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Simple and Lightweight but Powerful CMS Solutions

13 Simple & Lightweight but Powerful & Free CMS Solutions

CMS or Content Management Systems is a very efficient tool to keep up and manage websites and the content thereof. But how well a CMS caters to your requirements depends a great deal on your choice of the same. There are so many available, all with different features, it can be difficult to decide which is the best solution for a particular web project. For simple sites, lots of bells and whistles can be overkill and actually be a bit confusing for the person maintaining the website.

Simple and Lightweight but Powerful CMS Solutions
Simple and Lightweight but Powerful CMS Solutions

In this article, you’ll find 10+ Simple and Lightweight but Powerful and Free Content Management Systems that may not garner as much attention as their more popular counterparts – but should.
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Input vs. Button

Input vs Button – Which to use?

While working on form design, I encountered some issues when using images as submit buttons. The input with the type=”submit” is either too ugly (Firefox), a little buggy (Internet Explorer) or completely inflexible (Safari). The solution for most is to use image inputs and create the damn things ourselves.
View this example:
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Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery

25 sexy jQuery Drop Down Multi Level Menu

Drop-down menus and menu bars have been heavily used since the early days of graphical user interfaces. Their use has become ubiquitous, and even expected, in desktop applications, and the web has quickly followed suit. There are lots of drop down menus already out there. Here you’ll find 25 sexy jQuery and CSS based drop-down or just multi level menu tutorials with down loadable files and explanations as well.
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Essential WordPress Plugins to Improve Security & Protection

Essential WordPress Plugins to Improve your blogs Security and ProtectionWordPress is getting more and more popular each day, nobody can guarantee that your WordPress installation is 100% secure. Securing your WordPress blog is the most important thing that you must do after you have set it up on your server.
Before you read on, you need to know about Checklist to Improve WordPress Security

  1. Encrypt your login
  2. Stop brute force attack
  3. Use a strong password
  4. Protect your wp-admin folder
  5. Remove WordPress version info, WordPress Error-Messages
  6. Hide your plugins folder
  7. Change your login name
  8. Upgrade to the latest version of WordPress and plugins
  9. Do a regular security scan
  10. Backup your WordPress database
  11. Define user privilege

There are many WordPress Plugins which help you in securing your Blogs, I will share some tips, tricks and resources which will surely help you to secure and lock down your WordPress site and to fortify it from unwarranted attacks.Continue reading

The Essential Safari Plugins for Web Developers

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. First released as a public beta on 7 January 2003 on the company’s Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple’s default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 “Panther”. It is the most popular browser in the world that even Mac Windows and Linux users are known. Currently, Safari web browser available on the Mac, Windows, iPhone, or iPod touch environments.

Safari plugins
Safari plugins

However, web development using Safari may still seems a bit troublesome compare to Mozilla Firefox. Previously, the addition of new features for Safari by developers 3rd almost impossible because your browser does not support plugins. Now it has come true.

Note: Many plugins work through something called SIMBL (Simple InputManager Bundle Loader), which is basically a little tool that helps developers manage and run their code as plugins for the different applications on OS X. It’s free.

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The Essential Internet Explorer Extensions for Web Developers

In general, Firefox and Safari are favorite browsers of designer, however Internet Explorer and Opera are many people use for their design work, because it hass integrated into the operating system or simply just because they like to use it.

Microsoft Internet Explorer
Microsoft Internet Explorer

In a previous article I talk about The Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers, this article continues to mention for the content on the browser of Microsoft Internet Explorer.

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Web 2.0 Badges, Stripe, Loading creating service

Web Script Lab’s Ajax Loading GIF Generator options for it’s loading icon are background and foreground color and three predefined speed which are normal, fast and slow.

Badges are one of the characteristics of Web 2.0. I have a collection of some online services allow you to create them without using any adding other software.

Badges Generator

Web 2.0 Badges
Web 2.0 Badges

Web20Badges is a set of free and very cool web badges.
They are probably one of the most popular trend in Web 2.0 time. It’s most over-used trendy little design technique in our days, they immediately attract visitor’s attention. Web badges have various round or square corners and eye-catchy colours.
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The Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers

The Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers
The Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers

Firefox browser has a fully customizable, it allows users to add features needed by the add-ons which can create by third parties developer. As a web developer this functionality is extremely useful to us.

By downloading the best add-ons that are available, you can transform Firefox into a tool that dramatically increases your productivity and saves you a countless amount of time.
I have picked-up some add-ons covering everything from DOM inspection to screenshots, making designing and developing with Firefox a breeze.
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