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.

Magento Features:

Site Management

• Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel with ability to share as much or as little information as needed
• Multi-Lingual
• Support for localization
• Support for multiple currencies
• Administration Permission System Roles and Users
• Web Services API for easy integration between Magento and any third-party application
• Flexible tax rate management with support for US and International markets
• Fully 100% customizable design using templates
• Customer Groups
• One-Click Upgrades
• Content Management System for Informational Pages

3.osCommerce

osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution that offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease, and is available for free as an Open Source based solution released under the GNU General Public License.

osCommerce was started in March 2000 and has since matured to a solution that is currently powering 14,055 registered live shops around the world.

Today, osCommerce has been taken to the next level, moving towards an e-commerce framework solution that not only remains easy to setup and maintain, but also making it easier for store administrators to present their stores to their customers with their own unique requirements.

4.PrestaShop

PrestaShop™ is professional e-Commerce shopping cart software that you can download and use for free

The big advantage of open-source software: you’re never ‘locked’ to expensive commercial software.

Our dedicated team and growing user community join forces to fix bugs and add new functionality at a rate proprietary software companies can rarely claim. Join the Open Source revolution!

5.AgoraCart

AgoraCart – The powerful “Free” Open Source ecommerce shopping cart software solution that offers a very wide range of “out-of-the-box” features that allow you to setup an online ecommerce solution ranging from a simple template based store to the integration of a complex visual design concept containing all the creative magic of your web designer.

Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software with limitless flexibility in many areas including full design controls through Cascading Style Sheets (css), template systems, customizable layouts, custom individual product category layouts and templates, customization of nearly all cart features for the code hobbyist, modular “drop in and go” code as well as AgoraScript, our own scripting language inside parsed HTML pages, that experienced programmers can appreciate.

6.StoreSprite

StoreSprite is ecommerce for web designers a powerful, free php/mysql shopping cart easy to install, customise and maintain, no complex scripting to negotiate design and deploy a top rate store that your
client can manage with little or no training.

7.Freeway

Freeway is an advanced Open Source eCommerce platform which can sell using methods only previously available in enterprise class or niche bespoke systems. Without having to purchase a commercial system and then paying a developer to build a custom installation, Freeway does what you need out of the box. Of course Freeway is great for selling products but it also sells events AND services AND subscriptions. From appointments and time based bookings to event ticketing and subscriptions Freeway is the eCommerce platform for how we want to sell.

8.UberCart

Ubercart is an exciting open source e-commerce package that fully integrates your online store with Drupal, the leading open source content management system. This is a killer combination for anyone looking to build a community around a product, sell access to premium content, offer paid file downloads, and much much more!

Ubercart was designed to take advantage of Drupal’s major core and contributed systems, providing our users with shopping cart functionality that seamlessly integrates with other parts of your company or community website.

9.phpShop

phpShop is a PHP-powered shopping cart application. It is released under the GNU General Public License. The primary purpose of phpShop is to provide a simple shopping cart solution that is easy to customize to suit any purpose. phpShop has less features that many other shopping cart applications, but is generally easier to customize. All that is required to effectively customize phpShop is a basic knowledge of HTML, PHP, and SQL.

10.VirtueMart

Free Shopping Cart Software for Joomla! & Mambo
VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution to be used together with a Content Management System (CMS) called Joomla! (and Mambo). Joomla! and VirtueMart are written in PHP and made easy for use in a PHP/MySQL environment.

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.

Windows Live Spaces

Webs

Google Knol

Google Knol came out about 2 years ago and even though it has not gotten the same praise as Wikipedia, it is still a valuable resource that you should take advantage of.  Free easy to create your own free knol and help position yourself as an industry leader.

Jimdo

Jimdo is a new free website builder that is very clean and easy to use.  As you can see in the screen-shot you can create your own url and add text, photos, and custom design.

AngelFire

Edicy

Squidoo

One of my favorite places to create a free webpage is Squidoo.  Not only do these pages tend to rank well in the search engines, but you can monetize them by adding amazon affiliate products and links, share easily through Facebook and Tweetmeme buttons and much more.

Yola

Tripod

Wetpaint

Wetpaint is the place to go to create your own free wiki in a matter of minutes.  Similar to the other website builders out there, however like a wiki anyone can add, edit, and remove content from the page.

