Get Your Cool Vectors on Veectezy

Here is a new freebie site that will definitely capture your designing preference. I found this site months ago and fell in love with its promising freebies. They have an array of unique designs called vectors which you can find very useful in designing your blogs.



If you are looking for a good backgrounds for your blog, Vecteezy is surely one of the best place to look for. It has a wide range of themes to choose from. Although, the site is still new yet it already have a pool of artist that constantly sharing their artworks. Vecteezy is a home for all web designers who want to show their created vectors online. Here, many artist gathered, sharing their works for everyone. Although all vectors can be freely downloaded, but their are some restrictions that every user should follow. It is made to protect the rights of every artist's creative rights. Well, they deserved the rights since their vectors were made to be enjoyed by everyone.



It's worth a try to take a peek on this one. There's no way you're not going to like Vecteezy as I do.



Summary:
1) No registration to get started with Vecteezy.
2) Just remember to read the creative rigts assigned for every artworks.
3) Enjoy browsing and downloading your favorite vectors.

Create Your Own Sitemap with Nomao

Have you tried Google Earth? The program developed by the Google several years ago, that displays maps and sattelite view of the world from above. Even now, I'm still amazed of what it can do and how it changed the whole life of people who already tried it. This kind of innovation from 'do no evil' company, made the world smaller than what we think of it before. Anyway, I found a program called Nomao, that used this innovation on a different way.



Nomao is a free social network program that lets you interact with other users using the Google Earth interface. How does it work? Simply by locating your favorite places on the map. To get started, you need to locate on the map your country, city and exact location. Then you are given the option to place icons that will spot your favorite places. You have to identify also the nature of these places from different available categories like shopping, personal place, dining, night life, your home and others. What I like more, is that you can add descriptions on this marked icons. So your visitors will know a lot about your neighborhood, your lifestyle and everything you want to share to others. It's a way to express your self better and show to your friends, what is life like around you.





Another great feature of Nomao is the event organizer, where you can notify everbody for the event that may takes place near you. Spreading the word to your friends is as easy as click away from your computer. Nomao will ask about 'what, where, when' the event may takes place. So make it a habit to check your friend's pages to get updated on the current happenings nearby. You'll never know, if other people in your neighborhood may have organized a party, games, reunion, meeting or other events that may interest you.

After you spotted all your favorite places you can share your own sitemap to your friends and other members of Nomao. You can put it on your blog too if you want. Nomao provides a highly costumizable widget available on different frame colors and you can edit it on your own preferred sizes. You can either place it on any side of your blog or better, put it on your own sitemap and profile page.

Tired of your old social network program? Try Nomao for a change and see the difference.

Summary:
1) To get started you need an account on Nomao's free service.
2) Spot your locations with Google Earth interface.
3) Organize an event with Nomao's built-in event organizer.
4) Share your sitemap to your friends and other members.
5) Upload your map on your blog.

Customize your Blog Signature with IMGText

Just searching for a while over the web as I always do everyday, I ended up browsing this fascinating site that create text images. IMGText looks interesting, it converts simple text into dynamic images. It's main purpose is to create a signature or what they call "sig" or "siggy" for both forums and blogs.



The program is so simple to use, a little time spent experimenting and exploring can help you familiarized it's different features. IMGText can make great looking images, that can be use as buttons, logos or just plain message posts. There are dozens of features that will improve your simple text image into a better one. To begin with designing,you are given a choice if you will start from a scratch or choose their ready-made templates available. The Templates has cool designs and somehow helpful if you want a not-so-complicated images. If you choose the Canvas, however, you are redirected to an image editor that has the basic elements of designing. Although you can see simple design from the start, but later you are given the freedom to upload your own background image or not-- that depends on your own preference. More or less, there are 100 font types both common and never before seen from other programs. These font types has categories too, from 3D, edgy, futuristic, handwritten, fancy, creative and more. The height and width of background, font size, colors and shadows of the images are highly customizable, so you can create sigs as you wanted it to be. Aside from that, you can gain full control on the image's layout from its text, margin, borders and watermarks. Cool huh?!

