Photoshop has become a favorite among designers for various reasons. In this collection, we look at 50 of the best web layout tutorial around the web. The collection contains tips, and tricks that can be handy for both beginers or advanced.

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Photoshop a Paper Texture from Scratch then Create a Grungy Web Design with it!

How To Create a Clean and Colorful Web Layout

Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch

Design a trendy business & finance layout

Design a trendy business & finance layout

Design a creative portfolio in Photoshop

Create an awesome soft portfolio layout in Photoshop

Create a Bright and Sleek Web Design in Photoshop

Design a clean sports web layout in magazine-style with Photoshop

Learn To Create A Photography Style Web Layout

How to create a distinguishable textured web layout in Photoshop

Design a Warm, Cheerful Website Interface in Adobe Photoshop

Create a Theme Store Website Layout in Photoshop

Design The Brilliante Website Layout in Photoshop

Creating a Stylish Blog Design Layout in Photoshop

Create an Elegant Photography Web Layout in Photoshop

Create a Stylish Portfolio Site Design in Photoshop

How to design a psd layout in Photoshop

Design a creative unusual layout

Web Layout for Italian Restaurant

How to create a restaurant psd template in Photoshop

Design a Cartoon Grunge Website Layout

Design an impressive web hosting layout

How To Create a Rockin’ Website Layout In Photoshop

How to design a landing page or a light psd layout in Photoshop

Product/Business Style Layout

How to create a modern portfolio layout using Photoshop

Create a Magic Night Themed Web Design From Scratch in Photoshop

Create a Game layout – Clan Layout

Create a company/business web layout using Photoshop

Watercolored Design Studio Blog Layout

Create a real estate web layout in Photoshop

How to create a wordpress theme in Photoshop

Create Colorful Blog Web Layout Using Photoshop

Making the ‘Clean Grunge’ Blog Design

Create A Minimal Portfolio Site Design

Portfolio Layout Design Tutorial with 3D Look

Many of these tutorials show detailed steps, so even the beginners can try them and for the advanced you can easily find some tips and tricks that are sure to come in handy. As they say, practice makes perfect, so try out a couple of tutorials and with photoshop here to stay for the long haul, you don’t need to worry about it becoming outdated. Did we miss any of your favorite tutorials? Which one was your favorite? Please let us know by commenting below.

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I started with Joomla as a web designer, but knowing just one CMS, I couldn’t say that Joomla is much better then any other CMS’s out there. So I tried other CMS’s like WordPress, Drupal, Magento and many others to make a comparison between them.

Honestly till now I couldn’t find one CMS that can accomplish so many tasks like Joomla. And many cheap web hosting providers support Joomla just like any other CMS.

But enough with so many awards to Joomla and let’s get to business. Let us find the purpose why you are reading this article.

For the ones that already use Joomla on they’re websites and for those that want to give a try to this amazing software, I will provide in this article 5 extensions that are a must have on your Joomla installation:

Cache Cleaner

What it does?

Cache cleaner is helping you by cleaning the cache of your Joomla installation in an easier and faster way.

Why is a must?

Because every time you make a change you have to clean the cache in Joomla so you can see the changes you made.
In order to clean the cache every time in the default Joomla installation you must accomplish a time consuming process like the following one:

Go to tools, select clean cache,

select the cache

and press delete.

Do this a couple of times in a day when you work on a Joomla project for a client and I assure you, that you loose at least one hour of work.

Here comes in hand Cache Cleaner. With Cache Cleaner, you don’t have to do all those time consuming clicks, in fact, you don’t have to make not even one single click. Why? Because Cache Cleaner has an option, which automatically clean the cache on save or apply.

You have two modalities and many options to delete the cache with Cache Cleaner:

One is by making a click every time you change or apply something, on the link provided by the cache cleaner plugin in the right upper corner of your Joomla installation,

or just set the option in the control panel of the plugin to automatically delete the cache every time you save or apply something.

