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Ten of the Best Retro & Vintage Style Websites

josh — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 09:38:57 +0000

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When you are looking to design a website, there are so many different styles that you can opt for. A lot of people opt for modern web 2.0 based websites while many others are quite happy with other designs. One of the best styles of design that we thin kyou can design your website as is a retro or vintage style theme. These can dd that extra flare to your website and really make it stand out amongst the crowd. To show you some inspriration for your website, we have compiled a list of our top 10 favourite vintage and retro websites.

1. Literary Bohemian

This website has a very cool vintage design that really stands out amongst the crowd. Click here to visit the website.

2. Forty Seven Media

This graphic design company also has a very retor/vintage style design and is very inspiring. Click here to visit the website.

3. The Blizzards

The Blizzards is a website for a band and it is very retor styled. Click here to visit the website.

4. The Moon

This is the website for a radio station and the retro design is very inspring and stands out well. Click here to visit the website.

5. The Nest

This website has a great design and is very different from the typical boring website. Click here to visit the website.

6. Sourcebits

This is one of our favourite websites when it comes to design, the retro feel to the website is excellent. Click here to visit the website.

7. Fred Perry

We have all heard of Fred Perry and a lot of us probably own their clothes. Their website takes advantage of a vintage style, making it really stand out. Click here to visit the website.

8. Adaptd

This website is one of the most retro websites we’ve found and the design in wonderful. Click here to visit the website.

9. Blue Moon

This is the website for psome piano players and the design of the website is very retro and really suits the content. Click here to visit the website.

10. MediaBoom

We love the design of this website and it really stands out amongst the crowd. It stears well away from the traditional website design. Click here to visit the website.

Author Bio : Greg Draper, I run a number of websites currently which are all hosted with a dedicated UK web hosting company called nethosted, im working on a number of projects and enjoy full time blogging , one of my latest projects being ibiza 2012

Ten of the Best Retro & Vintage Style Websites

Top tips for .htaccess and Robots.txt Part 1

admin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:00:11 +0000

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We often find with clients that the .htaccess and robots.txt file is most of the time left as standard or not used at all, This can not only cause your site to be using unnecessary bandwidth but can also expose it to scrapers, crawlers and “bad bots”. In this post we will go through a couple of useful hints and tips surrounding our favourite Blogging platform “wordpress” and our favorite Forum script “vbulletin” , that is not to say however that some of these things will not work on an ordinary site.I have commented below if a certain part is specifically for wordpress or vbulletin , the rest can be used across the board. This information can be found around the web

Lets start things off with the .htaccess file :

1. Redirecting www. to a non www or visa versa

: This is to ensure your site is not seen the same in two locations and is more for SEO or more specifically URL canonicalization.

What is URL canonicalization ? i hear you asking , URL canonicalization is what has been described by Matt Cutts Webspam team as “the process of picking the best url when there are several choices”

Redirect non Www to Www. :

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Redirect Www to non Www :

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond % ^www.yourdomain.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

2. Filtering Out Badbots

Bad bots are generally Web Crawlers which cause you and your site problems, From spamming , scaping ( stealing your content ) finding certain file extensions ( like Mp3′s ) and harvesting email addresses. This bad bot list should help fight at least some of them . Feel free to add to this list in the comment sections

