Open Picture Window opens a new browser window containing the image specified using JavaScript. You have the option to choose the features as well as choose if you want it to be centered.

Thumbnailer is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to generate thumbnails of images “on the fly” i.e. the script will create a thumbnail of the original image as it is viewed.

Header Image Rotator rotates your blog header images.

WP2HTML lets you export your blog entries as a single HTML file. Adds HTML file to ZIP archive. Also check out Gravatar (and userpics) on the same page. It allows you to generate a gravatar URL complete with rating, size, default, and border options. See the documentation for syntax and usage. It also shows LiveJournal userpics in comments.

cforms offers convenient deployment of multiple contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page. The form submission utilizes AJAX, however, falls back to the standard method if AJAX/Javascript is not supported.

Random Link Button plugin give you the ability to place a button on your blog that directs the user to a random site every time it is pressed. The random link is chosen out of your WordPress blogroll, so you can make use of your existing links.

Blockquote Cite allows you to add easily cite references when using the blockquote tag. To add a reference, simply use the cite element and then enter the URL of site the content was quoted from. If a logo is available for that site, it will be displayed. Otherwise a text link will be used.

Force User Field Registration forces new users to register additional fields (such as first name and last name).

Check Email Posts uses the inbuilt cron to check for posts-by-email every hour.

WordPress Comment Spam Stopper stops comment spam by adding an additional question field that a visitor must answer before the comment is submitted.

StripTease is a simple filter that strips fragment identifiers from WordPress’s default teaser links so that they link to full posts. It doesn’t require any configuration, and it works with WordPress’s default querystring permalinks, as well as its rewrite-based “pretty permalinks.”

Mint Popular Posts is a WordPress plugin that for use in conjunction with theMint.

URI Index Remover removes “index.php” from any URI ending in “index.php”. It does an instant redirect to the non-index.php equivalent of that page.

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Join us as we countdown 100 90 80 70 60 WordPress Themes you probably
haven’t seen yet. All themes offer quality, elegance and a user-friendly
interface. Each day we will showcase 10 random themes free for you to download
and use with your own WordPress blog.

60. I feel dirty [ Preview ]

59. Drunk Loser [ Preview ]

58. ChipShot [ Preview ]

57. Kiss Theme [ Preview ]

56. Organique [ Preview ]

55. Theme Leia [ Preview ]

54. Sirius [ Preview ]

53. Pink-Kupy 1.0 [ Preview ]

52. Free FU [ Preview ]

51. Neo Sapien [ Preview ]

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Join us as we countdown 100 90 80 70 WordPress Themes you probably haven’t seen yet. All themes offer quality, elegance and a user-friendly interface. Each day we will showcase 10 random themes free for you to download and use with your own WordPress blog.

70. Aalglatt V1.0 [ WP 2.0, Preview, based on Green Marinйe ]

69. Blue Moon 1.0 [ WP 2.0, Preview ]

68. Light 1.0 [ WP 2.0, Preview ]

67. Fall Season [ Preview ]

66. Mental Disorder [ Preview ]

65. Orange Sky [ WP 2.0, Download ]

64. Blue Kino [ Preview ]

63. StripedPlus 1.0 [ Preview ]

62. TerraFirma [ Preview ]

61. Brajeshwar v 7.0 [ Preview ]

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Join us as we countdown 100 90 80 70 WordPress Themes you probably
haven’t seen yet. All themes offer quality, elegance and a user-friendly
interface. Each day we will showcase 10 random themes free for you to download
and use with your own WordPress blog.

70. Aalglatt V1.0 [ WP 2.0, Preview, based on Green Marinйe ]

69. Blue Moon 1.0 [ WP 2.0, Preview ]

68. Light 1.0 [ WP 2.0, Preview ]

67. Fall Season [ Preview ]

66. Mental Disorder [ Preview ]

65. Orange Sky [ WP 2.0, Download ]

64. Blue Kino [ Preview ]

63. StripedPlus 1.0 [ Preview ]

62. TerraFirma [ Preview ]

61. Brajeshwar v 7.0 [ Preview ]

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Join us as we countdown 100 90 80 WordPress Themes you probably
haven’t seen yet. All themes offer quality, elegance and a user-friendly
interface. Each day we will showcase 10 random themes free for you to download
and use with your own WordPress blog.

