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HTML Editors
HTML editors come in many shapes and form. Some of simple and have only a few features, while others are complex and have many advanced features. All web designers and developers need a good HTML editor to help them create and update Web pages. Here are some of the top free HTML editors for web designers and developers.

Komodo Edit – A free open-source code editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. You can use it for PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, XML, HTML, and CSS. Features include: syntax coloring, IME support, background syntax checking, code formatting, and smart auto-indenting.

CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor – A full-featured HTML editor with real-time preview and wizards for tables, frames, fonts, forms, lists, and more. Features include: HTML tag highlighting, spell checker and thesaurus, unlimited Undo, built-in FTP client, image and link insertion tools, split-screen preview, and free Web graphics.

Aptana Studio – The world’s leading IDE (integrated development environment) for building Web apps. This can be used as a standalone tool or as a plugin for Eclipse tools. Features include: Code Assist for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, JavaScript debugging, JavaScript libraries, DOM outline view, file transfer and synchronization (FTP, SFTP, FTPS), and live preview.

HTML-Kit – A full-featured HTML editor with modern comforts and hundreds of plugins for customization. You can even edit a file in HTML-Kit and automatically preview it on your iPad. Features include: color themes, preview as you type, Windows 7 jump lists, quick upload, file versioning, translations, image picker, HTML list wizard, and profiles.

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Top Free Font Sources for Creating Unique Designs

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Fontfabric
Fontfabric is an independent type foundry based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Here you will find high-quality unique fonts and new fonts are unveiled each week; some are free and others are available for a small fee. Fontfabric also does custom orders for logos and corporate fonts. So if you’re looking for something creative that will help you stand out from other brands, give them a try.

exljbris Font Foundry
At exljbris Font Foundry you’ll find many free fonts, all created by full-time designer Jos Buivenga. Take your pick from this growing collection. All typefaces come with several different kinds of fonts such as small caps, italics, and bold. Most fonts only have the regular type for free and the others for a small fee, but even the regular versions of each font are unique enough to help you stand out.

Impallari
Created by a small group of type lovers, Impallari showcases script fonts, serious fonts, and playful fonts. All fonts come with several styles or weights and some even have alternative letters that you can use instead of the defaults. This gives you more freedom over your letters and overall typography.

Behance Network
Behance is a professional network for creative individuals like artists, designers, photographers, and even bloggers. You can view projects and work based on creative fields, and one of those fields is typography. Here you’ll be able to find the best of the best when it comes to typography and many include downloads links or a link to the original source where you can download that specific font.

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Is the cheapest consultant to help you evaluate a business for sale the best?

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So many buyers are looking to spend their life savings in a business and then complain that they have to pay a consultant, accountant, lawyer fees to help them with the business they are going to purchase. Many buyers who spend $100,000, $300,000 or even $1 million don’t want to pay very much in fees. Yes, it is prudent to watch what you spend but is the cheapest consultant the best?

There is a saying, if you want to get something done, give it to a busy person and you know that it will be looked after. Busy people have a successful business. If their business is successful, they probably charge more than another consultant. That is the supply and demand concept, the busier you are, the more you can raise your prices and the customers can then decide if they want to use your service or not.

Whenever you hear that a famous person has had a run in with the law, who do they use, the most expensive lawyer that they can find.

Why – they believe that they hired the very best and they do not want to take any chances.

Same goes for a business, you are going to spend your life savings on a business for sale and many investors want to pay the least amount of money for someone to help them buy a business. If things go right and there is no problem, then you were lucky and got away with having to spend a lot of money. The issue is never when things go right, the purpose of a consultant is to avoid when there is a potential for something to go wrong.

