Working designers have very little time for finding new clients and keeping up to date on news in the design industry. This was the idea behind LinkedIn groups, and it’s a good one at that: provide a meeting place where like-minded professionals can communicate with each other, learn about their craft, solve problems, get feedback, find clients and promote their services.

LinkedIn provides a good place for self-promotion. As an employment forum, it is a place to find work and promote your services for free.

However, that’s also the reason why there is a lot of spam and marketing debris to wade through in most LinkedIn groups, and unfortunately, when it comes to finding excellent informative articles, feedback or in-depth discussions at design-dedicated websites, blogs and forums fare much, much better. In addition, like Facebook, the interface is purposely awkward and designed to keep users on the site for as long as possible.

Nonetheless, there is one major advantage of using LinkedIn. LinkedIn profiles can rank quite high in Google, especially if they are properly tagged with keywords, giving freelancers higher discoverability on the Web.

Types of Groups

There are three main types of groups for web designers on LinkedIn: Large open groups, medium to large groups which are closed (but in reality, open) and small closed groups where participation must be approved before they are able to join in with the discussions. There are also area-specific groups for instance, the Chicago Front-End Web Designers group. Some closed groups are completely private, in others, people can view some or all of the postings. All of these forums are plagued with spam which are flagged or removed by the members themselves.

The advantage of the larger groups is that despite the spam, they are filled with a mixture of new and old talent and a variety of fresh perspectives. In all of the groups there are both real and inappropriate job postings and leads. The weekly posting numbers below are within the past fortnight.

LinkedIn Groups Worth A Look

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So for the past three days, we’ve given you a quick intro on building responsive web designs for a mobile layout and showcased some free and premium WordPress themes you can adopt for your website.

In today’s post, we’re moving on to Joomla themes. Granted we didn’t find much of it but it’s not like we didn’t try (honest!). In any case, if your site is powered by Joomla, you should take a look. In this list, you will find 10 of the best free responsive Joomla themes, with links to a demo of the themes in action and where to get them.

H5BP4J

H5BP4J is a responsive template starter (very basic) for those who prefer to create their own templates. This template starter was build on HTML5 Boilerplate.

[ Visit The Homepage | Demo | Download ]

Music

Music is a free responsive Joomla template from GavickPro. This Joomla template produces a breathtaking Web site that will catch your visitors’ attention.

[ Visit The Homepage | Demo | Download ]

Cameleon

Cameleon is a Joomla 2.5 template built with a responsive design to fit into any screen size available out there. The template comes with rtl support, JJ Slider and accordion menu, Google Fonts and more. It’s also compatible with Joomla 1.6.x – 1.7.x and Joomla 2.5.x

[ Visit The Homepage | Demo | Download ]

Elastica

Elastica is both beautiful and well presented responsive, and it can fit to all screen sizes, including extra widescreen. Elastica is built on JAT3 2 Framework and jQuery Masonry script.

[ Visit The Homepage | Demo | Download ]

CMS Blue

CMS Blue is a simple responsive theme that offers the basics but you can always use your creativity to modify. This CMS Theme also comes in different colors and style; CMS Grey, CMS Water and CMS White.

[ Visit The Homepage | Demo | Download ]

JoomlaDagen

JoomlaDagen is a responsive template for Joomla 1.7. The template is also using Twitter Bootstrap, Skeleton and Google Fonts.

[ Visit The Homepage | Demo | Download ]

Puresite

Puresite is a simple and clean yet beautifully presented responsive Joomla template. This template works well and fits any screen sizes, and the minimalistic design makes it look great.

[ Visit The Homepage | Demo | Download ]

Loe Restro

Leo Restro comes in 3 theme colors to suit your style and support customization for background and fonts via template configuration. Leo Restro is built on the Leo Framework.

[ Visit The Homepage | Demo | Download ]

OneWeb

OneWeb is a basic template or ‘template starter’ for Joomla that was built with responsive design in mind; one that you can use for better template design development. Among the features are a fluid grid, HTML5, lightweight and fast.

[ Visit The Homepage | Demo | Download ]

Vertex

Vertex is a free responsive Joomla template, however the download will require a free membership. Vertex is built on Shape5 framework which offers 95 module positions, custom row and column width, and much more.

[ Visit The Homepage | Demo | Download ]

Bonus:

HTML5 Blank Template

This blank template is an HTML5 template for responsive web design on your Joomla 2.5, created with HTML5 Boilerplate. No graphic or modules, just a solid future-proof foundation to start your Joomla development with.

[ Visit The Homepage | Demo | Download ]

Next Up in RWD

If you’re into developing your own responsive design, have we got some tools for you. Same time tomorrow. Don’t miss it.

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Deleting messages on Facebook is not as easy as deleting your email, as Facebook intends to keep your conversation history in Messages and Facebook Chat intact.

To delete messages on Facebook, you will need to open the individual message, go to options and start selecting the message you want to delete. If you have many messages, the process can be very time-consuming. Otherwise, you can simply remove the messages from the message list, but doing this will not remove the message permanently. Instead it will be archived, and will reappear when the person sends you a new message.

Here’s where we bring in some help i.e. ‘Facebook Fast Delete Messages‘, an extension for your Chrome browser that will allow you to delete Facebook messages with a single click.

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deleting facebook messages (Slow)

You can open your Facebook messages and you can select to send your messages to ‘Archive’, one by one. However, the message you delete will not be removed permanently; it will reappear when the person sends you new messages.

 

To delete individual messages, you need to open each message first. Do this by clicking on the Actions button and select Delete Messages.

 

You will see all your messages with this friend, with checkboxes on the side of each message. Select the messages you want to delete by ‘checking’ the box next to the message, or simply click on the Delete all button.

It’s tedious, isn’t it?

Delete all facebook messages at once

To take control of your Facebook messages, go to the Facebook Fast Delete Messages extension page with your Chrome browser and click the Add to Chrome button to install.

Once installed, the extension is activated automatically. Now to delete your Facebook messages with only one click without having to open the individual conversation pages open your Facebook Message page. You will see two extra buttons, one at the top bar and another highlighted in red. Click these buttons to permanently delete your messages and conversations.

Conclusion

With this chrome extension, you don’t have to go through the long process of message deleting, forever clicking to delete your Facebook messages. Get the extension installed onto your Chrome browser, and you can now delete messages with a single click!

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