• 10 Essential Chrome Extensions for Web Developers
  As a web developer, you’re probably among the earliest adopters of new browser technologies. Google’s (Google) relatively new Chrome (Chrome) browser is one of those products that developers jumped all over as soon as it became available, but its initial lack of extensions was a dealbreaker for many.
  (tags: google chrome plug-ins extensions webdev browser tools)

• Content Access | drupal.org
  This module allows you to manage permissions for content types by role and author. It allows you to specify custom view, edit and delete permissions for each content type. Optionally you can enable per content access settings, so you can customise the access for each content node.
  (tags: drupal cms applications)

• Grey Nomads – Australia
  The ultimate way to obtain advice regarding travelling this magnificent country, is from fellow nomads.
  (tags: holidays travel nomads 4wd australia caravan boating fishing)

• 20 Most Popular Ways to Promote Your Blog
  Blog promotion is the most important thing which need lots of time. Without promotion no one can get the positive result. There for you should never stop promoting your blog. In blogging the word “Promotion” means “Backlinks”. The more your blog is promoted the more it provides you links. Search engines love links, and they only rank high those blogs which are more popular.
  (tags: blog blogging seo ranking)
• Protect your site from spam bots at Michael Langley
  If you run your own website, you will soon come to realise the nuisance spam bots present. They trawl your site and collect email addresses, consume your bandwidth and can cause other problems. There however is a number of ways you can prevent some of them.
  (tags: spam security programming seo bots spambot)

• Create Fading Menu with JQuery-Joomla Panel
  This tutorial will show you how to incorporate the fade in, fade out effect into a working block style navigation. Some people had problems with fade in, fade out tutorial with the animation not stopping when you move your mouse over.
  This has been fixed in this version and is 100% working with no glitches. You can download the source files for this tutorial for FREE.
  (tags: joolma cms jquery fading-menu tutorial)

• Chris Coyier: Designing for Wordpress: Part One of Three
  WordPress is a hugely popular CMS for blogging. The blog section of CSS-Tricks is run on WordPress. By popular request, Chris Coyier is going to walk through designing for WordPress. In part one, he will be downloading and installing WordPress. Then he will install the “Starkers” theme by Elliot Jay Stocks to start with a completely fresh slate for his new design. No sense starting with the default theme, it’s more trouble than it’s worth! In part two, he will go over the theory behind designing for WordPress and how it’s much like “working modularly” and actually get started designing. In part three, he will finish up the design and start in with some more advanced functionality.
  (tags: webdesign design css development tutorials resources blog cms video videos blogs blogging)

If you own or post to a blog and you use Firefox as your Internet browser, then ScribFire is a tool for you to help publish your articles online.

ScribeFire is an extension for FireFox browser with loads of options that are very easy to use. The editor has a number of formatting tools and the choice to view the source code, and preview your post using the theme from your blog. This is great to use while offline, for me, I can write while commuting to and from the office.

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Here at BlueGumFlat web farm, we like to round up brilliant web sites that make a web designers job that much easier and to learn something new.

Tuesdays on BlueGumFlat blog, we will be providing a list of tutorials in using Photoshop. Using Photoshop can be challenging and very satisfying to use when you know how to manipulate an image or create a design. So be sure to keep Tuesdays open to learn that new skill to help you improve for a better web design or publication.

FreePSD Resource Web Site

FreePSD provide free and premium web templates and PSD files, also tutorials. A great site to save you time and learn new Photoshop techniques. FreePSD provide loads of links to other web sites with free templates and graphics.

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