Posted inBlogging 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.
Designing A Photographer’s Portfolio: Trends And Inspirational Examples
Posted inBest 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.antti-viitala
5 Must-Have Firefox Extensions For Bloggers
Posted inBlogging Browsers

5 Must-Have Firefox Extensions For Bloggers

Do you own a website or blog? Does your job involve search engine optimization of any sort? If you answered yes, then Firefox should be your default internet browser. I say this because of Firefox’s amazing array of add-ons to make life easier for bloggers and webmasters.If you need some convincing, then read on my gathered list of 5 add-ons which will greatly help you do your job once you switch over to Firefox. If Firefox is already your default browser of choice, then just read each entry carefully and see how each add-on can enhance Firefox for your web tasks.maps
7 Great Chrome Extensions To Make Your Life Easier
Posted inBest of the Web Browsers

7 Great Chrome Extensions To Make Your Life Easier

You might have been using Chrome for a quite some time now but there is a good chance you are not taking its full advantage. Chrome’s maximum potential lies in the power of its extensions. Below I have gathered 7 Chrome extensions that will enable you all to realize Chrome’s full potential. You will not find these extensions in similar lists on other websites; I hope you find them to be useful to your computer usage.Give the list a thorough reading, try out any extension you are interested in, and let me know in the comments how they worked out for you.toomanytabs
Posted inLifestyle Spotlight Rss/feeds Tools

Create A News Aggregation Website With PHP RSS Reader

Imagine if there was a way to provide new, relevant content from thousands of different sources every minute, automatically on your website. How much more eager would a user be to come back for more? This is exactly why PHP RSS Reader was created, to give you the opportunity to automatically provide your users with an incredible amount of information in a compelling, simplistic format and provide this new, relevant content every single minute!PHP RSS Reader is a full blown news aggregation script programmed in PHP that allows you to provide your users with fresh content 24/7.https://www.phprssreader.com/images/php-rss-reader.jpg
Posted inCodes and Scripts color Schemes Freebies

Get Noticed And Grow Your Business With MyTemplateBox

The Internet is filled with useful resources for business owners and especially for web designers and developers. From free icon sets to CSS templates, and from web design inspiration to stock images, websites like these have everything one may need. There are a number of tools, useful pieces of advice, and free stock resources available for anyone to grow their business or grow as a web designer.In this post we're going to look over one website in particular that is dedicated to providing a variety of free resources to its users, completely free of charge.We'll also look into how MyTemplateBox, and other websites like it, can help get you become recognized in the design world and find more work.MyTemplateBox
Posted inFonts Lifestyle Spotlight

Photofont WebReady: A Revolutionary Font Converter

Photofont WebReady is a revolutionary technology for website typography. Fontlab’s Photofont WebReady can be called a font converter meant for Windows and Mac OS X systems, which can help you customize the fonts on a web page. Since the main technology lies in the conversion of texts into Flash objects, this technology can be best applied to comparatively shorter texts. Like headlines, just as has been done with the title heading above. Be it your blog or a web site, you can enhance the web pages with your own custom fonts of your choice.
Now Use ClickMeter For Real-Time Click Tracking Of Your Link
Posted inCharts Client Softwares Tools

Now Use ClickMeter For Real-Time Click Tracking Of Your Link

ClickMeter is an essential tool to track results from the small blog to a full-fledged marketing campaign. This is versatile, scalable and easy to use tool to track how many clicks you have got on your external links. You can enjoy reliable real-time statistics over suspect click-fraud activity: filter per campaign; customize fraud-detection parameters and compare results for multiple campaigns in a single chart. The best about this tool that it has absolutely FREE plan with huge list of amazing features.Clickmeter-Dashboard
KENTICO CMS For ASP.NET: An All-In-One Solution For Your Web Site And Now With Free Editon Too
Posted inBusiness content management system Lifestyle Spotlight

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

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!image001
Posted inAjax Animation Best of the Web

60+ Ultimate Resources Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In November

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 60+ Ultimate Resources Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In September
Posted inAjax Backgrounds Best of the Web

65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In September

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 65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.20 Amazing Examples of Vector Artwork
Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin For WordPress
Posted inWordpress

Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin For WordPress

Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for Wordpress is a plugin that allows you to mobilize your blog in minutes. Every single mobile device is detected and all aspects of your blog are tailored to the visiting handset. Sites aren't dumbed down to the lowest common denominator but instead use the features and functionality that advanced phones offer.Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPres
Now Create Websites From Photoshop To WordPress in 5 Minutes
Posted inClient Softwares CSS/Style Sheets Tools

Now Create Websites From Photoshop To WordPress in 5 Minutes

There are automatic translators from English into French, right? Why can’t there be software that translates the artistic language of effects, brushes and filters into HTML code? So forget the word “impossible” and here is the great tool for you. Divine, A free tool/plugin that creates websites from Photoshop to Wordpress promptly and you can use this absolutely free.Divine wordpress theme creator
Smashing Release : Grunge Style, A 3-Column Free WordPress Theme
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Smashing Release : Grunge Style, A 3-Column Free WordPress Theme

Today, we are releasing our very first wordpress theme Grunge Style, a free WordPress theme designed by Brian from TemplateLite for SmashingApps exclusive readers. The theme will be useful for personal and private blogs. We will appreciate you for your creative usage of this theme and would love to know about your experience with this. This theme will work best with WordPress 2.8+.Grunge Style Theme Screenshot 1
Posted inAdvertising

Thank You Our Valued Sponsors To Be With Us In The Month Of March

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 500k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thank You to our valued sponsors who help us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of March, 2009 as well.

This month, Our valued sponsors are:

25 Excellent And Useful Adobe AIR Tutorials & Resources
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25 Excellent And Useful Adobe AIR Tutorials & Resources

Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application. Anyone who realize the future of Adobe AIR really want to learn it. To see the magic of Adobe AIR, we must suggest you to check out this showcase applications on Adobe's website. Here is the list of 25 Excellent And Useful Adobe AIR Tutorials & Resources that includes some useful tutorials and few great applications that has been developed on Adobe AIR. We are hoping that you will learn further on Adobe AIR after reading out this post.Introduction to Adobe AirIntroduction to Adobe AirThis tutorial will introduce you to Adobe Air, a framework to build rich internet applications. This first introduction will show how to create a simple application using Html/Js technologies.
Thank You Our Valued Sponsors To Be With Us In The Month Of February
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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors To Be With Us In The Month Of February

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 500k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thank You to our valued sponsors who help us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of February, 2009 as well.

This month, Our valued sponsors are: