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How to Create a CAPTCHA-enabled Custom Google Drive Form

Contact forms are found on almost every website and blog. Generally, website owners either use a dedicated plugin for the same or rely on an external form processing service to get things done. Today, we're going to learn about using Google drive forms that are free-to-use without any kind of limitations. But, the default form setup may not give you the required attributes and features you may be looking for. The following tutorial will help you add necessary bells and whistles to the default Google drive form. Working knowledge of HTML and CSS is required to implement this custom solution. You can also create multi-page contact forms very easily through Google drive which are very useful for hosting surveys. So let's create a custom Google drive form customized to your needs with lots of useful options.

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15 Powerful Tools to Automatically Generate CSS for Your Web Projects

If you have working knowledge of CSS and HTML, at times you may have felt the need of some additional tool that can produce automatically generated CSS to enhance it further in an easy way. These tools and services may either generate CSS for the entire page layout or may create CSS for individual web page elements. The following list contains some powerful and flexible CSS generation tools that not only saves your time but also helps in getting a cleaner and optimized code for much secure and faster websites. You can either use them to create a web project from scratch or can utilize their features to accelerate and enhance your existing web design process. My favorite tools from this list are CSS sprite code generators and specialized tools to create vendor-specific CSS code for different page elements.

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10 Useful SSH Commands for VPS Servers

Whether you're using a fully managed or an unmanaged VPS machine, familiarity with Linux/Unix command prompt is a must. Lots of useful administration and troubleshooting tasks are done through this shell prompt. Normally, we access this shell through a SSH client that gives us remote access to our VPS server's shell environment. Although there are thousands of commands at your disposal, only a handful of them are necessary to perform day-to-day tasks associated with your VPS server. If you're not familiar with Linux shell environment, I'll strongly advice you to first practice these commands on a local UNIX system. Most of the commands mentioned here will help you in finding more information about your VPS machine as well as will assist you in configuring simple but important and useful settings.

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10 Best Photoshop Plugins for Web Developers

Although there are countless plugins available for various Photoshop versions, only a small percentage of them are really useful for designers and developers. One can easily overwhelm by the sheer volume of plugin options available at his disposal. Depending on the exact type of work you do on Photoshop, only a handful of plugins can help you do more in a much lesser time. The plugins listed here are very popular among the Photoshop community and they're used for almost every web designing need. Whether you're editing photographs or creating a website layout, these plugins will help you get more out of your Photoshop image engine. Depending on your precise needs, you may omit some of the plugins mentioned here. All these killer plugins have been thoroughly tested on different versions of Photoshop.

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24 Best Ways to Share Your Code Snippets on the Web

Freelancers, web developers and software engineers often want to share code snippets with their team members and clients. An old way to do this is to share the code file as an attachment within an email. But this methodology has several shortcomings. There's no syntax highlighting, no real-time feedback or extended sharing options when using traditional email for sharing code snippets. A better approach would be to use a dedicated code snippet sharing service that not only provides an easy way to host and share the code, but also provides extra features to get feedback from the viewers. Fortunately, there are several good services that offer such kind of service for the programmers. Following is a handpicked list of apps and services that will let you share your code snippets very easily on the web.

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How to Create Pinterest Boards Correctly

Large numbers of Pinterest users are using boards to organize and showcase their topic or theme oriented collections. Whether you're using personal boards or are creating public boards in collaboration with a team, incorrect settings of the same can result in poor visibility with no results. Fortunately, you can easily learn the correct way of creating Pinterest boards such that they not only attract followers but also divert them towards your business website. If you've already created several boards, you can apply these techniques on those as well to get the best possible results. Here I must stress on the fact that despite taking on the necessary steps while creating Pinterest boards, long term results largely depends on your engagement with the community. So let's see how to correctly make result-oriented Pinterest boards.

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About Rajeev Edmonds

FreshTechTips author - Rajeev EdmondsRajeev Edmonds is a technical editor who loves to explore and test new gadgets and apps. He loves to develop applications both for desktops and web. He also enjoys writing tutorials for new media tools and services. The other two niche blogs that he maintains are MintBlogger and Taste Defined.

He has been developing custom skins for WordPress blogs since 2010. He also shares practical tips to get more out of your electronic gadgets. Read more →

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