Enhance Your Blog Promotions Using Web 2.0 Badges

If you have been blogging for quite sometime now, you may have noticed that there are bloggers that offers various freebies in their blog. The catch is, your visitors will mostly likely come back to see development and results of the promotion. Unquestionably attracts a pool of interested individuals that want to get their own fair share of the prize. A perfect way for driving more traffic to your blog. Plus, those people who are satisfied with the contest may keep on coming back to check for the latest promotion available. Again, it maintains your dose of daily traffic and this time with more regular viewers, thus making your way to popularity. Now, if you're one of those bloggers who used this kind of strategy, then why don't try Web 2.0 Badges to attract more participants.



Web 2.0 Badges is a set of free ravishing pre-designed badges best used for giving acknowledgement to contest, promotions, membership certification, 'Beta' message for websites on beta stage, and the likes. The designs are eye-catching with several styles to choose from. Background color can be customized with their online generator. Other essential elements like font type, size and color can be edited too. Even the angle and the X and Y coordinates are highly customizable, giving full control on your own prefence.

Sample of generated badges:


Creating a badge does not require too much time and effort. Producing one, only takes a minute or two to finish. The user-friendly online generator will do the load of work and you don't need to be a tech-savvy to familiarized the process. Thus providing you with ease on every step to take on designing.

Sample of pre-made designs:


You may find the newly created badges cool, but that's not the only thing that this program can deliver. For big fans of bookmarking sites like Digg and Del.icio.us; search engine giants like Google and Yahoo!; and for photo and video sharing program like Flickr and Youtube, you better try the pre-made designs. Try this one if you have no time to spend for designing your own.

Badges are popular trend in the web nowadays. So if you don't want be left behind over cool stuff, then be sure to have one.

Summary:
1) No registration needed to start using Web 2.0 Badges.
2) Choose dozens of available pre-designed themes or start creating from a scratch.
3) Try their ready made themes available on their vault.
4) Use your badges on promotions, contest and 'Beta' message on your blogs or websites.

Get an Ad-free Forum at Forumotion

I had a forum before from the very first website I managed. Being the sole administrator, it was a tough job for me. Even if I did not spend a single dime from its webhosting or domain name, but by just working alone on the project, it takes additional effort on my part. Since I'm still new to such kind of ventures, it took me a while searching and browsing just to find a good free hosting program. Three years later, I end up browsing on a website that really captured my attention. It is a free forum service called Forumotion.



Everything you really want to have on a forum was totally packed on Forumotion. Some of their outstanding feature includes a chatbox and a portal. Portal serves to be the front page of a forum where you can also post and read your latest updates, news, informations, faqs, contacts and miscellaneous categories. One of the best feature I loved about this program is their gallery, where you can upload images like avatars, emoticons and various arts. Aside from that, calendars and roleplaying games are also included on this highly customizable service. There are loads of feature to trigger and unlock. The good news is, you have full control over these features.

Almost all free-hosting forum providers have one thing in common, they have their own ads shown on parts of the website. Well, not on Forumotion, however, it is not only a free forum service but an ad-free host too. Isn't it sweet!? Well if you think you have enough already, then how about this? Do you know that you can place your own ads on your own Forumotion boards? Now that's what I call a 'perfect forum'. Excellent for socializing and earning from your own ads at the same time.

So, if you want to start up a board community, be sure to choose Forumotion. Enjoy their unique ad-free hosting service or take advantage using your own ads. On both ways you're a winner.

Summary:
1) Sign-up for a free account to get started.
2) Be the administrator of your own forum.
3) Enjoy the load of free features you can use.
4) Take advantage on Forumotion's ad-free forum and highly customizable services.

Manga Volume: Your Source of Manga Series

Im a big fan of anime since my younger years and still addicted to it even now. From the old series like Dragonball up to the new ones like Naruto, Bleach and Onepiece---Im still watching it. I always keep track of the latest news and speculations of these series by asking other fans from forums and chatrooms. Aside from that, I also check new released manga from Manga Volume to keep myself updated.



Manga Volume has it all from the old mangas to the fresh one. There is no need to register on the site to get full access of these mangas. By just selecting on the list you're directly have the option to choose which one you would like to read. Mangas are sorted through its corresponding series and reading through it's pages are just clicks away. If you are looking for something interesting then you can browse to its manga directory. Since it is arrange in alphabethical order, you'll never had a hard time looking for one.

