Free Online Resources for Designers and Developers - All Tested and 100% Diva/Geek approved! Here is a list of some useful and fun websites that will help you work and live life online… ENJOY!
Here is a list of web-based image editors that I found to be the coolest.
Web based editors allow you to make changes to an image from anywhere without having to install applications for example when you are not at home or on your laptop. Or for support techs like me -- I work with Financial Advisors helping them develop their own websites and most of them have no use for photoshop and asking them to download a program like Infranview just to crop or resize one picture for their website would be illogical - so I'm always looking for easy to use web based image editors to link them to...which brings me to why I researched this topic and wrote this post. :) I hope some of you also find it useful.
Meta-tags are used by search engines to correctly index and rank web sites. The most important meta tags are the keywords meta tags and the description meta tags and both are essential for any well-built site.
When you create a website and you submit it to the search engines, the search engines "spiders" are sent out to "crawl" the site and attempt to correctly index it based on the information it provides. They do this based on several things including the keywords in the content and in the meta tags. Each search engine indexes web sites according to their own algorithms. Some place emphasis on the description tag, such as AltaVista. Other search engines, like Exactseek, are meta tag purists, as stated in their user policy: “Your site will not be added if it does not have Title and Meta description tags.”
Recently, some search engines have downplayed the importance of meta tags due to spam. Some SEO “specialists” were keyword stuffing their tags with irrelevant information, just to get traffic. To penalize this abuse, some search engines don’t assign too much weight to the keywords in meta tags, but they still check to make sure they are relevant.
Pixlr is a free online photo editor. Fix, adjust and filter your images. Manage your images in your browser, no registration jump right in!
Pixlr is a flash based web app that combines image design and paint tools with photo editing and adjustment features more convincingly than any other online image editing program. Whether creating an logo, layering one image over another or using a variety of filters, effects and level adjustments to transform photographs, Pixlr is equally capable of producing results on par with many of its software-based counterparts.
Yet, despite its deep feature-set, Pixlr remains facile, intuitive and, most importantly, user-friendly. Did I mention FREE?
Standout Features:
• A fully customizable user interface with movable and scalable windows
• Navigation-free drop-down menus featuring all filters, adjustment and layering options
• Intuitive design and paint features with a dedicated history window for reference and quick undo/redo
• A “Photo Express” portal for quick, simple changes to images and photographs
• dozens of filters and effects to give photos a stylish effect.
Oh and it's FREE and Online!
I totally Dig It!! I've never been impressed with online image editors but this one actually got it. So, if you like Photoshop and you need to create some basic simple logos, banners, image cropping etc.. Check it out.
When I started really getting into the whole online social thing it all began with Live Journal and a community I started called Dreamyicons. We held icon contests based on themes. Now the community is just members posting icons that they've created..no more contests. So you'll notice a lot of the icons have themes and you'll also notice a lot of adult themed icons. I love pin-up art so.. I hope your eyes are not offended by sexy chicks.
All Your Tweets Belong To Us - Resource links being tweeted about today... Follow me and you will see..
You really need to check out Soup.io! if you haven't already. I just found it tonight and thought I had stepped into heaven...
I recently started using the UBD Block Ad Plugin for WordPress and I really like it. It’s super easy to configure. The plugin comes with a user interface that allows you to manage your advertisers banner ads in your sidebar and you can add up to 10 at a time. It gives you the ability ...
Here is a list of 18 of the hottest music sites and social networking music sites online right now. I hope you find it useful. It took me forever to put together..but I found some really cool website’s in the process. Enjoy! Last.fm – is another Web 2.0 veteran and is more socially-slanted than ...
I’m so bored with the video game selection that’s out right now. I’ve either played it or I don’t want to play it. My all time favorite games are Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Silent Hill , Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, MassEffect (wallpaper), Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion…etc. Basically think of ...
Flock is so bad ass..It seems I find a new feature on Flock everyday that makes me go “WOW that’s cool”. _ For example I took this screen shot with Flocks built in screenshot tool that allows you to select clips and snap away. _ It has a built in Blog editor so I can ...
Check out these adorable T-shirts at 80stees.com! These are the ones I want. :) I'll be adding them to my checklist of things to buy online.
made some fast live journal icons using their t-shirt thumbnails..

Women in our society are constantly trying to live up to a level of beauty that is sold to them through fashion mags, TV and movies..what we all might not realize is how much of that beauty is a computer generated.
Fantasy women that real women could never measure up too.
I think these pictures are an eye opener and goes to show just how incredibly fooled we all are by the media. We've been bamboozled!