Lap of Luxury (demo)
This theme uses gold in the logo, and white and black are used as the main colors. The 2-col theme contains a sidebar on the right that allows for a large square ad up top, and splitting into 2 columns below that. Comes fully widgetized. A special feature of this theme is the logo changer.

Katana (demo)
This theme has a simple layout based on anime or game niche. Theme will be suitable for blogs of such niches. Theme has features like featured post section, post thumbnails, banner ads, adsense, twitter widgets etc. Theme uses custom fonts for various titles. It has an intuitive theme option page which lets you configure the theme.

Koi Theme (demo)
Koi is a simplified version of N.Design Studio’s theme (2009 redesign). Key features: multi-level dropdown menus, social media buttons, threaded & paged comments, and sidebar widget plus three footer widgets. This theme includes an option page to manage dropdown menus, favicon, footer tracking code, and social media buttons. Requires WordPress 2.9+.

Bueno
Bueno is a clean, minimalistic design which sophistication in both its typography and structure. It uses a grid-based design, has integrated banner ad management, widgetized sidebar and 7 different color schemes. Also, the theme is packaged wth a .po file for easy theme integration.

Notepad Theme (demo)
The theme is inspired by the iPhone’s Notes.app. This new theme is widget compatible with threaded comments, social media buttons, and multi-level dropdown menus. It has been tested on WordPress 2.9 with Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and IE7+. It also includes some nice CSS3 enhancement such as rounded corners and drop shadow.

Strukture (demo)

Peacekeeper (demo)

The Seven Five (demo)
A minimalist blogger/social theme including several customization and layout options.

Simplo (demo)

Galaxy (demo)
The Galaxy WordPress theme is a two column theme that supports banner ads and the WP-PageNavi plugin. Perfect theme for personal blogs.

Aparatus (demo)

Zexee (demo)

Cyangant Elegant (demo)

Obscure (demo)
A dark magazine wordpress theme suitable for any site nitche and best fit for community-based sites.

Designpile (demo)

Obscorp (demo)

The Side Blog Theme (demo)
A free blogging theme with all sorts of customization and content management options.

E-Commerce WordPress Themes

e-Commerce Theme: Kelontong (demo)
The theme has a simple layout, clean, professional look, is integrated with WP e-commerce and features a slideshow for products.

Dangdoot (e-commerce theme: free version) (demo)
Dangdoot is a free e-commerce theme for WordPress and requires the e-Commerce plug-in.

AppCloud (e-commerce theme: free version) (demo)
AppCloud is another free e-commerce theme for WordPress. (It too requires the e-Commerce plug-in).

Clean WordPress Themes

Blissful Blog (demo)

The Ideal Website
The Ideal Website is designed to fit Fibonacci’s Golden Section – otherwise known as the divine proportions. These measurements are said to be the most pleasing to the eye, and have been widely used for everything from judging beauty of a face, to the design of bank notes.

Un.complicated Theme (demo)
The layout is minimalist, clean, and organized into three 320px columns. This theme, are built on Starkers and implements the The Golden Grid. here is a wigetized sidebar, which looks like a regular three column row. I have also integrated twitter within the theme, using javascript. All the user has to do is find this line in the index.php page.

Voidy (demo)
Voidy is the perfect theme for your great blog. It is clean, clear and beautiful. It is minimalistic two-cloumn theme with the widgets all arranged in the right sidebar. Voidy was designed to make your content stand out and make everything else get out of the way.

Clear (demo)
Clear is the perfect theme for great authors. It is clean, clear and beautiful. It is minimalistic one-cloumn theme with the widgets all arranged at the bottom. Clear was designed to make your content stand out and make everything else get out of the way.

Delicate (demo)

Boldy (demo)
A free theme that includes support for WordPress 3.0 Menu Management, has in-built slideshows, jQuery-based forms and live form validation as well as a widget for Twitter.

