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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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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Twitter is most common used social networking website in 2009. Most of the business owners and celebrities are using twitter now a day. Twitter is giving you power of communication in just using 140 characters.

Today I’m going to share most useful 10 twitter applications for monetizing your twitter profiles. With the help of this application you can boost productivity of twitter profile like automization of tweet, sending a automated DM to your new followers etc. Following are the Twitter applications:

Twitter Feed – Twitter Feed is specially designed for blogs whom are releasing their information via RSS or Atom Feed. You can also manage several Rss Feeds to automize your twitter account and it is also giving facility to post a new post at specified services at regular interval.

Tweet Deck - This desktop app helps you to update your twitter status and other social networking website like face book, My Space and Linked In. You can manage several twitter accounts easily.

Twilert – Twilert provides you with the email updates of tweets containing the product, service and about any keyword you like.

Social Oomph – Social Oomph is a twitter app which allows you to automization of your twitter account. It allows you to send a welcome DM to your new followers. You can also schedule a tweet and track your keywords with Social Oomph.

Twitter Holic – This app tell about your static like followers, friends and Top among any other twitter user in particular region.

Tweet this - This application gives you easy to share link option with your friends and followers. You can also find new followers.

Twit Pic – Twit Pic is easy to use application for sharing pictures to TwitPic from your phone, our API.

Twitter Grader – This application show power of your twitter profile. It looks on variety of factors like number of followers, power of those followers and the level to which you are engaging the community.

Mr. Tweet - This app shows best news and conversations of yours for engaging with the people.

Friend or Follow – This application allows you to find twitter name that is not following you back.

Hope these Twitter applications are help you for automization of your twitter account.

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There has been trend in search industry using WordPress as cms for either business blogging or personal blogging. WordPress is an open source blog publishing application and can be used for basic content management.

Wordpress Plug-ins is the extensions that add bonus function to the basic WordPress software. These are what turn the basic blog program into a full content management system. Using Wordpress plug-ins is the best way to customize wordpress blog as per needs.

I’m going to explain about most useful plug-in of wordpress through it you can do blogging easier.

All in One SEO Pack–  All in one seo pack is most common used plug in. It is automatically optimizes your titles for search engines and generates Meta tags automatically. All in One SEO Pack is helpful to avoid the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs.

Google Analytics for WordPress – Google Analytics for WordPress plug-in is simple to use and easy to implement your Google analytics code into wordpress blog.

This plug-in also tracks outbound links, blogroll links, downloads and Ad sense    Clicks. It is also works with Urchin that mean you, can also integrate your urchin code with this plug-in in wordpress blog.

Google XML Sitemaps - This Plug-in will build Sitemap.xml for better indexing of your blog. You can also customize Sitemap.xml as pet your needs i.e. include or exclusion of categories or tags.

It will automatically generate Sitemap.xml and update into Google webmaster tool, yahoo webmaster tool and Bing webmaster tool every tine ones you updated your blog with new blog post.

Secure WordPress - This plug-in little helps for securing blog by removing error information on login page. It also helps to stop hacking attempts on your blog by eliminating wp-version tag.

KB Robots.txt – This plug-in allows you to manage robots.txt within wordpress blog. This is ideally useful for WP-MU installations. This plug-in also has some limitations that it will not helpful for blogs that are hosted on sub directory like example.com/blog.

Wordpress Thread Comment – This enables users to reply on a exist comment, and the discussion will be displayed threaded or nested.

Thank Me Later – It is useful for saying thanks to your readers on their comment by sending email of Thanks.It will also helpful to you engage your visitor into your blog.

WP Greet Box – WP Greet Box shows different greeting messages to new visitors of your blog and it depends on referring url from which visitor came on your blog.

TweetMeme Retweet Button – This plug-in allows option to your blog for retweeting through visitors. It also provides numeric count of retweet for your story shared through twitter.

WPtouch iPhone Theme – WPtouch iPhone Theme makes your blog into an Iphone application styled theme with single click. With this plug-in wordpress blog become mobile compatible and any one can visit mobile version of your blog through Android or BlackBerry touch mobile device and Iphone.

