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12 Must Have WordPress Plugins Dedicated to CMS Management

Amit — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:57:35 +0000

WordPress initially launched as the ultimate blog platform for providing extensive ease to the bloggers and content writers. Sooner than, CMS was widely adopted by the small and big business websites, because it’s very user friendly. It is popular because it’s free and has great customization capability; you are free to modify it as per your need. It provide simplest environment to your clients, they might get familiar with it even though they don’t know much about programming language.

There are tons of plugins for WordPress which tend to make your experience with it more robust and easy. Choosing the right plugins is not an easy task, as installing many plugins in bulk may slow down your site and will lead to a negative effect to its visitors. Though WordPress is fully managed and try to give you the best possible ease in management, yet you might need to customize it, so today, we are featuring 12 most powerful WordPress plugins to manage your WordPress CMS. Try these and tell us your experience in the comment box below.

User Access Manager

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User Access Manager is useful if you need a member area or a private section on your blog. It will help to prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to restricted posts, pages or files.

More Field

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More Fields is a WordPress plugin that adds boxes to the Write/Edit page. These boxes contain input fields, so that additional fields can be added to a post.

Role Scoper

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Role Scoper is a comprehensive enrichment for access control in WordPress, giving you CMS-like control of permissions.

Flutter

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Flutter is a feature rich WordPress CMS plugin that focuses on easy templating for the developer and simplifies content management for the administrators by creating custom write panels that can be fully customized.

Multi Level Navigation

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Multi Level Navigation generates the code necessary to create a Son of Suckerfish horizontal dropdown, vertical flyout or horizontal slider menu.

WP CMS Post

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WP-CMS-Post not only allows you to hide unwanted items like custom fields, trackbacks, and revisions etcetera.

Custom Admin Branding

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This plugin allows you to not only re-brand the WordPress login screen, but also the admin header and footer with your own custom images.

WP eCommerce

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WP e-Commerce shopping cart plugin for WordPress is an elegant, easy to use, fully featured shopping cart application suitable for the selling of products, services and fees online.

MailPress

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MailPress allows you to send beautifully styled HTML and plain text mails based on specific themes and templates. Very often, there will be a need to have newsletter subscription available on the site for visitors.

cForm II

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cForm II is a great and flexible contact form builder. It is a feature rich plugin, offering convenient deployment of multiple Ajax driven contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page.

Tinymce Advanced

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This will help the user that does not know much about HTML, to be able to draw tables, insert breaks, search and replace, and much more.

PageMash

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PageMash allows you to customize the order of your pages with a simple Ajax drag-and-drop administrative interface, with an option to toggle the page to be hidden from output.

20 Best WooCommerce Extensions For eCommerce Websites

Amit — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:24:28 +0000

Managing an ecommerce site is very complex task, more bitterly if you are not aware of your platform and its features completely or thoroughly. WordPress is the most trusted CMS brand among website owners due to its features and compatibility with latest web technologies. For the effective ecommerce website there is a plugin which is widely used and admired by the users – WooCommerce. It’s the best add-on for you ecommerce website to start with, it would help you to transform your normal WordPress site into an effective ecommerce site.

Despite having many premium-like features and functionalities in WooCommerce plugin, you might need to consider some other extensions for more robust features for your ecommerce site. We have compiled a list of 20 best WooCommerce extensions to turn your WordPress site into an ecommerce site tends to sell anything effectively.

1. Sale Flash Pro

2. Facebook Tab

3. AWeber Newsletter

4. Google Product Feed

5. Currency Converter Widget

6. WPEC to WooCommerce

7. Gravity Forms Add-ons

8. Catalog Visibility Options

9. Product Enquiry Form

10. Cloud Zoom

11. Product Add-ons

12. Commission King

13. Notifications Pro

14. Jigoshop to WooCommerce

15. Order/Customer CSV Export

16. Ajax Layered Navigation

17. MyGate Payment Gateway

18. WooCommerce Branding

19. Bulk Stock Management

20. PayJunction

Tutorial – How to Modify Font to Make it More Promising for Logo Design

Amit — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:04:29 +0000

There are many fonts available to use in graphic designing and making beautiful logo, then what is the need to modify a font? Sometimes your clients request such thing which may be a little bit pain in your bum, their desire may tend to your creativity expire. It’s not easy to get desirable fonts all the time and without cost. So it would be better if you’re able to edit font itself using Adobe Illustrator or the same capable application. In this article we will give you step by step guide to do so.

Originally this tutorials has been written in the computer art magazine, you can see the picture here and follow the steps given below to achieve the same result at your end.

Time needed: 30mins (depends on how you use application)

Software needed: Adobe Illustrator (or equivalent)

Skills you will learn:
• How to create a unique brand identity
• How to modify an existing typeface to create a unique logo
• How to use the pen tool when editing a typeface

Step One

If you have the Gotham ‘Light’ typeface, create a new document and type out the words ‘computer arts’ at 50pt and then right click and click ‘Create Outlines’. You will also find the rest of the Gotham Light typeface if you wish to create a different logo after the tutorial. Take a moment to study the changes we are going to make, as circled in red.

