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• XHTML/CSS template coding
• Website design and support

Ecommerce, B2B solutions

• B2C - Ecommerce solutions
• B2B - Business portal solutions

Internet marketing services

• Search engine optimization (SEO)
• Banner, and PPC ads
• Backlink building

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• Real estate website solutions
• Management / marketing solutions
• Business software solutions
• Custom CMS, ERP and CRM apps

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• Business website solutions audit
• IT consulting
• Manuals and documents

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Our knowledgebase

This page is dedicated for all of our online visitors. You will find here interesting a useful websites and other internet resources for all web design professionals.

All outstanding websites are marked in red writing TIP!. These sites are particularly recommended by us.

Blogs and other sources of information for web designers

• Protolize.org - a well executed website for various internet professionals. Here all designers and developers can collaborate and support each other by publishing high quality codes, collections, ideas, advice, and etc…
• TIP! Web Designer Wall - literally a wall of knowledge containing a myriad of ideas, trends, manuals, tutorials graphics, and scripts that you can immediately try or download.
• TIP! A List Apart - An excellent internet magazine devoted to design, development, technologies, standards, and web content. All of the contributors are respected authorities in their areas of expertise.
• Digital Point Forums - an extensive online discussion forum containing many topics related to search engines, marketing, e-commerce, web design, and everything else that is associated with maintenance, advertising and promotion of websites. Caution: not all contributors are the top experts in their fields…, but still we have found here many interesting links and thoughts.
• TIP! Web Design Library - one-stop source for all web designers
• w3schools - supposedly the largest web developer site on the net - Full Web Building Tutorials - all FREE!

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

• TIP! Layout Gala - a set of 40 basic CSS layouts that are available for immediate download and use
• TIP! Stu Nicholls | CSSplay - Stu Nichols experiments with cascading styles. This is and endless source of inspiration for creating menus, popup windows, boxes or just play with CSS. You will not believe what you can do with CSS!
• Listamatic: one list, endless options - If you need to create any style sheets, certainly visit this site to see different vertical and horizontal menus and navigation tabs.
• CSS Showcase - contains a collection of various CSS menus and tabs – valuable overview
• Selected CSS galleries TIP! - CSS Beauty, CSS Vault, css Zen Garden, CSS Import, and CSS Mania
• Free CSS Templates - free templates for any type of personal or commercial use - please make sure to read the license of each template
• Layout-O-Matic - A tool that lets you create your own CSS-based template.
• CSS Creator - CSS layout generator.
• Open Designs - Open source templates.
• Open Source Templates - More open source templates.

Marketing and e-Marketing

• TIP! FREE search engine submissions OrangeSubmit - quickly submits your website to Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. This service helps to have your web quickly spidered and generated in the search engine results, Freewebsubmission.com - atomated submission to 20 large search engines at once
• 100+ Marketing Ideas - comprehensive list of marketing ideas that help you to better understand customer needs and various ways to satisfy them
• Techipedia - Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008 - Extensive coverage of e-Marketing topics: advertising on the internet, branding, domain name selection, link building, reputation management, SEO, social media, web development, and much more...
• TIP! SEOmoz - hub and resource for e-Marketers - provides free education, tools, resources, and paid services to help make every SEO the best they can be

Free Internet PR Services

• Free Press Release
• PRLog
• PR
• Fast Press Releaser
• Ezinearticles

Keyword Tools:

• Google Traffic Estimator
• Google Keyword Tool
• Word Tracker Keyword Tool
• Google Trends
• Google Insights
• Microsoft adCenter Labs Funnel Searching
• Latent Semantic Analysis
• Keyword Difficulty Tool

Webmaster Tools:

• Google Webmaster Tools
• Yahoo Site Explorer
• Bing Webmaster Center
• Website Grader

Inbound Link Tools:

• Yahoo Site Explorer
• Back Link Watch
• Link Harvester
• Hub Finder

Domain Info Tools:

• Who Is Search
• Reverse IP Lookup

Validation Tools:

• HTML Validation
• CSS Validation

Sitemap Tools:

• XML Sitemap Generator (Small Sites)
• XML Sitemap Generator (Large Sites)

Miscellaneous Tools:

• SEO for Firefox / Rank Checker
• Broken Link Checker
• Google Analytics
• Google Adwords Learning Center

