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40 Creative Twitter Status Designs for Your Inspiration

Posted: 11 May 2010 01:00 PM PDT

Twitter has become one of the most popular social media sites by playing a major role in marketing and business for the past few years. People use Twitter for many purposes ranging from product marketing, spreading discount info, sharing interesting news to bizarre photos they found around the internet.

Most of us put up our Twitter status on our website to let the visitor know our latest activities or information. Of course, every website has different layout and to make it more interesting, a different Twitter status design. Below are 40 creative Twitter status designs that will encourage you to create your own Twitter status to match your website’s design.

1. FoodTease

2. Ilovecolors (Elio Rivero)

3. Alex Art (Alexey Abramov)

4. Douglas Menezes

5. Chykalophia (Ari Suardiyanti)

6. BrownBag Film

7. Argee (Rohit Garg)

8. Meagan Fisher

9. Kev Adamson

10. Vikiworks

11. Jeff Sarmiento

12. Nick La

13. Sam Wilson

14. Blogamuki

15. Orman Clark

16. Cultura Positiva

17. Ready Made Designs

18. Digiti Interactive Media

19. Harmony Republic

20. Yodaa

21. Frenzy Lab

22. Komodo Media

23. Sketchen

24. Tori’s Eye

25. Spout Creative

26. Denise

27. Matt Salik

28. Giancarlo Fajardo

29. Robo Cat Applications

30. The Great Bearded Reef

31. Squarefactor

32. Dawghouse Design Studio

33. I Primi Dieci

34. Love Tweet

35. Chi Garden

36. Social Media Mullet

37. Giraffe

38. Guga Fit

39. ShortMoves

40. Tim Marrs

Which one is your favorite? Which Twitter status design do you like the most? Let us know in the comments below.

32 Google Chrome Extensions For Smart Designers

Posted: 11 May 2010 03:00 AM PDT

Google chrome is a relatively new web browser but it has already gained huge popularity with its great speed and features. Web developers must work more faster and more productively – what could help more than these extensions aimed to ease your daily development process and save time.

At least for me – none of extensions have made browser load speed slower – I cannot say this about Firefox though, which I don’t use anymore. Scroll through this list – I am sure you will find at least few new extensions to use daily!

1. FireBug Lite

I hope we all know FireBug addon for FireFox, so here is the same extension but only for Chrome. Firebug Lite is a tool for web developers, that allows you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

2. Resolution Test

Resolution Test changes the size of the browser window for web developers to preview websites in different screen resolutions. It includes a list of commonly used resolutions as well as a custom option for you to input your own.

3. Speed Tracer

Speed Tracer is a tool to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them as your application runs. Speed Tracer is available as a Chrome extension and works on all platforms where extensions are currently supported (Windows and Linux).

Using Speed Tracer you are able to get a better picture of where time is being spent in your application. This includes problems caused by:

Javascript parsing and execution
Layout
CSS style recalculation and selector matching
DOM Event handling
Network resource loading
Timer fires
XMLHttpRequest callbacks
Painting
and more …

4. Web Developer

The Web Developer extension adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer tools. This is the official port of the popular Web Developer extension for Firefox written by the same person.

5. Pendule

Use this extension in addition to the built-in Developer Tools. This tool is so similar to FireBug. You can just press mouse button and inspect the element.

6. Aviary Screen Capture

Take a screenshot of any webpage and edit it directly in your browser with Aviary.com applications. Plus convenient access to the Aviary website and tools.

Features:

Save to desktop, host online, or edit in other Aviary apps.
Captures instantly.
Screen capture of the visible portion of all web pages and images.
Add visual notes like arrows, text and highlights to your capture.
Crop your capture.
Resize, rotate and flip your capture.
Smart select and move of captured elements.
Grab color information from the page.
Quick launch 6 Aviary design tools: Image editor, markup editor, vector editor, color palette editor, effects editor & audio editor.

7. Chrome Web Developer Tools

This extensions developers are trying to get this as close as possible to "FireFox Web Developer" addon. This extension made easy the web development.

8. Chrome Sniffer

Chrome Sniffer will help web developer to inspect web framework / CMS and javascript library running on current browsing website. An icon will appear on address bar indicates the detected framework. Great way to know what source site is using (if source is opensource and it is popular).

9. Lorem Ipsum Generator

It generates random "Lorem Ipsum" text, it allows to choose words per paragraph and number of paragraphs.

