jQuery image galleries and slideshows have change the way the websites and blogs look nowadays. The beautiful galleries and slideshows are commonly used for websites like photography sites, portfolios, blogs and even e-commerce sites that regularly showcase multiple photos and images on a single page. jQuery is a light JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, animating, and Ajax interactions for fast and smooth web development. With the jQuery based image gallery and slider displayed on your website, you can provide your audience a more pleasant and intuitive image viewing experience.

Here’s a showcase of 46 cool jQuery image galleries, slideshows and sliders plugins that you can use to display an amazing gallery or slider on your site. Read more…

Bored of seeing the same blue and white Facebook homepage every time you login? Well, it’s time to change the Facebook login page with your own custom design! Yes, you heard it right! You are allowed to change and customize the background of your Facebook login page. Does it sound unbelievable? Today we would like to introduce you a cool Google Chrome extension that allows you to set a custom image URL as your Facebook login page’s wallpaper. Be it a picture of your loved one or beautiful landscape photography, you can have any background customization you want.

Without further ado, let’s follow the simple tutorial below to set your favorite image or photo as your Facebook login page’s background! Read more…

As blogger, you should’ve come across some cool features in other’s blog and you may wonder how you can apply them in your own blog as well. Well, don’t feel bad about it as most of the bloggers have experienced this feeling. Another common situation is that you want to add new functionality or change some design on your blog, but you don’t know the keywords to search for the right tips, tutorials or plugin helping you to get the job done.

In today’s article, we’ve gathered some of the most wanted WordPress tips, tricks, tutorials and plugins that are absolutely useful for your blog. Make sure you go through the list as you might find the solution you want here. Read more…

What do you do if you found out your original article or part of web content from your blog is stolen and republished on another website without your consent? Would you keep silent or fight back? It’s quite common that whenever a blogger publish a great article online and a day later it is stolen by spam blogs (also known as splog) to reproduce or republish on their own sites without getting permission from the author of that article. The reason why they are doing this is pretty obvious: make easy money from ads and promote their affiliated websites.

As blogger, you should not underestimate the harmfulness brought by these spam blogs, not only they will significantly lower your blog ranking in search engines but also reduce your both web traffic and ad revenue. Now, if you’ve decided to fight with these notorious spam blogs, here’s our complete guide with many effective actions to be taken including file a DMCA complaint! Read more…

Having a good comment system is important for us, as a blogger, to effectively communicate, share and discuss with audience. Be it a personal blog or commercial website, more interaction and communication through comments can make us understand our audience better, thus build a strong relationship and engagement with them.

Despite all blogging platforms including WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger and Drupal come with a standard comment system that work pretty well and seem to suffice for most bloggers. But sometimes users may require more sophisticated commenting feature, fortunately there are quite a number of third-party commenting platforms out there for you to consider. Read more…

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plays a vital role in maximizing a website’s online presence and growing your online business. Regardless you are running a website, blog or e-Commerce site, you should get yourself familiar with things you should and should not be doing on your web pages to make them rank higher in Google and other search engines.

If you are lacking of SEO knowledge, here’s a collection of 50 useful infographics to help you understand the concept better and remember the SEO strategies easily. Read more…

Sometimes we come across some web pages that we wanted to add note, highlight texts or draw diagrams, that’s where web annotation tools come in allowing you to perform these jobs with ease. This is pretty much like what we normally do with pen or pencil on a real book and newspapers. With annotation tools, you can discuss, exchange ideas and brainstorm with your friends and colleagues effectively. They allow you to mark up websites you visit with notes, and add comments to any web content that interest you. This makes web annotation tools especially useful for groups to communicate in a direct and easy to reference way.

In today’s roundup, you can find 26 most popular web annotation and markup tools, bringing you a new level of convenience to communicate and collaborate with a friend or group. We hope you’ll find them useful! Read more…

With the introduction of CSS3, it has brought many cool new features. And one of the most fun and amazing features is CSS animation, demonstrating the possibilities of the CSS3 transform and transition property. Here’s a compilation of 40 CSS animated demos that let you discover the possibility and usability of the CSS3. They all look cool and some of them can be used as Javascript alternatives and applied into web design to make it more interesting. To view these animations, you are required to have WebKit browsers like Safari and Chrome.

