One of the things that you will always want to do as a website designer is actually get your users to click certain things on your page. Doing this might sound easy but it is actually harder than it sounds and these ‘call to action’ buttons have to be designed well in order to get your visitors to click through to where you wish. We have found 10 of the most creative designs of these buttons to give you inspiration. Enjoy!

1. Logbook

This is a great example of a well designed user button that is really bold and explains what it does easily and simply. Click here to view the site.

2. Agile Web Solutions

This is a great example of a simple button that stands out nicely. The buttons are simply grey but are easy to understand. Click here to view the site.

3. Fileshare HQ

This is another example of a simple button that is nice and bold in the green colour to attract attention. Click here to view the site.

4. Senzoo

This is a great button that is really bold and well designed. The colour is really nice and it looks a little Web 2.0. Click here to view the site.

5. PSD2HTML

This is a really simple order now button that is presented in a great orange colour and is large in size. Click here to view the site.

6. Shopify

This is a great looking button that is simple but stands out well and allows the user to see where to sign up. Click here to view the site.

7. Noded

This is a really nice designed website and the buttons fit in really well and stand out. They look subtle but also inform the visitor. Click here to view the site.

8. Shinybinary

This is quite a creative website button that leads the user to buy prints but it looks great nonetheless. Click here to view the site.

9. Dailymile

This is a cool looking button that folds around the website in a nice way and really stands out. Click here to view the site.

10. Mailbakery

This is another really creative button that really stands out on the page and is a great call to action example. Click here to view the site.

Twitter is one of the most popular social networking websites out there and one of the things that you will probably want to use the website for is actually marketing your business. Doing this is pretty easy on Twitter but just like a website, you will want your Twitter page to be as well designed as possible. There are many websites out there that help you do this and we have compiled a list of our top 10. Enjoy!

1. FreeTwitterDesigner.com

This is a great website that will help you get a fantastic looking Twitter page together in a matter of minutes. Click here to visit the website.

2. TwitBacks

This website offers tonnes of twitter backgrounds that you can use for your Twiter page to really improve the attrctiveness of your page. Click here to visit the website.

3 TwitrBackgrounds

This fantatsic website offers loads of Twitter backgrouns that you can use. Most of them are free too. Click here to visit the website.

4. TwitRounds

This is one of the best websites out there if you are looking for great quality free Twitter backgrounds. Click here to visit the website.

5. Twitter Gallery

Here is another website that offers fantastic Twitter backgrounds and designs. There are many to choose from. Click here to visit the website.

6. MyTweetSpace

This is a great website that offers many free twitter background designs. It is also possible to get something a little more personal for a small cost. Click here to visit the website.

7. TwitPaper

This fantastic website offers lots of Twitter themes that are free as well as premium ones. Click here to visit the website.

8. Hip and Twendy

This is a great website that will help you design your Twitter page for free. It also works for MySpace. Click here to visit the website.

9. TwitterBackgrounds.org

This great website has a range of great twitter backgrounds on offer, all of which are available for free. Click here to visit the website.

10. Twitter Backgrounds Gallery

This website offers exactly what you could expect it to offer; Twitter backgrounds. It has a huge range to choose from. Click here to visit the website.

Firefox is one of the most widely used browsers in the world and is quickly growing in popularity. Although Internet Explorer still remains the most widely used in the world and the most popular, Firefox has a number of add-ons that can be downloaded that really make it much better than Firefox for website developers. Of course, there are so many to choose from that actually finding good add-ons can be quite hard. We have compiled a list of 10 great add-ons for website developers, designers and bloggers. Enjoy!

1. ScribeFire Blog Editor

This fantastic add-on for Firefox will help you to run your blog as it will allow you to edit it extremely easily. Click here to download it.

2. Zemanta

This is a great add-on that actually gives you content recommendations whilst you write on your website. It works with WordPress and other platforms. Click here to download it.

3. Fireshot

This is a great add-on that actually allows you to take a screenshot of a website quickly and easily. Click here to download it.

4. FireFTP

This is a great add-on for Firefox that actually turns your browser into an FTP program. There are a number of things you can do. Click here to download it.

5. GreaseMonkey

This is a simply add-on that allows you to display the way that anmy website gets displayed using small pieces of Javascript. Click here to download it.

6. Yoono

Although it has a strange name, this is a great add-on. Basically it is a toolbar that allows you to connect to people on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and other social networking websites easily. Click here to download it.

7. Shareaholic

This fantastic add-on allows you to share interesting things on social bookmarking sites quickly and easily. Click here to download it.

8. WiseStamp

This is a fantastic add-on that allows you to create and edit email signatures in a variety of different email apps. Click here to download it.

9. Shorten URL

This fantastic add-on helps you to shorten the URL from the content menu or toolbar button with a shortener of your choice. Click here to download it.

