10 Great Domain Tools To Help You In Domain Search
1. Domains Bot
Domains Bot searches all the big top domains (.com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .us), lists those that are taken (with option to backorder), and gives you various suggestions on your typed in choice. Takes a while to load the page, but is worth it.
2. Squurl
Squurl is a simple domain searcher. It searches .com, .net and .org domain extensions. The fun with it is that you can also create tiny urls (not helpful when finding a domain).
3a. Domain Tools
Domain Tools owns the popular whois database for researching the owner of a domain. It also gives you a list of the taken names using the top extension but the options for various keyword combinations is a bit bizzare. Don’t rely on them to give you great alternatives.
3b. Domain Suggestions at DomainTools
This is a way better search tool from DT. This gives you much better alternatives and keyword combinations for your name. Okay some of the options for “San Francisco” were not so hot; ‘mein francisco, ‘alle francisco’? It did not understand that San Francisco is a city noot random keywords, a flaw in their algorithm. But, otherwise good for standard searches.
4. Domai.nr
Yes, find a happy ending for your domain with Domainr. They do a great job of giving domain hack variations for a given name. I used my name and found not only were .org and .net available but also received various hacks: evavesp.er, eva.ve/sper. I would not choose the latter since it will cause so much trouble managing folders and trying to get people to understand the domain spelling.
5. Namebio
Namebio is a place for domain names that are already on sale. A good place to see if the name you want is affordable
6. Xona
Xona has nothing to with domain names but they did create another domain hack searcher. You can see below some of the choices given when trying webhostingsearch. A good place if you are interested in buying a domain hack but not good if you just want a .com, .net, or popular domain extension
7. Internet Archive
The Way Back Machine is the public internet archive. While they have not captured every site in existence, you can always try finding out what your domain was before you bought it, if it ever existed. It also takes six months to collect and then publish the page in the archives, hence why many pages are left out.
8. Bust a Name
Bustaname is one of the best tools for searching by keywords. I keep adding keywords into the list until domain variations popped up. You can also sorts lists by length, number of syllabes, quality (readability), and alphabetically. And you can save the list too.
9. WHS Domain Search
With domains, most likely a hosting plan is needed. The WHS domain searcher checks the top domain extension and also lists variations (some are great, others just plain weird). It is displayed in a clean and friendly chart though.
10. Domain Search
A super 1999 looking site, Domain Search is an advanced search site as you can search for “popular” or choose your own country extensions. You do not get keyword variations but this is another good starter site that goes through all extensions.
This list should get you on the roll with finding a good domain. There is a lot more than just picking out a name, but here we presume you have already done some research on the name you want. Now you just need to find some pretty combination
15 Useful CSS Grid Layout Generator For Web Designers
There are a lot of online generators which can help designers a lot. Some example of online generators are favicon generators, background generators, button generators, and badge generators. Balkhis had wrote an excellent article about extremely useful online generators for us.
Without these online generators, designers have to waste extra effords to do repeat jobs. Since we had shared about CSS Frameworks last week, i would like to extend the topic by sharing some useful CSS grid layout generator.
Without these online generators, designers have to waste extra effords to do repeat jobs. Since we had shared about CSS Frameworks last week, i would like to extend the topic by sharing some useful CSS grid layout generator.
Grid Layout Generator by Pagecolumn
Grid Generator by DesignByGrid
Blueprint Grid CSS Generator
Grid Generator by netProtozo
Grid Designer (featured in Creative Review magazine)
Grid System Generator
YUI CSS Grid Builder
Variable Grid System
YAML Builder
Layout Generators by Pagecolumn
Fisheye
CSS Layout Generator by CSSCreator
Firdamatic
CSS Source Ordered Variable Border 1-3 Columned Page Maker
CSS Layout Generator by CSSPortal
30 Websites To Download Free Stock Photos
Using stock photos in the design can save us a lot of time. Instead of hiring a photographer, you can instantly access high quality of stock photography by browsing through the stock photo websites.
There are a lot of websites offering stock photos. Some of them are free, while most of them aren’t. So, if you are going to use stock photos in your design, you have to be aware of the license and agreement that may be involved.
Today, we are going to share 30 websites where you can download free stock photos. If you found any free stock photo website that isn’t in the list, feel free to send me or add through comment.
1. stock.xchng
Contains over 350,000 quality stock photos. You can easily get a quality and beautiful wallpaper for your desktop, or simply an illustration for your blog. The advanced search feature lets you easily search through the site for your desired image.
2. Studio7designs
Really nice collection of nature-inspired photography.
3. Woophy
Woophy is a community for travel photographers. The main page cntains a map with a lot of dots. Each dots represent images taken at that place.
4. freerange
This site provides tons of high quality and high resolution free stock photos. However, users are required to register before download. If you are looking for some high resolution textures, you can also visit this site.
