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How To Create Design WordPress Themes by stuartduff.com

December 9th, 2009 2 Comments

1. Themetation : How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch

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This tutorial is in three parts, click the links below to visit them.
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3a | Part 3b

2. DesignReviver : Premium WordPress Theme Design

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This tutorial is in two parts, click the links below to visit them.
Part 1 – Photoshop Mockup | Part 2: HTML and CSS

3. Grafpedia : Create a web 2.0 business layout

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This tutorial is a single part and is a photoshop design only tutorial.
Grafpedia : Create a web 2.0 business layout

4. Grafpedia : Create an awesome black portfolio layout

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This tutorial is a single part and is a photoshop design only tutorial.
Grafpedia : Create an awesome black portfolio layout

5. Grafpedia : WordPress portfolio layout

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This tutorial is a single part and is a photoshop design only tutorial.
Grafpedia : WordPress portfolio layout

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Blogging Tools for win,mac and linux

October 13th, 2008 2 Comments

 

Smashing Magazine has published a great list of blogging tools for Windows,Mac and Linux. Great tools for blogger posting to their blog.

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14 "OTHER" Ways to Use RSS Feeds

February 25th, 2008 No Comments

by makeuseof.com

Undeniably RSS is one of the best things that has happened to the web after email. Not only has it made browsing a lot more productive, convenient, fun … you name it, but it has also introduced a number of new ways to interact with content that we could never have imagined before. While you’re most probably already familiar with the idea of RSS feeds and Feedreader (No? See this video) , there are several other ways you can make use of feeds.

    (1) SendMeRSS – Also known as R-mail. If you’re more of an email person and like to follow-up on everything from your email inbox then this is for you. SendMeRSS can take any feed and forward updates to your email. It checks for updates at least once in every two hours so whenever something new gets published it lands in your inbox within at most 2 hours. [All Features].

    (2) MailBucket – Ever wanted to forward emails to your feedreader? Enter MailBucket, a simple online app that can generate custom RSS feeds for your emails. The implementation is quite simple, first you need to create a filter in your email program and set it to forward filtered messages to XYZ@mailbucket.org. Next, open your feedreader and following feed: http://mailbucket.org/XYZ.xml (where XYZ can be anything you choose). While it may be neither convenient nor secure to forward all emails to feeds, it certainly makes sense in some cases, i.e. daily reports, newsletters etc. [All Features]

    (3) TwitterFeed – I have been using Twitterfeed for sometime now and recommend it to everyone. It’s a free service that can be set to track several RSS feeds and send updates to a Twitter account. If you got a blog, you may also consider setting up a separate Twitter account for your blog and ‘twit’ all your blog feeds so that other Twitter users can “follow” it. We have one for MUO as well, you can check it out here.

    (4) Pingie (US only) – Get feed updates as SMS messages. It’s absolutely free and works with any cell phone that can receive standard text messages. Nothing to install or download.

    (5) FeedJournal – Here you can subscribe and convert multiple RSS feeds to an elegant printable newspaper. Just grab your favorite feeds, set preferred layout (i.e. 3- column) and generate a printable newspaper-style document. This is something that would go extremely well with news and lengthy articles.

    (6) Wigitize – If you ever need to add some RSS feeds to your website, Widgitize offers a quick and simple way to do that. Unlike other similar services, Wigitize gives you a really light and plain widget that you can style yourself.

    (7) ReminderFeed – Quick and simple way to schedule one-time or recurrent reminders to your feed reader. Just fill-in the reminder form, set start and end dates, and press ‘create’ button to generate custom feed for your reminder.

    (8) TagMindr – Another tool to schedule RSS reminders. More than anything else, Tagmindr offers a simple way to remind yourself of webpages or some images you find while browsing the web. Once it’s set you willl be able to easily remind yourself of a link or image that gets bookmarked in your Delicious, Twitter, Flickr or Magnolia accounts. See how it works.

    (9) FeedBlendr / FeeDoor – Combine muliple RSS and Atom feeds into one. You can even merge video and audio feeds (such as podcasts) with text feeds.

    (10) FeedCrier – Receive feed updates in your chat program. Feedcrier supports AIM , MSN Messenger, Jabber and Google Talk clients.

    (11) ZapTXT – ZapTXT enables you to monitor RSS feeds for specific keywords and get alerts as soon as there is a new article that includes specified keywords. Alerts can be set to be delivered to email, instant messaging program or mobile phone.

    (12) SpokenText – Automatically convert RSS news feeds to speech and subscribe to them as podcasts (via iTunes). You can also download your recordings as an mp3 file.

    (13) RSSMixer – This nifty tool lets you combine multiple feeds into one master feed and make it accessible via a regular feedreader, iPhone or Apple Dashboard. No-registration requied, simply enter the feeds you want to combine and click “Mix”. Next you will be prompted with a page where you can chose how you want to access it.

    (14) AideRSS – If you’re subscribed to dozens of popular sources and are having difficulties keeping up with feeds, then AideRSS is for you. Basically, it can take your current subscription list and filter out less popular stories leaving only the BUZZ. Please note, the best way to use it would be on multiple popular sources which publish more than 10-15 stoies per day (Engadget, Gizmodo, Mashable etc.)