WP-PageNavi – This plug-in adds more advanced top & bottom navigation to your WordPress blog.

WP CSS – This plug-in helps you to enhance look of specific blog post and pages. You can add customized CSS to specific posts and pages.

WP Follow Me – WP Follow Me is simple wordpress plug-in that allows to put your twitter follow me badge on your blog.

Permalink Redirect – This plug-in ensure all page and posts always accessed via the permalink.

Contact Form 7 – This plug-in can control numerous contact forms and you can also customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple html. This plug-in also supports Capatcha, Akimet spam filtering.

All in One Ad sense and YPN – All in One Ad sense and YPN is able to add Google Ad sense ads or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads on your blog.  With this plug-in you can customize display and appearance of your ad powerfully. Advanced users can add html and css code before and after the ad to have total control of the ad display.

These all plug-ins are widely used for powerful blogging experience. Hope this will help you to enhance your experience with powerful blogging. Share your favorite wordpress plug-in by commenting here.

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Video, pod casts are the best way of viral marketing to broadcast yourself or your business. Before starting with video seo or video search engine optimization tips, take look on what is video seo about?

Video optimization or video seo or video search engine optimization is strategic process of increasing the search engine rankings your video. Video seo is becoming essential as conventional aspect of search engine optimization now days.

With mixture of Search engine optimization with videos can influence your niche, increase your website traffic and increase visibility of your brand by establishing as a successful search engine marketing company.

Video optimization is becoming more vital as aspect to search engine optimization. The best way to optimize your video substance is to think about the consumer and who you want to engage with your video. Don’t put your videos for the sake of posting a video. Consider your audience, their language, their needs and engagement level. So it is an important trend to utilize video search engine optimization (SEO) as well.

Tips to be follow for running successful video campaigns –

1.Optimize video – If you are planning to upload a video on your site or on any other video portal website then keep below thing on your mind while recording your video or publishing it.

Make sure your that video provides useful and informative content. Don’t try to promote your brand or services otherwise your viewers will confuse. Keep video length around 5 minutes or less.

Use your targeted and relevant keywords in the video’s file name, title, and in the tags, URL and Link Text while considering naming of video.

Create Video site map of your videos and submit it in Google webmaster tool for making it easier for search engines to find all the video content.

Don’t forget to use Brand Logo and Website name in video for increasing your brand visibility.

2. Market video – Market your video by syndicating it on various video portals like you tube, Live Video. Promote it on various social networking and book marking websites.

Choose the right category. Categorizing your videos correctly will make it easier for the “relevancy engine” and also for searchers.

Create video channel that should include Title (, Description, Tags or Keywords. Choose channel design and color same as like your brand look and feel. You also customize channel using brand logo, layout properties and using written by.

Use a video syndication service such as TubeMogul or Traffic Geyser to spread the video quickly across the web. these services can save you a lot of time. Here are some other video syndication sites -

Video Syndication Sites –

• Youtube.com
• Metacafe.com
• Revver.com
• MySpace Videos
• Vimeo.com
• Dailymotion.com
• Viddler.com
• Yahoo Videos
• Google Videos

3. Plan linking strategy for videos – Videos is the evaluated by the linking standards as all other forms of digital content. Internal and external links are the essential for video search engine optimization. Tips for a creating linking strategy for promoting video:

• Cross-linking to other videos
• Linking to videos from relevant websites.
• Linking to videos from various blogs
• Tweeting the video
• Linking to videos from social media websites
• Book marking the video.
• Linking to videos using important keywords in anchor text.

4. Engage viewers to share your videos – Try to engage with your visitors through providing content wroth sharing, in such way so visitors encourage sharing your videos or get video favorited.

• Allow and push users to comment on your videos.
• Make it easy for users to share your video on You Tube, Twitter, Face book and MySpace.
• Allow Users to Rate your Video & Tell a Friend option for more interaction.
• Allow other users access to the coding that will allow them to embed video on their website or their blog. Think viral marketing.
• Offer video in as possible as much formats so visitor can choose the best platform to watch or to download a video as per their needs.

5. Reuse your videos – When you have expertise with optimizing video then you also reuse video for spreading across the web using creativity.

