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2009-10-19T23:37:00.000-07:00

Make Up Girl has 3, 000, 000 hits:)

2009-10-14T21:08:00.001-07:00

This is a good example of a good professional Youtube video with lots of hits.
She has a sweet voice and good looks.

Best Places to Buy Icons for Your Professional Design Job

2009-07-08T23:43:00.000-07:00

HEre are some of the best places on the web where you can buy Professional, modern looking icons for your professional web design job.

Icojoy - buy icons in sets. They have sets for specific vertical industries.

How to Upload Your Videos to Youtube from Your Mobile Phone?

2009-06-25T02:31:00.000-07:00

Here are some articles that tell you how:

Using the C510 built in Youtube application:

From the standby screen press Menu (Figure 1).
In the main menu, scroll to highlight Organiser (Figure 2). Press Select.
Scroll to highlight Applications (Figure 3). Press Select.
Scroll to highlight YouTube (Figure 4). Press Select.
After a few seconds the phone will connect to the YouTube service. You will initially have to scroll down to choose your country for Terms of Use (Figure 5).
To agree to Terms of Use press Accept (Figure 6).
A warning about mobile data costs appears (Figure 7). Press OK to continue.

After a few seconds the YouTube mobile home page appears (Figure 8). Press Menu.
In the menu that appears on the left of the screen, scroll down to highlight Upload and press Select (Figure 9), or press the number 8 on the numberpad.
A message appears telling you that you need a username and password to log in (Figure 10). Press Login.
Type in your YouTube account Username (Figure 11). Press OK.
Type in your YouTube Password (Figure 12). Press Login. The phone starts logging in and takes a few seconds to confirm login details.
A list of video clips stored in your C510 appears onscreen (Figure 13). If you want to view clips to check before uploading, scroll to highlight the one you want to view and press Play.
After it has been played, press Back to return to the video clip list.
Scroll to highlight the video clip you want to upload. Press Upload.
The phone will start uploading the video clip (Figure 14). How long it takes will depend upon the size of the video file, and the current speed of your data connection. The longer the video clip, the bigger the video file will be, and the longer it will take to upload.
If the upload connection times out mid-way through the uploading process don't worry - as before, simply highlight the file, and press Upload. Highlight Resume (Figure 15) and press Select. It will continue uploading.
When uploading has been completed, a confirmation message appears onscreen (Figure 16). Press OK.
Press Back to get to the main YouTube home page. Within a short amount of time, you and others will be able to view your video clip on your YouTube account either via your PC or on your mobile phone.
To view your clip, in the YouTube home page scroll down to highlight My Account (Figure 17). Press Select.
Scroll down to highlight My Videos (Figure 18). Press Select.
In a few moments a gallery of your uploaded videos appears. Use the navigation D-pad forward and back keys to scroll through thumbnails of your videos (Figure 19).
Highlight the video you want to view. Press Play. In a few moments it begins playing onscreen. (Figure 20).
Press Back to return to the list, and then Home to return to the YouTube home page.
When you're finished using the YouTube
Publish Post
application, press Exit to return to the phone's
Applications menu. If you click on YouTube again, you may be logged in automatically, unless you choose to log out of your account. To do this, in the YouTube home page, press Options, highlight Logout and press Select. A message appears asking if you want to End application. Press Select.

Find Out Who Clicks on a Particular Link with Google Analytics?

2009-07-08T20:15:00.000-07:00

Suppose I want to add a label of “customers” to any visitor who reaches my shopping cart’s receipt page. I would add an additional line of code to the Google Analytics Tracking Code (GATC) on my receipt page. It would then look something like this:

Notice the line in bold that includes _setVar. If you take a look at the code example above, you will see that I used the term “customers,“ the label that I want to appear in the User Defined report.

When a user visits the page he will be identified as a part of the “customers” segment in the User Defined report, allowing you to perform analysis on all visitors who have purchased something from your online store. Neat, huh?

Can I use _setVar when someone clicks on a link instead of visiting a page?

Yes - you can also use the pageTracker._setVar function when someone clicks on an important link on your site, or makes a key selection on an important form that you want visitors to fill out. For example, if you wanted to add a custom label to any visitor who clicks on your “Live Help” applet, you can ask your IT department or webdesigner to add an “onClick” event, and give them the following line of code:

onClick="pageTracker._setVar('Needs Help');"

What will this look like in the end?

