For a very long time we have analyzed and gone though the age of wordpress premium themes. Some costs more and some cost less.

The Problem with Premium Themes and theme clubs

Although the premium themes are very beautiful and graphically optimized but there is a bad thing about premium themes. These themes are not delivered to you as a unique copy. If you purchase a theme at $70, you are not the only one. A lot of other people will have a same copy of theme. Thats the main problem with theme clubs as well.

Wordpress premium Theme builder

We know about many different wordpress theme generators like artisteer and yvoschaap’s theme generators but both of these generators does not give you any flexibility. You can just change the color schemes that’s it. WPThemeBuilder is the first product you’ll see that can give you 100% flexibility over your themes. You can not only stylized your themes but can also configure your themes as well as the back-end wp-admin panel without touching a single line of code. Even a newbie can now turn wordpress into a CMS.

Lets see what WPThemeBuilder.com can do for you

1. Ability to do all the things normal theme builders does (i.e styling , coloring)
2. Built-in web 2.0 graphics and an option to upload your own graphics for every possible element (from background to heading and list styles) best option for graphic designers who don’t want to stick with coding.
3. You can also configure your theme to be either one column, two column or more than 2 column themes
4. Add as many widgetized sidebars as you want.
5. Customize the post content section (where the content of your posts displays) with content widgets such as social bookmarking, post star ratings, related posts etc. The relevant plugins are automatically added to your theme folders. You can also drag and sort the widgets to suite your desired locations.
6. One of the Best Option : Nobody else doing this but WPThemeBuilder does. You can now customize your home page with very highly flexible widgets and give your home page a different look than all other blog pages. Isn’t that cool?
7. The Home Page Widgets: This is the best option that turns your wordpress into a powerful CMS. You can add editable text widgets, content sliders (jQuer powered), photoblogging widgets for photography lovers, magazine layout widgets for multi-column post displaying, tabbed content widgets and much much more.
8. Navigation Menus: Another cool option, you can add as many drop down and top level menus as you want. These can be paged menus, categories menu and even configurable menus from WP-Admin, so the navigation will be in your own hand from WP-Admin
9. Archive Layout Styles: Wow, another cool option, now get ride of normal blogging look and set the archive layout in many different styles. One column , multi column with or without image thumbnails, photo galleries and many other archiving styles.
10. Pagination in your hand: No need to style up your pagination list as WPThemeBuilder have a pre-define list of pagination styles that can suite your themes
11. Rounded Corners: turn the main layout elements to be rounded corners to give a nice web 2.0 look to your themes
12. and many many more options. Another feature is that its online and you can also share your own ideas you want to see in this tool.

What about Administration of Themes?

Well , wPThemeBuilder handles everything itself. Many editable widgets will come with an admin panel for their configuration. These are located in Theme options page and only be built for those widgets you added in WPThemeBuilder. Visit WPThemeBuilder now

What else is remaining?

Well it looks like the Theme clubs age is going to be over as well as the theme frameworks. As this tool does all for you.

Did I told you its very cheap?

Yes, WPThemeBuilder can generate premium WP themes as low as $3 per theme. Their are different set of subscription plans you can take a look at their website for more details

Visit WPThemeBuilder now

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Apple

This gallery has been created with a combination of Photoshop and flash. A full tutorial for creating graphics and flash component, can be found here.

This gallery needs to be a full screen gallery as its really big to fit in whole browser screen. But this have excellent animations specially when you click on a thumbnail it comes to front and move other thumbnails to sides.  View a Demo of this gallery. Or you can also download this image gallery in a zip format here.

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Featured post slideshow or slider is one of the primary element of a premium wordpress theme. Slideshows can be built very easily but turning them into wordpress plugin and giving them an interface is not an easy job for all developers specially designers who always wanted to keep themselves away from coding.

Featured Content Slider Plugin

Featured Content Gallery is a plugin for wordpress which lets you to pick a few posts from a specific category or via post IDs and then display them in a slideshow. The slideshow is very cool which displays an image in background and description of post in a fading gray box in bottom of this widget. Problem with featured content gallery is that you always need to have an image in your post to display this slideshow properly.

The plugin is very easy to use, setup and then configuration is also very easy. All you need is to create a category called Featured. This is not necessary, you can also choose post ID’s which will be then displayed in a slideshow view.

Download Wordpress Featured Content Slider Plugin

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But today i found a wonderful jQuery plugin called Scrollable. Now I can build any of above widgets with just this tiny plugin. And it also have a very good API so any one can build any type of scrolling widget.

For example you can see this can be used for a news scrolling widget(can be viewed on scrollable home page) with previous next buttons too. It have an API , you can simply use the parameters and disable/enable anything.

By default it uses two elements with prev,next class to use as navigation buttons. Or if you have enabled the navibar, it will create a numeric navigation bar to control your scrolling area.