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^BlackWidow [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Bot\ mailto:craftbot@yahoo.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ChinaClaw [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Custo [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^DISCo [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Download\ Demon [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^eCatch [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EirGrabber [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailSiphon [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailWolf [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Express\ WebPictures [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ExtractorPro [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EyeNetIE [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^FlashGet [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GetRight [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GetWeb! [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go!Zilla [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go-Ahead-Got-It [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GrabNet [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Grafula [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^HMView [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^HTTrack [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Image\ Stripper [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Image\ Sucker [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Indy\ Library [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^InterGET [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Internet\ Ninja [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^JetCar [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^JOC\ Web\ Spider [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^larbin [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^LeechFTP [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mass\ Downloader [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^MIDown\ tool [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mister\ PiX [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Navroad [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NearSite [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetAnts [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetSpider [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Net\ Vampire [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetZIP [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Octopus [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Offline\ Explorer [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Offline\ Navigator [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^PageGrabber [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Papa\ Foto [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^pavuk [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^pcBrowser [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^RealDownload [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ReGet [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SiteSnagger [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SmartDownload [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SuperBot [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SuperHTTP [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Surfbot [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^tAkeOut [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Teleport\ Pro [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^VoidEYE [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web\ Image\ Collector [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web\ Sucker [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebAuto [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebCopier [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebFetch [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebGo\ IS [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebLeacher [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebReaper [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebSauger [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Website\ eXtractor [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Website\ Quester [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebStripper [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebWhacker [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebZIP [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Widow [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WWWOFFLE [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Xaldon\ WebSpider [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Zeus [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*WebZIP.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Iria.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Stripper.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Offline.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Copier.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Crawler.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Snagger.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Teleport.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Reaper.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Wget.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Grabber.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Sucker.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Downloader.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Siphon.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Collector.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Mag-Net.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Widow.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Pockey.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*DA.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Snake.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*BackWeb.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*gotit.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Vacuum.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*SmartDownload.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Pump.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*HMView.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Ninja.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*HTTrack.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*JOC.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*likse.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Memo.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*pcBrowser.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*SuperBot.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*leech.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Mirror.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Recorder.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*GrabNet.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Likse.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Navroad.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*attach.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Magnet.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Surfbot.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Bandit.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Ants.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Buddy.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Whacker.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*DISCo\Pump.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Drip.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*EirGrabber.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*ExtractorPro.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*EyeNetIE.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*FlashGet.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*GetRight.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Gets.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Go!Zilla.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Go-Ahead-Got-It.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Grafula.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*IBrowse.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*InterGET.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Internet\Ninja.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*JetCar.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*JustView.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*MIDown\tool.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Mister\PiX.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*NearSite.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*NetSpider.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Offline\Explorer.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*PageGrabber.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Papa\Foto.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Pockey.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*ReGet.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Slurp.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*SpaceBison.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*SuperHTTP.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Teleport.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*WebAuto.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Webcam\Watcher.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*WebCopier.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*WebFetch.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*WebReaper.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*FreeLoader.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Clint’s\Webcam.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*WebCam\Spy.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*CamEVU.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*iCamMaster.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Cam\Chaser\Pro.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*FlashIT.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*WebSauger.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*WebStripper.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*WebWhacker.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*WebZIP.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Web\Image\Collector.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Web\Sucker.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Webster.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Wget.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*eCatch.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*ia_archiver.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*lftp.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*tAkeOut.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*FileHound.*$
RewriteRule ^.* – [F,L]

3. Blocking access to your .htaccess file

. You really dont want people looking at your .htaccess file so use this to block them.

order allow,deny

deny from all

Now for the Robots.txt , The robots.txt is known as The Robots Exclusion Protocol. Basically meaning it can be used to tell web robots not to crawl a certain part of the sites structure, Most importantly places like admin folders , not only will this save you bandwidth but will also save the bots from indexing potencially harmful folders.

1. The best Robots.txt Document to use for wordpress blogs :

Note – Should only be used with WordPress installs

User-agent: *

Disallow: /wp-content/

Disallow: /wp-icludes/

Disallow: /trackback/

Disallow: /wp-admin/

Disallow: /archives/

Disallow: /category/

Disallow: /tag/*

Disallow: /tag/

Disallow: /wp-*

Disallow: /login/

Disallow: /*.js$

Disallow: /*.inc$

Disallow: /*.css$

Disallow: /*.php$

User-agent: All

Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image

Disallow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver

Disallow: /

User-agent: duggmirror

Disallow: /

2. The best Robots.txt documents to use with vbulletin Forums

: Note – Should only be used with vbulletin installs

User-agent: *

Disallow: /cgi-bin/

Disallow: /admincp/

Disallow: /announcement.php

Disallow: /calendar.php

Disallow: /cron.php

Disallow: /editpost.php

Disallow: /faq.php

Disallow: /joinrequests.php

Disallow: /login.php

Disallow: /member.php

Disallow: /misc.php

Disallow: /modcp/

Disallow: /moderator.php

Disallow: /newreply.php

Disallow: /newthread.php

Disallow: /online.php

Disallow: /printthread.php

Disallow: /private.php

Disallow: /profile.php

Disallow: /register.php

Disallow: /search.php

Disallow: /sendmessage.php

Disallow: /showgroups.php

Disallow: /showpost.php

Disallow: /subscription.php

Disallow: /subscriptions.php

Disallow: /threadrate.php

Disallow: /usercp.php

Obviously you could expand on these no end , however we feel these are at very least the basic functions that every wordpress and vbulletin install should ship with.

We’d love to hear comments on other methods or code you guys use to protect and opimise your sites, this is the end of part 1 . However Stay subscribed for Part 2 to be posted in the near future with more hints and tips including hotlink protection and how to locate the badbots useragents from your sites log files.

