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NO1 SHOPPING - SHAPE5 JOOMLA TEMPLATE

Saturday, 19 April 2014

No1 Shopping - Shape5 Joomla Template

Looking for a flat designed eCommerce template? No1 Shopping is the design for you! The design is packed with features ready for any eCommerce website. The full width menu is great for extension categories you may need to list. The cart button is conveniently located in the top right and is included in the floating menu option too for easy of use. We've updated the VirtueMart 3rd party stylings to a more flat look.

Demo: http://www.shape5.com/demo/index.php?no1_shopping/

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How to Add Custom-Sized AdSense Ads to your Website

Wednesday, 1 January 2014

Google AdSense, since its inception in 2003, has supported a dozen-odd ad units – from the 300×250 Rectangle to the 160×600 Skyscraper – that abide by the IAB guidelines. Premium AdSense publishers do have the flexibility of customizing the layout of text-only ads but not the image or rich-media ads.
Last week Google introduced custom-sized ad units in AdSense that blurs the line between Premium and regular publishers. Now all AdSense publishers are given an opportunity to create ad units of custom dimensions, tailor made for their own website. Let me explain.
Say your website has a sidebar that is 250 pixels wide. Previously, you could only choose between the regular skyscraper formats – 120×600 or 160×600 – even though none of these units would perfectly fit inside your sidebar. With custom-sized units now available in AdSense, you can create an ad unit that is exactly 250×600 in size thus taking all the available screen estate. Or if the sidebar is long, you can even choose to have a 250×1200 unit.

Custom-Sized Ad Units vs Regular AdSense Ads

An obvious advantage with custom-sized units is that they better fit the layout of your website. That said, Google algorithms may sometimes override your choice.
For instance, if you have created an ad unit that is 500×300 pixels, AdSense can still serve display ads in standard formats like the 300×250 or 336×280 for that unit. The smaller ad will be center-aligned and the remaining area is filled with whitespace.









Google may serve display ads of lesser dimensions inside custom-sized ad units.
Since Google is likely to display the highest performing ad – which could either be a custom-sized unit (that you’ve requested) or a regular unit – it may be a good idea to use custom-sized units in place of regular units as, with the former, you get the best of both worlds.

Convert Existing AdSense Ad Units to Custom-Sized Ads

Google recommends that you create a new ad unit in your AdSense dashboard and choose the option “Custom Ad Size” for creating a new custom-sized ad unit. You can however use your existing Ad units and convert them into a custom sized units.
All you have to do is adjust the width and height values in your existing ad code and regular unit will be automatically converted into a custom sized unit. Just make sure that both height and width values are less than 1200 pixels and that only one of these values is greater than 300 pixels.

Custom-Sized Ads vs Responsive Google Ads

Earlier this year, Google introduced Responsive AdSense ads where the size (read width) of the ad is dynamically specified based on the screen size of the device where that ad is being served. With responsive ads, you can serve a 336×280 large rectangle on the desktop and the same ad slot may serve a 320×100 ad when the page is viewed on a mobile device.
Now that custom-sized ad units are available, should you make the switch to these new units or continue to use the Responsive Ad units.
Google’s official recommendation is:
Custom-sized ad units are fixed sized ad units, i.e., they don’t dynamically change their size or respond to changes in screen orientation. If your site uses responsive design, we recommend that you use a responsive ad unit instead.
You can however still make your custom-sized ad units responsive such that their suggested size changes based on the device size or orientation. In Responsive Ads, you serve ads of a fixed width based on the screen size while in custom-sized ads you specify the maximum width that the ad can occupy. If you can dynamically specify this “maximum” width, your custom-sized ad unit will be responsive as well.

