Mod_html for Joomla

My favourite Joomla module which I use on every project based on Joomla is definately module-html.

It's a module which is made as a regular notepad so you can put every single piece of code which you desire in this module (including javascript).

It's the best thing for google adsense, stat counters and other widgets or similar stuff. And yes, you can multiply it as much as you want to.

It works perfectly and you can install it thru regular Joomla module installation proces. Download mod_html here or find out more about it.

The only problem that you might have with this module is to come to the point when you want to use it for everything. Fight that temptation and use this module only when there is no other great module for such thing.

I will be reviewing some other modules and components too so stop by again...

Loader Generator

Crazy about Ajax and those load buttons?

Here are some cute loaders which you can customize and download for your fancy web pages...

LoadInfo.net

DesignFloat.com

Here is another digg-a-like in its unique version. This one is targeting designers and since I'm a "web designer wannabe" I think of this place as my new place to surf every day...



DesignFloat.com

You can find here all the latest news about fonts and desings to whole bunch of usefull tips and tricks... Well, see you there...

Google Invasion

First, lets get something straight - I love Google. "Google is my friend."

I use Google every day in every way...

And all of my friends use google...

If someone is not using it and ask me a stuid question, I send him a link to google or justfuckinggoogleit.com ...

But, I started to think about it... Shouldn't we be concerned about the way Google is crawling into our lives?

Something that started as nothing but a search box, suddenly is browsing not only web, but 90% of our lives.

You don't believe it? Lets take a look...

1. We have a google search. Most of people that I know of don't use any other search. And not only that, but the word google is a synonym for search... We don't say "go and search for that", we say - "go and google it", even on my native language - croatian, we say - "proguglaj" referring to the google search.

2. Do you use gmail? I do, my friends do, everyone I know - do... Even if they mostly use some old e-mail address from yahoo etc., they have gmail also... You can be sure of that... I have more than one official e-mail address, but I handle them through gmail.

3. Do you have a blog or web-page? You are using google adsense, aren't you?

4. Now, there is still a lot of google applications for which you maybe haven't heard... YET... But they are still here... Just waiting to become a part of our lives...

Lets see some of them:
Google Desktop - google brings news to your desktop, google brings weather and all those small gadgets which we love... You can even have your own virtual plant on google desktop...

Google Earth - why going out? You can see far away countries right here on your screen... In your comfortable chair without worryng what visa do you need for that country, do you need vaccine, how to get there etc. etc. etc.

Google Finance - business info, news, interactive charts

iGoogle, Maps, News, Notebook, Google Video, Code, Labs, Blogger, Calendar,
Docs&Spreadsheets, Picasa, Talk, Translate, Mobile, SMS, free software, web
accelerator...

Whatever you want, whatever you need - they have it... GOOGLE HAS IT ALL...

They even have a worldwide store... I can already imagine shopping everyday groceries in Google store and having them delivered in my home... And all of them with google logo... :D

Doesn't that seem scary to you?

Where are those paranoids with conspiracy theories now?

Doesn't it seems like Google is taking over the world?

Bit by bit he is crawling inside of our homes... Bit by bit with their spiders...

On the other hand, lets try to imagine the world with Google taking it over
(according to how they treat their employees - at least as much as I heard):

Everyone woulf work when they like and in the field that they work the best... We would all have pools... :D

Food would be delivered right to our homes so that we dont waste our time on buying grocieries in the shop. We could go out in restaurants only if we want to mingle and socialize face to face. Everything that we would need would be "free" because there would be no money any more. Our money would only be a figure on our Google account. When we work, the figure would grow, when we spend, the figure would go down. Cause, google would own everything... No need to pay with cash...

We would have more time to spend with our children because we could all be online together. They could even attend schools over the virutal classrooms... Hell, we would even socialize online and go to virtual restaurants...

No thieves, no crime, because google would make a better place for everyone and
we would all work our best to stay that way...

Hm, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing, wouldn't it? :D

Ok, ok, I know, I'm exaggerating, but I think you got the point...

Now, what do you think about all this?

Create web2.0 badge online

I found another usefull and easy-to-use online generator. This one helps you make your own web 2.0 badge. You can choose shape, dimensions, colors and text caracheristics.

