Left of the week – blog map, 15 Web design tools, competition and more
That was indeed a geiles game last night. We have held our own public viewing with Beamer again and could not believe our eyes. Very nice game if it was exciting to the end than it should have been.
We now have the opportunity to avenge us Croatia or to ensure we have against Turkey ran for burgerkriegsahnliche States in Germany. :-)
As well as, in the meantime, it is a little time and therefore the links of the week today first come.
Bloggeramt contest
DOMAIN.COM is one of the larger blog directories in Germany. To make even more popular the own forum DOMAIN.COM, we held a contest now. The prices are not exactly ausufernd, but at least free advertising on DOMAIN.COM (including professional ban design) is to win.
All you must do what is publish a contribution to this game to your own blog and put a link. This can be also a “nofollow” link. :-)
You must then set log here or a trackback the contribution to the blog entry.
Blindtext generator
Who designs new pages as a Web Designer, has often yet the final text. Therefore, typically Blindtext is used.
This is sometimes critical. From my own time as a clerk, I can remind me of an incident when a programmer of our Web service provider used a not schmeichelhaften text as Blindtext. So on the basis that our products deliver hair loss.
Unfortunately he vergas this text to remove then before the activation of new pages and that was then but some trouble.
Therefore you should use equal this nice Blindtext Generator. Besides the typical Latin texts, there are a few other texts (e.g., Kafka and Werther). You can set the number of words and paragraphs. Useful.
Website design inspiration
If you develop new WordPress layout or website design, it is often not easy to fill an empty white sheet of paper (or alternatively a blank Photoshop template).
But fortunately there are a number of websites that specialize in capturing website layouts on the Internet. Two fairly new representatives of this species are DOMAIN.COM and DOMAIN.COM.
Here you can find new designs that are very inspiring.
You can find a list of 30 very nice WordPress layout on candy DOMAIN.COM.
Also very well be regarded as just a few new ideas come me.
Search and donate
Once again, there are a few good social ideas on the Web. One of them is “one cent per search”, a search engine. These used the Google search, but Donates 1 cent to aid organisations such as UNICEF per search according to own.
Not bad idea although I still am sure such listings are very serious. If you find that it is not, then I need to go only around 20 km time ill go with the organizers of the search engine. :-)
But not a bad idea.
New SEO BarCamp
In Berlin, there should be a kind of BarCamp for SEOs, “SEOCampixxBerlin” soon. The event is currently still in the planning, but you can watch a provisional agenda to be already.
The event occurs quite well-known faces the SEO scene. Among the SEOnaut and Baynado.
This sounds interesting to next to the papers above the networking should be very interesting.
Technorati as Werbevermarkter
It took so long until the Technorati makers on this idea came. Probably, you had to go until almost bankrupt before realizing that it earn no money but is not.
Technorati wants to occur now themselves as Werbevermarkter and of course can benefit from the high utilization rate and popularity.
I think that geniest the chances of success just already much confidence for very good because Technorati and one has a very large range. I have registered my times. Times look, whether because what is to come.
15 Tools for faster Web design
Or a news regarding Web design. Very interesting blog “Six Revisions” has to seed uploaded carrying 15 tools, which are intended to help the faster development of Web sites.
I had already presented some of the tools, but also a few new tools including are.
A or I will use others in future.
Blog map
DOMAIN.COM has published a very interesting blog map of Germany. It is a visualized variant of the German Blogcharts as far as I can see.
My blog dominated the otherwise quite quiet Saxony-Anhalt. There are only 6 blogs in the new Federal Länder in the top 100 Berlin times except. Here, there seems to be still need to catch up.
Berlin is the blog capital of the Republic, whereas nationwide rather dominated the South. Most top blogs seem to be in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia.
WordPress 2.6 feature update
Again, there is news about WordPress 2.6. Extend the Feature list a few days ago.
Especially auto install plugin and WordPress auto upgrade stand out. The automatic plugin story, I have a little belly ache. There are some plugins where I again have hand directly in your code, to adapt it to my wishes. An automatic update would of course deadly.
A simpler first installation is, however, certainly desirable for many bloggers.
There a few Usability-and security improvements in the admin and also to improve the theme preview.
Unfortunately there is still no statements to improve performance. There are a few screenshots on DOMAIN.COM.
Get admissions blog
DOMAIN.COM offers an interesting if also abundant inaccurate statistics service. There you can enter a blog URL and get an estimate of admissions
In itself this is very interesting but when my blog, the numbers different from reality but.
The tool estimates my visits 5.792 per day. Currently the real admissions are but “only” approximately 900 per day.
It remains unclear how the tool calculates the number. A nice stuff is but definitively as can be seen at least trends well.
Tips for self-employed persons
Perun has published an interesting article for self-employed persons on his blog.
It concerns the question “A tax is necessary” and “Save” and “Disposition” topics.
Definitely an interesting read for everyone who permanently lives in the red. :-)