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Feedback Collection and Polling Widget: Opineo

admin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:10:34 +0000

Are you listening to your customers?

As they say: You cannot improve what you cannot measure; but the paradox is you cannot measure everything – happiness, hatred, anger… but you can measure customer satisfaction. Yes, you can measure customer satisfaction by analyzing likes and dislikes of your customers. You can guage populairty of your website or products. You can also:

See how many visitors like the new design of your website or logo
Analyze what your readers want to see on your blog
Understand how helpful the content on your support forum or website is
Know the latest trends and user’s opinion before launching a new product or service

Opineo allows you to do all of this and much more without signing up for an account or hire an expert. This DIY tool enables you to listen to your customers’ voice easily and instantly. All you have to do is go online, design your widget and place it on your website.

Let’s do a demo

Create your own widget

Features

Facility to customize to match your website theme
Detailed and Compact view options
Comprehensive options to customize animation, colors, orientation and style

All the power and flexibility of jQuery
Easy install; 100% integration
Facility to customize rating icons

Usage

Use Opineo to conduct pre-release surveys before launching new products or services
Analyze new trends in the industry
Run crowd-sourced campaigns
with Opineo to mature new ideas, website designs or logos
Conduct popularity surveys with free Opineo widget
Create and host polling surveys with Opineo

License

This Feedback Collection and Polling widget is free for personal and commercial projects as long as you are providing a link back to this page. If you don’t want to provide a link back, simply contribute to the development and improvement of this tool. To contribute to this and many other interesting projects, go to Support Efforts and become a patron.

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Creative Resume Template

admin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:56:18 +0000

Ever thought about your resume as a marketing collateral? If not, start taking your resume more seriously – as your face to the world; especially if you are yourself involved in designing and making things presentable. Your resume should not only exhibit your profile but also demonstrate your skills.

While re-designing my personal resume recently, I was looking for some creative inspirations but did not get much ideas for online resumes. There are a lot of reasons for having an online resume. It is searchable, easy to update and distribute, and most importantly it contributes towards a greener and a paperless environment. Plus, it gives you a lot of freedom to demonstrate your creative skills.

Here is an example of online resume using CSS3, Google Font API for custom fonts and jQuery to navigate between different sections.

It is an experimental project for a basic online resume template especially for analyzing the capabilities of Google Font API.

Features:

It is lightweight; renders smoothly is almost all browsers
Using open source fonts, and
Standardized and valid HTML & CSS

Demo & Download

Open Source Vector & PSD Icons: gcons

admin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:53:11 +0000

For UI designers and website developers, there are a huge number of nice icon collections but most of these collections are designed for specific purpose, theme or industry.

Most of the time, designers have to mix and match desired icons and customize them according to the requirements resulting in a lot of effort, un-balanced designs, and sometimes mere frustration.

gcons is a comprehensive collection of 100 creative, multi-purpose and open source icons for the web and desktop applications.

These open source icons come in 12 different colors and are available in PSD, AI, CDR, PNG, JPG and GIF formats.

Free Premium-Like WordPress Themes

admin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:00:56 +0000

WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS), often used as a blog publishing application, powered by PHP and MySQL.

It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. Used by over 12% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today.

Greepit will be sharing a collection of Free & Popular WordPress Themes like Portfolio Themes, Magazine Style Themes, the first collection is:

Minimalist WordPress Themes

A great painter just need a simple plain canvas to create a masterpiece and many bloggers need just a simple and clean minimalist WordPress theme that they can tweak to fit their needs.

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Most Effective Link Building Strategies For Blogs

admin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:07:15 +0000

For any site, Search Engine ranking is an important aspect to get traffic. As a blogger, I can understand the worth of getting listed in first 10 results against a Google search.

There exists many strategies to improve website Search Engine Ranking (Create and join groups, join social sites like Facebook and Twitter, join forums, etc… ) but some are more appropriate to the design niche than others and Link Building is one of them.

What is Link Building?

Link Building is the process of creating inbound links to get more traffic; to improve your site’s ranking in Search Engines and to be popular. It is one of the best ways to make your site well-known. Link Building can be achieved by reciprocal links, being listed in design galleries, sponsoring a contest, etc.

Followings are very good strategies for getting inbound links.

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Lightweight jQuery Circular Slider / Carousel Plugin: Tiny Circleslider

admin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:52:52 +0000

Tiny Circleslider is a lightweight (~4kb) jQuery circular slider / carousel plugin. That was built to provide webdevelopers with a cool but subtle alternative to all those standard carousels. Tiny Circleslider can blend in on any webpage.

Tiny Circleslider Website