Editor’s note: This article is contributed by Debarshi Ghosh Dastidar. Debarshi is a freelance writer and a self taught web designer. He guest writes for few selected blogs. He is the co-owner and chief editor at inspireyourway.com. He can be found on Twitter @DebarshiGD

For any web designer, color selection is important when trying to design a web page that can perfectly meet all the requirements. Color is a primary constituent of any design and can be a powerful tool of creative expressions. Any experienced web designer will accept that each color can convey different messages to an onlooker.

While a web designer can have an impressive portfolio with numerous colorful designs, he or she should always lay emphasis on colors that can make the design a center of attraction besides giving it a relevant and appropriate brand identity fulfilling the business requirements suitably.

This is not the first time we are covering a collection of single or bi color websites, previously we’ve covered

• Showcase of Eco Friendly (Green) Websites
• Best of Retro and Vintage Web Design
• 100+ Clean Simple and Minimalists Website Design
• Hand Drawn Websites
• Single Page Web Design & many more

Here in this article I have done my best to compile a list of most beautiful and attractive dark color websites. From this collection I hope you get inspired to create a dark color website design which is not messy but clutter-free and visually pleasant so that we can add your creation in this list. If you have already created a dark themed websites but couldn’t find your masterpiece in this list, feel free to show us through comments.

JustDot

Nue Media

La Bubbly

Jet Cooper

Designers MX

2 Pitch

Native Tongue

Take The Walk

Smash LAB

Mojave Music

Kansas City CreepFest

This Mans Life

The Kennedys

Michael Korstick

Martijn Vreugde

Cafundo

The Old Barber Shop

Fueled by Design

Larsluan

76 Synthesizer

Handsome Copy

Shopify

Youzee

JUXT Interactive

Designer Gleb

DonQ Rum

Alien Bikes

Purple, Rock, Scissors

Idea Foundry

Tom Pain

War Child

DesignWise

Versionsapp

Visualbox

Cuban Council

Kris Jay Designs

Kid Koala

Two24 Studios

Tap-Tap Design

Madfrog Designs

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Simply put, audiobooks are recordings of books which are read aloud. But some may think: why would we need audio books if we can read books ourselves? Audio books are useful not only for the visually impaired, but also for busy people who love a good read, but just don’t have the time to sit down to bury their faces in their favorite classics. So the best alternative would be to listen to audiobooks via audio devices while travelling or commuting to work.

Besides, audio books are great for learning a new language to ensure you don’t pronounce a foreign phrase wrongly because you can listen to exactly how it is spoken. Here’s our list of 20 best websites to download free audio books.

Recommended Reading: 20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks

Librophile

Librophile provides completely legal free audiobooks for both mobile and PC. You can browse the latest book by keywords, genre or language. Listen to chapters online, or play a sample before downloading it. Librophile offers many free audiobooks and ebooks of different genres from Sun Tzu’s "Art of War" to "Romeo and Juliet".

Lit2Go

Lit2Go has a big and free online collection of poems and stories in MP3 format. You can easily search for audio book titles here by genre, author or collection, and they even grade a book’s readability for your children by Flesch-Kincaid grade levels.

Project Gutenberg

If you’re into old classics like Aesop’s fables and stories by Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe and Charlotte Bronte, then Project Gutenberg have a good list of audiobooks you’ll be looking for. Project Gutenberg offers over 2000 free audiobooks in all genres including many classics read by volunteers.

LearnOutLoud Free Audio

Listen to over 5000 free audiobooks with topics in politics, religion, philosophy, science and many more in LearnOutLoud.com. There are also great lectures, sermons and interviews to download.

Books Should Be Free

Get all-time-favorites like "Moby Dick" and "Oliver Twist", and other public domain books from this site. Books Should Be Free offers a diverse collection of books from many different genres, which are suitable for children and adults alike.

LibriVox

LibriVox is a non-commercial, ad-free site which features text obtained from Gutenberg, read, recorded and released for the public’s listening pleasure. You can even volunteer to read, or just download to listen from LibriVox’s acoustical library of good books.

Audiobooks.net

Easily download audiobooks in Audiobooks.net. If you’re not sure which books are a good read, take a look, and a hint from the popularity numbers.

Podiobooks

Podiobooks distribute serialized audiobooks via RSS, just click on any of the episode links of a book you want to read, and itt will either download or start playing on your computer.

Free Classic Audio Books

Download in mp3 or m4b format (for the iPod) all your favorite books in audio format. Indexing is done alphabetically by the author’s last name to make your searches easier.

Free Audio Books.co.uk

Listen to audio books straightaway online, and browse through the works of notable authors like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Lewis Carroll.

NewFiction

Subscribe to your daily installment of ‘modern day radio drama’, also known as isSoaps, to stay entertained with the many engaging stories offered.

