SimpleFolio, designed by Slimmity, is a portfolio theme that includes a blog and a very extensive option page that allows you to exclude all your portfolio items from the blog page. It also includes a front page slider, 2 different widget areas and threaded comments, also supports paged comments and has 2 different page templates for advanced usage. The control of images is done from the post page, threw 2 fields that have the instructions on the size of the images. This portfolio is also XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid, and multi-browser compatibility on Firefox, Safari , IE7, IE8, and Chrome. Preview the live demo in action.

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It’s time to switch to Google Chrome browser from Google advocates once their Chrome Extensions gallery launched officially. Here we have a roundup for the top/best 30 Chrome extensions for web designers and developers. Have you installed these Chrome extensions before? Share your thoughts and let me know your favorites as well.

Speed Tracer
Speed Tracer is an open source tool for you to get insight into the performance of web applications. It can help you identify and fix performance problems like JavaScript parsing and execution, layout, CSS style, DOM event handling, XMLHttpRequest callbacks, timer fires, network resource loading and painting in your web applications. Speed Tracer visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them when your application runs.

Firebug Lite
Firebug is one of the most popular Firefox addons for web developers. Now this Google Chrome version extension Firebug Lite that allows you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any webpage. Firebug Lite is a lightweight version of Firebug for Chrome users.

BuiltWith Technology Profiler
BuiltWith Technology Profiler is the Chrome version of BuiltWith, a website profiler tool that allows you find out what the website you are visiting is built with by a simple click on the builtwith icon. It aims to help developers, researchers and designers find out what technologies webpages are using. BuiltWith technology tracking includes widgets (snap preview), analytics (Google, Nielsen), frameworks (.NET, Java), publishing (WordPress, Blogger), advertising (DoubleClick, AdSense), CDNs (Amazon S3, Limelight), standards (XHTML,RSS), and hosting software (Apache, IIS, CentOS, Debian).

Snippy
Snippy is a simple, fast and unobtrusive way to collect snippets from webpages and then save them together for future use. Unlike screen capture extensions, Snippy captures rich contents and preserves formatting, so you can grab paragraphs, images, links and more. Snippy saves the captured snippets on your Chrome browser. You can also upload the snippets to http://snipbin.appspot.com and share them with your friends online.

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52Framework is the ever first framework that integrates with HTML5 and CSS3 framework together. It helps web designers and developers to have a easier method to build up websites using HTML5 and CSS3 which support all modern web browsers. Using HTML5 makes for much cleaner mark up by the grid system. This framework fully uses all the great advantages of HTML5. With CSS3 you can save time designing and slicing layouts. CSS3 has great features like text/box shadow, rounded corners, and animations. 52Framework uses HTML5 tags like header, nav, section, article, footer or new input field types like url, email, etc. The framework also has a HTML5 compatible reset stylesheet.

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Artists, bloggers, graphic designers, web designers or developers always need to capture screenshot of web pages, and here it’s a round up of Google Chrome webpage capture extensions. If you use Chrome as your default web browser, you must have a check to install these great extensions below.

1. Aviary Screen Capture
Aviary is a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your web browser from graphic design to audio editing. Aviary Screen Capture Google Chrome extension allows you to take a screenshot of any webpage and edit it directly in your browser with Aviary.com web applications. It offers a convenient access to the Aviary website and tools. It will perform a screen capture of the visible portion of any webpage and then open the capture immediately in a basic image editor where you can do markup such as draw arrows and rectangles, edit the screenshot image including crop, rotate and resize, and get the exact pixel colors of the image as well.

2. Webpage Screenshot
Webpage Screenshot is a fast and simple solution for you to capture the whole webpage and then save to JPG screenshots. This extension lets you save PNG image of any webpage in just a click. You can even choose to resize the window before capturing.

3. Picnik Extension for Chrome
Picnik is one of the most popular and powerful web based applications for you to editing photo online. The Picnik Chrome extension lets you easily pick any image from a dynamic hot list while browsing the web. With a click you can create a snapshot of your current web page and open it in Picnik for easy editing, annotation and sharing.

4. Zoho Notebook
With Zoho Notebook Chrome extension, you can take screenshot, clip important text or URLs from the web and save them in your online Zoho Notebook. To use this extension, you have to login to Zoho Notebook first. Anyway it supports Google, yahoo or Facebook account to sign in so there is no need to create a Zoho account.

5. PageShot
PageShot is a Google Chrome extension that helps you take a webpage capture and crop it. The visual cropping selector is powered by JCrop.

6. Screenshot
This screenshot capture extension is simple enough. Just one click to capture the current screen on webpage and then it will automatically open a new tab for you to view and save the image.