80. Beast-Blog v.2.0 [ Preview ]

79. Foliage, Foliage Mod [ Preview ]

78. Peaceful Rush [ Preview ]

77. (Not so) Fresh [ Preview ]

76. Digg 3 Columns [ Preview ]

75. GR [ Preview ]

74. Bastard Theme [ Preview ]

73. Contaminated [ Preview ]

72. Greenery [ Preview ]

71. Mollio [ Preview ]

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Join us as we countdown 100 90 80 WordPress Themes you probably
haven’t seen yet. All themes offer quality, elegance and a user-friendly
interface. Each day we will showcase 10 random themes free for you to download
and use with your own WordPress blog.

80. Beast-Blog v.2.0 [ Preview ]

79. Foliage, Foliage Mod [ Preview ]

78. Peaceful Rush [ Preview ]

77. (Not so) Fresh [ Preview ]

76. Digg 3 Columns [ Preview ]

75. GR [ Preview ]

74. Bastard Theme [ Preview ]

73. Contaminated [ Preview ]

72. Greenery [ Preview ]

71. Mollio [ Preview ]

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This is the image we will be working with for this example and removing the background from using channels!:

Step 1:

The first step is to ensure that the image you’re working with is on a new layer, as shown in the following image:

Step 2:

Click on the “Channels” tab in your Layers Palette and determine which color channel best represents the area we want to capture. Shown in the image here from top to bottom, you can see the red, blue, and green channels for this image. It’s obvious that the red channel contains the most information for capturing the flame – click that layer, and the image you’re working with will change to show the channels values:

Step 3:

Once you have found the correct channel to work with for your image, click and drag it down onto the “New Layer” icon as shown in the example here:

Step 4:

It will create a duplicate of that layer, but it is now used as an “Alpha Channel” selection layer (this will make more sense soon). Re-name the layer to “ALPHA”:

Step 5:

-This is a MAJOR STEP, PAY ATTENTION-
Everything that is BLACK on this ALPHA layer will be deleted, keep this in mind! If there is anything in the image that you want gone, make sure to take out the paintbrush and paint black over the top of it (MAKE SURE that you’re doing this with the ALPHA layer selected still). In my example here, i am painting over the top of a smaller flame:

Step 6:

Once that is done, go up to the menu and open the “Select” menu, then go down to the bottom and choose “Load Selection” – you will get the following window. Drop down the “Channel” list and choose ALPHA, then make sure to tick the box underneath it saying “Invert” (This will make sure you’re not deleting the FLAME, but everything else except that object.) Press OK:

Step 7:

Your image will now look like this, with the ‘Marching Ants’ selection showing that all the black is selected:

Step 8:

Now simply hit the delete key and it will delete all of the selected area, leaving you with just the flame on its own layer, and the background layer underneath it:

Step 9:

To test out that it worked okay, insert an image UNDERNEATH the layer that the flame is on – it should work like this:

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The following is from a post from Webmaster World. I think it’s a great article and a good read for anyone starting up a website.

I know this system works 100% of the time with Google to attain rankings across a wide range of keywords. This is what I do with clients to build a successful site and it has worked every time. The level of success will depend largely on the subject matter, its potential audience, and its level of competition on the net.

The following will build a successful site in one years time via Google alone. It can be done faster if you are a real go getter, or everyone’s favorite, a self starter.

1. Prep Work & Begin Building Content

Long before the domain name is settled on, start putting together notes to build at least a one hundred page site. That’s just for openers. That’s one
hundred pages of real content, as opposed to fluff pages like copyright information and about us pages.

2. Domain Name

Easily brandable. You want Google.com and not MyKeyword.com. Keyword domains are out—branding and name recognition are in—big time in. The value of keywords in a domain name has never been less to search engines.

Learn the lesson of Goto.com becomes Overture.com and why they did it. It’s one of the most powerful gut check calls I’ve ever seen on the internet. That took serious resolve and nerve to blow away several years of branding.

3. Site Design

The simpler the better. A general rule of thumb to follow is that text content should outweigh the HTML content. The pages should validate and be usable in everything from Lynx to leading edge browsers. Keep the HTML clean and
structurally sound, it makes it easier for spiders to eat up your content.

Stay away from heavy things like Flash, Document Object Model (DOM), Java, and JavaScript. Go external with scripting languages if you must have them—there is little reason to have them that I can see—they will rarely help a site and actually stand to hurt it greatly due to the many factors most people don’t appreciate, such as search engines’ distaste for JavaScript being just one of them.

