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CS-Cart, PHP Shopping Cart Software & Ecommerce Solutions For Your Site
CS-Cart is an affordable PHP shopping cart software (based on MySQL database technology) which comes with an open source code. Its optimized programming code allows to achieve the best performance and build high-capacity online stores that can easily handle over 100,000 products.
As a software manufacturer, the company responsible for it also provides a whole set of accompanying services such as technical support, installation, web design and custom programming. Extensive information resources are provided via software manual, comprehensive knowledge base and active community forums.
Code and expandability
CS-Cart is based on modular architecture and template-driven design. The architecture lets users customize the online store without interference with the existing source code. The company enhances the set of free built-in skins and add-ons with each new release and does it regularly.
Feature highlights
CS-Cart takes into account the latest ecommerce developments, including one-page checkout, AJAX-based web interface, block manager, advanced order management tool, and also drop-shipping, product filters, gift certificates, electronic products and cross-selling. The software provides flexible SEO, shipping and tax configuration tools along with well-developed CMS features.
Built-in support for a majority of popular payment systems and shipping providers such as Google Checkout, PayPal, 2Checkout, Authorize.Net, UPS, USPS and many others is available by default. Over 30 free design templates are also included with the software.
Partnership opportunities
For web studios, Internet companies, freelance designers and web developers CS-Cart offers an attractive reseller program where software licenses are available with significant discounts. The company also encourages all third parties who provide ecommerce-related solutions to develop mutual partnership in any forms.
Try it for free!
CS-Cart has a two-month trial period during which it can be used with no restrictions or limitations, so that if you want to see how it fares you can do it personally by following the provided link and getting it at no cost.
Upload And Share Multiple Images With Pict
With some of the other free image hosting services on the Internet, you can get bombarded with all sorts of ad banners and other clutter. Further still, most of these require you to create some sort of user account. That is not the case with Pict. The homepage is your album, giving you the ability to quickly and easily upload pictures on the fly. It’s also free of ad banners.
How It Works
By clicking on any of the boxes within the Pict homepage grid, an upload dialog will pop up. While it may seem like you can only upload one image at a time, this picture hosting service actually lets you enjoy multiple simultaneous uploads.
Because there is no need to register for an account with Pict, you may be wondering how you would go about accessing your own uploads after you leave the site. Near the bottom of the main page is the URL to your current album. That URL will direct you to the gallery and if the session cookies are still there, you can click on the upload link to add more pictures.
What if you’re on a public computer or you cleared out your cache? After you complete each uploading session, I suggest you use the “save to email†feature near the top of the page. This will send you an email message with a specialized link, directing you back to your current album and giving you the ability to add more pictures.
A very handy feature that you’ll find with Pict is that every picture uploaded will automatically be resized and saved. In addition to the original size, you will also have access to two options under “mini size†and two more under “medium size.†With the former, the typical image widths are 320px and 640px. For the latter, the typical image widths are 800px and 1024px.
In order to access the different sizes for your images, you first click on the “share†link that pops up when you hover over a picture. From there, switch to advanced mode. There will be code provided for the URL, discussion boards, basic HTML, and a direct link.
When sharing a picture with a friend, they will see the available sizes directly below the image itself. For example, check out the page with the BTR screenshot. I should note that Pict supports JPG, PNG, and GIF formats with files as large as 3.5MB each.
Pict Tools
Whether you’re troubleshooting with a friend or you just want to share something on Twitter, it can be a little bit of an effort to take a screenshot, save the image, and then upload it to an image sharing service. Pict takes care of this scenario as well with its Pict tools:
Pict FireFox Addâ€on: This adds a widget to your FireFox toolbar from which you can save a screenshot with a single step. This addâ€on also lets you upload images from your computer.
Pict Uploader: This simple windows application allows to upload, manage and share your images and screenshots with one click.
More Features Coming Soon
Pict Team is about to launch new version of their image hosting. The new Pict will have free registration, albums, updated FireFox plugin and some other cool features.
Get Discovered and Make Money Online With BloggersBase
What is it?
BloggersBase is a content discovery platform for both bloggers and readers, in the form of an online citizen-journalism magazine.
How does it work?
Each topic on BloggersBase is a multi-authored blog based on constant competition. Registering is FREE and allows you to compete, giving you a chance to get discovered and win money prizes.
What’s in it for me?
As a blogger, writer and journalist:
- Easily submit any content of your choice – create new posts, take ones you’ve already published elsewhere, or redirect an RSS feed from your personal blog.
- Get instant exposure to targeted readers, and drive more traffic to your own blog.