Step Two

You will notice the text is now editable; this is because we have outlined the font. This allows us to edit the letterforms. Now that the text is outlined the first thing you will want to do is make a duplicate of the words. Hold down alt and drag a new copy out. After duplicating, right click on the text and click ‘Ungroup’. This allows us to edit each letterform individually rather than all at once.

Step Three

Zoom into the top of the ascender of the letter M at 6400%. Select the letter M and then select the delete anchor point tool by clicking the minus button (-) on your keyboard. Delete the top right anchor point of the M’s ascender. This will leave a sharp point. Zoom out, turn on smart guides and then put a ruler in line as shown. Take note that the ruler is directly inline with the anchor point on the middle of the M. Use the direct selection tool (from now on called DST) and pull down the left side of the M to in line where you made the rule. Hold down shift to ensure it is locked to a straight line.

Step Four

Select the delete anchor point tool again and delete the anchor point on top of the M as shown by the arrow. Now grab the DST again, click once on the very top anchor point of the M. This will show two blue nodes. Grab the left one and pull it out to the left so it is inline with the vertical edge of the M, remembering to hold down shift while doing so. A pink smart guide should show you where to lock it into place. Let go and now the letter m is complete.

Step Five

Now zoom into the letter P. This is going to be similar process… deleting the top right corner of the p’s ascender. Create a new ruler and put it in line with the middle of the P as shown, taking note that this is a different spot to the first rule. (You may want to delete the other guide so you do not confuse yourself). Now get the DST and drag the left side of the P down to inline with the rule you just created. Now delete the middle anchor point of the P. With the DST select the top anchor point and pull out the left blue node to the side of the P, just like we did for the M.

Step Six

The letter U will be using the same technique, just in reverse. Delete the left anchor point of the descended. Create a rule in line with the bottom anchor point found on the other side of the U. Get the DST and move the point up to where you created the line. Delete the middle anchor point like you have done for the M and P. Get the DST and click the bottom middle anchor point, drag out the right node to in line with the right side of the U. The U is now complete. Use this same technique for the letter A.

Step Seven

Now zoom into the letter T. Use the delete anchor point tool (-) and delete the two anchor points found on the left side of the T. You will notice that it leaves two other unneeded anchor points on the middle stem of the letter T. It’s good practice to optimize your files, both for file size and faster printing, so delete these too. Do this all again for the second letter T. Don’t worry about kerning just yet.

Step Eight

Zoom into the letter R. The letter R is going to be using the same technique as the M and P however take note of where the ruler is located this time, this time it is in line with the bottom of the E. After you have done the letter R, duplicate it and drag it over to the other R and place it directly on top of the other R. Delete the R with the ascender. All of the letters have now been modified. From here you can kern as much as you desire.

Step Nine

Now that you have the customized type, you can experiment further by adding new elements such as the ‘CA’ provided, tweaking nodes, changing the layout, sizing, color, etc. to create a unique brand identity. Shown in the image above are just some of many possible variations.

This tutorial was written by Jacob Cass at JUST™ Creative.

30 Cool Graffiti Fonts as Freebie Download

Amit — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:00:40 +0000

Graffiti is the common form of street art, and is used to stand out something normal in specific manner and make it beautiful and admirable using wall mostly. Artist uses creativity to bring the life to the dull corner of street or a wall. Graffiti is the most popular art form among graphic designer in terms of digital art too. Many patterns, textures and paintings have been created which is ideal for rest of the designer world. But the most important thing which we need to consider while creating graffiti is the proper font selection.

Graffiti fonts are rare to find and nearly the toughest task if you have no budget to spend on font. Free graffiti fonts searching may spoil your precious time, while you can consider this article to get the proper graffiti font of your choice off course according to your graffiti form needs. We are featuring 30 free fonts ideal for graffiti art and can be download and use for both personal and commercial use (but after reading license terms).

1. Souper 3

2. Street Soul

3. Scrawl 3rd

4. Searfont

5. Whoa!

6. Ruthless Two

7. Free Fonts

8. Laks Oner

9. Brock Vandalo

10. Broken Records

11. Aaaiight!

12. FAVELA free font

13. Most Wasted

14. ReskaGraf

15. Ruthless One

16. Servin’ For Salute

17. Subway

18. Sadoc Wild

19. Writers

20. JustFist

21. The Battle Continuez

22. Bring Tha Noize

23. Progressive Fonts

24. DJ GROSS

25. Urban Jungle

26. El&Font Urban CalIigraphy

27. Sick Capital Vice

28. Inner City

29. Malice

30. Dripping Marker Font

26 Useful Mac Apps with Professional Design Scheme

Amit — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:47:14 +0000

Apple brought Macintosh computer to bring out the creative part of people. With tons of applications and tools available for Mac OS, this is the most reliable computer OS. Despite being less popular than of Windows OS, Mac brings a lot of opportunities with its innovative tools. There are huge amount of software for windows OS in comparison of Mac but Windows has one major drawback here, these software slow down the system.

