10 opensource PHP e-commerce application

admin    Tools     e-Commerce, opensource, php, tool

1.OpenCart

OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online shopping cart system. A robust e-commerce solution for Internet merchants with the ability to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at a minimal cost.

OpenCart is designed feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface.

2.Magento

Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce solution offering complete flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of an online store.

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45 Web Builders to Create an Insanely Awesome Free Website

admin    Tools     free, site builder, tool

Looking for a place to create a free website?  There are plenty of resources that allow you to create you own website, blog, wiki, or social community without having to know any programming language.  These free website creation sites allow you to easily create a site, customize the design, add content, and use a custom URL.

Take a look at 45 best web builders to create a free website.

Google Sites

Hey its Google and they are letting you create a free site….so do it.  As usual, Google makes it extremely easy to build a free website with cool integration features like Google Docs, Google Calendar, and RSS.

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Best Web Sites For Designers To Find Icons and Icon sets

admin    Tools     free, icons, online service, tool

1. IconFinder

Iconfinder provides high quality icons for webdesigners and developers in an easy and efficient way.

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10 Essential Design Tools for Social Media Pros

admin    Tools     icons, resource, tool

Good design is a critical part of any web or social media presence. Like the clothes you wear to a job interview or a business meeting, a sharp looking social profile or website is the first step toward being taken seriously online.

Whether you’re a professional designer or an armchair artiste, tools abound that you can use to snazz up your web presence, and give it that polish that professionals, potential customers, and online friends have come to expect from a social media maven. We’ve talked to the experts about what they use for inspiration, collaboration, and getting down to the business of design in a social media world. Here are some of the suggestions they offered up.

1. Core Application Alternatives

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22 Useful Online Chart & Graph Generators

admin    Tools     generator, online service, tool

Have you ever encounter situations where you need to create a simple yet good-looking chart, graphs or diagrams and all you have is your browser? Charts are good and effective way to show relationship between entities but sometimes creating one can be pretty challenging especially when your favorite word processing software is not around.

In today’s post, we want to highlight some of the best web services that allow you to create various charts and graphs online on-the-fly. Most of them are easy to use and don’t you even worry about the design. Your output will be as good as what you see in the screen shots below. Full list after jump. read more

Get The Details Of The “Server That Hosts Your Website”: phpSysInfo

admin    Tools     hosting, howto, php, tool

phpSysInfo is a PHP script that displays information about the host being accessed. It will displays things like Uptime, CPU, Memory, SCSI, IDE, PCI, Ethernet, Floppy, and Video Information.

The script works on every PHP-enabled website & can display static information, generate XML outputs (which is nice for automated checks) or dynamically update itself.

It is multilingual & includes various ready-to-use themes for customization.

50 Best Color Sites for Designers

admin    Tools     Colors Palette, tool

•    COLOURLovers: 300,000-plus designers and color-minded folks share color palettes on this site constantly, so there’s always fresh inspiration at the ready. Bookmark the site or download their free Adobe AIR application, COLOURLovers Desktop Color Finder. And while you’re it at it, COLOURLovers Blog reports on color trends and quirky color finds, with related palettes for each post.

•    ColorCombos: Not only humming with color palettes generated by its reader, you’ll also dig the Combo Tester, a free online tool enabling web developers to see how different color combinations work together on the screen.

•    Genopal: Save, download or share color palettes, including widgets to tweak them into a more harmonious balance relative to each other. read more

CSS3 Generator in a very easy way

admin    CSS, Tools     css3, generator, online service

With the rise of the CSS3, we’re seeing more & more tutorials + websites everyday that help us to use it.

Here comes a very easy to use website for creating CSS3 rulesnamed CSS3 Generator.

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Tracking Statistics Tools for Websites

admin    Plugin, Tools, Wordpress     javascript, jQuery, statistics, tool

Original article from http://wparena.com/how-to/tracking-statistics-and-bringing-in-visitors-for-websites.

By knowing and understanding your site visitor numbers, one can get help how to increase them. WordPress offers many tools for doing just that. Getting someone to visit your blog is half the battle; helping them get the most out of it is the other half.

You might want—and you can get—many alternatives for statistics for your blog. The built-in statistics in WordPress are probably the best quick overview you’re likely to get. If you also pay much attention to blog site statistics, though, it really does become a full-time job. That’s because increasing—let alone truly maximizing—traffic to your site is like running a rapid-response room in politics. You need to be working on an hour-by-hour basis to see what’s happening in the world, the response on blogs similar to yours, and how you can make your voice heard in the fray.

Just for your convince i have compiled a best resources, these are scripts, hacks, JQuery Plugins, WordPress Plugins, a list of Websites providing web stats  included in this article. If you know any other, mention it in comment.

1. Google Analytics Extensive Tracking Analysis of Websites

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How To Monitor What Is Being Said About You Online

admin    Tools     online service, personal, rss, tool

文章标题怎么个起法，很有讲究。比如这篇，标题说的让你一定会点击进来瞧一瞧，其实看了就知道，这不过是一篇介绍文章订阅的那些个网站：比如我们最熟悉的google alert订阅器——输入我们关心的话题或人物，它就会定期自动将相关文章发到你指定的邮箱里。不过的确是换个角度让我们看内容，启发我们去发现不同的用法。

我好奇的是，这些订阅器网站，它们是靠什么盈利的呢？因为目前的阅读器上似乎并没有铺天盖地的广告。在网上又看到了抓虾要倒闭的消息。不过在尝试feedsky的时候，发现它有一个功能——话题营销，以前没注意过，不知道是不是新功能——就是博客主可以通过写有关广告主的文章来获利，这样看来，也终究是逃不了一个广告盈利模式了。

Original article from makeuseof.com.

I recently wrote about how you can find out when someone searches Google for your name. If you are interested in who is looking for you and your general online reputation, you are probably equally interested in finding out what is being said about you online.

People could be spreading information about you or your business that you should rather be aware of. Rather than to regularly scan the search engines for results with your name, you can automate the process of monitoring your online reputation and be notified once there is a new entry containing your name. This will also work for any other subject that is of interest to you. read more