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Useful Tools for Website Designers

Ravi Ahuja — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:40:09 +0000

Establishing a firm career in Web Designing may seem an easy task and quick source for revenue making from the top. But if you enter into its depth and find each and every aspect of it then it turns out to be complicated. In this world, where millions of websites are running over the net, if you start as a fresher then you have to face a tough competition from others. Developing a website needs lot of exploration and knowledge.

The first thing which a user looks when he visits your website is its aesthetics and designing. For a neophyte it may become quite difficult to look at each and every aspect necessary in making a website. Any website creation requires first of all the knowledge of HTML, CSS, scripting and programming languages to develop the base of the website. After that further refinements can be done using the various tools.

Today, thanks to internet, which makes everything available at the finger tip, now you can use various tools which are really very helpful for the creation of website. There are prototyping tools, designing tools, coloring tools, graphics tools and others which play important roles during development.

If you are a new web designer, you will find this article really helpful as we have listed below the crucial tools and links which make your job a lot easier and quick. The list has been categorized under the various section like IDEs required for writing scripts and doing programming, prototyping tools which shows the dummy model for your website, coloring tools for selecting the proper color and combination to give a real look to the website, typographic tools which are helpful in selecting the proper font which is most suitable for your website, some links to the websites which provides the readymade scripts for you in different languages and at the last we have also stated some tutorial websites guiding you in the best way.

You may also be interested in the following creative examples.

IDE & Development Software

1. Dreamweaver CS5.5

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 is the industry-leading web authoring and editing software developed by Adobe. You can create standards-based websites and designs for the desktop, smartphones, tablets, and other devices. It provides both visual and code-level capabilities and supports CSS3/HTML5, jQuery Mobile integration for adding advanced interactivity with jQuery code hinting, multiscreen Preview panel and new PhoneGap functionality to build and package native apps for Android and iOS.
Dreamweaver supports many languages to build the applications and websites like Active Server Pages (ASP), C#, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), ColdFusion, EDML, XHTML, XML, HTML, Java, JavaScript, PHP and others.

2. NetBeans IDE 7.0.1

NetBeans is a platform framework for Java desktop applications and also a integrated development environment (IDE) developed by Oracle Solutions. The IDE is written in Java and is highly compatible.
NetBeans is a free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers for developing with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Groovy, C, C++, and other languages. It contains all the tools needed to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications.
The latest version is the NetBeans IDE 7.0 which introduces language support for development to the Java SE 7 specification with the JDK 7 language features. It also supports GlassFish 3.1, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Database, Maven 3, HTML 5 and more.

3. WYSWYG Web Builder

WYSWYG is the web designing solution that makes building of websites quite easier and quicker. The software requires no HTML web designing proficient knowledge and gives you “One Click Publishing” feature. No FTP program needed. You can easily create forms using the built-in Form Wizard plus Form validation tools and built-in CAPTCHA. It also includes many jQuery features like Accordion, Tabs, animations, AutoComplete, Dialog etc.
It also features many graphic and navigation tools and has 100 free templates to choose from. WYSWYG supports AVA, Flash, Windows Media, YouTube, Flash Video, Quicktime, Real Audio and other Plug-ins with more than 250 extensions.

4. Aptana Studio 3

5. Eclipse IDE

Coloring Tools

6. ColorSchemer Studio2

ColorSchemer Studio 2 is a professional color matching application useful for web designers and advanced professionals. It helps you to build beautiful color schemes quickly and easily. You can also use ColorSchemer Studio to identify color harmonies for the web (RGB) or print (CMYK) and can create palettes from photos and gradient blends. It also provides you the facility of to transform a single color into a complete color scheme.

7. Pixie

Pixie is a utility software for webmasters and designers. It is a color picker with few extra goodies. It is a freeware software which tells you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that color you point on. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected color in your favorite programs. Pixie will also show the current coordinates of your mouse pointer.

8. COPASO : Color Palette Software

9. Color Palette Generator

Mockup Tools

10. Mockup Builder

Mockuo Builder performs many tasks like UI mockups, interactive wireframes, website layouts, desktop software prototypes, website design, sitemaps or screen navigations by using light version via your web browser and Microsoft Silverlight installed. It gives a new look to solve old problem with prototyping and sharing mockups with customers.

