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Free Printables Design

RankRaiser — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:16:55 +0000

The printables designs on OhHappyDay may be ideal if you need some outside of the box marketing or design inspiration. How can you adapt these tangible project ideas to your own projects? Choose from photo props, ideas for greeting card designs and more.

Web Design Inspiration

RankRaiser — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:44:31 +0000

A great place to look for web design inspiration is to look at trends in other aspects of everyday life. Trendhunter has dozens of categories, including a WTF section within each one for your enjoyment and inspiration to get your web design juices flowing again. You’ll find the latest trends in fashion, funerals and tributes for example.

If these examples won’t do it for you, maybe Cedric Laquieze’s floral skeleton sculptures will get you to stop for a second and behold:

LA Without Cars

RankRaiser — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:49:04 +0000

Ever wonder what LA looks without any cars on the streets? Many images on You-Are-Here.com have been taken without any cars in the pictures. Hard to tell how he got the shots without the cars, because the images don’t look manipulated either. The Los Angeles photos were taken by a German tourist photographer and sorted into categories by year built, districts, boulevards and more. He also has pictures of graffiti, murals and sorts them by medium used.

The site has thousands of pictures of LA, many (maybe most?) without cars, all sorted by many different criteria which makes this a great resource for anyone interested in Los Angeles architecture or in need of inspiration for their project. Tourists will appreciate the fact that all images come with an address. The idea of taking all these images without cars is what makes this site special. How often have you seen an image of LA or any metropolis for that matter without any cars in it?

Create Word Clouds

RankRaiser — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:20:22 +0000

This word cloud generator isn’t some plugin used for your blog, but a tool to create a beautiful looking word cloud you can save and print. Visit Wordle and either paste some text, enter a feed URL or a del.icio.us username. Wordle will then create your custom word cloud. We’ve clicked the randomize button a dozen times and got a dozen different designs. Clicking on the advanced tab you can enter your own words and the sizes and colors you’d like them to be displayed at. This is a great way to make posters and even use the word cloud images to create t-shirts.

Visual Twitter Network Browser

RankRaiser — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:13:03 +0000

A fun way to browse through Twitter networks is to use neuroproductions visual Twitter browser. You simply add a Twitter username and that account’s network pops up, including avatars. Screen space is limited, so not all members in your network are displayed. You can then click on the avatars to keep browsing their networks. This Twitter app is smaller than 5k and just enough to browse through your Twitter friends. When you’re done playing with that, check out Kris Temmerman’s other visual experiments projects.

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Free Games for Your Website

RankRaiser — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:29:24 +0000

For lots of games to play on your desktop and to download visit FreeWorldGroup.com. You’ll get survivor games, Zombie games, war and assault games, puzzles, ship, car and bike races, golfing logic games and more. You get a choice of either downloading the games (.swf and .gif files), or embedding them. You’ll get ads, but there is a ‘skip this ad’ button. Below is “TANK:”

Instant YouTube Search

RankRaiser — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:28:06 +0000

Search YouTube with instant search results. Results change with each letter you add to the search box on YTInstant.com and a video pops right up based on Google’s search suggestions. YouTube Instant was created by Feross Aboukhadijeh as a response to the new Google Instant in a bet with his roommate. YouTube Instant was built using a combination of the YouTube API and YouTube search suggestions. Feross is promising on his blog to make it even faster and add more features. Sounds great!

Bookmarking Site In Different Languages

RankRaiser — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:29:13 +0000

Mister Wong’s features the best sites in English, Spanish, French, Russian and German language. Sign up for Mister Wong‘s newsletter to receive a weekly ‘best of’ list of the most popular and useful sites out there. You can choose your language in the footer. Interesting when you compare what’s popular in different countries! If you were looking for another huge and widely popular bookmarking site to promote your own website beyond the US standards, this is it! Also, they just announced that their servers are now running on 33% water generated ‘green’ energy from Norway. Their host is also planting 25 to 30 new trees for each server they run. Nice!