It's fun, It's easy, It's usefull...

Don't you just love online generators?

I know I do... ;-))

FreshBadge.com

StripeGenerator.com

You want your site to look more web 2.0? Why not try adding some stripes... They are new must-have for web 2.0 sites.

And you can make them very easily with this StripeGenerator :-)

Sk-rt.com

My boyfriend reads Digg.com all the time. Every day he has to see whats new. He's my typical geek. The geek that I love.

I also like Digg and I read it from time to time, but although I'm also in the computers, web design etc, I'm a woman. I needed more...

And then I ran into sk*rt.com last Friday and I fell in love... Now I have my own digg. Digg for girls - sk*rt... And I Love it!

Top 15 CSS galleries

I love css galleries because of the following reasons:

1. I can admire other peoples work
2. I can dream about the day that one of my designs will be up there
3. I can find inspiration in other people's work

Therefore I hate css galleries with lowsy search options or bad browsing categories or with a preview of one corner of the page instead of the preview of whole page...

And because of all that I made this list of the best css galleries including nice thumb previews and nice browsing options.


1. CSSMania.com
This is the one that I have already wrote about... It has nice design, nice preview thumbs and interesting category organisations. You can even browse gallery by home country of the designer...




2. CSSDrive.com
Browse by the layout (two-column, three-column, mixed cols and rows) or by the look (clean&clear, dark or black, high contrast, corporate, unconventional etc.)

3. CSSHeaven.com
Not to big, but very cute css gallery. You can browse by categories, by month of upload or by search option.

4. CeeSeS.com
CSS gallery from my homeland Croatia so the web sites uploaded are also from Croatia... Its nice to see how we are developing web 2.0 and modern CSS design...

5. Screenalicio.us
Definitaley one of the best css galleries online. Beside 9000 added web sites, this gallery offers color scheme of every web site in it which is very usefull if you can't decide which color scheme to use for your web site. Only minus is that the web site are not categorized. You can search by keywords or go page by page... Hope that they will change this eventually...

6. CSSElite.com
You can browse it by 9 categories or by month or go page by page... Plus is that it's easily scanable, but big minus is that you can't know how many pages there are to the end. I don't know about you, but thats very annoying to me...

7. CSSImpress.com
Easy to browse, navigate and scan... Hope that they will have more entries soon...

8. CSSGalerie.com
As their web masters wrote - just a galerie, thats exactly what it is... simply and nice css gallery with a few categories and new refreshing designs which you can't find in other galleries since this is (I think) french css gallery...

9. CSSDump.com
It does look like a dump, but a modern one... It's dark with a lot of colorfull "trash" which can easily be scaned. Browsing is available by tag cloud on the bottom of the page, or by pages... Minus is (again) that I don't know on which page I am and how much to the end...

10. CSS11.com
They say: "Nothing, but nothing, but kick-ass sites", I say: "I love -filterbytag- menu"...

11. CSSNature.org
It's all about nature here... So, there is a finally one themed css galleries. All the designs and web sites are based on nature... If you love nature, you'll love this gallery...

12. CSSdesignyorkshire.com
As simple as it can be... You have year 2006 and year 2007 and all the web sites from the year you choose on one page... It can't get simpler than that... Can it?

13. CSSgalerie.net
And here is a one Czech gallery... And it's quite nice... 349 web sites at this moment... Interesting to see what my neighbours are doing :D

14. CSSReboot
I can not miss to mention this CSS reboot event with extraordinary gallery. Don't miss it!

15. CSSBlue
Australian CSS Design & Inspiration - nice categories, nice design and easy to scan... Love it!

Off course, there is more of them, and more of them are being "born" every day, but these are the ones that I like to glance to... But, if you didn't had enough and want more, go to the list of 89 css galleries

CONCLUSION: My definite favs are CSSMania.com and Screenalicio.us, but if you have made a great template and want to promote your web design skills then add your webpage to as much as css galleries as possible...

Tutorom.com

One more web page that is worth of taking some time to explore is Tutorom.com - online elearning... What is it all about?

It's about people with certain knowledges who are making tutorials with video or written material and upload it on this page to share it with others...