When all of your coding is complete, check the User Defined report after about a day or so and you should see something like this:

The Power of Drupal

2009-07-08T20:36:00.000-07:00

Ever know what is Drupal? Ever know Obama? Well I'm sure you know Obama, the President of the United States. Drupal is a content management system(CMS) used to built websites. And guess which CMS did the Obama administration use for their US Presidency campaign. Yup, that's right Drupal.

Why did they use Drupal? Simply because its a very powerful CMS, yet its simple to use and is a very secure platform.

If you think of the size of the Obama website and the fact that Drupal is able to handle such a big, high traffic website, well that is proof of what Drupal can do.

Other high profile sites are also using Drupal. These include:
Fast Company - A very popular business magazine using Drupal.
AOL (America Online Corporate Information Website)
Yahoo Research - Yahoo is a big user of Drupal
NASA - Drupal is Big & powerful enough for SPACE
Jennifer Lopez - Many high profile celebrities use Drupal. Including JL.
Avril Lavigne - Another popular celebrity amongst the teens.
Green Peace - Big environmental & non-profits use Drupal.
End Poverty - Another big charity organisation using Drupal.
Novell - Technology professionals also use Drupal
Fox Searchlight - Big media companies use Drupal.
Lifetime Media - Another big media company using Drupal.

To learn more about Drupal, you can vist Drupal.org
You can download it too instantly, because its FREE. God bless Drupal developers.

How to Schedule Your Emails, Gmail & Hotmail

2009-07-04T03:58:00.000-07:00

Read this article:
http://techblissonline.com/schedule-your-emails-from-gmailyahoohotmail-for-a-later-datetime/

You can use a service called lettermelater.com

Send Free SMS from the web - Use notifu.com

Free Joomla Template Sites

2009-05-22T08:38:00.000-07:00

LINKS TO FREE JOOMLA TEMPLATE SITES

The Best Free Wordpress Themes with Web 2.0 Designs

2009-05-19T20:38:00.000-07:00

LINKS

WPSalon - Has tons of themes. 48 pages of themes.
WPCrunchy - Has tons of themes. 48 pages of themes.
PremiumWP - Contains FREE premium Wordpress templates. Simply beautiful themes.

THEMES

Magazeen - Like MTV and apple combined
Options WordPress Theme - dark colour good for entertatinment media sites.
“Branford Magazine” WordPress Theme - good for corporate sites. Has drop down menus.
Mimbo Magazine Theme - good for elegant look. Has sub - sub categories
ByPress -
News Magazine - With picture gallery & email subscriber ready
Sliding Door - Unique
Make Money Online - Got videos, can do like youtube with sub categories
CorporateMag - With animated graphics & tag cloud & ajax comments.
GraphPaperPRess
Arthemia
atriumax - with tv banner image slider
Online Casino Template 38 - with tv banner image slider, silver
Online Casino Template 42 - with tv banner image slider, blue
Magazine Star - with tv banner image slider

Links to Health Services for Designers

2009-06-16T21:01:00.000-07:00

Vista Vision Specialist - Get your eye laser surgery done in Malaysia and maybe save a few bucks.

FREE Joomla Templates that work

2009-05-28T01:03:00.000-07:00

https://www.rockettheme.com/join-a-club?view=sales&type=filtered&id=3%2C5
Novus
Modernportal
News
Red Evo
Estime Red Berry
Estime Seaturquoise - blue
Mittwoch
Zak Business Blue - Good for IT business
JJ Serenity - Green
FV Camel - Blue
Box Windmill - Blue & Very Simple like Apple
Dreamsquare - NIce corporate web 2.0
Blue Web Group - Nice web 2.0, Flash
Box Rain Brown - Vintage
Chameleon - Unique interface layout
CJ Club - Cool design for music
Diagonal - Media site red
Eclispe - MEdia green
Glazed - Web 2 Big Fonts
Gmagzz - Blue magazine
iiBusiness
Jet3 reloaded
JP Echo - MEdia
JS Jamba 1.0 - round edges
JS Industry
MrTechie

