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Web Development
Design
http:/ / www.alistapart.com/ articles/ cssdropshadows/
A technique to build flexible CSS drop shadows that can be applied to arbitrary block elements. It can expand as the content of the block changes shape. Compatible with most modern browsers with better results for standards-compliant browsers.
http:/ / www.colorschemer.com/ online.html
The Color Schemer online is a fast and easy way to get a fresh new palette of related colors for your web site. Choose a color you like and Color Schemer will provide a grid of 16 related colors (with their RGB and HTML hex values), with the option to lighten or darken the scheme. Neat and useful, especially for weblog-template tinkerers in need of new hues.
http:/ / www.colorcombos.com/
ColorCombos.com is a handy site for web designers to test how different color combinations work together on a web page. The Combo Tester lets you view how combinations look onscreen with big colored sections. (Remember, paint samples can look a lot different on your walls.) Also, the Combo Library is several pages of suggested 3 and 4 color combinations, a great resource for the color-uninspired.
http:/ / www.webwhirlers.com/ colors/
On this site, I try to explain a bit about how colours work and how they can be used on the web. Some of the things I write are well-accepted facts, while others are just my personal opinions. Color meaning and psychology, combining colors, color wizard, and lots of other helpful color info.
http:/ / css-discuss.incutio.com/
This wiki serves as a collective long-term memory for the CssDiscussList mailing list participants. Includes great information concerning how to use CSS to lay out pages.
http:/ / www.dafont.com/ en/
Here you can download fonts to use in your documents, create titles or logos. You can browse and preview the fonts with your own text straight from the site before download.
http:/ / www.evolt.org/
Evolt.org is a world community for web developers, promoting the mutual free exchange of ideas, skills and experiences.
http:/ / www.dynamicdrive.com/ favicon/
Use this online tool to easily create a favicon (favorites icon) for your site. A favicon is a small, 16x16 image that is shown inside the browser's location bar and bookmark menu when your site is called up. It is a good way to brand your site and increase it's prominence in your visitor's bookmark menu.
http:/ / www.danvine.com/ icapture/
iCapture is provided as a public service to the 97% of the computing world without macs. You'll be delivered a screenshot of your site as a Mac sees it through the Safari or IE version of your choice, all in 30 seconds or so. (Assuming the queue is empty) (I don't own a Mac so it's interesting to see how this new experimental browser is rendering HTML.)
http:/ / danvine.com/ iecapture/
ieCapture delivers a screenshot of your site as the IE version of your choice, all in 30 seconds or so. (Assuming the queue is empty)
http:/ / labs.thumbshots.com/ stylefilters/ default.pxf
Microsoft Internet Explorer has a rich set of filters that can be applied to images and text. Below are examples of cool image manipulation effects on thumbshots. (Opacity, Rotation, X-Ray, Grayscale, Color Invert, Blur, Shadow, Emboss, Engrave, Glow, Motion Blur and Wave)
http:/ / kmeleon.org/
K-Meleon is a lite Web browser based on gecko (the mozilla rendering engine). It's fast, it has a light interface, and it is fully standards-compliant. To make it simple, K-Meleon could be considered as the unbloated Mozilla version for Windows.
http:/ / www.oswd.org/
Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!
http:/ / www.thumbshots.org/
Thumbshots are thumbnail screenshots of web pages that allow you to visualize web sites or preview links before clicking. Thumbshots take away the guessing and unwanted surprises from surfing the Internet. Locate relevant information faster and easier. The end result is less frustration and increased productivity. Our goal is to provide a What You See Is What You Get visual experience to everyone, everytime and everywhere.
http:/ / www.microsoft.com/ typography/ web/ fonts/ default.htm?fname=%20&fsize=
This section includes information that will help you pick fonts that will probably be installed on your readers computers. The following pages display Microsoft's TrueType core fonts for the Web as graphical screen captures and as live text specified using Cascading Style Sheets. To view the CSS samples the fonts need to be installed on your computer
http:/ / usability.gov/ guidelines/
This site is designed to provide over 50 of the top Web design and usability guidelines based on emerging research and supporting information in the field.
