1. PickyDomains.com

You need a new domain for your business or product, but all the good names are already taken. Your options are 1. pay cybersquatters thousands of dollars, 2. settle for crappy domain, 3. hire expensive branding agency. None are very desirable options.

PickyDomains.com is a risk-free naming service over 55,000 professional name-contributors. Finding your perfect domain name is simple with PickyDomains.com – all you have to do is register with the website and pay a small $50 fee for a domain or brand name (slogans will set you back $75).

After you have provided details about what you’re looking for in a name or slogan, suggestions will start pouring in from PickyDomain.com’s large workforce. The best thing is that if you decide not to use any of the names or slogans suggested, you are entitled to a refund. So there is no risk involved, you pay for results only.

2. Bitrix24.com

Need CRM? Project management software? Task planner? Platform where your employees can collaborate on projects? Prepare to spend thousands or tens of thousands of dollars on various vendors. That is, unless you are planning to give Bitrix24.com a try.

If your company is comprised of 12 employees or fewer, you can take advantage of Bitrix24’s free basic package, which includes a comprehensive CRM/TaskPlanner/ProjectManager and many other useful features, such as regular updates so every employee can keep up with the latest goings on of the company. Bitrix24.com also offers a very affordable package ($99 per month) for companies made up for more than 12 employees.

3. iSpionage.com

To run a successful business, you need to know exactly what your rival companies are up to. iSpionage.com helps you to keep track of your competitors’ activity through managing client campaigns, analyzing competitor-run adverts, managing through search engine gaps, monitoring affiliates and paid search competition, and much more.

You don’t even have to monitor the program yourself – iSpionage will send you email alerts each time it detects rival activity that you need to know about. With packages from just $59 per month, this is one deal you can’t afford to miss out on.

4. JetRadar.com

Finding cheap air travel has become a lot easier since the introduction of niche sites such as Orbitz, Expedia and CheapFlights.

If you’re a businessman with a job that requires you to travel frequently or just someone who enjoys jetting off around the world, JetRadar.com can help you find the very best deals out there. Whereas other flight comparison sites merely scan through a select few airline websites, JetRadar.com combs through every single travel agency, major flight website and a total of 728 individual airlines to find the cheapest flights.

Travelers are often unaware that some of the best deals are only available through the airline websites – companies do this to avoid losing trade to competitors. JetRadar.com even scans these websites to ensure you really are getting the cheapest of the cheapest deals available.

5. Logaster.com

Whatever business you’re in, you need a logo to help your clients remember who you are and make you stand out above the crowd.

Graphic designers charge a lot of money for designing logos and there is never any guarantee that you’ll get exactly what you want. Crowdsourcing sites are a better option, but they will still set you back at least $100 for just one logo.

For a small monthly subscription fee of $4.99, you can create your logo absolutely free with Logaster.com. Logos aren’t the only things offered on Logaster.com – you can create a whole range of branding designs, including business cards, branded envelopes and letterheads.

I’d like to share with you all this very nice WordPress trick from Rebecca Markowitz that I think some of you might find very useful for your site. It’s a cool hack that lets you create a pop-up window wherein you can put in a disclaimer or notification message for your visitors to read before they submit a comment or an email to the site admin. You can find her tutorial on installing it HERE.

Award-winning graphic designer Mirko Santangelo of PSD Tuts+ shares a very cool tutorial on how you can create a well-detailed Fuji x100 camera icon using Photoshop. This icon is more challenging because of its realistic features.

Click on the image to see the full demonstration and get started.

function excludecatfeed($query) {

if(is_feed()) {

$query->set('cat','-1');

return $query;

}

}
 add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'excludecatfeed');

Just indicate the ID number of the category you want excluded. In the above code, the ID number is “1”. Just replace the value if needed and just leave the minus “-“ symbol as is. To exclude more categories, just append the ID number separated by a comma (see example below).

$query->set('cat','-1, -5, -7');

Hope some of you find this nice little trick useful. Have a good day, everyone!

Web developer Mary Lou shows a great tutorial on how you can create animated buttons with CSS3. The idea here is to have different styles with hover effects and active states. You can check out her tutorial with live demo and downloadable source by clicking the image.

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With his method, you’ll be tinkering a bit with the index.php file. The whole idea is to create some space right after the first post listing and display a random archive post as the second one. The steps involve is as follows:

• Find the loop.
• Include “$first_post_marker = true;” just above the loop.
• Locate the closing “endwhile;” of the loop.
• Include the following code directly above this “endwhile;”:

if($first_post_marker && strlen($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) < 2)    //to make sure that we’re on the first page

{

if(is_home())

{

$week = date(‘W’);

$whatyear = date(‘Y’)-1;

$custom_query = new WP_Query( ‘year=’ . $whatyear . ‘&w=’ . $week . ‘&orderby=rand’);    //random entry from the archive; same week, only one year back

while($custom_query->have_posts())

{

$custom_query->the_post();

/* ==================================

Here’s where you display your post, use the same formatting you’re using in the main loop.

Usually calls like: “the_title();” and “the_content(”);” and so on.

================================== */

break;    //we only need one post

}

wp_reset_postdata();

}

$first_post_marker = false;
 }

Feel free to tell Karol what you think of his method by clicking here.

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Customization of the plugin is easy. The script simply returns the data for you to do as you want, which means that you control the entire HTML and utilize the current CSS classes. Click on the image for the demo and documentation.

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Created by Jacek Galanciak, Quicksand allows you to organize and record items to make your search get easier.

Click on the image to find out how it works and download its file.

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So how do you get to have other websites create this backlinks for your website? Emily Carter wrote a short article wherein she provides four basic yet very helpful tips that tells you how. You can read it in detail by clicking right through HERE.

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Click on the image to launch the tutorial.

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