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Ultimate Free GIMP Brushes Collection : 27 Brush sets [1200+ Brushes]

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:00:51 +0000

Gimp is one of the best open source software for editing images. Here we have collected 1200+ high-Resolution Free GIMP brushes that will be perfect for any project you may happen to be working on. They will speed up your work and make life easier. Most brushes have been converted from Photoshop so don’t worry if they say Photoshop in the image, but follow the terms before using it.
if you are using Gimp 2.4 or above version, now all the Photoshop brushes are Compatible with Gimp so you can use all the Photoshop brushes in gimp too

High Resolution GIMP Brushes Free Download

Mask Brushes

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More grunge brushes

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Grunge brush set 3

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GIMP Grunge Brush Pack 2

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GIMP Scratchies

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Blood Brushes

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Inner Universe Brushes

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15 Vector Brushes

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Creating Spikey Brushes

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Cloudy Brushes

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GIMP Brushes: Moon

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Splatter Brushes

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1100 Gimp Brushes

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15 Vector Brushes

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Pine – MEGA PACK

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Lightning Brushes

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Snowflakes

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animal prints/textures as brushes.

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Wings brushes

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Flames

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Ouch!

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Abstract clouds

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Footprints

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Cracks

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Odysee

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Water Brushes

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15 Must Have Chrome Extensions for Web Developers & Designers

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:29:34 +0000

The arrival of Google Chrome in late 2008 led many web developers and designers to consider switching from Firefox, their industry standard browser. Most have stayed loyal to Firefox, however, and with good reason. It takes a long time to create a browser environment that you feel comfortable with and at home in. Getting the right balance of plugins, of which there are lots more available for Firefox than Chrome, is an evolutionary process which takes a long time.

Fast forward a year (and a bit) and the situation has changed. Google Chrome’s Extensions site is offering tons of great extensions created with developers and designers in mind. People have started to notice too that Chrome is faster than Firefox, uses less CPU and comes with a suite of web development tools built in. Extensions are incredibly quick and easy to install (and uninstall), without even the need to restart your browser. Take a look at the 15 Must Have Chrome Extensions for Web Developers & Designers below and decide for yourself whether it’s time to make that switch.

1. Firebug Lite

Firebug is an incredibly good Firefox extension used by pretty much all serious web developers. It gives you the ability to inspectt various elements on a page and edit CSS, XHTML and JavaScript on the fly. These two features compliment each other perfectly, allowing you to first inspect” to find a problem before fixing it quickly with the “Edit” tab. Firebug Lite is a lightweight version of Firebug for Chrome users.

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2. Pendule

Pendule offers a fantastic portfolio of useful web development tools, packaged in a really unfussy, simple way. It offers a colour picker and ruler as well as the ability to view page source, disable CSS, hide images and show alt text, dimensions and paths. It even validates CSS, HTML and Feeds.

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3. META SEO Inspector

META SEO Inspector uncovers the useful, invisible data that you, as a web developer, want to see. It lets you verify the description tag of your site for SEO purposes and to follow Google’s webmaster guidelines. It even alerts you when Meta data is not within certain ranges and links to info-sites about the pages you’re viewing.

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4. Aviary Screen Capture

Aviary Screen Capture is a useful extension for everyone to use, but web designers will find it particularly valuable. It lets you take a screenshot of any webpage and edit it in your browser. You can edit (crop, resize, rotate), do markup (draw arrows and shapes), add notes and get exact pixel colours.

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5. Lorem Ipsum Generator

Simple but very effective, this extension is of use to all web designers, giving them instant access to an easy-to-use lorem ipsum generator. The extension has been designed to simplify things as much as possible, using less code, which is not only less confusing, but uses less memory.

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6. Resolution Test

With this lightweight extension, developers can change the size of their browser window to test their sites at different screen resolutions. You can choose from a list of common resolutions or specify your own. All you need to do is click the resolution test icon in the top right of the browser, choose resolutions, and press “View all selected”.

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7. Chrome SEO

Chrome SEO is a must for all web developers. With its suite of SEO tools, you can perform all SEO tasks, including competitive analysis, keyword research, social bookmark counts, traffic, ratings and backlink checks.