If you have a blog and you want to have your own signature placed on each post you made, then you'll definitely need to try this program. A sig in blog can surely add a authoritative impression to your post and even drive your reader's attention. Try ImgText and create your own sig now. Oh, did I metion that it is 100% free? Yup, it's free for everyone.

Summary:
1) Create your own "sig" or "siggy" with this highly customizable image text editor.
2) Experiment with different font types to choose from.
3) ImgText is 100% free and can easily be downloaded to your computer or photosharing host.

Splashup: Your Online Photoshop Alternative

Perhaps the biggest frustration I experienced on the process of web building was the designing. It took a lot of time planning and creating your background, layouts and other stuff that are somewhat related on designs. I must confess, Im not that good on designing myself and having no photo-editing program of my own, I just rely on other images that I could find online. There are times that I wish I have Adobe Photoshop,I know that having one may greatly improve my own designs. It took me years trying every site I could find that promised good performance from their programs. Some are cool and somehow helpful. While others lack the elements of what Im really looking forward to. But those days are over since I read about Splashup from a magazine.



Formerly called Fauxto, Splashup is a photo editing site that delivers powerful tools for your own convenience. Created by Faux Labs Inc., this program somehow resembles Adobe Photoshop. Dozens of features can be use that professionals and newbies will surely love. One great feature of this fascinating program is its ability to edit multiple images at once. You can blend, filter, put layer effects on images, experiment on different brushes available and even edit text on it. Also, Splashup integrates seamlessly with top photosharing sites like Picasa, Flickr and Facebook so you can save and upload images easily. Aside from that, even the program has it's own photosharing feature so you can save your work in progress.

So stop dreaming about having Photoshop of your own. Try Splashup to quench your craving for a photo-editing program.

Summary:
1) Just sign-up on Splashup to get instant access on their free program.
2) Edit your images with dozens of available features.
3) Upload and save your photos on different photosharing site including Splashup's very own feature.

Create Tabs and Menus with Tabs Generator

If you have been satisfied with what Stripe Generator can make for your background then you're going to love Tabs Generator too. From the same people who made Stripe Generator, comes another service that will definitely help you from designing your website or blog.



Tabs Generator will let you create tabs for your blogs and website. There are dozens of style to test, from size to color and even it's curve radius. You can also choose what fill style do you prefer. It's either you have a full-colored background or combination of two colors. Next, you are given the option to choose the orientation of the tabs. It's either to choose top, bottom, left or right position of the tabs you created. That really helps especially for those people who pays much attention on their web or blog design. After you created one, you can now download your tab and it's ready to be used.

Tabs Generator is straight and simple to use. You will never had a hard time making your own. It's something that really give you a better design for your blog and websites.

Summary:
1) Create your own tabs and menus from Tabs Generator.
2) No need to sign up or anything, you can make your own design in an instant.
3) Enjoy experimenting with dozens of design you can possibly make.

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.

Hide Your Long URL with Dot.tk Redirection

Info:
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.

Boost Your Traffic With Entrecard Program

It's just a matter of luck that I ended up on a site that drives load of traffic on my blog. When I was reading and browsing John Chow dot com, a small ad captured my attention and click it to see something good out of it. Well, I guess luck is sticking on my back on that moment because it led me to one of the best traffic booster I've tried so far. Entrecard really works!





Entrecard is a newly launched program that targets blog traffic to its members by sharing advertisements from one blog to another. It was designed to help both small and big names on blogging and they're serving it for free. Some of the big guys already joined, like blogging top earner John Chow, 'mr. moo' John Cow and Problogger.net. By placing Entrecard Widget on your blog you can start a blog ad swapping. How does it works? Simply by having other people's blog ads (the ad format of the blog and not contextual advertisements like Adsense) to be featured on it. The blog of your advertiser has a direct link to his own blog URL. Whenever somebody clicked it, that will directly send him to that owner's blog. So you are having a win-to-win situation with other party.

Entrecard uses credits as the currency of the network. It used to buy advertisement space on other blogger's Entrecard. There are 3 ways to get credits in this program: One is when you drop 1 credit on someone else. Second is when somebody will drop their credit to your card. Lastly, is when someone buy advertisement space on your Entrecard widget. Remember that this program is 100% free and credits has no monetary value or whatsoever.

