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There are so many things that you can customize in WordPress, but one of the things that does not get a lot of attention is custom login page designs. WordPress is being used as a membership site, or site where user registration is allowed. In those cases it is wise for businesses to brand the login page with their logo and other aspects to give it a unique touch that it deserves. In this article we will be showing you how you can create a custom login page design in WordPress as well as showcasing some of the best WordPress login page designs.

Yeah the default login page is very ugly, I think the best would be a lightbox instead of a separate page

In this tutorial, we will be using WordPress and Feedburner with a few plugins to create a simple Email Newsletter Service for your WordPress blog. You can track the performance of your newsletter by checking how many subscribers you have, how many clicks each link gets and much more.

Great idea if your budget is very low (or equal zero) or if you like to publish the news on your own server. I will try this later for sure!

During the past couple months, the Knol team has been steadily adding improved tools to help you create better knols. Most notably, we've greatly expanded the number of embeddable objects to help you make your knols more graphical and interactive. We've been excited by the many uses we're seeing, and today we have one more to add to the list: PicApp.

Nice feature, looks like the knol site becomes more and more a community site like "hub pages".
I'm wondering if you write a copy for Knol, using their images, if republishing an article including images is legal.

At the end knol needs some more visitors, for sure...

Google Toolbar 6.4 for IE and Firefox adds a feature that lets you share web pages using social networking sites, mail services, bookmarking services and other sites. You can select your favorite services from the settings page or repeatedly click on one of the options to bring it to the top of the menu.

If you share links using Twitter, you'll notice a new URL shortening service: goo.gl. "Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. The core goals of this service are: stability, security and speed." The service is only used by Google Toolbar and FeedBurner, so there's no web interface or API for goo.gl.

Nice tool to share websites, after years Google has re-invented the wheel, hehe

I like to see more from the new URL shortener goo.gl, sad enough the service doesn't work from the toolbar right now

The web has been awash with rumors about Google Gears for the past week or two. It appears Google has quietly dropped development of the system.

I'm getting errors on my Ubuntu laptop since weeks!
The error is about that my Linux version is not compatible with current version of Gears. Firefox show a menu item called "Gears Settings", but nothing happens if you click that option.

Looks like it's over with Gears...

Google Chrome for Linux (Beta)
At Google, most engineers use Linux machines, so we certainly heard loud and clear how much they wanted Google Chrome for Linux. Just like Google Chrome for Windows and Mac, we focused on speed, stability and security, but we also wanted a high-performance browser that integrated well with the Linux ecosystem. This includes tight integration with native GTK themes, updates that are managed by the standard system package manager, and many other features that fit in natively with the operating system where possible.

Google Chrome for Linux in various GTK themes

WOW this new Chrome beta for Linux is so fast on my Ubuntu Laptop.
If some more extensions are available, its bye bye Firefox :D

Ecommerce just seems to continue growing and growing, and it is becoming almost a requirement that all merchants have an online presence of some kind.  We’ve already covered shopping carts that you host yourself, but sometimes it is nice to just walk in to some place that is ready to go and can take you only a few minutes to set up if you play your cards right.

This is where hosted shopping carts come in handy as they allow you to remove the headaches of maintaining your server, dealing with software issues and more.  These solutions may cost a little bit more, but you can almost view it as saving you money compared to hiring an IT person.

We’ve gathered up 10 of the best solutions that will let you get set up in no time flat, so take a look through and see which one best serves your needs.

Great resource if you don't like to host a shop by yourself.
I'm sure I will try a few of them!

Following are all the talks that were given at ZendCon 2009, links to slides (where they've been made available by speakers), and when I was able to find it, links to speaker's homepages. Any missing talks will be filled in as they are found.

For those (including me) who missed the PHP event of the year...

While at Blog World Expo recently I recorded this video interview with Abby Johnson from Web Pro News. We covered a variety of topics including why email marketing is not dead – internet marketing for smart people – the new FTC regulations and touched on a new project I’m working on with Brian Clark and Chris Brogan.

Of course email marketing is still alive, I know companies are making millions of sales while sending emails.
There is one thing different from the early years: Your campaign need to be much better and must be interesting for the subscriber, otherwise it's better to safe the money!