Resources and tutorials for Webmasters
Resources and tutorials for Webmasters

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

CSSTXT : Create a style to your text

CSSTXT is an online tool to allow you easily generate the CSS style for text. It is a webtool that propose to illustrate the many ways you got to add a style to a text with a p or div tag. Really easy to use, it could help a lot of webmaster.

The interest is to create a stylesheet with options you need, like font size, border, font, line-height and apply to a paragraph of text. Once all your options are selected, you generate the style and css,html code appears. Calling the class .mycss (version 2) will apply style. A simple way to learn easily, how css style could be applied to text.

It will generate two versions of code to paste on your web page, “Novice” and “Expert”, both return the same result. The difference is that the expert version will separate the text and stylesheet for advanced users.

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Texture Lovers : Free Textures, Inspiration and texture tutorials

Texture Lovers Its purpose is to archive some of the best free textures from around the web and better yet only archive the ones that are free to use in commercial and personal work without worrying about giving credit to the source (no attribution). On this site you will also find links to inspiration and tutorials all texture related.

The textures are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, usually you would have to give attribution to who created the textures but the kind people featured on the site have waived the need for attribution which enables you to optionally give credit to them if you use their textures.

The textures are free to use, but any inspiration or tutorials on this site are very much copyrighted material and should not be re-produced in any way, they are here to learn from and gain inspiration not copy from, please respect that.

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Fonts 500 : The top 500 free fonts from around the web

Fonts 500. The website has an incredibly large collection of free font downloads worthy of adding to your bookmark(s) collection. Font popularity is based on download activity from larger font resources found throughout the net. Previews are presented in a clean fashion with an option to input your own sample text. Incredibly easy to use, simple to navigate, and quite possibly the one site to visit for free fonts.

Top 500 is calculated based on download counts from some of the web’s biggest free font archives. The fonts presented on this page are their authors’ property, and are, to the best of our knowledge, either freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain. If anyone knows otherwise please notify us. All fonts have been collected from around the web, and are maintained with all files intact.

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SwatchSpot : Creates random color swatches to inspire you

SwatchSpot is a free web service which lets you generate random color swatches with different color schemes. It lets users to create and save palettes of different color combinations with the click of a button. This is very useful for designers who are looking for color schemes for their project or design.

SwatchSpot is a color swatch generator which creates a new swatch every time you click Reload palette. Each set of colors will contain a combination of 6 different colors which you can save to your computer as an image file.

The generated swatches also have the hexidemical code of those colors which you can use when designing with your image manipulation software or can even use it with your code. This is one of the easiest ways to get inspiration of color scheme combos.

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Easy Youtube Video Downloader Firefox Addon

Easiest Youtube video downloader ever, single click non-intrusive direct download buttons for FLV, 3GP, MP3, MP4, 720p HD and 1080p Full-HD qualities. Add buttons to download YouTube videos in FLV, 3GP, MP3, MP4 and 720p HD and 1080p Full-HD qualities.

New Features :

  • Video-title as file-name.
  • HD download link visible only when high-definition version is available.
  • Supports all new 1080p FULL-HD video downloading (v 2.0)

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Prado : Component framework for PHP5

PRADO is a component-based and event-driven programming framework for developing Web applications in PHP 5. PRADO stands for PHP Rapid Application Development Object-oriented. The sole requirement to run PRADO-based applications is a Web server supporting PHP 5.1.0 or higher. PRADO is free. You can use it to develop either open source or commercial applications.

PRADO provides the following benefits for Web application developers:

  • Reusability – Codes following the PRADO component protocol are highly reusable. Everything in PRADO is a reusable component.
  • Easy of use – Creating and using components are extremely easy. Usually they simply involve configuring component properties.
  • Robustness – PRADO frees developers from writing boring, buggy code. They code in terms of objects, methods and properties, instead of URLs and query parameters. The latest PHP5 exception mechanism is exploited that enables line-precise error reporting.
  • Performance – PRADO uses a cache technique to ensure the performance of applications based on it. The performance is in fact comparable to those based on commonly used template engines.
  • Team integration – PRADO enables separation of content and presentation. Components, typically pages, have their content (logic) and presentation stored in different files.

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MyFontbook : A web-based font viewer

MyFontbook is a free and easy way to browse your font collection. Compare all of your installed fonts with an easy to use font viewer. Both list and swatch views help you quickly browse your font catalog. Organize your fontbook using tags. Tag fonts to describe a font style or tag fonts by project. You may rate fonts that you often use with the familiar star interface.