Other features included in Cache Cleaner are the option to delete the cache from frontend, clean the cache on an interval of time and also to delete the temporary folder of your Joomla installation. All of them you can do it manually or set the auto option and let the software work for you instead.

Be very careful with the customize path option, do not enter paths to folders that contain important files of the Joomla software or any other files important for the good functionality of your website.
If you typed a path to a folder, and click apply or save, everything from that folder will be permanently deleted. In this case I hope you have a recent backup. Believe me I had many clients ho crashed the website with this option.

Optimize Tables

I remember how I found this life saving plugin. In the beginnings, first times when I worked with Joomla, suddenly a blank screen appears from nowhere in front of me, with a message from the database, I knew that the tables weren’t optimized. I looked for a solution and I find this plugin.

What it does?

Optimize the database tables.

Why is a must?

Automate the process of database optimization.

After you install the plugin just enable it,

and keep the parameters settings unchanged.

JCE Editor

From default, Joomla has the Tiny MCE editor, but it’s just not enough. After you try JCE believe me nothing will be the same.

Is so much to say about this editor and I can’t cover all on this tutorial.

Maybe I will do a tutorial just for this editor. All I can say is that from my first installation of Joomla after one week, I installed this editor, and never change it since then.

What it does?

It brings a lot of benefits when writing content for the web, within a Joomla website.

Why is a must?

Because Tiny MCE the default editor of Joomla is just not enough.

Xmap

What it does?

Xmap is a Site map generator component for Joomla, is based on the popular Joomap component. Xmap allows you to create a map of your site using the structure of your menus.

Why is a must?

I think everybody knows how important a sitemap is, for your site visitors and for search engines.

This component not only that generate an html map for your website, but also an xml map that you can submit to search engines.

To find the XML map link go to components click Xmap,

then click on options and select preferences,

and voila, all the sitemap links, the XML sitemap is the first one.

SEO Simple

This simple Joomla 1.5 plugin simply takes the starting chunk of text from the page’s content and applies that as the value for the meta description tag in the page’s head. Search engines often use a Web page’s meta description in the SERPs, and as such it is important that these meta descriptions have relevant text related to the page’s content.

What it does?

Is generating content for your metadescripiton tag.

Why is a must?

Because it grabs the first paragraphs from your article and applies that as the value for the meta description tag, let you set the length of the meta description tag and also let you set how do you want the title and the site name to appear on browsers.

This plugin is just great.

Enable the plugin from the plugin control panel,

and to generate text for meta descripiton tag select “No, Generate based on page content”.

Conclusion

I hope these extensions will help you in your future Joomla projects. And of course, do not limit your Joomla installation only to these extensions. Believe me, out there, is more must have extensions then you can handle. In one word don’t stick with what you have. Try everything till you get satisfied. In the future I hope, I’ll have more time to write more stuff about Joomla. I love this content manager so much, and I like teaching others about it.

If you know a must have extension for Joomla, please share the secret with us in the comments field below. I am curios to here about it.

Here’s that awesome list of the best jQuery plugins that will help you add beautiful effects and functionality in your next project.

Nivo Slider

Nivo Slider is a subtle jquery plugin for making very beautiful image sliders. It also offers a lot of features.

jQuery Quicksand

jQuery plugin for reordering and filtering items with a nice shuffling animation.

There are many WordPress plugins that can help you to boost your comment section and you can find many other articles talk about this topic by Google search, but in this article, I want to introduce to you the best and newest plugin that I always love:

1. Give Your Commentators Backlink:

CommentLuv

This plugin fetches the feed found at commentators site URL while they type their comment and extracts the last blog post title with link and displays it below the comment form. When they submit their comment, the last blog post link gets added on the end of their comment for all to see.

