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8 Ultimate Drupal Theme Collection

Drupal is one of the Content management Systems that is praised for its great design and architecture. It is used by corporate websites, bloggers, e-commerce websites, community web portals and others enterprises for easily publishing, managing and organizing a wide variety of content.

Here is a list of  8 Free Drupal Theme that would make content management easy for you.

Summertime

summertime

This theme is a beautiful congregation of small fancy things that make your Drupal website look unique.

Features:
•    Smart 1-2-3 columns
•    Fixed width (1024px)
•    Tableless (css based)
•    Tested in firefox 3+ / opera9.x / safari3 / chrome / ie6+

Magwood Drupal Theme

magwood-drupal-theme

Magwood is standards compliant XHTML valid theme with auto width (can have one, two or three columns) based on user preferences.

Features
•    Site name
•    Site slogan, mission
•    Search
•    Primary links
•    Comment user pictures
•    left, right sidebar and footer

Compact Lime

compact-lime

This classic theme is most suited for collaboration websites. It features small footprint and offers full focus on content.

Features:
•    Cross browser compatible
•    Support for site name, slogan, primary links, mission, shortcut icon and user pictures
•    Fluid width layout
•    Drop-down primary links menu

Nifty 50

nifty-50

Based on the Fluid 960 Grid System, this theme features 1, 2, or 3 column, clean, elegant, fluid layout. It works nicely with the administration areas.

Features:
•    Both sidebars are placed on the right for better navigation and SEO
•    Cross-browser tested in IE7, Opera, Safari and Firefox (need to implement IE .png fix)

texas

texas

This is a refreshing theme that aims at quickly deploying in any browser with small foot-print. It however, does not sacrifice its good design quality.

Ramadan Theme

ramadan-theme

This is a theme that features Arabic calligraphy with an oriental taste.

A Blog Theme

a-blog-theme

A blog theme is standards compliant XHTML valid two column theme with multiple footer regions.

Features
•    Site name
•    Site slogan, mission
•    Search box
•    Primary links
•    Comment user pictures
•    Left, right sidebar and footer (3 blocks)
•    Footer Message
•    Compatible with both Drupal 5 and 6

Wilderness

wilderness

It is a green, khaki and white theme that is specially created for nature or environmental sites and blogs. It offers a two column layout and drop down primary links menu. It is tested in IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Safari 3.2 & Chrome

Features

•    Support for logo, primary links, mission, shortcut icon and user pictures
•    Fixed width layout
•    Cross-browser compatible

Hope that these themes will enable you manage you content in a systematized and hassle free manner.

11 HTML Tools and Validators

HTML development tools facilitate developers and beginner alike-to easily create better HTML pages in lesser  time.  While Validators help you insure that your HTML pages display properly on all browsers.  Here is a list of HTML tools and validators that would help you learn, code, validate your HTML pages in a hassle free manner.

Character Guides

Character Reference

character-reference

It lists 252 usable characters in HTML and also shows you their coding via mouse rollover. The entities are divided and color coded into logical categories. All you need to do is click on a box to filter the entities by their category.

Special Characters

special-characters

It is a chart that lists just about every character in HTML along with its codes, its description, and the process of how it is to be used.

HTMLPlayground.com

htmlplayground

It offers a list of tags and as soon as you click on a tag, you get an explanation of what it does, how to write the code and how it would appear on a page.

Webmonkey.com

webmonkey

It is a great site that offers general HTML tips, but this page specifically teaches you the special characters such as ♥.

Tools

Aptana

aptana

It is an open source editor that will edit HTML, CSS, create AJAX apps, do Ruby On Rails, and more.

Bluefish

bluefish

Bluefish is a powerful open source HTML editor that is targeted towards programmers and web designers. It offers many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites– It  runs on systems such as Linux, FreeBSD Mac OS X and more.

HTMLKit.com

htmlkit

A free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS; it includes Tidy HTML to make sure your code stays clean.

Pingdom Tools

pingdom-tools

It helps you get a visual representation of how long each item took to load. All you have to do is enter your site address and the Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes), mimicking the way a page is loaded in a web browser. The load time of all objects is shown visually with time bars

Test Everything

test-everything

It provides numerous tools to check every aspect of your site, including code validators.