Top tips for .htaccess and Robots.txt Part 1

Best SEO Software information

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:11:36 +0000

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One of the things that is absolutely paramount to any website is that you have a lot of people visiting it. It doesn’t matter whether you are offering advice, a blog or selling a product or service, your website is basically worthless if there is no traffic to the website. Getting traffic through search engines is something that all website owners strive to do and there is a great piece of software that helps you do this. BestSEOSoftware.co takes a look at some of the best SEO software out there that will help you to optimise your website for the search engines. There are detailed reviews of many pieces of software that are all part of one brilliant package.

The website is designed quite simply but all of the information that you need is presented in a nice and easy to read format. The website mainly focuses on the SEO Powersuite Software which consists of four different pieces of software .One the homepage, there is a great overview of the products, detailing all of the different things that you get in the software package and how it will help you.

As well as this, every part of the SEO Powersuite software features its very own review on a separate page and this will help you to be able to make a reasoned decision as to whether you would like to purchase the whole package or just one of the pieces of software. The review is well written and informative and offers more on an insight than most other websites out there. The website also offers a discount to any of the visitors that wish to purchase the software and this is worth visiting the website alone. There are two different editions of the software and this website also details the differences.

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Webmaster and SEO Resources Support Site

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:08:07 +0000

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Triphp is a great website that has a lot to offer to anyone that has any kind of interest in the internet or website design and development. The website offers a range of things including a variety of free resources to its visitors as well as valuable information that will not be able to be found anywhere else on the web.

The Triphp.com website has basically been set up in order to give website designers, developers and webmasters the tools that they will need, all in one location. For example, there is a great resources section to the Triphp.com website that offers a range of useful things to any website designer, developer or webmaster including things like an email to image converter, pagerank checker, website speed test and much more. All of these things are available for free to any visitors of the website.

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As well as this, there is also a fantastic blog that will give some excellent resources and advice to anyone that visits it. There are numerous blog posts updated on the website every week with advice on a variety of subjects. The blog posts usually consist of top 10 lists (e.g. top 10 website hosts or 10 of the best video sharing websites). All of the content on the blog is extremely useful to any website developer.

Added on to this, there is also a section that offers a variety of tutorials for webmasters. These are extremely useful and a great learning resource if you are looking to expand your knowledge. There is also a forum on the website that will allow you to discuss issues and thoughts with likeminded people and there is always a great discussion going on. Discussions usually range from anything to do with website design, SEO tools and so on.

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vbulletin Services and Development

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:04:52 +0000

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VbSkinStudio is a fantastic website which is dedicated to the vBulletin system. The website offers a wide range of things that will help you out if you have your own vBulletin forum. vBSkinStudio has a wide range of services that will make your life a whole lot easier as a forum owner and there are some things on offer free of charge, whilst there are some things that the website will charge for.

One of the things that vbSkinStudio offers is free skins for your vBulletin forum. This is a great addition to the website and having a forum that looks unique and interesting is something that isn’t already done for you with the basis vBulletin theme. There are a range of free themes available and they work with the latest version of the vBulletin software.

As well as this, there are also a range of other services that the website offers including installation of vBulletin as well as setup packages and much more. There are options of Search Engine Optimisation as well as upgrade services and it is even possible to get a monthly plan in order to make sure that your vBulletin forum is maintained properly.

Another great service that is on offer from the website is a vBulletin forum. This is where you will be able to discuss almost anything to do with vBulletin with a range of other users on the website and this can be helpful for a variety of things. It is possible to share problems and experiences with the vBulletin software with a lot of different members and doing this will really help you learn.

There are many other services on offer at vBskinStudio including error and bug fixes and much more. There is also a blog that you can get involved in.

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Our Web design Division

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:55:35 +0000

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Unrealdesigns.co.uk is a relatively new website that has been launched that offers a range of website design and other design services for you. Being part of the sister company; RivMedia, the website offers fantastic designs for a range of things at affordable prices and it doesn’t matter what you need in terms of website design and development, Unrealdesigns.co.uk are sure to help you out.

As soon as you visit the website you will become aware of the fantastic design capabilities of the company as the website itself is designed extremely well. The website features a very friendly design that is extremely easy to navigate and use and it makes finding out information on the company extremely easy.

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Unrealdesign.co.uk are also able to offer fantastic SEO services as they have a sister company that specialises in this area. The Rivmedia designs company is well known for excellent quality work in the area of SEO and when paired with the fantastic design and development services on offer from Unrealdesigns, you can be sure that you will get a fantastic website designed and developed.

As well as all of these fantastic services, there is also a blog on the website that offers some free advice and guides to a variety of website related topics and these are well worth a look.