Online payments and e-Commerce

• PrestaShop Open Source Shopping Cart - robust, professional grade e-Commerce shopping cart that you can download, install, and use for free. In the back end, you will use a full featured back end to manage your inventory, orders, shipping, and customers in real time. Your customer’s payments are sent directly to your commercial bank account using the latest security technology. You can even add your own modules to the shopping cart.
• OpenCart Open Source Shopping Cart System - an open source PHP based online shopping cart system. OpenCart is easy to use and is SEO optimized with a very nice interface. A great feature of OpenCart is that customers can write their own reviews of the products.
• Magento Open-Source E-Commerce - a professional open-source e-Commerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control. Magento is awesome, I would never believe it is an open-source project. It features clean urls and SEO from the start. Everything is designed in a clean and simple way. Magento also features: Unlimited flexibility, Completely Scalable Architecture, Professional and Community Support, and Smooth Integration with 3rd party apps.
• CubeCart Shopping Cart - a very popular shopping cart. CubeCart V3 is free, with the exception that you leave their copyright notice in your footer. CubeCart has a large amount of payment gateways and shipping gateways. Their support forums are lively and many people contribute plugins to the cart. To use CubeCart V4 you must pay but it has many features that V3 does not have.
• Agoracart - another very popular online shopping cart, written in Perl/MySQL. It features a css manager so you can edit the look of your cart online. AgoraCart also features unlimited product options, up to 4 different tax zones at the same time, tons of shipping and payment gateways/options. The setup options range from a simple template based store to the integration of a complex visual design and support for program modification.
• Zen-Cart The art of E-Commerce - a free, user friendly, open source shopping cart. Zen Cart focuses on the merchants and shoppers instead of the developers. Zen Cart also supports multiple payment and shipping options, quantity discounts and coupons. Also Zen Cart is very easy to install.
• osCommerce - an online shopping cart that offers a wide range of features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly. osCommerce is backed by a great and active community. It also supports multiple currencies, allows customers to print invoices from the order screen, and has an easy database backup system.
• StoreSprite - a powerful, free PHP/MySQL shopping cart system that is easy to install and customize. The Cart is free but it does have copyright notices that you can pay to get rid of. StoreSprite has many features including automatic tax calculation, automatic delivery cost calculations, customer ratings and reviews and featured products.

PHP scripts

• php.resourceindex - collection of 3500+ various php scripts - some of them require a payment, and many other interesting resources
• TIP! FREE-PHP - categorized listing of free php scripts, commercial php scripts, resources, and tutorials
• PHP Freaks
• PHP Open Source Scripts

Unique or useful web pages and inspiration

• Best Web Galleries - 123+ Best Web Galleries Around for Your Inspiration
• INSPIREDOLOGY - high quality design inspiration lab
• CSS Beauty - a large gallery of great website designs and web design practices
• 80+ Perfect Ending of Modern Website Design- Footers! - showcase of creative and beautiful footer designs that make a strong impact
• Smashing Magazine - informative and usable footers, plus this online magazine covers pretty much every aspect of web design
• The 100 Best Websites List - the best web sites on the internet and all in one place
• World Best Websites - "The Top of the Net" - multi-category compilation of exemplary websites that are pursuing "best practices" in website design and Internet communications
• Web Pages That Suck - Galleries of the worst web sites ever and 149 Mortal Sins That Will Send Your Site to Web Design Hell
• Browser Shots - tool for testing in multiple browsers, because adequate testing is a part of the design process
• Stock.Xchng - free stock photo gallery containing over 350.000 quality stock photos by more than 30.000 photographers
• Design Snack - web design showcase, enabling easy website sumbissions and voting for your favorite designs

Web 2.0 phenomenon

• TIP! How To Destroy The Web 2.0 Look - Would you like to create a Web 2.0 sites? Learn about what to do and what to certainly avoid.

BACKGROUND IMAGES

• Background Image Maker - Create background images with choices like transparency and gradients.
• Stripe Generator 2.0 - If you’re looking to add a striped background to an element on your page, you can use this tool to customize the look you want.
• Stripe Designer - Easily create striped images.
• Tartan Maker - Create a tartan background image.
• Texture Generator - Creates textured images that you can use as a background.
• All Free Backgrounds - Choose the background you want.

BADGES

• Web 2.0 Badges - A set of free badges to download and use in your own designs.
• Fresh Badge - Quickly generate your own badge.
• adClustr - Starburst badges.
• Deziner Folio - A collection of different badges.
• BittBox - Free vector badges.
• Official Seal Generator - An alternative to the typical badge.
• Photoshop Tutorial - A quick lesson on making your own badge.
• Glossy Photoshop Tutorial - Create a glossy badge with this tutorial.