11. LUMZY Mockup Tool

Lumzy is a Mockup and Prototype creation tool for websites and applications.You can quickly sketch your website or application you are planning to build will look like and can create prototypes of how the site or application will function by adding events within your Lumzy controls
You can create Message Alerts, Page navigation or Links to external content when your client interacts with your Mockup, yet with the hand drawn feel of a sketch. Lumzy gives the extensive list of controls and also features collaboration tools for team editing.

12. SimpleDiagrams Free Version

Typographic and font tools

13. FrameBox

Typechart is a font selection tool that lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS. You can browse numerous typographic styles.
You need to download CSS and each style corresponds with a “style ID” which allows you to annotate prototypes and retrieve the css while coding.

14. TypeChart

15. FontStruct

16. What The Font

Programs & Scripting Source

17. Hot Scripts

HotScripts is a website containing more than 48,000 scripts in various categories. Having 750,000 active worldwide members serving for Web scripts and web development resources, Hotscripts provides resources and pre written scripts for the developers from beginners to experts. You can also review, rate and vote for your favorite scripts listed in the directory and can get discounts on certain scripts, services and products.

18. MSDN Library

From MSDN Microsoft site you can get essential source of information helpful in using Microsoft tools, products, technologies and services. The MSDN Library includes how-to and reference documentation, sample code, technical articles, etc. The site contains all the sample codes of all libraries for developing any desktop, web, game, phone or even cloud application. To find the content you just browse the table of contents, use search, or use a Quick Link to jump to some of the most popular areas of the library.

19. Dynamic Drive

Dynamic Drive is a place on the net which provides free, original DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web site. The site contains scripts for creating calendars, games, text effects, form effects, scrollers, image effects, games and many more. You can become an exclusive member and can participate in listing submission, favorites, and referrals programs.

20. PHP Scripts

Learning Resources

21. W3 Schools

W3 Schools forms the basis for all the new comers in software development field. It provides you with the basic learning of languages and scripts through their online tutorials and examples. The site contains tutorials for HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, ASP, PHP and others. After learning the basics you can also opt for the online tests to check your knowledge and gain some expertise on the topic that interests you.

22. Web Design-Tutorials

Web Design Tutorials contain thousands of tutorials required for web designing. You can learn website creations, adobe photoshop editing, javascript, PHP coding and many other scripting languages. It also teaches you graphic effects, animations and etc. It is very useful for the beginners.

Useful Tools to be more Productive Freelancer

Ravi Ahuja — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:50:50 +0000

Freelancing is found its place and it is not a hidden topic today thousands of people are depended on Freelancing work and they are making some good money.

Anyone can start freelancer work there are plenty of work available in different category from web designing, graphic designing to writing, teaching and much more. You can get lot of work as freelancer; you can work alone or partner with your friends and family. Managing lot of work alone can be a difficult task thus you need some tools which can help you reduce your work load, help you make more productive and help you manage your freelancing finance. Here are some useful tools for freelancers which will help you a lot.

Useful Freelancing Tools

1. Project Management tools

Before initiating any project or any task one needs proper planning, scheduling, costing, etc. in other words, he requires good management for the completion of the task smoothly and timely. For the freelancers to setup their process or for any web related tasks a project management tool is necessary.
Project management software covers many types of software, including estimation and planning, scheduling, cost control and budget management, resource allocation, quality management and documentation. Below are the useful management tools:

Basecamp: Basecamp is online project management software. People can create, manage and communicate tasks, files and to-do lists. Basecamp also provides features like RSS feeds, time tracking, email sending, etc. BAsecamp is one of the easiest tools and is important for first-time-users.

HiTask: HiTask is a web based task manager and to do list tool. You can handle your to do list, manage teamwork, and use it as your personal scheduler and appointment setter. Individual freelancers, professional teams and even creative agencies can use these tools very easily.

Collabtive
SmartSheet
5PM

2. Financial tools and applications

Financing is related to funds management. As the whole race is about the money, so whether it is an individual, small office or any enterprise everybody has to deal with accounting and money management. Every step in any business incurs some cost so to manage all these costing, generating invoices, accounting of any transaction or even payment options one require some easy way to get out of this.