http:/ / www.visibone.com/ colorlab/
These color references help you make the most informed choices when designing web sites, whether you're using the web-safe color palette or not. All 216 standard colors are grouped in the color wheel symmetrically by hue. Touching color chips have the same hue. Hexadecimal HTML and decimal RGB color codes are shown to the right.
http:/ / jigsaw.w3.org/ css-validator/
The W3C CSS Validation Service is a free service that checks Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in (X)HTML documents or standalone for conformance to W3C recommendations.
http:/ / www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
This was one of the first books I ever read on web design and was very beneficial. "The purpose of this web site is to help people design effective and aesthetically pleasing web pages. My methodology is somewhat different. I believe that if someone is exposed to bad web page design they'll be less likely to use these techniques in the pages they create."
http:/ / www.webscale.com/ cgi-bin/ timer.dll?Mode=Timer
Webpage performance is one of the most critical aspects of any website - if it takes too long to load, visitors may loose interest and go elsewhere. With ISP proxy servers and browsers which utilize image caching, download time can easily be misleading since you visit the page frequently. By utilizing Site Timer, you can see exactly how your webpage performs, and just how long it will take for a first-time user to get to the goods.
http:/ / developer.msntv.com/ TOOLS/ webtvvwr.asp
The WebTV Viewer is a free program for your PC or Macintosh that enables you browse the Web in much the same way as a WebTV user. The WebTV Viewer reproduces layout changes caused by the way WebTV displays your pages, such as narrowing of graphics and tables to the WebTV screen width of 544 pixels. However, the WebTV Viewer doesn’t reproduce the blurring effect of a TV screen, or its treatment of color. Use the WebTV Viewer to check your Web site for layout problems and to preview your Web pages under development.
http:/ / www.microsoft.com/ typography/ web/ embedding/ default.htm?fname=%20&fsize=
This section includes information that will help you pick fonts that will probably be installed on your readers computers. The following pages display Microsoft's TrueType core fonts for the Web as graphical screen captures and as live text specified using Cascading Style Sheets. To view the CSS samples the fonts need to be installed on your computer
http:/ / www.myfonts.com/ WhatTheFont/
Ever wanted to find a font just like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ad campaigns? Well now you can, using our WhatTheFont font recognition system. Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in our database.
Flash
http:/ / www.flashkit.com/ index.shtml
Flash Kit started late October in 1999. We wanted to create a resource site that as flash developers, we would find useful. It's a one stop raw materials centre for flash creations.
http:/ / www.mikeindustries.com/ sifr/
sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash.
http:/ / www.airtightinteractive.com/ simpleviewer/
SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewing application. Using SimpleViewer on your website does not require programming or a database. To create a SimpleViewer gallery, you first create an XML document (listing the image names), then create image thumbnails.
http:/ / www.slideshowpro.net/
Whether you have one album or a hundred, SlideShowPro can handle thousands of images and neatly organizes all your content in one place. SlideShowPro fits into your existing layout or site design. Large, small, tall or wide - you decide what looks best.
http:/ / www.quiss.org/ swftools/
SWF Tools is a collection of SWF manipulation and generation utilities. Includes: WAV2SWF, AVI2SWF, PDF2SWF and more. SWFTools has been reported to work on Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, HP-UX, MacOS X and Windows 98/ME/2000/XP.
http:/ / www.erain.com/ products/ Swift3D/
Swift 3D was created specifically for Macromedia Flash designers, graphic artists and other designers that spend the majority of their time in the 2D world. It provides a toolset and interface that allows anyone to quickly learn the basics of 3D modeling and animation while providing plenty of room to grow into a full set of advanced 3D tools. But it's Swift 3D's remarkable vector and raster rendering capabilities that have made it the tool of choice for beginners and experts alike.
http:/ / www.wimpyplayer.com/
With Wimpy MP3 and AV, visitors won't have to click and guess. There's no need to futz with an external program like Quicktime, Windows Media or Real. Wimpy is based on the Macromedia Flash plugin, which is "standard issue" on nearly every computer -- so visitors won't have to do anything special to listen and/or watch your media.
http:/ / www.debugmode.com/ wink/
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating Flash tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. Similar applications sell for hundreds of dollars, while Wink is free with unrivaled features.
