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500 Tools for Wordpress Blogging

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AdSense Plugins for WordPress 

Ad Integration - While it is more a tool to add advertisements you like to your posts, the clearest choice is Google AdSense. This will allow you to change ads on your site without having to constantly edit your templates.

 

AdSense Manager - Allows you to manage the codes of many different online advertising networks with a focus on Google’s AdSense.

AdSense Revenue Sharing - If you run a multi-author blog, this is the perfect solution for revenue sharing.  It will let you easily create multiple authors and allow each of them to have their own AdSense set up so they can earn the revenue from their posts.

All in One Adsense and YPN - Allows you to insert AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network ads in all of your posts, opt to skip some, randomize where they are inserted to lower ad blindness, and many more options.

Googmonify - Allows you to set it up so you can add AdSense to all of your posts by just using simple tags to insert the ad units as you like.

Ozh’ Who Sees Ads - Allows you to set several options for when an add gets displayed.  Some of the most interesting ones are if the reader comes from a search engine, was published between certain dates, is older than X number of days and more.

Random / Rotating Ads - By using text files and widgets, you’re able to add rotating ads to the same spot on your blog.  You can even alternate between Google AdSense, affiliate links and more.

Smart Ads - Gives you numerous options for auto inserting AdSense into your site, such as setting a minimum word count, categories to exclude and more.

Add to Any - Social bookmarking, saving and subscription buttons optimized for WordPress, featuring Google Analytics integration, automatic updating and more.

 

Akismet - The most well known of the anti-spam plugins always comes packed with the latest version of WordPress, so it is always a given it is ready to go.

cforms II - An easy tool for creating submission forms on your site that can be inserted into posts and pages alike by just inserting a line of code.

Entries On Page X - Adds a link on your posts to the archive page so that people can look through your blog in a more chronological order.

FeedBurner FeedSmith - The essential plugin for anyone who wants to use FeedBurner to monitor their number of RSS subscribers.

Google Analyticator - Google Analyticator takes all the work out of adding Google Analytics to your site.  Install the plugin, enter your tracking code in the settings, and this handy plugin will place the code where it needs to be no matter which theme you switch to.

jQuery Lightbox - A lightbox plugin that enlarges the image while darkening the background so you can see the picture better.

Google XML Sitemap - An essential plugin for bloggers to generate XML enabled sitemaps to aid with indexing by search engines like Google, MSN, Ask and more. This plugin has said 2.1 compatible for ages now, but it continues to work with the various updates. Read more…

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Top 20 creating Own Games Tools

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Flash Based

AlbinoBlackSheep.com - Hosts lots of games and videos, features tutorials on working with Flash.

FlashKit.com - Numerous tutorials for working with Flash including step-by-step guides for certain types of games.

Kirupa.com - Extensive collection of tutorials for Flash including guides for specific types of games such as shooters.

Lassie Adventure Studio - A 2d creation image with the feel of the old style Lucasarts games.

Sploder.com - Create a Flash game from a wide range of objects and then embed it into your MySpace, Blogger, and more sites.

General Sites & Resources

Anim8or.com - A 3d modeling animation system.

byond.com - Create your own games with their tools, host them on the site, let thousands of people play.

GameDiscovery.com - Everything you need to create a game including a pool of ideas submitted by users.

Martin Piecyk’s Website - A guide to learning how to make games with links to numerous resources.

VGMusic.com - A gigantic archive of video game midi files that, after asking permission from the people who made the files, you could possibly use in your own freeware games. Read more…

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20 ways to Create Website Screenshots

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Taking screenshots of web sites is probably one of the most commonly done tasks on the internet - doubly so if you have a blog or work as a journalist. This week, we wrote about Thumbalizr, a service that lets you take screenshots of websites. However, there are several other tools for easy screenshot capturing - some standalone and some in the form of a browser plugin.

Plugins

 

Save as image - an aptly named Firefox plugin that lets you save a page, frame, or part of either as an image directly from Firefox.

Pearl Crescent Page Saver - Save images of web pages in jpg or png format; save the entire page or just a portion of it, with the ability to automatically scale the image to a smaller size.

Picnik for Firefox - if you use online image editor Picnik this Firefox plugin enables you to easily import a screenshot of the currently opened webpage into it.

Snissa - simple Firefox plugin for taking web page screenshots.

Screengrab! - a plugin that lets you save visible part of window, the entire page, just a selection, or a particular frame of a webpage.

ieSnapshotter - a shareware plugin for Internet Explorer that allows you to take screenshots and thumbnails of web pages. Read more…

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12 Useful Web Tools for Designers

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In this article, you’ll find a bunch of handy online utilities for designers.

kuler Create

kuler Create - screen shot.

 

kuler is a web-based application by Adobe that helps you create and share color themes. You can peruse the user-submitted color themes or create your own color themes with the kuler Create web tool.

pixlr

pixlr - screen shot.

pixlr is a web-based image editor with a Photoshop-like user interface; pixlr has similar features like layers, filters, and even a Clone Stamp tool. For more image-editing web tools, check out this list of web-based image editors.

Wellstyled Color Scheme Generator

Wellstyled Color Scheme Generator - screen shot.

Wellstyled’s Color Scheme Generator is a simple web tool that helps designers produce color themes. It has an intuitive interface and the ability to bookmark generated color themes.

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Essential Tools for Bloggers

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1 - FeedBurner

FeedBurner is a free service that will publish the RSS feed from your blog and, most importantly, will provide you with subscriber counts and stats on your feed. Most bloggers already use FeedBurner, but many are not taking advantage of some of it features like email subscription options, customizable FeedFlare, and the FeedBurner ad network.

Other options: Feedblitz, Zookoda (email only)

2 - Google Analytics

Every serious blogger needs to be able to analyze the traffic that is coming to his or her blog. Google Analytics is the leading provider of free statistics to webmasters and bloggers. It will show you all of the standard stats like the number of visitors, pageviews, referral sources, plus it will also give you some stats you might not get from other programs, like your visitors’ geographic locations, screen resolutions, internet connection speed, browser, and more.

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