关于微博客及如何利用WordPress架设微博客平台

SNAG-15032007-11-260003.png我想,很多有Tumblelog的朋友应该都是在用Tumblr作为自已的微博客平台的,不过很可惜的是,前段时间Tumblr已被GFW划入和谐范围内,我们现在已无法通过正常方式来利用。

 

那么,如何通过其他方式来架设自已的微博客呢?方法很多,首先Soup可以帮你实现,这是一个与Tumblr相同的微博客平台服务使用方式上也差不多。

SNAG-15032007-11-260002.png另外,我以前介绍过一个名为Gelato的专用微博客平台,用它你可像架设Wordpress一样架设一个完全自主微博客服务。不过,由于Gelato还只是刚刚起步,在功能上还远远无法与Tumblr相比。

其实,个人认为利用Wordpress我们也可以打造出一个强大的微博客平台。Wordpress本身就是一个非常强大的CMS系统,再加上其成千上万的模版和插件,只要加以组合,完全可以胜任微博客这项工作。

下面,从这几个步骤来让Wordpress来一一实现Tumblelog的部分功能。

1、获取专业的Tumblelog模版

SNAG-15032007-11-26.pngT1 theme是Wordpress的一个免费模版,这是一个非常专业的Tumblelog(微博客)样式模版,具备许多非常专业的功能,比如支持最新版的Wordpress Tag,可随机变换头部图片,8种默认的分类样式,导航及高度的可定制性。

下载地址:http://livetardy.com/t1/download-t1-theme/

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2、利用WordPre.cio.us+ Del.icio.us构建链接导入功能

构建方法:如何使用Wordpress构建网摘站点?

3、利用VodPod实现视频自动发布功能

构建方法:用VodPod自动发布视频到Blog

4、利用SmartFeed插件实现自动导入RSS文章功能

插件主页及安装方法:这里 Live DEMO:这里

5、利用PhotoQ插件实现快速发布图片功能

插件主页:这里

借助于Wordpress的强大功能,你可以实现更多Tumblelog功能,以上这些只是我在使用过程中累积出来的,也许你也有更多的方法和经验,不妨告诉我或分享给大家。

PS:我的新闻咨询站点就是利用其中一些方法构建的。

What’s tumblelog? [via Wikipedia]

A tumblelog is a variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. Common post formats found on tumblelogs include links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video. Unlike blogs, this format is frequently used to share the author’s creations, discoveries, or experiences without providing a commentary.

个人很喜欢Tumblr的形式。。
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From http://blog.bsdos.cn/archives/1076

 

多拍网,国内又一家国内照片分享网站

自从照片分享网站Flickr兴起之后,国内便出现了很多类似的服务,再加上Flickr被GFW之后,更为国内的这些服务商打了一针兴奋剂,呵呵,估计Feedsky(非照片分享服务)以及yupoo、bababian等都暗地里面偷着乐呢。不过,竞争还是有的,这不,又一家照片分享网站上线了,大家可以体验一下~~~~~~~~
[ 链接 http://www.dpdp.net/ ]

这个的特点就是相册已FLASH的方式展示。。可能有些人喜欢吧。

大脚社区:简单好用的照片共享工具

【官方介绍】大脚是一个有趣的社区,为你提供简单好用的照片共享工具。这是目前我们唯一关心的事情——我们提供的照片共享工具是否足够简单,足够有用。

所有注册用户每个月都可以上传容量为 100M 的图片。在你上传照片之后,大脚的高速计算机系统会帮你自动把照片调节为几个不同的尺寸,方便你在博客,论坛及任何地方共享。
[ 链接 http://footbig.com/ ]

我试用了下 感觉不错 速度快。。简洁。。100M。。不错。

网页设计和设计灵感的12个无价站点

不管你是职业或业余网页设计者,或者只是想对网页设计了解更多,这些都是可以浏览和加入收藏的极佳资源。这个收集包括设计风格、向导和工具以及字体照片备份和矢量图片。这些都被组织为三种免费赠送的目录:灵感,向导和资源。享受把!