Joomla24.com

Bizcity
Rocky Mountain Sunrise - like NCS
Bizrule
Black Zak 74
Blue Life - Web 2
Box Red451
Bright Mitra - Silver web 2
Bup Gastronomic - hotel
BusinessSimplicity
Businessonline
Car 1
Camp26 Studio
Centerstage - web 2
ChessClub - web 2 animated navibar
Citron - unique layout yellow
DD Ashy - Silver
DD ROyal - Pink
Depressivebrown - Agency style
Dezent-templates.de 11/2007 - green health
Digitaleye Beauty - pink
Dirtystyle - street edgy
Flow-Elegant - street
Frozen Green
Frozen NY
Funkymonkey - street
FV Bluesky - business
FV Business Blue
Grey House - Real estate
Hitech Design
Hyperglass - web 2 like skype
JA Sabina - bright
JM Medical
JM Robotic
Joomblog Green
mambaholic
MBT Business 2 - flash
MBT Shopping
Mitra Global - medical
Mitra Dating
Modernportal v2
Modernview J1.0
Modxorange
MP Anzio2
MP Anzio
Moz Dev
MS Opacity - unique
mody space
OTSMuzic J1.0
rainbow - agency
recipes
redflystudios
Red Evolution Two - biz
Red Evolution 30 - biz
sabana_plazza
Rouge 08
sbspartan - property

LINKS

http://www.themza.com/

User Interface Design Links

2009-06-03T00:27:00.000-07:00

The Best Premium Joomla Templates

2009-05-22T07:37:00.000-07:00

You Movies - Has TV Banner, Multiple colors
Sportline -
YouSimplicity - Great for Small Ecommerce site. Has TV Banner.
You Tutorials - Sliding tabs
MyBlog - With flash type picture & video viewer.
Portfolio -
Newsline2 - With TV Banner showing videos.
Newsline - Has video TV Banners
MediaPlate - Unique design with TV banner for playing video
ShopFrenzy - Uses VirtueMart
TDModel - Cool TV Banner
EScene - Really cool MTV like
dub - Extra Cool
MusicTube - TV banner can display many content
NewsPro - Cool
Akiraka
Alyssa - Accordion style

LINKS

COMPONENTS

MX Comments

VIRTUEMART

Mediamall

LINKS

Joomla Virtuemart

Relaxing Wallpapers for your Windows or Mac Desktop

2009-05-25T19:32:00.001-07:00

Right click and set as desktop background.

Top 10 Worpress Themes for Corporate Websites

2009-05-21T03:09:00.000-07:00

Atriumax

The Best Paid Wordpress Themes but still Cheap

2009-05-21T03:12:00.000-07:00

Woo Themes -

Kris Allen wins Americal Idol 2009. Now who has the better website?

2009-05-23T02:25:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Kris Allen who had just won American Idol 2009. From a student to a Superstar. Now that's a story. He beat Asam Lambert to win the American Idol crown.

Kris has a fan website(not sure if its his official site) at krisallenation.com. Guess what its hosted on blogger. Same as us buddy. Guess the site creator knows, they're gonna get a ton of traffic and wants to save on bandwidth costs, so they decide to use blogger. Smart move. Put all the traffic burden on Blogger.

Adam Lambert has a website at adamlambert.org

Now here's the question. Who has the better website?

We can compare the 2 websites in terms of design and functionality.

Both websites use a blog tpye layout. Design wise I think the Adam Lambert website is better designed. It looks more edgy and cool.

Function wise, both is about the same. But overall the Adam Lambert site has my vote.

Post your views in my comments section.

Best Tools to use when running your Website Business

2009-05-09T02:28:00.000-07:00

We would like to collect from our readers some of the best tools that they use to run their website. Add your collection on the comments.

Spyre Studios has a great article at http://spyrestudios.com/tools-web-design-business. Check out MAMP Pro tool for running MYSQL & PHP locally, its cool.
The Freelance Folder is a good site that teaches how you can market yourself as a freelancer.
CodeThatMenu is advanced cross-browser state-of-art JavaScript menu control that can be easily integrated in any web page, requires no JavaScript knowledge from the prospective user and comes with the features everybody expects from the modern navigation menu. Builder, FAQ, forum, complete howto gets you going instantly.