Smooth (demo)

Inuit Types (starter edition) (demo)

Modernist (demo)
The theme is based on the design ideas of Jan Tschichold, Josef Müller-Brockmann, Dieter Rams, and other modernists. Beautifully built yet transparent, it was designed with a focus on optimal typography in order to better showcase your content: text, images and video.

Titan Theme (free edition) (demo)

YouAre Theme (demo)

Simple Organization (demo)

Neutra (demo)
Neutra is a simple and elegant theme for WordPress. Grid-based with focus on simplicity and typography.

The Erudite (demo)
A theme for writers who want readers, not visitors, traffic, click-throughs, CPMs or what-have-you. Carefully crafted typography and generous use of whitespace lets your writing shine. Version 2 includes a dark theme option.

A pretty neat photo slider. It featured in nettut, if you try to make yourself a photo slider. Visit this site.

2. Create Featured Content Slider Using jQuery UI | Official Website | Demo

This is a nice tutorial that teaches you how to “show off the best content of your website or blog in a nice intuitive way” in order to “catch more eyeballs”. One of the techniques to show the featured content is the auto-playing content slider.`

3. Create Beautiful jQuery sliders tutorial | Official Website | Demo

This tutorial explains how to develop/create Beautiful jQuery sliders tutorial with image description and name.

4. A Basic Content Slider With jQuery | Official Website | Demo

A Simple Content Slider Using jQuery By Brenelz’s Web Development Tips

5. JC Play List | Official Website | Demo

free and easy to use Flash component created especially for easy visual representation of multimedia lists such as XMLs, RSS 2.0 feeds from Picasa and Flickr.

6. Easy Slider | Official Website | Demo

a JQuery Plugin that “enables images or any content to slide horizontally or vertically on click”.

7.  jqGalScroll | Official Website

jQuery Gallery Scroller (jqGalScroll) takes list of images and creates a smooth scrolling photo gallery scrolling vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. The plugin will also create pagination to allow you to flow through your photos.

8. Image Gallery | Official Website

It’s nothing complicated – a simple image gallery/viewer. When calling the plugin you specify which images you want to use like this:

9. Making a Content Slider with jQuery UI | Official Website | Demo

a very well explained step by step tutorial by Dan Wellman for NetTuts.

10. Creating a Slick Auto-Playing Featured Content Slider | Official Website | Demo

a tutorial written by Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks.com. This script is based on the Coda Slider. It has additional features such as:

11. slideViewer | Official Website

SlideViewer is a lightweight (1.5Kb) jQuery plugin wich allows to instantly create an image gallery by writing just few lines of HTML such as an unordered list of images.

12. Start/Stop Slider | Official Website | Demo

13. A Minimalist jQuery Plugin | Official Website | Demo

a tutorial from WebDesignBooth that explains you how to create a simple content slider using the powerful library JQuery.

14. BarackSlideshow | Official Website | Demo

a very tiny and lightweight slideslow script, inspired by the slideshow in Barack Obama website. The script takes the power of MorphList to enhance visualization and navigation of the images.

15. WordPress Theme using JQuery s3Slider | Official Website | Demo

Creating Featured Slider in WordPress Theme using JQuery s3Slider

Greatest WWE Wrestlers of All Time interactive top ten list at TheTopTens. Vote, add to, or comment on the Greatest WWE Wrestlers of All Time.

Owen Hart

Wrestling in the shadow of his brother Bret Hart made it difficult to stand out from the crowd, afterall its hard to make a name for yourself being the little brother of one of the all time greats. Owen did somehow find his way to stand out as one of the best technical wrestlers of all time. Sadly Owen Hart died before we got to see him reach his full potential

Owen has been and forever wll be missed by us die hard fans!

