small-business website.

It doesn’t use mySQL to store information, but instead depend on the speed and accuracy of XML. By utilizing XML, they are able stay away from introducing an extra layer of slowness and complexity associated with connecting to a mySQL database. Because GetSimple was built specifically for the small-site market, they feel this is the absolutely best option for data storage.

When you see the GUI, you will feel that they given top priority when designing the user-interface was to make it the best in it’s class. It has included “undo” into almost every action you can take on the site, giving you peace-of-mind for when you make those inevitable stupid mistakes. Click here to see all the features.

The total time in setting up a website took a total of 5 minutes, from starting the FTP to finishing the setup procedure.

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60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In June

AN Jay — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:28:06 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, â€œDiscover the Best of the Webâ€ on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of June which our readers/viewers may like.Â Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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53 Crazy-good Digital Photography Tutorials

40 Top-Notch Print Based Tutorials

10 Most Wanted Vector Tutorials

13 Useful Techniques for Enhancing Web Design Photography

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Create a Character Illustration Wallpaper

50 Excellent 3D Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial

Photo Manipulate a Falling Angel

77 Ultimate Round-Up of Adobe After Effects Tutorials

25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating 3D Text Effects

Useful Flash Cartoon Tutorials

Itâ€™s Time to Create a â€˜Neo-Constructivistâ€™ Poster with Photoshop

Create a Texture Based Vintage TV Poster in Photoshop

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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50 Breathtaking CG Images

50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects

50 Inspiring Abstract Illustrations in Web Design

100 inspiring character designs

18 Fresh Font Designs

40 of the Best Websites of Non-Profit Organizations

Vector Backgrounds in Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

45 Fabulous Logo Designs

60+ Really awesome Typography Showcases

74 Fresh Examples Of Beautiful Single Page Website Designs

50 Beautiful Hand-Drawn Web DesignÂ

100 Creative Twitter Backgrounds Featuring Illustration

25+ Examples of Effective Glowing Effect in Web Design

13 Beautiful Graffiti and Street Art for you inspiration

43 Spectacular Examples of Fractal Art

12 Water Inspired Web Designs

20+ Excellent Free Character Illustration Wallpapers

Creating a tri-fold brochure plus 15 amazing examples

25+ Examples of Inspirational Text Art

40 Examples of Incredible Photo Manipulation

21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations

23 Flourish Designs

Javascript and Ajax

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55 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks

Playing with jQuery Color Plugin and Color AnimationÂ

25 Useful MooTools Tutorials

15 Best Techniques For Implementing Autosuggest With AJAX

10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance

xHTML and CSS
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24 CSS (in some cases with jQuery) Navigation and Menu Tutorials

7 New Essential CSS 3 Techniques Revealed

15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS

Resources
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Watercolor Icon Pack

50+ New and Beautiful Free Wordpress Themes

30+ Useful Photoshop Custom Shapes Set

15 Most Useful & Free Collection Of Ready-To-Use Design Freebies

Ultimate List of 32 Font And Typography Tools

25+ Useful Wordpress Themes with Ads Ready

Hibiscus flowers – vector freebies

100 New and Beautiful Seamless Patterns

35 Excellent Websites for Downloading Free CSS TemplateÂ

20+ Beautiful Free Serif Fonts

30+ High Quality Metallic Texture, Pattern, Brushes and Photoshop Tutorials

Miscellaneous Articles
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12 Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo

20+ WordPress Recipes (Codes)

Ten Rock Solid Free Platforms To Start Your Successful Website

40 Must Have Cheat Sheets for effective Web Designers

20 Tools to Make the Life of a Web Developer Easier

10 Ways To Make Your Site Accessible Using Web Standards

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9 Online Free And Useful Tools That Can Help Designers A Lot

AN Jay — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:32:11 +0000

We are always in the search for useful stuffs on the internet that are freely available for everyone and specially for designers who spend their whole day in to design or create something creative. We aimed to help you and keep you updated with all the new online tools that you probably would love to use. In past, we have listed various free web apps that are really useful for any one of you and specially for designers. Today, we are listing 9 Online Free And Useful Tools That Can Help Designers A Lot that are not only for designers and every one of you will probably love to use any or all of them. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. This post contains a diversified collection of free web apps and we tried to make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features and functionality. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.

You are welcome if you know and want to share more free web apps that are really simple but useful specially for designers and our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

Browsershots

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.

WhatTheFont

For using WhatTheFont font recognition system, Just upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in their database.
Wix

With Wix you can create a free website or make free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.

DimDim

DimDim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees.

FresBooks

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.

Zapproved

Zapproved is a lightweight Web tool that makes group decision-making faster, easier and more accountable. It is a unique solution that introduces peer-to-peer and organizational techniques to improve the process of building consensus.

File Dropper

FileDropper’s beauty is in its simplicity. It has one click file hosting where you simply click on the upload button and select your file. After the file is uploaded you are taken to the page where the file is hosted. If the file is an image, it shows the image directly on the page for easier sharing. Upload size is an impressive 5 GB.

W3Counter

W3Counter is your free, hosted website analytics solution for answering the key questions about your website: who’s your audience, how they find your site, and what interests them.

formatpixel

Create your own online magazines, fanzines, brochures, catalogs, portfolios and more. Using the formatpixel online editor you too can design page based projects, layout text, upload your own images, add interactivity and customise their appearance.