WikiSpaces

Blogsome

Weebly

Wix

I personally don’t have a lot of experience with Wix, but it seems like a very neat way to create free flash websites.  They have separated themselves from the rest, since most of the free site builders only let you create html pages.  Would love to hear from anyone that has used Wix.

Hubpages

Hubpages is very similar to Squidoo, in the fact that you can build free pages and they tend to rank very well in search engines.  You can also make money by adding affiliate products, links and adsense in your hub.  It has all of the cool features that you would need including adding images, videos, ratings and reviews, and the ability to comment.

Piczo

Webnode

Moonfruit

Let’s Eat

For anyone in the restaurant industry, Let’s Eat is for you. Let’s Eat lets you create your own restaurant website where you can add information about your restaurant, menu, hours, location, and more.

Sauropol

GoGoFrog

Launch Splash

Nexo

Roxer

Viviti

Ever

DevHub

SnapPages

SnapPages is the easy drag and drop website creation service.  No need to know css to position your site!

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WebStarts

BlinkWeb

Thoughts

ClutterMe

DoTemplate

ComfyPages

Moogo

GetShopped

Groupie Guide

Hyper Web Enable

Notanent

Blogetery

Blogster

Flooha

FreeWeb

1. IconFinder

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

2. IconLet

Iconlet is simple search engine for free icons, images.

3. IconLook

ICONlook.com is a place where to find your icons.

4. VeryIcon

The VeryIcom.com is a icon search engine, it contents over 20000 high quaility web icons in more than 1000 icon packs.

5. IconSeeker

The IconSeeker.com is the best icon search engine on web, it contents about 50,000+ high quaility icons and each icon has PNG, ICO and ICNS formats for Windows, Macintosh and Linux Systems.

6. Icons-Search

The Icons-Search is an Icon Search Engine that helps you to find quality icons available on the Internet.

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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In days of old, the software powerful enough to create and edit high quality graphics was expensive — and it still is, if you must have the name-brand products.

But if you’re open to experimentation and perhaps a bit of digital quirkiness, there are free, open source alternatives to some of the staples of the digital design tool set.

“I use Photoshop for any image editing I need to do, but it comes at a price,” says Alex Mathers, a freelance designer and illustrator who writes about design and social media promotion at Red Lemon Club. “I would recommend Gimp for those requiring similar functions, and Inkscape as an alternative for creating vector illustrations over Adobe Illustrator … All of these programs are excellent.”

We’ve mentioned Gimp before as a powerful free alternative to Photoshop, and Inkscape has a similar mission in the realm of scalable vector graphic (SVG) creation. Unlike bitmapped images (JPEGs, PNGs, which are the final products viewed on a website), vector graphics are mathematical representations of images, and can be scaled up indefinitely to meet any size requirement. This means that one file can be used in any medium (web, print, etc.) at any size. They are indispensable to the illustrating designer.

2. Design Communities

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If you’re a creative person, there’s no better way to improve your craft than by getting social. You can start by following designers and design blogs on the major social networks, but if you’re looking to really explore others’ work and share your own, design communities are key.

“Society6 is an online community that allows artists to showcase their work, sell prints and find others to collaborate with,” says Mathers. “Behance, This is Central Station, Creattica and Design Taxi are some other great creative communities that I have used that help designers connect and promote their work.”

Like any social network, the value is in sharing. “I upload any recent work I have to Society6 and Behance and use both platforms to interact with other creatives, find people to collaborate with, send and receive feedback, and generally communicate with others in similar industries,” says Mathers. “Both sites, particularly Behance, received a healthy amount of traffic … [they] are an excellent way to gain exposure in front of the right people.”

3. Design Element Resources

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If you’re not an illustrator or digital artist by trade, but you love “putting it all together” for blogs, social media profiles, and websites, you’ll need a good resource base to draw from. There are many great blogs and sites that compile textures, fonts, vector illustrations, and other graphic elements that you can incorporate right into your projects for free.

“Dezignus is a good resource for free vector illustrations and textures, and they have a large selection of downloads that is constantly expanding,” says Mathers. “Colourlovers.com is a fascinating resource for designers looking for color scheme inspiration and help.”

Mathers added that for his typographical requirements, he regularly visits Dafont.com “for a huge selection of free fonts that are easily accessible and downloadable.”