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Programming

1. Ajaxlines: Ajax related tutorials, articles and review, in a web 2.0 design.

2. ma.gnolia: Build your web site and build community online

3. Ajaxian: Ajax related blog

4. Web 2.0 Sites: web 2.0 sites directory, for all web 2.0 related services.

Video

1. YouTube: YouTube is a popular free video sharing Web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips.

2. Meta Cafe: Metacafe – Get the best internet videos – Funny videos, Amazing clips, Rare movies

3. Vimeo: Share your video clips. Upload video that you shoot with your digital camera, mobile phone, or camcorder. Share video by linking to Vimeo.

4. Daily Motion Publish, tag, organize and share your video clips.

5. Imeem: imeem is a social media service where users interact with each other by watching, posting, and sharing content of all media types, including blogs, photos, audio, and video. In one sense, imeem is a media-centric social network service, and in another sense, it is also a user participation service for online content.

6. ClipShack: ClipShack is a community for videophiles; a destination where people can post their video for general public viewing and comment, share clips with friends and family, post video to blogs, share…

7. vSocial: The fastest, easiest way to upload, watch and share your favorite video clips.

8. Jumpcut: The best place to create, remix and share movies and slideshows online. There’s nothing else like it. Jumpcut Makes Movies, Simple.

9. Video Bomb: Video Bomb filters up the hottest videos on the internet: people submit links to the ‘Incoming!’ page and you bomb the best ones. If a video gets a lot of bombs quickly, it makes it to the front…

10. eyeSpot: Shoot, Mix, and Share your Video. Use the eyespot Mixer to edit and combine your videos, music and photos online! Share your video and mixes with the world for Free

11. revver : Upload, share videos

12. Avidbeauty: Avid Beauty is an entertainment community for iPod users. We offer iPod downloads which are available in playlists known as Podcasts. We also offer Flickr photo, YouTube video and LiveJournal integration into your member profile.

Music

1. last.fm: Generate custom streaming music stations with Last.fm by searching for and tagging your favorite artists. Build your own library and search the libraries of others to find who likes the same music as you

2. Musicovery: Discover new music based on your mood, this free webradio let you browse music styles and epochs

3. read.io :Read.io converts RSS feeds into podcasts via TextToSpeech. Many languages supported.

4. MusicStrands: Search MusicStrands to discover new music. Listen to samples, then tag good tracks and exile the ones you don’t like to get clear recommendations, either on site or with an optional iTunes plugin. Then purchase music from a variety of vendors.

5. PODZINGER: PODZINGER – the world’s premiere audio and video search engine

6. Upto11: Using tags and rankings, Upto11 suggests new music for you. Create and share your recommendations, tags, and playlists via a personal user page.

7. Pandora: Pandora is the music discovery service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites

Chat

1. Meebo: meebo, the web messenger that lets you access IM from absolutely anywhere. meebo supports msn, yahoo, aol/aim, google talk (gtalk), jabber and icq

2. Joopz: Allows users to send text messages from the Web to both individuals and groups, while enabling recipients to respond directly to the originating PC or Mac. Joopz web texts can be sent from any web-enabled device worldwide to any U.S. or Canadian mobile phone.

3. campfire: Simple, Web-based group chat for businesses, Campfire allows real-time sharing, editing, and collaboration for team members in a secure, password-protected chat.

4. Goowy: is a web based application offering free web and flash email service that enables you instant messaging, email, chat and much more

5. Gizmo: Gizmo Project uses your internet connection (broadband or dial-up) to make calls to other computers. With the click of a mouse, you’re connected to friends, family, and colleagues anywhere on earth. It’s just that simple. You talk clearly. For as long as you want. For free.

6. eBuddy: web based messaging for everyone, everywhere. e-Messenger is a web application that enables you to chat with your MSN, AOL and Yahoo buddies without having to install any program or Java applet.

7. e-messenger: Online messaging from eBuddy is a web messenger application which supports MSN, Yahoo and AIM (AOL). When your school or office has blocked IM you can use the web version of eBuddy with any standard JavaScript enabled browser, even behind a firewall.