- Monetize on your talent – BloggersBase awards each week $500 worth of prizes.
As a reader and consumer of UGC:
- Get quality content that’s right for you on the topic of your choice – read just one blog on your topic of interest, co-authored by top bloggers.
- If you want – reign supreme! Rate content submitted by bloggers on everything from professionalism through presentation to value. The algorithms at BloggersBase measure your expertise – the more accurately you rate, the higher your influence becomes in deciding which content makes it to the top!
Tell me more – why BloggersBase, what’s the pain?
There’s an overflow of user generated content on the Web – It is becoming harder and harder to sift through the vast amount of user-generated online content to find quality material. Moreover, if you’re an emerging blogger, this clutter also prevents you from getting discovered and reaching your audience.
Ok, so what’s your solution?
A competition-based discovery platform that rewards talented bloggers and brings readers professional, relevant and quality content on the Web, personalized according to their social connections and preferences.
Walk me through it.
As a blogger, not only can you take advantage of the unique opportunity to reach a targeted reader base instantly and receive ratings and critique from your readers, you can monetize on your talent as well in weekly competitions. At the end of each week the most acclaimed bloggers in each category earn the honor of co-authoring the main (surface) blog for their topic, resulting in respect and exposure, as well as cash and special prizes.
To do that, you must first register for free and submit a contender post to the blog of your choice. We call such contender posts “Nuggets” and in fact they are submitted under the surface, in the blog’s “Goldmine”. The Goldmine and Nuggets are still visible and accessible to all our users, which read, watch and rate your posts. At the end of each week, the most highly rated Nuggets promote their bloggers to the high visible surface. Now you have the chance to publish as many posts as you like and get a lot of exposure, as well as get a chance to win money prizes and continue co-authoring the surface blog. The top blogger on the surface blog wins $40, while the runner up gets $10 each week. However, if you are among the lower rated bloggers, you might have to return to the Goldmine and compete again for your place in the spotlight.
What else are you offering?
If you refer other quality bloggers to BloggersBase, you can increase your profit further when they are awarded prizes as well. Invite your friends to join by sending them a special invitation email, or by placing our banners on your site and we’ll remember you helped us grow: Each time one of “your” bloggers wins a prize, you’ll get the same prize too! Normally this will hold for up to 3 wins per blogger, but as a special promotion – sign up now and get up to 10 wins per blogger your refer!
There’s also much more – we have a lively community, which is easily accessible and allows better interaction among bloggers and readers. You can customize it, favoring some of the bloggers more than others as well as respecting the opinions of our raters. In the near future you’ll be able to use our personalization options to view BloggersBase in a unique manner for you, based on your preferences and community.
Hello? Is anybody still here? Well, go ahead – and tell them we sent you!
Free Web App “Zapproved” Makes Decisions Faster and Easier For Businesses
SmashingApps first noticed Zapproved last September in its list of the “17 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Love to Use!†when it was still in beta. Last month the site officially launched with more features and people in a wide range of companies are already using the system.
Zapproved is the first web-based tool to manage business approvals and decision making. It offers companies a way to instantly improve accountability and transparency in corporate decision-making.
How It Works
Zapproved’s simplicity is the key to its success because it is designed for instant adoption within businesses. To get started, click on the “Create Proposal†button and screen opens that looks similar to an email. Enter the recipients’ email addresses, set a due date and priority, type a message, add an attachment and hit “Sendâ€.
The recipients will each receive an email that is formatted to indicate that their action is required. Within the body of the email, there are embedded HTML buttons for “Approve†or “Deny.â€Â The person selects their option, confirms their decision in a browser and adds any comments and that’s it.
Everyone can see what others have decided and any comments that they may have added. If there is a laggard in the group, it becomes apparent and that person will get reminders to submit a reply.
What Makes Zapproved Better
In today’s companies, almost every decision is being made through emails. This is tremendously inefficient and results in dozens of messages and the discussion is muddled through a chain of replies and cc’s. In the end, it is difficult to determine if and when consensus is achieved and no record of the decision is made.
Zapproved keeps the decision-making “conversation†in a single place, making it easier to track each approval and eliminating the confusing web of inconclusive messages that often results from trying to make decisions solely via email. Zapproved also works securely across firewalls, so it can be used with customers, vendors, or anyone within another company.
Zapproved has been adopted by many businesses as an easy-to-use tool for managing approvals and business processes. Busy executives are finding it useful for handling dozens of in-bound requests as well as administrators and consultants who want to stay on top of numerous tasks when collaborating with colleagues. (See examples of how others are using Zapproved at www.zapproved.com/CaseStudies.)