You can also create your own navigation numeric bar or a tabbed navigation. Just tell the plugin what class is used with your navigation element and it will pick that up.

Anything can be scrolled. Any valid HTML element like DIV’s , Ordered or un-ordered list items etc.

Download the Plugin and view the API documentation for more details.

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1. BG Pattern Generator

BG Pattern Generator is an online tool which generate patterns for body or content backgrounds. It have a big collection of black/white pattern images and then you can use your own colors to these patterns. A very quick tool to generate web 2.0 backgrounds.

2. Stripe Designer

Stripes are another web 2.0 styled graphics. These can be used for pae background as well as button backgrounds.  Stripe Designer is a very good and handy tool to create web 2.0 stripes on the fly. It have a lot of cool options and textures as well as many different shapes of strips. You can use and alter different option’s combinations to make unlimited number of different stripes.

3. Tartan Designer - Another Pattern Generator

Patterns are very cool when they are built with some web 2.0 nice color scheme. Tartan pattern designer is another handy tool to create patterns online easily. It have daggers and sliders to maintain the background or foreground colors of patterns and also the size of pattern stripes. View Tartan Generator.

4. Another Web 2.0 stripe generator

This one is another stripe generator. It does the same job as the above one but it have some wider stripes specially for web 2.0 background effects. View this Tool

5. Dotted Background Generator

If you want to make a dotted background effect then this tool will be very helpful. Look at the screenshot. It can build a dotted background in single or gradient colors from top (big dots) to bottom (short dots).

6. BG Gradient Generator

Dynamic drive have a gradient generator tool which can be used to create multi colored gradient backgrounds for your web pages. Its very easy and can be used with two color gradients (vertical & horizontal). View this tool.

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WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

And that is because wordpress definitely provided almost everything for FREE. A lots of FREE themes you can download from Wordpress Themes cataloge, a lot of plugins from Wordpress Plugins directory and best of all is the support. You can mostly find your answers from wordpress support site but even if did not find any answer then google is always with you as millions of wordpress users are also wordpress helpers for newbies. Anyways I have sorted out a short list of best wordpress killer plugins which a blogger must have when using wordpress.

1. Wordpress DB-Backup

Without this plugin we always have to backup the database manually from phpmyadmin or any other tool. Which is a bit tough for non-tech guys. Wordpress DB-Backup plugin helps you to build backups periodically. It can backup your wordpress core tables as well as you can also select more tables to backup with. Its an essential need because nobody knows what will happen to web hosting server next day … Grab the plugin

2. Wordpress Akismet Plugin

Are you a SPAM lover or SPAM hater. If you hate SPAMING then you must have this plugin. No matter how much you try but a spammer will always perform his duty and make Spam comments on your blog unless you have some good reason and a good way to stop them. Akismet is the way to go. Akismet is a wordpress plugin that comes to wordpress with its installation as well. It protects you and avoid spammer to make any comment on your blog. You have to get a FREE API key from wordpress.com to use this plugin and protect your blog from SPAMMERS. GRAB it if you don’t have it.

3 WP-Super CACHE Plugin

Are you worried about your big traffic or bandwidth usage of your blog. You probably would have to worry unless you have WP-Super Cache plugin. This plugin converts all of your dynamic blog posts into static html pages which can reduce the server resource usage from 25% to 100%. You can set the time whenever this plugin will regenerate a new copy of your pages and posts. The beauty of this plugin is that it is very intelligent and take care of your dynamic data such as widgets, sidebars and anything you don’t want to cache. GET WP-Super CACHE plugin.

4. Share this - Make your posts shareable

Everyone wants to spread the word they are writing on  their blogs. So there is the Share this plugin which enables your visitors to share your blog posts or pages to the world. Share this have a lot of social bookmarking options such as digg, technorati, reddit, yahoo bookmarks and many more. It also have an emailing feature so the users can email the posts or pages to their friends and family. Get Share this Plugin.

5. All In one SEO Pack

All in one SEO pack is one of the best wordpress plugins to be used for Search engine optimization. It provides you many options such as setting your home page and post page title formats in whatever way you want without touching any theme code. It also gives you options to add meta tags and keywords whenever you are creating new posts and pages. Download ALL in one SEO Pack.

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jQuery may have many color picker plugins. Some are very simple while some are very complex and useful. Below is a short list of jQuery best color pickers plugins.

1. EyeCon’s jQuery Color Picker

As you can see from above screenshot this is very handy color picker plugin with a sexy black look and controls. It is very easy to implement and you can assign its hex color return value to any input field or any DOM element. It can change the colors in real time or after you pressing the color button in control. You can downoad EyeCon’s jQuery color picker plugin from here.

2. Farbtastic jQuery Color Picker Plugin

This is my 2nd favorite color picker plugin for jQuery. It is a color wheel unlike the above plugin but it does the same job as eyecon’s picker plugin does. Download this Color Picker.

