September 19th, 2007
by Gerrit Tebrake
Every day hundreds of blogs start publishing, but one question always makes trouble - What theme fits my needs (niche)?As Wordpress is the common platform for blogs, I collected the most valuable themes for this software. Many pages and blogs offer Wordpress themes but they are very often bad designed standard themes.. forget the rest: 10 ultimate designer works for nothing!
1. Redoable
2. Japanese Cherry Blossom
3. Foliage
4. iTheme
5. PlainBox
6. Sakura
7. Resurrection
8. MyJournal
9. Feather
10. Sodelicious 2.0
Maybe you know another well-designed Wordpress themes, feel free to post them in the comments or send me in an email.
September 16th, 2007
by Gerrit Tebrake
About one week has gone since Firefox passed the 400 million downloads mark. A lot of people and of course webmaster use the revolutionary browser to explore the web. So this time I want to present you a bunch of plugins, especially for web development!
Debugging
Firebug - A masterpiece of plugin! If you want to edit your sites CSS and preview it in real-time, this plugin is what you need.
JavaScript Debugger - A powerful JavaScript debugging environment.
Console Two - A plugin/console to display errors filtered by type, language and context.
Analysis
View Source Chart - A cool plugin which enables you to display a color-coded chart of a website’s source code.
OperaView - Open pages in Opera from Firefox context menu.
View Dependencies - This plugin adds a tab to the Page Info window which lists all the files that have been loaded to show the current page.
September 12th, 2007
by Robin Tebrake
The market of free tracking services is full of good and bad tools. So I collected the best and most innovative tracking services that are available. They are useful for every webmaster to optimize/monetize his site and see what content is appealing to the masses.
Google Analytics is a great user tracking service because it shows you most of all important information you need about your visitors like where they from, what site referred them (and links, keywords etc…). Also it creates handy graphs to easily see how your site grows or not.
whos.amung.us does not offer a lot of statistics (just 3) but 2 very useful services. The first good one is a live-counter, which of course shows the number of current visitors and the page they are browsing on. The second tool is a “normal” graph that displays a few colored bars. The last but very cool one, is a map which allows you, in addition to see what page your visitors are browsing, to locate each user on a map.
September 8th, 2007
by Gerrit Tebrake
Now, three years after the release of Firefox v1.0, the revolutionary browser has been downloaded over 400 million times!
When the first version of the browser hit the internet back in 2004, it took only 99 days for the Firefox to be downloaded by more than 25 million delighted users. After 1 year the number quadrupled and passed the 100 million downloads mark.
This time was the starting signal for a never-ending, striking success of a web browser - it is free, has tons of good extensions and themes, has a huge community and made us feel the web2.0!
September 7th, 2007
by Gerrit Tebrake
On the 5th September Apple presented their new iPod touch to the press. It’s like an iPhone without the phone. But if that isn’t enough Steve Jobs showed the next generations of the iPod nano and the classical iPod.
iPod touch
The iPod touch is an iPod with a huge touchscreen and integrated Wi-Fi. So you can listen to your favorite music, watch Tv shows, see your photoalbums or even browse through in the internet (and watch videos on YouTube!). Also you can toggle to a Cover Flow mode as seen on the iPhone. Apple offers a 8GB version for 299$ and a 16GB version for 399$ (shipping starts 28th September).
image from engadget.
iPod nano
The third generation iPod of the successful nano series, lovingly called “fatty”, has a bigger screen and enabled video-playback. The nano is available in 5 colors (red, green, blue, silver and black) and 2 storage sizes - 4/8GB (149$/199$).
