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Looking for freelance gigs? Checkout our favorites… 2008-04-29 15:28:27 Finding freelance gig’s can be a difficult task sometimes, especially when anyone that knows the basics of browsing the web can easily “claim” they are a professional web designer. These website’s might not land you the 3k+ contracts (normally don’t), but they sure do come in handy when business is slow and your [...] Read more:Checkout
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Web Designer Resources for the Novice to Advanced 2008-04-29 14:06:03 BEGINNER RESOURCES
SiteKreator - You can instantly design, build and host a fully-branded website for personal or business use.
Leafletter - Allows you to create a “little web site” that you can then distribute anywhere (social networks, blogs, other websites).
SynthaSite - Browser-based website creation tool that allows you to collaborate with friends or colleagues. Also has lots [...] Read more:Designer
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Top Open Source Freebies 2008-04-29 14:01:01 Open Source
Web Design Programs
Why pay for software if you can find it free? Usually, the answer is that the free stuff just plain isn’t any good. You won’t find that to be the case with the open source web design software programs in this section, however, which are all the best of the [...] Read more:Freebies
Huge list of Tooltips | Javascript, CSS, Tons of examples… 2008-04-30 23:25:09 This is our Top list of ToolTips. You’ll find ToolTips using javascript/css, just css, and wordpress plugins.
Nice Titles - A revision of the original Nice Titles script.
Help Balloon - Help balloon from BeauScott
Jquery Tooltip
Qtip - Only 2K in size, removes title attribute on mouse over to eliminate overlaps, parses HTML in the titles, Bloat [...]
Our Top List of Web 2.0 generators and templates 2008-04-30 19:20:15 Website’s dedicated to providing web 2.0 templates, tools, and generators for creating quick and easy logo’s, badges, and other graphic media.
LogoTemplater - Creating free blank logos templates and free vector art images in Adobe Illustrator EPS files for free download.
Web20Badges - They are probably one of the most popular trends in Web 2.0 time. It’s [...]
TypeTester - Compare font’s side by side online 2008-04-30 18:57:01 We figured we’d share this one with our community, it’s called “TypeTester”. It is an online
resource for comparing screen font’s side by side. We’ve found it to be a useful tool in certain situations, let us know how it goes TypeTester - The Typetester is an online application for comparison of [...] Read more:Compare
WhatsItsColor.com - Need to find an image’s primary colors? 2008-04-30 18:49:47 Finding complementary and primary colors for a pre-existing site or image can be a very daunting task. This utility comes in handy and can save you a bundle of time. It scans any image that you upload (or you can choose a url) and it tells you what color’s work best with it, [...]
WhatTheFont? Great site for figuring out what font was used… 2008-04-30 15:19:29 Have you ever wanted to find out what font was used in a flattened image? A font just like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ad campaigns? Well now you can, using the WhatTheFont font recognition system. All you do is upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest [...] Read more:Great
Find the exact center of an image in photoshop 2008-05-03 22:33:09 We've set up this tutorial to show you an easy little way to find the absolute (true) center of a layer or image in photoshop. There are a few other ways of doing this, but this is a pretty quick an easy way we figured we'd share with you.
Spock (beta) a cool “people search” site 2008-05-03 14:57:40 Came across a pretty neat "people
search" website, called Spock
. It's still in its beta stages, but its a pretty neat site that bring up thumbnails with results which makes it a lot easier for determining if the results are exactly what you want. Its a pretty fun tool to use when your either looking for information on someone, or just fiddling around in your down time.
Check it out at Spock.com
Freelance: Determining your hourly rate, easy solution… 2008-05-03 13:45:06 Sometimes it can be a little confusing and difficult to figure out what your hourly rate should be. Should you base your's off of everyone else? Obviously NOT, this is not only would this be unfair to both you and your clients, but you could totally screw yourself in the end. We found a pretty cool Freelance
Calculator over at Freelanceswitch.com that provides you with an easy solution to finding that perfect number. All you do is fill out a few simple form fields (estimate's if need be) and it will spit out what you should charge your clients, while keeping everything balanced out at the bank.
Check it out at The Simple Calculator
57 Blog servers that you should ping 2008-05-03 12:51:14 We've compiled this list of (57) blog server's that allow pinging. You should modify your blog setting's to automatically ping the following blog's after ever post is created. Please feel free to add to this list, as this certainly isn't even close to all of them.
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WordPress admin password lost? Reset it with this script. 2008-05-02 21:45:00 I came across a neat little script
over at Village-Idiot.org that makes resetting your wordpress admin password extremely simple. All you need is ftp access to your wordpress site. All you do is upload the emergency.php file to your wordpress root directory and then access it using your web browser. Then you just enter your username and the password you want, and it automatically overwrites the existing admin password to your new one. This can save you from such a big hassle. Just be sure to remove the file after your done, considering anyone can go to that file and reset your password. Two versions below:
Download "emergency.php" for WordPress
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