Squarespace is an exceptionally tuned publishing system for managing websites and blogs. Need to create a blog? Build a website? Our software helps discerning individuals build stylish, easy to manage websites complete with state-of-the-art blogging tools. Squarespace hosts thousands of high-quality websites — both large and small.

The Squarespace Journal, which can represent either a piece of your website, or the entirety of your site, is an ideal way to create a professional blog. Squarespace’s professional-grade blogging tools feature spell checking, ATOM, RSS, feed auto-discovery, XML-RPC pinging, comment management, member registration, timed publishing dates, multiple authors, and more.

Squarespace comes pre-loaded with a variety of professionally designed, search-engine friendly templates that you can customize and tweak to create a unique site. With Squarespace’s style editor, you can use one of our professional starting points to begin a design of your own.

Pricing: $7/month – $175/month
Source: http://squarespace.com/

Your readers can preview the comment before submitting. Ajax Comment Preview let you type in a comment and click “Preview”. The information you enter is sent back to the server via the snazzy XMLHttpRequest Javascript object. The server then decides how to format that information (where part of this decision is the filtration of the information through WordPress’ content filtration system – the real advantage of this method). The newly formatted information is then sent back to your browser where you can see exactly how your comment will look once you submit it.

If your browser doesn’t have all the clever bits necessary for all this, fear not. You can forego the comment previewing and just submit the comment as usual.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.1+
Source: http://blogwaffe.com/ajax-comment-preview/

Visionary is a theme for news/magazine sites. It includes built-in video features that easily allow you to add videos to your site.

Features:

• Customized front page to look like a news or magazine site.
• Sidebar tabbed navigation through the use of a custom jQuery script (jQuery is packaged with the theme).
• Embed YouTube, Google Video, and Metacafe videos easily with Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict. Or, use the Flash Video Player plugin to input your own videos.
• Supports the Flickr RSS plugin.
• Related Posts plugin support.
• WordPress 2.3 tag-ready, but backwards-compatible with previous versions of WordPress.
• Custom post information can easily be input through the use of a Visionary theme-specific plugin modified from the custom field GUI plugin.
• Customized templates for every type of WordPress file, such as category.php and and archive.php.
• Customized sidebars for different pages of the site.
• Placeholders for ads. Great sidebar sizes for 125×125px ads.
• Widget-ready sidebar, but I suggest not using widgets because this theme wasn’t designed for them.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.1+
Source: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2007/11/04/visionary-wordpress-theme

Adii (pronounced “ay-dee”) is a freelancer designer, Wordpress rockstar, blogger and Web 2.0 strategist. He is from sunny Cape Town, South Africa. He has been freelancing, since February 2007 and it’s not because he has a phobia for commitment – it’s been a way of paying the bills.

He specializes in designing pretty websites, with strategic aims and he is a whole lot more comfortable designing blogs. He uses Wordpress for 90% of my personal and client projects, although he has recently ventured into doing just designing and CSS / XHTML work on request.

He is getting really popular recently because of his excellent wordpress blogs design skill. He has released some of the most beautiful magazine style wordpress themes that you are willing to pay for it. Adii.co.za is a showcase for his design work, as well as serving as a outlet for his ideas and experiences related to Web 2.0, Designing, Wordpress and Business Strategy. You will benefit a lot from visiting his blog.

Source: http://www.adii.co.za/

Entrecard is the first and only free exchange network for 125×125 ads. Through this revolutionary platform, you can advertise your own 125×125 Entrecard on any blog in the network, for free, for a number of days.

You pay for this advertising with Entrecard Credits, that you earn for free by networking (a.k.a. visiting blogs and dropping your card for other bloggers). Credits are the currency of the Entrecard network. You spend them to advertise your Entrecard on other people’s widgets.

How are credits earned?

• You earn 1 credit every time you drop your card for someone else.
• You earn 1 credit every time someone else drops their card for you.
• You earn credits every time someone advertises on your widget.

Type: Free Exchange Program
Source: http://entrecard.com/

A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?

Setting up gravatars on your weblog is easy, you don’t even need an account! Plugins are available for leading weblog software, and our tutorials will have you running gravatars in no time. To request a gravatar from our servers, you simply add an image to your comments area with an “src” attribute that points to our gravatar image generator and includes an MD5 hash of the commenter’s email address. Since all gravatars are rated with an MPAA style rating, you can restrict your site to show only gravatars whose content you are comfortable with.

Download WordPress Gravatar Plugin now.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://site.gravatar.com/site/implement#section_2_2

Showcase is a premium (paid) WordPress theme created to power a CSS or web design gallery, which is also ideal for managing online portfolios and photo blogs. If you want to use WordPress as a web design gallery, Showcase is the solution you’ve been looking for. Beyond its core features, it comes with 5 different color schemes and 8 layout variations. It contains the following main features.

Features

• Custom Layout / Design to Display Gallery Images
• Hover Menu On Mouse Over
• 5 Different Color Schemes
• 8 Easy to Rotate Layout Variations
• Widget Ready Sidebars
• Search Engine Optimized Sidebar Titles

Pricing: Single ($70), Multiple ($280), Developer ($700), Credit Removal ($30)
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/09/10/showcase/

ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich content management system that empowers thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to easily manage their website. If you’re tired of the limitations of your current CMS then take ExpressionEngine for a spin.

Unlike most other publishing systems, ExpressionEngine doesn’t force you to work a certain way. It adapts to your creative process. Examine our portfolio of featured sites and you’ll find that each one uniquely fulfills the creative and artistic vision of its designer. No cookie-cutter sites here.

ExpressionEngine is modular by design, enabling you to easily add new features and capability with add-on modules, plugins, and extensions. Included by default are 17 add-on modules, access to over 100 plugins, and dozens of extension hooks.

Pricing: Core (Free), Personal ($99.95), Commercial ($249.95)
Source: http://expressionengine.com/

Digg this wordpress plugin is a plugin that detects incoming links from Digg.com to your wordpress post and automatically display a link back to the digg post, for people to digg your story. When a digg is first recognized an email is sent to the site’s admin. The detection is based on the referrer URL, which has to come from digg.
In case there is more than one digg posts to your page, only the first one will be displayed.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.aviransplace.com/index.php/digg-this…

WP Mailing List allow users/members to subscribe to your Wordpress mailinglist and send out mass newsletters to all subscribed members in your database.

A Wordpress sidebar widget is included, which uses Ajax technology to subscribe visitors/members to your mailing list without a single page refresh. It uses JavaScript XMLHttpRequest to communicate with a PHP backend and then receive an XML structured data response.

You have full control over several configuration settings such as the email format (text/html), automatically subscribing new registrations, etc…

Global variables in your newsletter message allows you to easily personalize newsletters by telling the script to automatically insert the first name, last name, email address, etc… of each subscriber into the newsletter message body.

Pricing: $24.99
Requirements: Wordpress 2.1+, SMTP Mail Server
Source: http://tribulant.com/products/view/1/wordpress…