A contemporary platform bed can suit just about any design scheme, simply because there is a particular sense of warmth and style from such a bed frame. They are made from various materials and in various styles. While solid wood frames are the most ubiquitous of all the designs, the popularity of Asian designs is steadily increasing, particularly Asian platform beds.

Why is it that of all the designs it is those of Asian platform beds that are becoming the most popular? Well, Japanese furniture commands the attraction of many interior designers due to their stately elegance and simplicity and to that extent, Japanese furniture aesthetics are becoming a major influence on contemporary furniture design trends, including most contemporary beds.

One other great thing about a contemporary platform bed is that uses an elevated foundation to put the sleeping surface into a nice position that frees up space for storage underneath. This is great for any home where space is a premium commodity, and such a contemporary bed design can be a boon for those who are tidy in putting their things away.

Necessary to most beds is a bulky box spring for the purposes of supporting the mattress. However, such beds tend to make use of inadequate support structures such as thin metal cross supports that can really limit one’s sleeping comfort. However, a contemporary bed with a platform design obviates the need for bulky springs and use slat supports and solid panel foundations that provide superior support. The result is that one can place their mattress directly on the frame without consequence.

Another nice thing about bed frames with a platform design is that they save you money. This is because traditional bed frames are costly affairs that involve paying for the box spring, the foundation and the headboard, while a platform frame makes use of a foundation that obviates the need for these individual components. As such, a platform design can be a great investment.

This article takes note of individuals interested in replacing old bed frames or giving their bedroom a total style makeover and endorses contemporary bed designs, particularly contemporary platform beds. Such a bed can free up valuable space, give greater sleeping comfort and save you money and this article suggests a look at Asian platform beds that have an attractively minimalist elegance to them.

If you would like more information on modern bedroom furniture or beds, be sure to stop by the Platform Beds Online blog!

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Having broken links in your web pages would be really tedious for your users. So, all blogger and web developer like to check all of their links in their web pages to find broken links to fix them. This Firefox extension would be useful for you to do this.

Features of this WordPress Plugin:

• Checks your posts and pages in background whenever your WP admin panel is open.
• Notify you on the Dashboard if a problem be found.
• Link checking intervals can be configured.
• New modified posts are checked as soon as possible.
• Detects the links that do not work. (Check both of internal and outbound ones)
• Check missing images. (Check both of internal and outbound ones)

2) Smart 404

When a page can not be found this Plugin find a similar page and redirect to it automatically. Therefore your visitors seldom encounter with error 404 and this would make your blog more professional.

3) WordPress DB backup

Using this Plugin Makes you able to have a backup for your WordPress database. This is useful specially for who use Windows server.

4) AskApache RewriteRules Viewer

Who are using Windows servers have been notified about existing index.php in their URLs.

Using this Plugin makes you able to have more beautiful URL deleting index.php

5) WP Security Scan

A nice Plugin to have more secure WordPress!

Use this Plugin carefully.

6) Fluency Admin

Many WordPress users don’t like WordPress admin interface. Well, this Plugin would be useful to change WordPress admin interface as you like.

7) WordPress Mobile

Make your WordPress site rock on a mobile phone using this Plugin.

This is really practical and can send more traffic to your WordPress site.

Advanced Flicker

Having Advanced Flicker RSS on your WordPress site with more advanced options such as:

• Personalizing the code to show up for each photo.
• Caching the large images and the square thumb ones.

9) Google Syntax HighLighter for WordPress

This Plugin easily colorize your codes on the fly.

Feature summary:

• 100% client side. No server dependency.
• Wide browser support.
• Very light browser.
• Multiply language support:
  • C & C++
  • C#
  • Delphi
  • CSS
  • JAVA
  • JS (Java Script)
  • Ruby
  • SQL
  • Python
  • XML
  • VB

  You can also learn more about customizing your highlighted code in the Google code wiki entry here.

10) RelatedPosts

This Plugin makes you able to finish your posts with related posts via tags. You can also configure the number of related posts. To embed the list of related posts to your post it is just enough to replace “%RELATEDPOSTS%” within your text.

11) Exec-PHP

This Plugin lets you to running your PHP codes in certain posts and pages.

You can also insert your PHP codes directly to your posts without changing your theme.

NOTE: You should turn off your visual editor while you are using Exec-PHP in your posts and pages.

12) Akismet

This Plugin checks your comments against the Akismet web service and help you to identify the comments which are spam.

13) Maintenance

This Worpdress Plugin notifies your readers that your blog is undergoing maintenance and is not available currently.