Arrange the site in a logical manner with directory names hitting the top keywords you wish to hit. You can also go the other route and just throw everything in root. This is a rather controversial method, but it has been producing good long-term results across many search engines.

Don’t clutter and don’t spam your site with frivolous links. Keep it clean and professional to the best of your ability. Learn the lesson of Google itself. Simple is retro cool. Simple is what surfers want.

Speed isn’t everything, it’s almost the only thing. Your site should respond almost instantly to a request. If you get into even three to four seconds delay until “something happens” in the browser, you are in trouble.

Those few seconds may vary for someone living in a country other than your native one. The site should respond locally within three to four seconds tops! Any longer than that, and you’ll lose ten percent of your audience for every second. That ten percent could be the difference between success and failure.

4. Page Size

The smaller the better. Keep it under 15k if you can. The smaller the better. Keep it under 12k if you can. The smaller the better. Keep it under 10k if you can. I trust you are getting the idea here. Over 5k and under 10k. Yeah, it sucks, and it’s tough to do, but it works. It works for search engines, and it works for surfers.

5. Content

Build one page of content with 250 to 500 words per day. If you aren’t sure what you need for content, start with the Overture keyword selector tool and find the core set of keywords for your topic area. Those are your subject starters.

6. Keyword Density & Position

Simple old fashioned search engine optimization from the ground up. Use the keyword once in the title, once in the description tag, once in a heading, once in the url, once in bold, once in italics, and once high on the page. Try to hit a keyword density of five to twenty percent.

Use good sentences and speel check it. Spell checking is becoming increasingly important as search engines use auto-correction during searches. There is no longer a reason to look like you can’t spell—unless, of course, you really are phonetically challenged.

7. External Links

From every page, link to one or two high-ranking sites under that particular keyword. Use your keyword in the link text, as this is ultra important.

8. Internal Links

Link to on-topic, quality content across your site. If a page is about food, then make sure it links to the fruits and veggies page.

Specifically with Google, on-topic internal linking is very important for sharing your PageRank value across your site. You do not want one “all-star” page that out performs the rest of your site. You want fifty pages that produce one referral each a day, not one page that produces fifty referrals a day.

If you do find one page that drastically out performs the rest of the site with Google, you need to balance some of that PageRank value by moving it to other pages. It’s the old share the wealth thing.

9. Put It Online

Don’t go with virtual hosting. Stick with a hosting plan that offers a static IP address. Make sure the site is “crawlable” by a spider. All pages should be linked to more than one other page on your site, and not more than two levels deep from the root. Link the topic vertically as much as possible back to the root. A menu that is present on every page should link to your site’s main “topic index” pages.

Don’t put it online before you have a quality site. It’s worse to put a “nothing” site online, than no site at all. You want it flushed out from the start.

Go for a listing in the Open Directory Project (ODP). If you have the budget, then submit to Looksmart and Yahoo. If you don’t have the budget, then try for a freebie on Yahoo—but don’t hold your breath.

10. Submit It

Submit the root to Google, Fast, AltaVista, WiseNut, DirectHit, and HotBot. Now comes the hard part: forget about submissions for the next six months. That’s right. Submit it and forget about it.

11. Logging & Tracking

Get a quality tracker that can do justice to inbound referrals based on log files. Don’t use a lame graphic counter, you need the real deal here. If your host doesn’t support referrers, then back up and get a new host. You can’t run a modern site without full referrals available all day, every day, and in real time.

12. Spiderlings

Watch for spiders from search engines. Make sure those that are crawling the full site can do so easily. If not, double check your linking system to make sure the spiders find their way through the site. Don’t fret if it takes two spiderlings to get your whole site done by Google or Fast. Other search engines are pot luck and it is doubtful that you will be added at all, if not within six months.

13. Topic Directories

Almost every keyword sector has an authority hub on its topic. Go submit within the guidelines.

14. Links

Look around your keyword sector in Google’s version of the Open Directory Project (ODP). This is best done after getting an ODP listing. Find sites that have a links page or that freely exchange links. Simply request a swap. Put a page of relevant content and links up for yourself as a collection spot.

