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15 Useful Wordpress Tricks to Make Your Theme Even Better

// July 13th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Code, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, Geeks, I recommend, Tutorial, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, web tools, webmaster, wordpress tutorials


Wordpress is a very powerful CMS (Content Management System). It has tons of capability and can be extremely powerful. There’s only one thing in the way from all of this power and you as the blog owner – your theme. See, no matter how many awesome features such as threaded comments or breadcrumb navigation or even an “edit” link beside each post are added, you’re limited by your theme that you are using. If you theme isn’t “smart” enough to use these features, well, quite frankly, you can’t use them.
This is a post for all the Wordpress theme developers out there. Here are only a few of the many great snippets of code that will take your current theme creation and make it that much better. Please, use them.

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Twitter from Your Outlook Inbox

// July 11th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Applications, Blogging, Featured, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, I recommend, Software, Twitter, Useful, blog, free, web tools


Twitbox

Are you addicted to Twitter, but afraid to use it while you’re at work? Here’s a cure for your addiction! Well, not really a cure… I guess it would be more like throwing fuel on the fire. Now there’s a way for you to post on Twitter directly from your Outlook Inbox for FREE! Not only that but you’ll also be able to read posts from the people you’re following? Sounds great, right?

The app that will let you do all of this for free is called TwInbox. It integrates directly into your Outlook client so that you can both read and post to Twitter… all while looking like you’re sifting through hundreds of emails. The toolbar serves as a quick access point for all of your Twitter needs.

Want to know what all this is capable of? Here’s a list of features:

  • Update your Twitter status directly from Outlook.
  • Receive your friend updates in Outlook.
  • Archive, manage, group and search your tweets the same way you manage your email.
  • Search, track keywords. TwInbox will automatically download ALL tweets matching the keywords you specify, even if you are not following the tweet sender. This feature is perfect for keeping up to date with the Twitter buzz on your name, brand, interests, etc.
  • Group tweets by sender, topic, etc using the Search feature.
  • Upload and post picture files and Outlook email attachments.
  • See new tweets at a glance.
  • Assign custom folder and categories to new messages.
  • Use Outlook’s “Reply” and “ReplyAll” commands to send twitter direct messages and @replies.
  • Automatically sort new tweets into per-sender folders.
  • Shorten URLs with tinyurl.
  • See graphs of your Twitter usage statistics.

Tweets sent to you (@replies and direct) are marked with high importance, so you can see them at a glance.
Honestly, this is the most creative interface I’ve ever seen for managing a Twitter account. When I first saw this I didn’t expect it to do much more than provide a popup box for posting to Twitter. The thing is a full-featured Twitter client right in your Inbox! I could see this being a huge hit in the corporate world… especially for people who are forced to tweet for the company they work for. Pretty much everyone is familiar with Outlook, and this undoubtedly minimizes the learning curve. Not that Twitter is difficult to use, but this makes it feel no different than sending a short email.

I give mad props to the developer(s) for not only creating this, but for also making it free. And, in case you’re wondering, it works with both Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007.

TwInbox Homepage (Windows only; free)




Hatched! Twitter Eggs – Free Twitter icon set

// June 20th, 2009 // 4 Comments » // Blogging, Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, Useful, icon sets, webdesign, webmaster


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These are so damn cute! Which came first the Twitter bird or the egg? Enhance your blog or site with these fun Twitter eggs. Available in PNG format in two sizes: 256 x 256 px and 128 x 128 px.




Another Great Affiliate that actually pays! $$ WPWebHost

// June 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // Affiliate Networking, Blogging, Cool Websites, Design Resources, Featured, For Geeks, Geeks, Hosting, I recommend, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, webmaster


Another Great Affiliate that actually pays! WPWebHost.com I just signed up with them as an affiliate and added a banner to the bottom of my posts using the Shantz WordPress Prefix/Suffix Plugin which I also love by the way.

I earned 70.00 bucks with only 2 referrals and in no time at all.  If your like me when you first found out about affiliate marketing you thought “great I can just add links to my website and I’ll make money”. Well it’s really not that easy.

I’m very picky about the affiliates I add to my website. If I don’t believe in their product I’m not gonna bug my visitors with their ads. If it’s something I think my visitors would be interested in then I’ll sign up and add the banner.  Knowing full well that I’ll probably never see a dime… but I tend to have the “hey what the heck can’t hurt” kind of attitude when it comes to most affiliates.

However there have been only a few affiliates that I have made money off of and those few are The WP Remix Theme, Woo Themes and now WPWebHost! The cool thing about WPWebHost is you can create and track your own affiliate links! Which is not something most of the Wordpress theme affiliates allow you to do.

