Templates are a great resource for starter webmasters or web designers. Its not a big deal to design a good template but for the lazy ones there are always templates sites. here is a list of some free template sites:

http://www.freshtemplates.com/

http://www.zerodollartemplates.com/

http://www.effex-media.com/

http://www.templatesbox.com/

Well, here is a looong list of free stock photo websites. For websdesigners these are great resources. Happy imaging!

http://www.zuadobank.com

http://www.istockphoto.com

http://www.freefoto.com

http://www.freeimages.co.uk/

Millions of blogs, Thousands of nominees, 151 finalists, Thirty winners!
Yes, a 30 from millions! Bloggies awards started in 2001 and is one of the top known awards in blogging. While i’m a fan of two blogs in the top list; PostSecret & Boing Boing, i came across this cool blog; Joshuaink, which won the best design and best tag line. Not sure about the tag line, but the design, its Damn COOL.. I was looking at its CSS and design for atleast an hour now.
One thing i didnt like is the best blogging tool award. Won by Blogger.com
I wish WordPress.org won it.

Rusty Brick talks about why Ugly Sites Earn More With Google AdSense.
It says “people land on the site, and immediately want to click off. They find the nearest ad, and most attractive part of the page, which happens to be the AdSense ad, and clicks off. Phew, they are saved and they move on to a real dating site, that is both professional looking and functional.”

Well, thats true. We come across lots of sites which are made for nothing but to display adsense and make users click on them. Some sites dont even have enough content to read but will have enough ads to click. And as we know, these ads are tempting because they are written by professionals. Well, thats a part of my job too. I mean writing and optimizing ads to make more sense or to be straight, to increase the CTR. Well, as the arguement says, these sites can be spam but users endup on high quality sites. the visitor gets what he wants, Google make money and the webmaster using adsense also makes money. To me, may be thats the way it should go! may be it can be called as an win-win situation?

Quick Online Tips is one of the blogs that I regularly visit and have some great reading. Being a fan of Google, Firefox, WordPress, Blogging & Technology, there are few more blogs like this one which have the same passion as i do. If you are a blogger and a techie, and if you never came across this quick online tips, check it out now! It was hosted with blogger.com previously and now with wordpress script and now has its own domain. The advantage is that, one can customize a wordpress blog for extreme features which blogger.com or any other script does not provide. And no support is as good as wordpress.org community. WordPress fans like me feel happy to see these big blogs migrating to wordpress.

Well, if you are looking to setup your own blog and dont know where to start, you can just ping me from my contact page.

I didnt want to come back and i wished the bus that I got my ticket reserved never came to pick me up from my cousin’s place.

Think of an object and the AI will try to figure out what you are thinking by asking simple questions. The object you think of should be something that most people would know about, but, not a specific person, place or thing.

I was just checking out a forum where I came across about this site: 20Q.net
Its an intresting IQ program. check it out.

Well, i was impressed with a quiz result.

Your Candy Heart Says “First Kiss”

You’re a true romantic who brings an innocent hope to each new relationship. You see the good in every person you date, and you relish each step of falling in love. Your ideal Valentine’s Day date: a romantic dinner your sweetie cooks for you Your flirting style: friendly and sweet What turns you off: cynics who don’t believe in romance Why you’re hot: you always keep the romance alive

Yahoo confirmed on Wednesday that it’s polling some Yahoo Mail users about what they would want in exchange for making Yahoo their primary search engine. The survey was sent to a random sampling representing about 5 percent of its Yahoo Mail users, a Yahoo representative said.

“Yahoo is considering launching a program to reward people who make Yahoo their primary search engine,” the survey says. “Yahoo Mail users will be given early access to this program. You will receive a monthly reward if you make Yahoo your primary search engine. This means that most of the searching you do each month must be on Yahoo Search.”

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