http:/ / www.demicron.com/ wirefusion/
The world's most powerful professional web3D solution, offering the ultimate in professional tools required for creating eye-catching interactive product presentations, animations and virtual worlds for the web. No browser Plug-in needed to view presentations. Supports 3D Models Specified in VRML Format. Supports Macromedia® Flash (SWF) Animations. Supports MPEG Video and MP3 Audio. Java language support for advanced scripting. JavaScript support for external communication.
http:/ / www.maani.us/ xml_charts/
XML/SWF Charts is a simple, yet powerful tool to create attractive web charts and graphs from dynamic XML data. Create an XML source to describe a chart, then pass it to this tool's flash file to generate the chart. ALso check out XML/SWF Slideshow and XML/SWF Guage.
http:/ / www.zoomify.com/ ez/
Zoomifyer EZ makes using high-resolution images in your Web pages easy to do and fast to view! Show the world your photos, maps, scans - whatever - with no need to down-res, on any Web server, all right in Flash.
Javascript
http:/ / www.activewidgets.com/ grid/
Show your data - with ease, speed and comfort. With the ActiveWidgets Grid you can display your data tables in a browser using familiar set of features and visual style of the traditional "desktop" software. You will avoid problems related to Java applets or ActiveX objects because ActiveWidgets Grid is made entirely in JavaScript!
http:/ / www.bodytag.org/
Code is free to use for commercial and non-commercial purposes. The projects appearing here are 'proof of concept' pieces only.
http:/ / www.dynarch.com/ projects/ calendar/
This is the most popular DHTML Calendar. It can work as a popup calendar or a flat calendar (flat means it's always displayed in page). It works with Mozilla, Netscape >= 6.0, all other Gecko-based browsers, Internet Explorer >= 5.0 for Windows, Opera 7, Safari and Konqueror.
http:/ / www.walterzorn.com/ dragdrop/ dragdrop_e.htm
A Cross-browser JavaScript DHTML Library which adds Drag Drop functionality to layers and to any desired image, even those integrated into the text Drag & Drop Image flow. The idea behind wz_dragdrop.js was not merely to drag around some layers or images on a page in IE only, but also to be a cross-browser clientside API for interactive webpages and webbased applications.
http:/ / www.scbr.com/ docs/ products/ dhtmlxToolbar/
dhtmlxToolbar is a completely customizable JavaScript toolbar . It allows to create an attractive vertical or horizontal DHTML Toolbar within minutes. dhtmlxToolbar can load its content from XML so it can be easily changed without reloading. Has cross-browser/multiplatform compatibility, powerful client-side API and customizable icons (with javascript or xml). dhtmlxToolbar supports several buttons types(image, image with text, select)
http:/ / www.scbr.com/ docs/ products/ dhtmlxTree/
dhtmlxTree (DHTML extensions Tree) lets you show hierachically structured data in an easy and most comfortable way - in any browser! Having such features, as dynamical loading of items from a XML stream allows it to handle large amounts of data. Drag-and-drop makes it possible to drag items not just within one tree, but between different trees. ColdFusion tag available.
http:/ / www.formassembly.com/
The Form Assembly is a two part project: the wForms extension and the Form Builder. It is cross-browser compatible, and does not require any knowledge of javascript to be used.
http:/ / dasme.org/ imagegal/
Imagegal is a simple PHP script that will automagically create a JS/CSS/DHTML powered image gallery for you when dropped into a directory containing images.
http:/ / www.quirksmode.org/ js/ support.html
Certain features of JavaScript do not work in certain browsers. If you want to use an advanced bit of script, you first have to check whether a browser supports the objects you want to use. You should never EVER use a browser detect.
http:/ / www.milonic.com/
The Most Functional, Cross Browser, DHTML Web Site Navigation Menu. With Sample Pages, Demos And JavaScript DHTML Scripts, DHTML help and Dynamic HTML Source Code. Works on all Browsers Including Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Netscape Communicator, Mozilla, Konquerer and Opera. The Menu uses Cascading Style Sheets, Divs, Layers, HTML, DHTML and JavaScript.
http:/ / www.udm4.com/
UDM is a fully-featured and accessible website menu, that provides useable content to all browsers - including screenreaders, search-engines and text-only browsers. But accessibility shouldn't mean compromise, and so UDM has a sophisticated range of design and usability controls, many of which are unique to this menu script.