8. ILOVEIM: eBuddy is a web messenger application which supports MSN, Yahoo and AIM (AOL). When your school or office has blocked IM you can use the web version of eBuddy with any standard JavaScript enabled browser, even behind a firewall.

Images & Photos

1. Flickr: The best way to stor, search, sort and share your photos

2. Zooomr:Universally the best way to share, search, store and sort your photos online.

3. Slide:

4. zoto

5. 23HQ:Are your photos stuck on your hard drive, instead of being shared with the people who matter to you?

6. Mybloop: MyBloop – sharing pictures, audio, and video for free, whithout storage limits and additional software to install

Blogs

1. Blogger: your easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly post thoughts, interact with people, and more

2. Weblogs, Inc: Creating trade weblogs across niche industries in which user participation is an essential component of the resulting product.

3. BlogCode: BlogCode.com is a fast, easy and intuitive source of blog recommendations based on the StoryCode.com model. It allows you to start with your favourite weblog (or perhaps even your own) and find…

4. blo.gs: lets you keep an eye on your favorite weblogs via the web and email. you can even put the list on your site: a blogroll that knows what is new!

5. BlogLines: a FREE online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content.

Bookmarking

1. Digg: Digg is all about user powered content. Everything is submitted and voted on by the digg community. Share, discover, bookmark, and promote stuff that’s important to you!

2. del.icio.us: A social bookmarks manager. Using bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them

3. Reddit: Reddit is a source for what’s new and popular online. reddit learns what you like as you vote on existing links or submit your own!

4. StumbleUpon: StumbleUpon uses thumbs up and down ratings to form collaborative opinions on website quality. When you stumble, you will only see pages which friends and like–minded stumblers have liked

5. Blinklist: Real people with shared interests list the websites they care about. Rate sites you like or save them for later.

6. Blummy: A free tool for quick access to your favorite web services via your bookmark toolbar, Blummy lets you add and customize widgets that do practically anything: add pictures to Flickr, submit sites to del.icio.us, look up text in WIkipedia. Choose from hundreds of custom “blummlets” or create your own.

7. Techcrunch: TechCrunch is a blog about Web 2.0 products & companies, many of the posts written by Michael Arrington. The blog’s first post was on June 11, 2005

8. Furl: Make your favorite web bookmarks accessible from anywhere with Furl’s lightweight bookmarklet. Furl allows you to easily save, take notes on and share the links you’ve stored, or browse others’ most popular bookmarks to find new and interesting things.

9. Spurl: Never lose track of a web site again with Spurl’s free on-line bookmarking service and search engine. Spurl stores addresses quickly for easy access with a one-click bookmarklet and provides recommendations for new content based on your preferences

10. Trailfire: Bookmaking sharing software.

VOIP

1. Jajah: jah is a VoIP (Voice over IP) provider, founded by Austrians Roman Scharf and Daniel Mattes in 2005[1]. The Jajah headquarters are located in Mountain View, CA, USA, and Luxembourg. Jajah maintains a development centre in Israel.

2. skype: It’s free to download and free to call other people on Skype. Skype the number one voice over ip software

3. Private Phone: a free local phone number with voicemail and messages you can check online or from any phone.

Games & Sketching

1. Trendio: Trendio.com is an online prediction market. Users, instead of buying stock in companies with real money, buy stock in certain news subjects with fake money. Words available include those from the world of politics, sport, and entertainment. The more the word appears in the news, the higher the value of the stock. Currently, the site uses about 3,000 online internet sources to gauge the value of each word.

2. GameSnips: online games list, digg style. voting for each game, sort lists by latest or by votes

3. Pictaps: Roxik Pictaps – Draw a Character and Watch It Dance in 3D

4. Broadcast Game: The objective of the Broadcast game is to connect all of the terminals and cables on the grid to the central hub by fixing their orientations. All you need to do is click and rotate the cables, the terminals, or the hub.