14) WordPress DB Manager

This WordPress Plugin offers an interface for you to manage, optimize and backup your WordPress database. After installing WordPress DB Manager you will have a new tab in your admin panel that is named database.

15) FormBuilder

This WordPress Plugin simply let you to build complex forms in the WordPress administrative without needing PHP or HTML\XHTML.

16) post2pdf

This WordPress Plugin helps you to convert all your posts and pages to PDF format. You don’t need any other installed application.

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• 14 Amazing Firefox extensions for WordPress

Do not miss to have a review for each one of these Firefox extensions.

1) WordPress Helper

Description: This Firefox extensions helps you to solve your problem on WordPress by providing some useful help and tools. I recommend it for all specially for beginners.

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2) WordPress.com Sidebar

Description: This is really easy to use. It makes you able to get quick access to your wordpress.com account from your browser sidebar.

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3) Screen grab to WordPress

Description: This Firefox extensions makes you able to save a webpage as an image and upload it on your WordPress blog.

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4) MMD WordPress.com

Description: Having a tiny statusbar panel that shows you your blog hit counter for your WordPress.com blog using this one. This extensions provide a right click menu to access your blog stats on WordPress. Ohm it is really nice!

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5) WordPress Post

Description: What a cool tool it really is! This extension lets you post the text you select in your browser directly to your WordPress blog. To make a post you can either click or drag the text to the statusbar icon, or use the browsers context menu. It is recommend specially for short and hot posts (Like: news, reports and so forth)

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6) One-Click Installer for WP 1.1

Description: This is experimental. This extension can be used to install plugins or themes on your WordPress blog with a single click. It makes you able to Install plugins or themes on your self-hosted WordPress blogs with a single click (needs the related WP plugin to work; not intended for WordPress.com).

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7) Exporter

Description: This is experimental. This Firefox extension helps you to Make a back up of Your weblog in WXR (WordPress eXtended Rss) Format. Just useful in some special occasions!

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Monkiri

Description: This Firefox extensions lets you grab any part of the web page and instantly publish it either on your WordPress blog.

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9) Dash blog

Description: Using this Firefox extension makes you able to quickly collect videos, images, text/quotes, songs and screen-captures from any web page and publish them to your blog (word press, blogger/blogspot, tumblr) and/or twitter.

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10) Deepest sender

Description: This one is a full blogging client for Firefox. Using this Firefox extension makes you able to post to your blog. All you should do is just hit Ctrl+\ or click the button in your toolbar. If you are using Firefox3 after going to the download page, find Deep sender version 9.0 to install. Because it supports Firefox3.

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11) Clip marks

Description: This Firefox extension lets you to capture exactly what you want others to see (text, image, video). Your videos will be saved on clipmarks.com and you can easily share them with your friends.

You can also post anything you clip directly to your WordPress blog (it also supports Blogger, Typepad and etc) or send it directly to friends or co-workers via email. Clipmarks also gives you a way to help the environment by printing only the parts of a page that you need.

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12) zwordpress

Description: This Firefox extension lets you to manage your WordPress blog faster and easier using some keyboard shortcuts. The most common shortcuts are these ones: (Shortcut: What to do)

ALT+Z+Z: View site
ALT+Z+X: Dashboard
ALT+Z+Q: Write a post
ALT+Z+A: Stats (Google Analytics)
ALT+Z+S: Earnings (Google Adsense)

when you use any shortcut keys, press ALT + Z, key up Z and the press the next letter. Press all the combination at the same time is a bit madness you can open a lot of tabs.

You can also define some shortcuts for your favorite events.

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13) Kaalga

Description: This Firefox extension makes you able to easily link to interesting phrases in your articles to relevant content. It also uses OpenCalais (Reuters) semantic API to suggest phrases in your text suitable for linking, and Google search to present relevant links for selected phrases. This Firefox extension also supports Blogger, TypePad and LiveJournal.

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14) ScribeFire Blog editor

Description: Having a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.

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• 16 Practical WordPress Plugins for advanced users

Well, if you have a blog on ‘wordpress.com’ in default way snapshot will be enable on your blog. But if you have some links in your page, it could be tedious for your blog viewers to encounter with lots of snapshots!
So, if you want to disable snapshot, follow these steps:

1. Login your wordpress account
2. Click Design tab
3. Under Design category, click Extras
4. Leave the first check box unchecked (Which is labeled: Enable Snap Shots on this blog)
5. Save your changes by clicking on the button that is labeled Update Extras >>

Now there is no snapshot on your wordpress blog.

You can also follow the steps above and just leave the check box checked (step 4) to enable your wordpress blog snapshot again.

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