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40 Really Creative Logos for Hotels and Restaurants

Jitu — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:17:47 +0000

According to a new study by Strategic name Development, a brand name consultancy, Minneapolis, Logo design for restaurants should be simple designed and easy to read but not so simple that they lose distinction and fail to communicate the restaurant concept to consumers. It also appeared in the study that logos that evoked “good feelings” prompted respondents to say they’d be “confident” in eating there.

The above study shows how important it is for restaurants and Hotels to have a logo which makes the consumers love them. The logo should be such that it should convey what ambience you can find in the hotel, what food you could expect at the restaurant. Another important point that should be in a restaurant logo is that they should be easy to read, they should not be very complex to understand. All these attributes of the logo help the hotels/restaurants not only to create their brand but also to grow their business by making the consumers to come right in and have a bite at their place.

In this post we are publishing 40 Really Creative Logos for Hotels and Restaurants for your Inspiration.

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15+ Popular Firefox SEO Extensions and Tools for Web Designers

Jitu — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:39:04 +0000

Today blogging has taken a center stage and this has prompted bloggers to not only focus on their blog but also to see what their competitors have being doing at the other end.

To get a better ranking in the search engine everyone is trying to put better content in their blogs but for a better search engine ranking you need to follow some systematic steps. As today most of the web designer and blogger use firefox as their browser the SEO extensions for firefox are being used extensively. In this post we are publishing some most famous firefox extensions for SEO.

Search Status

Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank, Compete ranking and SEOmoz Linkscape mozRank anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and more.

SEO Quake

SeoQuake is a programme, which allows user to view a large number of SE parameters on the fly. SeoQuake for Mozilla Firefox consists of three functional parts: SeoToolbar (requested parameters are shown in a separate toolbar in the browser), Seobar (requested parameters are shown in a separate, fully customizable with CSS, HTML block) and output of requested parameters on Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs).

KGen

KGen retrieves every words of a page and lets you know how many time they appears and their weight in the page and their average position in the web page.

It gives you some stats on the content of the page to allows you to improve your content quality. KGen’s also a good tool to view your competitors keyword strategy.

Rank Tracker

Rank Tracker retrieves search engine rankings for pages and keywords and stores them for easy comparison later. PRO members can also track selected rankings over time and can even sign up for e-mail alerts to be notified about ranking changes.

This tool supports the Google, Yahoo!, and Live search engines and additionally allows you to check international results.

Web Developer

The Web Developer Toolbar has many indispensable features for both Web development and SEO. It allows you to easily manage cache, cookies, referrers, JavaScript, CSS, and much more. For example, you can disable CSS on a page with Ctrl-Shift-s. You can quickly disable cookies to see how a site changes with cookies off. You can show alt attribute text on the page. And much more… The Firefox Web Developer Toolbar is an essential tool.

HTML Validator

HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing.

SEO For Firefox

Excellent plugin for all those, who like to watch statistics right into Google and Yahoo search results. You can get Alexa, Google PageRank, Tehnorati rankings and many other useful data.

Sen SEO

SenSEO is an extension checking the most important on-page-SEO-criteria and calculating a grade of how good your site fulfills these criteria.

Foxy SEO Tool

Foxy SEO Tool is a free, open source toolbar that provides quick and easy access to a multitude of search engine functions such as Google Site, Yahoo! Site Explorer, Live Fromlinks. Also included are famous web traffic analysis sites such as Alexa, Compete, Quantcast, popular statistic aggregators like Quarkbase and WebSiteOutlook. You can check a site’s listing in important directories like Dmoz and Yahoo! Directory, buzzing Web 2.0 sites such as Technocrati, Wikipedia, Digg, Delicious and links to useful network functions like Whois, Geotool, Internet Archive, etc.

SEO Link Analysis

SEO Link Analysis enriches the link data in Google Webmaster Tools & Yahoo! Site Explorer by showing the PageRank of the linking page, the anchor text and whether the link is followed, nofollowed or no longer exists.