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8. IE Tab

IE Tab uses Internet Explorer to display web pages in Chrome, perfect for developers who want to test the IE rendering engine, use the Explorer view for local files, or those who want to use ActiveX controls. At the moment it’s Windows only.

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9. iMacros for Chrome

Find yourself performing repetitive tasks again and again each time you go online? Don’t we all! iMacros makes your life that little bit easier, letting you record long actions and repeat them at the touch of a button. Web developers find it particularly useful for regression testing, performance testing and transaction monitoring.

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10. Picnik Extension for Chrome

For those of you that don’t know, Picnik is a free browser-based image editing tool used by impoverished web designers the world over. It really is a great, free alternative to Photoshop. This extension brings the power of Picnik to the fore, letting you pick an image from a page, edit, annotate and share it.

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11. Speed Tracer

Use Speed Tracer to identity and then rectify problems that you’re experiencing with your web apps. It identifies problems caused by everything from JavaScript parsing and execution to CSSstyle recalculation, DOM event handling, timer fires, XMLHttpRequest callbacks and much more.

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12. Validity

Validity is a quick and easy way to validate a current web page. Simply validate by clicking on the Validity icon in the address bar or pressing “Ctrl+Alt+V”. You can even use your own installation of the W3C Validation Service if you wish.

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13. Snippy

Snippy is a really useful extension for collecting snippets of screenshots from a range of different sites. All you do is navigate to a web page, click on the Snippy icon, select which elements from the page you want to save, and press Show Snippets to bring up a window with all the elements you’ve selected. You can combine as many snippets as you like, from as many different sites as you like.

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14. Chrome Flags

Chrome Flags simply displays a flag icon in the address bar showing the physical location of the website you are viewing. Click on the flag and you’ll be presented with additional information about the site’s servers, owners and traffic. It’s perfect for establishing the trustworthiness of a site you’re unsure about.

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15. BuiltWith

BuiltWith gives you details of all the technologies used on the site you’re viewing. You’ll get information about widgets (snap preview), analytics (Google, Nielsen), frameworks (.NET, Java), publishing (WordPress, Blogger), advertising (DoubleClick, AdSense), CDNs (Amazon S3, Limelight), standards (XHTML,RSS) and hosting software (Apache, IIS, CentOS, Debian). Simply click the BuiltWith icon.

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About The Author

Tom is a writer and designer from the UK who works online full-time for a specialist supplier of Epson ink, toner and paper based in Manchester. His writing covers a wide variety of topics from advertising to modern art and can be found at CreativeCloud.

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30 Best Adobe Air Applications for Designers

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:10:51 +0000

Adobe AIR is one of the most under appreciated application platforms but it has become a popular platform for internet-enabled desktop applications and If you’re a designer, AIR applications will help you with a multitude of tasks that will make your life easier! Today we have selected 30 Extremely useful Adobe air Apps for Designers.

What is Adobe Air? – Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML….

Don’t have Adobe AIR installed, you can download it free from www.get.adobe.com/air.

Color – Adobe Air Applications

Color Browser

Store and manage sets of color palettes with colorbrowser. Open or drag and drop ASE files from Kuler or ColourLovers into colorbrowser to add the color palettes to your collection.

Kuler Desktop

kuler desktop brings Adobe’s fantastic color scheme creation and management application Kuler, to the desktopit View RSS feeds of the newest, highest-rated and most popular color themes, as well as random ones.

Random Patter

Random Patter lets you create random patterns based on images and other parameters. The outputted file can be saved as an SVG document.

Contrast-A

Contrast-A is a tool for checking the contrast between different colors, according to both WCAG 2.0 and 1.0. It allows you to view RGB colors in a three-dimensional model

COLOURlovers Desktop Color Finder

It’s a basic app but very useful when you’re looking for new and creative color schemes for designs and other ideas.search the COLOURlovers entire database from your desktop to find fantastic new color creations and collections.

