Create cool looking "Glass" buttons like this using paint. net which is a free program I have been playing around with. It seems more lightweight than The Gimp and it is way more user friendly. Check out this tutorial on how to make these buttons.
Have you ever fired up your graphics editor, opened a file and used the colour picker tool just to find the hex or RGB code for the colours you want? Well, if you use pixie you won't need to because:
Doesn't it seem really cool. I haven't used it yet but will soon.
Its a colour picker that includes a mouse tracker. Run it, simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected colour in your favorite programs.
I have found a couple of tools which can be used for people who can't use php or mySQL. One of them is one I have been using for a year called thingamablog. thingamablog FTP's your blog onto your server therefore it only requires enough space on the server. It stores the database locally.
Another is Blosxom which only requires cgi on the server, you post by creating a .txt file and uploading it to your server, it's really flexible and lightweight. It again doesn't require a database. These are only two I have found.
Pivot is another blogging platform, I haven't taken a close enough look at this to give you any real details.
Flatpress is a flat file blogging platform thats based on wordpress. I haven't tried this one either so I wouldn't know how well this works.
But if you can use PHP but not MYSQL you should try SPHPB which is a php blogging platform that uses flat file databases.
If I find anymore I will post them.