WebRank

A toolbar that gives you the Google Pagerank, Alexa, Compete and Quantcast Rank of the website you are viewing, pages indexed and backlinks in Google, Bing and Yahoo.

SEO Open

Provides some basic tools to help with search engine optimization. Including google backlinks, yahoo backlinks, PageRank check, http header viewer, and more. All features are available by right-clicking on an open area of a web page, or by using the included toolbar.

User Agent Switcher

User Agent Switcher is a useful Firefox plugin which able to switch the user agent of the browser. Users can use this tool to pretend themselves to be a search engine and see what search engine sees the webpage.

Niche Watch

Niche Watch Tool gives you backlinks number, indexed pages, keyword occurences on the page, page rank, all in anchor, all in title and all in text rank for both domain and webpage information.

Rank Quest

The Rankquest SEO Toolbar provides you quick access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tools. Once you download and install the SEO Toolbar you are only one or two clicks away from carrying out most of your day to day SEO operations.

Google Toolbar

Time Tracker

Do you spend too much time on Firefox? Do you open tabs faster than you can close them? Cannot get things done? Keep track of how much you browse with TimeTracker.

80+ Promotional Websites to Promote your Blog Articles

Rocky — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:29:20 +0000

From the last few months I have been using Social Bookmarking and community site News section of different sites to promote my Blog. I have been quite successful by doing this as I get hell lot of visits from these sites regularly. Obviously, there are many other ways to promote your blog but in this post I want to include only the promotional sites from where different blogs get awesome lot of unique visitors. Submitting into these sites could increase your traffic drastically.

I have been making this list from a long time so that even I could promote my blog from these links. This surely takes more time but it is a very healthy usage of time.

Registration Required

Direct Submission

Community Sites

Social Media

If I have missed some other sites that are useful then please provide us the name we would surely put them in.

90+ Amazing Grunge Typography Collection

Jitu — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:58:45 +0000

Grunge is a trend that is probably the opposite of everything known as clean. You call it ugly or dirty but still it has found its way to let you make some fascinating designs.

In this post we will be providing you with some amazing grunge style typography.

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Showcase of Popular websites Developed using Drupal CMS

Jitu — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:20:50 +0000

Entertainment

Grammys

After the Emmys, the Grammys are onto it as well. That is, the new Grammy.com is using Drupal — and Pressflow to be specific. The Grammy Awards, or Grammys, are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievements in the music industry. Cool!

NVidia

NVidia recently launched their new Tegra developer community on Drupal. See nvidia . NVidia came to Acquia to help them get the site built. Development was done by Chapter Three (an Acquia partner) and Wiredcraft, while Acquia hosts the site on the Acquia Hosting platform and provides 24×7 monitoring and support. They are also using Mollom to protect their site against spammers.

VT4 using Drupal

Flemish commercial television channel VT4 is using Drupal on vt4.be . VT4 is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media, the second-largest broadcasting group in Europe. Cool!

Ashley Tisdale

Ashley Tisdale – an actress, singer and television producer – is using Drupal on her official site.

If you don’t know who Ashley Tisdale is, it just means you’re too old. Bear with me, as with this post, I’m trying to attract more young people to Drupal

Lucas Arts

Lucas Arts, the video game company of George Lucas, launched a stunning Drupal site for its upcoming MMORPG: Star Wars, The Old Republic. Check out the website at: swtor.com . The Force is strong with Drupal!

Emmys

Glamour, glitter, and champagne all around because Drupal has gone Hollywood. The Emmys website has just switched to Drupal in preparation for the announcement of nominees tomorrow, and the subsequent annual Emmy award ceremony later this year. The Emmys are annual awards to outstanding television programs and performers.

Emmys.com was previously a static HTML website, with a few custom PHP components. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the parent organization) migrated to Drupal largely because of the positive experiences various Academy members and other industry leaders have had with using Drupal.

The new Emmys.com is a joint project of volunteers from the Academy’s television industry leadership, its staff, and Emmy magazine — they built the site with the help of Metal Toad Media. In addition to migrating their main website, emmys.com, they’re also in the progress of converting some of their other related properties.