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45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection To Discover The Best Of The Web In January

AN Jay — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:15:12 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we will try to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of January which our readers/viewers may like.Â Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

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Building a jQuery-Powered Tag-Cloud

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xHTML and CSS
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20 Useful Resources for Learning about CSS3

CSS Code Snippets : 15 Wicked Tricks

35 Free High-Quality E-Commerce Templates

45+ Free Design Template And PSD Files

30 Useful Open Source Apps for Web Designers

38 Free Elegant XHTML/CSS Website TemplatesÂ

15+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps For Freelance Web Designers

8 Free Design Platforms To Build Your Own Site

27 Indespensible Resources for Graphic Designers

19 Promising PHP Template Engines

21 Must Have Web Apps for Designers and Developers

30 Free, Amazing and Versatile Wordpress 2.7 Themes

26 Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers

The Ultimate Collection Of Free Vector Packs

15+ Tips to Speed Up Your Website, and Optimize Your Code!

6 Ways To Kickstart Your Customer Service

10 Steps To Protect The Admin Area In WordPress

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37 Ultimate Resources And Inspirational Pieces For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In December

AN Jay — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:53:54 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we make a list of 37 incredible resources and inspirational pieces for designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we will try to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of December which our readers/viewers may like.Â Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

How to Digitally Illustrate a Camera with Light Streaks

50 Excellent Digital Photography Photoshop Tutorials

28 Everlasting photoshop tutorials

40 Tutorials for Working with Shapes in Illustrator

25 Tutorials for Advanced Freelance Web Designers

Online portfolios that speak for themselves

24 Stunning and Very Creative Digital Art

Web Design Trends: Call To Action Buttons

15 Incredible WordPress Theme Customizations

22 Most Striking New Year Wallpapers for you Desktop

40+ Inspirational Non-Profit Website Designs

48 Mind-blowing Examples of Photo Manipulation Art

40 Excellent Blog Designs

The Beauty Of Street Photography

25 Beautifully Dark Websites

Sensational List Of 25 The Best Design Worldwide Forums

100 Websites With Outstanding Artistic Design

26 Creative Texture Arts

25 Stylish Website Footer Designs

60 Really Cool and Creative Error 404 PagesÂ

Web Design Trends: Sunbursts and Sun Rays

Javascript and Ajax

Converting a Design From PSD to HTML

20 Excellent Websites for Learning Ajax

50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools

Valid (X)HTML – Is it important?

20 Ultimate CSS Tutorials That Will Help You Master CSS

15 Useful Tools for WordPress Bloggers

Eight Useful iPhone Applications For The Web Designers

The Ultimate Collection Of Photoshop Custom Shapes

The Ultimate List of The Best Logo Design Resources

55 Great Websites To Download Free Sound EffectsÂ

Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme & Admin Area: Tips and Tricks

30 Awesome New Photoshop Brushes Designers Would Love to Use

100 Free High-Quality XHTML/CSS Templates

9 Information Design Tips to Make You a Better Web Designer

10 Ways to Cut Down Web Development Time

10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Design

Share your knowledge, Ideas, Recommendations, And Much More To Make a Difference With Squidoo

AN Jay — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:31:41 +0000

Squidoo is a hand-built collection of half a million pages built by people just like you. Squidoo is about finding people when you care what they know instead of who they know.

You can create your own page in 60 seconds. Its the world’s easiest way to make a page online. You can share your interests, get found, and even earn money with this and that money will be for you or for charity. And best of all its absolutely free.

And Squidoo raises big money for charity every single day by donating money from the ads and links you see on every page. Squidoo has more than 700,000 hand built pages.

13 Most Essential Open Source Apps That You Probably Like To Say Thank You

AN Jay — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:25:34 +0000

Today, we are going to say big Thank You to everyone who supports us, appreciate us, love us and always be there for us when we need them. So, how can we forget those that makes our online life easier and did the tremendous work for us. They delivered us those applications/software that help us to get the routine work done for our daily use. There are many that we can not count and list exactly but we are trying to make a list of 13 Most Essential Open Source Apps That You Probably Like To Say Thank You. And Yes! Happy Thanksgiving…

You are welcome to share if you want to say Thank You to more Open-Source Applications that made your life easier. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed.

Downloadable Web-Based Applications

WordPress As An Open Source Fastest Growing And Damanding Blogging System

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

phpBB As The Most Widely Used Open Source Forum Solution

Drupal As An Powerful And Open Source Content Management Platform

Mindquarry DO As A Free And Open Source Application for Team Collaboration

Mindquarry DO is an Open Source collaborative software platform for file sharing, task management, team collaboration and Wiki editing that is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Mindquarry runs as a web application with an optional desktop client for Windows, Linux and Mac OS that allows for desktop synchronization and offline work. As a result, you are able to connect with team members and share information from wherever you are, effectively improving team-work and increasing productivity within your team.

PrestaShop As An Open Source Professional e-Commerce Shopping Cart Software

The PrestaShop e-Commerce Solution was built to take advantage of essential Web 2.0 innovations such as dynamic AJAX-powered features and next-generation ergonomy. PrestaShop guides users through your product catalog intelligently and effortlessly, turning intrigued visitors into paying customers.

jobberBase As The Simple, Free And Open Source Job Board Software

jobberBase is a great open source job board software for anyone. You can get online your job posting website with jobberBase. It’s easy to install and configure to start your job board.

ModSecurity As An Open Source Web Application Firewall

ModSecurity is a web application firewall that can work either embedded or as a reverse proxy. It provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis. It is also an open source project that aims to make the web application firewall technology available to everyone.

Downloadable Desktop Applications

OpenOffice As The Free and Open Office Productivity Suite

Mozilla Firefox As An Open Source Faster, Safer And Smarter Web Browser

ClamWin As An Open Source Antivirus program for Microsoft Platform

ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It has High detection rates for viruses and spyware, Scanning Scheduler, Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database etc

Gimp As An Image Manipulation Program

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Ubuntu As A Community Developed, Linux-Based Operating System

Wine As An Open Source Virtual PC