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.
Since I hadn’t heard of this company before I was somewhat reluctant to sign up with eleven2. So I emailed them few questions late one night and to my pleasant surprise they responded within few minutes. We exchanged few quick emails and they convinced me that eleven2 is a customer-centric host with 24/7 tech support. Fifteen minutes later I became their customer. I can vouch for their excellent customer service. I did not face any major issues but whenever I had a question or complaint they responded almost instantaneously. Tech support team is knowledgeable.
Because of my positive experience with eleven2.com I strongly recommend it to all my friends. Couple of friends took my advice and they too are satisfied with eleven2.
With their 60 days money back guarantee you can give them a try and see for yourself.
And if that is not enough I have some 25% and 99% off first month fee coupons to sweeten the deal. if you are interested contact me and I’ll gladly email you the coupon code. But hurry up these are limited time offers.

Disclaimer: I wrote this post with complete honesty. I do like eleven2 and I am very satisfied with their service. I feel it is my moral obligation to disclose that I am eleven2 affiliate and if you sign up for their service through one of the links in this article I may receive affiliate fee.

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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.

I think this is a great idea. People can earn EC by offering their services to other community members.

Today I posted my ad on the marketplace. I just wanted to test how well this new option is received by the Entrecard community. I am offering 125 by 125 ad spot on my sidebar for 1 month. The cost is only 5000ec. Check out my ad.

Here is a promotional video to tell you more about the Entrecard program.

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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.
Sure enough, a quick search on Google led me to TweetLater.com.

I am sure there must be many other similar services but this discovery is enough to quench my curiosity.

Tweetlater does the following for you.

• Automatically responds to your new followers with a your personal message.
• Automatically “follows” your new “followers” (if you choose to do so)
• Schedules your tweets to be published at a later time

The service is free and you can manage multiple Twitter accounts from a single TweetLater account.

P.S. Follow me on Twitter.

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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.

Sure you can search the Internet and find zillions of tutorials and articles on SEO and internet marketing. But that much information will overwhelm most of us. This is where Online Profits comes into picture.

This is a comprehensive Internet Marketing and Online business training program will teach you how to create or improve your online business.

The program is developed by experts in Internet Marketing and Search engine optimization techniques. Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips fame is managing
the program. Some other well know contributors are

• Michael Gray
• Neil Patel
• Yaro Starak
• Tamar Weinberg
• Hamlet Batista
• Zac Johnson
• Courtney Tuttle
• Nathan Rice
• Skellie Wag

This is a pretty impressive group of individuals and learning from their experience will sure take bidding online entrepreneurs to the next level.

This program became public this week and they are currently offering 50% discount for new members until Jan 16. You can sign up by visiting Online Profits.
They offer 30 days money-back guarantee. So you have 30 days to test what they are offering and decide if you like it not.

If you don’t find the information useful you can get a full refund. But what I saw so far I am sure you will want to continue with the program.

P.S. I am not affiliated with Online Profits. Please verify their refund policy before signing up.

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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.

• Open Design Community offers XHTML and CSS based free web design templates.

  Open Designs is a community managed site, where users, members, designers and application developers can share their free website designs and templates, discuss web design and promote their services.

• Open Source Web Design founded by Francis J. Skettino, owsd.org offers more than 2000 templates for free.
  

  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.

• Open Source Templates has some very nice web design templates. They are available under Creative Commons Attribution license, which means that if you use one their templates you will have to include a lick back to their website.
• Style Shout has free as well as paid-for CSS-based templates.
• Free CSS Templates offers more than 200 light weight all CSS based templates.
• Free CSS Template: is one of my personal favorite web sites. In addition to several CSS-based templates you will also find CSS navigation menus and layouts.

Ejoy.

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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

These online tools to encode/decode HTML entities make your life little easier. Without worrying about the HTML code you simply write plain text in the provided textarea and with a simple click they will spit out the correct HTML-version of all special characters. It sure saves me a lot of time.

Share with us if you use similar tools.

Enjoy

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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.

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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.

Some of the improvements are

• Bulk operations Moving/deleting folders is now possible!
• Information/actions are now displayed in small sideboxes on the right
• Expanded footer with useful links.
• RSS feed for recent events!
• More information for file revisions

If you have been looking for a easy-to-use file sharing application take DropBox for a spin. I bet you will like it.

Enjoy.

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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.


To use this application first
download the zip file. After unzipping the file just follow the instructions to setup TiltViewer on your website. You will need to edit simple text files to create your photo gallery. It took me less than 15 minutes to setup the image gallery on my website. TiltViewer requires JavaScript and the latest Flash player.

Give it a try I am sure you and your visitors will love it.
Enjoy.

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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.

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