I've tried it for two days and Im still amazed with the results (sounds like Im having a commercial for diet pills). Im having more traffic 3 times than my average per day. Can you believe it? Well, after I checked my Adsense pageviews I fell on my seat in disbelief. Got the picture?! Good, now your learning from your photography lesson.

Summary:
1) Put your own Entrecard to initiate this program in your blog.
2) Advertise other blogger's ad in your own Entrecard space.
3) Earn credits in three simple ways.
4) Have fun clicking other's blog in Entrecard network.
5) Enjoy more traffic you're having than the usual.

Increase Your Visitors Activity with PostReach Widget

We all know that one factor that affects our traffic is by putting a comment box on the blog. You usually see this feature just below your posts asking for some personal data like your name, email and url. Using this, will likely pull your visitors to keep coming back. It's a useful tool indeed for driving more viewers and readers. If you had one in your blog that's a good choice, but I think it will be much better if you had a PostReach widget too. It's a cool device that let your visitors rank your article after reading its content.



Small, attractive and very easy to use, PostReach can be a great add-on on your blog. There are several reasons why I encourage you to use it. One, is that it has a very good design and looks professional. That will add aesthetic points from your viewers impression. Second, is that there is no catch on it, no hidden fees nor anything you need to do in return for their service. Third, it can be a good way to promote your related articles from your blog. It has a feature that will provide links from other entries you had. No links outside your blog, however, will be redirected. So people can search more from your own posts only. Fourth, there are three types of design to choose from, plus you can decide if you use the 2D or 3D icons. Lastly, the code is easy to install with just 3-clicks installment feature for Blogger and Typepad users, but other blog hosts like WordPress are also compatible with the widget.

You think PostReach widget is cool? Well I think it's hot too! Trust me.

Summary:
1) Get a cool widget that will add activity to your blog's visitors.
2) Choose your own style from three available designs.
3) You can select from 2d or 3d icons that will appear on your PostReach.
4) Install it in seconds from dozen of blog host it supported.

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.

Increase Blog Traffic with FeedBurner

If you're a blogger and you are dying to find a good way to advertise your blog on the web but still had a hard time finding one, then consider to use feeds. Feeds are dynamic programs that cycle your blog to other people who are interested to read your posts. Having one in your blog, will not only increase traffic but also let other bloggers to subscribe your contents. Isn't it better than advertising your it by word of the mouth? Or worst by pulling your friends to read your works and force them to put comment on it?

I have tried other feeds but nothing amazed me that much other than FeedBurner. It is a new acquired website of Google that can distribute your blogs anywhere in the blogosphere. Affiliated to large established media brands like Wired News, Wall Street Journal Online, MacWorld, PCmag.com and more, makes them one of the best on their fields.



Features:
Join Feedburner and get burned with their huge archives of features. One of it is Pingshot, that can automatically notify directories and aggregators when you publish new content in your feed. This can help you deliver new entries from your blog to update your subscribers and readers. Another one is Chicklet Chooser, that will give you codes from more than 20 available feeds like Google Reader, My Yahoo! , Newsgator and Bloglines. You can also give your subscribers easy ways to email, tag, share, and act on the content you publish by activating the Feedflare. Perhaps my favorite feature on my FeedBurner account is their FeedStat Dashboard. On this page, you can see your blog statistics as if your just counting how many visitors you had since your last check. Live stats records how many subscribers you had, checks your outcoming and outgoing links, plus showing your visitors' locations and feeds they used. It's a great way to view the whole activity of your blog from this excellent tracker.

Having enough yet? Well, that's not all what Feedburner can offer. There are more features to see, just check the site or join to enjoy the whole program for free. I know you're going to love it.

Summary:
1) Put feeds on your blog to increase your visitors.
2) Let your blog be published to FeedBurner's established media affiliates.
3) Get connected from different feed's host like Google Reader and Rojo.
4) See how many subcribers you had and check your online stats.
5) Enjoy more free features to drive traffic and increase blog recognition.

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.