TOP 5 blogs that every designer should see
Written by: milardovich | June 14, 2009
#1- Six revisions
Six Revisions is a weblog that provides practical, useful information for the modern, standards-compliant web designer and web developer. It seeks to present exceptional, noteworthy tips, tutorials, and resources that the modern web professional will appreciate. You’ll find a variety of content from tools that can speed up your workflow processes to showcases of beautiful designs for inspiration and tutorials on JavaScript frameworks like jQuery and MooTools.
#2-Abduzeedo
The idea behind this blog is primarily to be a channel for me to write down some ideas, experiments, news, and a lot of thing that I see online and probably will forget in a couple of months. Basically it is an archive of my adventures online as a designer on the daily basis. Another thing that I want to do with this blog is to improve my english skills, as a brazilian and non-native speaker of english, it’s a good way to practice it. By the way, you might find some english mistakes, maybe a lot sometimes, but I will try my best to make it as legible as possible.
#3-Smashing magazine
Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development. We try to convince you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information we present. We hope that makes us different. Smashing Magazine is, and always has been, independent.
#4-Dzine blog
Founded in December 2007, Dzine blog Is all about designs, here u can find inspirational designs and some good tips in logo, graphics and web designing. My aim is to share quality graphic design resources, graphic design tips and much more good inspirational designs and useful information in designing, precisely and regularly.
#5-Design float
‘The designers digg’.
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1000 Works approved!
Written by: leocorrea | June 13, 2009
On August 15 last year launched coolshowcase. We are always surprised by the big "welcome" they gave us blogs and users around the world. Coolshowcase discussed in many places and do not stop to get more and more visits.
Just today we passed the 1000 approved work! And we have 963 active subscribers. Hope you enjoy the site and we continue to meet the demands of our users.
Work number 1000!
Sergio and me want to thank all artists and art lovers who have uploaded their work. We are very pleased by how the site has grown and we hope to continue working to improve this site.
P.D.: Special thanks to user "Takashi" and user "Loser" because they have worked selflessly to the contents. Without them this site would not be the same.
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8 wordpress plugins that you should know…
Written by: milardovich | June 9, 2009
Well, i see that the blog is getting a bit more popular, so, i decided to write a list with 8 wordpress plugins that you should know… let’s see…
1- WP-Cumulus
A flash-based 3D tag cloud, very cool and easily customizable.
2-WP-Pagenavi
Cool pagination plugin
3- Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
4- Buddypress
BuddyPress is a suite of WordPress plugins and themes, each adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you’d expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact.
5- TinyMCE advanced
This plugin adds 15 plugins to TinyMCE: Advanced hr, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, Context Menu, Emotions (Smilies), Date and Time, IESpell, Layer, Nonbreaking, Print, Search and Replace, Style, Table, Visual Characters and XHTML Extras.
6- Really simple captcha
Really Simple CAPTCHA does not work alone and is intended to work with other plugins. It is originally created for Contact Form 7, however, you can use it with your own plugin.
7- WP-WALL
Cool tagboard widget
ALL IN ONE VIDEO PACK
This is not just another video embed tool - it includes every functionality you might need for video and rich-media, including the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, create playlists and much more… And Kaltura covers all hosting and streaming costs for FREE up to 10GB.
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15+ SEO plugins for wordpress
Written by: milardovich | June 7, 2009
The SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has lately become one of the most important factors that influence in the creation and maintaining of a blog. This is why here, in the resources section of coolshowcase we decided to create a list of the Top 15 SEO plugins for wordpress.
1- All in one Seo Pack
One of the most complete ‘all-included’ plugins. Very customizable and easy to use. Really recommendable
2- Platinum SEO Pack
3- Simple tags
Simple Tags is the successor of Simple Tagging Plugin This is THE perfect tool to manage perfeclty your WP 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8 tags.
It was written with this philosophy : best performances, more secured and brings a lot of new functions.
4- SEO slugs
The SEO Slugs Wordpress plugin removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve search engine optimization.
5- SEO Title tag
SEO Title Tag makes is dead-easy to optimize the title tags across your WordPress-powered blog or website. Not just your posts, not just your home page, but any and every title tag on your site! If this plugin, along with a few hours of keyword research and copywriting of optimized titles, doesn’t make a significant impact on your search traffic, you’re doing something wrong!
6-SEO Friendly Image
SEO Friendly Images is a Wordpress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.
7- SEO Tag Cloud Widget
SEO Tag Cloud Widget displays the tag cloud in a SEO-friendly way, using a search engine optimized html markup. It looks the same as the default Wordpress Cloud Tag, but with an optimized html markup. You can put it to your sidemenu.
8- SEO Booster Lite
The plugin detects and collects visits by users from search engines, especially from those pages listed on page two of the search engine.
By adding the provided widget in your WordPress blog, it will present site-wide links to these pages with the search terms it has detected, and by adding site-wide links to the posts with the search term from the search engine, it will attempt to boost those pages from page 2 to page 1.
