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Looking over updating templates to 3.7RC1
2008-03-20 08:46:00
So I have updated my dev forum and currently updating my live forum to 3.7RC1 which I think is a good time now to update because beta has too many versions. Looking at what I have to update..my skins are actually very minimal in templates editing except for those who have modification for extra function ...
More About: Templates , Bulletin

Me Designing WordPress?
2008-03-20 06:33:00
A quite old friend mrmalique met in sitepoint few years back had asked me recently whether I have done any wordpress theme. Yes I did made a few wordpress themes but mainly for friends..here they are. But I’m not into wordpress business.Maybe not yet and will do only on special request. I’m concentrating on ...
More About: Wordpress , Designing , Sultan

vBulletin 3.7 RC1 & wordpress 2.5
2008-03-20 05:37:00
Last night vBulletin team releases 3.7RC1 and after updating this blog to wordpress 2.3.3, I saw new WP2.5 news in the dasboard. Looking good and more 2.0 style of layout and buttons. I hope vBulletin  dev team  finalize the RC1 to be GOLD as its support team has been in vacation for 3 months already ...
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Medieval RPG Gaming Skins for vBulletin
2008-03-17 10:44:00
These 3 medieval theme is amongt the best in my collection. Suitable for gaming community such as WoW, Guildwars, Lineage, Dungeon & Dragons, Warhammer etc. Alauddin RS Preview: hclick for live demo here Download: theme-store/vbulletin-theme/alauddinrs/ Permatakus Preview: click for live demo here Download: theme-store/vbulletin-theme/permatakus/ Merhania Preview: click for live demo here Download: theme-store/vbulletin-theme/merhania/
More About: Gaming , Sultan , Bulletin , Medieval , Skins

SultanTheme.com Finally here
2008-02-27 20:25:00
Hello guys, I know its been a while I have abandoned this blog while waiting the correct moment to make a huge turn in my life. So Finally I am out as full time free-lancer after 3 years working with enthropia Inc. under wonderful brilliant Boss, I have 7-8 years experience in design, concentrating in forum skins ...
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vBulletin 3.7 cool new features
2007-12-14 23:53:00
here are listed new cool features, 3.7.0 Beta 2 expected to be released this Monday 17th Dec, but I will wait for the gold release for 3.7 for the update and for the start of my skin business this january. http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread .php?t=249460 and phpBB3 Gold has just been released few days ago(13th Dec), long waited for its fans ...
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new year 2008
2007-12-08 05:07:00
New year is near. I started this project, sultantheme on May 2007 and plan to start selling also on May 2008 , but I feel it is too long to wait. So maybe I will start selling in January to keep me going and motivated. I will start off with vbulletin and phpBB, SMF will follow. ...
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All rounded corners please..
2007-10-30 07:23:00
Rounded corners technic now available in many methods using css and javascripts. I wrote about this before in this blog but offering only a small list including the original nifty and spiffy. Anyway, last few weeks I found a great list of rounded corners. Head up to these links, it will help you better to ...
More About: Inspiration , Corners , Rounded

Small Updates
2007-10-30 00:10:00
Now sultantheme.com has a working product grid view and product search and I did some button sets for vBulletin. This blog also upgraded to version 2.3.1, never been upgraded since last install and some plugin is not usable anymore since newest wordpress support tagging and plugin “All in One SEO Pack” does it all.
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Main Website Function List
2007-10-19 06:50:00
SultanTheme.com will be powered by a simple shopping cart, unfortunately this shopping cart is not associated with tagging and powerful content search. Anyway that I can afford at the moment since I installed it myself, which is the plan B, since plan A : getting a hired programmer to work on sultantheme.com lead to nowhere ...
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SultanTheme Update
2007-10-17 18:12:00
The glad news is the shop is ready 80% still in testing period. What I really need to do now within next 2 months is to prepare for soft open, with at least 3 product each category(phpbb3 might be left until its out of RC period) and the free stuff to test out my shopping cart. The shop is not coded by a hired programmer from previous mentioned in my post. Something comes up and I need the shop to be ready at anytime. So I surveyed and used one of the free ones. The basic functionality is there. Its working. permalinks also working. So I am now happy the shop nearly finish. SultanTheme News & Update s
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Vbulletin installed
2007-09-29 08:18:00
My hired programmer for sultantheme main website code still busy to do my work..he has a full-time job..yet I still believed that this can be done sooner and later. Its been a while since I planned to build sultantheme from the ground in end of May this year, I planned it for the whole year, ...
More About: Updates , Sultan , Vbulletin

Complete 3 Books of Lord of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
2007-09-21 04:28:00
http://lordoftherings.kevnet.com:9010/ If you can compile it in pdf and make it for download then its great but I don’t know whether this is legal re-production of the LOTR series over the net. Around the Web
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Free Icons?
2007-09-16 03:17:00
The author - icon designer himself reviews on icons around the web. He also blogs on free Turbomilk icons which I found and blog earlier.I just found Turbomilk but you can find many in his blog, other than Turbomilk. head to this blog: http://qualityicons.blogspot.com/ you will find what you seek for. Around the Web, Web Goodies
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Islamic pattern generator?
2007-09-15 02:42:00
These 2 tutorials is the best way to understand Islamic -arabic pattern. http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/art/Arabe sque-Made-Easy-pt-1-15514145 http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/art/Arabe sque-Made-Easy-pt-2-15644378 I knew taprats for a long time ago, its the only Islamic pattern generator that works and tiles the pattern, and also I found a new similar Islamic style geometry pattern maker, but it cannot tile, but you can draw on it using your mouse, ...
More About: Generator , Pattern , Slam

