Archive for January, 2010

11 Web designing Tools & Resources to emproves your designing skills

January 20th, 2010

Now days there are tons of tools and resources are avail on internet for Web designers. Most of the tools and resources are confusing and hard to use.

Photoshop – Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop is an image editing program developed and published by Adobe. It is useful for web designers for improving their work efficiency. It has some unique features like layers with masks, color spaces, ICC profiles, transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colors, clipping paths, and duotone settings. You can also apply many color contrast and formats.

Dream weaver – Dream weaver is a web development tool and HTML Editor originally developed by Macromedia and now owned by Adobe. It is ideal for web designers. It supports many web technologies like PHP, Cold Fusion, CSS, Java Script and ASP.NET.

Flash – Flash is widely used popular method for adding animation and advertisement to web pages or websites. Using Flash Animation you can also appeal your message to lay man. It helps to improve visibility of your web page or website.

Illustrator – Adobe Illustrator is vector graphic editor. It has been developed and marketed by Adobe. It has certain features which are useful to web designers for like Text Settings, Additional Fonts, Bi-directional Text flow, Dictionary and Hyphenation Module and Import/Export Options for ME characters.

XHTML – XHTML stats for Extended Hyper Text Markup Language.  It is the extended version of HTML and it also works with Html and xml syntax. XHTML also provides extended support from other XML- based languages.

Firebug – Firebug is a Firefox add on and which is integrated with Firefox.  With the help of Firebug You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web Page.

CSS Edit – CSS Edit is Powerful style sheet editor. It has wide range of features such as previewing anything faster.

Fireworks – Fireworks is a Vector Graphic and bitmap editor tool. It has some extended functionality such as Hierarchical Layers, Smart Guides, Image Optimization, 9 Slice scaling and States.

Yslow for Firebug – Yslow is Firefox add-on integrated with FireBug Web Development tool.  It analyzed current stats of web page according to that it offers suggestion for improving web page’s performance and also provides performance analysis.

Browser Shots – Browser Shot is free open source online service which enables to generate screenshots of your web page or website in different browsers. It’s useful for checking cross browser capability.

ColorZilla – ColorZila is Firefox add-on that helps in analyzing Webpage DOM’s Color and creates corresponding palette. It also supports in different languages like Indonesian, Korean and Norwegian.

Hope this article will help you to enhance designing skills and efficiency with this web designing tools and resources.

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13 WordPress Plug-in & Hacks for powering your Blogging Experience

January 6th, 2010

In my blog post I’ve written on Enhance your blogging skills with WordPress Plug-ins. Today I’m going to explain about advance hacks & wordpress plug-in for powering your blogging.

We all know that WordPress is best CMS for blogging, if you have bit technical skills to tweaked with coding & R& D for trying new plug-ins, then blog post is must read for you. Let’s start with WordPress Plug-in & Hacks:

Wordbook – WordBook is provides you to facility of posting your blog posts in to your Face Book Wall. These blog posts will be showing on Boxes tab of your recent blog post.

Broken Link Checker – This plug-in let you know broking links of your blog. You can monitor links in your blog post, pages and other custom fields. It also notifies redirected links.

Link to This Page – Link to This Page allows you to handy way to obtain a link to your page or blog post from their web site.

WP Wall – This plug-in appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add quick comment about your blog and it will appear in side bar immediately, with out reloading the page.

PixoPoint Menu Plugin – Pix Point Menu Plug-in enhance your navigation control with regular or dropdown menu. It’s easy to modifying design & animated drop down menus and you can use it Up to two menus.

Highlight Search Terms – This plug-in Highlights search terms using jQuery within WordPress generated search results. This is compatible up to wordpress 2.7.1

Platinum SEO Pack – Platinum SEO Pack is pretty much similar as All in One SEO. It has also some additional functionality like you can add other Meta tags such as robots, index, follow or no follow. It also helps you to avoid duplicate content issues.

SEO Slugs – SEO Slugs Wordpress plug-in eliminates stop words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve search engine optimization.

Extended Options – This plug-in can manage some certain Meta data like Relationship Meta links, Favicon Meta links, OpenID Meta links MicroID Meta links and Protocol discovery Meta links.

After the Deadline – This plug-in helps you to write better and spend less time on editing. You can use this plug-in for checking spelling, style, and grammar.

Automatically insert content after each post – This blog post helps you to minimize your efforts on content which you’re mentioning after each post. This hack will help you to insert automatically content after blog post.

Automatically insert author bio on each post – With the help of this WordPress hack you can add author bio of your blog on each blog post.

Compress WordPress output and speed your blog’s load speed – This blog post helps you to compress your WordPress blog and speed up your blog load post. Now a day faster loading website is having more chances to rank well as per Google’s latest algorithm update.

Hope this WordPress Plug-in & Hacks will helps you to take your wordpress blog at advance level as you want. If you have some other plug-in & Hacks of WordPress then you can share here.

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