Battlefield

Battlefield 1943 is out and the website is using Drupal: see battlefield1943.com.

Francesca Battistelli

Francesca Battistelli is using Drupal for her official website at francescamusic.com . The site is built by her record label Warner Bros Records (also a Drupal site), and is one of the best looking artist sites that I have seen. Nice!

Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams made his comeback on British television music talent show The X Factor, where he performed his new single “Bodies” for the first time live. With his comeback also comes a website refresh using Drupal.

Ketnet

Ketnet is a public children’s television channel in Belgium, owned and operated by the VRT, a public broadcaster. The Ketnet site is using Drupal!

Graphics-rpk

Tasks:

* to show agency’s best works “on a big screen”,
* to display banners etc on the city map,
* to make portfolio easily viewed and searchable.

Modules: CCK, Date, Taxonomy, ImageCache, IMCE Wysiwyg API Bridge, jQuery UI, Views, Yandex Map, Custom Search Box, DHTML Menu, jCarousel, Menu Block, Quick Tabs, Shadowbox, Taxonomy Manager + 2 custom modules.

Mattel

Mattel, the world’s largest toy company, just relaunched Mattel.com on Drupal. The site was built by Vancouver-based work [at] play. Mattel products include Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels, Matchbox cars, Masters of the Universe, and much more

Geocap

Since 1998 Geocap AS has provided innovative 2D/3D mapping and modeling software solutions to the Oil & Gas industry and Hydrographic Institutions.
Geocap has roots in Oslo`s reservoir modeling environment, which during the past 25 years has produced several world leading software solutions within the Oil & Gas industry.

New Wave Media

New Wave Media is an integrated marketing & communications agency dedicated to unleashing the possibilities of what powerful strategic marketing can do for its clients. Our passionate approach to your branding needs will ensure that you generate consistent and effective awareness that drives use of your services among target audiences. Our philosophy is to use our industry expertise, experience, unique skills, objectivity and our belief in a partnership with our clients, to produce results strategies that will persuade your customers to stand up, take notice and, most importantly, act.

Innovative Office Solutions

Furniture and Professional Interior Space Planning to Corporate, Healthcare, Educational, Hospitality, and Government Accounts

Intel

Intel Corporation, the world’s largest semiconductor chip maker, is using Drupal for its Intel Atom Developer Program, a website for developers that want to create and sell software applications for netbooks and smart phones that are using the Intel Atom processor.

Fujifilm

The Japanese Fujifilm, with more than 75,000 employees the world’s largest photographic and imaging company, is using Drupal for a community site at http://www.myfinepix.com. It is a website where FinePix camera owners come together to share images, knowledge and inspiration. The site features galleries, forums, photoblogs, news, competitions, user profiles and much more. A good showcase for some of Drupal’s social media features.

Russian Forbes magazine

The website of the Russian Forbes magazine was recently redesigned using Drupal

AT&T

AT&T, the largest provider of local long distance telephone services in the United States, is using Drupal on for an add-on site called AT&T Apps Beta.

The website requires you to log in so there isn’t much to explore without creating an account. Either way, AT&T Apps Beta is a platform for connecting highly involved AT&T customers with access to the latest and greatest mobile applications.

Can you see a pattern here? Another large organization using Drupal to build an add-on site. Once an organization has its feet wet with Drupal after implementing a couple of micro- or add-on sites, you start to see Drupal bubble to the top of the organization or to larger and larger web properties. Either way, it is great to see one of the largest technology companies use Drupal.

Zappos

Long term Drupal developer Jeff Eaton continues to inspire and as a result, Zappos started using Drupal on zappos.com . Zappos.com is an e-commerce website with more than $1 billion in revenue, and well known for their legendary customer service and culture.

Government Websites

Jamaican Prime Minister using Drupal

The website of Bruce Golding, the Prime Minister of Jamaica is using Drupal: see opm.gov.jm .

King of Belgium goes Drupal

Following hot on the heels of US President Barack Obama, Albert II, King of the Belgians, just relaunched his website on Drupal. Check it out at monarchie.be. The site was built by Connexion and Internet Architects.

