20 Extremely Useful Freeware Apps For Blogging - The Link Medic - Free Blogging Resources. Whether you use WordPress, Tumblr or Blogger in order to get the most out of your blog it helps to have some tools by your side. Even just to manipulate images or upload files, some are downright essential to maintain a functioning blog. I’d be willing to be bet you use a few of these already but I hope to show you some new FREE software that could potentially make your life easier and your blog even better. If you need even more helpful tools check out: Over 120 Free Blog and SEO tools for a ridiculous amount of handy resources. Graphics Programs I use Photoshop for almost every post and anytime I’m working on a template design. It’s one of the most crucial aspects of my process. Features a lot of support and installs on many operating systems and languages. Here’s another worthy PS alternative. Multi-language support. Perhaps the most user-friendly graphics program out of the bunch. Easy to use and has a host of useful and fun features, definitely worth checking out.
Great for simple tasks. Complete Favicon Guide - Add a Favicon to your blog - The Link Medic - Free Blogging Resources. Favi-what? Favicons (short for Favorites Icon) have become a standard in website design these days. It’s one of those simple things you can do to improve your blog in just a few minutes. In this guide you will find out how to get yours. Favicons help distinguish your blog by giving it a little icon that can be seen in the address bar and depending on the browser in many other places such as the bookmark lists and the browsers tabs. This 16×16 mini icon can also help with brand recognition. In my case I was stuck with the default Blogger Favicon and since I updated my site with my own I feel like I stick out in the crowd a little. Microsoft was the first to implement the favicon.ico in Internet Explorer 4. How do I get one? Your next step is getting your hands on your Favicon, lucky for you theres boundless resources available.
You should already have an idea of what Favicon you can create assuming you already have a logo for your site. *Want to start by creating a logo first? Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins. In Dallas, August 29, 2010, at OpenCamp I presented “Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins.” Here are the WordPress Plugins and more features during my presentation. Let me first define what my qualifications for a “mind blowing WordPress Plugin” were, as I had to sift through thousands of Plugins and then filter down to include the following in my 50 minute presentation. To me, a mind blowing WordPress Plugin is one that breaks the rules. It is unique and original in its implementation, and pushes WordPress.
It might not be a Plugin that everyone must have on their site. I’d love to know if you’ve found a WordPress Plugin that really and truly blows your mind, pushing the capability of WordPress beyond “just a blog” or simple website. WordPress Plugins As of the day I gave my presentation, there were 11,040 WordPress Plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory. In fact, our blogs are built on WordPress Plugins. The cumulative list included: Development of WordPress is a crowd sourced project. Modernist. Imagine that you have before you a flagon of wine. You may choose your own favourite vintage for this imaginary demonstration, so that it be a deep shimmering crimson in colour.
You have two goblets before you. One is of solid gold, wrought in the most exquisite patterns. The other is of crystal-clear glass, thin as a bubble, and as transparent. Pour and drink; and according to your choice of goblet, I shall know whether or not you are a connoisseur of wine. Read the rest of this entry » We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like our spirits, shining like them with the prisoned radiance of electric hearts. An immense pride was buoying us up, because we felt ourselves alone at that hour, alone, awake, and on our feet, like proud beacons or forward sentries against an army of hostile stars glaring down at us from their celestial encampments.
Read the rest of this entry » Read the rest of this entry » Accueil - poleculturel-meyranness jimdo page! 50+ WordPress Plugins for Multimedia. There's a lot more to blogging than just writing compelling text. Pictures, video, and audio make your blog more exciting for readers while giving you more ways to express yourself. There are hundreds of plugins available for adding multimedia to your blog and here we take a look at more than 50 of our favorites.
Also see the other posts in this series: 30+ AJAX-Powered WordPress Plugins, 30+ Plugins for Wordpress Comments and 50+ Tools For The WordPress Admin. Image Management Tools Aniga Gallery – Allows you to create picture galleries that use the WordPress comment system. Batch Image Uploader – Upload and resize multiple images to your blog at once. Duh Gallery – Simply creates a photo gallery from your uploads folder in WordPress. ImageManager – Includes interface for browsing and uploading images and basic tools such as cropping and rotating. WP Image Gallery – Create photo galleries from within WordPress and display them in posts. Importing Images from Other Services Playing Music.