How to Make Custom-sized AdSense Ads Responsive

The AdSense ad units on this website are custom-sized units but they are responsive too. Here’s how you can implement such a thing on your own website or blog:
  1. <div id="google-ads-1"></div>
  2. <script type="text/javascript">
  3. /* Replace ca-pub-XXX with your AdSense Publisher ID */
  4. google_ad_client = "ca-pub-XXX";
  5. /* Replace YYY with the AdSense Ad Slot ID */
  6. google_ad_slot = "YYY";
  7. /* Replace ZZZ with the custom height of your Ad Unit */
  8. google_ad_height = ZZZ;
  9. ad = document.getElementById('google-ads-1');
  10.  
  11. if (ad.getBoundingClientRect().width) {
  12. google_ad_width = ad.getBoundingClientRect().width;
  13. } else {
  14. google_ad_width = ad.offsetWidth; // for old IE
  15. }
  16.  
  17. /* The width of an Ad unit should be between 120-1200 pixels */
  18. if (google_ad_width>1200) {
  19. google_ad_width = 1200;
  20. } else if (google_ad_width<120) {
  21. google_ad_width = 120;
  22. }
  23.  
  24. /* The height of an Ad unit should be between 50-1200 pixels */
  25. if (google_ad_height>1200) {
  26. google_ad_height = 1200;
  27. } else if (google_ad_height<50) {
  28. google_ad_height = 50;
  29. }
  30. /* Both height or width cannot be more than 300 pixels */
  31. if ((google_ad_width>300) && (google_ad_height>300)) {
  32. google_ad_height = 300;
  33. }
  34. document.write (
  35. '<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:'
  36. + google_ad_width + 'px;height:'
  37. + google_ad_height + 'px" data-ad-client="'
  38. + google_ad_client + '" data-ad-slot="'
  39. + google_ad_slot + '"></ins>'
  40. );
  41. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
  42. </script>
  43.  
  44. <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>


Go to your AdSense dashboard and create a new Ad unit with the type as “Custom Ad Unit.” You can specify the dimensions as, say, 300×1200 pixels (either the height or width should be 300 pixels or less) and choose a default color and font scheme for the ad unit. Click the “Save and Get code” button to generate the ad code.
Note your AdSense publisher ID, Ad Slot ID and replace those values in the above block of code (line #6 & #9). You should also change the default height (line #12) of your custom sized unit (the width is automatically determined by JavaScript). Copy-paste the modified code anywhere in your web template and the custom-sized ads will fill the available width while being responsive.
The technique will work on both responsive and regular (non-responsive) websites.

Smart-sized Ads vs Custom-sized Ads

Some have pointed out in the comments that smart-sized responsive ads could be a better alternative to custom-sized ad units. Yes, implementing a smart-sized responsive unit is easier (you just have to add data-ad-format=”auto” to the ad code) but the downside is that you do not less control over the ads that will be served.
For instance, if the available ad space is 200 pixels, AdSense may serve a longer 160×600 unit though a small 200×200 square unit could have been a better fit. In that case, an option would be that you specify the height and width of the container div or simply use the custom-sized unit.

5+ Effective Ways To Increase Your RSS Subscribers

Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Getting the icon for RSS feeds on websites and blogs is no big deal as the user-friendly interface of your blogging platform will aid you in adding RSS icons easily. The task is to keep your readers and regular visitors of your blog under the control so that, they will be able to know the updates on your website and visit it when needed. This is such a useful technique that lends its hand to even a million-dollar business but what is much more difficult is that making the visitors of your blogs to hit the RSS button to make him/her a regular reader, which is equivalent of signing up for your website.
I would not say this as that much hard even as there are certain ways which can help you to increase the subscribers count. Here are some of the main ways to increase the subscribers and of course it will help for your blogging as well.
#1 – Have Good Enough Sized RSS Icon
Well there is something that you can do to display that your blog or website has the RSS subscription enabled, make the RSS icon (using the HTML) size to a bigger size. This way you will find yourself capturing the visibility of the readers of your website and check on the icon to get into their daily reading board, as and when you update your website. Check this 70+ Resources to get perfect RSS Icon to match your blog’s theme.
#2 – Place Them Right
It is not good enough that you get a size alone for the RSS subscribe feed icon, but is also necessary that you get the icon placed in the right hand side top position of the web page so that the reader will find it easy to click to subscribe. Some of the positions in the website or blog will include the topmost corner on the right hand side of the page, or in the lowermost region at the end of the article giving the readers the opportunities to subscribe for reading your blog posts regularly.
#3 – Place them all over the website
When you are placing the RSS icon, see that this icon for subscribing readers to place them all over the website, that is in every page of your website. By this way you will have the readers subscribing in any of your page (he/she may land in any of your page) and once subscribed they will be intimated automatically on any new posts in your blog.
#4 – Tell your readers
RSS is not a new concept but still you will find many non-tech savvy people visiting your blog so let them know about RSS. By this way it is easy to attract a number of RSS subscribers by introducing them to RSS subscription. You can have a string of text near the icon to explain what is this being kept for and how does it works.
#5 – Comment with your RSS Feed URL
This is a clever way, I would say. Bloggers do leave comment on other blogs when they come across a good post but they will use their blog URL in the comment details. Let us do a simple tweak here, use your RSS Feed URL when you leave a comment on other blogs. This will be beneficial in 2 ways, the blog owner will subscribe to your feed and the people who leaves comments to the same post that you left will also subscribe to your RSS feed.
#6 – Subscribe to get more subscribers
Gaining more subscribers to your feeds is like collecting donation for a cause, and you will find that subscribing to read others blogs of similar interests will encourage them to read your blogs. This is one of the best ways to get quality and targeted readers to your blogs, believe me this is one of the ways I use to get loyal readers for my Medifast discounts and Nutrisystem coupons blog. This will definitely bring a number of subscribers so do not miss to try this out.
Definitely these simple ways will teach you the nuances of RSS subscribers!! Comments are really appreciated!!