The font viewer allows you to easily review and catalog all of your installed fonts.

  • View and organize your fonts.
  • Rate and tag typefaces.
  • Save valuable time.
The gylphs view allows you to quickly scan characters and symbols. Looking for a specific dollar sign for a design? The font viewer makes it easy to find the right typeface. The font metrics view displays guides to show default kerning, text baseline, and median height.

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Mozilla Open Web Tools Directory for Developers

Open Web Tools Directory today offers a variety of tools that can aid web developers in their projects. You are however wrong if you are now expecting a boring menu that looks like any other web directory that you visited over the past years. The Open Web Tools Directory is different from most web directories as it places icons of the web tools that have already been added to it on the screen with a tiny header and footer area that provide filters and offer additional information.

The benefit of this solution is that it allows to place more tools on the screen without forcing the user to scroll or change pages. The page will only load in web browsers supporting canvas which includes Firefox, Opera or Google Chrome for example while Internet Explorer 8 (and likely all other Internet Explorer versions as well) throw an error and do not display the page.

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Photo505 : Fun Photo Editing

Photo505 offers high quality photo editing for free. See examples and comparisons to Deefunia, Photofunia, Jpgfun, Photomontager and more. With Photo505 you upload a picture and the picture can be retouched, modified using many effects and inserted into different settings where it looks to be part of the original image. Compared to most of the free image effect programs, Photo505 will allow images of up to 10 mg.

Each of those pictures has the same person’s face embedded into it. Photo505.com lets you upload an image and superimpose your face over the one that is actually in the photo. After selecting your template you will need a image to upload. Then select the orange browse button. By default Photo505 will make your finished image available to the world. If you shy, or perhaps you are using a photo of a friend, then UNCHECK the box to NOT make your image PUBLIC. If you are in doubt, then UNCHECK the box to be on the safe side of privacy.

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Ecoder : Open source web based code editor

Ecoder is a simple, web-based code editor, which includes a file browser, file uploader, and tabbed system to allow multiple files to be edited at the same time. using this web-application developers can edit code directly online, real-time syntax highlighting is handled by textarea and keyboard short-cuts lend it the feel of a locally installed application.

Ecoder works with most standards compliant browsers which have javascript enabled. internet explorer 6 is not supported. For up-to-date news, the lastest source code download and user feedback, please visit sourceforge.

The QL Studio crew have been busily working on a new web-application that will form a key part of the move towards a fully online system – this web-based code editor integrates into Web Editor allowing code templates to be built and modified directly on the server.

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Free FTP client software for Windows

Core FTP LE – free Windows software that includes the client FTP features you need. Features like SFTP (SSH), SSL, TLS, IDN, browser integration, site to site transfers, FTP transfer resume, drag and drop support, file viewing & editing, firewall support, custom commands, FTP URL parsing, command line transfers, filters, and much, much more.

This free, secure FTP client gives you a fast, easy, reliable way to update and maintain your website via FTP. It also provides a secure method (via SSL, TLS, or SFTP) to upload / download files to and from FTP servers. Check out the list of features and you’ll find almost every feature you need, all in a free ftp program. There are no popup ads, advertising or spyware and you’re never asked or reminded to register.

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Feederr : RSS Feed Autoupdating Signature Tool

Feederr Twitter RSS Feed Autoupdating Signature Tool. An rss2image rss feed web application which creates an image to display your latest blog post titles or twitter tweet. Whether it be for a signature, banner or whatever. The image will automatically update each time you publish a new blog post or twitter tweet. You can customize the image with your own choice of colours along with the size of the image itself.

To begin just enter your blog url or RSS feed url in the input field and then click the “Let’s do it” button. In general terms, you simply pick a blog post and you will have the chance to customize its title and turn it into an image. This can be used in several ways. For example, you can use it as a signature, or as a banner for gaining more adepts.

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Monday, February 1, 2010

Rsizr : Lets you intelligently resize your images

Rsizr is a Flash application that lets you resize JPG, PNG, and GIF images on your computer. With rsizr, in addition to normal image rescaling and cropping, you can also resize images using a new image resizing algorithm called seam carving (a method of image retargeting) that tries to keep intact areas in your image that are richer in detail.

When you first come to rsizr.com, you will see a large folder icon in the center of the window. Click on this icon and a file browser will pop up. Choose any JPG, PNG, or GIF image from your computer and open it. Due to restrictions in Flash, neither the image width or height can exceed 2880 pixels.

