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In Search Of the Best Google Chrome Plugins

The best always stands out in the crowd.

chrome extensions logo

But sometimes the crowd is so huge that we need someone else to point them out. This post tries to accomplish just that. With tons of Google Chrome plugins available for our use, choosing the “few” useful ones could be time-consuming. Presented below are a dozen plugins that I found useful (with a little help from some of my friends).


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A Collection of Image Gallery Plugins from Around the Web

gallery image plugins collection

More often than I remember, I have spent hours googling for nice, good looking gallery plugins for a variety of reasons. To save you time and frustration, I have put together a collection of posts that detail the various gallery plugins available.
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A dozen Useful WordPress Plugins

… which we use in antzfxWay.com and in our other sister blogs. But we expect the better judgment of our readers while choosing what is right for your blog. Because what is right for us may be actually left for you!

1. Search Everything

search everything wordpress plugin

The biggest flip side of wordpress, according to me, is its search or rather its lack. I can’t understand why they have made it absolutely difficult to locate stuff inside a blog! Search Everything plugin extends searching to inside of tags, categories and even comments should you opt so.

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Here is the secret to creativity… Reloaded

‘Good artists copy, great artists steal’

— Pablo Picasso (Later made popular by Steve Jobs)

These are some of the amazing sites that inspire you and shatter your (design) believes. This post features my favorite 23 sites under 6 categories. Subscription links are provided at the end of each section.

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1. Ads Of The World


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7 Essential Tips to keep in mind while writing a post in wordpress

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder

This holds true for blog posts too. Not only does great content matter, nice layout and presentation is equally important. Writers pour tons of hours sprucing up the looks; but many hardly give consideration to the web crawlers that index those pages. Clean HTML is a vital aspect in making crawlers fall in love with your posts.

7 Essential Tips for WordPress post composing

Giving attention to a handful of rules can make big difference to the way crawlers see and index your posts. Given below are 7 golden rules to keep in my mind while composing a post in wordpress.


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Design — 'Acoustics For You' Desktop Wallpaper Calendar 2010

I had a little Christmas present earlier when Acoustics For You took my design to be showcased in their site. The design features the theme of their site and service.

Here’s the design for you to download.

2010 Desktop Wallpaper Calendar

Click on the image to go to the download page that has different resolution files


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Part 5: Optimisation Tools for becoming a web developer

Every aspect of a web page needs to be carefully scrutinised for optimisation. Strip off anything and everything that is not needed. Less is sometimes better. (This tutorial is a part of the series – “How to become a web programmer in 4 easy steps”. Read previous post here.)

We will discuss mainly about two types of optimisations – Image Optimisation and Minifier

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Part 4: Validation Tools for becoming a web developer

Validating tools offer an easy way to honour the structured way of writing code. This post details ways to do validation on your code. (This tutorial is a part of the series – “How to become a web programmer in 4 easy steps”. Read previous post here.)

HTML, XML, CSS, RSS and JavaScript can be validated using the following tools – online as well as offline.


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Part 3: Debugging Tools for becoming a web programmer

BUGS! They need special care and attention. They need special tools too. This post is dedicated to squashing bugs. (This tutorial is a part of the series – “How to become a web programmer in 4 easy steps”. Read previous post here. )

Nailing bugs can be done with assistance from browsers. We will discuss tools that are available with the three major browsers in the market – IE 8, Firefox 3.5 and Google Chrome 3.0.


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Part 2: Editing tools and Lookup materials for becoming a web programmer

Among the many things that play a crucial role in maintaining the flow of development, the choice of an editor and reference document are undoubtedly the most important. Today we will discuss them.

(This tutorial is a part of the series – “How to become a web programmer in 4 easy steps” . Read previous post here.)

Choice of an Editor

My stints with text editors always ended in disaster until I used Notepad++; and I fell in love with it.

notepad++

Notepad++ is the best text editing software in its category. It boasts of a lot of features including support for a whopping 48 scripting languages and portability.

Reference Material

A reference always comes handy – especially if it is available offline. Free offline materials are hard to find. Given below is a collection of offline and online reference material for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.

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