WPWebHost also offers tier linking which basically means you can make money from other affiliates who sign up under you.. and no that is not why I’m promoting them. I’m promoting them because I made money and money is is always fun to share! SIGN UP TODAY!
 wpwebhost

Plus their client list is pretty impressive.. well if your familiar with some of the designers who blog that is..

WPWebHost Clients:

Design Shard is now Hosted with WPWebHost and its been a really great experience so far, support is fast at responding to questions about their hosting and about Wordpress, the features of there servers are better than what I was on at Godaddy! I would recommend them with confidence if your thinking of changing hosts.”
- Max Stanworth, Design Shard

Check out what they have to offer for only 5 bucks a month!!




10 New Social Networking Icon Sets

// June 15th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Facebook, Graphic Design, Graphics, Icons, Rss Feed Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, Useful, icon sets, webdesign, webmaster


I’m constantly looking for new social networking icon sets to post but they are few and far between. Good ones at least.

Here are 10 social networking icon sets.  A few of them are new to me and a few are not.But all of them are cool.

Make sure to do a search for social networking icons on my website. I’ve posted a ton of them. Also if you know of any new sets that have not been posted here.. pleeze let me know!

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Curly Vector Social Icons




5 Social networking icons, brush sets and shapes!

// June 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogging, Design, Facebook, For Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, Icons, Photoshop, RSS Feeds, Rss Feed Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, free, icon sets


New social networking icon sets & even a few social networking icon brush sets and shapes!

Tweet Tweet Cute Tweet: Another Free Twitter Bird Icon

Free Heart Social Networking Icon Set

Social Media Grungy Watercolor Brushes

Make your own grungy social networking icon set to
match your blog!

Free Social Networking Hand Drawn Photoshop Shapes

Free Set of Social Networking Coffee Stain Icons




“WHITE MAGIK” – Free Social Networking Icon Set

// May 31st, 2009 // Comments Off // Blogging, Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, Facebook, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, Icons, RSS Feeds, Rss Feed Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, Useful, free, icon sets, web tools, webdesign, webmaster


“WHITE MAGIK” – Free Social Networking Icon Set

New set of icons “WHITE MAGIK” in .PNG format. But please link us back if you use it to chethstudios.blogspot.com.White Magik is perfect for white minimalistic sites and can be used with image hover for excellent looks!


So cute!




Gorilla themes – Premium Wordpress Themes

// May 28th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Design Resources, I recommend, Magazine Theme, Premium Wordpress Themes, Social Network, Useful, Website Templates, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, webdesign


Smooth 


Smooth is a Real Estate WordPress theme, complete with Google Maps Integration, that offers a professional and extremely affordable solution for Realtors and Agents to showcase their properties with ease.
The Smooth Real Estate theme is one of the most affordable and professional solutions for Realtors and agents on the market.

Open House

Open House is highly customizable Real Estate WordPress theme with Google Maps Integration, offers a professional look for Agents and Realtors that want to build a website around the WordPress platform Compatible with American and European Markets.

 

Tribal

Sound the beat-box and let the rhythms flow. Introducing Tribal.
Tribal is our new urban WordPress music / media theme.  It is big city meets grunge meets music. Be different. Get Tribal.    

AffiliatePress – FREE

 

AffiliatePress – FREE is intended to assist you in starting your own affiliate website. Start making extra income selling Gorilla themes  (25% per sale) or any products on the net that have an affiliate program. This theme is very easy to use and requires no custom fields to use.

This theme is WordPress 2.71 compatible and comes with a variety of extra features you don’t receive with most free themes

The Bel Air

The Bel Air (Single Agent) is our first Real Estate Theme for WordPress.  Easy for Real Estate Agents – not WordPress Gurus.  A professional solution that you can purchase at an affordable price.
Click here to visit Gorilla Themes website!

Vanity

A fresh and flexible magazine theme for building a Celebrity-Fashion-Gossip oriented website with 2 different styles, Aqua and Pink. The theme is packed full of features with a Carousel Article Slider for Top Stories, Banner Campaign Management, Flickr, Video and Feedburner integration, ready for submission of stories to the most popular social network sites with plugin integration.

 




OIO Publisher – Let advertisers buy space on your site without lifting a finger – WP Plugin

// May 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Coupons, For Geeks, I recommend, Useful, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Themes, web tools, webmaster


Put your advertising income on autopilot.

