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Wednesday, 30 July 2008
By Dmitry Costenco

  Creating skins for blogs or forums is not an easy task. While demanding HTML and CSS coding experience, the job also demands artistic skills and a good deal of taste. A lot of novice and experienced designers get stuck reusing the same graphics for common navigation elements over and over. While CSS and HTML can be made at the same time, creating attractive graphics demands a different approach and a different set of skills.



Blog Icons for Vista

Navigation, posting and other graphics on a blog or forum consist of several dozen small images. Each image has to be made in the same style, while all icons should share the same gamma and colors to create a consistent look throughout the Web site. If the skin being developed is a Vista-style one, you're facing a challenge of using a quite specific set of drawing techniques. If you don't have the time or skills to design icons yourself, hiring a designer or outsourcing may be a costly yet necessary option.



With recent introduction of ready-made icons there is no longer need hiring a graphics designer or outsourcing icons. There are single icons and icon sets available for pretty much everything from database toolbars to computers. There are icons for bloggers, too.



Blog Icons for Vista help Web designers make blog and forum skins faster and better. Matching the famous Vista style, these icons are perfect for adding bells-and-whistles to any blog or forum engine. Blog Icons for Vista set has every image used on blogs and forums for navigation, posting and editing.



The icons are crafted in the Glowing Glass style, and are available in a variety of sizes from tiny 16x16 to huge 256x256 pixels. Blog Icons for Vista comes in ICO, PNG, GIF, BMP file formats, and includes 256-color and True Color variants for widest compatibility. There are more than 40 icons in the set, plenty to choose from. Mail, Globe, Folder, Back and Forward, Previous, XML, Edit, Permalink, Submit, and many more useful images are available. Being a readily available set, Blog Icons for Vista are available for instant preview at www.777icons.com, and can be had in a matter of minutes instead of days, weeks or months of designing a custom image set.

Since SibCode's founding in 2005 and as of 2008, Dmitry Costenco develops web sites. He works for quality web interface, which will help to web surfers.

Discover the Secret Steps to Success Part 3 of 4
By Dave Clocker

  So far in this four-part series, Ive explained to you the one blog I came across that had such a profound impact on my life. The blog was just basic text like any ordinary blog entry you would find out on the internet. There was nothing present in it that distinguished it from the millions of blog entries out there. However, after reading the blog, it had an incredible transformation in my life. In applying the lessons, I began to notice that my life was gradually becoming more the way I wanted it to be.

There is no doubt in mind my that the second aspect of achieving success is taking action and being a starter.. George stated that business is out in the field, not in the office. How true that is. Let me use a sports analogy to illustrate this. Well look at a Rookie who just joined the NBA. Most new NBA drafts start off the season as a bench warmer. The key to success, though, is to become a starter (this applies to our business as well...a starter). Only with that will we ever learn the ropes of the game and move up to the level of stardom. Whats important here is that you need to be proactive in getting where you want to go.

A Rookie in Action. His name is Jamario Moon. He is a 1st year player for the Toronto Raptors so that makes him a rookie for the 2007-2008 season. An old rookie, for that matter, as he is 27 years old, in a sport where players usually start out in their teens. He started out the season as a bench warmer...not doing much. He strongly felt in his mind that he was a player who could offer great contributions to his team, so he practiced diligently each day.

His opportunity came several games into the season. And guess what? He performed. The next several games, he did the same thing. Pretty soon, he had secured for himself a starter position on the team. Yes, a STARTER. This is not an easy position to get since there are 12 players vying for one of these five spots. He MADE it. Failure was not an option for him and he wouldn't accept it. There were rookies 10 years younger than him. Because he kept at it every day in practice and he had the proper mindset and belief system, he didnt have hesitation or doubt about his ability to perform. He practiced to reach a purpose and a goal.

If Georges message hasnt already popped out at you from reading about the Rookie, I will point out that the moral of the Rookie story is that you should not sit and wait for things to happen. Hoping for business to come is not a sure way to achieve success. Some may have found success doing that, but it does not apply to the majority. order: :2:2:For petes sake, get out there and do something!. If you aren't, then no one else will get you where you want to go. You must practice, practice, practice. You must practice to reach a purpose and goal.

Its the day to day activities that makes the most difference in building your goals. order: :2:2:Be the ROOKIE of the Year!

To see real estate in a creative light that helps put money in your pocket, read on. Dave Clocker is a real estate investor who will teach you the Long Cherished Strategies That 99% Of The Population Will Never Know About How To Almost Magically Create The Lifestyle You've Dreamed of Thru Real Estate. He has taken these creative strategies and combined them into fun and juicy videos, insider reports, and teleseminars with experts. Check more out at http://www.RealEstateWayToWealth.com

How to Use Wordpress Marketing to Your Advantage
By Seree Woradechjamroen

  A lot of people are marketing online nowadays and there are tons of different options when choosing a platform for promoting your products or services.

A really effective strategy that I have found which has made me thousands and thousands of dollars is called WordPress Marketing.

If you are not familiar with wordpress it is a FREE blog service that allows you to create your own website (blog) for free! You can your own domain name (wordpress.com/nameofyourblog) and anybody with an internet connection can view your page by visiting that web address.

Now, you are online! You can promote products as an affiliate OR you can promote your own products or services from there too. Another popular thing people do when marketing online using a wordpress blog, is to write about something that is very popular at the moment (or always) and get traffic to your site that way. Then, you can place ads on your site for Google or Yahoo (also FREE) and YOU GET PAID anytime someone just clicks on one of the ads on your site!
This is a very popular way of making money online.

What else is WordPress Marketing good for?

Yet another awesome technique for making money with your blog is to build your opt-in list of email subscribers by giving away something of value for FREE right from your blog, in exchange for the email address of your reader. It may in form of e-Books, e-Courses, software or a short report. You would not believe that most people will exchange their email address with these free stuffs. If it is useful for them, they will be your loyalty customer in the future easily.

You can sign up for an auto-responder service for less than $20 a month and easily set up the email address capture form where the customer must enter their first name and email address in order to receive the free download (a short, informative report that you write on the same topic as your blog or promotion).

If you do not want to pay for monthly cost, you can try some free auto-responder services. But it would be a better idea to invest on the paid auto-responder service as it will provides a much more stability and durability.
Once you harvest their email addresses you can promote (legally!) products and/or services to them via email and then you can make some serious money!

If you want to make more money, just create your own product and promote them. If you do not want to create your own product, you may finding some affiliate products to promote. That is Wordpress marketing in a nutshell!

Setup your own opt-in form for Wordpress in 5 minutes for FREE!

http://www.fasterinternetmarketing.com/

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