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Amler: Free Magazine-Style Automotive Wordpress Theme

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:54:23 +0000

After a several requests to release another automotive wordpress theme I decided to finally do it and hope those who ask for it are going to love it as well. After the release of “Orly“, “Porsche Light” and “Cars Power” — Amler is here, a much more advanced variation of previous themes, this design will automatically pull images from your post and turn them into thumbnails, you will also be able to add 468*60 standard banner to the header, Adsense skyscraper and 125*125 banners to the sidebar as this theme already was designed to enable advertising features. Widgets ready, 3 columns, easy to edit and modify if needed, ready for Feedburner. Enjoy the theme and please remember that this layout was released under the Creative Commons 3.0 license, you are free to use it as long as you don’t remove the credits.

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Download Twelve 125*125 Web 2.0 Banner Templates

admin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:27:49 +0000

12 Fully layered 125*125 banner templates in PSD format, suitable for any kind of advertisement. All the 12 banners for the price of $2 altogether, ideal for people who want to have 125*125 high quality banners but don’t wish to pay much or have little knowledge with Photoshop. Sold exclusively on Evato’s marketplace.
Feel free to use them for both personal and commercial projects as long as you don’t directly resell them. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of work, I cannot provide support with editing these files. The PSD file is detailed and layered so you won’t have a problem tweaking it. Enjoy!

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Flow – Super Neat, Original and Premium Quality Magazine Theme

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:15:17 +0000

Although this theme is primarily beautiful thanks to the Function icons, this theme has a lot of unique qualities. You will need the Twitter for Wordpress and Limit posts Automatically plug in to make it work. Thumbnails are working with default Thumbnail custom field. The theme is ready for 200*200 advertisement space which can be used for Adsense banner or your own custom banner. As you can see, this wordpress theme is ready for all the major social bookmarks both from front page and inner pages. Elegant yet very modern design, pleasant olors scheme wit hwood and ornaments will make this layout suitable for practically any niche of magazine style blogs.

I hope you will enjoy this design and even though our free themes are offered without support, please drop a comment if you have any question, I will do my best to reply asap.

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“Loretti” New, Free and most of all – Elegant WP Theme

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:52:13 +0000

I am happy to offer you my new wordpress theme – Loretti. You are going to like this theme because it’s both neutral and yet — very trendy. Allowing you to feature a featured post, offering a stylish top navigation tabbed menu and all this is accompanied by high quality graphics. Theme Key Features of this magazine style theme:

Ready for Widgets
Lightweight, optimized for fast loading.
Ready for thumbnails in posts – no need to create custom fields, images are pulled directly from post (if there are any)
Tested on Wordpress 2.7+
Compatible with IE7, Firefox 3, Opera and Safari
Ready for Gavatars
Custom admin panel for easy maintain your blog’s appearance:

switch between logo image and text
enable featured posts and how many posts should be displayed.
choose where to display the sidebar

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Don’t Repeat My Mistake When Choosing A Hosting Service

admin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:43:31 +0000

As you know, toptut.com has moved from one web hosting service to another — already 3 times. Coming a long way from a small shared account to a powerful dedicated server, I learnt a lot about what one needs to think off, when picking a hosting service and here is what I can share.

As we live in the era of blogs and CMS, bandwidth isn’t really an issue anymore since it’s cheap and mostly left unused in hundreds of GB’s, something we couldn’t even dream about 5-7 years ago. There are much more important things to be taken into account, for example — other user’s satisfaction… Believe it or not, but there is nothing like honest feedback from other people who used a certain host because they also needed their disk space, bandwidth, quick support and after a short or long-term test drive, they are able to recommend or warn you.

So, where can you get honest reviews? Surely you are not going to rely on the “testimonials” posted by a mythological “John D.” on web hosting site’s sidebar! You need something sincere and genuine. For me, webhostinggeeks.com has always been the ultimate source of hosting service reviews. Instead of making a comprehensive research on each and every host (which is what I did back in 2006 when toptut.com was launched), in just a few clicks you can see all the best web hosts sorted from best to moderately-good.

Each and every one of us has different needs, some are interested in cheapest possible shared hosting, others want to go with green hosting and support the environment, while people like myself need the most powerful dedicated server out there. All you need to do is follow the sidebar navigation on webhostinggeeks.com to choose the top rated service.

You will also find plenty of useful articles dedicated to web hosting, which will tell you why having a reliable host is so important and how can you make money with web hosting. If I knew all these things a few years ago, it would have saved me a lot of time and trial-and-error tactics.

So my point is, if you are a beginner webmaster considering to start your website on a quality (even the cheapest but paid) host, or — if you are unhappy with your current hosting service and thinking of migrating to a better server, I strongly recommend to use webhostinggeeks.com in order to avoid wasting time and money on a low quality service. Do your homework, see what others recommend, learn which host meets your needs and what bonuses or special deals you can get if you chose them. Good luck!