There are some web based financial tools which help you out to manage all these tasks in a proper and efficient way. Below are some best financial software to manage all your finance related tasks.

a. Invoicing Applications:

Invoicera: Invoicera is online billing software which is specifically designed keeping simplicity and online invoicing convenience in mind. In addition to invoicing, you can use it to create and send expenses/estimate, thus track expenses and track your clients along with invoice scheduling.

Invoice Machine: Invoice machine is an online invoicing service which makes your invoicing easier and it’s beautiful and simple-to-use interface makes professional looking invoices a very pleasant experience.

Zoho Invoice

b. Accounting Softwares:

Lessaccounting: Lessaccounting is a business accounting software. It manages billing, expenses and mileage. With the ability to import data directly from your bank, expense overview, chart cash flow and other features it manages all your accountings in a simple and efficient way.

Mint
FreeAgent

c. Payments:

PayPal: PayPal is an incredibly useful tool for receiving and sending money all around the world. PayPal allows any business or freelancer with an email address to securely, conveniently and quickly send and receive payments online. PayPal serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as cheques and money orders.

Google checkout

3. Calendars and time tracking tools

Time and event management is the most important part of any project. You need to track your time for the completion of task within limits and that too successfully.
Time tracking software allows users to record time spent on tasks. This software is typically useful to freelancers who bill their customers online. It represents an electronic version of the traditional paper timesheet.
Online calendars, to do list softwares and time tracking tools thus can be a useful utility for any projects or tasks.

Google Calendar: Google calendar is a free online calendar powered by Google; it’s easy to keep track of important tasks and events all in one place. It helps you to organize your schedule and share events with friends, so you’ll always know exactly what you need to be working on.

SlimTimer: SlimTimer is a useful tool for tracking how much time you’ve spent working on a particular task. You can create tasks, click on a task to start the clock and click again when you’re finished and even it exports the reports to coworkers and clients.

Rescuetime
TickSpot

4. Communication tools

Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Time regularly keeps on changing the means of communication. Different means of communication are like posting letters, telephones, mobiles, emails, chats and video conferencing. Now in this global world internet is the fastest means of communication. Whether to your clients, to your relatives and friends you need to communicate for some or the other reason. Now you can video chat with the other person sitting in any part of the world. Freelancers too need this conveying method to interact with their clients and to build a strong camaraderie with them.

There are many communicating tools available over the internet for contacting the persons. Some best Ones are listed below:

Skype: Skype is the most popular chat software application that allows users to make voice calls over the Internet. You can chat with your friends and clients over skype. Moreover, calls to other landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee. Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer and video conferencing.- very useful for general meetings.

Jajah: Jajah is an innovative and customer-friendly VoIP (voice over internet protocol) service that facilitates its users to make long distance calls at the cheapest rates, without necessitating them to buy any headphones, microphones or installing any software. To access this application, users need nothing except a standard website connection.

Vonage
Evaphone
VoIPStunt

5. Collaboration tools

If you are working in a team and all the members are distant placed then how will you share your work with all at the same time. Now no need to email your copies of work to all members, use the collaboration tools which allows you to share the content of the project at every member’s screen.
Freelancers are people who need to have first-hand knowledge about effective collaboration. Often they have to deal with remote teams. So having a common workspace with all the necessary collaboration and project management (PM) tools in one place makes the task much easier and more effective.

IBN (instant business network): This tool is from Mediachase and provides reliable project and issues management capabilities. It offers users with an open source solution so that the platform can be modified to meet your needs.
IBN also has a document workflow system. You can download docs, attach them to concrete projects, set up the priority and even project work(ing) hours, so that your client is able to see how long it will take you to get things done.

Freedcamp: This is one of the newest and the most promising collaboration solutions.
Freedcamp offers an extremely easy, yet fully customizable user permission system of choosing what your co-workers and clients can see. You can receive instant notifications of everything happening within Freedcamp and can quickly gather valuable information on all of your managed projects directly from the dashboard.

The system also provides users with instant communication tools such as the built-in Meebo Chat that can easily be integrated not only with Gtalk and ICQ, but also with Facebook Chat and other IM clients.

Teamwork
Projectpier

6. Online Portfolio and Resume Applications

The first impact about your abilities and skills can be judged through your portfolio or resume. If you are about to start new as a freelancer than you must present a good impressive and conveying portfolio.
You can act as a freelancer to any company in any part of the world. So for that you must have an online portfolio or resume. There are some web based applications and sites where you can develop and submit your portfolios.