Zapproved Premium Adds More Benefits
With the official launch, Zapproved added a new premium level service that offers subscribers the ability to add their own corporate logo to proposals as well as extended storage and larger attachment size. The upgraded service will help power users more fully incorporate Zapproved into their daily workflow and help build branding through the system.
To sign up, visit www.zapproved.com.
Dimdim Exits Beta, Releases Source Code, Launches SynchroLive
Firm simultaneously releases full source code; delivers on promise to enable the world’s least expensive and easiest web conferences
Dimdim, the world’s open source web conferencing company, today launched its new Dimdim 4.5 edition and simultaneously released the complete source code to the open source community. Â With this release, Dimdim officially exits its beta phase while introducing significant new customer-requested features designed to enable businesses, organizations and consumers to cut the costs of their expensive legacy conferencing products while enjoying improved performance, openness and ease of use.
“Especially in this current economic climate, there is no justification for proprietary, closed, or support-heavy technology that costs you in multiple ways,†said Prakash Khot, co-founder and CTO of Dimdim. “With our new Dimdim 4.5, there now exists a solution that enables everybody to communicate online in the most efficient, synchronized and cost-effective way ever possible. Dimdim simply removes the need for needless travel, complicated web conferencing and unnecessary downloads.â€
Today, Dimdim also introduced the new SynchroLive™ Communication Platform that automatically scales its performance to ensure all live communications are synchronized; whether sharing the desktop, webcam, PowerPoint, whiteboard or web pages. SynchroLive ensures superior performance, security, and always-on reliability, enabling a whole host of collaborative activities that have never been possible before. SynchroLive Co-Browsing is one example of this innovation at work: it is now easy to share your web browsing experience with multiple people. Simply start a Dimdim room and send anyone your room’s URL. Now as you scroll through any web page SynchroLive lets your guests see what you see as you navigate, scroll and click through web pages at will. For example, a meeting host can view a YouTube video and every attendee will immediately see this video play in their browser. Simultaneously attendees can chat, talk, and see the presenter live using just their browser.
Dimdim Pro 4.5 starts at only $99 per year for an unlimited number of meetings and requires absolutely no software download. It takes only one click to start or join a web conference, which can also be recorded and shared with others as a URL or an embeddable code which can viewed via any blog or website. Dimdim also offers a free hosted service for meetings with 20 or fewer people and provides an both onsite and hosted enterprise-class products which meet the needs of very large organizations. Dimdim is currently in use by more than a million people worldwide.
Synchronized with the release of Dimdim 4.5 is the launch of “Libertyâ€, the latest Open Source Community Edition based on the new commercial hosted version. To commemorate its launch, Dimdim has released Liberty’s complete source code under a GPL3 license with no limit to the number of attendees, meetings or mashups that can be created. To ensure setup is as easy as possible, Liberty is also available as a downloadable VMWare Virtual Appliance.
Dimdim’s commitment to open source software development is supported by integrations with industry-leaders:
• Zimbra: Dimdim now offers a free zimlet for Zimbra’s open source email system;
• Moodle: Dimdim is integrated with version 1.9 of Moodle’s Course Management System;
• SugarCRM: Dimdim is integrated with the leading open source customer relationship management system,
• Claroline: Dimdim is embedded within with the collaborative learning environment.
About Dimdim
Dimdim – the world’s easiest web conference – empowers anyone to deliver synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and web pages and share their voice and video over the Internet – with no download required. Dimdim provides multiple free, commercial and open source versions capable of supporting thousands of attendees per meeting and is used by millions worldwide.  Use Dimdim to reduce the cost of your existing web conferencing bills, save time, travel and trouble while protecting the planet from harmful carbon emissions.  Dimdim is backed by the original investors in Skype, Hotmail, and MySQL and is based in Boston, Mass., with offices in New Hampshire, Canada and India.
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Adobe Photoshop Tutorials, Design Tips, Photo Effects, Icon Creation, Special Effects, Textures and Patterns and Much More At PSDTOP
Finding a decent Photoshop resources website is quite a difficult task considering the large number of “great Photoshop websites” flooding the Internet now. PSD Top is one of the best websites dedicated to Photoshop you can find.
The website is structured in 3 main parts :
- the tutorials section
- the webtips section, including loads of freebies, brushes, textures, actions & more
- the PSD Top Blog which includes a comprehensive coverage of the art of graphic design, photo effects, drawing, animation, effects, web and interactive design.
The tutorials section is a collection of the best tutorials you can find on the web. It’s organized in 15 subcategories and it includes quite a few video tutorials. Each tutorial has both a small image and a large preview of the result of the tutorial. You can also rate, save and share each tutorial.
