Coca Cola have released their ’summer line’ of drunks cans… as always, they’ve done a fantastic job.

London based HD production house PixelFantastic have released their in-house plugins to the public. For the first time, these affordable and high quality Quantel Plugins are available individually for immediate download. You no longer need to purchase a set of plugins, when you only need one. Demo the plugin, and if you like it, you can buy it. Essential for all Quantel users.

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As blogs and personal websites become more and more important in day to day life, everyone seems to want to blog and leave their little mark on the internet. However, historically building websites is tricky, and most people, even designers don’t know exactly how to build a website, even if they’ve designed it perfectly in Photoshop.

How do I easily and cheaply convert my Photoshop file in to Wordpress or HTML?

Thankfully, there are a few good companies on the internet that have taken the initiative and now offer a ‘PSD to HTML conversion service‘. You upload your PSD and specify your desired format, and delivery time, and they take the hard work out of your website creation. Not only does this take the stress out of building a website, but also allows graphic designers to concentrate solely on what they are good at; Design. More and more designers are opting for this process of web development as it leaves them free to move on to the next design and create great looking sites without loosing every ounce of creativity they have, because they have their heads buried in HTML code at 3am!

ThePSDCoder will happily convert your PSD to HTML or blog format at exceptionally good rates. They are reliable and friendly, and most of all, the quality of work they produce is fantastic.

thepsdcoder reviews have been amazing… great service, and quick turnaround. We definately recommend using thepsdcoder.com for all your HTML conversion requirements.

UK HD Film and Video production house, pixelfantastic launched their new site this week. We carried out the design and build.

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How do I get People to Subscribe to my RSS feed? Good question, there are so many different ways to help boost your subscribers to your RSS feed, we decided to post a guide to help you get started.

We will use the very popular iPhone website, iPhone User Guide, as an example of good web practice when actively trying to increase your RSS readership.

Step 1. Show your feed icon off well.

There’s no point having RSS on your site, if users can’t see how to subscribe. Make your icon big and bold, and don’t deviate too much from the RSS icon we’ve all grown to know and love.

Step 2. Keep your content to one subject.

Users are more likely to subscribe to a blog if the WHOLE site interests them, not just one article. By keeping the blinkers on and only blogging about one subject will greatly increase your chances of getting more subscribers.

Step 3. Use Feedburner

Feedburner is an RSS utility that takes your website’s feed, and adds a whole load more functionality to the feed before repackaging it and sending it on. Not only will it allow you to track your subscribers with more detail, but it will also do things like send out a daily email newsletter of your recent blog posts for you. If you’re blog posts are interesting, some of them will get forwarded on to others and help you get more RSS Subscribers.

Step 4. Use Social Bookmarks

Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon & Delicious are just a few of the Social Bookmarking sites out there right now. Add the ObSocialBookmark plugin to your WordPress blog, and users will be able to bookmark your blog posts on the big social bookmark sites, thus increasing your readership, and as a result RSS subscribers.

Take 1 week to build up your friends and submit quality articles to all of them. You can have a stumbleupon toolbar which makes it easy to stumble articles. You can also use the social bookmark icons on nearly all blog posts; again this makes it easy to submit articles to the sites. At this point do not submit any of your own articles unless you have been using the sites for a while. It is very important to build up your friends lists and submit articles. Make a point of submitting for an hour every day for 1 week.

Step 5. Hold a competition for RSS Subscribers only

With Feedburner, you will have access to all your email subscribers email addresses, so why not publicize that only Subscribers will be eligible for a free giveaway of some sort.

Step 6. Put a link to your RSS feed after every post.

Edit your WordPress theme, so that under every blog post there is a link to the RSS feed. Make it discreet and small though.

Step 7. Show off your feed count

People are generally like sheep, and don’t want to feel like they are ‘missing out’ on anything… Once you gain over 100 readers, tell the world! New readers seeing that you now are getting ‘popular’ will want to sign up and ‘follow the herd’ as it were.

Step 8. Enable Full Feeds

Full feeds Vs Partial feeds is always controversial, because having partial feeds teases readers and encourages them to click the email to read the full article on your site, however, lets not be greedy. Whilst hits are nice, this article is all about getting more RSS subscribers. We recommend enabling Full Feeds on your RSS Feed.

Step 9. Offer exclusive content to RSS subscribers

Use the Feedvertising plugin for Wordpress to link your readers to a ’secret page’ on your site with extra content. Feedvertising links only show up in the feed (and not in the post), only feed subscribers will see the link and have access to this content.

Step 10. Post in forums

If you have an information style blog, take a look at the community websites in your niche, and start posting. DO NOT POST BLATENT ADVERTS. That’s just bad karma. But if someone is talking about something you’ve talked about on your site, there is no harm in stating your opinion and leave a link to your blog at the bottom. Remember, no one likes a newbie who posts links everywhere, if you do this, you will probably get banned from the forum by the moderators.