DeviantArt: DeviantArt is a worldwide online community representing various forms of user-made artwork. DeviantArt aims to provide a place for any artist to exhibit and discuss works.
You can easily upload your work or portfolio over there. Works are organized in various categories, including photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash, film making, skins for applications and others. You can learn the idea and can make your work most impressive over there.

Qfolio: Qfolio offers the complete online visual portfolio solution for Designers, Freelancers, Architects, Artists or anyone with a visual portfolio to present. Your Qfolio is your stand-alone visual portfolio website. It contains images of your work as well as the text documents of your choosing organized to your liking. Thus, Interview with someone 7000 miles away and get your job while you are sleeping.

Sharemyartwork
Behance

Driving Traffic to Your Blog

Ravi Ahuja — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:45:32 +0000

Blogging is one of the cornerstones of Internet 2.0. People take to their computers and share knowledge, opinions, experiences, and even their dreams. Thousands of new blogs are made each day. Blogging reached a level of maturity that allowed it to shed and outgrow its fad status. It is now mature enough that some people have figured out how to generate revenue from it.

Affiliate marketing still ranks as one of the biggest sources of revenue for bloggers. Technorati.com reported that in 2010, 36% of all bloggers got paid this way. Experienced bloggers know that generating traffic is that first crucial step in getting people to whip out their credit cards.

As their affiliate sites generate income, bloggers get a small piece. This amounts to just cents, but the key here is volume. You too can generate traffic and get paid a tidy sum if you follow some simple rules:

• Ever wondered why David Letterman’s Top 10 List remains popular all these years? Because people love lists. Either agreeing totally, or complaining impotently on ranking or the contents of the list. A lot of search queries on Google start with “top” or “most popular” and your blog should capitalize on this.

• Don’t be afraid to be controversial. In a sea of similar offerings and generic content, you need a unique angle to get noticed. Coming up with a topic that will stir hot debate should be easy enough. The challenge lies in achieving the perfect balance. You have to still have credibility and offer useful info. People quickly grow tired of trash. Challenging commonly-held beliefs will not only ruffle a few feathers, it will also drive traffic to your blog.

• Be nice to look at. A lot of useful websites and blogs are not getting the attention they deserve because they look amateurish. Ensure that at least your home page is sharp and smart. Mind color combinations and font usage. A color wheel and basic graphic design skills go a long way here. Be wary of heavy Flash usage, as people tend to click away when pages take too long to load.

• Form without substance is useless. The best blogs all share one common trait: useful content. The days of sharing what you had for breakfast over your blog is over. There’s Twitter for that. If you want web traffic to be consistent and heavy, make sure that you talk about something people can use. Don’t worry too much on the topic. Even the most obscure interests get a following these days.

• Never be a parrot. Linking something for a source is one thing, copying word-for-word is another. The biggest pitfall for unoriginal content is that people will see your blog as a redundancy. If the story you post is big enough and enough sites cover it, search engines will bury your blog.

• Get with the times. Social networking offers much more than what they did even just a year ago. According to technorati.com’s annual State of the Blogosphere, majority of bloggers now use Twitter and Facebook to attract visitors. Social media sites are now outpacing SEO as a tool in traffic generation. Bloggers who use the former reached 38%. Now, compare that to 65% of all bloggers who favored the latter and you will see that the disparity is huge.

Just a small percentage of bloggers can claim that blogging pays all their bills. For some, it’s just a way to subsidize their hobby. For others, getting their ideas and opinions out is payment enough. For both blogger types, driving traffic is a primary concern. Whether you belong to the former group or the latter, you’d want maximum traffic. And as long as people keep clicking on your site, you are doing some things right.

This is guest post by Katheryne from Creditdonkey.com. You can follow him on Twitter.

5 Place to Generate Beautiful CSS Menu

Ravi Ahuja — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:24:26 +0000

CSS Menus have taken place of Flash menu. Flash menu bar or buttons were used for their beauty but problem with them was, they were difficult to create and heavy on website.

On the other hand CSS (Cascade Style Sheet) became popular because of it lightness, easy to create and implement. You just have to import CSS style sheet on your HTML or any other web script page and all page looks changes according to your CSS style settings.