网页设计灵感:

CSS Zen Garden 一个通过基于CSS设计的可视化操作的演示。可以从列表中选择任意一个风格菜单载入到这个页面。目标在于激励,鼓舞和鼓励参与。

Web Design Inspiration 收集了大量成功的多种类型的网页设计,400多种。

Web Creme 提供了常用的最新的文雅但间接的类似博客的屏幕截图,以供网页设计者浏览。

Unmatched Style 是一个致力于为为那些做华丽网页站点的人使用层叠风格表单和网页标准的人使用的成长中的社区。

CSS Beauty 为其观众提供来自世界各地的良好设计的基于CSS的网页的数据库。

Web Design Guides:

网页设计向导:

Web Design from Scratch 为每个对设计网页有兴趣的人而创设——新手或专家。它会帮你理解什么会导致网页成功或失败,什么会增加成功的机会。

Web 2.0 How-To Design Style Guide:在这个指南中,作者描述了大量在web2.0时代的网页设计组件。并解释了其工作原理,并解释了你何时,如何使用这些组件。

Top 50 Logo Design Tutorials 提供良好的logo设计指南和有用的会帮你航行于多种链接中的屏幕截图。

51 Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials. 文本和查看文本的方式是任何设计的主要工作。如果网页看起来错误,一个好的设计就会大打折扣。任何logo几乎都全是文本。这51个指南会给你演示怎样产生你所需要的文本。

Web Design Resources:

网页设计资源:

Open Source Web Design 是一个可以自由下载网页设计模板和共享你的模板的站点。

Blue Vertigo 陈列一组令人惊讶的免费资源,从备份图片到矢量截图等等。

Browser Shots 允许你在浏览器中快速和容易的测试你的设计。可以在不同的浏览器中截图。

 

 

 

本文由diglog译自http://sawse.com/2007/11/21/top-12-sites-and-tools-for-web-design-and-inspiration/

65个最好的FLASH设计赏析

65个最好的FLASH设计赏析 

With Flash you can do more than just displaying videos. You can create stunning visual experience and offer your visitors incredible user interaction. Although Flash is definitely not the favourite medium for usability and accessibility advocates, it has its advantages and it empowers the Web with functionalities which make it an incredibly interactive medium. With Flash designers can achieve results which simply aren’t possible with (X)HTML and CSS.

The results can be creative, impressive, beautiful and fascinating. Under two conditions: 1) if designers find the right mixture between graphics, animation, video and sound and 2) if designers follow the guidelines of usability and user interaction.

However, since there is a number of things that can go wrong in Flash, it’s easy to get it wrong. In fact, there are thousands of examples where it is the case. In Flash any experiments with navigation and layouts are possible and in most cases it’s extremely hard to find a creative yet intuitive approach. Flash is commonly used by designers, agencies, advertisers and interactive web sites, and not on the sites where simplicity and quick access to information are important.

In this post we present 65 examples of outstanding Flash designs with excellent use of graphics, visual elements, interface design and graphics motion. This showcase (mostly) presents “pure” web designs; we’ve tried to avoid Flash-based games and advertising.

Mistake #1: Use Of Flash To Imitate (X)HTML/CSS

Flash shouldn’t be used if the designer tries to imitate (X)HTML/CSS-presentation. Long texts shouldn’t be embedded in Flash movies, because it’s harder (if possible at all) to work with the embedded text once you need to. Cubamoon is a perfect example of how this is done wrongly. The completeness of the design is enviable, its beauty irresistible, Flash-effects are stunning. However it’s really hard to work with the content of the site. Visitors can’t open links in new windows and the text can’t be selected and copied.

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Flash’s strength lies in its ability to showcase unusual visual solutions, including graphic motion, videos and sound. Make use of them if you really want to achieve a stunning visual design, instead of imitating “conventional” web-presentation.

Mistake #2: Navigation Is Unintuitive

Whatever decisions developers make for the design of their navigation menus, the result has to fulfill three significant requirements: it has to be intuitive, easy-to-use and work properly. Whether the design is Flash-based or not is not that important.

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The navigation is possible with the wheel which needs to be dragged. That looks easy, but it isn’t. Where is the grey zone between usability and creativity?

Using too creative approaches designers risk to confuse or even disturb visitors. The freedom for experiments with Flash may lead to unusual solutions which aren’t necessarily understood by all visitors.

Therefore designing in Flash never assume that the navigation can be arbitrarily complex and that visitors will take time to explore it. Users don’t like to wait. And if they don’t understand how the site works they leave. This is simple. And may cost you your money and your efforts. Be willing to compromise. Use creative approaches, but always take your visitors into consideration.