5. Pikipimp.com : Ever wanted to add bling to your iomages? Pikpimp is a relly cool ajax application that allows you to drop and drag objects on your image. Save the image and add to your site!

6. Mainada: How aobut Comic Sketch (thanks Tiago)

Wikis

1. Wikipedia: The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. Over two million articles and still growing.

2. LittleWiki: LittleWiki is a Web site where you can create public and private wiki pages. A Wiki is a Web site where anyone can enter and edit content. That means you can post and edit information about virtually anything you wish, and you can read what others have posted too.

3. Wetpaint: Wetpaint powers websites that tap the power of collaborative thinking. The heart of the Wetpaint advantage is its ability to allow anyone — especially those without technical skill — to create and contribute to websites written for and by those who share a passion or interest. To do this, Wetpaint combines the best aspects of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks so anyone can click and type on the web.

4. JotSpot: Create and share wiki pages with a WYSIWYG editor via Jotspot’s secure wiki hosting. Install various “applications” to refine your wiki content – project manager, company directory, blog, forum, poll, calendar, and more – then invite others to contribute

5. PBWiki: Make a free, password protected wiki as easily as a peanut butter sandwich. Easily upload HTML, link files to your pages, integrate RSS, and more.

Office Tools

1. Zoho Office Suite: Online Word Processor

2. Google Docs & Spreadsheets: With Google Docs & Spreadsheets, you can: * Use our online editor to format documents, spell-check and more. * Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text. * Download…

3. Num Sum: Easy, Sharable Web Spreadsheets

4. Dictinary : Online dictionary

5. notifyr.org: Be ahead of the rest with notifyr.org. Notifyr is an easy to use tool which lets anybody easily receive instant updates on any web page around the world. Notifyr.org is ideal for those who want instant information on new stock, or new product release information. Best of all it’s free – and always will be

6. ThinkFree Office: Have you ever wanted to edit an Excel spreadsheet on a Linux system? Have you ever wanted to show your colleagues a presentation on a computer not equipped with Powerpoint? Would you like to be able…

7. Numly: Numly is a web 2.0 startup offering next generation copyright and DRM licensing services for all things digital.

8. gOffice: Free online word processor, outpput can be pdf or html letters, allows personalization in letter templates..

RSS

1. FeedBurner: FeedBurner helps bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers get more value from the content they create. Our advanced feed management technology deftly delivers subscription services for…

2. Feed Digest: Feed Digest is a parser, regenerator, and syndicator for, and of, RSS and Atom feeds. It lets you do things like put the content of RSS or Atom feeds on your own site(s).

3. Attensa: Attensa, Inc. is a venture backed software company developing RSS readers, online RSS aggregators, enterprise RSS servers and RSS infrastructure software that automatically and intelligently delivers…

4. Tiny Tiny RSS: Tiny Tiny RSS is a web-based news feed aggregator, designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible.

5. Feed43: This free online service converts any web page to an RSS feed on the fly.

6. Feed Mailer: feeds direct to your email. (thanks John)

Emails

1. Gmail: Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want.

2. 30 Gigs: 30Gigs.com is invite-only web-based email that offers, you guessed it, 30 gigabytes of space.

3. Zookoda: is an email marketing application designed specifically for bloggers. Zookoda enables you to send a daily, weekly or monthly summary of your latest blog posts directly into your visitors inbox.

4. Sprout: osted email management for your sales and support email. No IT department required. Mailroom can organize your email and suggest replies to save you time and keep you better in touch with your customers. There is nothing to setup and it takes only a minute to get started

5. Gawab: Offers a web mail service with a number of features. Supports POP/SMTP.

News

1. NewsGator: Read all of your favorite news, websites and blogs all in one place.

2. newsvine.com: Keep track of breaking news with Newsvine: read “The Wire” for a direct stream of articles from the AP and ESPN, and read “The Vine” for Newsvine user submitted content and columns. Interact with other Newsvine readers by voting for and commenting on news, and write/maintain your own Newsvine column.

