Night Photography often got its own attraction and capturing a good night photography requires your skills and also whether your camera is capable of night photography. You may need a camera which able to keep its shuttle open for a longer time.

Today, we are going to look into 70+ really beautiful night photography of various Cities, Buildings, Landscapes, Fireworks, Light Trails, Northern Lights and Aurora.

If you are enjoying looking at these photography, why not read our previous post about Natural Landscape Wallpapers?

Cities

Night in Haneda Airport

Dubai City

Three towers

London night views

Moody Blue City

Night time in the city

Tropical City Streets at Night

China, Shanghai – Old City by night

Hong Kong at night – City of Lights

Brisbane City by night

Nile City Ship at night

Electric City

Night lights

Taipei City Night

Forbidden City at night

City Lights

Cork City Night

Mexico City At Night

Night On The City

Night Befalls the City

Victoria Bridge at Night

Moon over Kansas City

Vancouver City Skyline at Night

Bugis by Night

Paris by Night

Eiffel Tower at night

Kuala Lumpur at Night

Hong Kong Peak at night

Tokyo Night: Shinjuku

San Francisco at night

Singapore at Night

Night Lights

Amstel at Night

Northern Lights and Aurora

Aurora borealis – Gareskagi

Pink moon rising

Aurora borealis – Stafnesviti

Aurora

Noreurljósa Veiear #1

Noreurljósa Veiear #2

September Aurora

Landscapes

Joshua Tree Landscape, night

Laguna Beach at night

Niagara Falls U.S.A @ night

Arctic City Night

Stelco at night

Hendry’s with Fog, Night

Tridge at Night

Spiral Boulders, Leadbetter Beach

Mount Diablo by Night

Golden Gate at Night

Fireworks

Fireworks night

Fireworks night

Crystal Beach at night

Singapore Fireworks Celebrations Team Spain

Quincy Fireworks

Singapore Fireworks Celebrations Team China

Fireworks night, Woolwich, London

Fireworks by the Bay 14

Fireworks Competition Australia Finale

Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom Fireworks

New Year Eve Fireworks

CNY Fireworks

Light Trails

Lassu Weil am Rhein

Tokyo night race

Northern Gateway

Light Trails, Sydney Australia

Town Hall Light Trails

Clark County Fair, light trails at night

Bellevue Light Trail

Light Trails Doncaster

Light Trails

Carnival Light Trails

Rolling night

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Using stock photos in the design can save us a lot of time. Instead of hiring a photographer, you can instantly access high quality of stock photography by browsing through the stock photo websites.

There are a lot of websites offering stock photos. Some of them are free, while most of them aren’t. So, if you are going to use stock photos in your design, you have to be aware of the license and agreement that may be involved.

Today, we are going to share 30 websites where you can download free stock photos. If you found any free stock photo website that isn’t in the list, feel free to send me or add through comment.

1. stock.xchng

Contains over 350,000 quality stock photos. You can easily get a quality and beautiful wallpaper for your desktop, or simply an illustration for your blog. The advanced search feature lets you easily search through the site for your desired image.

2. Studio7designs

Really nice collection of nature-inspired photography.

3. Woophy

Woophy is a community for travel photographers. The main page cntains a map with a lot of dots. Each dots represent images taken at that place.

4. freerange

This site provides tons of high quality and high resolution free stock photos. However, users are required to register before download. If you are looking for some high resolution textures, you can also visit this site.

5. PhotoEverywhere

Another great free stock photos site that collects and shares tourism images from around the world.

6. Stockvault

7. everystockphoto

Basically, everystockphoto is an image search engine where it collects photos from various sources such as flickr, stock.xchng, Morguefile, Freerange Stock and etc. Make sure you view the license term before download them.

8. morgueFile

The morguefile filter has been designed to help you find images quickly and easily. You can browse these images by category. I like the filter feature as it really help to make search easier and faster.

9. Kave Wall

Images are categorized into 18 different categories for easy browsing.

10. CreatingOnline Stock Photos

The site offers both free and premium stock photos for download. More than 1000 photos are available for free in 400-600 pixels.

11. Dreamstime

Dreamstime lets you search through the gallery for more than 7,000,000 images. There are more than 1000 photos added weekly.

12. FreeDigitalPhotos.net

There are thousands of royalty free photos in this site, which mean you can use these photos for both corporate and personal use. While the photos are free, you are required to pay for the high resolution photos.

13. Turbo Photo

Browse through 2,000 free stock photos from 10 categories.

14. Shutterstock

Largest subscription based stock photos website. They have more than 9,000,00 royalty-free stock photos and around 70,000 new stock photos added each week.

15. 5000 Free Stock Photos

This website provides more than 500 free stock photos from public domain. Users are allowed to use these images fo any purpose, inlcuding commercial.

16. ImageBase

Free stock photos in 6 categories.

