Ever wanted to create your own wiki cms? Now you can easily make one with using one of these 14 free content management systems for wiki.

1. WikkaWiki

WikkaWiki may not be known due to its modest feature set, it is one of the swiftest CMSs coded in PHP to date. Its speed and ease of use are remarkable, and if you plan to create a small wiki site that may not require heavy CMSs, you should consider WikkaWiki as an option. It uses MySQL databases to store information.

2. JAMWiki

JAMWiki is a JAVA clone of MediaWiki. Thus, it uses the same syntax as MediaWiki and is one of the leading wiki CMSs coded in JAVA.

3. ScrewTurn Wiki

ScrewTurn Wiki allows you to create, manage and share wikis. A wiki is a collaboratively-edited, information-centered website: the most famous is Wikipedia.

4. Foswiki

Foswiki is a wiki, so you and your team members can collaborate and edit pages directly in the web browser. For advanced collaboration, Foswiki lets you enter macros to automate pages and build entire applications from within your browser.

5. MediaWiki

MediaWiki is used by Wikipedia as well as many other projects of Wikipedia’s parent organization Mediawiki Foundation. If you’re looking for a CMS for your wiki website, MediaWiki should be your safest bet! Not only is the CMS powerful, it is also very versatile and is ideal for any sort of wiki website.

6. Zoho Wiki

Encourage individuals to participate and share information. Create workspaces for teams, projects and ensure everyone stays on the same page.Keep information private or share it with your group or organization.

7. DokuWiki

DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies.

8. Twiki

TWiki is a flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform, and web application platform. It is a Structured Wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet, extranet or the Internet. Users without programming skills can create web applications.

9. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

Tiki is a powerful, web-based application, created by a large team of contributors. Tiki is the ideal tool for you to build and maintain your Website/Wiki/Groupware/CMS/Forum/Blog/Bug Tracker or any other project you can imagine running in your browser window.

10. PhpWiki

PhpWiki is another versatile wiki CMS. Unlike DokuWiki, it uses databases to store the information and is therefore, a slightly bulkier CMS. If you are looking for a nimble wiki CMS, PhpWiki might not suit your purpose. However, overall the CMS is a worthy competitor to all the others in the game.

11. Canvas ColdFusion Wiki

Canvas is a ColdFusion Wiki built to allow for community-based editing of content. It follows basic Wiki standards by allowing anyone to edit content, while keeping careful track of the history of each document added to the Wiki. Canvas was built using Model-Glue.

12. XWiki

The XWiki project offers both a generic platform for developing collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm and products developed on top of it. All XWiki software is developed in Java and under the LGPL open source license.

13. Enterprise Wiki

14. MoinMoin

MoinMoin is an advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large community of users. Said in a few words, it is about collaboration on easily editable web pages.

Vintage and retro logos have really been taken to the fore recently, with many companies adopting the old style of image for their company. Vintage logos create a certain feel of nostalgia and adhere for our need for a time when things weren’t as fast-paced and goods weren’t thrown away and psychologically create an impression of value.

There is also an element of the cool and stylish to them, which creates a similar impression of a company.

Modern vintage styles, if that isn’t some sort of oxymoron, are generally clean and minimalist, but use certain matte colours and vintage lettering to give the impression of the old-fashioned style.

Modern vintage styles, if that isn’t some sort of oxymoron, are generally clean and minimalist, but use certain matte colours and vintage lettering to give the impression of the old fashioned style.

Modern vintage is displayed well in these examples

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Texture can also make a huge difference in logo design. Look at the texture of the paper here, it has a real old world feel about it that creates a lot of the vintage feel of the logo.

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in a similar way, look at this texture

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The stamped feel of the West Center logo also adds to the feel and gives it a real pre-digital age look. And it has the same effect here

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Whereas the lithograph style here does a similar but very different job and has a very different effect, which is equally as appealing

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The less is more effect also works well here and the retro logos look great when bare but clear

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Like with all logos, vintage logos still look great with symbols or associations. This is a beautiful logo for a music night in Holland

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Indie, or slightly witty humour is also a part of these logos and reflects the style and feel of the companies that use them.

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as does this one for graphic design – a bit of self depreciation never goes amiss

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Or a retro 50s robot

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Of course creative, cute and funny all go together to excellent effect and this logo really manages to pull all three together wonderfully

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Characters, especially strong stereotypical characters also look well with this advertising as they were used widely at the time and provide a certain impression. Look at this butcher – reliable, strong friendly local meant man?

