1 Digg : The social news site that changed the Internet, Digg is a high power authority and a listing in Digg for a site, even if it only has a couple of votes, will rank highly on Google and other search engines for certain terms. If your site is shared and voted upon on Digg, and makes the Digg homepage, you’ll get a lot of traffic and attention from other bloggers who read Digg. 2 Yahoo! Bookmarks: The MOST POPULAR social search and bookmarking service on the web. It’s similar to Delicious and something they launched before acquiring Delicious. Yahoo Bookmarks lets users store bookmarks using their Yahoo Toolbar and access them from any computer. 3 Technorati : Always changing and reinventing themselves, this recognized authority offers links to blogposts, tagging and a social bookmarking WTF section. 4 StumbleUpon : Owned by eBay, StumbleUpon is an amazing blend of social bookmarking, voting, networking, web surfing, search and blogging. Best of all, StumbleUpon can send major traffic with its userbase of around 3 million users. 5 del.icio.us : THE social bookmarking site : It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links and to categorize those sites with keywords. Not to mention that if enough people save your site in a bookmark, it will make their popular page and send a lot of traffic. Delicious is owned by Yahoo and is a MUST for your social media and bookmarking strategy. 6 Reddit : Timely and shocking news oriented, Reddit stories are instantly voted upon and if liked by the community as a whole, can drive incredible traffic and users. 7 Restnews: SEO Social Bookmarking, your scoop can be published in realtime and get free backlink easily. 8 Mixx : An up and coming bookmarking and social news sharing network which should rival Digg, Reddit and others, Mixx blends popular photos, videos and stories. 9 Propeller : Formaly known as Netscape, AOL’s Propeller has become a great social bookmarking news community tool which is considered an ultimate authority by Yahoo Search and passes link juice in its news story profiles. Propeller is also going to redesign very soon, which should be quite exciting. 10 Fark.com 11. Backflip : Backflip is a free service currently being run by volunteers. Backflip was started in 1999 by Netscape veterans Tim Hickman and Chris Misner. As a research tool, Backflip is clearly of value to the education community, and that community (or at least certain segments) has certainly embraced Backflip. A Google search of sites that contain the term “Backflip.com” results in numerous education-related links, including Teacher Tools. 49. Furl : Like Delicious, LookSmart’s Furl.net is one of the first social bookmarking sites and considered an authority by the major search engines. Listing your sites in Furl will lead to traffic from organic rankings and its popular page drives traffic. 63. Lilsto : Lilisto lets you store, manage and find your favorite links (or bookmarks) and removes the need to maintain them through your browser. 74. Mobleo : Allows you to easily add, organize, and share your mobile phone bookmarks with your friends using your desktop computer. 75. Multiply :Florida-based social network Multiply, which reports nearly 3 million users and $6 million in funding,opened its social bookmarking site recently and has done well. Definite authority 87. QuickieClick : QuickieClick is a second generation social bookmarking website with a visual twist. 90. Searchles : Owned by the DumbFind search engine, in my opinion Searchles is a much overlooked bookmarking tool and loved by Google, Yahoo and the other major search engines with its passing of link juice and high rankings for terms within search results themselves. Do not overlook Searchles. 95. Sk*rt : sk*rt is a social media ranking platform of “pure goodness”, targeted towards women. Given the right story, Sk*rt can send A LOT of targeted traffic. 104. Stylehive : The Stylehive is a collection of all the best products, brands, designers and stores discovered and tagged by the Hive community 111. Tedigo : Personal and social bookmarking in Spanish and English made simple. 128. Yattle: Bookmark Management and Mini-Blogging Service. |
Easy-to-use RSS to HTML toolsThe services listed below make it easy for anyone to convert their RSS feed - or someone else's - into a few lines of embeddable code. This makes it very simple for anyone with no experience of complicated programming languages and coding to publish their feeds effectively. It really is as simple as making use of the service of your choice, entering the URL of your RSS feed, customizing how it will look on your website, and then grabbing the few lines of code given to you at the end. All you have to do then is embed the code into your web page, blog template or blog post - much as you would a YouTube video. As if by magic, you have a constant stream of fresh news. The most common way that the creators of these services get RSS feeds onto your site is through Javascript. While this makes it easy for the non-technical among us to get up and running, the downside is that the news content you bring in via the RSS feed cannot be read by the search engine bots that scan your website content. This is because JavaScript, when placed in the HTML code of your website, does not actually contain any news content, but rather a few lines of code that call that information from the original news source. As such, when the search engine looks for content in your JavaScript-published RSS news feed, it doesn't find anything to report. Consequently, those keenly interested in search engine optimization might want to consider alternatives to JavaScript-based RSS to HTML solutions, such as services that make use of PHP.
