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Many web designers are unaware of the fact that staying in touch with previous clients and requesting them for testimonials can fulfill various goals. These can include receiving more projects, earning trust amongst people, and increasing business revenue.

Various factors can increase bounce rate of a website. These can include poor quality content, complicated navigation, slow loading, and lengthy domain names. Paying attention to all these issues and correcting the mistakes will help you to lower the bounce rate.

Only designing a website and writing content is not enough these days; you need to grab the attention of the internet audience as well. Only an enticing headline will prompt readers to click on your page links. So, headlines should be short and promising and include keywords. This article offers some useful tips to make your Twitter headlines smarter and catchier.

For creating Flash Lite games, paying attention to various aspects is important. These can include choosing the perfect font, following the base build, porting the game, and offering incentives to users.

Common types of logos include nameless logos, typographic logos, and type and symbol logos. Start-ups and known companies can use typographic or type and symbol logos. Nameless logos are more suited to companies who have established themselves as iconic brands.

Creating a brand identity requires time and effort. For this reason, people do not want to alter their brand identity easily. However, certain situations may demand change of your company's identity and promotional materials. These circumstances can include change of company name, restructuring of core team, and introduction of new services.

"Knews is a powerful multilingual language plug-in that allows you to build professional looking newsletters, segment subscribers in different mailing lists as well as segment them by language all in a matter of minutes. Includes a custom, unique modular WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. Based on templates, with no need to know HTML."

"A list of the tweaks included in the Dashboard Tweaks plugin: - change the WordPress logo in the top-left of the admin bar with a custom admin logo - link that logo to the home URL instead of the new wp-admin/about.php - remove the entire sub-menu with links to Codex, forums and what not - remove the Visit Site sub-menu under the site's name - change "Howdy" into "Welcome back" - add a special favicon for the Dashboard only (ideally different from the frontend, but up to you) - change the tab title into a standard "Dashboard of [sitename]" - remove icons in front of Dashboard menus - reduce page heading size - remove publish icon of Add new Post/Page screens - add colored background to sidebar active sub-menu to add contrast - add colored background to activated plugins to add contrast - add custom footer text"

"Manage and display events. Includes recurring events; locations; widgets; Google maps; RSVP; ICAL and RSS feeds; PAYPAL support. SEO compatible. Events Made Easy (formally called 'Events Manager Extended') is a full-featured event management solution for WordPress. Events Made Easy supports public, private, draft and recurring events, locations management, RSVP (+ approval if wanted) and maps. With Events Made Easy you can plan and publish your event, or let people reserve spaces for your weekly meetings. You can add events list, calendars and description to your blog using multiple sidebar widgets or shortcodes; if you are a web designer you can simply employ the template tags provided by Events Made Easy."

"Plugin allows you to set up advanced rating and review system for post types and comments in your blog using single, multi and thumbs ratings. GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating. Plugin also supports multi ratings along with thumbs based ratings. Plugin supports use of cache plugins and dynamic loading of data using ajax."

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"Ultimate newsletter plugin. Works with 3rd-party newsletter services like Aweber and YMLP. includes sign-up checkboxes, widget forms and form shortcod This plugin adds various sign-up methods to your WordPress website, like sign-up checkboxes in your comment form and a sign-up form to show in posts, pages or widget areas."

"Subscribe to Comments Reloaded allows commenters to sign up for e-mail notifications of subsequent replies. Subscribe to Comments Reloaded is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. The plugin includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts or suspend all notifications. It solves most of the issues that affect Mark Jaquith's version, using the latest WordPress features and functionality. Plus, allows administrators to enable a double opt-in mechanism, requiring users to confirm their subscription clicking on a link they will receive via email."

With CSS3 Tooltips plugin for WordPress you can create beautiful and colorful tooltips. It´s based on pure CSS3 and includes over 50 predefined CSS3 styles.

Use one of these CSS editor plugins to change the appearance of your WordPress website and without editing any code, including CSS Hero and Genesis Extender

"Reduce file sizes for images in WordPress including NextGEN, GRAND FlAGallery and more using lossless/lossy methods and image format conversion. The EWWW Image Optimizer is a WordPress plugin that will automatically optimize your images as you upload them to your blog. It can optimize the images that you have already uploaded, convert your images automatically to the file format that will produce the smallest image size (make sure you read the WARNINGS), and optionally apply lossy reductions for PNG and JPG images."

"Generate dummy Lorem ipsum text in posts and pages with shortcode. Includes a generator for unique and random customisation. Lipsum is a highly configurable plugin that generates shortcode that'll permit you to display dummy Latin (and non Latin) Lorem ipsum text in posts/pages with shortcode."

"Control the appearance of WordPress post excerpts This plugin adds several improvements to WordPress' default way of creating excerpts. Keeps HTML markup in the excerpt (and you get to choose which tags are included) Trims the excerpt to a given length using either character count or word count Only the 'real' text is counted (HTML is ignored but kept) Customizes the excerpt length and the ellipsis character that are used Completes the last word or sentence in an excerpt (no weird cuts) Adds a read-more link to the text Ignores custom excerpts and use the generated one instead Theme developers can use the_advanced_excerpt() for even more control (see the FAQ) Most of the above features are optional and/or can be customized by the user or theme developer."

"Unless you've been hiding under a (presumably delightfully comfortable) rock for the past few years, you will have noticed the extraordinary rise in the popularity of podcasting (one billion podcast subscriptions was passed way back in 2013). And being the enterprising type, you're ready to wade in and grab the opportunity that podcasting presents with both hands. As a WordPress site owner, you'll be delighted to hear that podcasting and WordPress go hand in hand. To save you the unnecessary hassle and effort that can be involved with integrating podcasts with your WordPress site, we've rounded up seven of the top podcasting plugins out there for you to consider below. By the end of the piece, you're sure to have found a solution to suit your needs. Before we crack on to the list though, let's cover some background on podcasting itself. A Brief Overview of Podcasting Podcasting's history goes back further than blogging itself. Although its roots lie in the 1980s indie radio boom, the modern format become popular in 2004 through platforms such as Odeo. During that time, the iPod was the dominant force in online media consumption. Developers and radio enthusiasts were on the lookout for a way to easily add their programs to the device and Apple's 2005 integration of podcasts in iTunes set the ball rolling in earnest. Since then, podcasts have been created by every conceivable media outlet and organization on earth and opened the door for many individual voices. Some of the most popular podcasts have been entertainment-based. The Ricky Gervais Show, for example, started life as an incredibly popular podcast with roots in traditional radio. Due to its success, the show grew into an HBO series with multiple spinoff shows starring various cast members. Other popular podcasts explore a diverse range of topics with standout examples including This American Life, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Nerdist, and Radiolab. The more technically inclined amongs