Posts Tagged With: resource
· February 3, 2008 at 5:00 am · Software Help, Web Development
Want to see how popular you are on the Web? I recently found a pretty neat program that checks your popularity against some other web sites that you might be competing against for eyeballs out there on the Web. Link Popularity Check does an alright job and giving you the facts and figures you need.
Once you get Link Popularity Check installed, this is the type of readout they deliver to you:
The positive of this program is it gives you a nice visual representation of where you stand out there with some of your competitors. It searches Google, HotBot, AllTheWeb and MSN search. The downside is that you have to put up with some advertisements and be careful not to give your e-mail address to their “newsletter”. As you can see a lot of information there to comb through to find out what is working and what you might need to work on.
· January 23, 2008 at 10:01 am · Web Development
Over at Lunarpages they are giving away the 95 themes that were submitted for the WordPress theme contest they were having. Tons of great themes and all kinds of different styles.
Voting for the winner of the entire contest just started today too. Check out the top 12 of the 95 WordPress themes and then let the world know which is your favorite. All of ‘em are Grade A quality in my opinion!
· January 22, 2008 at 6:30 am · Resources, Web Development
URL Spell Check might sound like a crazy idea - like many of the web sites out there that “only” do spell checking for you. Hear me out though because this could become a very powerful tool in the war against bad grammar.
All you do is type in the URL of your choice into the box on their web site, and it does a pretty good job and telling you which ones it thinks might be misspelled. Only problem is that it kind of chokes when it comes to pronouns.
In my opinion they could jump over that hurdle by giving me the pronoun it thinks is misspelled and then give me a link beside it to go check on Dictionary.com. We all screw up from time to time so this tool does make it a little easier to catch our spelling mistakes before we have embarrassed ourselves with our viewrs, VIEWeirs, viewers.
· January 16, 2008 at 6:39 am · Desktop
Figuring out how to stretch my desktop wallpaper from one monitor all the way across to the next was one of those tasks I felt stupider about after words, because it is so simple. The secret to it all is to find a really long and large wallpaper and then set it to “tile” in your wallpaper preferences.
I can’t tell you how long I searched to figure that one out, so consider it a freebie from me to you. Now that I have one 22 inch (widescreen) monitor and one 19 inch monitor side by side I had to find some cool wallpaper to tickly my desktop fancy.
DeviantArt saves my day yet again! They have a slew of widescreen wallpapers to pick from, and here are a few of my favorites.
Face It by ~AerosoIFun
Retro World by -kol
Lucid Vertices by`sya
Know of any other resources that have really wide wallpaper? They seem to be few and far between but they are out there.
· September 13, 2007 at 5:52 am · Web Development
I found another great looking WordPress theme that I just had to share with the masses, while I had the masses attention. ShinRa House Blu has that type of “Web 2.0″ look but still doesn’t bug me with being too simple or large. Two thumbs up for usability, design and all around awesomeness.
· September 6, 2007 at 1:26 pm · Web Development
It is not that often I find a WordPress theme that impresses me - so mark this date on your calendar of choice because it is a special occasion indeed. I really like the LoseMyMind 1.0 theme. It is simple, yet not too simple. Clean, but still gives you some features. As I look towards redesigning a few of my projects, I might just have to keep this theme in mind.