17. FreeImages.co.uk

FreeImages contains more than 3000 original stock photos.

18. FreePixels

Around 4k of images categorized in 40 categories.

19. Hoover Stock Photos

Hoover Stock Photos offers royalty free stock photos, backgrounds, illustrations, photo images, and digital art for use in personal and commercial web site design projects.

20. Photo Rack

Photo Rack is a place great place for you to browse and download free stock photos. These photos are cetegorized into 12 categories and different sub categories.

21. DesignPacks

DesignPacks offers high quality image colelctions that can be used in both personal and commercial projects. Each of the collection contains 15 images.

22. Free Historical Stock Photos

Historical Stock Photos offer historical related photos for Emails and Personal Websites. If you need any historical photos, this is a great site for you.

23. openphoto

24. Cepolina Photos

More than 8000 free stock photos are available for download here. Maximum resolution is 1024×768.

25. Abstract Influence

26. Aarin Free Photo

27. PD Photo

28. FreePhotosBank

29. Free Stock Photography

30. Photogen

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Contact Form is one of the most important page for all websites. If you are running an e-commerce website, you need a contact form so that your potential buyers can reach you to get more information. Even if you run a personal blog, you will also need a contact form so that bloggers from same niche or advertisers can contact you easily.

There are some great online form providers such as Wufoo and FormSpring. These services allow you to create contact forms, survey forms and registrations form easily without knowing much about web programming languages.

If you are using Wordpress, then you can use Wordpress plugins to build your contact form easily. However, there are a lot of Contact Form Plugins in Wordpress Plugin Repository. Some of the plugins are rather too old, not able to support the latest version of Wordpress or just having too little features.

So, we decided to gather 18 Best Wordpress Contact Form Plugins that will suit everyone needs. These plugins are tested by us and support Wordpress 2.9.1.

1. cformsII

cforms is a highly customizable Ajax driven contact form plugin. It lets you to create multi page forms or multiple forms on one page easily. They are few more cool features such as Role Manager support, Tell-A-Friend, Fully localization, Backup and Restore. Antispam is also supported by using CAPTCHA or Q&A.

2. Contact Form 7

Another highly customizable form plugin. You can add fields and alter the look and feel of your contact form through CSS. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

3. Clean Contact

Clean Contact is a simple contact form for Wordpress. It requires less to no configuration and able to run out of the box upon installation. You can specify the Thank You Message and also Thank You Url, which is the URL that users would be redirect to after the form is being sent.

4. Dagon Design Form Mailer

This plugin also known as Secure Form Mailer, offers a lot of features such as multiple forms, multiple recipients, auto reply, multiple attachments, message template system and also numerous security features.

5. MM Forms

MM Forms is an easy form build for Wordpress, but it has a lot of features. With this plugin, you are able to create multiple contact forms for your site, spam filter with Akismet, protection by CAPTCHA, Ajax submission with jQuery and also custom fields. Some of the special features that offered by this plugin include saving form submission to database, export to CSV and even has a RSS feed for form submission.

6. WP Contact Form

Simple Contact Form plugin for Wordpress. You can use this plugin to add contact form for both a post or page.

7. SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF)

This Wordpress plugin utilize both jQuery and its plugin SimpleModal for the modal dialog box. You can even insert the contact form to your template files. So, it is suitable for theme developer who want to include contact form in the template files.

8. Tiny Contact Form

A very simple contact form, without fancy features but you are allow to add contact form through sidebar widget or template files by calling the correct function name.

9. Scaleable Contact Form

With Scaleable Contact Form, you can have either Ajax or non-Ajax version contact form at no time. Extra fields can be added and set to both required or non-required. Able to add contact form to your template files too.

10. Visitor Contact Forms

To use this plugin, you need to create a contact form at http://www.visitorcontact.com/. After that, just fill in your form ID to the plugin page and you are done. There are a lot of cool features, such as Geocoding, Captcha Spam Protection, Contact Manager, Skype Status and much more.

11. Fast and Secure Contact Form

This plugin allows optional extra fields of any type: text, textarea, checkbox, radio, select. It doesn’t require Javascript and has very tight security features.

12. ONW Simple Contact Form

ONW Simple Contact Form is a small Wordpress plugin that allows Wordpress users to add contact form to any page or post through Wordpress short code. However, users are not allowed to add fields to the form.

More Wordpress Contact Form Plugins

Besides the 12 Wordpress Contact Forms, here we list 6 more Wordpress Plugin to build your own contact forms. They might not be as powerful as the 12 plugins listed above, but it is good that we keep them in the list so that you can have them as your reference in future.

• WP Flex Contact Form
• WP Simple Contact Form With CAPTCHA
• Enhanced WordPress contact form plugin
• Contact Form 8
• Spam-Free Contact Form
• Constant contact

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CSS grid system is one tool that facilitates the work of web designers and web developers to develop a website. Advantage of using CSS grid system is you can reduce development time. Grids also provide uniformity and consistency in the placement of HTML elements.