Don’t freak out if you can’t get people to swap links. Just move on. Try to swap links with one fresh site a day. A simple personal email is enough. Stay low key about it and don’t worry if a site won’t link with you. Eventually they will.

15. Content

One page of quality content per day. Timely, topical articles are always the best. Try to stay away from to much personal, blogging type stuff, and look more for article topics that a general audience will like. Hone your writing skills and read up on the right style of “web speak” that tends to work with the fast and furious web crowd.

Lots of text breaks. Short sentences—lots of dashes—something that reads quickly.

Most web users don’t actually read, they scan. This is why it is so important to keep low key pages today. People see a huge overblown page, and a portion of them will hit the back button before even trying to decipher it. They’ve got better things to do than waste 15 seconds trying to understand your whiz bang flash menu system. Just because some big support site can run flashed out motorhead pages, that is no indication that you can. You don’t have to do what they do.

Use headers and bold text liberally on your pages as logical separators. I call them scanner stoppers, where the eye will logically come to rest on the page.

16. Gimmicks

Stay far away from “fads of the day” or anything that appears spammy, unethical, or tricky. Plant yourself firmly on the high ground in the middle of the road.

17. Link Backs

When you receive requests for links, check the site out before linking back with them. Check them through Google and their PageRank value. Look for directory listings. Don’t link back to junk just because they asked. Make sure it is a site similar to yours and on topic.

18. Rounding Out The Offerings

Use options such as email a friend, forums, and mailing lists to round out your site’s offerings. Hit the top forums in your market and read, read, read until your eyes hurt because you read so much. Stay away from “affiliate fads” that insert content on to your site.

19. Beware Of Flyer & Brochure Syndrome

If you have an e-commerce site or online version of bricks and mortar, be careful not to turn your site into a brochure. These don’t work at all. Think about what people want. They aren’t coming to your site to view “your content,” they are coming to your site looking for “their content.” Talk as little about your products and yourself as possible in articles.

20. Build One Page Of Content Per Day

Head back to the Overture keyword selector tool to get ideas for fresh pages.

21. Study Those Logs

After 30-60 days you will start to see a few referrals from places you’ve been listed. Look for the keywords people are using. See any bizarre combinations? Why are people using those to find your site? If there is something you have over looked, then build a page around that topic. Retro engineer your site to feed the search engine what it wants.

If your site is about “oranges,” but your referrals are all about “orange citrus fruit,” then you can get busy building articles around “citrus” and “fruit” instead of the generic “oranges.”

The search engines will tell you exactly what they want to be fed—listen closely, there is gold in referral logs, it’s just a matter of panning for it.

22. Timely Topics

Nothing breeds success like success. Stay abreast of developments in your keyword sector. If big site is coming out with a new product at the end of the year, then build a page and have it ready in October so that search engines get it by December, e.g. go look at all the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii sites in Google right now. Those are sites that were on the ball last summer.

23. Friends & Family

Networking is critical to the success of a site. This is where all that time you spend in forums will pay off. Here’s the Catch-22 about forums: lurking is almost useless. The value of a forum is in the interaction with your fellow colleagues and cohorts. You learn long-term by the interaction—not by just reading.

Networking will pay off in link backs, tips, email exchanges, and it will put you “in the loop” of your keyword sector.

24. Be Social

Social bookmarking and networking sites can be used to your advantage if the content is right. Places like Digg, Delicious, Technorati, StumbleUpon, and so on, can really expose your site to those that truly are interested. Expect some great backlinks and traffic if you use this to your advantage.

25. Notes, Notes, Notes

If you build one page per day, you will find that a brainstorm like inspiration will hit you in the head at some magic point. Whether it is in the shower (dry off first), driving down the road (please pull over), or just parked at your desk, write it down! Ten minutes later and you will have forgotten all about that great idea you just had. Write it down, and get detailed about what you are thinking. When the inspirational juices are no longer flowing, come back to those content ideas. It sounds simple, but it’s a life saver when the ideas stop coming.

26. Submission Check At Six Months

Walk back through your submissions and see if you are listed in all the search engines you submitted to after six months. If not, then resubmit and forget it again. Try those freebie directories again too.

27. Build One Page Of Quality Content Per Day

Starting to see a theme here? Google loves content. Lots of quality content. Broad based over a wide range of keywords. At the end of a years time, you should have around four hundred pages of content. That will get you good placement under a wide range of keywords, generate
reciprocal links, and overall position your site to stand on its own two feet.

