Following one’s Twitter tweets are as good as subscribing to the RSS feeds. Not only it feeds you the latest updates, it’s also a perfect medium for communication and networking. Realizing how Twitter can potentially help to increase readerships, more and more bloggers/webmasters are massively promoting their Twitter account through blogs and websites.
If you love a particular blog you’ve stumble upon, chances are you will want to follow their Twitter too. But let’s not make this too difficult for users to find where that Twitter link is. Catchy graphics are always better than plain text and they are easier to spot. If you are keen to increase Twitter followers, here’s a compilation of 100+ Remarkably Beautiful Twitter Icons And Buttons you can apply on your site.
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If you are generating revenue off your website or blog, chances are you serve banner ads and they are either updated manually by adding the images and URLs into the source codes or with the help of external ad-serving scripts like OpenX or OIO Publishers.
Google has a similar web service, call the Google Ad Manager. In a nutshell, it is a simple (and free) web service that helps you manage banner ads. It also comes with a pretty complete inventory report module. Ad Manager integrates with AdSense, therefore webmasters have the ability to serve AdSense ads if there’s no banner for any particular slot. Here’s a quick look into advantages of Google Ad Manager:
- Ad Targeting ability. You control who get to see the ads. Let it be geographical, browser or language specific.
- Efficient ad serving. No script installation is required. Everything (including the creatives) are hosted with Google. Not only it saves you space and bandwidths, you can also be rest-assured that banners will be delivered quickly.
- Multi-user supported. You can assign multiple salespersons to handle the sales part, and have everything documented/recorded nicely inside Google Ad Manager.
- Simple User Interface. And like any other Google web services, Ad Manager has simple and easy to understand interface.
- more..
If you are convinced that Google Ad Manager is potentially helpful in managing advertisements for your website or blog, we want to show you how to get it setup right from the scratch. Full guide after jump.
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We constantly see a lot of impressive advertisements in the magazines, posters and all but that’s just what being printed for us. Chances are, there are lots of great designs out there that have not surfaced. These designs could be done by students for school projects, passionate graphic designers or even failed pitches that did not meet industry requirements. However we thought they are great and deserve some publicity. We respect the fact that these designers are wiling to share their artwork. Some are available in high resolution that might fit as wallpapers, but do check with the respective authors if you are going to download them.
Without further ado, here are 40 Impressive Product Advertisement You Don’t See in Magazines. Full list after jump.
If you love creative advertisements, here are some we’ve previously published:
All colors
by BraveDesign
ADIDAS ad
by Phanox
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Thanks for participating in the previous 2 Christmas giveaways and here comes the third (final) one. This is something we thought most Wordpress bloggers would want - Free premium Wordpress themes, that’s right! Together with ElegantThemes, we are giving away 10 membership accounts (up to 1 year) to Hongkiat readers.
To date, ElegantThemes has more than 10 great looking premium themes in their gallery. As a winner, not only you’ll gain access to all of them, but you’ll also get to enjoy all the new premium themes these folks are going to release in the next one year. Cool? Here’s how to win.
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Christmas is getting close. Whether you are still in the midst of the last minute Christmas newsletter design, or just want to spice up the desktop a little bit, chances are there’s always something for everyone. We are talking about the free Christmas related icons, vectors, fonts, wallpapers, tutorials, themes, etc created designers and shared all over the net. They are probably our early Santas.
Here’s our final Christmas related entry (except the contest tomorrow) - a mash-up of the Best Design Resources for Christmas around. If there’s any we’ve missed, let us know in comment, we’ll add it in. Merry Christmas in advance.
1. Icons
PSDTOP would like to present especially for you 25+ Beautiful Christmas Icon Sets which you can use for your web site or your desktop.
Web Design Ledger presents you 23 Awesome Christmas Icon Sets to put you in the Christmas spirit.
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Looking for some Christmas-theme wallpapers to spice up your desktop? We’ve previoulsy showcased some really Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers, and before Christmas arrive here’s another 30 Remarkable Christmas Wallpapers; making it about 100 absolutely beautiful Christmas wallpapers all together. Full list after jump.
Merry Christmas
by vikas1307
Vector Art XMAS
by widescreenwallpapers
Unazukin - X’mas wallpaper
by p!ng
Sheeps Xmas
by widescreenwallpapers
December 2008 Christmas Wallpaper
by persona
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Following up next is a giveaway of an application, a security tool called Lockngo Pro by Keynesis.