Typography and Fonts Adobe Air Applications

.merlin – An AIR Font Organizer

merlin is an Adobe AIR based application which extract the actual font name, and rename the file based off of that. Then put that font into a folder of the first letter. So Arial would go in the “a” folder. Some of the options you can configure for processing is to move, rename, or delete files. It reads OTF, TTF, Type1 (AFM, PFM, PFB, INF) font files.

Font Picker- An AIR Font Organizer

Font Picker shows you all the fonts installed on your computer and helps you choose which one is most suitable for a particular project. It lets select favorites, get rid of fonts you don’t like.

Adobe Air Applications for Image

Caliper Project
The Calilper floats above other applications on screen can be used to measure anything on your monitor. Draggable, Rotates through 360°, Pixel Perfect Measurements, Floats above all other applications.

ImageSizer

ImageSizer is a batch image processor tool built to Quickly resize, rotate, optimize and rename a batch of images as a single zip file.Drag and drop the images you want to edit, customize the settings and you’re done.

JustResizeIt!

With JustResizeIt! you can drag and drop images to quickly resize them. Use it to create widgets for specific uses like e-mail, web galleries, web designs, templates and lots more.

Flickr Desktop Search
Flicker One of the best resources available for free images from around the web. Flickr Desktop Search lets you search for Flickr photos, groups and people right from your desktop.

PhotoTable

It is a highly useful Adobe AIR application, you can easily save images from the web via a drag-and-drop interface.

Icon Generator
The Icon Generator helps you create CS3 and Web 2.0-style icons in three easy steps.Pick a color, enter your text and save it. It can generate four sizes ranging from 16×16 px to 128×128 px.

XeIMG Image Editor
Xe-IMG Editor is a ultimate image editor. Because of AIR’s cross-platform capabilities – designers who work with multiple operating systems that need a quick and easy image editor will find this tool helpful.

Splashup Light

It allows you to change levels, contrast/brightness, hue saturation, text editing, and shapes. Basically it is an image editor for simple image enhancements.

Management Tools

timeloc

Timeloc tracks the time you spend working on projects. It can handle multiple projects and clients, lets you edit the billing period and change the rate per client and uses audible alerts and reminders.

Google Calendar Invoice Creator

If you use Google Calendar for time management, this app makes it easy to create invoices from your calendar’s RSS feed. It creates text and HTML-formatted invoices.

Ora Time and Expense

Ora Time and Expense is a free, easy-to-use application for creating and managing timesheets, expense reports and invoices.

Designing & popular Adobe Air Applications

htmlText Editor

htmlText Editor is mainly used by Flex developers, it provides a shortcut to having htmlText generated in a WYSIWYG type editor.

RichFLV

With RichFLV you can edit flv files’ metadata, cuepoints, sound and more. Convert them to swf or mp3. It’s a lightweight application for quick, basic editing.

Designview

This AIR app is for creating Flex Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) and is great for designers wishing to easily craft interfaces for their Flex-based apps.

Livebrush
Livebrush is a motion-based drawing tool. Toss graphics around the screen or elegantly swing the brush around your cursor. There are over 100 styles and decorations that can all be customized and shared.

Pixus
Pixus is a nice application that enables us to Measure screen objects with both keyboard and mouse control. we can also preview how your design will look in the real environment.

Fractal4D
With the Fractal4D Adobe AIR application, you can draw fractal swirls that can then be exported as a vector file or in PNG format. Use the fractals you create to enhance your graphic designs.

TweetDeck

This is a great app for managing you Twitter account(s). It lets you update, post images, shorten links, and group those you follow. And there’s even an iPhone app you can use that will sync with your Air version.

Analytics Adobe Air Applications

Demandbase Stream

It allows you to filter the data, set up a watch list, see the search keywords that visitors used to reach your website and see the pages that visitors are currently viewing.

SEO Analyzer

SEO Analyzer checks your page rank and analyzes your links and keywords for their search ranking effectiveness.

Framework Tools

Boks

Boks provides a User Interface for Blueprint CSS’s framework.

Em Calculator

Use Em Calculator to get all the correct values converted from pixels to ems and calculate the correct vertical rhythm for your designs. It’s a simple but effective and useful tool.