49+ Websites For Copyright And Royalty Free Photos

Basically I’m an image hunter. I love creative and innovative images. I admire those images very much and I spend most of the time hunting for my blog post images. In this article I mentioned about 40+ websites where you can get copyright and royalty free images for your blog posts. Make sure you don’t misuse the images. Make proper use of the images and play it safe.

1. Google Image Search : Google Image Search is the comprehensive image search on the web.  But they also contain copyrighted images. So play it safe. Also try Google Similar Images (Labs)
2. Stock Exchange : SXC is a friendly community of photography addicts who generously offer their works to those who need them free of charge. It contains over 350,000 quality stock photos by more than 30,000 photographers!
3. Flickr : Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. It is better to give Image Credits to the Flickr Users.
4. Pixabay : Pixabay.com is a sharing platform for quality public domain images. Pixabay provides around 65,000 photos, illustrations, and vector graphics free of copyrights that may be used without attribution for any application (Creative Commons CC0 dedication exclusively)
5. Getty Images : Getty Images offers high-quality, diverse and relevant stock photos, stock footage, stock music and editorial images for creative professionals
6. Morgue File : Morgue File contains high-resolution stock photography images free for either corporate or private use.
7. Compfight : Compfight makes good use of the flickr™ API. But it is not affiliated with flickr™ though.
8. Image * After : They provide free high resolution images and textures for commercial and personal use. Daily additions. Free hi-res stock photography, with abstract graphics search.
9. Open Photo : Open Photo is an open network of photographers consisting of pictures of animals, nature, landscape, architecture, still life, and technology.
10. Bigfoto : Bigfoto provides free download of all pictures with a link or reference. Most of the photos are from amateur photographers.
11. StockVault : Stockvault.net is a stock photo sharing website where designers and photographers can meet to share their stock photos and images.
12. Deviantart : Deviantart is a community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry/prose and Art Prints.
13. FreeFoto : FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet (link back and attribution required).
14. Free Images : Free images is a high quality resource of digital stock photographic images for use by all. All images in their collection are free to use on websites and printed materials.
15. Image Temple : Image Temple provides free royalty free images for personal and commercial use.
16. FreeMediaGoo : FreeMediaGoo was created for developers by developers. The content provided by them is royalty free. No need for annoying links and no limits to the amount of images you can use.
17. Woophy : Woophy stands for WOrld Of PHotographY, a website founded by a Dutch collective of photo aficionados and internet designers who believe navigation on internet can be more visual, logical and associative.
18. Cyclo : Cyclo.ps is an easy to use royalty free stock photo search engine. It is a one-stop shop for all of your stock photography needs.
19. Free Pixels : FreePixels offers free high resolution stock photos for use in both personal and commercial design projects.
20. Vintage Pixels : Vintage Pixels is a large database of historical, high quality, free-for-use images which allows people to share their archived photos.
21. Photogen : Photogen provides free, quality stock photography for both commercial and personal use. Their images are not for resale or redistribution. Please read their terms of use before downloading.
22. Kavewall : Kavewall provides free Stock Photos, Images and Textures. They have different kind of categories to search images.
23. FreeLargePhotos : You may use these images for your personal use if you note the source: © Copyright 2009 [name of photographer], FreeLargePhotos.com. If you use them on a web site, link to this site.
24. Open Stock Photography : Open Stock Photography is mashup created to help designers find free stock photography (or public domain photography).
25. Free Range Stock : Free Range Stock provides free stock photography for commercial or non-commercial use. High-resolution stock images and textures for FREE.