Mistake #3: Pop-Ups Are Still Used

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That’s just wrong. Flash designers need to understand that pop-ups shouldn’t be used any longer. Almost every browser blocks opening windows. Tricks and convincing arguments don’t help any more. Use the screen size your visitors use. In most cases you don’t need more.

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What is your favorite?

3D-Experience, Video-Effects

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3D, motion.

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Outstanding 3D-experience with informative and clear content.

Visiting the agency’s web-site you actually visit their agency. Clean images, great use of video features.

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Video motion, Multimedia, Navigation. Tell your visitors your story. Excellent portfolio site. Excellent use of Flash.

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Open up the containers to navigate. Beautiful.

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Simple, but extremely clean and calm. Showreel is just stunning.

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Impressive visual experience.

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Would you like a guided tour through this building?

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Outstanding effects with videos and camera lenses.

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Listen to what the suitcase says.

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OK, this is a shop. But what is happening here, the models are interacting.

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This is the visualization of a single by the band SWOD. It is called Waltz 57; the noise is also included in the single. Beautiful graphic motion. Built only with Flash and takes time to load. Better take a look at the video in small resolution.

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Excellent graphic motion.

Flip the book to navigate. Impressive 3D-effects.

Visual Elements

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Learn how to make a good fir
st impression.

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Crazy, interactive, unusual – creative!

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Clean and interactive presentation at its best.

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The portfolio is presented as a box of chocolates; every item can be picked, previewed and added to the lightbox for later.

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This projection screen can be set in motion.

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Follow the infinite red line (click on the screen first).

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An agency’s web-site doesn’t have to be boring. These guys seem to be hilarious.

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Portfolio designed as a… bus.

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Excellent photography and visual elements.

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The dropping down heaven. Every block is a single drop-down menu.

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The Funnel Design Group. A classic.

Clean, Clear and Simple

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Calm, peaceful, beautiful.

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Silent, but so clean and elegant.

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Calm and so beautiful. 3D-interaction in the Chromazone universe.

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Minimalistic, interesting navigation; precise and sharp.

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Minimalistic and beautiful, a portfolio.

User Interface, Navigation

Desktop in Flash. Very elegant solution.

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Navigation with colored stickers.

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Tremendous graphic design, and beautiful navigation – flashy!

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d’strict uses some kind of a bubble-lupe as site’s primary navigation. To navigate you have to drag the bubble upon the layout. And no, the design is based neither upon grids nor upon columns. Explore.

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A circular navigation.

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Click on the ribbon and it flashes right to you preloading the content you’d like to see.

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Drag & Drop navigation

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So beautiful, so elegant, so clean and interactive.

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What could it be? Well, this is an image gallery. Unusual navigation – you need to be really desperate about your navigation to come up with this method.

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Classic, navigation through CDs.

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Where is the navigation? On the right side at the top of the layout. To browse through categories you need to “switch a channel” like you would do it in your radio set. Nice idea from Switzerland.

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Moon Palace offers a quite imaginative navigation.

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Pick the category from a set of discs. Interesting navigation, and also beautiful.

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Yammat: Navigation with elastic bands.

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Another interesting concept by Limbus from France.

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Beautiful navigation and interesting presentation. And we really love big typography.

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…we also love lemons by the way.

Experimental

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Kashiwa Sato loves color palettes. Do your eyes too?

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This damn pencil can make you nervous.

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OK, this is scary. And not beautiful. But the use of visual elements on Marilyn Manson’s official web-site is… well, unusual.

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Self-portrait of a quite different art.

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HiFi Rack.

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Pixel-based Flash design created with the attention to smallest details. Unfortunately, there are sometimes too many pixels. Flash keeps the pixels alive – nice approach.

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He doesn’t exist. Monoface’s face shuffle. We simply couldn’t resist.

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Mohamed Yosry uses Flash in his own way. Not stunning, but unusual.

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Kimm Saatveldt presents his portfolio in a rather unusual way. Place the mouse in the middle of the page to navigate.

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HBO Voyeur. A classic you really need to have seen — at least once in your life.

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An unusual format for portfolio of a web design agency.

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Why not? Web-site as a newspaper.