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Best UK Web Hosting Reviews – Top 5

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:49:41 +0000

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		Host unlimited domains, databases and emails Unlimited monthly data transfer and storage 99% uptime guarantee and anytime moneyback	JustHost Reviews
		The only host that is NOT from the UK but we feel they deserve a mention as the Top vBulletin Host around.	URL Jet Reviews

A relatively new kid on the block in UK web hosting is also a company called Nethosted, while reviewing their customer support and what their customers had to say about them we believe they are worthy of a mention as the new up and coming UK web host.

If you have a website of any kind then one of the things that you will really need is a reliable web hosting company to actually host your website. There are so many companies out there that often it is quite difficult to choose which company is the best . In every case, there are a lot of reviews out there which are probably based on commissions rather than true trial and error, Our selected top 5 are based on companies we have had good experiences with, we currently host with eukhost and URLjet and we have used the others in the past. ( among others ).

There are many review websites that offers hundreds of reviews on hundreds of hosting companies. There are a lot of options to choose form that will ensure you get the reviews you need for the type of website hosting you need. Your needs for shared hosting , VPS hosting, dedicated servers are down to your websites requirements , we are always free to help you choose the correct webhost from our top 5 for your sites requirements.

Best UK Web Hosting Reviews – Top 5

Netcashcows Marketing Forums

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:54:05 +0000

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There are a lot of fantastic ways that you are able to make a little bit of extra money online and some people even manage to earn a living online but figuring out what schemes are good ones and what schemes are can be quite a tricky thing. NetCashCows.co.uk is a fantastic website that helps people make these decisions and #gives them a lot of help in this field. The website offer s range of information that will help anyone that is looking to make a little bit of extra money online.

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The website also has a great blog which is regularly updated with new content. The blog also links to a variety of other useful blogs in the area and offers great resources.

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Ten of the Best Forum Scripts Based around PHP & Perl

josh — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:46:34 +0000

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When you are looking to set up a new website, you might consider starting a forum website. Even if you have a website already, you may consider adding a forum to it, so that your users can chat with each other and you can possibly make more money. If you wish to do this, then the first thing you need to do is to actually decide which forum script you are going to use. All of them have their advantages and disadvantages and choosing a good one can be a pain. We have therefore created a list of ten forum scripts that we think are the best.

1. PhpBB

This is one of the most popular forum scripts and it has come far since its creation in the year 2000. Click here to visit the website.

2. Simple Machines Forum

You may not have heard of this one but it is great. Basically it is a free forum script that is extremely professional. Click here to visit the website.

3. PunBB

This forum script is a PHP powered script and is quite lightweight compared with some of the others. Click here to visit the website.

4. Vanilla1

This is an open source forum script that has many features such as different languages and many others. Click here to visit the website.

5. SEO-Board

This forum software it extremely fast and it optimsied specifically for search engines. Click here to visit the website.

6. Aterr

This is another open source forum script that is a threaded forum system. Click here to visit the website.

7. Unclassified Newsboard

This is a PHP based, open source and free forum script that acts as an internet bulletin board. Click here to visit the website.

8. bbPress

This is a very plain and easy to use forum script that has been designed specifically to be easy to use and maintain. Click here to visit the website.

9. FluxBB

This is a great open source forum script that is very fast and user friendly. Click here to visit the website.

10. iKonBoard

This is a very high profile web bulletin board script and is extremely unique. Click here to visit the website.

Ten of the Best Forum Scripts Based around PHP & Perl

Ten of the Most Inspiring Text Only Logos

josh — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:39:10 +0000

RivMedia - Just another WordPress weblog

When you are looking to create a logo for your new website or business, then you may often choose to use some form of symbol as a logo. A lot of businesses do this as it gives people something to remember their business by. However, a lot of businesses never really consider how effective a logo that only consists of text can actually be. Here are our top 10 most inspiring text only logos.

1. Chandelier

This is a beautifully designed logo and really shows just good good a simple text only logo can look.

2. Nicky Romero

This is the logo for a DJ and features only the DJ’s name, however the logo looks stunning.

3. Soak

This is the logo for a digital marketing agency and really shows what can be done with just text on a white background.

4. Verona

This is another lovely lgoo and it has a really classy feel to it. It really shows what a few curves can do.

5. Run

This is an extremely simplistic logo and features only 3 letters on an orange background. However the logo does establish a great brand.

6. Tesaduf

This extremely clever logo uses the text of the name of the company to create a heart in the middle of the logo.

7. Point Nine

This logo uses the ‘I’ as its main feature and a lot of company logos use this effect.

8. Christo

This is a great and simple logo that shows how you can use pictures to make letters in a logo.

9. Femina

Once again this is an extremely classy looking logo that creates a great brand image.

10. Sweet Land

This logo really shows how you can make text stand out and portray what the brands is all about.

Ten of the Most Inspiring Text Only Logos