Best 10 Cheap Web Hosting Providers (According To WebHostingRating.com)

If you own a website and have your own domain name registered, chances are that you also have a hosting provider where you have uploaded all the files of your website. It’s very important on the part of bloggers or webmasters to choose a reputed hosting provider for their business.Using a good web hosting provider ensures that your website is running smoothly and do not face any down times or server side problems.

Buttons Icons Tools

10 Best Websites To Generate Buttons Online

Are you a developer looking for a great online tool to create buttons? If yes, then I have got a great list for you. Below you will find my collection of 10 best online button creators. Buttons are an important part of our website’s interface and these tools will help you create brilliant buttons.

Announcement contest

Congratulations To The Winners Of Monoslideshow (A Flash® Slideshow To View Your Images And Videos In A Web Page)

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which you could Take A Chance To Win Monoslideshow Giveaway (A Flash® Slideshow To View Your Images And Videos In A Web Page). We ran the MySql random query and selected these commenter to give them Monoslideshow.

Best of the Web Browsers Technology News

Top 20 Features Of Firefox 4 (Beta) That Make It Stand Out

The beta for Firefox version 4 was recently released and it has already created a buzz on the web. While many of its features will already demonstrated in its nightly builds, the beta more widely showcases these new features.Release notes for Firefox v4 outline all the features which web developers and ordinary internet users will find helpful. To know what exactly these features are, read on:

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of June

This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps' fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one of 600k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thanks to our valued sponsors who helped us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of June, 2010 as well.Our valued sponsors were:

Freebies

Monoslideshow Giveaway (A Flash® Slideshow To View Your Images And Videos In A Web Page)

Monoslideshow is running a contest, where winners will get 10 licenses (worth € 25 each). Well, you guys know what Monoslideshow is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.Monoslideshow is a Flash® slideshow to view your images and videos in a web page. It can be placed on every website, in whatever size you want and filled with whatever content you like. It's designed for maximum flexibility, whether you want to have a professional looking portfolio, or a simple image rotator on your website.

Business Tools Web Applications

Logo Snap: Online Logo Maker With Many Vector Shapes And Options

Hiring a professional designer to create your company’s logo can take a considerable toll on your wallet. This can be a problem especially if you are starting out with a site for the first time and do not have a big budget. All the designer does really is figure out what you want and build up a design accordingly from the ones already in his mind. Now what if you could do that yourself without having to pay anybody anything? Logo Snap makes that possible.

Image Tools

Filter Forge Expands Your PhotoShop Ninja Skills

As I’m sure you’ve already noticed, many of the most creative types both online and offline make extensive use of Adobe PhotoShop. It has become the de facto image editing software package for just about everyone, but it is still inherently limited in scope. That’s why there is so much interest in different add-ons and upgrades that are available for the popular photo editor.One such utility is Filter Forge. It is a plugin for Adobe PhotoShop that not only grants you access to a huge library of additional filters, but it also gives you the ability to build your own filters too. This opens up all sorts of creative possibilities that may not have otherwise been available to the regular PhotoShop user. Compatibility appears to be quite good too, supporting both current and legacy versions of Adobe PhotoShop.

Blogging Education and Learning Tips and Tricks

I’ve Got a Blog, Now What Do I Do? [Slideshow]

These days we all are noticing that thousands of new blogs are starting every day to get in the race of influential blog of the industry. But only few of them could survive and stay in the battlefield fighting with existing giants. Well, I know this is not possible to fight but yes they at least try to find their place in the market. Well, to be honest many of the blogs owners really dont know how to get the word out about them and inspire their first time visitors to come again to create a strong community.This slideshow consist worth-checking 50 slides which covers decision to start a blog to setting up and launching then content selection to excellent copyrighting. After this, using all the possible platforms to spread out the word about your blog like getting you active on social media e.g. twitter, digg, reddit, stumbleupon etc for getting massive feedback on your posts. In short, it has so many things that you can learn to enhance your blog's future and increase your reader base.