HP Showcases World’s First High-Speed, 30” Digital Color Press

2009-05-09T02:09:00.000-07:00

PRESS RELEASE

May 2009

HP has announced developments for its HP Inkjet Web Press platform to help print service providers (PSPs) become more profitable and accelerate their transition from analog to digital printing.

On show at an open house event at Los Angeles-based O’Neil Data Systems–site of the first HP Inkjet Web Press beta installation–the press demonstrates how customers can benefit from market-leading total cost of ownership, excellent productivity and a high level of quality.

Bolstering HP’s efforts to target the $3 billion digital print market opportunity for publishing in 2010, as well as the $13 billion market opportunity for direct mail, transactional and transpromotional printing in 2010, the HP Inkjet Web Press offers:

Addressable printing resolution of 1,200 x 600 dots per inch (dpi) at a full press speed of 400 feet per minute–an industry first for high-volume continuous-feed inkjet production platforms–using the latest generation of HP Thermal Inkjet printheads based on HP Scalable Printing Technology.

Compatibility with a wide range of media types and weights, including uncoated offset stock, newsprint, and treated and coated papers.

Additional information about the productivity and quality advantages offered by the HP Inkjet Web Press are the focus of two new white papers. The white papers, as well as additional details from the open house event at O’Neil Data Systems, are available at http://www.hp.com/go/IHPSopenhouse.

7 Really Practical Ways to Promote Your Website Content on Social Networking Sites

2009-02-06T00:26:00.001-08:00

If you follow this guide and just review it everyday and keep at it, you will get the traffic. The more time you spend on doing this the more traffic you will get. You can install a widget like http://www.feedjit.com/ to your website and monitir the live traffic. If you don't want to work alone, you can always pay lots of people to do it for you. Its called MANAGEMENT. INTERNET MARKETING MANAGEMENT. And remember this "If you BUILD IT and MARKET IT, they will come."

1. ASK ALL YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE FOR YOUR ARTICLE ON DIGG ETC.
Ask your friends to vote for the article you just wrote on digg, redit all other major social bookmarking sites. You want to start with digg first. If you have lots of firends, you can divide your friends up, so that you ask one batch to vote for you on digg & another to vote for you on redit. If you know their interest you can direct them to vote on more niche specific social bookmark sites.

You can do up a list like this to delegate your friends:
Friends to vote you up on digg - Alex, Bob, Carl
Friends to vote you up on Redit - Doug, Earl, Francis

You can use a script like this (See we even provide a script,just cut & paste):
"Hey yall, help vote for my article on digg. Later i will treat you all to drinks at Starbucks. kekeke
Here's the link http://digg.com/design/How_to_choose_the_best_web_hosting_company"

2. BOOKMARK YOUR SITE ON MAJOR SOCIAL BOOKMARK SITES
Delegate and you can hire some people to be the promoter for each bookmark site.
For example

Backflip - Alex

BlinkBits - Bob

Blinklist - Carl

BlogMarks - Doug

BlueDot - Earl

De.lic.ious

Digg

Diigo

Facebook

Furl (Looksmart)

Google Bookmarks

Magnolia

MyWeb Yahoo

Netscape

Netvouz

Newsvine

Popurls

Simpy

Slashdot

Spurl

Squidoo

StumbleUpon

Technorati

YouTube / Flickr (media only)

More sites click here - http://www.socialnetworkingarticles.com/2007/10/24/huge-list-of-social-bookmarking-and-tagging-sites

Here's a trick to improve your PRODUCTIVITY. Use a site called onlywire - http://www.onlywire.com/ which allows you to submit to a ton of social bookmarking site at the press of one button.