10. Web Developer

This great extention basically adds a toolbar to your browser that has many usefiul tools for web developers. Click here to download it.

Free Logo Creator creates a simple interface which helps us to create and design the logos of our interest in a limited time. Logo Creator also helps us to copy down all the formats of the file that are used for web application and the print application along with the vector source files. Vector source file is the file application that makes it possible to keep the quality and the resolution of the file constantly where ever it is transferred. If we don’t copy the vector file the image clarity will be dynamic when designed but when copied to another system looses the quality. Logo Creator is similar to the logo creator but varies in name with infinite design possibilities. Using this we can manipulate the images and add different styles of fonts to companies, offices, businesses, corporate organizations etc. When checking with the file formats EPS, JPG, TIFF, PSD, AI and PNG are the available formats when designing the logos.

EPS ( Encapsulated post Script) is the file system format which is vector based and helps to maintain the quality irrespective of the size the logo is converted. The EPS file is only fully editable file this is generated when the logo is designed with the Logo Creator. Other than the EPS file all other file formats are the Raster files, Raster files are the pixel rated files that are unknown to the human eye. When the raster files are enlarged or edited then the quality of the image is not guaranteed. The JPG and PNG are the two formats that are used in the Microsoft word document or in the web application. Generally the TIFF format is used for printing as this format is mostly recognized by the printers of all types. The clarity of the TIFF image varies when the picture is used with the photo software’s. JPG this format of images are used for home/office for printing and power point presentation. When this file formats are printed with 300 dpi resolution then the image quality is ultimate.

Many of the companies do assign the logo creation task to the third party as the charges are minimal. We need to go with the required packages as some do not re edit the work once completed.  To have the correct logo designed for us we should provide the major information about the services and the products and which specialization we are into. Most of the Logo Creator third party services use the Adobe Illustrator and the Photoshop to generate the logos. The logos that are designed for our purpose should be copyrighted as there are many chances of getting them duplicated.  So we should get the logo copyrighted and we feel responsible for the copyright issues. With all the knowledge of the Logo Files formats one can easily be able to know the process in which he need to proceed to create his own logs and what all the essential files he need to have when he is approaching the web based Logo Creator’s to get the logo for him.

Website worth and domain value are issues that webmasters around the world seem to obsess about constantly. There is no true way to truly name a specific value to a website – ultimately, a site is worth what someone else is willing to pay for the URL and/or content.

Typically experts say a good estimate is to multiply the annual revenue from your website by two or three years, and that is the approximate value.

However now there are tons of online website worth calculator sites popping up offering to give you an estimate based on other factors, such as Google Pagerank, Alexa Rank, DMOZ and Yahoo directory information, domain indexing statistics, and other SEO types of helpful data.

If you are willing to take the information with a grain of salt, then it might be worth using these tools to check domain worth etc. Just remember not to consider the output a professional appraisal! It’s kinda worthless to post it on webmaster forums for proof of anything other than Pagerank calculator or pages indexed types of statistics for informational purposes.

Ultimately the best way to improve your website worth is to get more backlinks and listings on trustworthy directories and blogs. Good luck!

It’s something i have come accross frequently, but now more and more people are doing it! Buying a domain name because the alexa ranking looks good.

A lot of people think a website/domain name with a strong alexa ranking looks good, yes it does but it just looks pretty on the eyes. A lot of people fake their traffic stats using various programs on the market, i will not give the names to these programs as i will just be influencing people.

These programs load a proxy list or a list of working i.p’s, they send fake hits from these i.p’s to the website you input. This in turn boosts your alexa ranking. You need to be carefull when purchasing a domain name, especially if the price is high. Theres two methods/ways to find out if the traffic is fake and if someone is trying to burn you.

Method Number One: If the alexa ranking is very low, do some queries on search engines, you wont believe how many domain names that are for sale on the web have an alexa less than 100k but have 0 incoming links, and 0 indexed pages!

Method Number Two If the person will not provide accurate screenshots of the traffic from Google or Awstats. Ask them where the traffic comes from, and say you want proof. If they cannot provide you with this information, ask them what keywords on search engines they rank high for. That will catch them out, if they provide some keywords do some research on google and other search engines they do provide tools that allow you to check how many people search for certain keywords a month. If that does not add up, then do not buy the domain/website.

A lot of people would normally stay away from sellers that fail to provide accurate screenshots and information regarding the traffic, but i’m afraid innocent people that are new in the webmaster world are often mislead.

Before i end this post, i would also like to add that Alexa favour webmaster websites, so if you own a webmaster related website, your ranking will be lower than it should be. I have seen webmaster websites recieving 500 unique visitors a day, with not that many page views ranking less than 60k.

I hope this information was usefull, keep your money safe! Do not buy if something smells fishy.