3. Another Simple Color Picker

This one is another similar to EyeCon’s color picker but it is simpler and have no sexy black look. Simple controls but it does the job well. There is only one little problem that you always have to click OK button to close this pop up picker. View Details and Download.

4. jQuery Color Picker (Pre-defined color boxes)

This color picker have a pre-defined number of color boxes. You can choose any color from them and it will set the value of target element to the selected hex color value. Download & Details.

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Web 2.0 Color Palette

Web 2.0 Color Pallete holds three basic and most used colors in popular websites. Natural palette with lighter colors, bold palette with some dark colors and muted palette with dark but another set of different colors.

Color Lovers

If you are a designer then you should already have heard about colorlovers. You can search and find thousands of cool color codes as well color pallets from this website. Designers and color lovers like you, submit their thoughts and spread it to the world though color lovers. This website also contains pallets and patterns which you can use in your designs.

ColorToy 2.0 - Web 2.0 Color generator

ColorToy 2.0 is a flash based tool which can generate web 2.0 colors in a given RGB range. You can specify a Red, Green and Blue color range and it will give you web 2.0 colors in this range. It will skip all the other colors and display you the best colors in this range. You can also use the Random function to generate random colors. I love this tool

ColorBlender - Web 2.0 Color Maker

ColorBlender is similar to ColorToy but with a greater flexibility and big range of color sets. All you have to do is to go to ColorBlender and then select a desire color range but dragging RGB color sliders and it will bring you 6 best web 2.0 colors in this range and more colors in lower boxes. This is one of best tools that a designer should have.

ColorJack - Web 2.0 Color palette

ColorJack have a big list of web 2.0 colors and each color it self contains 5 more colors in that range when you mouse over a color box. These colors are pre defined and you can not generate your own but its a good and nice list for pre-built color codes.

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Yesterday i was developing a wordpress plugin with ajax then i found an easy way to perform all ajax and javascript commands directly from my php source file. Here is how easily it can be done.

1. Use jQuery for ajax Events

I have used jQuery because of its powerful ajax core function and it is very easy to implement. You never need to define any xmlhttp object. jQuery does that all for you. Here is a tutorial that explains how to perform ajax actions with jQuery.

2. download jQuery Taconite Plugin

Teconite Plugin is very easily to use. You don’t have to write any code for this plugin. Just include it in header file after jQuery and it will perform its internal events automatically whenever you will make any ajax action. (get , post etc). Teconite plugin will be used to perform DOM update events directly from our backend php source script. Download Plugin and include it in your header file.

3.  Create a DOM element to be updated via PHP

Now you have to define some html element so we can update it via php. You can also create this element dynamically from backend script but lets just create it.

<p id="update_me"></p>

<input type="button" id="call_ajax" value="Update" />

4. Define an event for the button

Put this in your header script

$(document).ready(function(){
   $("#call_ajax").click(function(){
    $.ajax({ type : 'post', url : 'script.php' , data { newValue : 'This value will be added to P Tag'} });
            });
   });
});

5. The Back end handler script.php

<?php
 header("Content-type : text/xml"); ?>
?>

6. Write Taconite Code to Update DOM element

<?php
header("Content-type : text/xml"); ?>
<taconite>
  <append select="update_me">
      <?php echo $_POST['newValue'];  ?>
  </append>
</taconite>

A little Explanation

PHP must be set to return xml headers. So whatever we put in taconite it will be executed in client side. we can also perform javascript events using <eval> and </eval> tags. You can update any DOM element with javascript or other taconite commands. More information here.

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1. jQuery multi-level dropdown menu

This menu is built using jquery and pure css. This menu can be implemented easily with simple unordered lists. You don’t have to worry about editing any JS file but just place an unordered list and assign it a menu class. Your dropdown menu is ready !!.  View a Demo & Download it

2.  Simple Digg like CSS / Javascript Menu

Do you love Digg.com? Then you must be loving its cool interface too. Here is a simple way to build a dropdown digg like CSS vertical menu. View & Download Source

3.  CSS / Javascript a simple but cool Flickr like menu

Have you looked at the popular photo sharing website flickr and its simple , white & blue but sexy interface. You can use a same style of dropdown menus on your website too. Here is the trick.

4. jQuery another dropdown menu (Super fish)

Superfish is a jquery plugin which can let you to create as many dropdown menus as you want with multi-level capabilities. You can create many levels of a menu using superfish plugin. Its very easily to use, all you have to do is to create an unordered list for menus and assign them a superfish class and your menu will be ready. Demo & Download

5. Mootools Dropdown menu

Mootool is a powerful javascript client library. This menu is built using mootools and it have a sexy black look by default but you can edit the css per your needs. It have a cool dropdown fadein and fadeout effect too. View Demo or Download it.

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