ANALYIS REPORT:
Use feedjit - http://www.feedjit.com/ to monitor the amount of traffic that each social bookmark site gives you. And do up a report or spreadsheet like this:

Backflip - Alex - 1 000 000 hits
BlinkBits - Bob - 2 000 000 hits
Blinklist - Carl - 500 000 hits
BlogMarks - Doug - 3 500 000 hits
BlueDot - Earl - 4 000 000 hits

3. USE A VERY FUNNY PIC FOR YOUR AVATAR
Get some funny avatars hereeeeee:
* Avatarist
* Avatars DB
* Forums Extreme
* A Parody Image Generator (really cool for avatars)
* Gizmos (You can animate yourself talking)
* Create My Picture (You can create a picture a cartoon face for an avatar)
* 27 Avatar Makers from Mashable

ANALYIS REPORT:
Experiment with different images and monitor to see which is the most effective. You can do a report like this:
Image 1: Hits went up by 1 000 000 hits
Image 2: Hits went down by 2 000 000 hits
Image 3: Hits went up by 100 000 hits

4. ADD SOCIAL BOOK MARKING BUTTONS TO ALL YOUR ARTICLES
I use AddThis - http://addthis.com/
Use a service which is simple and intuitive to use.

5. WRITE A NOTE ON FACEBOOK AND TAG YOUR FRIENDS.

ANALYSIS REPPORT:
How to choose the right web hosting provider - Tagged Alex, Bob, Carl, Doug - got 1 000 000 hits

<b>6. TAG A PHOTO OF YOUR FRIEND & IN THE COMMENTS SECTION POST YOUR LINK. OR EMBED YOUR WEBSITE LINK INTO THE PHOTO.</b>

You can use this script to post in the comments section:
For more stunning photos click http://www.webhostersz.com/stunningphotos

Then send an email to remind them to check out the Facebook link to their photos.

6. USE A FUNNY VIDEO AND IN THE VIDEO ASK USERS TO CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW IT>
Do a video in the most funny way you can think off and then get the actor to say this line out:
"Hey you know what yall should click on the link below to know more. Really, really just take 1 second click. That's right go on click, go on click it. You know you want to click it."

7. ADD NEW FRIENDS
Add new friends who work in your industry. You can add me at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1517523842&ref=profile. I'm in the Internet marketing and Web Hosting and Web Design Industry

Author: Ali Rahmat
Website: http://www.webhostersz.com/

Ali Rahmat is an expert in Internet Marketing and Social Media Marketing. He helps organisations to REALLY promote themselves on the internet. He runs a website called http://www.webhostersz.com/
If you BUILD IT and MARKET IT, they will come.

3D Art

2009-02-16T20:16:00.001-08:00

3D Art
Here are some links to really good 3D Art sites:

http://fantasyartdesign.com - A good number of fantasy, scifi and nature images.
Amazing 3D Side Walk - this is truly amazing.
3d Artists - The site has an index of some of the best 3D Artist in the world.
WebUrbanist - Looking for some out of the box really creative stuff. Check this out. Its got an urban street feel to it.}Tons of links to other cool sites.
Its made out of money

Its a cake!! Yummy
artist-3d.com - This site has tons of FREE 3D Models. Human models, animal models, Architecture, 3D Furniture. It even has some music making tools.

3D Humans

Nice 3D architecture and interior designs
3dlinks - Lots of samples categorised by themes.

Why didn't you think of these designs?

2009-02-16T21:12:00.001-08:00

Now why didn't you think of these designs? You would be rich by now...

Good Web 2.0 Design: BuzzShout.com

2009-04-21T01:44:00.000-07:00

21 April 2009:

This is a nice example of a very effective Web 2.0 site. Its clean and cool to use. Good stuff BuzzShout.com

Good Web 2.0 Design: mywaves.com

2009-04-21T02:02:00.000-07:00

21 April 2009:

Really cool design from mywaves.com site.

The Ultimate Open Source Guide to Audio and Video Editing

2009-04-21T19:12:00.001-07:00

With these few software which I am about to tell you, you will be able to edit and convert audio, video and music, all for free. That's right zilch zero dollars. Well this is the stuff:

Open Source Video Editor

Jahshaka - If you are familiar with names like Adobe, Alias, Apple, Avid, Discreet, Eyeon, Media100, Newtek, Pinnacle, Sony, Quantel you will be excited to find out that there is an open source, video editing and post-production software that is free to download and start producing great quality video.

Open Source DVD/VCD/Audio CD Burner

InfraRecorder - InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.

Free Audio/Video Converter

SUPER - Convert from the following files mpg, mpg2, mp4, mp3, wmv, wav, ipod, zune, psp, psp3, 3gp nokia, 3gp sony ericsson, swf, flv, wma, gif, mov. What more can you ask for.

Can you seel the power of these few software. Now go enjoy it.