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Looking for a one of a kind web site HTML editor?  Look no further than Code Lobster.  Code Lobster, PHP edition is perfect when it comes with working on a number of different web site scripts written in PHP.

Some of the features included are:

• PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS code highlighting
• PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS code collapsing
• HTML autocomplete
  Autocomplete of tags, attributes for current tag, closing tags.
• HTML code inspector
  Inspector makes it simple to find HTML elements buried deep in the page.
• HTML toolbar
• CSS autocomplete
  Autocomplete of style property names and values.
• JavaScript Advanced autocomplete
  Autocomplete of keywords, DOM elements and their properties.
• PHP Advanced autocomplete
  This feature speeds up writing a code. Autocomplete includes wide selection of code completion listings.
  Lists are formed of both standard PHP and user’s classes, variables, functions, constants and keywords. Starting typing new element, lists of all possible variants for its completion are being displaying after -> and ClassName::
• PHP Debugger

Here is a little more about the HTML editor from the developer:

CodeLobster PHP Edition is a free editor primarily intended for editing PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript files with support Drupal CMS, Joomla CMS, Smarty template engine, JQuery library, CodeIgniter framework and WordPress blogging platform.

You can download Code Lobster for free at codelobster.com.  Make sure you let us know what you think about it, in the comments.

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Original post by Amy Armitage

I am still searching the Web for the best free template and free layout databases.  This time around, I want to tell you about Free CSS.  This web site has thousands of free web site templates you can download, customize and use on your own web hosting account.

Here are a few example free layouts I found that I really enjoyed:

Appleweb

Aquatic

Blog Division

Downloading themes from Free CSS is easy to do.

1. Navigate to the theme you wish to download.
2. Click the “Download this Template” link featured on the page.
3. Upload it to you own web hosting space.

If your a web site designer, looking to get your content featured here, you can do so via this link:

• How to Submit Your Designs to Free CSS!

Need Site Hosting? I hope you find this free web site design resource handy when it comes to creating your own web site at Lunarpages.  If you are looking for the perfect web hosting plan to get started on – I would highly recommend the Basic hosting plan.  Not only does it include unlimited disk space and bandwidth, but you can also get it for only $4.95 per month.  That is a great web hosting deal, no coupon needed.

For more free web site layouts and designs like this, be sure to check out Free CSS.

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Original post by Mitch

Installing plugins within WordPress itself, rather than downloading them and re-uploading them to your hosting space manually has been around for some time now.  However, I don’t think many people have discovered this great feature that WordPress has to offer.  Let me guide you through installing a plugin using WordPress on your blog hosted here at Lunarpages.

Step one would be to login to your WordPress powered blog’s administrator section, usually located at:

http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/

Next, you want to click on the Plugins menu in the sidebar.  Once you are on the Manage Plugins page, check in the sidebar under Plugins for a link that says, “Add New”.  Click that link.

This will take you to the Install Plugins web page.  YOu have several options to choose from here.  The two most noticeable ones are the search box and the popular tags.  Here you can find the plugin you are looking for. 

Now, just search for the plugin type you need.  I typed in, “images” and got this screen returned to me:

There you have plenty of image related plugins to choose from.  Now if you select featured, popular, newest or recently updated – you will be taken to another plugin list that shows that type of plugin.  To install a plugin, just hit the, “Install” link under the action column that lines up with that specific plugin. 

A new window will pop up giving you a description of the plugin, and the ability to install that plugin by hitting the button labeled, “Install Now”.  No need for FTP clients, downloading and re-uploading.  WordPress takes care of it all.  When your done installing, you can then turn around and activate, tweak and configure the plugin you have just installed.

Need Blog Hosting?  Come check out the Lunarpages Basic Hosting Plan, the home of many WordPress powered blogs from around the Web!

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Original post by Mitch

Need an easy way to watermark your image collection before you upload them to your web site?  If you don’t have an expensive photo editor to get the job done, check out Watermark Image.  This free program, available on multiple version of Windows, will get the job done.

Watermark Image is a free software tool that makes it easy to add digital watermarks to all of your images, photos, and pictures – all at once. Some of the other features include:

• Angle the text you use for watermarking
• Insert background watermark in digital images, pictures, photos
• Resize images while watermarking the image
• Multi threaded
• Watermark using either another image, or your own text
• Watermarking your own text in the color you want to.
• Maintain directory structure in destination directory or combine all watermarked images into one directory
• Skip or overwrite existing watermarked images in destination directory
• Automatically check for new version of the watermark image software

Interested?  You can pick it up at http://www.watermark-image.com/.

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Original post by Mitch

Need an easy way to watermark your image collection before you upload them to your web site?  If you don’t have an expensive photo editor to get the job done, check out Watermark Image.  This free program, available on multiple version of Windows, will get the job done.

Watermark Image is a free software tool that makes it easy to add digital watermarks to all of your images, photos, and pictures – all at once. Some of the other features include:

• Angle the text you use for watermarking
• Insert background watermark in digital images, pictures, photos
• Resize images while watermarking the image
• Multi threaded
• Watermark using either another image, or your own text
• Watermarking your own text in the color you want to.
• Maintain directory structure in destination directory or combine all watermarked images into one directory
• Skip or overwrite existing watermarked images in destination directory
• Automatically check for new version of the watermark image software

Interested?  You can pick it up at http://www.watermark-image.com/.