BUTTONS

• My Cool Button - A nice online tool that will help you to quickly create the button that you want.
• Adam Kalsey’s Button Maker - Simple tool to make your own buttons.
• Button Maker from Blog Flux - Create your own custom button.
• Brilliant Button Maker - A similar button maker to the previous 2.
• CSS Buttons - Choose the text, border, and background.
• Buttonator - A paid option for creating buttons.
• RSS Button Maker - The name pretty much says it all.
• Button Boost - A little bit different than some of the other button generators.
• ButtonGenerator.com - Create buttons for navigation menus.
• Crystal Button - Slick web buttons made easy.
• Chicklet Creator - Create buttons that allow visitors to subscribe in their feed reader of choice.

COLORS

• The Colors of Web 2.0 - Are you looking to match the color of a popular web 2.0 site?
• Web 2.0 Color Pallete - Popular web 2.o colors.
• Color Schemer Gallery - Having problems choosing a color scheme? Find one you like in this gallery.
• COLOURlovers - More samples of color combinations.
• Website Color Picker - Test color combinations quickly.
• I Like Your Colors - Get the colors used by a particular site.

CHARTS

• PHP/SWF Charts - Create attractive charts.
• amCharts - Flash charts.

FAVICONS

• Favicon Generator - Create your own favicon from an image on your computer.
• Favicon from Pics - Create a favicon from a photo.
• Favicon Editor - Upload a photo, create a favicon.
• Favicon.cc - Another option for favicons.
• Photoshop Tutorial - Creating a favicon with Photoshop.

GRADIENT IMAGES

• Gradient Image Maker
• Gradient Generator
• Online Gradient Image Maker (OGIM)

ICONS

• UtomBox - A great collection of web 2.0 icons.
• Feed Icons - The standard RSS icon.
• Map Icon Factory - Create your own map icon.
• Perishable Press - A nice collection of RSS icons.
• Glass Style RSS Icons
• Snap2Objects - Vector RSS icons.
• 31 Sources of Quality, Free Icons

LOGOS

• Web 2.0 Logo Creatr
• Web 2.0 Logo Creator
• Web 2.0 Stylr

NAVIGATION

• CSS Menu Generator - Easily create attractive CSS menus.
• Listamatic - Collection of CSS menus.
• List-O-Matic - Create your own CSS menus.
• List-U-Like - Another tool to create your own navigation bars.
• Tabs Generator - Create tabbed images for navigation.
• Flash Buttons - Create navigation menus with flash buttons
• CSS Play - An extensive collection of CSS menus.
• Exploding Boy - Tabbed CSS navigation menus.
• CSS Navigation Menu Generator - A tool to help you create your own menu.

ROUNDED CORNERS

• RoundedCornr
• Corner Shop
• Spiffy Box
• Canvas Corner
• Spanky Corners
• Sliding Doors Text Box
• Smart Rounded Corners
• Rounded Corners in CSS
• News List

SPEECH BUBBLES

• Will Mayo
• Bubblesnaps
• CSS Play
• XHTML Speech Bubbles
• WigFlip
• Fluid CSS Speech Bubbles
• MySpace Speech Bubble Generator
• Photoshop Tutorial

e-XTRAS

• Avatar Maker - Create and edit an avatar.
• Shrink Pictures - Create an avatar from your photo.
• ScaleNine - Collection of skins and themes created for Flex and Adobe AIR.
• VectorMagic - Converts bitmap images to vector art.
• Templatr - Create a layout.
• PsycHo - Blog template generator.
• Web 2.0 Generator - Creates layouts.
• Typetester - Compare fonts on-screen.
• BlogPoll - Create a free poll for your blog.
• RSSxl - Convert an HTML page to RSS.
• Meta Tag Generator - Easily create meta tags for your pages.
• URL Rewrite - Create search engine-friendly URLs for dynamic pages.
• .htacces generator - Quickly create an .htaccess file.
• Thumbnail Generator - Create thumbnails for a large amount of images.
• Reflection.js - Adds reflections to your photos.
• Drop Shadow - Improve your images with a drop shadow.
• CSS Sprite Generator - From Website Performance.
• Vecteezy - Silly name, but cool vectors.
• Brusheezy - Photoshop brushes.
• PSBrushes.net - More Photoshop brushes.
• deviantART - Photoshop brushes at deviantART