Coolshowcase Blog | Showcase of digital illustration, fine art, traditional art, photography, digital art, 3d and more... » Cool resources http://www.coolshowcase.com/blog Coolshowcase is a cyberspace gallery for the work of freelance digital artists, graphic designers and photographers. We seek not only to foster creative work, but also to serve as a gateway: for knowledge about the digital art field, and for creatives with common interests to connect with each other. Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:44:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 TOP 5 blogs that every designer should see http://www.coolshowcase.com/blog/top-5-blogs-that-every-designer-should-see http://www.coolshowcase.com/blog/top-5-blogs-that-every-designer-should-see#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:19:06 +0000 milardovich http://www.coolshowcase.com/blog/?p=134 #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’.

]]> http://www.coolshowcase.com/blog/top-5-blogs-that-every-designer-should-see/feed 0 8 wordpress plugins that you should know… http://www.coolshowcase.com/blog/8-wordpress-plugins-that-you-should-know http://www.coolshowcase.com/blog/8-wordpress-plugins-that-you-should-know#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:38:42 +0000 milardovich http://www.coolshowcase.com/blog/?p=124 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.

]]> http://www.coolshowcase.com/blog/8-wordpress-plugins-that-you-should-know/feed 1 15+ SEO plugins for wordpress http://www.coolshowcase.com/blog/15-seo-plugins-for-wordpress http://www.coolshowcase.com/blog/15-seo-plugins-for-wordpress#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:20:49 +0000 milardovich http://www.coolshowcase.com/blog/?p=117 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.

]]> http://www.coolshowcase.com/blog/15-seo-plugins-for-wordpress/feed 10 Ultimate 101+ CSS galleries list http://www.coolshowcase.com/blog/ultimate-101-css-galleries-list http://www.coolshowcase.com/blog/ultimate-101-css-galleries-list#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 22:03:01 +0000 milardovich http://www.coolshowcase.com/blog/?p=103 Css galleries are more and more popular every day, and are an excellent way to free publicity your projects. here in coolshowcase we have just made a fairly extensive list with over 101 galleries css where you can send your projects and make known your designs.
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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.

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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.

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If you know other CSS galleries, just leave us a comment and we will add it to our list :-)
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