Web widget solutionsWeb Widgets often make use of Javascript in addition to other programming languages, and offer another very easy way to incorporate RSS feeds directly into your website. Rather than embedding the news stream itself into your web page, you embed a customized RSS aggregator, which you can then make changes to without having to republish it. As is the case with other JavaScript-based solutions, the news content contained within your widgets cannot be read by search engines.
RSS to HTML with feed splicing, editing and publishingIt is one thing to have a rolling RSS feed that includes everything published, and quite another to be able to combine feeds, and either automatically filter or hand-select the most relevant news items published. The following services give you the ability to not only convert your RSS feeds into HTML, but also to combine, filter and personally edit your news content before you publish it to the web.
Advanced feed conversionIf you insist on having greater control over your feed conversion than the easy-to-use solutions covered so far, or want to make sure that your feeds are visible to the search engines, you may want to consider the following more advanced options. Without some basic knowledge of coding, you may find these alternatives a little complex and decide to enlist a webmaster to help you out.
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vidoes: The Lomo Effect + Creating a One-Click Action! Here again we have a video of one of the tutorials in the June-July 09 newsletter! Using Photoshop we will create a very editable Lomography effect also known as the “Lomo Effect”. Using Blend Modes and Adjustments Layers we achieve a pretty cool effect that can be used on all kinds of Photography! After creating the effect we will take a quick minute and create a simple action so we can test this effect out on a photo by simply clicking a button! |
| Videos: Basic iTunes Style Illustration! Welcome to this tutorial! We are going to take a look at how to create this cool, fully customizable and editable grungy, dirty, distressed background. We will use a combo of texture, brushing, and blend modes to create a very cool background inspired by a modest iTunes Gift Card! |
| Videos: Create a Simple Poster in Photoshop! This is one of the tutorials found in the May-June 2009 Tutvid.com newsletter. We create a very simple movie post similar to the "The Boat That Rocked" movie poster. Enjoy! |
| Videos: Removing Glasses with Photoshop! In this video we will take a look at a very special way to remove an element from an image. In case we will be removing a pair of glasses from this young woman's face and it the process rebuilding parts of her eyes as well as doing some heavy retouch work to the face in general. |
| videos: Add or Remove Tattoos with Photoshop! For many photography projects removing tattoos is a must have skin, and for some fun projects knowing how to add a tattoo and knowing how to make it follow the flow of the persons skill is pretty cool. We will talk about using the healing brush in tough spots, how displacement maps allow us to make realistic changes to photographs, as well as using multiple blend modes to make a realistic tattoo on this brides back. Enjoy! |
| videos:Changing Eye Color in Photoshop! In this one we cut straight to the chase. Changing eye color is really easy to do and in this video I demonstrate my preferred method. We will talk about blend modes, hue and saturation and keeping this eye edit easy to come back to later and edit as we wish. This method is quick, easy, editable down the road, and yields great results! |
| videos: Streaking Athlete Effect!! Starting with a simple stock photograph we will transform this image into a very cool composition combining 3D motion type streaking colors to imply motion and some cool brushing here in Photoshop to create this very cool image effect. Learn about lots of cool features in Photoshop CS4 in this tutorial! |
| Videos: Composite/Combine Multiple Images! In this video we will use simple techniques to combine a couple images. We are actually using a couple image which are pretty difficult to combine and my hope is that you will take a few tricks from this video that will help you with combining images of all types-including those that have transparency in them-form this video. We cover selecting with channels, copying and pasting, masking, burning, and a few other cool little things. Check it out and get started building your own "composite images"! |