Wireframing and Prototyping Tools

iPlotz

iPlotz is an application for wireframing and creating clickable and navigable mockups of websites and app interfaces.It also comes with collaboration and project management tools for designers working in teams.

Balsamiq Mockups

The desktop Air version is $79, but you can try it for free (although you will not be able to save any of your files without a license key).

Do you know of an Adobe AIR tool not mentioned here? Share your thoughts and experience in the comment section.

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8 Free & Best CSS Editors For Web Designers

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:31:44 +0000

Most of us use Dreamweaver as a CSS Editor for Editing CSS , but there are some best CSS editors which are free. Here we have collected some Best Editor to make your work simple , have a look 8 free & Best CSS Editors For Web Designers

1. Notepad++ :

Notepad++ is a free & Best CSS editor which supports several programming languages under Windows environment. It’s also a lightweight replacement of Notepad. The supported languages by Notepad++ are: C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, Javascript, RC file, makefile, nfo, doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python, Lua, Unix Shell Script, Fortran, NSIS and Flash action script. Notepad++ main features are: Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding, User Language Define System, Regular Expression Search, WYSIWYG (If you have a color printer, print your source code in color), Unicode support, Full drag-and-drop supported, Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting, 2 edits and synchronized view of the same document, User Language Define System.

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2. PSPad :

PSPad is a free CSS editor, ready to work immediately without requiring customization. The editor supports many file types and languages, with syntax highlighting. There are macros, clip files and templates to automate repetative tasks. Integrated HEX Editor, Project support, FTP Client, Macro Recorder, File Search/Replace, Code Explorer, Code page conversion… these are just some of the many features that PSPad offers.

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3. Simple CSS :

Simple CSS is a free CSS editor which allows you to easily create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a familiar point-and-click interface. Support Macs, Windows and Linux operating System.

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4. TS Webeditor :

TS Webeditor is other free CSS editor which also edits HTML, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, CSS and many other languages. It displays the source code colored (syntax highlight), code hint for functions, code completion (PHP, JavaScript, ASP, HTML), code browser, PHP debugger and syntax validation, help, CSS wizard, HTML tag editor, HTML syntax validation, and an easy to use SQL Designer.

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5. CSS Stylesheet Editor :

The CSS Stylesheet is a free css Editor which provides an easy method for creating and modifying CSS stylesheets for use with your HTML documents, without the need for knowledge of the CSS syntax. It provides intuitive fields for all of the CSS properties you’re ever likely to need.

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6. Eledicss :

Eledicss is a free CSS2 editor (GPL licensed) implemented as a server-side PHP script. It allows editing CSS files using a web browser.

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7. CSSED :

CSSED is a free CSS editor which features syntax highlighting, syntax validation, MDI notebook based interface, quick CSS properties and values insertion, auto-completion and dialog-based insertion of CSS complex values.

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8. JustStyle CSS Editor :

JustStyle is another fre CSS Editor is full-featured, yet easy-to-use, software for webmasters. It is a specialized style sheets development environment, featuring everything needed to develop and deploy cascade style sheets.

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Top 10 Free Open Source Content Management systems (CMS)

admin2 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:50:50 +0000

Most web designers/developers prefer building websites with open source CMS because they got lot of support on the web from online communities. Rapid development of plugins for these software’s made them popular and web designers first choice. Depending upon the support, online communities and contributors, plugins/add-ons i am giving the ranking to these CMS. If you found any thing missing or any mistakes in this blog please comment and i will make changes to the post and inform you. Here we have selected 10 free and Best Content Management systems

Drupal

Drupal is the best open source Content management system available and its supports community is huge and no other CMS have got this much support. There are huge number of Modules/Plugins available for Drupal. The most used plugins in every Drupal site are CCK, ImageField, Views, Image API etc.
There are 6487 modules for Drupal 6.x version and more than 8000 modules for all combined versions. Theming is one of the issue you have to spend your time but if you got a good theme designed, then your website is the most powerful and flexible.
Since Theming of Drupal takes time and resources many would not provide these themes or develop these themes for free. Although not a large amount of themes are available for this CMS unlike WordPress, but used in the creation of flexible and huge websites.
Once you learn how to Create and manage a Drupal site, then you will love to work with this CMS. You can make any type of website with Drupal, E-commerce site, Social bookmarking site, Social networking site, Education site, Tutorial site, powerful portal any thing you like, Such is the power of Drupal and i haven’t seen this much powerful content management system ever on web.