26. Free Stock Photography : Free Stock Photography is an open and royalty-free gallery that contains many high resolution free images.
27. Bing Image Search : Excellent competitor to Google Image Search. It is also a comprehensive image search on the web.  But they also contain copyrighted images. So play it safe.
28. Yahoo! Image Search : Google’s greatest competitor ever I can say. Yahoo! Image Search also has all the top features.
29. Free Digital Photos : Free Digital Photos provides thousands of royalty free photos for instant download. For commercial and non-commercial use. No registration required.
30. Aarin Free Images : Aarin Free Photo offers digital images absolutely free. They also provide Web Design tips to help you with ideas and image manipulation.
31. Free Photograph Networks : The Free Photographs Network is an online resource for royalty-free stock photographs for non-commercial use by the webmaster community.
32. PD Photo : PDPhoto.org is a repository for free public domain photos. Unless something is clearly marked as being copyrighted, you can assume it is free to use.
33. Animation Factory : Animation Factory provides you PowerPoint Templates, PowerPoint Backgrounds, Animated Clip Art and Video Backgrounds for use in web, email, and so on.
34. Big Stock Photo Big Stock Photo provides true royalty-free stock images. They also provide many high resolution images.
35. Corbis Images Corbis provides Royalty-Free and Rights Managed stock images for editorial and commercial applications, including iconic, historical, archival, and so on.
36. Dreamstime : Stock photography community providing high quality stock photos and stock images. Free photos added weekly.
37. Jupiter Images : Jupiter Images has over 500000 new Royalty-Free Stock photography images and photos. It is a subsidiary of Getty Images.
38. Matton Images : Provider of Royalty Free Stock Photography. Find an extensive library of digital Stock Photos as Single Images, CDs, available for direct download.
39. Mooch Images Mooch Images offers contemporary stock photography covering all aspects of travel.
40. Photocase : Photocase is a royalty free stock photography community. Photocase photos are available to purchase for royalty-free use in commercial and non-commercial purposes.
41. Fotolia : Fotolia allow you to buy and sell royalty-free stock photos on. Affordable royalty-free stock photos, cheap stock images and stock pictures.
42. PhotoSpin : PhotoSpin has lot of Stock Photography. Your source for stock photos, illustrations, fonts, clip art and illustrations.
43. Shuttershock : Shuttershock provides you millions of high resolution royalty free images, stock photos, vector art, and stock photography.
44. Wallpaperstock : Wallpaperstock provides you free stock photos, free desktop wallpapers, backgrounds and so on.
45. Picapp : Picapp provides you the best stock photography images and pictures for your blog or website, royalty-free. You can use them absolutely free of cost by giving a back link. (ThanksHimanshu)
46. FreePhotosBank : Any photos/pictures posted by the author “freephotosbank” are free to use as long as you are using them for a website, book, magazine, etc. You cannot download our photos to sell as is or modified from any source. (Thanks Sunny Bhasin)
47. EveryStockPhoto : Everystockphoto.com is a license-specific photo search engine. Currently they index and search millions of freely licensed photos, from many sources, and present them in an integrated search. (Thanks Sunny Bhasin)
48. Free Range Stock : Free stock photography for commercial or non-commercial use at freerangestock.com. High-resolution stock images and textures for FREE.
49. Photoxpress PhotoXpress.com provides creative professionals a vast and legal image library for both personal and professional use. Sign up and download free stock images. 
50. Ookaboo! : Ookaboo is a collection of free pictures, indexed by precise terms from the semantic web. All pictures on Ookaboo are in the public domain or are under Creative Commons — that means that you can use their pictures for your web site, classwork, or other creative projects!
Remember the images from the search engines may or may not be copyrighted, that is not for sure. After getting the required image, check the source and contact the webmaster. Find their terms or policies.
 

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