OIO Publisher OIO Publisher is a very user-friendly and easy to use Wordpress plugin that lets advertisers buy space on your site without you having to lift a finger.  All you have to do is set the plugin up by setting the types of spaces you want to sell, for example, banners, text-links, or inline ads in each of your front page posts and setting the price for each.  You’ll also have to fill in a few other details, such as how long an advertiser can rent the space and your Paypal ID.  That’s basically it.  Now all you’ll have to do is click the “approve” button anytime someone submits their link / banner to the site.

This is basically the same concept as the publisher program , except, OIO Publisher has one major advantage… no middle-man.  Text-Link-Ads has this nasty habit of taking 50% of the money you earn for themselves, those greedy bastards…  With OIO Publisher, all the money that you earn goes directly into your Paypal account, it’s great.  ForTheLose.org has already sold two banner slots and one text-link slot.  If you want to advertise your site / product here, just check under “Advertise Here” on the sidebar to see what we have open.

Flexible

  • install OIOpublisher as a Wordpress plugin or a stand alone platform
  • sell all forms of text ads, banner ads, and paid reviews
  • custom purchases also allow you to sell digital products
  • display ads on any website you like using php or javascript
  • click and impression tracking, plus weekly ad reports emailed to advertisers
  • integrated marketplace helps you sell your ads

Customizable

  • break ads into zones, display ads easily over multiple sites
  • no empty spaces, show your own default ads until slots are purchased
  • convert website visitors to sales staff using the inbuilt affiliate program
  • developers can easily add more functionality using modules
  • use the ad manager on an unlimited number of sites (providing you own them)
  • submit an unlimited number of your sites to our ad marketplace
  • earn 50% commission on all sales of OIOpublisher, via our affiliate program

Where can I get it?

Even if you aren’t sure if you want the plugin, check out the homepage of it anyway for more info.  It does cost you a one-time payment of $47 for unlimited use of the plugin.  You can use it on all the sites you want.  BUT…and this is a big “but”… if you buy it now and use the coupon code “INDIGO-BLOGGER”, you get $10 off of the full price, meaning you only pay $37!  Trust me, OIO Publisher will pay for itself in just a few days..  I’m not sure when this coupon code expires, so even if you can’t use the OIO Publisher right now, get it anyway for the future before the coupon goes bad or even worse – if the price goes up.

To get $10 off this plugin (and buy it for only $37.00), use the following coupon code when purchasing: INDIGO-BLOGGER.

So what are you waiting for? Go use one of these coupons on OIO Publisher right now before they expire!




30 Tutorials On Converting A PSD To XHTML And CSS

// May 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Artists Shoutouts, Blogging, Cool Links, Cool Websites, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, Geeks, Graphic Design, I recommend, The Best of.., Tutorial, Website Templates, web tools, webdesign, webmaster


30 of the best tutorials on web for converting A PSD to a XHTML & CSS layout. These tutorials you will learn the process on how to create a Photoshop web layout and be able to convert it into a valid XHTML & CSS web page. The tutorials are a step by step process which are easy to follow and keep up with.

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Cute & Bright Social Networking Icon Set

// May 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogging, Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, Desktop Icons, For Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, Icons, free, icon sets


Cute and bright free social networking icon set 

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Make Money with Wordpress Remix Theme Affiliate

// May 24th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Blogging, Cool Websites, For Geeks, Premium Wordpress Themes, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, webmaster


I’m always looking for ways to make extra money online because lets face it there’s money to be made! Wether it be by freelancing my web design skills or affiliate marketing or selling stuff on Ebay.. it can be done. Or so I’ve been told. Right? 

It’s taken my over a year to get half way to 100 bucks using Google adwords ads. Haha! Not a huge winner.

But.. In March I made something like $350 as an WP Remix Themes Affiliate . Shocking I know. My site was down most of April and half of May so I’ve only made 100 this month but I’m telling you that is a first for me.

I just wish I was WP Remix and not just their affiliate. Their theme is awesome so it’s not shocking that people are snatching them up.

I’ve made a few sales here and there selling other premium themes but nothing like this. So, if you have a design bog I recommend signing up as an affiliate and adding a banner to your site. You might make a few extra bucks.

Have you found anything online that’s brought you luck as far as making money with your site or otherwise? Share!! Please!

 

Check out these posts about Making Money Online:

Balkthis.com - Make Money Online

Problogger.net - Make Money Blogging

Bloggerunleashed.com - Make Money Online

Conversationmarketing.com - 5 Ways Your Blog Can Make Money

Dailyblogtips.com - 28 Ways to Make Money with Your Website 




Fun with Twitter: Twittereader.com & Twitterbuttons.com

// May 18th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, Icons, RSS Feeds, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, free, web tools, webmaster


TwitteReader.com

Check out TwitteReader, a new and free service which turns Twitter into something resembling Google Reader. 