CSS Menus are another great example of CSS power. Now days most of the web templates use CSS to create menu bar style whether it is a HTML page or WordPress theme. You can get many of CSS menu style code for free with little changes you can give them a new look. If you don’t know how to build CSS menus then here are 5 places where you can generate CSS menu and get CSS code for free.

5 Place to Build Beautiful CSS Menu

1. CSS Menu Maker

2. IzzyMenu

3. 13Styles

4. CSS Menu Builder

5. CSS Menu Generator

5 Place to Generate CSS Buttons Online

Ravi Ahuja — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:57:54 +0000

As name suggests Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is language of style for website development. With few changes in CSS file you can change the look of your website easily.

You may need buttons on your website it can be in the form of menu bar or web form buttons like submit etc. You can create buttons on Flash but as flash need flash player and you have to create separate Flash button. This is not the case with CSS you just define the look of button and you can use as many time as you want to your web page.

You can design your own CSS button or can take help of the website listed below. This websites will help you to create CSS button quickly as per your requirement and download the code of your button instantly.

Beautiful CSS Button Generator

1. CSSButtonGenerator

2. BonBon

3. CSS-Tricks

4. iWeb Tools Online

5. CSS3Button

6 Useful Free Apps with Online Sync

Ravi Ahuja — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:10:02 +0000

Working on computer means you have to use software for specific use. Problem using a computer is that your files are stored on that computer what if you have to use them on other computer.

Yes we know we can synchronize our work online and use it from anywhere. Now we can create a MS Word file and upload it on Google Doc, MS Live, Zoho office etc. But most of the software are not inbuilt capable of online sync this create problem to make them available online we have to go to website and upload our file, this can be painful task.
There are many free and paid software available which are capable of online sync. You don’t have to go to website and download and upload file. Here are 6 useful apps with online sync.

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6 Free Software with Online Synchronization

1. Dropbox

Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers. Put your files into your Dropbox folder on one computer, and they’ll automatically appear on any of your other computers that also have Dropbox installed (Windows, Mac, and Linux).

2. FeedDemon

FeedDemon is the most popular RSS reader for Windows. Use FeedDemon at home, your office, or anywhere you go and keep your feeds, tags and shared items synched between locations.

3. Wunderlist

Wunderlist is free task management tool. With Wunderlist you can share your lists with your collegues and friends and collaborate with them. You can add notes and with Cloud App spread your „wunderli.st“-link to everyone.

4. Evernote

Save your ideas, things you like, things you hear, and things you see. Evernote works with nearly every computer, phone and mobile device out there. Search by keyword, tag or even printed and handwritten text inside image.

5. LastPass

LastPass is free password manager with online sync. With LastPass all of your data is encrypted locally on your PC – only YOU can unlock it. Automatically synchronizes your data: access it from anywhere at anytime.

6. TweetDeck

TweetDeck is your personal real-time browser, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google Buzz and more. It’s not software on which you can do something or store your work on your computer. It is app which can help you do bring your social network on your desktop and reply to your friends.

Wish You All a Very Happy New Year 2011

Ravi Ahuja — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:47:34 +0000

To all over readers, friends and advertisers we wish you Very Happy New Year 2011. Thank you for beaing with us and hope this relationship will continue for all following years.

Wish You All a Merry Christmas

Ravi Ahuja — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 06:43:07 +0000

Wish You All Merry Christmas

How to Make Your Website or Blog Visible to Search Engine?

Ravi Ahuja — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:12:19 +0000

If anyone has to search anything over Internet they use search engine websites and every webmaster have desire that there website should show on top for related keyword.

For new blogger or website owner they have first question how to make their website visible to search engine. If your website is not listed on search engine then you can’t expect any traffic from search engine.

Here are few steps to make your website visible to search engine and get some good search engine traffic quickly. Before beginning I just want to say that don’t think of submitting your website to every search engine. Just focus on top three search engines Google, Yahoo and Bing these three search engine will bring most of search engine traffic so don’t waste your time on other search engines.

This post is not about search engine optimization it is useful for new websites to make their website list on search engine.

Submit Your Website URL

This is very first step to tell search engines that I am too having a website and add my website to your database. You just need to submit your website URL and your website will be added in few days.

1. Google
2. Yahoo
3. Bing

Submitting your website is not enough search engine need to crawl all your web pages so that it know all about your website and you get most from search engine. Next step is creating a XML sitemap file.