Although it could seem like a usual DIY page or tutorial page, Tutorom.com is unique because the variety it offers... It has everything from PHP to Cake Decorating, from bicycle maintenace to cat health... Whatever you need, its probably there, so don't waste any more time to google for How to make this or that, just go to Tutorom.com...

Off course, you can also sign up for free and share your own tutorials with others...

RoundedCornr

Finally a roundcorner generator that I was looking for... RoundedCornr.com has it all...

Rounded corners in one color, rounded corners with gradient or rounded corners with a border... Whatever you desire, you can have it... Just input informations about what you want and it will generate html/css code and images for it... RoundedCornr.com is definitely going into my favs...

CSS Mania

In the sea of css galleries, this one really stands out...

At the moment I'm writting this, there are 7842 websites in the archive... I needed 3 working days to browse thru it.

It's really incredible and it seems as every page that "means something" is there...

So, what are you waiting for? Check it out...

CSSMania.com

IconFinder.net

I was planning to make a post with some of my favourite free icons, but then I found this page.

All the free icons that I use, are allready in there + some new, so, as far as I'm concerned, this is my new favourite place for free icons...

Only minus is that you can not browse icons by complete sets from one author, but only by name or tags...

I hope they will fix it in future... Enjoy!

IconFinder.net

Feed My App

Whatever the name means, FeedMyApp is actually a new web 2.0 directory.

And I simply love it... Why?

1. Design - it so refreshing and simple, isn't it?!

2. Easy to use and navigate - I don't have to scan it 10 minutes to find a gallery, it's right there in front of me the whole time...

3. Preview + short description - I can preview the design of the site and I don't have to visit it to see what they do, there is a short description above every thumb.

Therefore, I can use it to browse new sites and to find some which I don't know how I would ran into otherwise, but I can also use it to find an inspiration for new designs!

Oh yes, off course, you can also suggest your web 2.0 site and get some more traffic... ;-))

Take the money and run iliti Uzmilovu.net

Available only in croatian language!

Uzmilovu.net je još jedna meni draga stranica iz vrlo jednostavnog razloga. Radi se o popisu svih (ili gotovo svih) aktualnih nagradnih igri, a ja obožavam nagradne igre.

Stranica ima oku ugodan dizajn i što je još važnije, pregledna je...

Na naslovnici su prikazane najnovije nagradne igre, a možete ih pregledavati i po kategorijama - last minute, sms, instant, radom do nagrade, nagrade iznad 5000Kn i sl.

S obzirom da se nove nagradne igre gotovo svakodnevno organiziraju, stranica često ima novosti. Nagradnu igru za koju ste čuli, a niste našli na uzmilovu.net ili ste je sami organizirali, možete putem obrasca na naslovnoj stranici vrlo brzo poslati uredništvu na uvid.


Zaključak: Za sve ljubitelje nagradnih igara, ova stranica je MUST SEE!

Tag-a-feed.com

I just love this project.

It's simple, it's usefull, it's cool.

So, what is tag-a-feed.com?

It's a web site where you can register, add some of your feeds, which is extremely simple - you just have to add a link to the site you want to add, not thinking about which rss or atom feed does it use and is it compatible with this service.

So, when you add your feeds you can read the posts from them so there is no worries anymore will you miss some important news.

You also have widgets for your site. With a little java script code you can add to your page latest 20 posts from your feeds with headlines od posts or with names od the feeds.

I also have an inside information that there will be new features available soon, so you will be able to put on your site only those which you want to be shown, or make a list of latest posts from your blog etc.

And the last thing that I need to mention here is that you can receive feeds by mail or you can read them on your cell phone.

Nice, huh...

So, if you're not registered on tag-a-feed.com yet, what are you waiting for?


CONCLUSION: I like tag-a-feed.com

Monitor.hr

Available only in croatian language!


Monitor je, ili je bar jedan od, najstarijih portala na hr webu.

Prati ga (čitaj: imaju iste vlasnike) i forum.hr kao jedna od prvih i najjačih socijalnih mreža na hr webu pa ne čudi da su i dalje najposjećenija stranica u Hrvatskoj.