| Videos: Basics of Creating 3D Objects! 3D is very new to Photoshop only really coming into existence when CS3 was released. In CS3 however the 3D capabilities were pretty limited, but with the release of CS4 3D exploded into Photoshop and now has it's own set of tools and even it's own panel. You are now able to even create true 3D objects right from within Photoshop and texture them. In the following tutorial we will learn about creating a base 3D object and creating a few basic textures for that object. We will also take a moment to explore the 3D tools. |
| videos:Creating 3D Spiraling Light Streaks or Zips! In this tutorial I start with a simple 3D object created in Photoshop and to really show off the 3D nature of this object we will "wrap" it with light, specifically these light zips, or bands. A pretty cool effect and really as soon as you create the path(s) you can tweak and create whatever kind of effect you want. |
| Videos: Super Quick Black and White Images! When working with large numbers of photos occasionally I will try batch processing a black and white conversion over a folder of images, but my problem always was the simple desaturate command in Photoshop never really did the trick, the photo(s) always looked way to flat. Using this technique we will boost contrast using blend modes prior to our final black and white conversion and the beauty of this method is it is the same for every photo so making an action takes seconds. |
| Videos: Smoothing and Softening Skin for Portrait Retouching! Soften and Smooth Skin! This is a huge thing when working with studio photography, models, or anyone really. Smoothing skin can really add a lot to an image, but if you do it the wrong way it really can look terrible. We will also look at selective sharpening by using a mask to limit the sharpened region. We will cover: Masking, Blending, Sharpening, and Cleaning up Skin Blemishes in this video! |
 Hungry for the new design elements for your website? I have a new one for you. Hope it will be useful in your new design. Let’s begin! Make a new document with the resolution 500×300 for this tutorial and fill this canvas with white color. Then select the Rounded Rectangle Tool (Radius: 30 px) and draw the next shape using the color of #d61d23. After that apply following layer styles to this layer : Your button should look as mine: Now, time to bring reflection to the button. Duplicate current layer using Ctrl+J, then create a new one and flip it with copied layer to get all layer styles in one layer. After that flip it vertical with Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical as on my picture below: To make reflection more transparent at the bottom of the picture apply Quick Mask Mode with gradient as below: Then go back to Standard Mode. Now we have some selected area. Press Delete to clear image into the selected area. Remove selection with Ctrl+D. Go to the next step. I would like to add some glare to the button. To do this select the Rounded Rectangle Tool (Radius: 80 px) and create a new one form using white color. Rasterize this layer with Layer > Rasterize > Shape. After that apply Quick Mask Mode one more time and fill the next gradient: Go back to Standard Mode and we received selected area again. Press Delete to clear selected part of image. Deselect chosen area with Ctrl+D and change layer mode to Overlay for current layer. We are done with the button. Now, move to the next step. I think it will looks better when we will put some design elements on it. To do this get out the Ellipse Tool and create rounded shape as on my picture below using white color: After that apply such Blending Options to this layer: • Inner Shadow • Inner Glow • Gradient Overlay • Stroke See the result below: Time to bring some picture to our rounded design element. Find some picture of the Earth on the Google Images or use mine or find it somewhere. Open it and reduce a little bit, then place the picture as shown below. Good, then make it black and white using Image > Adjustments > Desaturate (Ctrl+Shift+U) and change layer mode to Overlay for this layer: Select the Sharpen Tool (Brush: 100 px, Mode: Normal, Strength: 40%) to make this fragment more sharpen. And the last one thing that we need to do. To finish off the tutorial let’s add some text. Get out theHorizontal Type Tool and write out something with white color like on my picture below. In the above image I’ve used Segoe UI as my font of choice, and I’ve used white color. Actually, it is commercial font, but if you don’t have it, you can easily find a good alternative, for example, Arial Black. After that apply the following layer style to this layer: Now, we have something like this. Great! Our work is done! Enjoy your own cool globe button. Also you can change it color. |
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