AudioCloset

From shelves we move on to closets! Fancy the works of Mark Twain or Rudyard Kipling, then find and download their free audio masterpieces from AudioCloset.

Storynory

With their children’s titles of educational stories and fairytales by Hans Christian Anderson and Grimm Brothers, Storynory is a great resource for audio books fit for young children.

ejunto

Founded in 2005 by Andrew Julow, Ejunto has a mission to provide free, quality audio historical and philosophical books. The name "Ejunto" is chosen as a tribute to Benjamin Franklin’s Junto society, where the members meet weekly to discuss about their readings.

Thought Audio

If you still can’t find the book you’re looking for, then try Thought Audio, where there are books like "The Monkey’s Paw" and "The Happy Prince".

BookRix

BookRix is a friendly, book-loving community that provides freebies and contests. BookRix specializes in religious, fantasy-based and fictitious audio books for download.

Free Audio Books

With a vast collection of audiobooks and other freebies like free CD covers, do drop by Free Audio Books for free, legal audiobooks.

Kiddie Records

Like its name suggests, this site is great for downloading audio books which are suitable for your young children, with popular titles like "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".

Miette’s Bedtime Story Podcast

The site’s owner does her own recording, so you may hear sounds of her dog barking in the background, but this site’s still a great source for an audio bedtime story.

PodCastle

PodCastle is the first fantasy fiction audio magazine; every week, they feature free, fictional audio stories for fantasy lovers. You can also submit your own fiction or recordings for a fee.

More:

1. Audio Literature Odyssey – Nikolle Doolin brings the pages of classic literature to life in this engaging literary podcast.
2. Open Culture – Download 450 of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer.
3. Maria Lectrix – A public domain audiobook podcast for people with Catholic tastes.
4. Audio Book Treasury – If you fancy titles like "Beowulf," "Dracula" and "Three Men in a Boat’" get it here.
5. Light Up Your Brain – Find a list of audio stories for children here.
6. Voices in the Dark – Download both low and high bitrate audio books here, from poetry to essays.
7. The Storyspieler – One of the narrators from Gutenberg shares his own audio books here.
8. Broken Sea – The audio books here are mostly sci-fi, horror and drama.
9. BookBox – A great site for children, with illustrations to highlight each audio book.
10. Beenleigh State School Audio Stories – Created by a school teacher for her students, and other students worldwide.
11. Cthulhu – Download old titles like "The Damned" and "The Shunned House" here.
12. Clear Bits – Get titles like "A Christmas Carol" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" here.
13. Candlelight Stories – Download the full set of "Pinocchio" here, and other audio books.
14. Free Listens – One new audiobook every week for download.
15. Kids Audio Books – Another site for children’s audio books with over 300 collections.
16. Robert Munsch – A colorful site that will interest young readers with their titles like "Class Clown" and "Moose".

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Closed Captions are subtitles for videos which are useful for people who want to translate their videos in different languages or are trying to reach out to the hearing impaired.

For those who want captions or subtitles on their videos, Google has allowed you to add subtitle files to videos on Google+. The subtitle files that Google+ currently supports are SRT and SUB files. These files hold text information that enables the video to determine what subtitles to show at certain points of the video.

Creating A Basic SRT File

An SRT (SubRip Text) file is a basic subtitle file, in plain text format, that can easily be created on your own. A SUB file is more complex than an SRT file, and it requires a software to create. We’re going to show you how you can turn your subtitles into an SRT file.

The SRT format

The following is a very basic subtitle file that was created with Notepad (Windows) for a 10-sec video.

An SRT file consists of 3 lines of information per line of subtitle.

1. Line 1 shows an ascending number (starting with 1) which determines the order of the subtitle.
2. Line 2 shows the time the subtitle should appear. The time will be in this format: 02:30:40 would be 2 hours, 30 minutes and 40 seconds into the movie
3. Line 3 is the subtitle that will be shown.

Saving your SRT file

While saving your SRT file with Notepad, name your file then type ‘.srt’ at the end of the file name. Under ‘Save as type’, select ‘All files’. Hit Save.

Adding Captions to Your Video

Once you have your SRT file, adding them to your video on Google+ with the following steps.

1. First of all, ensure that your video has been uploaded on Google+. Locate the video at your Google+ profile page and play it.

   

2. It should come up in the preview mode like the image below. Now, look for the ‘Options’ button located at the bottom left corner of your screen.

   

Click on Options > Closed captions.



3. The white panel on the right will now have a new ‘Closed captions’ category. Click on Add new captions or transcript.

   

4. Click on ‘Select File’ to upload your SRT or SUB file and select the language the file is in, then click on Upload. You can repeat this step to upload captions for different languages.

   

5. Now that you have uploaded the file, enable captions by pressing on the CC button located at the bottom right corner of your video.

   

   Choose your language and hit play to see the subtitles on your video.

   

We hope this quick tip will help you break the language barrier of your videos, enjoy!

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