Resources and tutorials for Webmasters
Resources and tutorials for Webmasters

Thursday, December 31, 2009

ViewLike.Us: Check Your Blog In Multiple Resolutions

ViewLike.us is an online application that lets you quickly test website in different resolutions. You simply need to enter website URL into provided field and click on the “Submit” button. Once the page loads, you can click different resolution tabs to view how the site looks.

Currently the app allows to preview te websites in almost all popular resolutions: 320×396, 800x 600, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1400×900, 1600×1200 and 1900×1200. The service requires no registration and got no usage limits.

The most common web browsing resolutions overall are 1024×768, 1152×864 and 1280×800 as these correspond to something like 60%-75% of all visitors depending the subject of your site and your main target public.

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Monday, December 28, 2009

BBpress : Simple, fast and elegant forum software

bbPress is plain and simple forum software, plain and simple. It’s easy to use, easy to administrate, fast and clean. But don’t let its simplicity deceive you; underneath the gleam, it’s got some powerful features and is highly customizable.

bbPress is still pretty new, but we’re certain of a few things:
  • Open Source, always and forever
  • Less (code) is more
  • Simplicity is a feature
  • Speed and security are the foundation of any good user experience
  • Put the user first

Every line of code is written with these principles in mind, and if that sounds good to you maybe you can help out! Before you begin, make sure your server meets bbPress’ requirements.

Quick Instructions

  1. Download bbPress from the download page
  2. Upload the uncompressed files to your server
  3. Optionally upload language files to “my-languages” – You will have to create this directory
  4. Visit the intended URL of the bbPress site
  5. You will be greeted with the bbPress installer
  6. Follow the instructions in the installer
  7. Visit “Settings” in the admin area to customise your installation
  8. If you have any questions, ask in the forums

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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Videospin : Free video editing software

VideoSpin is a brand new tool that allows you to create your own movie clips in minutes using your own videos and pictures. Start editing your movies today with this free video editing software that lets you edit and upload movies in minutes.

There are two main functions—editing and publishing. The former section is used for adding music and transitions, putting in texts and making snips here and there. The publishing section connects to the web and allows users to add their videos to video sites like Yahoo or Youtube. If you’re lacking inspiration, VideoSpin gives you expert tips along the way. The download is free.

Visitors to the VideoSpin.com website can experience how easy editing and sharing can be by clicking on the website’s interactive, step-by-step tutorials. For more information, they can view the new white papers, how-to videos and reviews that have been posted; or search the online glossary and FAQs. In addition, an informative newsletter will provide information on the latest special promotions.

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Friday, December 18, 2009

Aviary’s Falcon : Image Markup Editor

Aviary’s Falcon allows lightning fast image markup and preparation. You can use Falcon to capture images and web pages from your browser and crop, resize and lets you mark up your images with arrows, text and outlines.

Combined with Aviary Firefox addon Talon it provides a simple and efficient way to take screenshots and add simple markup to those images. Talon is Aviary Firefox addon, once installed it allows you to take screenshots of web pages. It adds menu items to the mouse right click context menu, there are two menu items one is for editing the images directly from the web pages and the second one is for taking screenshots of the web pages.
  • Blazing Fast / Instant On : Falcon is under 90k in size, resulting in an instantaneous load time. Anyone that has Aviary’s Firefox extension Talon installed can access and edit screen captured data without any server interaction (it all takes place right within the browser).
  • Easy Color Extraction : Use the built-in color picker tool to extract web color values from images and screenshots. This is awesome and simple for web designers!
  • Simple Editable Markup : Draw arrows, edit text, make shapes. Everything is selectable. Move, rotate and resize anything added to the screen. You can even recolor, add outlines and shadows.
  • Built-in Sharing : Host your file online for easy sharing or download it right to your desktop. You can even easily post it to Twitter and other social sharing services.
  • Image Preparation Features : Crop, Rotate and Resize your image quickly and easily to prepare it for the web.
  • Aviary Application Integration : Need more design power? Port your image into 4 different Aviary tools (color editor, advanced image editor, effects editor and vector editor).
  • Intuitive Interface : Designed for bloggers, the interface is intuitive, quick to use and responsive.
  • Ideal for Netbook Use : The app resizes perfectly for use in netbooks with small screen resolutions.

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Monday, December 14, 2009

Ffonts: Free Fonts Directory

ffonts is a free fonts directory which provides you with an amazing collection of cool text fonts. It enables you to search and browse for a wide range of fonts, based on categories and alphabetical listing. You can see details about each font like encoding, version and view the font in upper and lower cases.

With an optional registration you can save fonts to your online wish list, submit your fonts and add comments. You can even rate the fonts and share them with friends easily.

Features:
  • Directory of free amazing fonts.
  • Browse fonts by alphabet, category and search.
  • Save fonts to your wish list.
  • Check out top fonts and new fonts.
  • Custom preview and download fonts with one click.
  • Free to use, with optional registration.

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Friday, December 11, 2009

CSS Type Set : Online css type tool

CSS Type Set is a hands-on typography tool allowing designers and developers to interactively test and learn how to style their web content. You can set the font family, size, color, letter-spacing, word-spacing, line-height and etc… It will automatically generate the CSS file for you. You can see the changes instantly. It is a really great tool for experimenting a suitable font type for your site.

CSS Type Set is an online tool to check out different font settings. One window shows the result and the other window shows the relevant css code, very neat!

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Broken links Remover wordpress plugin

Broken links Remover wordpress plugin helps you fix bad/broken links, both text links(anchor tags) and image links (img tags).It blocks the display of such links on your wordpress post/page, until you fix them. These are not made visible to search engine robots as well, until you correct them.

Links are very commonly used in posts/pages. Quite often, these links may get broken when a page, that the link represents, is deleted or when a site to which you have linked has moved to a different domain or when a subdirectory is forgotten or for any other reasons including a typo. Broken links, on your site, are bad for your readers as well as the search engine crawlers.

Some features:
  • Broken Links Remover removes(hides) bad/broken links from the requestor’s(search engine or human) view
  • Bad/broken links dashboard

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Monday, December 7, 2009

Stripe Generator: Web 2.0 Go Faster Stripes


Stripe Generator can easily create brilliant, shiny background stripes for your site or blog. Unleash your personal style, experiment and download the tile. You can use it directly in your CSS file or as a pattern in your image-editing app. They have many adjustment options such as stripe size, stripe spacing, color, stripe orientation and even shadows.

You can also choose from a variety of highly rated patterns created by other users in their “Your Stripes” section on the free stripe generator site. Once you create or find a stripe pattern you like simply copy and paste the code! Free Stripe Generator.

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio : Drag & drop Web 2.0 development


WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio provides an easy way to build web and cloud applications without complex coding. The WaveMaker platform consists of two components: WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio™ for developing rich internet applications and WaveMaker Rapid Deployment Server™ for deploying applications into a standard and secure Java environment.

WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio is an easy-to-use visual builder that enables the drag & drop assembly of scalable, web and cloud applications using Ajax widgets, web services and databases. WaveMaker Studio will look and feel especially familiar to client/server developers who are used to working with visual tools.

WaveMaker has helped customers reduce development costs by 67% and cut the lines of code written by 98%. Less code makes WaveMaker applications cheaper to maintain and easier to manage.

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