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WMT Button Gallery – HTML5 Joomla Component

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The HTML5 WMT Button Gallery – Joomla Component can be used as a gallery or even as a banner rotator. Each image can have animated description window, this window can be animated from different directions, the transition duration, transition delay and final position can be set for each of then plus they have full css support.
WMT Button Gallery – Preview

WMT Button Gallery – Usage
1. Create New Gallery:
Navigate to Components –> WMT Button Gallery –> Galleries

Click on New button to create new gallery

Enter gallery name and click on Save&Close

2. Upload Image
Navigate to Components –> WMT Button Gallery –> Upload

On Upload tab click browse to select image tha you would like to upload and click on Upload icon

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How fast will the value of your business return to the levels prior to the recession?

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The last 6 to 12 months have been difficult for many businesses. Some have gone out of business, others who were large enough were able to reduce the quantity of people working for them significantly so that they were either break even or marginally profitable. The majority of companies have witnessed had significant erosion of their profits. Typically, when a buyer looks for a business, they like to see a three year history to see if earnings are sustainable and they were not the result of a one time contract. If there was one bad year, sometimes you could explain that to the buyer and he would look to the current year and the year prior to the bad year. This recession has changed a lot of things and I believe that business is now conducted differently than it was two years ago.

Will you be able to explain away one bad year or will the buyer now look at your current revenue. Clients two years ago may have closed down, reduced their business, is that a good indication of the business in the future, I do not believe so. As a result, buyers are going to want to look at revenue and expenses based on the new model – from the year 2009 and forward. If the profitability is weak for 2009 or it increased in the last 3 months of the year, it may not make a large difference on the entire year because of 9 poor months.

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Is it a good time to start a new business?

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At the moment, there are a lot of stores that are closing but I think over the next few months, there will be a void in the market and many small stores will open to offer the products and services which were once offered by some of the large stores going under.

A lot of people are getting laid off from companies and if they have worked in that company for a long time, they might get a reasonable size severance package. If there are no jobs out there, some of those unemployed people may look at the downturn as an opportunity to open a store.

I think that this will take place when a former employee believes that we are at or near the bottom of the recession. Based on predictions in the paper, this could be in 6 to 9 months’ time. I believe that people will start opening stores when they believe the economy will not get any worse. They may be able to get a bargain on the rent since there will be a lot of vacancies. Their costs will be lower than if they opened a new store today.

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Enhance Joomla! website usability with HTML5 Flipping Book Joomla Component!

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This flipping book extension is intended for both Joomla website owners and regular users: it allows creating realistic and personalized content for a website without sacrificing site design in favor of high Search Engine ranking and presenting information in a new and interesting manner.

HTML5 based publications are indexed by search engines; runs on all mobile devices (IPhones, iPads, Androids, tablets and smartphones); doesn’t require any additional software and plugin installation and are supported by all modern browsers (Safari 5, Chrome 16, Firefox 10, IE 10, 9, 8).

There are a variety of ways to use Joomla Flipping Book component:

• It can be used by business owners for creating product catalogues, flyers and brochures;
• By photographers, designers and make-up specialist for making e-portfolios and digital magazines;
• By eLearning specialists for converting studying materials into online books;
• eCommerce owners for performing product prices
• Regular people to present their photos in a surprising way.

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Free HTML5 – Flow Slider – Joomla Component

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WMT Flow Slider is a HTML5 Image Gallery for Joomla 2.5 and 3.0. This gallery is using the GPU (hardware acceleration), the rendering speed and performance is impeccable on desktop computers and most importantly on mobile devices.

This HTML5 gallery comes with 2 different styles. You can make your own skin with custom buttons. Buttons are actually images (.png or .jpg) so you can replace them with your own graphics, the button graphics can be have a different shape, basically the look of this gallery can be completely modified.

1. Install WMT Flow Slider Gallery
WMT Flow Slider installs like any other Joomla Component . If you are not familiar with Joomla Extensions installation, you can watch short video tutorial about how to install joomla extensions.

2. WMT Flow Slider Gallery Configuration
WMT Flow Slider has administrator configuration component where you can add new images, change dimensions and templates

To access administrator configuration component navigate: Components –> WMT Flow Slider.

First screen shows items that are added to WMT Flow Slider

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