Validators

AnyBrowser.com

anybrowser

It offers a wide array of tools for testing your site in different browsers, including an HTML validator.

AlwaysValid.com

alwaysvalid

It automatically checks your HTML once a week and mails you the results, specifying the problem areas and the reasons why they are not working properly.

Hope that these tools help code and validate you HTML easily and quickly. Please share your suggestions and feedback with us.

Eight Tools for Capturing Screenshots in Firefox 3

Most of you need to take a lot of screenshots during your course of work and the old “Print Screen” trick is a lot more hassle when you compare it with other great options that you have, especially if you are using Firefox as your browser.

Here are eight Firefox 3 screenshot tools that will do everything from saving just a section of a page to the entire page. These tools will also offer you the ability to upload images automatically to specified image hosting services.

FireShot

fireshot

It is an extremely handy extension that can help you capture just the visible area of a page or the entire thing; no matter how long it is, depending upon your requirements. This tool allows you to save screen shotsto BMP, GIF, JPG or PNG.

Abduction

abduction

This tool aims at pointing out errors in Web pages or helping people with development. Abduction also enables you to save all or a portion of a page, or just a frame, as a GIF, JPG or PNG.

Grab Them All

grab-them-all

This tool allows you to enter multiple URLs and also specify the type of image you want to shoot and where it will be saved.  As soon as you activate the extension, it goes through the list of URLs you specified by you and takes the shots automatically. You can specify whether you wish to take the screenshot of the viewable area or the entire entry page.

Kwout

kwout

This tool was designed with the idea of adding sections of a Web page to your blog entries as a form of quoting. It also allows you to save whatever sections you may need.

iimmgg.com Tools

iimmggcom-tools

This tool allows you to take screenshots of the full page or the selected areas specified by you. It also uploads the screen shots directly to iimmgg.com.

Screengrab

screengrab

It only allows you to save your files as JPG or PNGs. The tool also gives you an option of not only choosing the viewable area or full page for screenshots, but also selecting a section or frame as per your needs. By using this tool, you can save you a lot of editing time.

Screengrab with Upload

screenbgrab-with-upload

This tool enables you to automatically upload your screen captures to an online server to share them immediately.

Snapper

snapper

This tool focuses specifically on letting you just select a portion of a page for which you wish to take snapshot so that you save yourself the effort of having to crop out unwanted portions later on.

Hope that these tools will help you taking your desired screenshots is an effective manner. Please share your suggestions and feedback with us.

5 WordPress Plug-ins to Build a Popular Social Media Profile

WordPress, the state-of-the-art publishing platform helps you connect to you global audience in style. WordPress offers a wide range of plug-ins that help you build a popular social media profile. Companies and organizations nowadays make use of social media to spread their individual identity and promote/ advertise their service, product on Internet.

Here are 6 WordPress plug-ins that will help you build your social media profile

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Add To Any

This plug-in enables you to associate around 100 social networking and bookmarking websites in a stylish nutshell drop down list. It also gives users the power to modify the list according to top rated sites, encouraging them to bookmark any of your particular article in currently using web browser.

CommentLuv

This plug-in gives your commentators a backlink to their blog’s latest article. This latest article is then retrieved by the blog’s URL which the commentator puts into the URL field while commenting.

Sociable

This plug-in enables you to incorporate social media sharing option for blog readers together with 99 various social media and bookmarking websites. A good selection of sharing sites helps your readers to add their favorites with a single click.

WP Wall

This plug-in is useful for people who want to connect their Facebook account with WordPress. The plug-in also offers the facility to leave public message on your blog or website which is not to be relevant to particular article.

Google Buzz Buttons

This plug-in helps you start a chat, transfer your views, thoughts, links at Google readers end. Your updated text also roots direct to those who are connected with your Buzz profile.

Hope that these tools will help you build a popular social media profile. If you are looking to set up your WordPress blog, LimeDomains helps you set up your WordPress blog with just a single click.