Ono što mene čudi je da je izgled monitora i dalje ostao isti, a mijenja se samo sve veći broj reklama i sponzoriranih članaka. Za razliku od nekad kada smo tamo mogli naći pokoju zanimljivu informaciju, sada možemo naći sponzorirane linkove, sponzorirane vijesti, par uvodnih rečenica koje te vode na članak na drugoj stranici, pa još sponzoriranih vijesti.

Pa neka anketica sastrane, pa sponzorirane reklame, pa flash vijesti koje opet vode na druge web siteove, pa popis tema na forumu (dakle, samoreklama), pa opet malo internet marketinga i onda, pazi čuda - još reklama...

Pa se sad ja pitam, tko još dolazi na monitor.hr? I po što točno? Jer sve što mi oni mogu ponuditi je nekoliko sponzoriranih članaka (dakle, koji su sponzori napisali) i hrpu linkova - bilo direktnih, bilo sa uvodom.

I to ih naravno ne sprečava da naplaćuju slijedeće cijene svojih usluga:

Primjer: za 60.000 prikazivanja mjesečno u periodu od 3 mjeseca cijena je
75 kn za 1000 prikazivanja ili 60 x 75 = 4.500 kn/mj. Za plaćanje unaprijed
odobravamo 5% popusta. Reklamnim agencijama odobravamo popust od 15%.U navedene
cijene nije uračunat PDV.Oglašivač ima stalni uvid u statistiku prikazivanja
(broj prikazivanja, broj klikova na banner).

Sponzorirana vijest - vijest na naslovnici Internet Monitora vidjet će
radnim danom više od 70.000 internet korisnika, a vijest je na naslovnici
vidljiva još 3-4 dana zbog dužine stranice (koja se zbog svoje strukture
svejedno učitava vrlo brzo). Cijena jedne vijesti iznosi 2.500 kn plus PDV.

itd. - za sve cijene pogledajte ovdje.

I recite vi sad meni, tko je tu lud? Oni koji posjećuju stranice na kojima zapravo nema konkretnog sadržaja, oni koji takvu stranicu vode ili oni koji im reklame plaćaju?


Zaključak: ljubomorna sam - hoću i ja tolike pare, a da niš ne radim.

Zaključak 2: Monitor.hr se šlepa na temeljima stare slave, ali pitanje je do kada.

Hoola web stranice

Available only in croatian language!


Već davno sam čula za HOOLA izradu web stranica, ali nekako me put nikako nije nanio da ih isprobam. Sve do danas... Pa ih eto na recenziji.

Dakle, ideja je zgodna. Odeš na njihovu stranicu i možeš probati demo verziju ili se registrirati pa dva tjedna isprobavati besplatnu verziju, a onda odlučiti da li je to ono što vam odgovara ili ne.

Fora je u tome da sam izabireš template, sliku, boje, fontove i slične pizdarije bez ikakvog predznanja html-a ili css-a ili drugih matrix kodova kako ih moj prijatelj zove.

Zaista pregledno i lako za upotrebu. Ali to je ujedno i jedini plus ovog servisa.

Već kod prvog pogleda na demo uočila sam nedostatke...

I to, ni manje ni više, nego u samom dizajnu template-a. Ako pogledate neke kvalitetno i profesionalno napravljenje stranice, uočit će te da je prostor maksimalno iskorišten. Kod Hoola template-a prostor je rascjepkan i poluprazan - dakle, loše iskorišten. Ili se sastoji od jednog stupca, teksta i velikog bannera što je karakteristika običnog blog dizajna.

Newsletter koji mi se također činio kao prednost ovog servisa je ništa drugo nego html mail kojeg vrlo lako možete napraviti u bilo kojem mail pregledniku.

Ukoliko ste zaista totalni tutlek i želite web stranice samo zato da bi mogli reći da ste online, u očekivanju da ljudi nađu vaš broj telefona na toj stranici pa vas kontaktiraju, onda je ovo odličan servis za vas, mada jednaku kvalitetu možete dobiti i otvaranjem potpuno besplatnog bloga na bilo kojem blog servisu.

Ukoliko pak želite da vaša stranica približi proizvod kupcima, da ga predstavi na profesionalan način, te da je redovito punite novim informacijama, onda vam Hoola web jednostavno nije dovoljan.


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