Joining an affiliate program is one way of earning from the Internet. When you become an affiliate marketer, you actually market products online that come from manufacturers, companies, or product dev…
Affiliate Marketing Techniques To Successfully Market Products Online
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Redesign 2010
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I really don’t PLAN to redesign every year. It just seems that I’m happy with a design for only a year or so, and then something I see strikes me and I’ve suddenly got redesign fever. This time, it was a font- League Gothic. I have long been a fan of Trade Gothic, especially in it’s bold condensed form, but I just cannot spend almost $300 for a font, no matter how much I like it. So, when I discovered League Gothic, I did a little happy dance and promptly decided to redesign my site around it.
This design is probably more “me” than any in the past, clean and simple, lots of color and some unexpected touches here and there. I always have a hard time deciding on just one color scheme, so with this design, there are several color schemes and each time a page is loaded a random one is chosen. Also, I’ve gone with a bit less focus on the blog and more on my work.
Thanks, as always, for visiting my little corner of the world- I appreciate it!
Simple PHP Review
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If you have sat down at your computer and read information on PHP you may have been left with the feeling that you are not even sure what you read. When you decide to make the investment in Simple PHP…
Pre-Order WordPress Bundle for $80 and Win a 16GB iPad
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Grab the full WordPress Themes Bundle for only $80, plus your chance to win an iPad with WPBundle. The special offer is only available until July 4th 2010 and could even win you a brand new 16GB Wi-Fi iPad.
Grab A Bargain and a Chance to Win.
Back our project & Pre-Order to enter. Not only will you be helping support our project, but you’ll be grabbing the Bundle at only $80. That works out currently at less than $10 per theme. This is a special pre-order price and is only available until July 4th 2010.
Anybody who wants to be a part of the project and buys the Bundle at this price will also be among the list of potential winners for the iPad 16GB Wi-FI. Only backers who pledge $80 for the Bundle or more are eligible.
On top of this there are multiple rewards available for anybody backing the project, read about the rewards on the KickStarter page. Learn more about WPBundle or just Enter the Competition.
The Details
The model we are giving away is the iPad 16GB Wi-Fi. Anyone who is on, or joins the list of backers will be in with a chance of winning. If the project on KickStarter gets 100% funding or more, we’ll look through the list of backers on July 4th 2010 at 7:07 EDT, and chose one lucky person at Random. This lucky winner will then receive an iPad with their WPBundle as it becomes available, or we could even arrange to have it delivered earlier.
We will record a video screencast of the selection just to make it fair, and we’ll ask if possible for the winner to send us a picture of them with the iPad when it arrives at their home.
Help Share this & Make your Pledge Count.
As we need the project to reach 100% funding before we can pick a winner we need as many pre-orders as possible to make your 80$ pledge count, we’d love it if you could help by tweeting about this offer or sharing the URL: www.wpbundle.com/ipad/ with a small few people who you think might actually be interested in the offer.
Creating 10 Most-Used Javascript Techniques Using Pure CSS Styling
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Whatever content we have, we can present them in an interactive & more responsive ways with CSS styling only. In this article we’d like to present 10 Impressive techniques using pure CSS styling to create simple and interactive website without using Javascript at all.
How To Create a Pure CSS Polaroid Photo Gallery
Learn how to build a cool looking stack of Polaroid photos with pure CSS styling. Basic CSS is used to style up the photos into a Polaroid style images, then some additional styling with shadows and rotation are injected, then z-index property is used to alter the stacking order of all the objects.
Bubble Effect with CSS
You might be familiar with the plugin jQuery Dock which allows developers to create a menu like Apple Dock. Now, you will create a similar menu with bubble effect by using CSS only. Although it doesn’t have as smooth of an effect as jQuery Dock, it’s helpful for those that just want to make a cool menu by using pure CSS. This tutorial includes two methods: CSS sprites (basic) and the image swapping (advanced).
Text Rotation With CSS
Many of the popular browsers of today support the ability to rotate HTML elements. We can make it work in Internet Explorer (back to version 5.5 even). This tutorial explains this technique step by step.
Create a JQuery Content Slider Using Pure CSS
Learn how to create a working example without the aid of JavaScript, using layers in CSS and using CSS3 transitions to give the slider the necessary animation.
Pure CSS Timeline
Learn how to build a CSS timeline while using some clean and simple markup. The result is a simple and clean looking timeline with some very straight forward markup. The result is a simple and clean looking timeline out of CSS and HTML.
Pure CSS Vignette
A vignette effect is a discoloration on the edges of an image. This effect usually appears in photography and it can be either accidental or intentional. It can also be either light or dark, depending on the situation.
Pure CSS Animated Progress Bar
Here’s a simple demonstration of how you can create animated progress bar using pure css.