Do you want to know more about CSS Frameworks and grid system? If yes, then you may want to read our previous article that talk about useful CSS Frameworks.

Today, we are going to look into 5 more CSS Grid Systems that are tiny but worth a look.

1. CSS Boiler Plate Grid

As one of the original authors of Blueprint CSS I’ve decided to re-factor my ideas into a stripped down framework which provides the bare essentials to begin any project. This framework will be lite and strive not to suggest un-semantic naming conventions. You’re the designer and your craft is important.

2. Golden Grid CSS

The Golden Grid is a web grid system. It ’s a product of the search for the perfect modern grid system. It ’s meant to be a CSS tool for grid based web sites.

3. Variable Grid System

The variable grid system is a quick way to generate an underlying CSS grid for your site. The CSS generated file is based on the 960 Grid System.

4. Grid System Generator

This tool generates grid systems in valid css / xhtml for rapid prototyping, development and production environments. The grid system generators offer the ability to customize the width, no. of columns and margin(s) to allow more flexibility for various designs.

5. The 1kb CSS Grid

Other CSS frameworks try to do everything—grid system, style reset, basic typography, form styles. But complex systems are, well, complex. Looking for a simple, lightweight approach that doesn’t require a PhD? Meet The 1KB CSS Grid.

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Joomla, one of the most popular PHP CMS, has been used by tons of websites. It is very customizable and extendable through various plugins. Developers use Joomla to build Company websites, directories, personal blogs, e-commerce websites and etc.

Back to few months ago, we showcase beautiful Wordpress blogs. Some readers ask me to collect beautiful Joomla designs, as not everyone use Wordpress as their CMS. So, we decided to collect cool Joomla designs over the world and present to our readers.

If you are a Joomla designer and are scratching your head for a new Joomla design, then you had reached to the right place. Today, we are going to share 44 beautiful Joomla designs that may inspired you.

omy.sg

omy.sg is Singapore’s bilingual news and interactive web portal leading by media group Singapore Press Holdings Ltd.

The USI Underground Community

Compagnie Antarès

Pirogue Orphelinat Association

CS Doua Aikido

Agevo

Aixam Italia

aktúa

azrul

azrul is a professional web application developer, who develope a lotof great component for Joomla. One of the example is Jomcomment.

Boogie Pimps

Rustedfables

Crispystock 09

Cross Creek Ranch

Elephant Pharm

Frizopedium

General Villamill

Grundschule Levern

Duirwaigh Studios

Duirwaigh Studios specializes in products and services that inspire creative consciousness.

Spacemaker Wardrobes

Spacemaker Wardrobes specialise in stylish built in wardrobes, sliding wardrobe doors and storage solutions which will improve and add value to your home.

Turkish Gazete

Friendswood Development Company

Novaxove

Sam Cool

Online Portfolio For Syamsul Arifi

Tunisia Clubbing

StudioPetrov

Killer Web Directory

Creative Web Directory built with Joomla.

Joomla creme

Joomlacreme is a place where they share about beautiful websites based on Joomla. You can submit yours to the directory.

Yeni Bir Adim

Les Saisons du Blanc

Leyendas de Toledo

Magenta

Midwife in Mannheim

A midwife providing her services to help pregnant woman.

Mop Head Design

A design agency which specialise in quality, cutting-edge design and functional, good-looking websites.

naranchdesign

Metro Restaurant & Lounge

UNRIC Cool Planet

Custard Media

Pixelosaurus World Design

Passport To Australia

Grab your friends and family and head off for whirlwind tours of Australia that promise plenty of fun and remarkable facts.

Rapkolik.net

Shakoda

The Porchlight Community

Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation

ToolboxCreations

Professional Joomla! Website Design & Development

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SlideDeck is a very powerful jQuery plugin to present your content on mobile phones and browsers is a very simple and clean slideshow. This jQuery powered plugin is easy to customize, powerful and able to deliver a better user experience to your readers.

Still remember our tutorial about jQuery Content Slider? SlideDeck brings all these slideshow and content slider to you in no time!

SlideDeck is suitable for Product Tours, Service Descriptions, Explaining Complex Processes, How-to Tutorials, Feature Rich Slide Shows, Landing Pages, and etc. Currently, SlideDeck is available is 2 different versions:- Free and Pro version. While the Free version already offers you a bunch of features, the Pro version with just $99 gives you more controls and customization to your design.

It is easy to implement SlideDeck to your website. Simply add few lines of code and configuration to your website, and you will get the slideshow up. The lite version of SlideDeck gives you a simple and clean design, while the Pro version offers you option to customize the look and feel of your slideshow.