What’s Lockngo Pro
Lockngo Pro is an application that allows you to lock (or even encrypt) your external drives; let it be flash drives, usb pen drives or portable hard disks. If you have an external storage that you carry around with you all the time and the content confidentiality is a great concern, then this software utmost suitable to help you protect them. See a demo.
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Sound effects are used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media. These trick of sound are mostly achieved by combining technology, ingenuity and creativity. Sound effects are important for digital media because an appropriate sound effect can easily resemble a real occurrence for a situation.
We understand it’s kind of fussy to record and process sound effects on one’s own. Thus, we’ve crawled into Internet and search for free sound effects which are available for download. Here’s 55 websites for free sound effects download. Full list after jump!
Note: Some of these sound effects have limited rights. That means they are not allowed for commercial usage. We urge that you check the rights before using them for business purposes.
More: You might also be interested in 25 Free Digital Audio Editors You Should Know
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Our Christmas giveaway kicks off with Jumpeye Component’s TxEff2. Sounds familiar? That’s right. We previously hosted a contest to win Jumpeye’s FlashEff Premium. This time it’s going to be TxEff2, not 1 but 5 premium copies to giveaway to Hongkiat readers.
What’s TxEff2?
TxEff is a great Flash CS3/CS4 AS3 component created for easing the text animation process. It contains a great collection of patterns that allows you to create cool text animation in flash on the fly. And these cool animation patterns are growing because they are user contributed.
You’ve got to check out the sample on TxEff2 website to get an idea. In short, this is a great tool for any designer, doesn’t really matter if you are a beginner or advance Flash user. Learn more.
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Having a good Error 404 page is perhaps as important as having great contents. Sometimes it may not be your fault visitors landed on error pages, but being able to communicate and direct them back to the home page is as good as a second chance to re-engage a visitor. Error 404 page helps you does that.
If you don’t have a Error 404 page on your website or blog, you should probably start thinking of creating one. We’ve previously showcased you 50 Nice And Creative Error 404 Pages, but the Internet is full of creative webmasters. Here’s another 60 Really Cool and Creative Error 404 Pages you should check out. 3 for the start, full list after jump.
Propeller
B3ta
Cuoma
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Every now and then, we strive to bring free gifts aka giveaways to our readers as a token of appreciation for the support. We’ve done couple of giveaways over the pass few months, and you can see most of them at the Freebies Category. See, the problem with most of these giveaways we noticed is, there’s too little for too many readers. So this December, before we call it a year, we decided to do again what we’ve done in May - another giveaway month. And this time, we promise there will be much more and chances of winning will be greater.
How things work?
Every week, we’ll create an entry letting you know what we are giving away for free. If you react fast, you might win yourself something.
Tip: To get alerts fast, we urge that you subscribe the RSS feed (if you have not), or follow hongkiat on twitter.
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Once in a while, you may want to try a different approach in design. If the concept/idea is green or nature related, wood elements can fit in pretty nice and they are fundamentally suitable. In this article, we attempt to showcase you 28 High Resolution Wood Textures designers can take full advantage of. Unable to create realistic wood texture from scratch in Photoshop is no longer an obstacle.
Note: Some of these textures have limited rights. That means they are not allowed for commercial usage. We urge that you check the rights before using them for business purposes.
Full list after jump.
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The intention and initiative for this blog post was pretty simple. We are about a month away (as this article was posted) from Christmas. As the holiday is getting nearer, we thought it’s about time to decorate the desktop while counting down.
Let’s leave the recession drama aside, and celebrate this holiday season with true Christmas spirit. But first, you might want to dress up the desktop a little bit. Here are some really Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers for your desktop. Full list after jump.
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iPhone is an internet-connected multimedia smartphone which combines the main functions of several popular electronic gadgets in a single device. With its 9 cm (3.5 in) liquid crystal display (320×480 px at 6.3 px/mm, 160 ppi) HVGA touchscreen and a minimal hardware interface, it allows us to interact better regardless in watching video, accessing Internet, listening to music, communicating with friends and even playing games.
iPhone games designed for iPhone are nothing short of amazing. That’s because iPhone has variety of features available like the Multi-Touch interface, the accelerometer, GPS, real-time 3D graphics, and 3D positional audio.
At the time we’re writing this entry, App Store contains more than 100 free games for download but not all were everyone’s cup of tea. Here’s 25 Most Addictive Free iPhone Games , you might already have know some of them, but probably not all. Full list after jump!
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