News stories claiming that Yahoo is shutting down Delicious, one of the oldest and probably best-known social bookmarking websites, appeared in the past few days. Because of thise we were motivated to compile a list of the top 15 Delicious alternatives. Some of them are quite popular, with decent amount of users and numerous great features, while others are slightly smaller and less known, but have advanced options that you might find useful.
Author: Andy Crofford
Fontularity: Most Popular Fonts by Operating System [Infographic]
Designers love fonts and a good thing for them is there are 1000’s to choose from. But what are the most popular fonts? In today’s Infographic we take a look a the most popular fonts by operating system. This will be a great resource for deciding on fall-back fonts in your CSS. Enjoy.
Must Read Tips to Keep Your Laptop Safe While Travelling this Holiday Season
Most people who have laptops will most likely be travelling with them this holiday season as they go to and from various family gatherings. Unless you are me, and I don’t take my laptop to any family functions because my crazy uncle Phil feels the need to go through his LOLCats website in its entirety. Any way, back on topic.
Top Photoshop Tutorials on YouTube You Need to Watch
We know how much are readers love great Photoshop tutorials. In this list we thought we would switch it up a bit and list some awesome Photoshop tutorials on video. While I prefer text and images when doing tutorials I know there are many people out there that would rather watch a video tutorial. Ladies and gentleman, without further delay I present to you the best Photoshop tutorials on YouTube.
Awesome Photoshop Resources to Add to Your Favorites
If you are anything like me you are never bored. Why? Because I alway have Photoshop to play around with as well as a seemingly endless supply of Photoshop tools and resources. While Photoshopping my ex-wife’s head on a dog’s butt isn’t the greatest use of my time it is fun and oddly therapeutic. Any way, lets get on to the awesome resources I highly recommend you bookmark.
The Power of WordPress [Infographic]
There is no doubt that we love WordPress on this site, and it is obvious a lot of you do too based on the popularity of last week’s posts and contests. We were curious just how popular WordPress was so we put together gathered the information and put together this infographic to show it. Please enjoy it and feel free to share with others.
Win a WordPress Package Worth Over $300 from TechKing!
Here is the final contest of the week and I am sure you will not be disappointed. It is Thanksgiving in the US but we wanted to show thanks to all of our readers with this great prize.
WordPress Security: How to Protect Your Site
To finish up WordPress week I thought I would go over how to secure your WordPress site to prevent those with malicious intent from hacking you. People put a lot of time building their site and don’t bother with any type of security. This is the equivalent of building a house and not putting doors on it. While some of you may enjoy this lifestyle those of you who don’t will definitely benefit from this guide.
Win a Viva Theme and Six Months Hosting from Site5!
We are very pleased to bring you our third giveaway of the week. Today’s contest is going to be a bit different since we are not going to have one winner but three!
Top 10 Must Read WordPress Sites
Today I am going to list my Top 10 favorite WordPress sites. These sites are great for WordPress tutorials, tips, tricks, news and anything else to do with everyones favorite CMS/blogging software. It is safe to say that if you need to know something about WordPress one of these sites is going to have the info you are looking for.
Win a Premium WordPress Theme from Press75
We are continuing our giveaways for WordPress week, today we have a premium WordPress themes from Press75. Press75 has been making great looking WordPress themes since 2008. If you are in the market for a new theme you should check them out.
Beginners Guide to Extending WordPress with Plugins
The plugin system WordPress uses is one of the things that makes it such a great platform. You can use plugins to customize functionality of your WordPress site to do practically anything you want. There are well over 12,000 plugins that can be found in the WordPress plugins directory. You can find plugins for everything from managing SEO to adding a contact form to your site to selling mail order brides (check local laws before doing this). There are two ways to install plugins. I will go over both methods.
Win an unlimited access pass to Elegant Themes for one year!
We are very excited to announce that our first giveaway for WordPress week is a one year unlimited access pass to Elegant Themes. If you are not familiar with the work of Elegant Themes then please go check them out now. If you are familiar then you know how awesome the WordPress themes they offer are.
The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Installing WordPress
It goes without saying WordPress is extremely popular and thanks to applications like Fantastico the installation is practically effortless. Back in my day when we weren’t walking to school up hill both ways in a snow storm without shoes we were manually installing WordPress. While these one-click apps you find in your hosing control panels are nice I think it is a good idea to learn how to install it manually first. Once you are comfortable with the manual installation you can choose to use one of these auto install programs if you wish. So lets get to it!
A Geek’s Guide to Black Friday Deals *UPDATED*
It is hard to believe Black Friday is only a week away and because of this it is time to start asking the tough questions. Questions like: What are the best deals? Where are the best deals? and Why don’t they call it Black and Blue Friday? Seriously though, why don’t they? I mean, people are out there beating the crap out of each other to save a few bucks on a DVD player. That little old lady who plays bingo with your grandma and sings in the church choir will brain you with her shoe if you stand between her and the last $200 laptop. I guess what I am trying to say is, Black Friday brings out the best in people. It also brings out some awesome deals on computer gadgets and electronics.