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Deal of the Week: WordPress Shortcodes Plugin +3 Extra Premium Themes

Most developers have spent a bit of time using WordPress as it is one of the more stable platforms available. Plugins and themes are the cornerstone to easy design changes. Customizing your own website can be tough, however a CMS is always a better solution to save yourself the manual labor. This current deal is [...]

Smart and Easy Remote Web Conferencing

The ability for teams to communicate with each other has grown rapidly in the past decade. We can find examples all over the Internet which provide companies a method of teleconferencing meetings and tutorials. You can even locate fun examples online related to technology and educational speakers from around the world. I think a good [...]

Cisco Highlights New Software-Based Focus, Sells Linksys And Acquires Intucell

Cisco has agreed to sell its Linksys router business to competitor Belkin International, a direct competitor in the computer router business. The company will now focus more of its efforts on the growing consumer and enterprise software sectors. In the meantime Cisco also announced the acquisition of Intucell, an Israel developers of software-defined network (SDN) [...]

4 Unusual Uses for Your HD Camera

If you have an HD camera and you aren’t sure what you really want to do with it – or all of the things that you can do with it – it’s time to start thinking up creative uses. There are so many things you can do with your HD camera besides just take pictures of friends, [...]

5 Flickr Groups for ‘Face-Down’ Photography Inspiration

Throughout the last two or so years there has been a major expansion on the sub-culture movement of planking. Primarily an online trend due to easy access to video and image sharing, you can find plenty of examples of teenagers laying flat in odd places all over the web. I will admit that this is [...]

Friday Focus 05/11/12: Rainbow Flavored

Today we’re looking at designs that don’t shy away from a broad color palette and completely embrace the rainbow. Happy Friday Focus!

10 Flickr Groups To See the Best In Doll Photography

Most childhood obsessions are more or less grown out of once puberty hits. Toys and hopscotch make way for boys and parties, hanging out with friends and the latest pop band to take the charts. Then real life slowly begins and we start to fall for the boring grown up entertainment venues we never understood, [...]

Tip: Check out Coupon Sites for Design & Dev Discounts

Here’s a nice little trick to try out today: grab a discount to help boost your design and development arsenal! Shopping for real-world stuff comes easy enough; e.g. if I wanted to explore the great outdoors I’d hunt down some Cabelas Coupons and check out some adventurous vacation ideas. But looking for software and service [...]

5 Important Functions All Websites Should Include In Their Design

A webmaster can build the most beautiful website on the planet, brand the site to perfection and offer great content, however if their site is missing key components for success the site is likely to fail or in the least not reach its full potential. By taking the time to incorporate five “must have” functions [...]

HostUCan Delivers Simple To Use “Hosting Relevancy” Tool

With thousands of web hosting providers to choose from it can be quite the headache to choose which hosting provider will best suit your needs. HostUCan attempts to solve that problem with their “hosting relevancy” tool which allows users to search hosting providers by name while checking user reviews, uptime and other information relevant to [...]

ManageWP Plugin: Easily Control Many Sites Under One Dashboard [Review]

I’m not a fan of WordPress Multisite functionality, I’ve always found the system to be clunky, confusing for new users and constantly in need of tweaking, that’s why I was happy to test out ManageWP from developer Vlad Prelovac. Not only is the system not clunky, it makes adding new websites, managing plugins and themes and [...]

Internet Marketing Optimization From Split Testing, Page Optimization and Monitoring

Internet Marketing Optimization isn’t a simple process, users can’t simply pick and choose a smart tag line, throw it up on Google Adwords and other publisher platforms and hope for the best, instead it requires split testing of ads, clearly targeted website pages that draw in a users attention and the constant monitoring of old [...]