If you are a fan of a manga series and it is still not yet available on their directory, you can add it on their site by uploading. The site is giving everyone a freedom to add their favorite manga on their list, as long as you follow their terms of use. Every manga is copyrighted by its respected owner and this restriction is strictly imposed by Manga Volume.

For the mean time Manga Volume has already updated 374 total manga series, with 13293 chapters, that contains 317986 pages. Wow! That's a huge collection of manga to read. So if you wanted to be the first person to know about the latest informations about your favorite anime and manga, don't forget to check Manga Volume every now and then. You'll always on the track for sure.

Summary:
1) No registration required to get access on your favorite mangas in Manga Volume.
2) Check the latest informations and new scanned chapters added on the manga directory.
3) Upload your own favorite manga and share it to other readers.

Design Your Backgrounds with Stripe Generator

Having a new blog requires a lot of time designing and improving your own template except if somebody do the job for you. It just happened to anyone of us who really wanted to have a blog of aesthetic value. Choosing a background for example may not blend well with what you wanted it to be. On my other blogs, aside from Toinker, I want to put backgrounds that may suit to its main theme. So what I did was I searched on websites that may help me with this problem. Until, finally I found this interesting site called Stripe Generator.



As its name implies, Stripe Generator can let you customized your own background for your blog. Its so simple that anyone who have no knowledge on css and html can work with ease by just choosing their favorite colors and background styles. The site's user friendly interface can provide you a better way to choose your own design. For a very short time of combining colors and modifying your prefered style--and that's it, your stripe background is ready to use. Now, the program has been better than it was before with their new styles introduced on Your Stripes section. You can add a little twist of the older designs for a change.

Stripe Generator is easy to use, free and just a click away to have your own background design. Give it a shot I'm sure you're going to like it.

Summary:
1) No need of registration, you can start designing on Stripe Generator right away.
2) Easy to use and with no knowledge of CSS and html required.
3) You can combine your own preferred colors, theme and styles.
4) Enjoy new styles offered on their Your Stripe section.

Make Your Own Animated Avatars on Meez

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Just like another boring day for me when I found this site from browsing Gigya. The site captured my attention from its cool flash animation. At first, I thought it's one of those avatar maker site that I have been before, but after I explored the whole site I was amazed with its unique features. Meez will definitely refresh your mood from your idle moments.




To start having fun with Meez, you need to have an account on the site. After being registered, you are now redirected to the site's animated avatar creator. This is a free service where you can make fun on designing your own preferred character. Dress him up, change his physical appearances, add backgrounds and select your own animations. There are dozens of options you can choose from every category. You can wear him with Santa's clothes, put him on the theater or on his bedroom, while he play his guitar or drinking a bottle of soda. You can do almost everything on your own avatar. When you are done creating your animated avatar, you can upload or store it on photo sharing site like Photobucket or Mediamax .

If you think that's all what Meez can offer, then check this out. You can also play fascinating flash games on their vault. Yup, there are cool games available in the site. By playing you can earn gold coinz (Meez currency) to buy those expensive items, backgrounds and animations. The more games you played the more gold coinz you can earn.



So, why don't you give a try on this site and start your day right, just like me? For sure your going to love it.

Summary:
1) Create an account on Meez to get a free access.
2) Design your avatar on your own preference.
3) Upload your avatars on photosharing site.
4) Get more gold coinz by playing their flash games.
5) Buy more available animations, items and backgrounds.

Hide Your Long URL with Dot.tk Redirection

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When I started my very first fansite back on 2005, Im annoyed with my long URL since Im just using a free webhosting program. I tried so many short URL redirection host but they did not met my qualification. With no other choice I decided to buy my own web domain until one site attracted my attention and led me to Dot.tk's free webhosting.



Dot.tk is one of the best short URL redirection Ive seen so far because it does not make your own site look like just a sub-domain. That means you can put a shorter name than other hosts can provide. It will look like this, yoursite.tk. Cool huh? Of course it is. It's the same as you already have your own domain name. Here's more, you can add Dot.tk domain names as much as you want, that's unlimited websites hosted for free. So what's the catch? There's nothing big deal about this, but Dot.tk will just put a web banner on the upper corner of your site. It's the way they monetize their program to stay free for hosting so many websites. This banner, however, is just static above and seperated by a frame. It's not those unwanted pop-ups or floating ads so it will preserved the clean look of your page.