Do those twenty-seven things, and I guarantee you that in ones years time you will call your site a success. It will be drawing between 500 and 2000 referrals a day from search engines.

If you build a good site with an average of four to five pages per user, you should be in the ten to fifteen thousand page views per day range in one years time. What you do with that traffic is up to you, but that is more than enough to “do something” with.

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How many times did you scratch your head over the result your friends are getting on Google search? You did your homework diligently to get your new website into the world largest search engine but 6 month had passed and nothing happened. And you wanted to give up at this instant. But the back of your head is telling you there got to be an easier way to do this.

Well, you are right. I am just like you trying method after method with disappointment. I am writing this article to share with you or short cut your pain to getting top 10 positions in Google. Yes, if your website is not even rank in google you can never get traffic from natural search and ouch it hurts your motivation as an internet marketers or an online business owner. Are you ready?

My method of getting my websites ranked in google fast is simply following the steps I show you here. No tweaking is need unless you wanted lousy result.

Step 1: Knowing. If you are doing site on Adsense or promoting affiliate products, please do your homework. Know what products you are actually promoting. Did you personally use it? What are the key benefits and features?

Step 2: Picking. Once you list down your product or website benefits, identify key phase people which are popular. How? Go to google and do a search with quotes, “”, around your key phase. Those key phases which have resulted pages between 1000 to 5000, pick those. You are actually mining golden key phase. This is an important step.

Step 3: Writing. How many times you are being reminded to market your website via article marketing? Yes, if you wanted to start making some decent money online, you got to write about your website or products you are promoting. Else who will know?

Step 4: Submitting. You got articles written in Step 3 and the next natural step to do is to submit it to article directory. Which article directory to submit to? Aren’t the answer staring at you. For completeness submit to ezinearticles and goarticles. There is simply no need to submit your articles all over the Internet. Why? Google loves big article directory site.

Step 5: Waiting. If you have did step 1 to step 4 correctly, you should be waiting for your articles to be reviewed and approved. Once approved by article directories, your articles should be appearing on Google page 1, which is the top 10 position, in a few days.

You might be thinking should article be search engine optimised. Well, the fact you just did optimised your article title in step 2. I guess by now you have gotten the extra advantage from the usual article writer in getting your article listed and driving natural search visitors to your website.

Adwin Ang is a ezine author, affiliate marketer and adsense publisher. He has been actively helping newbie Internet marketing both online and offline to make their first buck. Did you find those tips on getting top 10 positions useful? If you are interested to learn about how your site can be listed in top 10 Google using laser targeted keywords, visit http://affiliateslittleguy.com/GetTraffic.html

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Here’s a nice list I picked up from Oodle.com, a contender to Google Base / Froogle, Craigslist, and iBegin.com for those looking to sell or post something online. Should be able to give those looking to place an ad more places to market online.

If you’re looking to list based on:

General Classifieds
Lycos – free
Getitsellit – free
AdPost – free
DomesticSale – free
Whabam – $$
eBay – $$
Sell.com – $$

Cars
Lycos – free
LocalCycles – free
CarsDirect – $$
MotorCycleSellerZ – $$
TruckTraderOnline – $$
BoatQuest – $$
eBay – $$

Real Estate
Lycos – free
DomesticSale – free
eBay – $$
Sell.com – $$
ForSalebyOwner – $$
ByOwner – $$
Yahoo Real Estate – $$

For Rent
Lycos – free
Geebo – free
FindHomeRentals – free
RoomMateClick – free
Vacation Rentals – free
Vacation Home Zone – free
EasyRoommate – $$
RentClicks – $$

Jobs
Lycos – free
Idealist – free
TemporarEASE – $$
JobCentral – $$
Monster – $$
Yahoo Hot Jobs – $$
CareerBuilder – $$

Pets
Lycos – free
Geebo – free
PuppyPassport – free
PetFinder – free
Equine.com – free

Services
Lycos – free
Getitsellit – free
AdPost – free
DomesticSale – free

Tickets
Lycos – free
Stubhub – free
RazorGator – free
GreatSeats – free
eBay – $$

Merchandise
Lycos – free
Geebo – free
Getitsellit – free
AdPost – free
DomesticSale – free
MotherhoodMarket – free
eBay – $$
Sell.com – $$
MyDrew – $$

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