This is E-Commerce wordpress theme launched by templatic.com. The theme is targeted for the online shopping store .The theme includes a flashy jQuery slider on the page based homepage, in-depth theme optional panel, optional blog style structure and 6 colour scheme options.
Photoland is a premium WordPress theme from WPZoom .This theme is specially designed for portfolio, photography, photo blog or showcase websites. The color combination and layout of the page is great. The photosilder is the unique part and featured part of this theme.
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URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web where a provider makes a web page available under a very short URL in addition to the original address.
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Easy availability of thousands of Plugins and support are one of the reason behind success of WordPress. In case if you find trouble with then don’t panic because there are hundred thousands of developers for your support via forums, blog posts. But wait, there are thousands of plugins in WordPress Plugin directory; Do you need them all? Simple answer is NO. The selection of plugin depends on the requirement of the project. For e.g; I use WP125 plugin for ads et cetera.
I am making a list of plugins that I use frequently in my most of the projects and recommend buyers to use.
After two months long work, StudioPress finally come up with a bang with new Genesis Theme Framework. Along with it, they have released two child themes Executive and Mocha to add up design flavor and extensibility to core theme. Overall, it looks great addition to theme list. As per them, new framework is created keeping BuddyPress extensibility in mind. I won’t be surprised if they offer BuddyPress theme using this framework.
Theme Junkie released clean news premium WordPress theme. The theme named ‘Portal‘ includes features like auto thumbnail generation, featured content slider, built in advertising, theme option panel and more.
Price:
- Standard Package: $19.95
- All Theme Package: $49.95
This theme is best for those who are searching Wordpress theme for Online newspaper. This transcript theme is very attactive in design.All the subjects related to newspaper are well managed and properly positioned.The color combination and layout of page are things to be noted . I liked this theme very much. If i get any projects for online news paper i will recommend this theme.
You can buy this theme from gabfirethemes
The price is $59 standard price.
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Click here to see the demo of this theme.
WordPress is undoubtly the most used Content Management System in the web today. Actually it was developed for personal blogging purpose and latter on people started using it as CMS . Its simplicity, plugins availability has made it so popular among the programmers and designers that most of the sites are now days powered by WordPress. And I myself is one of the who uses it from blogging to CMS.
Here, I am going to list top 5 sites which uses WordPress as CMS. This is my personal list. What is yours?
The Wall Street Journal is an English-language international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, in New York City, with Asian and European editions.
This is the online Magazine from the Wall Street Journal.
2. National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic Society is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. The National Geographic Magazine is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. And this is the dutch version which uses wordpress as CMS.
3. Mozilla Labs
Mozilla is one of the most used browser in the internet.This is the official site of mozilla which uses WordPress to showcase its new projects in a way that is visually appealing and easy to navigate.
Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and currently comprises ten separate academic units. It is also the first and oldest corporation in the United States. This university uses WordPress to power the Harvard Gazette’s entire website.
Easton Sports, Inc. is a privately owned manufacturer, marketer and distributor of sporting equipment, headquartered in Van Nuys, California.
This is the official site of the Easton Hockey Company and is powered by Wordpress.
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Time and again while working on many web projects I’m sometime in dilemma to choose platform for the development. There’re many open source CMS tools that can be used to deploy the site. I can’t say which one is best one because each one has their own sets of features/functionalities. Here are my picks.
1. Wordpress
WordPress is now the most popular open source blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL which can also be used for basic content management. It has many features including a user-friendly workflow, a rich plugin architecture, and an advanced templating system.
It is being used by more than 202 million websites worldwide.
Quick Info about WP
- Developer(s):Matt Mullenweg, Ryan Boren, Donncha O Caoimh
- Latest version:2.9.1
- Operating system:Cross-platform
- Platform:PHP
- Type: Weblog software/CMS
- Size:zip file — 2.2 MB
- Official Website:wordpress.org
Click here to download.
2. Joomla
Joomla is one of the most popular open source content management system (CMS), which enables us to build Web sites and powerful online applications. It is written in PHP, stores data in MySQL and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.
Quick Info about Joomla
- Developer(s):The Joomla Core Team
- Latest version:Joomla! 1.5.x
- Platform:PHP
- Operating system:Cross-platform
- Size:6.4 MB
- Type:CMS software
- Website:www.joomla.org/
Click here to download
3. Drupal
Drupal is another very popular free and open source Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.Drupal allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.
Quick Info about Drupal
- Developer(s):Dries Buytaert
- Latest version:Drupal 6.15
- Platform:PHP
- Operating system:Cross-platform
- Size:1 MB
- Type:CMS software
- Website:drupal.org
Click here to download
4. MODx
MODx is another popular free, open source content management system and web application framework for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets. MODx is licensed under the GPL. MODx is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database.
Quick Info about MODx
- Developer(s):MODx team
- Latest version:Evolution 1.0.2
- Platform:PHP
- Operating system:Cross-platform
- Type: Content Management System
- Size:modx-1.0.2.zip – 3.6 MB
- Website:modxcms.com
Click here to download
5. DotNetNuke
DotNetNuke is leading web content management system (CMS) and application development framework for Microsoft .NET.It is written in VB.NET and distributed under both a Community Edition BSD-style license and a Professional Edition commercial license
Quick Info about DotNetNuke
- Developer(s):DotNetNuke Corporation
- Latest version:DotNetNuke Community Edition
- Platform:ASP.NET / Microsoft Windows / SQL Server
- Type: Content Management System
- Website:DotNetNuke.com
Click here to download
[Disclosure: My Favorite pick is WordPress.]
We always want to see a unique site with well maintained contents. The time has gradually changed the design and contents of the websites. Now most of us want to see more interactive, informative and well maintained web designs. Every web designer has their own unique design and always put their trade mark in it. Here i am going to show 5 websites from japan that may inspire us to change ourself in design.
1. Idemitsu Kosan
Go Green, This is the message I get from this site at first sight .This site is of a Japanese petroleum company. The green theme of the site is very attractive. Just hover the mouse over the screen you will see magic of webdesigning.
2. jimbou
This is site I want to show you here is of Japanese association press. You need to have flash player. Designing and the interactive part is great to watch
3. Riskybrand
It’s a company located in the tokoyo japan. Fully interactive site and you need flash player to see the contends.
4. DyDo Drink
A nice website to promote DyDo, a soft drinks brand. The page design is very unique and interactive. Every small characters on the page represents links.
5. Japan Kendo Federations
This is a site of All Japan Kendo Federation which is a non-governmental organization, and its aim is to promote and popularize kendo, iaido and jodo. I like the unique design and the way, the contents are well managed . As the whole, I want to say it is a unique piece of art representing Japan.
There are millions and millions of website in internet and if we try to remember the sites that we have visited , we only remember some of them. The domain name of the website is the one of the most important part of web designing. The domain name should be attractive and must reflect the theme of the website. It’s the name that creates first impression on the viewers.Here i have googled and collect some of the best online tools that may help you to find the perfect domain name for you .
1. Ajax Whois
2. DomainsBot
3. Bust a Name
4. Domize
5. Dot-o-mator