The only disadvantage with Drupal is it is complex and you have to struggle. Once you are familiar with Drupal, then you can make powerful drupal sites. Another is theming issues, A custom made Drupal theme costs you min of 200$ and maximum it can go to 1000$ or even more. I think we have sufficient modules in Drupal and we can use them in making any type of website.

Drupal is SEO friendly, You can create custom URL’s to posts and categories, automatically ping to search engines when the website is updated.

If you want to check which websites are using Drupal, then there is a website which have all the collection of these websites.
One of them is Drupalsites.net and you can see every Drupal website on web today and some missing but don’t bother they will add it. If you have Drupal website then you can list your website there.
Many sites doesn’t have good design but i am providing here a link when you browse through this website you will find some awesome websites designed in Drupal.

My collections :

http://mogdesign.eu/blog/70-beautiful-drupal-sites/
http://www.digitalgurus.co.uk/flash/index.html#/home – great design
http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in - Although not a great design but a powerful website.

Drupal.org

WordPress

Although WordPress is released first in 2003 but its root came from b2 that started in 2001.WordPress is simple Content management system and not as advanced like Drupal. WordPress also got lot’s of support from online communities, lot of beautiful and advanced themes and more themes coming weekly, lot more plugins some 6830 plugins at present included in wordpress.org but you find some plugins searching in google which will be new. WordPress.org is hosting 1020 themes at present and many developers made their themes available on their personal websites too.

WordPress platform is mostly used in making blogs and now a days used in making E-commerce sites but not powerful as Drupal but easy to manage and use in day to day updating purposes. Most blogs in web are now WordPress and support to WordPress is excellent.

WordPress is SEO friendly and automatic pinging to popular search engines is enabled by default, user friendly URL’s are the main advantage that makes WordPress blogs more SEO friendly.

Main disadvantage is it doesn’t have inbuilt forum like in case with Drupal and Joomla, do not offer social networking features. But you can intergrate some major forum softwares with WordPress using available plugins.

Theming cost is less because there are lot more web developers who create WordPress themes and due to heavy competition theming cost will be less.But if you are planning to create large website then don’t go for WordPress.

WordPress.org

Joomla

The third place goes to Joomla regarding best Content management software after Drupal and WordPress. It also got beautiful support from online communities and have more plugins. You can make a average website not powerful as Drupal but powerful than WordPress. Joomla is supported by many modules and large support community and unlike Drupal many theme developers are making their theme available for public use.

You can build online tutorial site, E-commerce site, daily updating blog, college websites and more with Joomla. So, better go for this when you are not building huge site with thousand’s of webpages. Next advantage of using Joomla over WordPress is support of inbuilt forum.

I don’t have the exact count of plugins for Joomla but they are lot more extensions that are enough to build any kind of site. With that more extensions and support i definitely recommend Joomla and it is also easy to use like WordPress.

You will get theming for Joomla you have to spend some what more than WordPress theming but not very costly like in case with Drupal.
Joomla.org

Mambo

Mambo is a full featured CMS platform that can be used in making small websites to large corporate websites. You can find hundreds of plugins and add-on packs which makes your Mambo website do more for you. Some of the extensions include forums, multimedia galleries, e-commerce and shopping carts, document management tools, customer relationship managers and lot more.

Mambo is easy to install and once your site is ready, creating and updating content is easy and even a novice user can do that.

Mambo have got lot of support from online communities and if you get any problem you can find the problem online if not you can post to communities so that they can give you a solution.
Mambo-foundation.org

MovableType

Movable Type is also a good blogging platform with multi-user support with more plugins. But when i am in search of many queries on movable type i haven’t got reply.