British Government using Drupal

The British Government is using Drupal on an innovation initiative to encourage developers and designers share new ideas and showcase their work: see http://innovate.direct.gov.uk. Directgov’s main site, direct.gov.uk is the official government website for citizens. It provides information and services from across government organizations.

Whitehouse.gov using Drupal

Big, exciting news! The flag ship website of the U.S. government, Whitehouse.gov, just relaunched on Drupal. This is a big day for Drupal, and for Open Source in government, and something all of us in the community should be very proud of.

Australian Prime Minister using Drupal

The website of Kevin Michael Rudd, the Prime Minister of Australia is using Drupal: see pm.gov.au .

usaspending.gov using Drupal

Vivek Kundra, the CIO of the United States, unveiled the new IT spending dashboards at usaspending.gov earlier this week. Tim O’Reilly has all the details in his blog post titled Radical transparency: the new federal IT dashboard. In short, the dashboards are designed to help CIOs of individual government agencies get a handle on the effectiveness of government IT spending. The site was built with Drupal.

This is a fundamental change in the way government is going to be run, and it is great to see Drupal play a small role in that. Great stuff!

Dutch government using Drupal

The Dutch government is using Drupal for the website of the State Service for Cultural Heritage. The site was built by Cinnamon.

French government portal using Drupal

After the French Ministry for Health, Youth and Sport using Drupal started using, the French government switched its official government portal to Drupal! Check it out at gouvernement.fr.
The site was built by the French Government Multimedia Team and Adyax Experts (an Acquia partner). About 10 persons worked on it for several months. Most of the work was spent on building custom migration tools to switch from SPIP Agora to Drupal.

New York State Senate using Drupal

More proof that Drupal and open government is a great match: the New York State Senate just relaunched its website on Drupal and there is a lot to like. Check out their new site at nysenate.gov.

Obama using Drupal

Drupal is no stranger to the political arena, and has been used for many campaign and government sites before. Recovery.gov, though, is a definite coup for Drupal — there are not many Drupal sites that have their own post on Whitehouse.gov. Or on the Huffington Post. Or is featured on CNN all day long. Or has its own YouTube promo by the US President. Unbelievable!

News Websites

BBC Magazines

BBC Magazines is the magazine publishing division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Turns out that they have a number of magazine websites built on Drupal:

* BBC Music Magazine

* BBC Countryfile Magazine

* BBC Focus Magazine

* BBC Who Do You Think You Are Magazine

* BBC History Magazine

* BBC Home And Antiques

CNNGo

Ballard News Tribune

Columbia Spectator

France24

gigaom

Global Post

haohao Report

Information

Info World

The Standard

24Heures

Social Bookmarking Websites Using Drupal

Design Bump

DesignBump is a highly recommended social bookmarking website and community for designers.

Design Moo

DesignMoo brings together the latest news in the design community from thousands of sources. Find the best news, tutorials and resources of the day and vote for your favorite stories.

The Web Blend

The Web Blend is a community for designers, developers and tech junkies that keeps you current with a summary of the latest in web related news and trends.

Abduzeedo

Deziner Folio

Others

designzillas

Orlando web design agency comprised of 5 digital masterminds that are fun, passionate, and experienced. specialize in web design, user experience (UX) design, web development, e-commerce solutions, and online marketing.

References

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10 Places for selling your Templates

Jitu — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:48:33 +0000

Instead of roller-costing your mind on selling the templates that you have made, individually, it is much better to sell them through some of the great sites which have been selling themes for some years now and catching a lot of traffic. Doing this enables your designs to become an eye-candy to the world outside your on reach.

There are plenty of sites out there willing to sell your templates for you and some are better than others. Different sites offer designers a larger cut of the proceeds or have more traffic to guarantee higher sales.

The below are the 10 places which could offer a better cut to You, The Designers!!!!