Jacob Gube, founder and chief editor of the design blog Six Revisions, adds that deviantART is also “a great resource for sharing and getting design assets (Photoshop brushes, textures, icons, and more).”

It can also be a source of design inspiration. “One of the first things I do to get a quick burst of creativity is to click around deviantArt. Seeing what your colleagues are doing can serve as a good motivational factor for getting your own work done,” says Gube.

4. IconFinder

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Linking out to social networks is a core element of social web design. Having a Twitter or Facebook icon front and center gives visitors a recognizable channel through which they can connect.

Wonderfully creative social media icon sets abound on the web, and many of them are free for commercial use. But finding the one that perfectly compliments your design (or perhaps inspires a theme in its own right) can be a tiresome process of searching and browsing resource blogs.

IconFinder makes the process a bit easier. It’s a search engine for icons submitted by users, with detailed information on their graphic formats and licenses — nearly all of which are free and available for commercial use. The interface provides a convenient way to download icons right from the search results.

“I’m constantly going back to this site every time I need icons for a site that I’m working on,” says Jad Limcaco, professional designer and editor of Design Informer. “Instead of bookmarking every site that offers free icons, Icon Finder does the work for you … It makes life a lot easier.”

If you’re not hunting for something specific, the site also offers a browsable catalog of icon sets.

5. MockFlow

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Building a socially-minded website from scratch requires quite a bit of planning.

“One step in the design process I rarely skip is wireframing,” says Grace Smith, owner of Postscript5, a micro-design studio based in Northern Ireland. “It’s perhaps one of the most important stages as it helps give an overview of usability, information architecture, layout, and site content.”

For larger projects and applications, Smith uses Mockflow for this stage. She says the process is “an intermediary phase between initial sketches and the actual design phase.”

MockFlow is a versatile tool that enables you to quickly render functional website prototypes without a big time investment. There are also real-time collaboration and note taking features built into the platform.

“[It] may sound like a waste of time when you can just move on to a full color comp, but it allows you to spot potential problems early, make adjustments quickly, and cuts down dramatically on revisions later in the design treatment stage.”

A similar tool recommended by other designers is Mockingbird.

6. Notable

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If you find yourself collaborating on a design project, whether with a colleague or client, the feedback process can get cumbersome via e-mail. It helps to be able to take visual notes on a visual product.

“I use Notable for feedback on projects,” says Smith. “Notable is superb and is ultimately built to allow quick and easy collaboration. It’s helped me streamline my feedback process and keeps all parts of a project organized using sets and workspaces.”

Notable works on the web, so you can capture and notate web pages from any computer, as well as your iPhone. Image captures and their respective notes stay organized on your notable account dashboard, and can easily be shared out to your collaborators or team.

7. Campaign Monitor

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Believe it or not, e-mail marketing is still very much a part of successful social media campaigns. Whether you’re looking to up the design ante for your business’s newsletter, or reach out creatively in search of new freelance projects, a design-focused e-mail marketing tool is worth investigating.

“Campaign Monitor is an intuitive e-mail marketing application created for designers. It has excellent tools for designing professional HTML e-mails, creating and managing e-mail campaigns, useful e-mail analytics, and more,” says Jacob Gube.

In addition to the valuable features Gube notes above, Campaign Monitor can also be a viable source of income in itself. “For designers looking to expand their service offerings, you can re-brand, customize, and resell Campaign Monitor to your clients,” says Gube.

8. Proposable

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As part of a small team or as a lone freelancer, a designer must wear many hats. Because of the competitive market right now, Gube stresses the importance of salesmanship. “Designers can [have] great success by using online proposals to win over a project bid.”

He recommends Proposable, an online tool that allows you to build highly customized, branded presentations. A Proposable account incorporates an asset library (which can include rich media like video), a variety of templates, and a comment management system for real-time feedback.

“Proposable makes generating professional-level proposals a cinch,” says Gube, “and it has reporting features to analyze the performance of your proposals. It was created for salespeople, but as a designer, being a salesperson is a huge part of the gig, whether you’re freelancing or pitching a design idea to your managers.”