• Put embed videos in blog using various blog platforms like Blogger, WordPress etc.
• Put different screenshots of videos and post it on various image sharing sites like Flicker.
• Split your longer videos into multiple parts and spread it on web.
• Use text of videos for creating blog posts or content for web pages.
• Give value to your videos by using it as training videos or for conferences speech.

Well in this way we can broadcast business with the help of video search engine optimization. I would like to hear from you on video seo.

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Google reported that they acquired Admob, a mobile displaying advertising company based in San Mateo, CA worth of $750 million. This acquisition will enhance existing expertise and technology in mobile advertising for Google while also giving advertisers and publishers more choice in this growing new area.

“Mobile advertising is a rapidly growing and competitive space, and Google and AdMob are currently specializing in different areas. Though Google offers many forms of mobile advertising, its focus to date has been on mobile search ads, while AdMob’s focus has been mobile display ads and in-application ads.”

According to the official deal by Google with their acquisition of AdMob, the deal

• The deal will bring new innovation and competition to mobile advertising, and will lead to more effective tools for creating, serving, and analyzing emerging mobile ads formats.
• This deal will benefit developers, publishers, and advertisers by improving the performance of mobile advertising, and will provide users with more free or low-cost mobile apps.
• The mobile advertising space will remain highly competitive, with more than a dozen mobile ad networks. The deal is similar to mobile advertising acquisitions that AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo have made in the past two years.

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After introducing Preview Search Option in Google Search, Now get ready for easier life during holidays with Google Commerce Search. Google launched Google Commerce Search as the aim behind this launch is e-commerce searching as easy as using Google.com. Google Commerce Search result will be show as below image.

Key Features of Google Commerce Search as Below -

Google-quality search for your site - Like google.com, automatic spellcheck, stemming, and advanced synonym options mean shoppers will find what they’re looking for with fewer unnecessary clicks and no frustrating navigation mazes. Google speed, search quality, and ranking capability help users find the most relevant product match.

Scalability -
As a hosted solution, Google Commerce Search will insure that increased seasonal query volume won’t erode the quality of your product search experience, so you can spend less time and money on capacity planning around these peaks.

Parametric Search - Enable search refinement by product category, price, price range, brand, or any other product attribute you choose. Automatically generate groupings based on the user’s query and matching items.

Product Promotions – Easy to manage product promotions give marketers and site administrators complete control with guaranteed top search result promotions for custom search keywords you choose. With Product Boost, you can promote specific products, vendors, or product categories at the top of your search results.

Customization Options - Multiple refinements allow you to choose whether to display product images, descriptions, etc. If you choose to, it’s simple to adjust the look and feel of your search engine by adding or removing the Google branding, uploading your company logo, and changing text colors on your search results pages.

You can customize search results further, and integrate results into other applications, by using the XML API. The XML API enables you to access the raw search results for your query in XML format, including the URL and description text.

Simple deployment and maintenance -Google Commerce Search is a hosted platform, which means that your company will be able to leverage innovations and advancements as soon as they are developed, with no administrative overhead. Deployment is fast and easy, and you’ll have access to Google Commerce Search support experts for specialized assistance with set-up, customization, and analysis.

Advanced Reporting and Analytic- View custom reports including result sets, top queries, product promotion clicks special feature usage and more. Use integrated Google Analytics to understand how visitors are using your online store, and improve the effectiveness of your search results.

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Google is rolling out with introducing features in search option and seems that now Google is doing preparation for web 3.0 search technology.  Google introduced Page Preview to Search Option.  Now you can take preview of website with out leaving search tab.

If you click on “Show options” and select “Page previews” after performing a search, Google will show a longer snippet and a thumbnail for each search result. you can see it on below image. (Note: This Feature will show only on US Ip but if you want to check then click below link)

You can Preview search here.

Preview Tab is available through some firefox addons. Share your views.

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Today when I logged in Twitter account and Checked My Twitter Profile found that Twitter Profile Page Rank has been updated from 0 to 4. Just confirmed by checking other Twitter Profiles. In below you can see the Twitter Profile Page Rank is 4.

Did u notice any change in your Twitter Profile Page Rank ? share your comments on this.

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