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It is not often you can mix funny with web hosting. Thanks to the latest issues of Ping! Zine, I was turned onto a new comic that covers the web development side of things Web of Pain. Browsing through the archives on their web site, I had a lot of fun. This one still sticks out as my favorite thus far…
Well worth visiting to see the comics up so far. It is updated every second Monday, so there will be more fresh content worth checking out soon! Enter the Web of Pain!
Always said you would like to have a social news site like digg, but didn’t have the time to develop or work on it? Thanks to slinkset.com, you don’t have to. They promise to deliver you your own social news site that you can customize, user your own domain on and auto-post links via RSS for free. Here are a few examples:
One more cool feature is it looks like you can create a private site too, that would only be accessible to the people you invite. Give slinkset.com a shot, and if you create one yourself feel free to share it here with us.
I’m proud to say that Lunarpages (via several design contests) has done a lot to perk up the WordPress theme design area of the Web. Between two contests they are now highlighting 229 different themes that are all available for download.
Lunarpages WordPress Theme Design Contest – Series 1 Entries
Lunarpages WordPress Theme Design Contest – Series 2 Entries
So if your looking for a little insperation on your next WordPress theme design or your stressing over finding a great one to use, check ‘em out. Lunarpages is also currently holding it’s third WordPress design contest right now – so if your a designer you got to check that out too.
Yesterday I spend a little time playing around with my WordPress theme here, looking at adding widgets to themes that didn’t come “pre-designed” with them in mind. Thankfully for people like me Automattic has a great tutorial on how to get this done. Along with adding a few more features, support for gravatars and a third column I promise this version of the layout has 10% more awesomeness.
The CSS Text Wrapper is probably the coolest thing I have seen when it comes to what you can do with text on a web page. Then again… how many things have we seen?
This tool makes it easy to wrap your text on a web page around in new and different ways. No more rectangle blocks! You can make text wrap around curves, zig-zags, or whatever you want. To get started, all you have to do is use the wizard on their web site. The output will be saved as Javascript, XHTML w/ Classes, or Inline CSS/XHTML.
When looking at your basic FTP file listing in a browser, it can be a ‘bit on the dull and boring side. Why not spice that up with a custom user style? If you have Stylish for Firefox installed – and pick up the “FTP pages were awful” style you could even make them look this pretty…
No more ugly black and white boring listings for me, I like this much better. Not only does it look better but it is also much more functional too.
The main problem with content management systems (or sometimes referred to as CMS) is that many people find them complicated, too technical and way over their head. If your searching for an “every man” way of managing your content take a look at CushyCMS. A hosted CMS solution.
Hosted by them and edited on their servers, you can quickly create your content, with no worry about installing software or learning any programming languages. They say that your final product will be a standards compliant (and search engine friendly) masterpiece that can not be beat.
CushyCMS promises to be the easiest way to get a web site up in no time at all. I do have to say it is an interesting idea (and I wish them all the best). Curious to see how many people will turn to these types of solutions over your normal web hosting account and Joomla install for example?
Lunarpages is putting on another WordPress theme design contest! The last one was fun as an innocent bystander because I got to see tons of unique and awesome designs day by day. Here are the details for this time around.
The rules have changed a bit to include mention of the exact schedule for voting and submissions (also noted below) as well as voting by Lunarpages Staff, ensuring all votes are tracked and accounted for.
The prizes, however, are just as juicy:
- First Prize is $1,000 cash and 5 years free hosting on our Basic Plan
- Second Prize is 3 years free hosting + $300 cash
- Third Prize is 1 year free hosting + $100 cash
Entering is just as simple as before – just Submit Your Theme and you’re in. We’ll post the top 5 Best WordPress Themes each week starting April 21 right here on the Blog for our community to vote on.
Go submit your own WordPress themes!
Changed Mitchelaneous.com a ‘bit. You like? Still not done yet with all of the editing I would like to do – but I’d like to take a few hours off from working on it to get some feedback if you have any.
Also if there is anything you would like to see where that isn’t here already – leave a comment and let me know. I’ll be taking in all the feedback shortly and hopefully once all is said and done will have a finished product that all will enjoy.
There are a lot of icon resources out there, but not many that make their name on being a free resource for all to use. That is what IconsPedia wants to bring to the designers’ work bench.
Have have tons of png icon packs ready for download and use. If the icons are published under a certain license (such as free to use, for personal use only) then they should say so on that icon package’s download page. If you would like to share some of your own icons – you can submit to there too.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