ThemeForest

ThemeForest offers the opportunity to sell WordPress themes, HTML templates, Flash templates, Joomla templates, Photoshop templates. You can find the full payment scheme on ThemeForest’s Payment page. Click here to get started to selling your templates.

Graphic Leftovers

Graphic Leftovers is a niche microstock site featuring high-quality vector artwork and images. You can view the sellers dugout over here. Click here for the Privacy terms.

BuyStockDesign

BuyStockDesign allows you to sell PSD, HTML, WordPress, as well as Joomla templates. For more on the payment you can click here. Also read the privacy Policy over here.

ActiveDen

ActiveDen handles only Flash website templates. ActiveDen is owned by the same network as ThemeForest and operates in a similar manner. Click Here for the payment options.

Templamatic

TemplaMatic is one of the most easiest sites for uploading your templates. Click Here for the payment terms.

ContentMixi

ContentMixi is a site which has a great potential of attracting traffic in the future. Click Here for the Payment terms for the product owners.

CMSMarket

CMSMarket is a site where sellers can post their templates and/or extensions (plugins/addons) for any CMS (right now mainly Joomla or Drupal). You can check the authors page over here.

CashMyJunkFiles

CashMyJunkFiles is a site where you get as much as 90% commission. Now that is a lot!!!!!!
Click here to sign up for it

FlashJuggler

Flashjuggler is another great flash stock marketplace . Site is clean and easy to use. Good thing is that commission will never drop below 50% no matter what, your work needs to be respected and appreciated. There will be no exclusivity programs, however high sellers will be rewarded with much better commissions.

FlashComponents

The Flash Components Network is a site dedicated to bringing you the best Flash Stock components out there. The Flash Components gathering the best Flash Stock components and the best Flash Stock authors in the industry.

Site provides sharp functionality to publish your flash stock content in best form of presentation for your flash stock components. On Flash Components you can provide free and commercial products, manage your payment rates, release updates for your products, stay in touch with customers through the powerful messaging system and benefit from many other features that this flash stock market website has to offer.

They give you commission of 40%-60% for every sale, and 5% from every purchase from buyer you refer, and 2% for every author sale you refer.

Please comment if there are any other that should have got included in the above list.
ADIOS!!!!!!

10 Amazing Flash Websites

Jitu — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:43:54 +0000

Bored of CSS creativity??? Lets see and try to learn some really amazing flash websites with great creativity.

Sam Design

MRF Tyres

Damman Pearce

Porliniers

Porsche 911

Akqa

Monoface

FourTheDesign

Make It Happen

RiverFront

10 Real Time Search Engines to Find Relevant Design News

Rocky — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:48:35 +0000

We might follow lots of friends on Twitter, but how can we be sure we’re not missing some uber-interesting news in the design field? Should we keep an eye on TweetDeck 24/7? Yeah, some of us do that, but there’s also another way – 10 different ways in fact. Let’s discover them one by one. View Source Article Related posts:114 Best Resources to Promote your Design Related Articles and News 21 Websites That Will Make Your Twitter Explode 40 Twitter Inspired Logo Designs for Your Next Twitter Related Business Related posts:

Photo gallery Using CSS3 and JQuery

Rocky — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:43:11 +0000

An Awesome CSS3 Lightbox Gallery With jQuery

It will be search-engine friendly and even be compatible with browsers which date back as far as IE6 (although some of the awesomeness is lost).

We are using jQuery, jQuery UI (for the drag and drop) and the fancybox jQuery plugin for the lightbox display in addition to PHP and CSS for interactivity and styling.

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Editable CSS3 Photo Gallery

Photo gallery with click-to-enlarge photos, fancy CSS3 rollover effects, and marked up with HTML5.

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CSS3 Gallery without using JQuery

CSS3 Photo gallery effect without using any JavaScript or PHP. From Ajaxian.com

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39 Free Buttons And WebDesign Resources From Deviantart

Rocky — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:43:52 +0000

This resource article features many extremely useful resources I found over Deviantart community! I consider these resources mainly for learning purposes to understand how different effects are achieved and of course to get fresh ideas to recreate good examples here!

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