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Are you looking for an affordable yet reliable web hosting company? Let me introduce you to eleven2.com. About 3 years ago I moved my website to them and since then I am one of their many happy and satisfied customers. While searching for a web hosting company three years ago to move my blogs from my previous host I stumbled upon eleven2. More

I have been using Entrecard for some time now. About 10% of the visitors come to my blog through Entrecard. Recently Entrecard launched a new service called Marketplace. Entrecard members can buy and sell their services in exchange of Entrecard credits.
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Have you ever wondered how when you “follow” certain Twitter users, you get an immediate thank you email from them? Some of them may even start following you immediately. After I received about half a dozen such quick emails thanking me for following some users, I started thinking that there must be a service that auto responds whenever a person starts following a Twitter user. More

Your blog or personal website can be a source of revenue. Some people are more successful than others in generating revenue off their websites. The reason is they know how to market their websites and attract more visitors and advertisers to their websites.

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Starting a web site development project using an existing template is much more efficient than starting the project from scratch. You may use your existing web sites as the starting point and make changes to meet your new project’s requirements or get the templates from one of the following web sites that provide thousands of web site templates for free.

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  From personal blogs to content managements systems to full fledged businesses, OSWD has been providing free web designs to those who need them for years.

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Have you been typing HTML entities by hand to include special characters in your blog post. For example to include < sign you will have to write "&lt;" in your post. It is fine if you have only few special characters in a post. But it quickly becomes cumbersome if your post is about CSS, HTML or anyother programming language and you need to write lot of special characters. Rather than typing HTML entities manually you can try one of these following websites that convert your plain text in HTML format or vice versa.

• Centricle
• Dev Mechanics
• Online Tools Collection

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Today I stumbled upon a rather useful website. CSS Color Chart contains a neutral colors code chart and a general-purpose color code chart. You can easily toggle between Hex and RGB codes for the colors. In addition to the color code this site has the English name of every color. I’ve bookmarked the website and if you Google regularly for color chart it may be a good idea to add this site to your favorites.

Enjoy.

One of the most popular file-sharing applications DropBox has a new and improved web interface. It now offers a new and improved navigation. They have also transformed their FAQ section into a comprehensive help center. I think the most important feature is the ability to drag and drop files and folders on the web interface.

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Last week I got a project to create a slideshow for a website. My first choice was to go with famous and somewhat ubiquitous LightBox. I actually started creating the slideshow using LightBox but then I thought there must be some other alternative. I am not saying LightBox is not good it’s just too common. So I started searching for LightBox alternatives and I found several other slideshow generators. But the one that stood out from the pack was TiltViewer.

TiltViewer is a free, customizable 3D Flash image viewing application. TiltViewer presents your photos in a modern and attractive style. Rather than sequentially displaying images TiltViewer allows your visitors to interact with your images. It almost gives life to your photos. User can zoom in and out of the photos or flip them to view more information about the images.
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Last week I started compiling a list of useful resources containing tips, tricks and tutorials for web developers. During my research for the post I came across this wonderful post at BlogWell.

After reading the post I abandoned my own post because I think this post provides a comprehensive list of resources from online code examples to tutorials and online tools. So instead of repeating same content I decided to just link to BlogWell post. I hope you will find that list useful. I’ve bookmarked it for future reference.
Enjoy.