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Or, look at this dapper chap

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This logo for a classic restaurant creates an impression of sophistication also through association

This one certainly pays homage to the Japanese Empire and Art Deco influences, but looks great andadds up to fantastic effect

So, as can be seen the vintage logo works on association to an extent, but can also be used as it is timeless and adopts many of the basics a good logo should follow. Old logos make it easy to be unique from competitors as there is that many for inspiration out there. They are often quite minimalist and get the message across through clarity and also usually work well in black and white because of this. Add the fact most are quite simple and can be scaled up or down in size without problem and you have a winner from a tried and tested formula.

While you’re spring-cleaning your home, why not give your website an overhaul too? Even if you love the design, there’s probably technical things that can be improved. Does your site load quickly? Does it have any broken links? When was the last time you updated the CMS? It’s always a good idea to give your site a health check – broken links, insecure plugins, and slow loading times can cause all kinds of headaches for your business – damaging your reputation, reducing your search engine rankings, and putting your customer’s private data at risk.

Here’s a few tips to help you get your site in good shape:

1. Check for broken links: This is one area where Google’s webmaster tools can be invaluable. If you find any broken links, fix them immediately. Also, if you don’t have a custom 404 page (that will be displayed when a user tries to visit a page that doesn’t exist), set one up. You’d be amazed how many visitors type the wrong URL, but will stay on your page if you present them with some interesting links on the 404 page.
2. Check your loading times: The YSlow plugin for Firefox is useful for identifying problems that may be making your pages take a long time to load. People are impatient these days, so the quicker your site loads, the better.
3. Update your CMS: If you use a standard CMS (rather than something custom written), then you should keep it up to date at all times. Patches don’t just add new features, they also fix bugs and include vital security improvements.
4. Validate your code: Use the W3C validator to test your code and fix any errors that crop up.
5. Check your Meta tags: Good Title and Meta Description tags will help your site to look more appealing to visitors coming via popular search engines. If you’re not sure what you should put in your Meta tags, or how to change them, ask an expert at a search engine optimisation agency for some tips.
6. Proof-read your content: Spelling mistakes are a huge red flag to customers. Even if you had your content proof-read when it was first put up, look at it again to make sure no mistakes went un-noticed last time.
7. Hire a search engine optimisation agency: Once you have a fast loading, error free site, you’ll have done the ground work that will help an online marketing company to improve your search engine rankings. Don’t just rush straight to this stage – make sure your site works well before you promote it.
8. Add social features: Your online marketing company will probably do a lot of social work. If you add social networking buttons to your site it will be easier for your visitors to continue up-voting/sharing/talking about your site.
9. Show, don’t tell: Start using more pictures in your content. Make sure you use accessibility tags so that your site will still work with screen readers, though.

10.  Check your calls to action: If your pages aren’t converting well, make sure you’re telling your customers what you want them to do, and showing a compelling reason for them to do it. Don’t just say “we have a new mailing list” – ask them to “sign up today for advance notice of special offers!” You should see a huge improvement in conversions if you do this.

There are some great websites emerging that have been built using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript and really show off what the web is capable of. Why settle for a traditional layout when you can stand out with a website like one of these:

1. Razor Fish

Do you ever get that feeling at work that your boss is watching you? Well how about the whole world? Razorfish use 17 live camera feeds from their offices around the world as backgrounds for their website. You can choose which feed you watch from a bar at the bottom of the screen and you are shown a highly pixelated live feed from the office of your choice. This is a really great design although I’m not sure how much the employees like it! The website content all appears from drop down bars at the top of the page so you never lose sight of your chosen office.

2. Newsmap

Newsmap is a great news reader that allows you to sort news stories by location, time and type and then displays it in digestible blocks. So if you want to see technology stories from the UK that broke in the last 10 minutes then you can. But if you want to see all stories then Newsmap colour codes depending on category and age of news and gives more screen space to bigger stories.

3. The Wilderness Downtown

This website was built to display an interactive HTML5 film for the Arcade Fire Song ‘The Wilderness Downtown’. You simply enter your hometown address and the site generates a custom video, built from pop ups that include clips from the Arcade Fire video interspersed with Google maps images (Street view and Satellite images) to produce a personalised music video that makes you feel like you’re part of the song. Pop ups appear at different times and have overlays in the style of the video.

