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We are looking for enthusastic and dynamic sales people or affiliate websites and companies to promote and sell our services.
We have a team of dedicated designers and developers offering PHP, XHTML, CSS, ASP, MySQl, Flash, Search Engine Optimisation, Hosting, Domain Renewals/Registration and much, much more.
Fantastic rates available!
Contact us now for more information via our website www.coolcreation.co.uk
A remote-access application that lets people see, share and take control of each other’s screen and applications, with live messaging alongside it.
I have used yuuguu on a number of occasions and am pleased to say that it never dissapoints. Installation takes litrally 2 minutes and to connect to a colleague simply locate them through the interface and click show or setup a web conference and send your colleague the unique pin to view your screen online!
User friendly application with simple yet more than adequeate functionality makes this a great application for remote desktop support. The best part is its FREE!
Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to.
This month we are glad to present only two freefonts, however these are truly beautiful ones: Fertigo Pro and FF Nuvo Medium. Please read the license agreements carefully — they can change from time to time.
Fertigo Pro
Jos Buivenga has updated the old freefont Fertigo and has now called it Fertigo Pro. Fertigo Pro is still free. Important changes are extended language support (more than 150 glyphs added), improved glyph shapes, 10 added ornaments/dingbats and improved metrics and kerning. Languages now (fully) supported: Latin, Central European, Croatian, Romanian, Icelandic, Turkish, Esperanto.
FF Nuvo OT MEdium
Designed by Siegfried Rückel, it’s a contemporary type design with vertical contrast, and especially the characters a, g and y show the calligraphic touch. Suitable for magazine design from headlines to longer texts as well as for advertising, packaging and corporate design. A free download for a limited time. OpenType.
If you view our website design company coolcreation.co.uk you see that our pages slide from right to left as you navigate through the website.
Content sliders are are great way to add some interactive elements to your website without losing content in flash based files.
You can create some really great effect and here is a list of some of our favourites;
DHTML Featured Content Slider 2.4
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/featuredcontentslider.htm
Offers a simple slider that fades between each area, this script allows you to also set autoscroll, works well in creating a small gallery too.
Featured Content Slider
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/featuredcontentglider.htm
This is one of our favourites and you could see it working really well as a news slider, the effect is really easy on the eye sliding each panel in above the last. Looks great!
Coda Slider
http://www.ndoherty.com/demos/coda-slider/1.1.1/#1
Originally the basis for our company website, Coda Slide will slide content in to the DIV from right to left with a seamless motion effect. You can also set links from within the page to slide the content across. After trying out this script and alterations we found the only downside was trying to use the script with a width of 100%, this caused a bug for us and simply would not work at 100% so we moved on to the next one…
jFlow 1.0
http://www.gimiti.com/kltan/wordpress/?p=32
So here is the script we used to create the sliding effect of our company website, the slider can be set as a fluid width, perfect to slide the content across a whole page.
jFlow is super lightweight because it is only 1.9kb minified!
jQuery.ScrollTo
http://www.freewebs.com/flesler/jQuery.ScrollTo/
A slightly different type of scroller that will glide across to different areas of a grid that are all made up with HTML rather than just from left to right.
Also be sure to try out the Table of contents box links at the top for a great way to scroll the page.
jQuery.SerialScroll
http://flesler.webs.com/jQuery.SerialScroll/
3 great examples on how the jquery serial scroll can be used.
MooTools Interval Slider
http://www.stoutlabs.com/site/post/mootools_content_slider_with_intervals/
Great for auto scrolling content with an excellent fade in effect.
Accessible News Slider
http://www.reindel.com/accessible_news_slider/
Javascript news slider using the Jquery plugin.
Vixy.net offers a fast and simple way to rip video files from any website, but wait it does not stop there, not only will it rip the FLV file it will convert it to AVI, MP4 or just audio MP3. You can do all this through the free online interface or download their freeware programme.
Great tool for ripping videos from YouTube and other video sharing websites.
Part of CoolCreation.co.uk our online directory offers free listings to anyone, there are also a number of other options that you can pay for to increase ranking further but the basic listing is free.
Visit Ayoo.co.uk and submit your link now.
A great simple online generator to create php contact forms, choose the fields you want from Name Address City state Zip Country Phone E-mail Fax Number Comments, click wether or not you need it to validate the field, enter a few details like email address etc and click generate. Job done!
Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.
Great tool to see how your site stacks up against competitors.
So I packed everything for holiday and thought, nah I wont bother with the laptop, I just want to enjoy myself and off we went.
A week or so past and I would login to my webmail to check how things were at home and emails were coming through regarding design issues, unfortunately for me the PC I had access to had no design software, let alone photoshop.
Long story short and after much frustration I found a fantastic online programme named SplashUP although not perfect, I was and still am amazed at the online functionality this programme offers such as; Layers, multiple image editing and pixel level control. The interface will be familier to anyone that uses Photoshop and pretty straight forward to pickup.
I needed this as an online alternative to Photoshop for image creation and editing, but you can also use it to touch up photos and share dirctly with the likes of Flickr, Picasa and Facebook.
The only downside is that you can not save the files as PSD, only jpg or FXO which is specific to this programme.