You get more control over your website with Movable type and you have more plugins and modules that support this platform.

There is a pitfall with movable type and it is lack of support from online communities and few gives online support. So, you have to wait for an answer to a problem for a long time or some times you may not get an answer.
Movabletype.org

Moodle

If you want to make an online tutorial website then Moodle is the best choice to work with. You have lot of plugins and modules that are created for Moodle. You can integrate chatting system in Moodle and use this if you want to make a great online tutorials website.

No other platform will make your work easy in creating a website for online tutoring and in this case Moodle best suites your need.

Moodle.org

Liferay

Liferay is an enterprise open source Content Management System which is developed on Java. It is easy to use and you can make the software work for you as your need and wish. Since it is developed on Java most users using this CMS are Large enterprise companies but if you want to build a huge website and with best security then you can go for Liferay.

There are two versions available one is Standard version and another is Enterprise version. Standard version comes in MIT license and costs you nothing but if you want long term support and your’s is a critical environment then Enterprise edition will be a right choice. In Enterprise edition you get training in using Liferay, long term support and some professional services. There are four levels of subscription in Enterprise edition which are termed as Basic, Silver, Gold, Platinum.

LIFERAY have got Fortune 500 companies as their clients and they are receiving support from LIFERAY. There are many large companies using LIFERAY and some of them include Lufthansa, Cisco, Discovery .

Liferay.org

Dotcms

DotCMS is Java based open source Content Management System and is used by professionals for large websites. I personally tested the Demo of DotCMS and management of site is very easy and with few clicks you can create new pages, new content add some features.

If you want to go for Enterprise edition, it will cost you $1400+ for a single CPU and Standard edition is available in GPL license.

DotCMS is used in various websites which are from various domains like Education, Corporations, Associations, Health care, Non-Profit organizations and Governmental organizations.

Some of the websites using DotCMS are:

Arizona State University
DailyBusinessReview.com
Mix.com.au

Dotcms.org

Modx

Modx is a perfect solution for regular marketing websites and for many custom made web applications. It is built on modern OOP framework and that too Modx is Ajax and SEO friendly CMS. If you want to take full control of your content then prefer this CMS.

Managing site is easy and for a developer theming will be not at all an issue. You can make your website exactly how you want it to be and if you want the showcase of the websites using modx, visit this link and you will find websites made up with modx [http://modxcms.com/learn/showcase/].

You can get support for Modx on Modx.org communities page and forum.You have to register with Modx before getting support.

Modx is supported by many plugins and you can make powerful blogs,e-commerce sites,Education and training sites and lot more.

modx.org

FrogCMS

FrogCMS is a light weight Content Management System which is opensource and developed using PHP. Managing Website is made easy with Frogcms. Frogcms is unique from other CMS because of its templating code.

There are two main advantages with this templating code:

PHP is not used in your article pages so the author of articles does not need to know PHP while editing an article.
The developer can add new code to the existing code easily like adding photo gallery, news page and i think you may not be proficient in PHP coding for adding code snipplets.

A developer can easily design the template for this CMS and an Admin can easily manage the website with FrogCMS control panel and he can add code to sidebar, footer, header easily.

For now you don’t have too many plugins but if you are a webdeveloper you can easily develop your custom plugins and code the template easily.

Now the support for this cms is not great but hopefully the support from online communities raise in few years.

madebyfrog.com

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11 Best CSS Frameworks

admin2 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:34:49 +0000

A CSS framework is a library that is pre-prepared which makes creation of standards-complaint styling of webpages easier using Cascading Style Sheets language. We have lot more programming and scripting libraries which we can use them to make our work very easy. CSS framework will cut most of our development time in making webpages browser compatible and lot more.

CSS frameworks are tools for layout development.

Advantages/Benefits of using CSS frameworks :-

Cross browser issues can be reduced>
It will be great for beginners
Avoid common mistakes there by increasing productivity of your designs
Normalize your code/class base

Disadvantages of using CSS frameworks:-

Inherit some one’s bugs in your design
If you are new to that particular framework, it takes time to understand the framework
CSS cannot be framed semantically