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Top 10 Template Generators for Blogs and Websites by mashable.com

November 20th, 2007 6 Comments

CSSEZ

CSSEZ is an online template generator for WordPress and Movable
Type blogs. You need to register at the CSSEZ site in order to use the tool. There are some good features with which
you can choose between one to four columns for your blog, define the column width, padding, margin, border, font and
link styles. You can upload your background image or create one with the image maker.

dotemplate

dotemplate provides 12 free templates that you can choose
from. You can choose one and go on to customizing your selected template by changing the color, font, text, position
of text, etc. in the background, container, footer, menus, and boxes. You can apply effects like drop shadow,
gradient, and round corners. When you are through customizing, you can download the template on your system. This is
quite a convenient tool for those wishing to create their own templates without much HTML knowledge. However, an
option for uploading your own images would have made this tool better.

Drupal Theme Generator

Drupal Theme Generator is a MS Excel based
theme generator for Drupal sites you can use to create PHPtemplate and Xtemplate themes for your Drupal sites. The
tool is free yet feature rich with some cool ones like random color theme generator, previewing your theme on your
system, HTML color assistant, and integratingCSS, JavaScript, PHP , and HTML code in to the themes from an external
file, etc. There are also nine themes that you will get when you download the tool.

Eris' Template Generator

Eris' Template Generator
provides 11 skins for your blog with three column options for each skin. It supports Diaryland, Diary-x, Movabletype,
old Blogger, WordPress, B2, and a free HTML site templates. You can add your tagline, meta tags and include links to
to the index, archives, email, notes, profile, buddylist, and last 5 entries for Diaryland, last 10 entries for
Movable Type, calendar for B2, blogroll for WordPress, XHTML compliant and content copyright notices, webrings, chat
screen names, and buttons.

Firdamatic

Firdamatic is an online template generator
for old Blogger and Movable Type blogs. You can select from the two column or three column options. Simply enter the
information on the relevant boxes on the online form and click generate template. You can add your site name, title
image, and choose the font and font color as well.

HTML PHP CSS Website Template Generator

HTML PHP CSS Website Template
Generator is an online tool to create a PHP site template, along with its CSS and HTML files. You can customize
the style sheet, header, sidebars, header, and footer by adding your font, color, margin and alignment preferences on
the template generator's online form. You can then generate the scripts, which you can copy and save for your
use.

PsycHo

PsycHo is an open-source online template generator for the old
Blogger, PersianBlog, and BlogFa platforms. You can set your page title, body background color, title background,
description, text, spacing, and choose from four column options. You can preview your template and get the code in
raw html. It's simple to use and also works well for those without much HTML knowledge. The good part of PsycHo
is that if your Internet connection breaks in between, you can still work on and complete designing your template.
This is a good tool but needs to support more blog platforms like the new Blogger and WordPress.

Templatr

Templatr provides you more than 20 layouts, and formatting options
for various page elements including pages, header, footer, titles, margin, padding, border, and more for your
WordPress blog. It also provides you an upload tool with which you can upload your site graphics. You can download
the template on your system once you are complete.

Weebly

Weebly is a neat site template generator with more than 15
pre-built designs. You can choose one of these designs and customize them by adding various elements like ads, feed
icons, maps, contact form, define the text and picture layouts, columns, add Google and YouTube videos, etc. Once you
are through, you can publish the site on your custom domain. Quite handy for all those who wish to make a quick
personal site.

WordPress Theme Generator

WordPress Theme Generator is a
cool online tool that will enable you to create your own custom made WordPress themes without the need to know much
html and css languages. The tool provides options to choose your blog name, site body size, sidebar location and
size, add a third column, menu layout, color and text schemes, and add tag cloud, archives and search box. You can
upload your site logo online and link to it from your template. Once you are through, you can preview your creation
and download it in a zip file.

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Hear your blog!!!

October 24th, 2007 No Comments

By Bloggersmart

Have you ever wanted to hear your favourite blog? Yes I said hear your favourite blog. Now you can with Talkr. With their unique tool you can transform any common RSS feed into audio format enabling you to hear it when you want on your Ipod.

Talkr provides a service that enables you to listen to your blogs RSS feeds by transforming the text into audio. Talkr can also provide you with a podcast of your favorite news sources. I personally think Talkr is very useful especially on those days that you’re to drained to sit in front of the computer to read.

 

How do they describe it?

“Talkr provides a service that allows you to listen to your favorite text-only news sources rather than read them. If you can point us to an RSS feed (a machine-readable version of your favorite blog or news source) we will convert that feed from text to speech.”

Does it cost money?

“Talkr has partnered with several of the most widely read blogs on the internet to provide an audio version of those blogs for free. In addition, if you sign up for a free membership, you can listen to up to three additional blogs for free.”

If you choose to listen to more than 3 feeds you will have to sign up for a monthly subscription, Talkr Basic $4,95 or Talkr Premium $8,95. The difference between the two plans resides in the number of hours you can download.

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