3. Gabbr :Gabbr is a community-based social news and blogging network which allows users to save and share their favorite top news headlines and blog posts.

4. wired: News site and magazine, covering technology, culture, business and politics.

5. Clipmarks: Bite-size hiligh-lights on the web.

File Sharing

1. Box.Net: Free online file storage and sharing from Box.net! Our internet storage service enables you to save, browse, share, & retrieve files, photos, and documents …

2. AllPeers:Unleash your online experience and discover unlimited private sharing. Share private photos worry-free. No passwords to remember, no public access. Share your videos without uploading – save on hosting costs while saving time.No cumbersome interface. No sharing restriction. Private and secure. No spyware, no adware, no annoying advertisements.

3. MailBigFile internet application for file sharing

Others

1. Live: Microsoft web 2.0 portal

2. LinkedIn: is like Facebook for business professionals: Build yourself a business network to give you credibility in job searches and hiring, or use LinkedIn to reconnect or keep in touch with important business connections.

3. BaseCamp: Simple project management with to-do lists, milestones, time tracking, file sharing, calendars, and more. Basecamp is a solution for taking charge of communication, collaboration, and organization for projects big and small.

4. Side Job Track: A job tracking application for independent contractors, Sidejobtrack creates and manages invoices for goods, services, and time, then produces monetary reports to track payments and income.

5. Kayak.com searches hundreds of travel sites to give you the widest possible choice of flights and prices. It costs nothing to search and not a cent to book because we’re not a travel agency.

6. TravBuddy is a site for people who love to explore. You don’t have to be traveling across the world to use this site. Maybe you just want to share advice about a local restaurant you enjoy, or perhaps last weekend you discovered an amazing new place to watch the sunset, right in your hometown. Whether you are exploring at home or exploring abroad, the art and joy of discovery is still the same. Something that is familiar to you might be amazing and new to someone who is visiting.

7. Wayfaring is an interesting new site that lets you tag and create your own routes and places on Google maps

8. Omnidrive: As the world’s first complete storage aggregator, Omnidrive allows you to bring all your files and content together from your desktop, devices and the web onto a single space that’s easily accessible from any platform.

9. ma.gnolia: Build your web site and build community online

10. Ajaxian: Ajax related blog

11. Web 2.0 Sites: web 2.0 sites directory, for all web 2.0 related services.

FlashMoto Flash CMS Demo

FlashMoto is an advanced Flash content management system that allows users to create fully editable, extensible and SEO-friendly Flash websites and easily manage them. FlashMoto is intended for Flash developers, freelancers and design studios that are engaged in creating custom Flash sites or modifying web templates. It provides an opportunity to create a website of any complexity, starting from an online business card to a full-fledged portfolio.

So far, there is no way to create multiple accounts for the CMS. In theory, FlashMoto allows the replacement of one template by another (but profound Flash skills required).

System Requirements

• PHP 5.2+
• Zend Optimizer v3.3 and higher

Pricing

The standalone version of FlashMoto CMS costs $199, while one template + CMS costs around $250.

2. Royale/CMS

Royale/CMS Demo

Royale CMS is a rebrandable content management system created by an interactive agency for agencies and freelancers. With this CMS, you may create the structure that fits your design. They make an emphasis on the rebranding feature: users may upload their own logo and change the colors. Royale CMS is specifically designed for websites that typically use external XML data.

System Requirements

• Apache 2 (or higher) with mod_rewrite
• PHP 5.2 with GD library 2 (or higher)
• MySQL 5.1 (or higher)

Pricing

One license costs $199.

3. Saffron Flash CMS

Saffron Video Tour

Saffron CMS is a WYISWYG content management system for Flash-based websites. It is a set of seven readymade components and a controller component that can be incorporated into a Flash-based website and the website content can be updated without leaving the browser window.