Seam carving
is a brilliant image resizing technique pioneered by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. For their rockstar YouTube video and paper, click here.

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Seadragon : Share your images in full detail

Seadragon is designed to inspire and enable new scenarios for viewing information online. It combines several new technologies to progressively retrieve large amounts of data using a fast, seamless, zoom based interface. Seadragon works with all types of content, from wall-sized displays to cell phones, regardless of the amount of data or the bandwidth of the network.

The usage is simple, you just type in the URL to the image and it will be converted for you. Next you can share the result on Delicious, Digg, Facebook or Twitter. Want to embed or just need the URL to the image, the embed code and URL is also given after completion of the conversion.

This is quite a simple solution that will allow a great quantity of people to place different procures on their sites so their visitors can take a look at them to see al their details. If you are a photographer or you just like to take Pictures and you are totally concerned about each single detail, this is an interesting solution you will be highly benefited at Seadragon.com

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

404Toons: Animated Talking Characters For Your 404 Redirect Page

404Toons lets you customize your 404 redirect page. They are hillarious and will definately keep your visitor engaged on your website. Dozens of characters and messages are available. Each 404Toon is professionally recorded, flash-based and easily inserted on your website. Make your website stand-out with these totally unique characters helping your users navigate safely back to your home page.

Among the characters you can use in order to replace the 404 you will find a referee, a cowboy, a mafia guy and a cop in addition to many others. The characters have different voices that can be heard while you see their movements. 404Toons are totally unique and effective at keeping your “lost” visitors on your website.

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PDFAmigo lets you create interactive PDF forms

PDFAmigo lets you create interactive, fillable PDF forms in your browser. Create sophisticated forms with text fields, check boxes, radio buttons, list boxes and combo boxes. Customize the look and feel of you forms with different fonts, colors and borders. Your forms can include: Text Fields, Check Boxes, Radio Buttons, List Boxes, Combo Boxes, Text Labels and Images.

You don’t have to sign in to get started, however you will need to if you want to save your work or upload images. If you don’t mind the huge watermark across your file, the pdf you create is free. Naturally, that might be a problem, so you can buy the file for $1.00 using Paypal and the watermark will be erased. This fee does not include future changes to the form, so each change you make to the form would be an additional $1. Also, the first page is $1, and additional pages are 50 cents.

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Yudu : Publish Digital Magazines and More Online for Free

YUDU works for the online desktop publishing of books, brochures, magazines, reports…in fact, almost anything you would normally print. On this online resource you will be allowed to read, publish, buy, sell and share a wide variety of interests with other fellow users. This is a good opportunity to enjoy the benefits of a free library of digital content where you will be able to find eBooks and magazines, as well as a wide variety of interesting documents.

Here at YUDU, You are not required to have your own web hosting or anything like that. You can just upload your pdf documents on your desktop or PC, and they will be published online absolutely FREE. You will be given a URL, where that document has been published. You can share that URL with your friends and let everyone access that document freely.

Yudu promises that any document you upload will be search engine optimized, making it show up in Google, and so on. There’s also a built in search tool, and a simple way to skip ahead to the page you’re looking for using a thumbnail viewer.

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Proprofs : Create FREE online polls

ProProfs comprehensive online polls maker allows you to create polls customized to your needs. ProProfs Polls are completely free. You can create online polls for your friends, students, website or customers. Customize your poll look and feel. Share your polls on your website, blog or social network. Analyze your poll results to find answers or just plain fun. ProProfs Polls are user-friendly. A vast array of tools and resources are available to accommodate both pollster and end-user.

Additionally you can search and browse polls created by other users, sort them by category, rate polls, leave comments and embed them on your webpages. Sign up to get started. The site also offers some really suitable analytics options. For instance,you can compare how your poll performed in relation to other polls that you deem as connected. You can also get a detailed timeline of votes and track polls’ popularity with easy-to-understand reports that will let you figure how to make them more engaging in the future.

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

SlickMap CSS – Simple Stylesheet for Displaying Sitemaps from HTML

SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It’s suitable for most web sites – accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links – and can easily be customized to meet your own individual needs, branding, or style preferences.

The general idea of SlickMap CSS is to streamline the web design process by automating the illustration of sitemaps while at the same time allowing for the predevelopment of functional HTML navigation.

Features and Benefits
  • Eliminates the need for additional software
  • Easily revised with clients on-the-fly
  • Clickable anchors with visible URLs
  • Design process results in working HTML code

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