5. PhotoEverywhere
Another great free stock photos site that collects and shares tourism images from around the world.
6. Stockvault
7. everystockphoto
Basically, everystockphoto is an image search engine where it collects photos from various sources such as flickr, stock.xchng, Morguefile, Freerange Stock and etc. Make sure you view the license term before download them.
8. morgueFile
The morguefile filter has been designed to help you find images quickly and easily. You can browse these images by category. I like the filter feature as it really help to make search easier and faster.
9. Kave Wall
Images are categorized into 18 different categories for easy browsing.
10. CreatingOnline Stock Photos
The site offers both free and premium stock photos for download. More than 1000 photos are available for free in 400-600 pixels.
11. Dreamstime
Dreamstime lets you search through the gallery for more than 7,000,000 images. There are more than 1000 photos added weekly.
12. FreeDigitalPhotos.net
There are thousands of royalty free photos in this site, which mean you can use these photos for both corporate and personal use. While the photos are free, you are required to pay for the high resolution photos.
13. Turbo Photo
Browse through 2,000 free stock photos from 10 categories.
14. Shutterstock
Largest subscription based stock photos website. They have more than 9,000,00 royalty-free stock photos and around 70,000 new stock photos added each week.
15. 5000 Free Stock Photos
This website provides more than 500 free stock photos from public domain. Users are allowed to use these images fo any purpose, inlcuding commercial.
16. ImageBase
Free stock photos in 6 categories.
17. FreeImages.co.uk
FreeImages contains more than 3000 original stock photos.
18. FreePixels
Around 4k of images categorized in 40 categories.
19. Hoover Stock Photos
Hoover Stock Photos offers royalty free stock photos, backgrounds, illustrations, photo images, and digital art for use in personal and commercial web site design projects.
20. Photo Rack
Photo Rack is a place great place for you to browse and download free stock photos. These photos are cetegorized into 12 categories and different sub categories.
21. DesignPacks
DesignPacks offers high quality image colelctions that can be used in both personal and commercial projects. Each of the collection contains 15 images.
22. Free Historical Stock Photos
Historical Stock Photos offer historical related photos for Emails and Personal Websites. If you need any historical photos, this is a great site for you.
23. openphoto
24. Cepolina Photos
More than 8000 free stock photos are available for download here. Maximum resolution is 1024×768.
25. Abstract Influence
26. Aarin Free Photo
27. PD Photo
28. FreePhotosBank
29. Free Stock Photography
30. Photogen
10 Easy To Implement Flash Based Mp3 Players For Your Website
Flash Mp3 players are cool because they let web developers and bloggers embed music players and build customized JukeBox on the websites.With these online music players, you can add a list of songs easily and embed the given Javascript code to your website. Most of these music players are customizable and you can have your won skin that suit the web design.
Today, we are going to look into 10 flash Mp3 players that you can easily implement to your website.
1. Audio Player
Audio Player is an open source flash mp3 player which is released under the Open Source MIT License. This is originally a plugin for Wordpress but the developer had built a standalone version which can be used by any website as well. Wordpress user will get a lot of customization options.
2. Flabell Flash Mp3 Player
This is a fully customizable music player for your website. The playlists are being loaded externally using XML file and you can add multiple artists and albums to your playlists.
3. Flabell Simple Flash Mp3 Player
This is a minimalistic Mp3 player for your website. Simple Flash Mp3 Player is another free product from Flabell. This simple music player has a play/stop button, draggable volume bar and a sound visualizer.
4. Yahoo! Media Player
Yahoo! Media Player creates an embedded player for each audio link. Simply add the Javascript code given and it will automatically looks for audio files and add a play button beside the link.
5. Mp3 Player
It is an audio player for Mp3 files which is intended for the diffusion on websites. Mp3 Player is open source, free and easily customizable. It comes with 5 different types and allows users to choose the song from a playlist.
6. Free Flash Mp3 Player
Flash MP3 Player is a free application that allows you to play music on your website easy and fast. You won’t need any programming skills to install or use it. Just embed it into your website and player will automatically scan a specified folder and form a playlist.
7. NiftyPlayer
NiftyPlayer is a small and simple Flash Mp3 Player. If the users enable Javascript, they can even control the player without touching the Flash interface!
8. Dewplayer
Dewplayer is very light and easy to use. It downloads and plays the mp3 file when the play button is pressed. It has 3 different modes: Mini, Classic and Multi. The Multi version allows users to play previous and next songs via the buttons.
9. Free MP3 Music Player for Website
This Flash Mp3 Player contains 6 different versions, which includes single track, multiple tracks, with/without menu, mini version and single flash player with loop. Songs are saved into a XML format playlist.
10. AudioPlay
AudioPlay is a one button Freeware MP3 player based on Flash technology. Users can customize play/stop button images, background color, loop settings and autostart options.