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Original post by Mitch

Need to get a web site up in a hurry?  Just want to plug and post?  You might want to check out SiteGenWiz, a web site creator for HTML novices and people who don’t want to hassle with learning how to code a web page.  All you have to do is type out your site content, and then format it the wy you want it to look.

Some of the features included are:

• Menu Generator
• Web Page Editor
• Upload Utility
• Image Import Tool

Here is a little more about the free WYSIWYG web page editor from the creators:

Select from various frameworks, define a menu structure for your pages, choose colors, fonts, bullets and background images. Create and edit your pages with the built-in editor. Without knowing html you have formatting options like headline, sub headline, text, bold, italic, underline and you can define links to other web pages and add images. Automatically generate sitemaps and image galleries. Also available is seamless integration of other html documents. With the upload utility you can even upload the finished result to your host site.

With this program, you can quickly update or even redesign your web site with just a few clicks. 

You can download SiteGenWiz over at the official web site, found at enersoft.ch.  Give it a shot, and let me know what you think!

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Original post by Mitch

Google Friend Connect provides you with the tools bring your web site’s community together.  You can create a social bar to show the latest comments, a members box, so members can get in touch with each other, ratings, reviews and more.  There are a lot of interactive fun things you can do with Google Friend Connect.  The only question now is, how do you get started?

Getting Started with Google Friend Connect

The first step would be to click the “Add new site” button on the Google Friend Connect page.

Next, you will be asked to tell them about your web site.  This is where you fill in some basic information about your web site you wish to use the Google Friend Connect tools on.

Congratulations, you can now add Google Friend Connect applications to your own web site. 

Now you can start looking at all the fun things you can easily add to your own web site layout or design.

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• Kings and Queens of the Hosting Cosmos!
• Grab a Number of Cool Google Gadgets
• Weekend Project &ndash Create a Google-Friendly Sitemap

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Original post by Mitch

Need a simple flash gallery tool?  Look no further than SimpleViewer.  It can take any bundle of online photos and make it into a gallery that somebody could spend hours upon hours browsing through.

This free online script will allow you to have a beautiful flash-powered image gallery in no time at all.  This is a great free script for any photographers who wish to highlight their own pictures, or artists who want to show off their most recent creations.

Here are some of the features:

• Intelligent image pre-loading.
• Intuitive image navigation
• Lightweight (17k).
• Customizable interface – Set text color, frame color and width, navigation position.
• Resizable interface – Interface scales to fit browser window.
• Cross platform – Windows/Macintosh/Linux (requires Flash 8 or higher).

Check out some of the examples here:

• Hi-Res Example – Full-browser, no captions.
• Lo-Res Example – Full-browser, captions, background image.
• Small Format Example - Embedded in HTML page.

Want to give it a shot?  You can learn more about this great free script over at SimpleViewer.net.  It is free to use, and if you like it – you could always purchase the pro version for a few more perks and services.

Related Tips and Tricks:

• Hundreds of Free Stock Photos for Your Web Sites
• Preview, Review and Download Free Fonts!
• Quick and Easy Online Surveys for Your Web Site

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Original post by Mitch

Depending on how many notes or messy modifications you make to your cascading style sheets, you might be about due for a little compression.  By shrinking you external CSS files, you can save the bandwidth it takes to download them, each time somebody visits your web site. 

Now how much optimization should you do?  Well, the CSS files should be small enough to load quickly, however readable enough to where you know what does what where, and why.  You have to balance size with readability.

Here are my three favorite online tools to help optimize and shrink my CSS files:

• CSSCompressor.com
• CSSOptimiser.com
• CleanCSS.com

By using any of these three solutions, you can reduce the CSS code size and make your web pages load faster.  They all allow you to choose from multiple degrees of compression, and they are all very quick too.

Related Tips and Tricks:

• Speed Up Pages by Combining External CSS
• Wizzypage – Great (and free!) Web Site Editor
• Best Web Site Speed Analyzers

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Original post by Mitch

People often say it is a good idea to register domain name typos.  Why?  Well, when somebody accidently types in the wrong domain name, you want to make sure they still get to your web site at large.  For example, did you know Google has Gooogle.com registered?

To help you find some of the domain names to register we have ErrorNow.  To use this domain name error search tool, all you need to do is type in your domain name, hit the TAB key and then hit the button labeled, “Make Error” when it is available.  Once you do, you’ll get a number of different options like this: 

There are just some of the results I got when I searched for my own domain name, mitchkeeler.com. 

For now only 2 types of errors are caught:

• Errors made by forgot to type a character
• Errors made by press a nearby character

Once you have made a list of some that you would like to register – you can leave the ErrorNow site, login to your Customer Account Page at Lunarpages, and register them to use with the web site you have with us. So the next type somebody accidently types in the wrong domain name, you can easily send them to the right web site, your web site.

Related Tips and Tricks:

• Translate Your Pages to Any Language
• Best of the Bit.ly Tools
• Deep Trawl – Favorite Web Development Freebies (Part 1 of 5)

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Original post by Mitch