Today, I have a little contest here. If you have a nice designed portfolio or website I want to feature you in here. I will choose 5 website with nice design and interface and They will be featured in a upcoming post. There are so many talented web designer out there. I want to see your creative designs and ideas.
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Sometime there are projects or clients that need to be done in one days or so. When you need a quick striped background, a CSS menu, web 2.0 badges these tools are lifesavers. Recently, these generators helped me on one of the photo gallery I was working on. Maybe your are designer who wants to create and do all your design from scratch. But these tools are just a help dose on the side when you need them.  So,use these tools when you need and share them. Here are they are.
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In this post I will show you how to build  a website with a free host and domain without even paying a dime. If I can not accomplished that at the end of the post, You can call me a liar (hehe). I am writing this post from my experience. I will try to explain single details and in easy terms. The amount of coding you will need, I will try to keep it as minimal as I can. If your are an intermediate user you can skip through the little details or this maybe old and obsolete information to you. The only catch about this is that, the domain you will get will not be a “.com”. It will be “co.cc” ( I will explain it later in the post. )Would you rather have  alex.co.cc or alex.blogspot.com or alex.wordpress.com?  If you want have your own website but you do not want to pay monthly because you maybe just need little space and bandwidth or maybe you have a website already and want  a free domain for testing purpose, this method is for you.

First here is a demo of a free domain I set up for this tutorial
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Web designers, Doctor, Engineers, Bus Drivers and etc no matter  what  you are, everyone likes music. Music is an universal language. This week’s web sites review I have decided to review/share music sites that has good interface, user intuitive and easy to use. Some of the sites you might already know. One thing to note most of this are flash based. I tired to test to couple of them using IE tester and it just froze ( Another reason to Dump IE 6).  I am not going to talk about Lastfm, Imeem or Pandora because they are mainstream music sites. I always look for free ans alternatives. Let me stop the word of wisdom’s and get to the sites.

GrooveShark

I found grooveshark  couple of months ago. I was trying to find a site to share music online and I found Grooveshark. This is a P2P service.  You can share  any kind of music with your friends. This sites had little Java application that allows to upload songs. Read the rest of this entry »