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Flash design from the 90s. Old, but still impressive. This text editor software is actually still in use.

20多个基于CSS设计的免费站点模版下载资源

  1. TemplatesBox 提供不受任何限制的站点模版,很适合创作出高质量的网站设计。其实,站点模版就是让你用最少的时间做出最好的个人站点布局。
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  2. Free CSS Templates 按照 .ZIP 文件的方式提供模版,目前已经有 237 款基于 CSS 的站点模版。
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  3. Template Monster 提供免费的 Web、Flash 以及站点模版设计,免费 Flash 动画模版,免费动态 Flash 动画模版,PHP-Nuke 模版,SWiSH动态模版,Logo 模版,动态 Flash 相册等。
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  4. Art for the web 这是一个你可以发现免费web设计资源的地方。提供下载,还有 WordPress皮肤以及背景图片等资源。
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  5. Free Layouts 提供免费的站点模版给 Web 设计者,让设计者更富有灵感!
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  6. Free Templates Online 提供了一批可以容易定制和修改使用的模版。
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  7. Interspire 提供了许多站点模版,站点层次设计以及 Logo 模版,免费下载。
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  8. ThemesBase 为 e107、Joomla、Mambo、Php0Fusion、phpBB、PHPNuke、vBulletin、WordPress、XOOPS提供高质量的模版。
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  9. TemplateNavigator 是最大的免费和个人站点模版、免费Flash模版目录之一。
  10. DotcomWebDesign 提供免费的站点布局结构,页面布局设计,站点模版等。可以免费下载,但不能去掉版权信息。
  11. Effex-Media 是由Web设计者提供的免费站点模版,模版都分类,比如商业、购物、高科技、体育等。
  12. Entheos http://www.entheosweb.com/website_templates/free-dreamweaver-templates.asp
  13. Dezinehub http://www.dezinehub.com/
  14. Free-Flash-Templates http://www.free-flash-template.com/
  15. Free Photoshop Browser Templates http://www.webdesignerstoolkit.com/index.php
  16. http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/
  17. Layouts 4Free 提供上千种 web 布局设计。
  18. http://www.opensourcetemplates.org/
  19. http://www.paintedpixels.com/graphics/index.php
  20. http://www.rickyswebtemplates.com/
  21. http://www.snakeyewebtemplates.com/free_dreamweaver_web_site_templates.asp
  22. http://www.templateperfection.com/?parent=1&sm=1
  23. http://www.templateworkz.com/website_templates.php

想吃就来吃货网:美食分享站点

吃货网是一个美食网站社区,提供一个友好的美食爱好者和烹饪爱好者共同交流的平台。现在我们一共有:菜谱,百科,专题,圈子,问答5个频道。您可以在菜谱频道中搜索到您感兴趣的美食。无论是麻辣还是甜香,无论是山南还是海北,只要是您感兴趣的美食,我们的菜谱频道都会为您准备好。当然,您也可以把您制作的美美的菜谱放到吃货网上来,让更多热爱美食的人们可以分享到您的智慧与快乐。
百科频道收集了海量的食材,厨具,菜系,以及各种美食的介绍等等,是喜欢美食的您绝佳的充电场所。
专题频道会根据当前的热门话题或者季节时令,推出相应的美食介绍。
圈子频道是吃货们交流的主要平台,您可以在这里认识更多志同道合的吃货们。和朋友们一起分享生活中的点滴,分享美食带来的快乐。

吃货有两层意思:一是说某个人比较爱吃,有点贬义在里面,咳咳……当然我们是自嘲,是自嘲……,还有一个是指好吃的东西。吃货网这个名字就包含了这两层意思,一是指我们广大的吃货们,二是指我们吃货网上众多的好吃的。
吃货当然不是一个响亮的名字,我们也没有什么响亮的口号,我们只是希望所有喜欢美食的人们都可以吃得更好,更健康,更快乐。
赶快来加入吃货大家庭吧,好更多的吃货们一起分享你关于吃的故事,关于美食的快乐……

20多个XML工具或资源

 XML 是用户使用的网站众多元素之一,但是很少人懂得它。我们这里收集了20多个工具或者资源,帮助你很好的使用XML(注:以下链接均为英文网站)

文章来源:http://mashable.com/2007/10/07/xml-toolbox/