System Requirements

• Adobe/Macromedia Flash MX/MX 2004/8, or Flash CS3 (Windows or Mac)
• ActionScript 2.0

Pricing

Saffron CMS costs $129.00.

4. fCMSPro

fCMSPro Screencast

fCMSPro is a Flash component from Flashloaded. It is a solid Flash content management system that provides a lot of useful features for fast and easy Flash website management. Like any other CMS, it makes it possible for users to update content directly on a live website. Websites created with fCMSPro are search-engine-friendly.

System Requirements

• Adobe/Macromedia Flash 8, Flash CS3+
• Flash Player 8, 9 or 10
• ActionScript 2.0
• PHP version 4.3.0 or higher
• MySQL 4.1.1 or higher

Pricing

fCMSPro costs $ 299 (per website).

5. Yooba CMS

Yooba CMS Live Demo

Yooba is one of the convenient Flash content management systems that allow users to create rich-media content without having to be a programmer. The user interface looks and works just like any application installed on your computer. Yooba comes in two different account types: Professional (monthly subscription) and Enterprise (annual subscription).

System Requirements

As hosting is included, you don’t have to worry about the system requirements.

Pricing

Yooba price depends on the account type and subscription period.

6. Flashblocks

Flashblocks Live Demo

Flashblocks is a simple Flash content management system aimed mostly at Flash designers. It provides easy ways to create, update, and arrange Flash content from any web browser.

System Requirements

• Flash MX, 8, CS3, CS4 or CS5
• ActionScript 2.0
• PHP 4-6 on the server and GD2.0 for image processing

Pricing

Flashblocks initially costs $240 with additional licenses being substantially less.

7. FlashContentManager

FlashContentManager Demo

FlashContentManager is a simple File Manager developed for Flash websites with external content that allows users to update text, images, SWFs, MP3s, etc. directly on a live website. It is aimed at both Flash designers and end-users.

System Requirements

• PHP enabled server
• GD extension in PHP

Pricing

FlashContentManager costs €50.

8. Flypaper

Flypaper Demo (Registration Needed)

The Flypaper Platform was designed specifically for agencies and companies that create and use interactive content. Non-technical users can create content without Flash skills and programming knowledge.

System Requirements

• Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP (Service Pack 2 and above)
• 1GHz Pentium processor or higher (2GHz, dual core processor recommended)
• 2 GB of RAM (4 GB recommended)
• Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.115.0 or later (included)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (*install .NET before installing Flypaper*)

Pricing

The price depends on the subscription type and the number of modules available.

9. Maki CMS

Maki CMS Demo

Maki is another simple content management system that allows users to build and update Flash-based websites. Maki provides a range of readymade templates that you choose and customize.

System Requirements

There are no system requirements as all Maki CMS websites are hosted on their server.

Pricing

The price (€164–€406) depends on the subscription type.

10. Flint CMS

Flint CMS is a simple Flash content editor that can be integrated into your own content management solution. It can be used with the news manager, product catalog or anything else.

System Requirements

• PHP server
• GD plugin

Pricing

The site license costs €49.

Hundreds of fun educational games and activities for kids to play online

Search for Information

Yahooligans! (yahooligans.com)
The ultimate kid-friendly search engine. Based on the popular adult Yahoo! site, it‘s a safe place for children to look for information and has a great list of age-appropriate reference links.

Ask Jeeves Kids (ajkids.com)
The best search engine for answering simple kid questions like, “How does an iceberg form?” or “What causes hiccups?”

Kids Click! (kidsclick.org)
This site was created by a group of US librarians so kids could find age-appropriate Web content on everything from science to health to popular entertainment. All links are non-commercial and non-violent.

How Stuff Works (howstuffworks.com)
This award-winning site clearly and concisely tells kids (and adults!) how different things work — from the everyday (how automobile engines run) to the unusual (how Jell-O sets).