10. PlainClothes

Unstyle the web with this tool. PlainClothes makes everything as possible closer to default or your wanted style. Just imagine – text is black, backgrounds are white, unread links are blue, visited links are purple, all links are underlined or any other colors you like. And all text is rendered in your default fonts (as defined in “Options” > “Under the Hood” > “Change font and language settings”). Everywhere. Automatically.

This is how 1stwebdesigner.com looks using this tool:

11. Internet Explorer Tab

Internet Explorer Tab shows IE in Google Chrome. Very simple extension. I think it's very useful to not to use IE.

12. Chrome SEO

The Google Chrome SEO Extension provides easy access to Search Engine Optimization Tools that can help you with Competitive Analysis, Keyword Research, Backlink Checks, PageRank Checks and other daily SEO tasks.

13. SEO Site Tools

It validates CSS and HTML, displays server software, checks for gzip compression, page headers and shares even more on-page suggestions based on accepted SEO knowledge. It can disable right-click scripts, and does window resizing to see where fold would be on different size monitors. Fast clean simple UI with a wealth of SEO information makes doing a quick consult fast and easy.

14. META SEO Inspector

Meta data is not just the usual HTML meta tags, but the XFN tags, various microformats, the recently introduced canonical attribute, the no-follow links and so on.

15. Validity

Validity can be used to quickly validate your HTML documents from the address bar.

Just click the icon in the address bar to validate the current document without leaving the page. The number of validation errors can be seen in the tool tip.

Validity also gives you the option to use your own installation of the W3C Validation Service. (For more information on installing the W3C Validation Service see the documentation at http://validator.w3.org/docs/install.html).

16. Eye Dropper

Eye Dropper and Color Picker extension which allows you to pick color from any webpage or from advanced color picker.

17. Color Picker

Quickly get the Hex and RGB values of any color! Also adjust Hue, Saturation, and Balance.

18. Image Cropper

This extension help you to crop any images on the fly.
It’s especially useful when you need to crop your online album photo for IM thumbnail.

Crop images in img html element
Crop css background images for any html element
Cropped Image is in PNG format
Right click on top of the selection to “save as” the cropped image.

19. Webpage Screenshot

Makes screenshot of whole page even if page is very long.

20. Picnik

The Picnik Extension for Chrome lets you easily edit the images you come across while browsing the web. With a click you can create a snapshot of your current web page and open it in Picnik for easy editing, annotation and sharing. Do the same for all the image on the current page — just pick the image from the dynamic hot list and then edit, annotate and share with Picnik. It is a great replacement to PhotoShop!

21. MeasureIt!

Draw out a ruler that will help you get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

22. Pixlr Grabber

Grab visible screen, select part or entire page. Share screen to Pixlr imm.io, edit screen in Pixlr editor or save to desktop. This is one of the few who can capture the entire screen, however since Chrome just supports canvas in png the images created gets quite large and takes a while to process.

23. Domain Availability Checker

Quickly check if domain name is already taken or not.

24. Snippy

Snippy allows you to grab snippets of web pages, save them for future use and upload them to Google Docs.

25. FlashBlock

Flashblock is an extension for the Google Chrome that blocks all Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.

26. BuiltWith Technology Profiler

BuiltWith is a web site profiler tool. Upon looking up a page, BuiltWith returns all the technologies it can find on the page. BuiltWith's goal is to help developers, researchers and designers find out what technologies pages are using which may help them to decide what technologies to implement themselves.

27. LastPass

LastPass is a free online password manager and Form Filler that makes your browsing more secure.

28. iMacros

Automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitious work. Web developers use iMacros for web regression testing, performance testing and web transaction monitoring. It can also be combined with Google Speed Tracer, Firebug and other web development and test tools. XPath support is included.

29. Chrome Flags

It shows the country where the server is hosting.

30. Frame Two Pages

Put two tabs into one tab's two frames. Useful to compare two pages.

31. Split Screen

Works very similar to "Frame Two Pages" extension, but the main difference is that you can browse pages not switching tabs.

32. Session Buddy

Session Buddy is a flexible session manager that allows you to quickly save and restore session tabs.

View all of the tabs in each window of a current or saved session
Assess easily whether a displayed session has changed
Save the current session with 2 clicks
Restore sessions into a set of windows, a single window, or the current window
Access automatically saved crash recovery sessions after a Chrome or OS crash
Optionally automatically save the previous session
Edit sessions by deleting individual windows/tabs or rolling tabs into a single window
Import a list of URLs
Export a session to text or CSV format (more formats in development)
Control what types of tabs Session Buddy recognizes
Show/hide current session tab count in extension icon badge

Tuesday, May 11, 2010