Hunter Shoots A Bear

RankRaiser — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:44:29 +0000

A clever commercial disguised as a fun YouTube video. A hunter shoots a bear. Of course we don’t want to shoot the bear, so you get to rewrite the story: kisses the bear? Watches TV with the bear? Fights the bear? How many outcomes are there?

Formation Pixel Game

RankRaiser — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:36:56 +0000

On Swarmation you’re supposed to build a formation together with other players within a set amount of time. If you manage to create the given formation with other players you win points, if not, you lose points. It gets more challenging the more people are playing because the formations to be built become more complex. This game is surprisingly addictive, even if only a few people are playing.

Book Author Site In Flash

RankRaiser — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:06:21 +0000

This book author’s site is beautiful and well functioning in Flash at absender-unbekannt.de. The book is a collection of random ‘found’ notes that reveal all kinds of interesting facts of people’s lives. You’ll have to dig out your German vocabulary book to figure out what’s in the notes. In the meantime, just enjoy this wonderful design…

Bad Domains 2

RankRaiser — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:25:15 +0000

One of our readers sent a link to this batch of bad domains posted on IndependentSources and we thought you might like them – or not! It may not always be a big deal to have a bad domain, or it may even be good for marketing purposes, but looking at the list below will give you a good idea of what to avoid and what to look for when buying your next domain. So here goes – look closely at the URLs… these are all real websites:

Worst Logos

RankRaiser — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:10:25 +0000

You may have the best intentions with designing your new logo, but make sure you look at your logo from different angles and – better yet – have others take a look at it. They may see something that you don’t. For some of the worst logos, visit 123print.com.

Fun Sounds

RankRaiser — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:03:51 +0000

Make sure your sound is on for instantsfun’s collection of sounds. Click on each button for the sound and on each title to get to the sound’s individual page and corresponding sound source. Choose from Benny Hill, Crickets, DrumRoll, Emergency Yodel and the Muppets and others. Yes, we want ‘moar’ instants!

Volcanic Ash Cloud on Radar

RankRaiser — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:41:04 +0000

Following a volcanic ash cloud may not be fun, but it sure is interesting! See what’s been costing the airlines worldwide $200 million dollars a day in lost profits on RadarVirtuel.com. It updates in real time every few seconds and shows all air traffic at a given time.

Free Games For Your Website

RankRaiser — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:44:14 +0000

Interested in adding a free fun game for your visitors or yourself to your website? At freegamesforyourwebsite.com you can choose from collections of free adventure, puzzle, sports, multi player, fighting or just plain fun games. All games we’ve checked were offered for download as an iFrame to embed into your website. Site is ad supported so you may have to put up with ads before or during play.

Fun ASCII Generator

RankRaiser — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:00:15 +0000

Choose from dozens of different ‘styles’ (like alligator, acrobatic and bubble) of ASCII text you’d like generated at network-science.de. You can also choose the width of the final result, a mirror image and alignment. Here are some examples of what this ASCII generator can do:

Tired Of Using Lorem Ipsum?

RankRaiser — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:46:07 +0000

Tell this random text generator by Matt Round on malevole to generate the number of paragraphs you need and it’ll spit out lines from old TV shows, what looks like show tune lyrics and some rhymes. Will your clients like this alternative to Lorem Ipsum? Not sure. Is it more fun than Lorem Ipsum? Definitely!

Turn Your Images Into Jigsaw Puzzles

RankRaiser — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:07:27 +0000

Create a jigsaw puzzle from your own image and send to others or put it on your website with JigsawPlanet. To add a puzzle to your website, upload your image, create the puzzle and copy and paste the code. This program works very well and the puzzle pieces move smoothly. You can try it and test it with the pre-made puzzles on the site.

Social Media Counter

RankRaiser — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:23:45 +0000

Created by Gary Hayes, this real time social media counter counts blog posts added, new Facebook members added, tweets sent on Twitter, videos watched on YouTube, searches made on Google, money spent on virtual gifts and a lot more. To visit Gary’s blog and read about what data the numbers in this social media counter are based on, go to his PersonalizeMedia blog.