Lifestyle Spotlight Mobile Apps Web Applications

Handset Detection Optimizes The Mobile Web Experience

One of the fastest growing segments on the Internet today is the mobile web. More and more people are starting to surf through websites and download a myriad of content onto their cell phones, smartphones, and other mobile devices. Unfortunately, much of the Internet has been designed to be best enjoyed on a full-size computer. For designers and developers, there is an additional issue of addressing all kinds of different mobile devices with different levels of compatibility and different screen sizes.To help address this issue, Handset Detection offers an integrated solution that will direct visitors to the right place depending on their smartphone, cellular phone, or other mobile device of choice.

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Best of the Web Operating System

A Quick Look At What Google Chrome OS Can Do

Google is designing an open source operating system called Google Chrome OS. This OS is exclusively designed for web applications. So, if you spends most of your time on web/internet then this is going to be the fast, simple and more secure computing experience for you. This OS was announced on July 7, 2009 and it is expected to be released during second half of 2010.

Tools

Take Your Blog To The Top Of Search Results With SEO PowerSuite

You may have the greatest blog ever with mind-blowing design and captivating content, but if you just sit and wait for people to come and read it, chances are they won't. In today's world you need to get out there and promote your blog to get more eyeballs on your writing. One of the best ways to do it is by optimizing your blog for the search engines.If you take a look at the traffic sources of the top blogs in any niche you'll notice that a large chunk of their visitors come via search engines. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has become one of the most effective promotion tools in the blogger's arsenal. But when you blog regularly, reply to comments, and work hard to grow a community around your blog you may not have enough time to invest in SEO, and professional SEOs charge an arm and a leg. So how do you optimize your blog without stealing the time from blogging or forking out for SEO services?

Best of the Web Inspiration Web Design

Designing A Photographer’s Portfolio: Trends And Inspirational Examples

Modern photographers are not limited neither in technologies to use for creative process nor in tools to showcase and sell their works. With the tons of flash templates, Wordpress themes, jQuery components and even specific content management systems available on the Web, any photographer has a possibility to create a unique online portfolio and make it an effective promotion tool. Today we’d like to show you some well-designed photographer portfolio websites and discuss some of the design trends in this niche.

Browsers Demo Tour

What Internet Explorer 9 Can Do For You? Let’s Take A Test Drive To Find Out

Internet Explorer 9 will be the next version of Internet Explorer. The first public preview of IE9 was released on 16th of March, 2010 and as Microsoft promised the release of preview every 8th week, the 2nd preview of IE9 was released on 5th May, 2010. You can grab the new Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview by visiting the Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive website. General Manager for Internet Explorer, Dean Hachamovitch, has posted to the IEBlog about Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 2 you can get detailed idea of what it will be like, he discussed some test results with IE9 like with SunSpider JavaScript, Acid3, API Usage, and CSS3.

Blogging Lifestyle Spotlight

Techi.com – Fresh & Never Boring Tech Updates

With so many blogs around in the blogosphere, it becomes really difficult to get the right taste of news you want to read daily. If you love reading about computers, technology and geek stuff, you will find a lot of blogs which claim to serve interesting content and provide the information you are looking for.Let’s face it – not all blogs are fun to read because they focus on “what brings business” and not on what the reader actually wants to read. Techi.com is a technology blog, but with a different genre – you will love reading the posts without getting bored.

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Best of the Web CSS/Style Sheets Tools

10 Excellent Free Web Apps To Create CSS Forms and Grids

CSS forms and grids are something web developers and designers usually employ to create great webpages. If a developer starts writing the code for these forms, it becomes quite a difficult process. That is exactly why numerous online CSS form creators exist, to make the developer’s job easier.These online CSS creators range from free to paid websites. If one was to explore all the options, it would take a lot of time. Fortunately for my readers who design websites, I have gathered a list of 10 free CSS form creators that competently perform the task they are designed for.