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Here’s a nice trick I learnt a couple of days back. I wanted to display my feed subscriber count in a way that would match my site’s theme. I was tired of the vanilla feed-count display provided by FeedBurner – probably because you can find it on almost every other site these days (and I wanted something unique). So I got down to designing one…

This comes in rapid succession of the last review of Web 2.0 Badges. No sooner had I posted it, I stumbled upon another free online Web 2.0 Badge Generator called freshbadge – and this one offers far more in the way of features. The basic idea is all the same – you pick your badge style, add in your text and adjust a couple of…

Nope ! You don’t need any expensive graphics editing tools. Nor do you require to perform painstaking and complicated procedures to generate those ultra-cool reflective Web 2.0 style badges. You can do all of that online under less than a minute and for free with Web 2.0 Badges.
The site offers a whole bunch of pre-created badge templates in the most common formats (rounded/serrated/flowery edges). All…

This tutorial was created for an opensource site named AntiLost that a couple of my friends and myself had tried to launch a while back. While the site never really took off (and has been torn down long since), some of the material that were hosted there still remains with me. I was going through them yesterday and discovered this one. It’ll come real handy…
Ever come across those neat graphics of directional arrows and wished you could have them on your site? They can be used for anything from grabbing attention to indicating download links.
Look no further. Here is a step-by-step tutorial that should get you on track, and enable you to create custom graphical arrows.
The tutorial is based on Inkscape, which is an open source vector graphics editor.…

Nowadays every second site you see employs some form or AJAX or the other – either wholly or in parts. With the old-school model of refreshing the whole page a visitor had always had a clear-cut indication that he/she is supposed to wait till the page-load is complete. That’s one respect AJAX seriously lacks in. In short there’s no way for the user to know…