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Facebook is the most popular social network. It is expected that this site will have one billion users by this coming summer, which means a lot of people are on the site. If you are an advanced user, you probably use the site for business and for pleasure. Social media is an amazing tool for marketing and for connecting with friends, loved ones, coworkers and acquaintances. You probably spend a lot of time on the site and try to keep up with any and all changes and updates, but it is impossible for you to know absolutely everything about how to use Facebook the best.

The following are some tips and tricks specifically for advanced Facebook users. Some of this stuff may be things that you already know, but some of it may give you new information and dramatically change how you utilize this popular site. Read more…

Project management and collaboration are important to every business. In many cases, the results of a project are highly affected by initial planning and monitoring. If you are running a modern business like web design agency and employing people all around the world working from their home, having an effective communication and collaboration are keys to the successful outcome of any projects. There are a variety of project management and collaboration software available in the market for small and medium-sized enterprises. They help you keep track of your projects, schedule daily tasks, manage your workers and more importantly maximize your productivity. Some necessary features like real-time update, files sharing and mobile synchronization can also be found in these tools.

If you are looking for an easy-to-use but powerful online project management tool to suit your business’s needs, here’ a compilation of some of the best project management and collaboration software for you to choose. While there are a number of general features that these tools have in common; they also have different and unique services to offer. I hope this article will help you make the right choice. Read more…

If you are planning to move to a new email account, the first thing you should do is backup and export all your existing contacts. Regardless you are using Gmail, Yahoo! Mail or Windows Live Hotmail, all these email services do allow you to export contacts and save it in various formats. In today article, we’ll show you how to make a contacts backup of your Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Windows Live Hotmail.

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TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation. The annual event is formed to disseminate “ideas worth spreading.” It showcases top-notch and innovative thinkers in the disciplines of technology, science, performance and art. The speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can.

Some of you might not be familiar with this global conference, but do you know that many technological devices such as Xbox Kinect are inspired by one of the TED talks? In today’s post, we’ve compiled 25 most thrilling, amazing and visually appealing TED presentations including unbelievable SixthSense technology, breakthrough touch screen, advanced exoskeletons and many more. We promise these incredible videos from TED will absolutely make you WOW! Read more…

Facebook is the most popular social utility to re-connect with your relatives, friends, classmates and co-workers. The largest social networking site also provides users a great platform to make new friends. However with more than 845 million active users (As of February 2012) on Facebook, it’s no easy task to find people you want especially if you have no idea what are their names and email addresses.

Fortunately Facebook has many built-in search functions and features you can use to dig out any people you want. And here are 7 most commonly used methods to effectively find people on Facebook! Read more…

Are you a nature lover, nature photographer, or nature wallpaper collector? If you are, you will definitely love today’s collection. In our Earth, there are plethora scenes and places you must see at least once in your lifetime. Although many of us cannot physically visit all the beautiful places in the world, the good news is we can enjoy nature photography on the web that brings the beauty of nature.

Here’s a showcase of 40 breathtaking nature photographs taken around the world. In this amazing collection, you can find many photographs of mountains, waterfalls, forest, fields, etc. All of them are carefully collected from the web after having viewed more than thousand of nature images. We promise today’s showcase is one of the most stunning shots of nature photography collections you can find online. So, are you ready to be amazed? Check them out now! Read more…

One of the great ways to expand your blog is to get co-authors and guest authors producing fresh contents to attract different types of audiences. This trend has been growing rapidly in the blogging industry. Many one-man blogs have turned into multi-author blogs as it’s getting hard for a single author to keep up with the fresh content especially when the audience grows. In many cases, bloggers need to deliver more than one quality blog post everyday to satisfy their increasingly demanding audience. And that’s where co-authors and guest bloggers come in to reduce the workload.

Assuming the part of writers recruitment is being taken care of, the next big challenge will be multi-author management. Apparently it’s no easy task, you have to spend lots of time making sure the authors write quality content and post on time, giving them appropriate permission, and so much more. Fortunately there are lots of WordPress plugins out there helping you to manage your co-authors and guest authors. Read more…