DoFollow

It will disable the automatic rel=”nofollow” attributes added to external links. You may want to do this if you have good spam filtering for your comments, or if your blog is moderated. Remove rel=”nofollow” tag and combined with hard comment moderated will encourage your visitors contribute good comment for your website.

NoFollow Free

This WordPress plugin works like DoFollow plugin but it can insert (if you want) an image band at the top of your pages with the phrase: “NOFOLLOW FREE” to encourage your users to submit comments.

Dofollow Trackbacks Plugin

The function is the same with the plugin above but it’s designed for Trackbacks only. Dofollow Trackbacks plugin shares your link love only with the people who has found your post valuable enough to link it on their blog.

2. Send Notifications to Commentators:

Subscribe to Comments

The plugin enables commentators to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries, your commentators can unsubscribe to certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address.

Comment Relish

Comment relish is a WordPress plugin like “Subscribe to Comments” plugin but it was developed to send an e-mail message to users who comment on your website who have never commented before.

Filosofo Enroll Comments

Filosofo Enroll Comments is designed for WordPress 2.0 and newer, it allows users to receive an email when someone comments on a post and manage their subscriptions using the admin control panel.

Subscribe to Double-Opt-In Comments

This Plugin allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry, with double-opt-in Feature. Plugin based on Mark Jaquith “Subscribe to Comments”.

Thank Me Later

Thank Me Later (TML) will automatically send an e-mail to your those who leave a comment at your blog. Use this plugin to say ‘Thanks’ to your visitors, and prompt them to further engage with your blog.

Comment-Emailer

Comment-Emailer allows you to customize the email wordpress automatically sends when a new comment, pingback or trackback has been approved.

3. Most Recent and Most Popular Comments

Top Commentators Widget

This plugin shows the top commentators in your WordPress site by the form of Widget and it’s very easy to manage via the control form.

Get Recent Comments

This plugin displays excerpts of the most recent comments and/or trackbacks that have been posted to the articles in your blog.

Recent Comments with Avatars

Once the widget is added to your sidebar you may easily configure it to provide a display of recent comments with comment author avatars

4. Comment Statistics

Comment Analysis

The plugin contains functions to show comment count, pingback count, trackback count, top commentors, most recent comments, and much more….

Comment Count

Comment Count has a simple function is counting the number of comments in your website.

Admin Commenters Comments Count

Next to all appearances of each commenter’s name in the admin, shows a count of their total number of comments, linked to a listing of those comments.

Comment Counter

Comment Counter is a plugin which count the comments by a commentator. You can define different parameters for the count such as the URL, the authorname….

5. Enhanced comment posting form

TinyMCEComments

This plugin turns the comment field from a primitive into a WYSIWYG editor, using the internal TinyMCE library bundled with WordPress 2.0 or up.

Ajax Comment Posting

The plugin not only will it post your comment without refreshing the page, but it will also make sure that you’ve filled all the form fields correctly.

Edit Comments XT Plugin

Edit Comments XT is a simple WordPress plugin that allows commenters to edit their own comments. To edit a comment, a user must have the same IP address as the user that made the comment and they must also make the edit within a specific time frame. The default edit time window is 30 minutes.

Easy Comment Uploads

This plugin allow your visitors to attach images or other file to their comments as easily as possible.

Live Comment Preview

Live Comment Preview is the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site, it allows readers to preview their comments before posting.

Comment Sorter

With Comment Sorter, readers can disable Trackbacks and also decide what order they would like to read the comments.

Comment Validation

This plugin aims to help by adding validation to the comment form. When a user submits the form and something is missing, an appropiate message is displayed and individual fields are highlighted. When the email or url is in an incorrect format, a message is displayed accordingly.

Custom Avatars For Comments

Your visitors will be able to choose from the avatars you upload to your website for each and every comment they make.

6. Comment reactions

Quoter

Quoter allows users to quote a comment or a post in their comments, in a similar way to forums. Comments can be quoted by clicking a link which pastes them (real-time with Javascript, or, if it is disabled, refreshing the page) in the comment form.