9. Freshbooks

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Staying on the business side for a moment, getting paid can often be a struggle for freelancers. For the social web-minded designer, the idea of a cloud-based invoice management system is likely appealing. Enter Freshbooks, “an all-in-one web app for invoicing, tracking expenses, time-tracking, and more,” according to Gube.

“I use it to keep track of my expenses, manage payments, and to generate professional invoices quickly and effortlessly,” he adds. “There are many billing tools out there, but this one stands out because it caters to freelancers, is aimed towards creatives (designers, developers, writers, artists), and is one of the few web app start-ups that still values customer support.” And the fact that it’s all on the web allows you to “send someone a bill from your favorite WiFi-enabled coffee house.”

10. 960 Grid System

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Creatively, the sky’s the limit when it comes to web design. But the interfaces of the social web generally follow certain patterns that users are accustomed to. If you’re building blog templates or other interactive websites, the 960 Grid System is a good way to map out your page elements so they can achieve alignment harmony.

Many of the designers we spoke to stressed the importance of good old fashioned pen-and-paper sketching in their creative process. “Sketching enables me to break down ideas and fully explore UI options. I find putting it down on paper tends to raise questions and ideas and leads to changes,” says Smith. “I use the Sketch Sheets supplied with the 960 Grid System which display a browser frame and grid lines.”

960 Grid provides examples of how the system works with a number of sites, and also offers a wealth of other code-related resources for web designers.

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.

Rich Chart Live
Create enjoyable and captivating Flash Charts from your web browser.

DIY Chart
DIY (Do it yourself) Chart is a Web-based, simple and powerful online tool to create interactive charts and graphs from static or dynamic data which may be generated using any scripting language.

Online Chart Generator
The best online chart and graph generator tool, Generate amazing 3D graphs instantly in few seconds.

Chartle.net
Chartle.net tears down the complexity of online visualizations – offers simplicity, ubiquity and interactivity online chart generator.

ChartGo
ChartGo allows users to create charts online quickly and simply paste your data in the chart data area and hit the create chart button.

Create A Graph
You can really make a detailed graph at Create A Graph and see how it might look, and then print, download, or email what you’ve created.

JS Charts
JS Charts is a JavaScript chart generator that requires little or no coding. JS Charts allows you to easily create charts in different templates like bar charts, pie charts or simple line graphs.

Pie Chart Tool
Pie Chart Tool creates a pie charts based on the data you provide. All you have to do is to type your data and the name of the categories.

Piecolor
Piecolor is a tool that creates pie chart with colors very easily.

Hohli Charts
Hohli Charts lets you dynamically generate charts.

CSS Chart Generator
CSS Chart Generator generates your charts on the fly.

CHARTPART
Google chart API and chart generator tool.

Chart Maker
Generator for the Chart Server API.

Google Chart Tools
The Google Chart Tools enable adding live charts to any web page.

amCharts Visual Editor
This editor allows you to use amCharts as a web service. This means that all you need to do is to configure the chart and paste the generated HTML code to your HTML page.

Pie Chart Maker
This free tool outputs your pie chart as an image that you can save to your computer.

ChartGizmo
With your free account from ChartGizmo you can now create charts for your website, blog and social network profiles.

Onlinecharttool.com
On Onlinecharttool.com you can design and share your own graphs online and for free.

OWTChart Generator
The OWTChart Generator is an on-line tool to be used to produce charts. A GIF image of the chart that you specified will be displayed on the screen.

Highcharts
Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types.

iCharts
iCharts is a web-services company that makes data publishing and distribution simple.

Google Chart Generator
Create a Google chart in seconds!

Original article from 22 Useful Online Chart & Graph Generators | Tools http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/22-useful-chart-graph-diagram-generators/#ixzz0j5BUV2fH

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.

•    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.

•    Adobe Kuler: create, save and fine-tune your color palette using Adobe Kuler’s online tool. Nice extra: in addition to creating free-form palettes, you can also nudge them to conform to specific rules – like complementary colors, monochromatic or triads straddling the color wheel. Then share and browse palettes with thousands of other designers. Try Kuler’s Adobe Air application, too.

•    Veerle’s Daily Color Scheme: get fresh color schemes daily via the site, email or customized browser toolbar.

•    Color Inspirator: another nice random-palette generator, beautifully simple. Click “Mix” to generate palettes, click “Share” when you find one you like.

