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10 Free Sitemap Generator Tools

August 10th, 2011

There is no need to tell how important the sitemap generators are for the link building and other valuable aspects of your SEO strategy. Sitemap helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the website. Here are some of the most popular online services that provide you with fast and efficient sitemap generating tools. XML sitemaps have simplified the process of submitting your website to the search engines (like it was in the good old days) and even rookies can handle this mission. We hope that you’ll find our list helpful and use it very soon for your projects.

1. SitemapSumbit

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2. SitemapDoc

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Free Vector Illustration of the Week. Tasty Dish

August 9th, 2011

The attractive free vector illustrations from our designers can ideally suit your online projects of various types. They help to deliver the message of your business to the customers in the effective way. Using them in your designs, you add the desired brightness to the projects and visual attractiveness. With today’s Free Vector Illustration of the Week that shows a cook holding a dish with cold collation, snacks and cheese background pics you may make your site layout appealing and interesting to your customers. Don’t hesitate to download it just now!

The following image is presented in three formats (.PNG, .AI, .EPS) and the following possible resolutions: 713 x 1300, 1486 x 2709, 2972 x 5417. Being a vector image, this free vector illustration keeps its high quality while printing in different formats. The download is possible after the registration at Templates.com. This registration is completely free! With the help of this free illustration you can lay special emphasis on various online projects.

Please note: This free vector illustration is free only for one week (starting from today). You can download the particular free illustration only during one week, the next week it will be changed for another one.

! You can use this free vector illustration only for your personal or educational purposes. Do not use it for commercial purposes, it is forbidden.

Download this free vector illustration and emphasize your project with its help!

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Free Website Template in Clean Style for Wedding Page

August 8th, 2011

Great news for you, dear readers! Our friends from TemplateMonster.com have launched the first theme from the new portion of August free website templates. All of them are going to be the professional examples of clean style with effective layout not overloaded with extra graphic elements. Welcome the first of them – Free Website Template in Clean Style for Wedding Page.

This is a good choice for the wedding page that will help you to create the appealing and trendy online presence to share the joy of one of the most wonderful days of your life. Being well done, it will certainly deserve attention of your visitors and attract their interest. The gallery that is integrated in this theme will give you a pretty nice opportunity to share your amazing photos. Clean style of this free website template is ideal for creating the modern stylish wedding page with minor content and wonderful photos. View the free template live demo of this theme to find out all its features!

And now, let’s mention the general characteristics of this theme. It is presented in 6 pages with the following sections: Home, Lisa, Tom, Links, Album, Contacts. It can be delivered in two packages – with PSD source files included and without them. If you need PSD source files, please go to the template download page at TemplateMonster to leave the e-mail address that you want the free template ZIP package to be delivered to.

here is 3D Model from this theme:

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Getting Started with WordPress Multisite

August 5th, 2011

Being one of the most estimated new features of the WordPress version 3.0 Multisite option attracts with ability to create multiple number of WordPress powered website with one single installation. Actually it means that you can manage all your WordPress projects from one interface. Obviously many of you have already tried this wonderful feature and we hope you are completely satisfied with it. Our today’s post is aimed to help rookies that haven’t tried the Multisite option yet or maybe just have the old WordPress software version.

Well the very first step that you have take is download WordPress 3.0 and install it at your web server. You can do this by using one of the FTP clients like for example FileZilla or SmartFTP. Next video tutorial will help you to make everything right step by step.

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Clean Style Templates from Templates.com Collection

August 4th, 2011

Today I have decided to look around and present you a brief overview of Clean Style Templates from our Templates.com collection. The choice of such website templates is great all around the web, but it is not easy to find high-grade professionally done themes. Here is the tiny collection of fresh themes that are all about minimal design that is so popular today. Their power is the stylish layout that effectively presents the business ideas and focuses the customers’ attention on its most important points. Clean style templates are visually appealing due to their laconic concepts and the absence of excessive elements. These themes are great helpers for those who want to start the online project and make it undoubtedly stylish.