The webtips section includes a selection of quality textures, brushes, actions, fonts, freebies, inspiration, wallpapers and photography resources. Each resource has a large preview so you can see exactly what’s it about before downloading it. The updating process is quite amazing. Basically both sections (Tutorials and Webtips) are updated daily.
Another thing you notice about PSD Top is the dynamic search with search tips. The search is based on AJAX and it’s completely dynamic. When you start typing it will give you possible search queries based on the existing content of the website.
The blog section focuses on providing quality list articles and comprehensive Photoshop tutorials.
Overall PSD Top is must in every Photoshop enthusiast’s bookmark list.
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SEO Company iNetZeal.com Offering Re-Designed SEO Packages To Their Clients for Better ROI!
There are many SEO companies out there today, however, not all SEO companies are created equal. When spending your hard-earned money on your website and business you want to ensure that the SEO Company you choose has the knowledge, expertise, and are up to date on all the SEO techniques. Inetzeal.com has all this and more. Inetzeal.com has been in the SEO business for three years now with several more years of internet browsing and learning on their own through various situations.
The staff at Inetzeal understands the importance of search engine optimization and all other aspects of optimizing your website not only for visitors, but also for search engines. Creating a website with all the latest cool on-page SEO tactics is not enough in today’s internet world to you seen by the masses. There are several things you must do in order to get in the search engines where the masses can find your website. This is exactly what Inetzeal does!
Inetzeal.com recently updated their SEO Packages to provide much more ROI to clients with highly effective SEO tactics included. They offer unique packages as a part of their SEO Services that are sure to help you succeed. Their link popularity service includes sureshot ways like confirmed directory links, article marketing that is relevant to your website, manual submission, professional press release writing, submission of the press release to Do-Follow PR sites, deep link directory submission, niche directory submissions, paid directory submissions and link baiting along with detailed SEO reports.
Each one of these services is included in three packages offering you the ability to choose which one will fit your budget or your goals for your website. Choosing a SEO company that has a proven record of accomplishment with over 1,000 satisfied customers, are affordable, and provide you with the best SEO techniques in the market today is the only way to succeed online. This is one SEO company that has proven their ability with the many testimonials for service that are included on their website.
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Design Jobs On The Wall
Design Jobs on the Wall is a simple job board managed by Web Designer Wall where you can find and post design jobs. The pricing for posting a full-time job is only $75 and $50 for freelance jobs. Don’t miss out the opening special; enter the coupon code ‘promo’ to receive 50% off the first job listing. When you post a job opening, it will be instantly featured on Web Designer Wall as well as other design related websites (Best Web Gallery and N.Design Studio).
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Build User-Powered Review Sites With WordPress
The new WP Review Site plugin for WordPress adds Amazon-style user-reviews and star ratings to any blog.
Features include:
- Add star ratings to your comment forms without any coding
- Display average ratings on any post or page
- Sort your posts by weighted average rating instead of date
- Comes with a complete WordPress theme designed for review sites
- Comes with an affiliate link manager plugin that turns keywords into affiliate links automatically
See the full feature list, documentation and pricing at WP Review Site.
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Come Up With A Kicking Slogan For Templates.com And Win $100 In Cash And Prizes!
The idea is simple – think up the slogan for our site, leave a message in comments to this blog post on Blog.Templates.com, and you’ll stand to win $100 in cash or credits from Templates.com! The contest starts on July 15th 2008, and the results will be announced at the beginning of August. Each participant of this contest who has an account on Templates.com will get 4 credits, so everyone will win! (You can register first before joining the contest to avail 4 credits).
What do we do at Templates.com? We create 3D Clip Art, 3D Models, Illustrations, Icons, Website Templates, Flash Templates, and we love what we do. So, we’ve thought it would be great to involve our customers, friends and guests who no doubt are creative people into the process of slogan creation.
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Prizes
1st place: $100 in cash
2nd place: 100 credits from Templates.com which can be used to purchase our products
3rd place: 50 credits from Templates.com which can be used to purchase our products
So what are you waiting for? Go straight to Templates.com website, and who knows, perhaps, the first idea that will come into your mind will be chosen the winner!
Good luck everyone!
Note:
- At the beginning of August we’ll announce the winners, and also form the list with all participants who leave their variants of slogan to this blog post. That is why in the comments form please be sure to fill in the e-mail address you’ve used to register your
account on Templates.com – it will save your time.
- You will get 4 credits for entering the contest and thinking up at least one slogan. You won’t get another 4 credits for one more slogan.
- Please leave your active e-mail address to contact you easily in case you win.
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