Twitter Avatars In Comments

This plugin will fetch the Commentators twitter avatar as the comment avatar by looking for their email address.

GD Star Rating

This plugin enable visitors to vote on the comment and can display the comment which has the high vote. It’s not ony vote comment but also post, page…. If GD Star Rating is to big for your needs, you can try the following plugin:

Comment Rating

In usual, you must moderate readers’ comments on your blog, but with this plugin your readers will decide which comment deserves to be shown. This plugin automatically embeds clickable images in comments using simple AJAX javascript (no heavy jQuery) to allow visitors rate comments in Like vs. Dislike fashion.

Riffly Webcam Video Comments

Riffly is a free service that easily plugs into your site allowing visitors to create video and audio comments.

Feature Comments

Lets the admin add “featured” or “buried” css class to selected comments. Handy to highlight comments that add value to your post.

7. Fighting Comment Spam

Akismet

Antispam plugin from the creators of WordPress which was add in default of wordpress packing and it require API key from WordPress.com and it’s free for personal use.

WP Captcha-Free

WP Captcha-Free blocks automated comment spam without resorting to CAPTCHAs. It does so by validating a hash based on time (and some other parameters) using AJAX when the form is posted.

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

This plugin adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all.

Math Comment Spam Protection

The plugin asks the visitor making the comment to answer a simple math question. This is intended to prove that the visitor is a human being and not a spam robot.

Defensio Anti-Spam

Defensio is an advanced spam filtering web service that learns and adapts to your behaviors and those of your readers.

8. Comment and SEO

SEO Super Comments

This is one of my favorite plugin developed by Vladimir Prelovac, for each user comment the plugin will create a new dynamic page on the blog, holding the actual comment information. This page will not actually exist in WordPress database.
The plugin can bring back a big jump in site’s index visible to search engines. This is possible because blog comments are crawl-able, index-able and most importantly rank-able content.

Comment Length Limiter

This plugin provides a configurable limit on the length of comments left in the comment form, with a character countdown displayed for the user and dynamically updated with each keypress.
From the perspective of SEO (search engine optimization), very long comments also dilute the impact of the author’s original post by relegating it to a small proportion of the overall content available on the page.

Remove duplicated post content on comments pages

Plugin replaces post content on comments pages with a customized text and link to full post text.
Neccessary for wordpress 2.7+, or you will be rated low for duplicate content.

Comment Timeout

This plugin automatically closes comments on blog entries after a user- configurable period of time. I recommend you using this plugin because the old post may has a high PR rank and new comment on this post may harm your PR.

9. Comment and Social website

Twitter Blog

Twitter Blog will not only tweet your blog post, but it will also check hourly for replies to that tweet and turn it into a comment on that blog post.

Twitoaster WordPress Plugin

The Twitoaster WordPress Plugin automatically retrieves Twitter replies and/or retweets to your Blog’s posts. These “Twitter comments” are displayed like comments, on the posts pages they are related to.

Twit Connect

This plugin will allow your website visitors to comment on your blog by using their Twitter account.

Buzz Comments

Buzz Comments is for users who’ve their WordPress blog in their Google Buzz connected sites list. In that case discussions about the Blogposts often split in two seperate threads. Some users reply on Buzz and some on the Blog. This plugin adds the comments posted on Buzz about your posts to the comments on the blog.

Meet Your Commenters

When someone comments on your blog and writes a comment with his/her URL, is leaving more information than you think. This wordpress plugin displays web pages and profiles of those users in the dashboard, so you can add them as friends if you are in the same social network. You will be able to know the profiles of your visitors in social networks like flickr, twitter, and facebook.

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Included are some guides on how to edit the theme, be it the HTML or the Javascript elements. If you require any support, leave a comment below and we’ll help you out.

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• Fully editable and well organized PSD files
• 10 different styles

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• 200 Icons
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