SlideDeck allows you to insert different type of content, including images, audio, video, animation, forms and more. The Pro version allows you to remove “powered by” branding and you will get mousewheel & keyboard support. This will greatly improve the user experience of your website.

Don’t worry about the future plan and support of SlideDeck Pro. Once you buy the Pro version, you will get free updates for lifetime. There are a few new features coming out in the next release, such as the 4-way navigation and Analytics which lets you analyze your visitors usage and viewing patterns.

SlideDeck

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We use icons at a lot of places such as desktop application or favicon for our blog. For those who always change the Windows folder or application icons, you can always search for .ico images format, which is the icon files for Windows.

We had gone through a lot of articles that related to images and icons. But if you are new to our blog, then you may want to refer them back, which i would like to do a summary here:

• Image Optimization tools: This article shares 12 tools for you to optimize and reduce the size of your images. They may not be important for you, but these tools are essential for bloggers and webmasters. As Google put more weight on page loading speed, it is good that you pay some attention on your image size especially if you have many images on your articles.
• Free Icon Editors: 6 useful and free Icon Editors for you. Useful when you don’t want to install or fire up your Photoshop. Some of them are even portable, which mean you can carry them along with your USB flash drive.

But, if you want to use your own images as icons, then you may need some software/utilities to convert these images to .ico extension. Today, we are going to look into 5 different methods to convert your images to icon files.

Desktop Image to Icon Converters

1. SimplyIcon

SimplyIcon allows you to create icon files by drag and drop your images on to this application. This is a portable application and it requires .Net Framework 2.0 to run.

2. Imagicon 3.0

Imagicon is a graphics utility designed to convert multiple image files from BMP, JPG or PNG image formats into BMP, JPG, PNG and ICO. You can use the drag and drop feature to convert images to icons too.

3. Free Image 2 Icon Converter 1.0

Convert from BMP, JPG, metafiles to transparent icons. you can convert more than one file at the same time, you can also, select the transparent color .EIPCs Image 2 Icon Converter has a wonderful interface which is easy to use.

Web Services To Convert Images To Icons

1. Free Online Favicon.ico Icon Generator

You can upload your image to the server and select your desired icon size. After that system will convert the image to icon file and you can download the output to your local machine. The maximum allowed file size is 1MB and it supports JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF, TIFF file formats.

2. Free Online Image Converter

This is yet another website where you can upload your images and convert them into various formats, including: BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF and ICO. The upload image must be within 200kb.

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Bloggers, especially web designers use Social Media sites to promote their articles and services. Promote your articles through social media is easier and you can see the results in a short period of time.

So, how to get your readers to promote your articles to their social media friends? One of the best method is integrate these social media buttons to your blog. These buttons should fit well with your design. Although you can hire designer to design unique social media buttons for your blog, but using free social media icon sets is a good choice especially when you are under budget.

In this article, we are going to share 33 Beautiful Social Media Icon Sets and we hope this collection can save your time searching online.

Social Icons Made of Wood

Blue Jelly Social Media Icons

Page Peel – A Free Social Media Iconset

Social.me

6 Free New Social Icons

This Social icons pack includes icons for Digg, Twitter, StumbleUpon, RSS, Delicious and Reddit. You can download the icons in various formats such as PSD, AI, PNG, JPG and Icons Format.

Free Twitter Bird Icon Set

6 cute Twitter Bird icons in this package.

Social Bookmark Iconset

Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers

This icon set includes social media icons like Design Float, Digg, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Twitter and Technorati. Besides these, common icons such as email, contact and Wordpress also included in this package.

Socialize Icons

Social Bookmark Iconset: Part II

27 Circular Social Media Icons in 3 Sizes

Very cool circular icon set for both bloggers and designers. The PSD file is included in this package.

Web 2.0rigami

This is a very unique icon set where all icons are origamized.

Social Networking Icons

Free Twitter Icon Set

Aquaticus Social

Handycons

Chrome

This set includes 19 social networks along with a standard RSS icon in PNG format.

Page Peel Social Icons – Version 2

Twitterigami

Creative Twitter bird icons in origami style.

Social media icons

Glossy Waxed Wood Social Networking Icons

Function App Free Social Media Icons

Woodgrain

With 18 social networks represented alongside astandard RSS icon in PNG format, this is a beautiful collection that can be used for a wide variety of purposes.

webtoolkit4.me Social icons

First icon set released by webtoolkit4.me. It contains 19 social icons in 4 different sizes (62×62, 48×48, 32×32, 24×24).

Free Icon Set for Bloggers

Circular Social Media Icons

Grunge Warning Stripes Social Networking Icons

Free Crumpled Paper Social Networking Icons

Free glossy social icons

Heart: A Free Social Icon Set

Nurture Social Icon Set

The Leaves Fall

Dellifeed: A Free Icon Set

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