•    Color Scheme Designer: This pay-what-you-wish app lets you create color schemes, apply rules, randomize when you’re plump out of new ideas, export in many different formats, even check for different kinds of color-blindness.

•    Color Schemer Studio: a complete suite of tools for color scheme generation, matching, harmonizing, and identifying any pixel’s precise color in numerous formats.

•    ColorJack: intuitive tool packing a lot of functionality into a single screen. Plenty of export options, too.

•    ColorExplorer: This soup-to-nuts color palette tool allows you to create, manage, and explore color palettes for web designs, desktop publishing, or any other graphic design project.

•    Copaso: a more robust color-palette tool for advanced users.

•    Unsafe Color Match: as the name implies, this tool helps you steer clear of color combos that are difficult to read on-screen or otherwise violate best-practices of color design for the web.

•    Also worth a mention: Contrast A, SlayerOffice Color Palette, ColorToy 2.0 (the only Flash tool on this list), the ultra-simple Infohound, Visibone (similarly easy, plus available in a dozen languages) and SitePro Central Color Scheme Chooser.
Put-a-color-in, spit-a-palette-out

•    ColorBlender: enter a color, get an auto-created blend online tool for color matching and palette design with export options

•    Color Wizard: a similar concept to Color Blender, this tool works on the single-color-in, palette-out basis.

•    Colordb: a little hard on the eyes, but highly functional like the color-robot it is. Enter a single color, get all relevant shades, complementaries, stats, et cetera in a single output screen.

•    ColorMatch Redux: working on a 3-slider principle for its interface, you select your starting color to jump-start a palette automatically.

Extract a color palette from a URL or image

•    Pic2color by Genopal lets you enter a URL of an image, or the image itself, to generate a color palette matching that image. Available as a widget for your site, too.

•    ColorHunter: enter a tag, hex code or image URL to search for color palettes matching your criteria

•    I Like Your Colors: Enter any URL whose colors you like to find out its exact palette

•    Double-check the color palette of any image with color palette generators from jrm.cc and DeGraeve.com.
Simulate (and correct) your designs for color-deficient vision

One out of 15 people are color-blind to some degree. These tools simulate how your site appears to people with impaired color vision.

•    Color Vision

•    Colour Blindness Simulator

•    Vischeck

•    Accessibility Color Wheel

•    Checkmycolors.com

Sharpen your color theory skills

•    Poynter.org’s Colors, Contrast & Dimension in News Design: an interactive online course outlining the core concepts of color theory with exercises and examples

•    Color Theory by Liquisoft: here’s your one-page cheatsheet on color theory concepts. Surprisingly easy and restful on the eyes, too.

•    Color Theory Timeline: as ugly as your nephew’s MySpace page, but a damn concise summary of about a millenium’s worth of color-theory history.

•    Sibagraphics on international color meanings: Colors’ meanings are by no means universal across cultures. In Egypt, apparently, yellow is a color of mourning; to the Chinese, green means your wife is cheating on you; in Japan, pink is popular with both men and women. Sidestep a cross-cultural misunderstanding by screening your palettes for international projects here.

•    Pixie

•    ColorZilla: Pimp your Firefox browser for color tasks with this plugin.

•    ColourMod: this free widget saves you from having to fire up Creative Suite every time you want to grab a juicy color you see.

Find killer background patterns

Create, browse and download background patterns for your designs. These tools can help:

•    BG Patterns

•    DinPattern

•    Ava7Patterns

•    EveryDayIcons patterns

•    Patterrific

Play with color more

•    Multicolr Search Lab: Search Flickr images by color

•    Name that Color: Want to know the name of a specific hue? Find it here.

•    HP IdeaLab’s Online Color Thesaurus: Hewlett-Packard’s color scientists get rigorous about colors’ names with this collaborative project.

•    WolframAlpha: This “computational knowledge engine” includes a color category, marrying color names with hex, RGB, CMYK and other values, temperatures and even light wavelengths. Color-nerds, rejoice.

•    Phronistry’s Obscure Color Terms: Finally you can find out what “smargadine” or “luteolous” looks like. How puniceous!
Last but not least, a big thank-you to SpyreStudios, DesignReviver and MogDesign for their excellent color-resources lists.

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.