9- WP_LinkTools
Publicise your posts and pages by adding them to the social bookmarking site Delicious, automatically as soon as you post them. Without editing old posts or pages, link to your own articles with accurate anchor text (good SEO) , for affiliate products you can just state the product name and have it always link to the correct affiliate, even if you change merchants - no more searching through and editing. For people with many sites you can centralise your list of links and synchronise each blog with ether Delicious or your sites OPML feed or links. Combine these aspects and you can maintain the links, both internal and external, in your post and pages with great ease.
10- Sociable
Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!
11- Share this!
The ShareThis WordPress plugin provides a simple way for users to add your post to many social bookmarking sites, or to send a link to your post via email, AIM, Facebook, Twitter and more.
12 - Twitter tools
Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
13- Twitter This
Allow to your readers sharing your blog post at twitter.
14- Share Buttons
The easiest way to add sharing buttons to your blog posts for: Facebook, Digg, Twitter, Email, Reddit, StumbleUpon, etc.
15 - ShortURL
ShortURL plugin allows you to use your blog as a URL shorterning service by implementing both HTML and HTTP Short URL Autodiscovery specifications. Short URLs will be in the form of http://domain/basepath/-code. The autodiscovery feature allows third-party services that honor it to use your own short URLs instead of generating new ones using services such as TinyURL, bit.ly, and others. This gives your posts and pages canonical short URLs that give you all SEO benefits and don’t leak traffic out to external domains and will prevent linkrot.
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Ultimate 101+ CSS galleries list
Written by: milardovich | May 31, 2009
CSS Mania was born in March 2004 as section on the personal blog of Gabriel Segura as he loafed around the few CSS Showcases that existed during that time. Actually, cssmania has became one of the most visited css galleries arround the net.
#2 -Creamy CSS
Creamy CSS is an inspirational showcase of the best CSS based websites from around the world. We are collecting only the most beautiful, creative and professional looking websites.
#3- Boxed CSS
#4 - Css artillery
#5 - Css11
#6 - CSS Bay
#7 - CSS Bunch
#8 - CSS Burst
#9 - CSS Based
#10 - CSS blaze
This website was developed to showcase Innovative CSS/XHTML Web Designs submitted by Web Designers from around the world. Its also a great place for inspiration when we have designers block. You can easily search the gallery by title, color or category. Please feel free to submit your site to CSS Blaze.
#11 - CSS Clip
#12 - Best CSS Gallery
#13 - CSS Breeze
#14 - Gravento
#15 - CSS Built
#16 - CSS Cat Walk
#17 - CSS Blast
#18 - CSS Mix
MixCSS is a beautiful, functional design gallery based on the Gallery Theme, a Thematic child theme for WordPress by Chris Wallace. This theme is a beautifully simple CSS gallery-style theme that makes use of custom fields within WordPress.
#19 - CSS Bag
cssbag.com is an interactive gallery of CSS based websites. it showcases new and well designed websites for your daily inspiration. all websites are required to meet a high standard by means of valid CSS and clean semantic XHTML.
cssbag.com is focused on providing tableless and W3C-valid websites as a resource for web professionals as well as anybody who is interested in cascading style sheets and web developing.
#20 - CSS Cookie
#21 - Design Bombs
CSS Amigo is a web gallery created to collect well designed websites as a means of inspiration. We gather websites recognized as design pioneers, who make inspired use of web design tools to create a unique product. These websites, while diverse, all share the same spirit of innovation and creativity.
#26 - CSS Fury
CSS Fury is a premier css gallery showcasing high quality web design. Collected from the best sources around the web, and brought to you very often.
#27 - Design Snack
#28 - CSS Nature
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Lower ad prices
Written by: milardovich | May 30, 2009
We know that the crisis affects not only big companies. Also small entrepreneurs are very affected. That is why we realized that we were becoming too expensive with the banner advertising we were offering, and talking with Leo we decided to put much more reasonable prices. The big banner now costs $30US, while the big banner $35US. All interested please see this link for more details, we would really appreciate your purchase. We would use the money to solve several hosting and domain issues 
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We’re back!
Written by: milardovich | April 8, 2009
Some days ago, Leo and me were working in the resources directory(http://coolshowcase.com/resources) now we have the directory working and about 40 tutorials/cool links/icons and other types for you!.
We also are working in the facebook group, and we are thinking of doing some t-shirts that you will be able to encharge by this web
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Coolshowcase on cgart magazine
Written by: milardovich | February 2, 2009
Yeah! our friends of cgfinal featured us in their mag
If you want to download the magazine, here you have a direct link we’re in page 520. We just recommended some artists from our gallerwe will probably appear in the next moths too 
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Facebook group
Written by: milardovich | December 9, 2008
I’ve just created the facebook group for coolshowcase if you would like to join it just clic here. everybody’s welcome
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Tag/delete favs
Written by: milardovich | December 1, 2008
Sorry for not writing the blog more fllowed… but, at least i’m alive. Well, just that :-), now you can add tags to your favorites works and also delete those from the list that you don’t consider a ‘great’ work anymore.
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