Fact Monster (factmonster.com)
This is a one-stop reference source of kid-friendly facts and articles. The award-winning site also has loads of interactive tools that encourage kids to improve their math, spelling and vocabulary.

Amuse and Entertain

CBC Kids (cbc.ca/kids)
This terrific extension of CBC’s educational and entertaining programming for kids targets specific ages like preschool, afterschool and teens. Activities include non-violent games like Canuck Rally and interactive horoscopes.

PBS Kids (pbskids.org)
The activities and games on this award-winning site feature many of the characters from kids’ favourite TV shows, including Caillou, Clifford, Barney and Oscar the Grouch. Easy navigation makes it friendly for young and first-time Internet users. There’s also an extensive resource section for parents and teachers.

Kids Reads (kidsreads.com)
The best place on the Web for kids to find information about their favourite books and authors, including excerpts from the hottest new releases.

Funology.com (funology.com)
A great place for kids to find things to do — not just at the computer, but anywhere. The million and one games, magic tricks, recipes, experiments and craft projects will put a stop to the “Mom, I’m bored” syndrome.

Educate and Learn

Discovery Channel School (school.discovery.com)

The creators of the popular Discovery channel initially designed this site with parents and teachers in mind — but the fun activities have major kid-appeal too. A favourite feature is the learning adventures that let kids explore everything from Cleopatra’s palace to the space station.

WiZiQ.COM (wiziq.com)

WiZiQ’s Virtual Classroom enables teachers and students to connect from anywhere in the world using an Internet connection and meet live in an online interactive class, as it happens. This collaborative Web conferencing environment enables you to communicate synchronously (in real-time) using video and audio or through text chat, and to share presentations, documents and images on an interactive whiteboard. Teachers can moderate a class using intuitive controls just as they would when teaching offline.

Virtual Museum of Canada (virtualmuseum.ca)
Multimedia presentations, image galleries and interactive games make learning Canadian history and geography a lot more fun.

School Net (schoolnet.ca)
This Government of Canada site has more than 7,000 links for kids and parents on a variety of news-related topics across Canada. It’s great for school projects, since all federal resource sites are listed in one place.

CoolMath4Kids (coolmath4kids.com)
Games, brain twisters and colouring-book activities for a variety of age groups help make math fun. A great site for kids who are struggling with multiplication and need to practise their skills.

Science Made Simple (sciencemadesimple.com)
This no-frills site helps kids learn science the easy, hands-on way with clear, detailed answers to their questions and lots of fun projects and experiments.

Funbrain.com (funbrain.com)
Interactive tools and games like Grammar Gorillas and MathCar Racing entice kids to learn.

Inspire

Canadian Wildlife Federation (cwf-fcf.org)
This site encourages young naturalists to actively participate in wildlife conservation, including building a backyard habitat for birds and butterflies.

United Nations Cyber School Bus (un.org/pubs/cyberschoolbus)
Translated into six languages, the rich content and resources on this United Nations–sponsored site let children participate in a global community over the Web.

GirlSite! Network (girlsite.org)
This site was created by a not-for-profit organization so girls and young women would have place to speak their minds and share their ideas. Topics cover everything from cool careers and volunteering to creative writing diaries.

National Geographic Kids! (nationalgeographic.com/kids/index.html)
The best part of this all-round great site is the current affairs section, written in easy-to-understand language, so kids can keep on top of new archaeological digs and historical discoveries.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa.gov/home/index.html)
A perfect place for budding astronomers to learn about the galaxy. Kids can receive up-to-the-minute bulletins about space programs or use the multimedia section to view current images in space.

Adding icons to your navigation can not only give you an aesthetic boost but actually make for a quicker visual read of the link. Here’s a collection of over thirty icon-based navigation menus that we found online. We’ll conclude with a few resources you can use to snag some free icons to create your own fancy menus.

The Menus

David Jonnson

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