Creating XML Sitemap File

Sitemap is list of pages of a website which is used by website visitor or Search Engine (XML file). Google introduced Google Sitemaps which contain Websites page URL in a given format. Now other search engine also use same sitemap file to crawl pages. You need to create a sitemap file and submit them to search engine. If you don’t know how to create sitemap then here are some resources which will help you to create Sitemap.

Online Sitemap Generator – Online sitemap generator can help you creating XML sitemap file. You just need to submit your website URL and some other details and sitemap generator will read your website and create XML sitemap file and you can download that file.

1. XML-Sitemaps.com
2. SitemapDoc

WordPress Plugin – If you are WordPress user then it is very easy to create regular sitemap automatically. Google XML Sitemaps is best WordPress plugin which can generate XML sitemap file. You just need to install this plugin and check your sitemap URL setting and some other setting and it will start generating sitemap. This plugin will automatically re-generate sitemap whenever a new page is created.

Submitting Sitemap File and Using Webmaster Tools

About all big search engine site are came up with Webmaster tools. This helps webmasters to submit their website and sitemaps to search engine. Not just that webmasters can see how their website is doing on that search engine and can check mistakes on their site for search engine optimization.

Google, Yahoo and Bing all these have webmaster tools you have to just create account on these sites and add your websites. You have to validate that site you are submitting is yours. You just have to download simple HTML authentication file and upload it on your web space and validate your website.

After validation you can submit sitemap XML file you have created this will help search engine to crawl your website. Here is URL for webmaster tools.

1. Google
2. Yahoo
3. Bing

These steps will help you index your website quickly on search engine. This will help you to start getting search engine visitors even for very new websites or blog.

6 Place to Find Affordable and Quality Freelancers

Ravi Ahuja — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:52:16 +0000

Freelancing is best way of outsourcing your work. There are millions of people who can help you to done your work you have to just pay for that project with agreed price.

Freelancing is win-win situation for both service buyer and provider. Service buyer can get there work done at affordable price and freelancer can work from home and receive there payment as work is done.

Finding freelancer can be difficult task but today there are many freelance website which connect service buyers and freelancer. With these website you can easily find thousands of freelancers for your project and this is also helpful for freelancer as they can find service buyer at one place.

There are many freelance website but I have just listed 5 most popular freelance website because you don’t need to look 100’s of website I think these 5 website will fulfill all of your freelancing requirements.

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6 Most Popular Freelance Websites

1. Freelancer – This is one of my favorite places to find best and affordable freelancer. You can get 100’s of bid for your project. Payment process is also very good and company protects both parties.

2. Elance – One of the best places to find freelance work. It is great place to find freelancer for any type of freelance work. Quality freelancer with great price.

3. Guru – What if you have to choose freelancers from over 250,000+. Yes you can find thousands of freelancers for your project. With Guru SafePay Escrow you can be confident with any of your payments.

4. LimeExchange – Another great place to find freelancers. Find more than 75000 freelancers for your projects.

5. ScriptLance – Great place for finding programming, SEO, graphic and writing projects.

6. GoFreelance – If you need to work related to writing, surveys, data entry etc then GoFreelance can be the best place for you.

15 Creative Web Clock to Get Inspired

Ravi Ahuja — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:18:15 +0000

Time is what we have to make pace with. Our whole day schedule is based on time. We can’t be organized without time and to know the time we have to use clock.

Clock or Watch is which we use whole day to work on time. We use wall clock, wrist watch, mobile clock, computer to see the time. Today clocks are all over from our wrist to websites.

I saw some creative web clock which amazed me. There are so many styles of web clock that you will like to see them again and again. I searched for some creative web clocks and I found some great web clocks and I am listing them here and hope you will find them interesting.

15 Amazing Web Clock

Online Photo Effects & Editing with befunky

Ravi Ahuja — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:13:04 +0000

Many times we need to edit images or give them some effects. If you are a graphic designer then it can be very easy for you but if you are not then it can be difficult job for you.
There are plenty of free and paid graphic software by which you can edit your images and give them effects. With graphic software you can edit you image as you want but what if you don’t know how to use graphic software. There is an easy way to edit your image and give them effect with one click.

befunky is free online image editing software with befunky you can change image effects in only one click. There are our 190 easy to use photo effects in 30 different categories. With one click you can enhance your image quality, add speech bubbles, frames etc. Befunky offers high quality output up to 4000×4000 px. Share your edited images to your favourite social media sites.