4. Qwiki

Qwiki is a new method of digesting information from a number of different Wikis. Search for a subject and Qwiki produces an interactive timeline of text, images, maps and videos, collated from different Wikis on the web. Great for discovering new locations and information. Each entry is clickable so you can see the original source, maps can be played with and videos paused. Also you can jump to any point in the timeline, add voice and share your timelines with friends. Also comes with a ‘related’ tab so you can end up lost for hours in the rich collection of media.

5. AgencyNet

As a creative digital agency, it is important for AgencyNet to have an impressive website. They break from conventions by placing all content on a single page which you either scroll through or jump to using the ‘Recent Successes’ tool which recognises each entry as a separate page even though all the content is in one frame. Each ‘page’ is an infographic of a past project which includes examples of the website and branding they created, and results such as ‘Sales up 34% from summer ’10 to summer ‘11’. Really attractive site and design which shows off their work and gives stats to back up success!

We are excited to share these 12 great tutorials to design your business cards. Business cards are one of the most imprtant part of your visual identity.

How to Design a Stylish Business Card

How To Create A Sweet Bokeh Business Card In Photoshop

Print-Ready Business Card Using Photoshop

Design a Cool And Original Jeans Style Business Card

Creating a Colorful Vibrant Business Card

Business Card Layout

Making a Grungy Business Card

Design Slick Print Ready Business Card Using Photoshop

Create a Shiny New iTunes Gift Card

Create a Slick Business Card Design with Stunning Typography

Creating a Dark Business Card

How To Create Print Ready Standard Size Business Cards

Search engine optimization of your web site (SEO) is, of course, a good and hot idea. But it helps in that effort to know just how search engines function, so that you can tailor your efforts appropriately.

SEO Basics

Search engines fall into two broad categories, although nowadays most search engines use both of these methods. A search engine may be “crawler-based,” using automated programs to find web sites and incorporate them into a database according to search algorithms, or “human-powered,” relying on descriptions of web sites submitted to a directory service by the web managers or written by the service’s own editors.

Most SEO efforts are aimed at crawler-based search engines. That’s because only these can respond to changes in the web site itself, such as incorporation or revision of keywords or the acquisition of internal or external links. Human-powered search engines or directories can only be influenced by sending a revised description in to the service. In keeping with that, and also recognizing that the way human-powered search engines work is pretty obvious, let’s explore crawler-driven search engines in a little more depth.

How it Works

A crawler-based search engine has three main elements. The first is the crawler or “spider.” This is a program that visits a web page, reads its content, and follows links from it to other pages. When a page has been visited by a crawler, we say that it has been “crawled” or “spidered.” Most search engines dispatch the spiders back to review sites every so often to update information.

The second element is the index or database. Everything the spider crawls over gets incorporated into the index for review by the search engine’s software. When the web page is incorporated into the search engine’s index, we say that it has been “indexed.” Until a web page has been indexed, it can’t show up in a search using that search engine.

The third element is the software the search engine uses to generate search results, and this is where search engines get cagey and secretive. This software includes the algorithms that the engine uses to rank matches to searches in order of importance or relevance to the search. Details of this software are proprietary and secret partly because search engines don’t want their competitors getting hold of them, but also because they don’t want web site administrators to be able to game the system by using the algorithms to generate traffic artificially.

You can count on your web site being crawled before long after it becomes available to the public, and indexed quickly thereafter. The rest, though, is up to you, and you can increase your visibility in searches by good web design, use of keywords, and getting quality links inbound to your site.

Designing fonts is a very complicated field, you have to be very sharp with your typography skills. So in this post we’ve provided 10 free typography eboks for download.

1. The Typographer’s Glossary

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2. Meet Your Type

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3. Type Classification

4. Typeface Anatomy

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5. The Vignelli Canon

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6. Webfonts

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7. A Practical Guide to Web Typography

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8. Styles,Weights,Widths

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9. Helvetica – Complements and Alternatives

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10. Typography and Readability

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Here’s a list of doodles which were used by Google in the year 2011.