How to Create a Valid Non-Javascript Lightbox
A JavaScript free lightbox with valid markup. The trick in this tutorial is opening and closing the lightbox. To do that, you have to know that linking to an element that is hidden off the page causes the element to be “pulled” into view as opposed to the window jumping down to that element. So with that in mind you can change the href values of the content links to the ID values of the lightboxes and create a new #close element that the close buttons will link to.
Accordion using only CSS
An accordion effect can be achieved using CSS3’s :target pseudo-class-webkit-transition property this accordion can also be animated.
Snazzy Hover Effects Using CSS
This tutorial will go over creating flexible advanced hover techniques using CSS2.1 properties. We’ll be using these key CSS property, pseudo-classes, and pseudo-element to accomplish our technique:
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contentRather than create unnecessary mark-up to display our caption, we’ll use CSS generated content to add the caption. -
:hover/,:focusLets us show/hide the caption overlay with our mouse/keyboard. -
:afterUsed in conjunction with the content property to dynamically append our caption content and layout.
This was just a bit of fun. So what now? Well, it would be great to see if anyone can come up with a nice pure CSS solution! If you have one, please share.
CherryPy: Bringing Rapidness and Ease to Web Applications Development
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One of the popular web application frameworks these days is CherryPy. This framework is suitable for rapid development of sophisticated and extensive web applications that otherwise takes more time an…
Get best results in your online business with e-commerce solutions India
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Web development in India is a very expansive industry that comprise of a variety of web services connected with the web world. And one amongst these services is the web designing. Besides development …
PHP2Ranjan is a freelance Web design and web development service provider
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PHP2Ranjan is a software training and web development company, offering Php/MySQL training, CMS (Joomla/ Drupal) development, web designing, Search Engine Optimization and complete web solutio…
Web development in Australia is setting up a robust IT service sector
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The Internet has become the hub of all business across the world. Every enterprise, big and small alike, is setting up a web representative for catering maximum customers individually. Any organizatio…
Elsewhere on the Web – Interview Edition No. 2
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Things have been fairly quiet here on the blog recently – but it hasn’t been for lack of writing!
This last month, I’ve been asked to participate in several interviews (including a yet to be published group interview). If you’ve always wanted to know more about the face behind iDesign Studios, you’ve come to the right place!
Below is a bit of a sneak peek into more in-depth interviews at Michaelbox and The Geek Talk that answer a few questions about who I am, what I do, some of my favorite practices in web design and freelancing, as well as a few off-the-wall questions…
Anyone up for a game of Rock / Paper / Scissors? LOL
Michaelbox
By Michael Beckwith – May 12, 2010
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- Who are you and what do you do?
- What is one thing that you would love to see available in a default wordpress install, that isn’t presently there?
- Where were you on the night of February 30th, 2002? Don’t try to lie your way out of this one, we have leads saying you were fraternizing, with Curlz MT Font!
- You are also a twitterholic, along with Grace Smith, but attended last week’s meeting only after a heavy amount of arm twisting. Who are some people that you think everyone should follow?
- You are stranded on a desert island and find a bottle and blank piece of parchment to be used for a rescue message. What font would you use for the message?
- What are a couple things you miss about any 9–5 cubicle life that you’ve experienced? It would be hard to argue that there are no benefits to that career path over a freelancing path.
- When birds stand on power lines and don’t get hurt, it’s most likely because of…
- Do you have any personal quotes that you’d like to share with the internet?
- What CSS3/HTML5 elements have you wiggling in your chair the most?
- Can you recall any client moments that really made you go *facepalm*?
- If you were an LOLCat, what would be your caption?
- Favorite Internet Meme?
- If you could visit any art age in the past, which would you choose and for how long?
- It’s the showdown to end all showdowns, the battle of epic proportions! It’s brought kingdoms down to their knees and made once-brave warriors tremble in fear! It’s Pirates vs Ninjas dueling to the death in Rock/Paper/Scissors. Which side are you on and which hand do you throw?
- Any closing comments or thoughts?
The Geek Talk
By The Geek Talk – May 19, 2010
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- Do you have a personal Brand?
- How do you find design inspiration and colours for a new project?
- What does your typical day look like?
- What do you do in your free time?
- Current favorite apps?
- What OS do you prefer?
- Small picture for your Workplace?
- Favorite: Color, Font, Language, JS Framework?
- Name something that has inspired you recently?
- What do you prefer (and why)? Freelance work or full time employment?
- What are your personnel projects and goals for 2010?
Looking for More?
I’ve been very fortunate to have been asked to write guest posts for several blogs and participate in other interviews over the last few years. If you’re curious, you can view those guest posts and interviews, read my biography, or even find out how to pronounce my name. Yes, I get just about every pronunciation imaginable – except the correct one, of course!
Saying Thanks!
It goes without saying that I’d like to thank Michaelbox and The Geek Talk for taking the time to include me in their interview series! I hope you’ll have a look at the posts to find out more about me, and the other great designers these sites have featured, as well!