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Nexter Flash Template

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Hosting Flash Website Template

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Stunning Photoshop Typography Tutorials

August 3rd, 2011

The art of creating beautiful text effects is very old and we can trace it from the early ages of the typography development. Of course nowadays we shall talk about a digital typography. Here are great Photoshop typography tutorials and we are sure you’ll love all of these. It is needless to say how important eye-catching and creative typography in web design is, and these informative tutorials will help you enhance your skills in this sphere of web design. We believe that no matter how cool you are as the Photoshop master it is always useful to learn new and these Photoshop typography tutorials are giving you a chance to do it.

1. Colorful Light Burst Text In Photoshop

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2. Create Smokey Typography in 12 Steps

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Free Vector Illustration of the Week. Smiling Boy

August 2nd, 2011

One of the ways to create the effective design is to unleash your creativity and work out something original. Even if you are a bit tired and have no fresh ideas, we are always glad to assist you in your design creations. This time we offer you the eye-candy Free Vector Illustration of the week – the visually appealing solution that will suit your online project. If you want to design the noticeable web presence, feel free to use our professional free stuff that will add your project the desired effectiveness.

You can download this image in two formats (.PNG, .AI) and the following possible resolutions: 585 x 831, 1218 x 1731, 2437 x 3462. As a vector image, this free vector illustration keeps its high quality while being printed in different formats. The download is possible after the registration at Templates.com. This registration is completely free! With the help of this free illustration you can lay special emphasis on various online projects.

! You can use this free vector illustration only for your personal or educational purposes. Do not use it for commercial purposes, it is forbidden.

Download this free vector illustration and wait for the next portion of free stuff!

Become a mature web designer with Templates.com!

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Free Website Template with jQuery Slider and Typography for Restaurant Business

August 1st, 2011

Today we offer you one more useful freebie for creating the stunning online project for your restaurant. This Free Website Template with jQuery Slider and Typography is worked out by the professionals from TemplateMonster.com with your business needs in mind. This is the fourth template of the month with a focus on typography that is exclusively released for you, our dear readers.

To be successful, your online project should be attractive and engaging for its visitors and, of course, it should stand out among others. How is it possible to achieve it? Just make use of this cool freebie that is a ready made solution for restaurant business. Its effective layout with expressive typography elements and cool jQuery slider go with high-grade execution. You can easily try its free template live demo and see all its advantages.

Speaking about the general characteristics of this theme, we should mention that it is presented in 5 pages: Restaurant, Cuisine, Wine List, CookBook, Contacts. It can be delivered in two packages – with PSD source files included and without them. If you need PSD source files, please go to the template download page at TemplateMonster to leave the e-mail address that you want the free template ZIP package to be delivered to.

Free Website Template with jQuery Slider and Typography:

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WordPress Typography Plugins

July 29th, 2011

WordPress is s great software with a bunch of great plugins and other useful tools. Although you’ll agree that sometimes a very special plugin is needed and you spend a lot of time searching for exactly that one. Default WordPress plugins can’t help you with the typography enhancement so we’ve decided to present you a short list of some really great WordPress typography plugins. Maybe you have heard about some of these but we believe that you’ll find our post useful and will even install some of WordPress typography plugins at your blog. Now let’s start!

1. WP Google Fonts

The WP Google Font plugin gives an easy to use Google’s free font directory and you can easily add high quality fonts to your WordPress powered site. Right now you can use more than 150 great free fonts from the directory.

2. Font Burner Control Panel

This plugin opens you and your WordPress theme an access to any of the 1000+ free fonts available on the Font Burner website.

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25+ Free Fruit Textures for Fresh and Juicy Designs

July 28th, 2011

If you are a bit tired of too hot summer days and feel that your inspiration is a bit exhausted, we have something fresh for you that will stir you a bit up. Of course, being a designer demands 24/7 turned on creativity and your desire to work out the original designs. Yeah it’s not easy, but to tell the truth you are doing one of the world’s most wonderful jobs and we are glad to support you a bit it this captivating process. Today we want to present you the entertaining stuff that will not only bring a zest into your spare time, but hopefully become useful. Free Fruit Textures – the inspirational collection of sunny multicolored textures that can easily cheer you up and become helpful in creating your designs. Besides, you know it quite well that it is not easy to find the professionally done free fruit textures, but here you will certainly find the tiny collection of cool examples. So, just browse these free fruit textures and find the one you are looking for to brighten up your project and bring summer mood to its design!

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Strawberries Texture by phoenix1981