Thomas Edison’s Birthday

Jules Verne’s 183rd Birthday

Lantern Festival 2011

Australia Day

Will Eisner’s 94th Birthday

Royal Wedding

Father’s Day

Jean de la Fontaine’s 390th Birthday

100th Anniversary Of The Rediscovery Of Machu Picchu

112th Birthday Of Jorge Luis Borges

 Robert Burns Day

100th Birthday of Taro Okamoto

Women’s Day

400th Birthday Of Evliya Çelebi

Pierre de Fermat’s 410th Birthday

Teachers’ Day

Jim Henson’s 75th Birthday

Veterans Day

Mark Twain’s 176th Birthday

Yury Nikulin’s 90th Birthday

Anniversary Of the Ice Cream Sundae

50th Anniversary Of The First Man In Space

Children’s Day

120th of Birthday Of Sergey Prokofiev

Doodle 4 Google US by Matteo Lopez

Parkes Observatory’s 50th Anniversary

Day of the Dead

Hideyo Noguchi’s 135th Birthday

New Year’s Eve 2011

If you are an android user and a blogger, then this post is for you. We have listed the top free 13 android apps for productivity.

1. Google Goggles

Search the real world by taking a picture. Search by taking a picture. Goggles uses image recognition technology to recognize objects and return relevant search results. Identifies products, famous landmarks, storefronts, artwork, and popular images found online. Goggles can translate words in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese & Russian.

2. CamScanner – Phone PDF Creator

CamScanner turns your phone into a scanner. With CamScanner, you are able to digitize any paper documents by photo shooting. Simply take a picture of any paper documents such as receipts, whiteboards, notes, agreement and so forth, and CamScanner can auto-crop image, enhance image quality and create an industry standard PDF file. And you can easily upload documents to cloud like Dropbox, Google Doc, Box.net, and manage them by tagging or searching.

3. Evernote

Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders–and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, at work, or on the go.

4. Dropbox

Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere.Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your Android device, and even the Dropbox website! With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters to you on the go.

5. Voice Recorder

This application is a handy voice recorder.

Features:
- send a data as attached file via Gmail
- timer recording
- search by TITLE and DATE
- set recordings as ringtones
- recording by the widget
- playback pause by stop button long press

6. Advanced Task Killer

While not necessarily needed for newer versions of the Android OS, some users still like having a quick and easy task manager for managing their apps and battery life. Advanced Task Killer is the one many users turn to for this added management and peace of mind.

7. Vlingo Virtual Assistant

Vlingo is your very own Virtual Assistant. Simply speak to Vlingo and it will help you get more done, faster and easier than before. Try saying “Text John; What’s up?” or “find italian restaurants” or even “update Facebook; Vlingo rocks!” Download to learn everything Vlingo can do for you.

8. Astrid Task/Todo List

Astrid is the much loved open source to-do list / task manager designed to help you get stuff done. It features reminders, lists, sync, a widget, task sharing, optional instant notifications and much more!

9. Springpad

Springpad makes it easy to save notes, products and places you want to rememberSpringpad is a free application that makes it quick and easy to take notes and save anything you want to remember in one place – from tasks and lists to products, places, movies, recipes and more. We automatically organize and enhance what you save with useful links and relevant offers to save you time and money. Everything you save is synchronized and accessible on your android device and on the web.

10. Recycle Bin

The Recycle Bin App – The Top Free App that lets you restore your deleted apps.

11. SwipePad: Hyperspace Jump

Open a shortcut to anything with a single swipe from within anythingSwipePad is a launcher panel overlay. With a single swipe action, you can launch anything from within any app.

12. WiFi Manager

An easy way to manage Wifi connections. Includes beautiful widgets.Find, connect, manage WiFi networks. Improve connection quality with a graphical channel radar. Discover open networks around you.

13. B-Folders Secure Organizer

B-Folders – the secure organizer for the business you do on all your devices.The secure organizer for the business you do on all your devices without any cloud services.

We’ve compiled a list of 21 minimal, clean and light websites for inspiration. Enjoy the post and don’t forget to like us on Facebook :)

1. Whiteloupe

2. The Red Studio

3. Chimp Chomp

4. Developer Drive

5. Solo

6. Metaphiziks

7. Kantt

8. Made with love

9. 5 Thirty One

10. Beyond Standards

11. The Deck

12. Eduardo de la Roque

13. Made by Vadim

14. Petros Dimitriadis

15. Feed A Fever

16. Look up

18. Fell Swoop

19. Header Footer

20.Lavuh

21. Make Tea