Today, we are listing 26 most useful Mac applications and tools, some of these are absolutely free to use. These mac tools bring professionally designed interface which make you enable to use these apps with an ease. These tools come with verity from simple text editors to complex image processing or manipulation tools. So go through the list and get your favorite mac app to bring out the maximum productivity from within inside you.

ExpanDrive

Silverback

Billings 3

Pixelmator

Fontcase

Versions

LittleSnapper

Anxiety

RapidWeaver

Skitch

Candybar

Espresso

Coda

DeskShade

Code Collector Pro

Things

Bowtie

Sequel Pro

Pulp

DiscoApp

The Hit List

Delicious Library 2

Querious

Notify

Dropzone 2

Postbox

50 Controversial and Disturbing Print Media Advertisements

Amit — Tue, 08 May 2012 08:01:47 +0000

Print media has extensive power to express anything in any manner; people are expected to believe what print media serve them. Basic need of an advertisement is to attract the viewers to the related products and services. Humor element is the most common to draw attention but when these become extreme, leads to the controversy. Some of these advertisements might be visually disturbing so viewer’s discretion is advised before going through this article.

Today, we are lining up 50 most controversial advertisements which are disturbing yet have effective concept behind these to convey message to the mass. These print advertisements often use gore, vulgarity, sex, violence, and sometimes religion to promote their products or bring across the organizations’ message. These are effective, have clear message but not everyone can appreciate the beauty in such clever and deliberate ugliness.

MTV: Shot: Girl

WWF: Blood

Humans for Animals: Seal

Vergessen ist ansteckend: Tub

Descriminatie.nl

Amnesty International: Red Little Tender

Domestic Violence: Living Room

Gringo’s Tequila: El Matador Peligroso

Multiple Sclerosis Australia: Use By Dates

Good Parent

TMF: Army

Fur Free: Angry Fox

Masterlock: Hippes

Superette: Elevator

Domestic Violence: Piece of meat

Lung cancer awareness: One

Filigranes Bookstore: Las Vegas

Foundation Abbé Pierre: The Lifeguard

AIDS Awareness Campaign: Gay

Caribu Bitter: Canari

Ashtraymouth: Roach girl

NSW Health

Stella Coffee Pot: Spider

E.N.P.A: Spray

Caribu Bitter: Poison

SPID Advertising

Semorin: Mustard

Save the Children: Child Labour

Shared Responsibility: Kidnapping

Sanctuary, Save the tiger: Binocular

Concordia Children’s Services: Piglets

IndyAct: Bobcat

13th Street

Colombian Association of Arterial Hypertension: Home

RSPCA: Woman

RSF: Ink

Mettiamocilatesta.it

Popeye Detergent Hipoalergenic: Hell raiser

Nycomed: Agony

Government of the State of Santa Catarina: Hamburger

Ariel: Pervert

Ariel Plus: Ketchup

Emirates Arthritis Foundation: Painful

Glassing Sunglasses: Kiss my glass

Fashion Outlet Zurich: Cow

Ramorama: Expose Yourself

Just liquid hand wash: Cockroaches

Ace: Tarantula

Love Life Stop Aids: Space

Alka-Seltzer: New Year

30 Fresh & Free Photoshop Textures for Designers

Amit — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:24:28 +0000

A comprehensive surface quality of art is called texture, in more depth, it is considered as physical property in 2D and 3D form. It can include, but is not limited to, fur, wood grain, sand, smooth surface of canvas or metal, glass, and leather. Light is the other factor which affect the actual representation of surface i.e. textures. In design world, texture plays an important role for beautiful and creative art work and design patterns.

Textures are created using Adobe Photoshop which store texture patterns to use with many design projects. These textures are used in graphic designs, web designs and other design works. There are many websites featuring free textures or best photoshop textures etc. But most of them give you inappropriate resources. Today, we will feature 30 fresh & most creative, high quality photoshop textures which are free and can be used without any restrictions. These textures are the best resources for designers which seek creativity and inspiration.

Grunge Gift Stock Vol.One

Old Brick wall Textures

Dusty Wooden Textures

Rock Texture Pack

Texture Pack

Stained Concrete Textures

Fancy Jeans Patterns

13 XL Dark Textures

Grunge Textures Pack

Grass Texture Pack

Glitter Textures Pack

Grunge Concrete Textures

Vintage Valentine Paper Textures Pack

Grunge Bokeh Texture Pack

High Resolution Texture Pack

Assorted Textures Pack

Round the House Texture Pack

New Rocks Textures Pack

Watercolor Textures Pack

18 Paint Textures

Grunge Plywood Textures

Nine in the Afternoon Set

Colorful Cloth Fabric Textures

Free Cloud Textures

Assorted Rock Surfaces

Paperwork Textures

Grunge Striped Textures

Rough Concrete Tiles Textures

Old White Cracked Textures

Totally Rusty Metal Textures