Turbomilk - creating icons
2007-09-15 02:07:00
http://turbomilk.com/ Do you know what is the best software to create icons? Its is adobe illustrator.If I dont have adobe illustrator? Can I use photoshop? yes..but it will not look as sharp as adobe illustrator does. You can set you grid line to every 1 pixel in photoshop preferences. Icons give impression to overall view of the ...
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Photoshop for photographers..
2007-09-14 20:51:00
As you know photoshop is the most useful multimedia software in the world. Dekstop Designers using it, web designers using it and even photographers using it. So this week I would like to introduce one website that is very good in its tutorial content and specially created for photographers www.photoshopessentials.com What Every Photographer and Photosho p User Should Know ...
More About: Photographers , Adobe Photoshop , Graph

Stripe Tiles Generator & Tartan Maker
2007-09-04 23:17:00
While surfing I found this very useful tools, as you might want to design a stripe tile pattern for your header etc without using photoshop. http://www.stripegenerator.com/ here its gallery: http://www.stripegenerator.com/index.php? page=showcase From their site: Tired of pixel-by-pixel painting, trying to create seamless stripes textures? Unleash your ...
More About: Generator , Maker , Tartan , Tiles

HTML Slidy: Slide Shows in XHTML
2007-09-03 22:51:00
Works across browsers and is operated like PowerPoint, try this at: http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/#(1)Â   Web Goodies
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Will vBulletin blog add-on a success?
2007-09-02 20:25:00
Announced at: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread .php?p=1412487#post1412487 Blog features: http://www.vbulletin.com/features_blog.ph p Rival : http://www.vblogetin.com/ Feedback & Suggestion: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread .php?t=241504 http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread .php?p=1414725#post1414725 There are very good points addressed by Tigratrus here and agreed on the effects to the community itself. I quote him saying: 1. The Community has become somewhat fragmented into Bloggers | Posters. The Blog system is a parallel system for self expression and has had a tendency to ...
More About: Success , Vbulletin

Inspiring Young Internet Entrepreneur
2007-09-01 19:22:00
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/118/g irl-power.html At 17 going on 37 (at least), Ashley is very much an Internet professional. In the less than two years since Whateverlife took off, she has dropped out of high school, bought a house, helped launch artists such as Lily Allen, and rejected offers to buy her young company. Although Ashley was flattered to be ...
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Horizontal align the forumhome icons in vBulletin 3.6.8
2007-08-09 00:18:00
I have wrote about how to aligned the forumhome icons (3 icons after What’s Going On) in vb3.6.7PL1, but there is slightly a changes which they included an IF statement to turn off the 3rd icon that can be turn ON in vbulletin Options in adminCP that I believe you can find it in Forum ...
More About: Icons , Cons , Vbulletin , Izon , Horizon

Small update
2007-08-03 04:03:00
I ran an update for my live forum phpBB3rc1 to phpBB3rc4 and SMF1.1.2 to SMF1.1.3. By far SMF is the easiest to update in the whole world, just a matter of click in admin control panel(ACP), I am looking forward to SMF 2.0 Beta that will be released around October/Nov this year. phpBB3 Gold/Final Release ...
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Vbulletin 3.6.8 small template changes for a lightweight theme/skin
2007-08-02 00:18:00
Last week vBulletin release its current update 3.6.8, I think this update will remain until November before they release their blog.. Its a soft update nothing big.no new images in most viewable images directory such as button, misc and statusicon folder. So if you wanna fix your template from 3.6.7PL1 to 3.6.8 there are only 2 ...
More About: Skin , Small , Template , Theme , Eight

Dr Wigan from the movie the Insider
2007-08-01 19:56:00
The Insider 1999: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140352/ I always watch movie before I do my work. It releases me tension and stress from my head. A designer head is just like that, we need inspiration always. A number of inspiring movies that I remembered such as The Astronaut Farmer 2006 and The World Fastest Indian. Unlike Mr Farmer from Astronaut Farmer, ...
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Planet Mars wont be closer
2007-07-31 19:13:00
I will write on Dr Wigan from the hollywood movie the insider which I watch it for 2 times now within I say 3 years. Its an old movie but I would also first want to talk about the internet scam chain reaction. There is a group of people that love to send something without thinking ...
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Medhelp.org - Doctor on the web
2007-07-24 17:59:00
I search google to look for an eye sickness question and answer and found this very useful forum. These days you just can ask for advise from the doctor on the net without seeing them. The eye forum is actively monitored and answered by the expert,Dr. John Hagan Here is the eye forum. http://www.medhelp.org/forums/ophthalmolo gy/WWWboard-2.html There are huge category ...
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sultantheme update - futuristic - robotic themes
2007-07-23 20:44:00
I am currently doing SNA-Robots series(finished 2 designs with total of 5 with color variations). I also have HBJ series contain 5 different futuristic designs which can satisfy the needs of gaming themes maybe for starcraft or anything related to it. And also a theme named Greenbot. All of these are futuristic-robotic themes. To know how ...
More About: Robotic , Updates , Themes , Update , Futuristic

Ajax Rain Beta
2007-07-10 02:59:00
http://www.ajaxrain.com/ Currently have listed 336 Ajax plus javascript from mootools to jquery and many more that will inspire and gets you on the move. They linked to original page and not like ajaxdaddy which previously I wrote. ajax, Inspiration , Web Goodies
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FlashDen.net
2007-07-06 08:01:00
http://flashden.net FlashDen.net is a Adobe Flash Market Place site where you can buy and sell items to use in your creative projects. There are four types of items available on the site: Adobe Flash files, Audio loops and effects, Video loops and Pixel fonts. For example, this powerful gallery by a user name, triworks is for sale ...
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