Once you’ve plugged in your username and password, it presents the latest tweets as individual feed items, which you can cruise through either by reading the short snippets (a la Google Reader) or expanding them out to full posts with a click.

Just like Google Reader and Gmail, you can move up and down the list with the same J and K keyboard shortcuts. You can also star items, which adds them to your Twitter favorites list. The application keeps track of what you’ve read and what you haven’t, which, depending on how many people you’re following, could be useful. If a system like Google Reader’s trends were to be applied to this you could see which people’s updates you’re not reading and cut them out of your followers list.

Of course the obvious must be stated here–you can simply take the RSS feed of your friends provided by Twitter and plug it into Google Reader to accomplish something quite similar. TwitteReader’s killer feature, however, is that it lets you post and reply to messages from each post, just like you would in Twitter.

 

Twitterbuttons.com

http://www.twitterbuttons.com

http://www.twitterbuttons.com

 

http://www.twitterbuttons.com


Check out Twitterbuttons.com!




Cybers Ebay Wordpress Plugin

// May 18th, 2009 // No Comments » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Code, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, I recommend, Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Themes, web tools, webdesign, webmaster, wordpress tutorials


Cybers Ebay Wordpress Plugin

The eBay Wordpress Plugin is finally available.

The eBay plugin is very simple but effective. Once installed you input your EbayNetwork Campaign number into the settings, and how many ads you want to appear on each post.

Place the code <?php cybersebay(); ?> within the Wordpress loop and you are set.

The first time you use the plugin you will add a Custom Field to your post with the Key name, ebay. And use the value to hold the keyword for this post to import eBay ads. From here on out, whenever you write a post, you can select the custom field key, ebay from the pulldown list and add the keyword you wish to show listings for.

Below is an example from another site. The article is titled “Fun Stocking Stuffers” and the keyword for eBay is “Christmas Stocking Stuffers”

Click for full size screenshot

During my testing of the plugin I received a $27 click, and that is certainly the highest valued click I have ever received !

And it is ONLY $9.95 !!

Buy Now

High Roller Black Theme

High Roller Black

Release Date: March 30, 2009
Latest version: 1.0
Wordpress Version Up To: WP 2.7.1

Features:

The High Roller Theme for wordpress is a highly customized theme for your gambling affiliate website.

Here are some of the features:

  • Custom top casino/poker room table
  • Customize index page images and posts in seconds
  • Hide affiliate links and track outgoing hits
  • Custom banner management system with click tracking
  • Custom review and bonus templates
  • Custom room management system
  • Customize index page images and posts in seconds
  • Very clean and professional design




How To Be A Rockstar WordPress Designer

// May 18th, 2009 // No Comments » // Admin Tools, Affiliate Networking, Blogging, Code, Design, Design Resources, I recommend, Premium Wordpress Themes, Tutorial, Useful, Website Templates, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, web tools, webdesign, webmaster, wordpress tutorials


How To Be A Rockstar WordPress Designer

Managing web content has always been tricky, but with WordPress, any web designer can have a flexible, free and powerful CMS to use not just on blogging projects, but on all sorts of websites. In How To Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer you will learn step by step how to take a straight HTML site and power it with WordPress.During the course of the book you’ll build THREE WordPress themes, a blog, a portfolio site and a general site with menus and submenus. Each theme demonstrates different aspects of WordPress theming and all three are packaged with the book so you’ll have Photoshop, HTML, CSS and WordPress PHP files to refer to..

The book is aimed at anyone with a solid understanding of HTML/CSS. You don’t need to know PHP, you don’t need to have ever even touched WordPress before. The examples begin from scratch and build on each other, while basic PHP principles that are used are explained in an easy to understand manner.If you’ve ever wanted to get started with WordPress theming, or you’re looking to take your skills to the next level with advanced theming concepts, this is the book for you!

Price: 29.00 USD

You are buying this product directly from Rockable Press. Please contact Rockable Press for ANY questions related to this product or purchase.

212 Pages of Expert
Freelancing Advice

Covering everything from getting started to expanding your business, How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer is the official Freelance Switch book. Written by Collis & Cyan Ta’eed – the founders of the site – it’s packed with new information, advice and insights not covered on the blog.

If you want to start your freelance career the right way, then How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer will give you everything you need to become the best freelancer in town!




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