Befunky also offers premium service which offers many more features to enhance your photo, store your photos and much more.

Start Free Online Photo Editing

Web Browser Market Share on July 2010

Ravi Ahuja — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:41:18 +0000

Which is your favorite Web Browser? Internet Explorer, Firefox or Google Chrome there are many free web browser available today and everyone have there own choice. Want to know which browser is popular these days?

It’s not a big secrete as usual Internet Explorer is mostly used Web Browser. Microsoft Windows is mostly used operating system and it comes with Internet Explorer as default web browser and most user use IE as there default web browser.

I had written a post on same topic on December 2008 at that time Internet Explorer market share was about 70% which is now about 60% down almost 10%. Google Chrome is came as biggest gainer with more then 6% gain after that Firefox has gain about 3% of market share.

Now browser market is focusing on speed of browser. After Google Chrome everyone is trying to create fastest browser. Opera is came up with it latest browser which is much faster then before.

In 2009-2010 mobile browsing is grown a lot and now there are many internet phone like iPhone on which user can browse internet same as desktop computer. Opera Mini browser for mobile phone have increased it market share about 10 times.

Here is list of market share of different web browsers you can find this data on NetMarketShare.

Microsoft Internet Explorer – 60.32%
Firefox – 23.81%
Chrome – 7.24%
Safari – 4.85%
Opera – 2.27%
Opera Mini – 0.66%
Netscape – 0.56%
Flock – 0.06%
Konqueror – 0.05%
ACCESS NetFront – 0.04%
Playstation – 0.03%
Mozilla – 0.03%
Obigo – 0.01%
Danger Web Browser – 0.01%

Which browser you are using?

5 FireFox Add-ons for Designers

Ravi Ahuja — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:20:12 +0000

Firefox is one of the most used browsers today. Firefox popularity’s main reason is its add-ons. There are hundreds of free add-ons available.

You can find add-on of your requirement this can help you lot and save your time. There are add-ons available for almost every thing you can think for your browser. Designers can also find useful add-ons for there need. Here I have listed 5 add-ons which can be helpful for designer.

5 Firefox Image related Add-ons

1. FireShot (Screen Capture)

With FireShot you can capture screen shot of web page you are visiting, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations.

2. ColorZilla (Color Picker)

With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program.

3. TinEye reverse image search engine

The plugin adds a right-click menu item that allows you to search for an image to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.

4. Image Zoom

Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on individual images within a web page. All this can be done by using the context menu or a combination of mouse buttons and scroll wheel.

5. Cooliris – The Cooliris 3D Wall

Simply the fastest and most stunning way to browse photos and videos from the Web or your desktop. Effortlessly scroll an infinite “3D Wall” of your content from Facebook, Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, and hundreds more.

5 Best Free Website Visitor Tracking Services

Ravi Ahuja — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:41:31 +0000

Webmaster want to know how many visitors there Website or blog is getting. Web tracking services helps you to find your website visitor status.

Web counter or Web tracking service provide many features, with the help of you can track how many visitors your website is getting, from which country they are from, referral source and much more. This data helps you to analyze your visitors, there choice, popular pages on your website. By this way you can create content interested for your visitors. This increase you website growth as you know your visitors choice.

6 Popular Free Web Statistic Analyzer Service

1. Google Analytics: One of the most popular and trusted service by Google. Google Analytics is easy to use and yet very powerful tool to track visitors on your website. Google Analytics monitors your reports and automatically alerts you of significant changes in data patterns.

2. Stat Counter: Statcounter is another free web tracking service. It is Free, Fast, Responsive, Quick loading and Reliable Service. It allow Invisible Tracking – no ads on your website.

3. Site Meter: SiteMeter provide free and paid service. Free service covers almost all basic features you need to know about your visitors. Paid services covers some more in depth features about your visitors.

4. Clicky: A great free service with in depth coverage of tracking your website visitors. Clicky is real time tracking service. It also covers in depth Twitter Analytic.

5. W3counter: If you love to share your website status with World then you will like W3counter. You can share your web status with other.

6. whos.amung.us: If you are person who want to instantly see live visitors on your site then whos.amung.us is for you. You can find out when you had the most people online. Yes it’s free.