What are you waiting for? Hide those long URL of your blog or site and enjoy the shorter domain name from Dot.tk. A good way to keep your visitors remember your site easily.

Summary:
1) Register an account on Dot.tk to begin the free web hosting redirection.
2) Create your own domain like yoursite.tk.
3) Add more website as much as you want it.
4) Hide your long URL in exchange for a domain name.

Free-CSS: Get Blog Templates for Free

Have you ever wished that you could have a better blog template than what you're having right now? Have you tried to look online by browsing and seaching but still to have no luck? Then worry no more because Free-CSS can provide what you're looking for.



Free-CSS has tons of web templates designed to help bloggers and webmasters. As what the site name implies, it's all for free! Be charmed with they're design about food, business, arts, entertainment, gaming and lifestyle and more. Almost every topic that you can think of has it's own pre-designed template version. They only not offer templates but also different elements that may help build a better design. One good example is the CSS menu, that contains different icons and images that enhance your site navigation control. Another one is the CSS layouts, which give you control over the template arrangement. Here you can choose if you want a 2 or 3 division layout or if you want to put more page elements on the top or bottom--- it's all for your convenience. Now, if you are not an expert about CSS designing but you're willing to learn, then get an online lesson from the site's CSS tutorials, references and articles. You'll definitely going to learn a lot for sure.

Are you having enough yet? Try it out and get a fresh look for your own blog and site.

Summary:
1) Get loads of pre-designed templates free for download.
2) Have extra add-ons from their CSS menu.
3) Take control of your own template layouts.<
4) Learn about template designing with the CSS tutorials, references and articles.

Build your Site with Freewebs

When I decided to make a fansite of my favorite rpg game(Suikoden series), the first thing came to my mind is to find a good free website provider. I searched through different providers and made tons of searches on Google and Yahoo, comparing every potential host's offers. Finally I found the right hosting for me-- I ended up using Freewebs. A site that does not only give you 100 megs space and 3 gigs of bandwidth but also has an easy-to-use webtools. A good feature to aid those who are still newbie on making website.



Aside from its state of the art Freeweb Editor, there are other features that the site are also offering for free. One of this, is there photo gallery that has almost the same quality as Photobucket. You can edit and even put titles to every photo you uploaded. If your purpose is not really making a website, then maybe you want to try their blogs. But of course you can have both blog and website at the same time if your not that too busy. As add-ons, there are customed widgets you can get for fun and to add activity. These widgets, however, are not only limited to blogs but also for your webpage. Lastly, you can choose dozens of themed templates from there their vault. That's the best part a newbie can get if he don't want to use HTML code.

If you really want to make your website a very good one, then try Freewebs. You'll definitely going to love it (just like me)!

Summary:
1) Choose your sub-domain name and gain access to Freewebs webtools.
2) Select one of their themed templates for blogging or webpages.
3) Get cool widgets to add fascinating look on the blog or webpages.
4) Grab photos or images and store it on your own gallery.
5) Enjoy more features like mailing list, forums and joining your friend's community.

Enhance your Photos with Rockyou!

Okay, let's say you have tons of photos collected from your own gallery. You want those photos to be viewed by other people who is currently browsing the web, whether they are viewing your profile on Myspace or your avatar in forums. The problem is they are dull and you want to make them a little appealing to look at. Then Rockyou is just a click away to give you free image enhancement to your photos.



Rockyou offers different free features that you'll definitely going to love. There is the PhotoFX that will add glitters on your photo. Fun Notes that will put text on your photo or you can use Glitter Text that will make the text glitter, swirl and sparkle. Now, if you have multiple images you want to compile, you can use the Rockyou Slideshow. Collect more images as many as you want because you can also store them on the site to be used anywhere. They will host the image and by using the image URL you can put them on other site. Lastly, my personal favorite, the unique 'talking avatar' that you can make from your own photo. It's so cool trust me! You'll going to have a lot of fun experimenting your own talking avatar. There are more features which are worth trying for. I will not spoil the rest for you to find out what's this site is all about.

Summary:
1) Upload photos and let Rockyou host it for you.
2) Create a slideshow from your own gallery.
3) Edit and enhance your photo with text add-ons and glitters.
4) Create and experiment your own talking avatar.