Here is a cool collection of firefox desktop wallpaper collection for firefox fans. Actually am a opera fan but i have seen many firefox fans out there who love to use it so i just wanna share this these awesome wallpapers, of course i too use firefox You can download the 25 most beautiful firefox wallpapers below:

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Flashmint Blog Design is holding a contest for both bloggers and designer where designers can win $500 for there theme design and three bloggers can win $500 for just blogging about the contest.

Designers:
All you have to do is just submit you theme zip file and a screenshot with 300×300px before September 1st 2008. The winner will be announced after 2-3 days and get the prize money – $500.

It should come with the following features:

• 3 columns
• fixed width (optimized to 1024×768 resolution) and widget support
• coded
• The colors and style of the theme should correspond to Flashmint design!

Bloggers:
This is lovable part of the contest is bloggers just have to blog about the contest and the three bloggers who will drive largest number of visitors to them will win $300, $200 and $100 for the first, second, third largest number of visitors respectively.

The rules are quite simple:

• Just add the code fragment under your latest post. Get the code here.
• Surely you can make minor changes in the text of the paragraph at your discretion, the only request is to leave the anchor texts just as they are, and the links should be “dofollow”.

Thats not all the reason for blogging is that am going to design a wordpress theme for this contest so just thought it might interest you too

Show off your skills in a competition for bloggers and designers at Flashmint.com, a famous Flash Web Templates provider, to gain from $100 to $800. See the details.

After seeing many blogs and websites with custom 404 page designs i too thought to make one for me and this is it my very own custom error 404 page not found design.
You can see my 404 Page here.

Many of us really love to make our blogs look like a professional blog, with a cool design to grab readers attention but before all what we need is a nice looking graphics which tends to look more attractive, many times i wonder how to get some good similies, rss feed icons and some other blogging icons for my custom wordpress theme designs. So i just thought to make another collection after my The Best 35 Most Popular Wordpress Plugins but this time you can Download 19 sets of free icons collection which really helps to make a better blog

2space web 2.0 PNG smiley icons:

 

Blogging icons set:

 

Cocktail Party rss feed icons:

 

Smashing PNG rss feed icons:

 

Web 2 PNG RSS feed buttons:

 

Grunge feed icons:

 

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I googled quite a lot but didn’t find any article on designing a good forum.So here is it for the first time.It will be very useful if you are a webmaster.

In forums, users develop a reputation over time.So do give them higher importance.This can be done by adding feature to vote user`s content,allowing user to rate each other and user ranking.More the user participates the more professional status he will acquire.This will result in totally user generated content.

The design of the forum plays a role in our decision to use it. After all, every forum has its own personality.

The diversity of content on forum is very important. Forum should offer unique content.This will help you to get more traffic from search engines.Also content should be well categorized. Forum needs good moderation and clear guidelines.

Once you have chosen a good forum software which suits your needs,customize it.Never use the default skin or theme packaged with your forum software.There are number of sites that offer a number of different themes and skins for your particular forum software.Use the best which will suit you as Your forum needs to stand out from the crowd.

Here is an example

Costa Rica Forum.

Costa Rica Forum is well designed forum,offering uniquie content.This forum is very great for traveler,as it provides information regarding hospitals,public services,transport,phone numbers,hotel,etc in Costa Rica directoey.Redsidents of Costa Rica can use it to post their articles on news, politics, technology, the Internet, business and many other things.It also provides free sms and fax service.It allows its users to blog in Costa Rica Blogs section.These extra services are crucial for a forum,as it removes the classical forum look of posting questions and answering those.

Display all your posts in a unique way with Snazzy Archives.Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for wordpress.You can select different layouts(html or CSS)and special effects(jQuery).Snazzy archives will make sure your content stands out.It scan posts for images and youtube videos.

Demo website | Author`s page

Here is the final logo deisgn i made for Affiliate Launch which will be a new blog going live in the near future aimed at the affiliate marketing sector. They need a logo designed that will give a unique identity to the blog, and create a modern sophisticated look, luckly i have got the chance to work with them and this logo is finally approved

Total of 15 folders with 42 files(217 KB) in 2 shapes with 3 different sizes and 5 different colors to choose from!

So after all my old Free Rss Buttons now here is the later version of those web 2.0 style rss buttons for free, which are actually did by me!

Download link Below:
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