It simply lets you to choose the rule from a list that includes:

• border radius
• box shadow
• text shadow
• RGBA
• @font-face
• multiple columns
• box resize
• box sizing
• outline

and customize them while previewing the outputs instantly.

Visit the website: http://css3generator.com/

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

I believe most of us are using Google Analytics in order to track our visitors daily. With This excellent Tool you can track and compare all your ads, email newsletters, affiliate campaigns, referrals, paid links, and keywords on Google and other search engines. Use Google Analytics to learn which online marketing initiatives are cost effective and see how visitors actually interact with your site. Make informed site design improvements, drive targeted traffic, and increase your conversions and profits.
Search Engine Journal has compilied a list of advanced Google Analytics tips that open up plenty of possibilities to track and evaluate.

2. Google Analytics API is Now Available to Developers

A Google Analytics API has long been one of our most widely anticipated features. Developers can integrate Google Analytics into their existing products and create standalone applications. For example, Polaris is a cross-platform desktop widget for Google Analytics. With 8 standard reports it’s the easiest way keep your data always instantly available. The rich interface and swift navigation make it a pleasure to use.

3. Yahoo! Web Analytics – Highly Customizable & Powerful

Yahoo! Web Analytics is a highly customizable, enterprise-level website analytics system designed to help website businesses increase sales and visitor satisfaction, reduce marketing costs and gain new insight on online customers. By storing data in raw, non-aggregated form, Yahoo! Web Analytics is more than simply a reporting tool. It is a powerful, and highly flexible, data analysis tool. Both near real-time AND historical data can be segmented instantly and even visualized with advanced graphs to help marketers and site designers answer specific business questions and find new insights to improve their business.

4. How to Create a “Who is Online” Widget

A well explained and very good Tutorial written by TutorialZine on “Who is online” widget with PHP, MySQL and jQuery. This widget display the number of visitors, their country and display it in a slide out panel.

Demo | Download

5. Apigee Provides Analytics, Protection and Control for APIs

Understand customers, usage patterns and app behavior with detailed analytics and alerts on API traffic, clients, errors, and data volumes. I provide Free up to 10,000 Messages per hour.

6. Open Source Web Analytics Framework in PHP

The Open Web Analytics (OWA) framework provides a generic set of PHP and HTTP APIs that application developers can use to integrate web analytics into any application. The Framework also has built-in support for popular web applications such as WordPress and MediaWiki.

7. GoingUp – Combines Web Analytics with SEO Tools

GoingUp’s web stats features a fully customizable desktop with easy-to-read graphs and data charts. See visitors, referring URLs and even search engine traffic! Show only the data you want to see with slick AJAX interface! Set custom tracking events to see sales, downloads and subscribes!

8. Get a Full Featured Pingdom Account for Free

Pingdom is a service that monitors websites and servers from the Internet and alerts you if there is a problem. It acts like a watchdog, making sure that your website is up and running 24/7. You handle all your settings from an online control panel. No need to install anything. You can get error alerts via both email and SMS.

9. Odometer Style Javascript Counter in Mootools

UvumiTools Odometer is an odometer style Javascript counter, where you can actually see the numbers spining. It is a Mootools plugin requires no Flash, it’s all CSS and Javascript.

10. Crowd Science

Crowd Science Demographics is a new audience measurement service that gives website publishers insight into the demographics and attitudes of their audience. Focusing on more than page views, clicks and behavior, Crowd Science Demographics builds an audience profile including age, gender, income level and other demos that provide you insight to your audience.

11. Compare Traffic with Google Trends for Websites

With Google Trends for Websites, you can get insights into the traffic and geographic visitation patterns of your favorite websites. You can compare data for up to five websites and view related sites and top searches for each one.

12. Comparing FeedBurner Subscriber Numbers

A free web application that you can use for comparing FeedBurner feeds. This tool is great for checking out your competition and noticing trends in growth.

13. W3Counter – Hosted Realtime Website Analytics Solution

Demo

14. Woopra Realtime Web Tracking & Analytics Tool

Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application. We deliver the richest library of visitor statistics in the industry through our innovative desktop application. But Woopra is more than simply statistics.

15. Piwik – Open Source Web Analytics

Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed real time reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages… and so much more

Demo

16. Track, Monitor and Analysis Your Flash (SWF) with Mochibot

MochiBot give Flash developers an easy and effective way to track their Flash movies. Other tools in the market are either not made to track Flash content, too expensive, or just too hard to use.