Search Engine Optimization
http:/ / www.thinkbling.com/ prcheck/
This tool is an easy online way to check one or more site's Google PageRank and Alex Rank. Simply place 1 URL on each line and select the Check Page Rank button. There is currently a 50 site limit per check.
http:/ / goodkeywords.com/
Good Keywords is a free Windows software for finding the perfect set of keywords for your web pages... and the latest version 1.3 of Good keywords helps you measure your success by comparing your traffic with that of your competitors! The integrated Site Popularity Meter allows you to measure your site popularity and then compare it with that of your competitor. (There are no advertisements, nag screens of registrations. It will not make any unauthorized connections from your system.)
http:/ / google.com/ adsense/
Google AdSense is for web publishers who want to make more revenue from advertising on their site while maintaining editorial quality. AdSense delivers text-based Google AdWords ads that are relevant to what your readers see on your pages - and Google pays you. This also allows you to tweak your page content until you see that the ads are relevant to your website.<br><br>
http:/ / www.google.com/ alerts
Google Web Alerts are sent by email when there is new information on the web matching the search you specify. Some handy uses of Google Web Alerts include: keeping current on a competitor or industry; monitoring references to your name or company; finding out when people link to your site; discovering new websites on a certain topic.
http:/ / www.google.com/ press/ zeitgeist.html
With a bit of analysis, this flurry of searches often exposes interesting trends, patterns, and surprises. On a monthly, weekly, and sometimes daily basis, this Google Zeitgeist page will be updated to reflect lists, graphs, and other tidbits of information related to Google user search behavior.
http:/ / www.google.com/ googleblog/
Insight into the news, technology, and culture of Google. Get the latest word direct from the Googleplex about new technology, hot issues, and the wide world of search.
http:/ / www.icra.org/ label/ generator/
As a web author, we invite you to use our system to label your online content. The system is designed to be as objective as possible: ICRA makes no value judgements at all about any website. Users, principally parents of young children, then apply their own judgement in deciding which sites should and should not be available in their homes or workplaces. This is done by means of filtering software that can read and interpret the labels found.
http:/ / www.marketleap.com/ publinkpop/
Link popularity check is one of the best ways to quantifiably and independently measure your website's online awareness and overall visibility. Simply put, link popularity refers to the total number of links or "votes" that a search engine has found for your website.
http:/ / www.google.com/ googleblog/ 2005/ 01/ preventing-comment-spam.html
If you're a blogger (or a blog reader), you're painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites' search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like "Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site." This is called comment spam, we don't like it either, and we've been testing a new tag that blocks it. From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn't a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it's just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.
http:/ / www.marketleap.com/ verify/
An online verification tool that checks to see if your website is in the top three pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword. It's important to be in the top 3 pages of a search result because most people using search engines don't go past the 3rd page.
http:/ / www.marketleap.com/ siteindex/
Search Engine Saturation simply refers to the number of pages a given search engine has in its index for your website domain. Not all search engines report this information but enough of them do to create some meaningful benchmarks for your search engine marketing campaigns.
http:/ / clsc.net/ research/ google-302-page-hijack.htm
An explanation of the page hijack exploit using 302 server redirects. This exploit allows any webmaster to have his own "virtual pages" rank for terms that pages belonging to another webmaster used to rank for. Succesfully employed, this technique will allow the offending webmaster ("the hijacker") to displace the pages of the "target" in the Search Engine Results Pages ("SERPS"), and hence (a) cause search engine traffic to the target website to vanish, and/or (b) further redirect traffic to any other page of choice.
http:/ / www.archive.org/
The Internet Archive, working with Alexa Internet, has created the Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine makes it possible to surf pages stored in the Internet Archive's web archive. The Wayback Machine was unveiled on October 24th at Berkeley's Bancroft Library.
http:/ / www.wrensoft.com/ zoom/
Zoom is the easiest way to add a powerful custom search engine to your website, intranet, or CD/DVD. Features multi-threaded spider downloading, optimized memory usage, built-in FTP uploading, a step-by-step wizard, options to sort results by date, provide users with spelling suggestions, automate indexing with the built-in scheduler, Flash and FlashPaper indexing support.
