Features :

• Wizards for tags with parameters
• Help button redirects to codex
• Support for 90% of the tags
• Insert basic loops (wizard)
• Insert headers (wizard)
• Ultimate TagWarrior tags supported

Update: part 2 of 101 More Quality CSS, XHTML Free Templates is now available.

If you like to sketch websites on paper first (like me) then this one is for you: printable web sketchbook. I found several printable templates splitted in grids of diferent size. So it’s up to you to choose the one you like the best. Download sketchbooks from sites below

• 960 grid system
• Het webdesign schetshboek
• Carrers webdesiner’s sketchbook

The very first thing I have to start with is to determine company’s style and values. For example, financial institutions are much more conservative than tech firms. Of course, always there will be exceptions.

The second step is logotype. It’s the essence and basis of corporate identity and must personate company’s values and ideas. All the rest – blank, business card, web site and so on – will be derived form logo. 

I generate ideas at the moment and look for some good samples for inspiration. I’ve already posted inspiring and creative business card samples but – as I wrote before – it is second step and I have to start with logo. Here is what I’ve found so far:

• http://www.wolda.org/ – world logo contest
• http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/ – world’s famous brands and logos
• http://www.logotypes.lv/ – vector logotypes (Latvian & international)
• http://logo.tdd.lt/main.htm – vector logotypes (Lithuanian & international)
• http://www.visual.gi/logoteca/ – LogoTeca
• http://www.elogodesign.com – logo design company with some interesting stuff in portfolio
• http://www.pixellogo.com/ – graphic design company
• http://logopond.com – logo gallery where everyone can submit logos
• http://www.logotwo.com/ – web 2.0 logos
• http://www.ateneupopular.com/diseno/design-inspiration-vol-1/ – collection of interesting logos
• http://www.logoorange.com/ – logo design and corporate identity company
• http://logotypes.designer.am/ – free logotypes
• http://www.vector-logos.com – vector logos
• http://www.allfreelogo.com/ – free vector logos
• http://www.lessio.ru/articles/14/ – 100 best logos
• http://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/the-evolution-of-tech-companies-logos/ – evolution of tech logos
• Sometimes a Logo Is Just a Logo
• Ruth Kedar On Designing the Google Logo
• http://www.digital-web.com/articles/the_process_of_redesigning_a_logo/ – Digital Web logo redesign
• http://www.digital-web.com/articles/the_redesign_of_economist_com/ -  The redesign of Economist.com logo
• http://summit.makalumedia.com/2007/08/27/problogger-logo-design/ – Pro Blogger logo redesign
• Jeff Fisher’s Logomotives and bLog-oMotives

And some stuff on color:

• http://poynterextra.org/cp/colorproject/color.html

If you know some good resources, leave ‘em in comments.

What’s inside:

• Benefits of SEO
• Short Term Tactics: Spam & Deception
• Short Term Strategies: Low-Value Sites
• The Stomper Way: Aggressive White Hat

iPower.com

Ipower.com is company where I buy international domains (.com, .net, .org, .info)  – they have pretty nice prices. And now they have 50% discount on their best (in my mind) hosting plan iPower Pro if you buy hosting for a year or two. Its a good bargain if you have several web sites to host. With discount it comes USD 3.98 per month. And here’s what you get:

Web based account administration. Bonus: one free domain, USD 30 worth Google AdWords and USD 50 worth Yahoo! search marketing credit. More about this hosting plan read here.

My previous experience with this company is good  though I’ve used only domain services not hosting.

Unlimitedhostweb.com

Other cheap web hosting service which i’m still using for one project is unlimitedhostweb.com. It costs 4,50 USD per month. If you pay for 3 years at once then it comes 3,95 USD per month. No bandwidth, storage or domain limitations. Each domain has its own FTP account. You can choose between UNIX and Windows hosting.

Pro:

• price;

• no bandwidth limitation;

• no disk space limitation;

• unlimited domains;

• each project (domain) has it’s own FTP account.

Contra:

• SQL for additional cost (15 USD per year);

• subdomains are for extra cost.;

• no domain parking (possibility to point several domains to one place);

• Ir PHP4, not Php5;

• only 3 e-mail addresses;

• problems are solved slowly.

Conclusion

If to compare i would choose ipower.com though it has disk space and bandwidth limitations. First of all ipower.com has web based account administration (both hosting and domain). All necessary changes you can make by yourself – there’s no need to wait for someone to do them as in the case with unlimitedhostweb.com.  And allowed disk space and bandwidth are big enough. Of course, except you’re going to host big collection of images, audio and video files.

P.S.

If you know some cheap yet reliable hosting service – drop a note in comments.

At my work I use Microsoft Outlook for my e-mails and works organization. Though I have Outlook, installed on one of my home computer I don’t use it. Reason – I better prefer online tools.

Few days ago I decided to try Google Calendar. And found it to be very handy time organizer and useful for my free-time organization. Google Calendar works stable and sends reminders to e-mail and even to my mobile. Last option I found very useful because I can get reminders when I need them most of all – when I’m out of office.

And what’s also good – Google Calendar can be synchronized with Outlook, as well as other desktop calendars like Thunderbird or iCal. To synchronize Google Calendar with Outlook you have to install Google Calendar Sync on your computer. Installation is fast and easy and took me less than minute. After installation enter your Google login and password and basic sync settings. Synchronization is supported for Outlook 2003 and 2007 running on Windows Vista or XP. On how to synchronize Google Calendar with other calendars read at Lifehacker.

I should add that only primary calendars of Google Calendar and Outlook can be synchronized. So if you need some item to be on both calendars (Google and Outlook) you have to copy that item to one of the primary calendars.