Demo

17. Free Web Counter for Your Website from SiteMeter

Site Meter is a comprehensive real time website tracking and counter tools give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience.

Demo

18. Snoop Tracks Your Visitors and Events On Your Desktop

Reinvigorate measures your influence on the web in real-time. Gain up-to-the-minute insight into your audience, then adapt to meet their needs and watch your site grow.

Demo

19. StatCounter is Another Free Reliable Web Tracker

A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!

20. SlimStat – Open Source Extensive Analytics Program

SlimStat is an extensible web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, browsers versions, platforms and searches can all be taken in at a glance.

Wordpress Stat Plugins

1. WassUp

This is the statistic plugin that I am currently using. It gives you real-time statistics which is the part that I really like.

2. WP-Stats

This is another great Wordpress plugin for finding out your statistics. This may be the most popular one among Wordpress users. But don’t think that means it is the best.

3. WordPress Blog Stats

This helps you integrate the W3Counter service into your self hosted blog.

4. Official StatCounter Plugin

If you use the great service StatCounter for getting your blogs statistics, then you will likely love this plugin. This allows you to use their service in your admin area. This means that you will not have to go to their web site to get statistics.

5. CyStats

This is another great statistic plugin that I also use. It shows you a little more information about your statistics. A lot of times I like as much information as I possibly can get.

6. StatPress Reloaded

This was made to keep the Statpress plugin alive. The original creator does not keep the original updated anymore so this was created. Also one of the most popular plugins to get your statistics.

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

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.

In this article I will introduce three services that allow you to monitor your online reputation and set up alerts for specific topics.

Google Alerts

Google Alerts provides updates of the latest Google results relevant to your search query across Google (comprehensive) or within different categories, such as news or blogs. You can choose to receive updates as-it-happens, once a day or once a week. They are subsequently delivered to your email or you can set up a personalized feed.

To receive email updates you do not have to sign up with Google. However, as a subscribed member you can centrally manage all your alerts about your online reputation.

As you can see from the example above, I have used some standard search engine operands. You can use these signs and keys to get more specific search results. So for example “Keane AND Berlin” will only return results from indexed sites that contain both keywords. A while ago I wrote an article on Google operands, which may come in handy now.

Trackle

Trackle is a service dedicated to tracking your personalized information online. To receive updates, you must sign up with your email address and password. It’s quick and simple. Once you’re in, Trackle offers many more features than Google Alerts. First of all, you can receive updates via the web portal, email, SMS, or through your feed reader.

The biggest difference between Trackle and Google Alerts is that Trackle has a lot more entertainment value. They have prepared search queries, known as Tracklets, and made them available through their Tracklet catalog. The categories include books, health, people, and travel. You can browse the catalog and add any of the Tracklets to your subscriptions.

To set up a custom search, type in your query into the text field in the top right that says “Research company, person, product, or topic“. It will direct you to a page with results from the past three days, like the one shown in the screenshot below.

From that page you can further select the types of results you’re after, for example narrow your results by credibility, select categories, and discover other users with similar interests.

Once happy with your definitions, click “Track this search” to enter the next step in which you define how the results are delivered to you. The search can be run every hour, every 4 or 8 hours, and once a day. Moreover, your search will not be executed forever, you can select a duration of up to four weeks.

Your inbox shows the latest alerts and within your subscriptions you can see what you’re tracking and eventually update it.

Other interesting features of Trackle include a widget for your website or blog or the option to create a custom newsletter.

Social Mention

Another way to receive a quick overview of your popularity or impact in the social media world is Social Mention. You can search blogs, bookmarks, comments, videos, a lot more or simply everything.

The results page provides a detailed analysis of the query. If the coverage is too broad, you can narrow down your search by specifying details in the advanced search.

The data can be downloaded as a CSV/Excel sheet and you can subscribe to alerts via email or RSS feed.

If you found this information helpful for managing your online reputation, you may also be interested in the following articles from Saikat:

10 Uses of Google Alerts For A Freelancer
Topikality – Improve Google Alerts & Get The Articles You Want

How do you keep up to date with what’s being published online?

Original article from makeuseof.com.