Software
http:/ / www.httrack.com/
HTTrack is a free (open source) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide website from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting html, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.
http:/ / www.macromedia.com/ software/ homesite/
HomeSite 5.5 provides a lean, code-only editor for web development. Advanced coding features enable you to instantly create and modify HTML, CFML, JSP, and XHTML tags, while enhanced productivity tools allow you to validate, reuse, navigate, and format code more easily. Configure Macromedia HomeSite to fit your needs by extending its functionality and customizing the interface.
http:/ / www.nvu.com/
A free Web Authoring System to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver that makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML using a WYSIWYG editor.
http:/ / www.mrunix.net/ webalizer/
The Webalizer is a fast, free web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser.
http:/ / www.aw-soft.com/ webexe.html
WebExe enables you to convert a single HTML page, or group of pages, into one single, self-running EXE file with an integrated browser. You can set the size of the output browser window and have full control over the appearance of menu bars, restrict functionality such as printing and copying, and so much more. The output file is created using one named start page, and from there, all embedded graphics, sounds and linked pages, are compiled into one single file. This way, a complete web site is worked through by WebExe, and all files are collected and compressed using the ZIP algorithm.
http:/ / home.snafu.de/ tilman/ xenulink.html
Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) is a spidering software that checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.
WYSIWYG
http:/ / www.cfdev.com/ activedit/
ActivEdit is a Browser Based WYSIWYG editor for web-based Content Management developers. It's an ActiveX DHTML editing component that embeds into a HTML form, almost exactly the way a textarea does. Generates rich dynamic HTML content on-the-fly. Version 3.0 of ActivEdit includes a Java Applet that allows WYSIWYG editing on multiple platforms. (Server Requirement: ColdFusion, ASP, PHP, JSP, and ASP.NET)
http:/ / www.ektron.com/ ewebeditpro.aspx
Ektron eWebEditPro, the leading WYSIWYG XHTML/HTML editor, has been integrated into the content management systems of thousands of companies around the world. This easy-to-use browser-based content editor lets you and your contributors easily create and publish Web content, while your Webmaster maintains control over the site's look and feel. (Server Requirement: ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, JSP, Perl, PHP, Blueworld Lasso, Eprise Participant Server, Interwoven TeamSite, Vignette StoryServer, Spectra, IBM WebSphere, Lotus Domino, Open Market CS/CC/AppServer)
http:/ / farcry.daemon.com.au/
FarCry is an open source Content Management System (CMS), originally developed by Daemon to run on ColdFusion MX (supports MSSQL, Oracle and MySQL). It's free, fully functional, and runs in a host of Enterprise environments today.
http:/ / www.fckeditor.net/
This HTML text editor brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of known desktop editors like Word. It's really lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation in the client computer. (Server Requirement: none)
http:/ / www.htmlarea.com/
htmlArea is a WYSIWYG editor replacement for any <textarea> field. Instead of teaching your software users how to code basic HTML to format their content. Works with any server-side software because it's just HTML. Whether you're using ColdFusion, Perl, Java, ASP, PHP, or something we've never even heard of, htmlArea can deliver HTML content. (Server Requirement: none)
http:/ / www.siteobjects.com/ pages/ soeditor.cfm
soEditor turns an ordinary <textarea> form field into a dynamic What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) browser-based HTML editor. Both the Pro and Lite versions of soEditor add comprehensive word processor-like features to your web sites and web applications. soEditor makes it possible for anyone to create, edit and maintain web content without the need for HTML knowledge or programming expertise. soEditor is supported on ColdFusion, .Net and ASP platforms. (Server Requirement: ColdFusion, .Net or ASP)
http:/ / www.yusasp.com/ prj04.asp
Advanced Content Editor is an independent client-side code that is easy to integrate into any system. It is not an integral part of any specific content management system. You can use it for your own custom web application & attach the editor as many as you wish in a web/html page (as a Textarea replacement). Once you purchase a license you may customize, embed and distribute the source code within your application, royalty free. You may use it for any purposes, both personal or commercial. (Server Requirement: ASP, IIS)
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