Get (Fantastic) Matt Brett’s New WP Theme for Only $25!

admin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:56:04 +0000

We all know Matt Brett for his works on Daren Rowse’s Digital-photography-school.com as well as many others. We often wished we could get a wordpress theme made by a guru like Matt, but hey — not everyone can afford it, right? Thanks to Theme forest, now many people can finally afford a premium design. For symbolical sums like $25 or $30, you can purchase professionally laid out, high quality, original and truly amazing Wordpress themes by the leading authors. This gives amazing opportunity to run a premium-quality CMS blog theme without having to pay thousands for custom design or hundreds for premium wordpress theme at other places.

Matt Brett currently has 2 themes up on themeforest.net, first is called Spectre and costs only $30.

Main Features:

3 beautiful color schemes to choose from (all for the price of 1).
Gorgeous featured posts showcase requires minimal effort to take advantage of. Can be used for portfolio items and/or blog posts.
Dynamic image resizing for various thumbnails used through-out the theme. Upload once, and see the image used all over in different sizes and aspect ratios. Ability to disable image resizing by merely selecting a checkbox included in the admin.
Custom built theme settings panel within WP-Admin that allows you to customize the theme without editing any templates. Choose one of the 3 colour schemes, add your own logo, manage ads, and plenty more.
Flexible logo space allows images up to 650px wide and any height. Image path and dimensions are entered in WP-Admin.
Created for individuals and businesses. A checkbox in the admin changes self references from “me” to “us”.
Widgetized sidebar.
Custom widgets for ad spots, along with a recent blog posts list.
Super lean markup and CSS , makes advanced customization a pleasure.
Tested on Windows and Mac – IE6 -8, Firefox 2 & 3, and Safari 3 & 4. Some details are toned down for older versions of IE, but nothing is broken.
Support for Subscribe to Comments and Twitter Tools plugins out of the box.
PSDs for each of the 3 colour schemes, custom logo, and image templates included.

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And, the second theme is called Black Aperture and it’s slightly cheaper, only $25.

Main Features:

Unique featured posts showcase requires minimal effort to take advantage of.
Dynamic image resizing for various thumbnails used through-out the theme. Upload once, and see the image used all over in different sizes and aspect ratios.
Custom built theme settings panel within WP-Admin that allows you to customize the theme without editing any templates. Change the accent colour used in the nav and headings using a colour picker, switch from 3 columns to 2 by selecting a checkbox, construct the main navigation bar, and even manage ads.
Default 3 column layout can be changed to 2 (removes left sidebar) from WP-Admin.
Both sidebars are widgetized.
Custom widgets for the 3 main ad spots, along with a recent posts list.
Change the logo to plain text (which makes use of the Blog Title and Tagline settings) or replace it with your own image without touching any code.
Super lean markup and CSS , makes advanced customization a pleasure.
Tested on Windows and Mac – IE6 -8, Firefox 2 & 3, and Safari 3 & 4. Some details are toned down for older versions of IE, but nothing is broken.
Support for WP-PageNavi and Subscribe to Comments plugins out of the box!

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Freeware: GFI LANguard, vulnerability management solution

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:30:59 +0000

Nowadays it’s not very common to see a useful tool offered for free, especially if we are talking about security software. GFI LANguard is breaking the competition with others and going freeware. This free vulnerability management tool allows you to scan, detect, assess and rectify security vulnerabilities on your network. With over 15,000 vulnerability assessments in their database, and you can rest assured — nothing will happen to your network.

Where is the catch? There is no catch, really, however there is a limitation, the free version is version is available for up to 5 IPs (which is, if you ask me, also quite enough for most networks). If you need more than 5 IPs, there is an additional charge of$32 per IP address. Among the key features, is the ability to analyze scan resutls easily, Scan and retrieve OS data from Linux, allows remote desktop connection and scans for unnecessary open ports. These are just a few from the list of features GFI LANguard includes. GFI LANguard has also already won a several awards, including PC magazine award earlier this year, thanks to the low treshhold required to get started, and easy installation.

Bottom line is, this free software allows you to easily handle vulnerabilities, patches, and have a complete overview of your network without any in-dept knowledge of the subject. After all, it’s free so you lose nothing by trying it out.

Zen Gins – New Free Magazine Style Theme For Our Readers

admin — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:02:42 +0000

Yesterday i went over all the trends on web design and came to the conclusion that most sought-after design contain either vector-based graphics, or wood, or / and — nature elements. If you want to have a stylish website, this is what your design should contain I guess, but of course we exclude the ever-popular grunge style. So, I thought I’d make another theme with wood element and neat web 2.0 icons, to make sure that anyone who runs a wordpress powered site and want to have a stylish design without having to pay for it — will be able to do so.

This theme has all the standard for magazine style theme elements, including automatic thumbnails, nested comments and valid code throughout the theme. It is also ready for 460*66 banners, 125*125 banners and adsense vertical banner. Moreover, it’s ready for Twitter updates, so you can notify all you readers instantly with what you have just shared on Twitter.

Enjoy, and please remember that removing the footer links is not allowed.

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