Archive for the ‘Web Tools’ Category

10+ New Beta Sites

Sunday, October 19th, 2008 |

Updated: 19 October 2008

We see new beta sites all the time, but are they any good? Here are some collection of new beta sites. Some of them provide free and useful web services.

1. http://www.sliderocket.com/
http://www.sliderocket.com/
SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.

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Popularity: 32% [?]

How to Prevent Spam Bots From Collecting Email Addresses

Monday, June 23rd, 2008 |

As I mentioned before in How to Include Subject, CC, BCC, and Email Body in Email Links, you are creating a risk to get spam if you simply placing email addresses on a page without encoding them.

Some websites using “[at]” to replace “@” and email will look as “name [at] domain.com”. This is a good idea for personal websites since nobody challenge you. In commercial, many clients wouldn’t allow you to use “name [at] domain.com” this format. They are not web designer and they don’t understand how spam prevention works, or even care for that matter.

I have this method originally from david walsh blog. Its author have a quick PHP script that you can use when putting raw email addresses on a page:

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Popularity: 20% [?]

How to Permanent Redirect a Web Page

Sunday, May 4th, 2008 |

Sometimes we’ve just redesigned some pages of our web site. The pages have high search engine rankings that we don’t want to lose. How can we safely redirect web site traffic from our old pages to the new pages without losing our rankings?

We should set up a permanent redirect (technically called a “301 redirect”) between these sites. Once we do that, we will get full search engine credit for our work on these sites.

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Popularity: 27% [?]

20 Sites to Create Tag Cloud

Thursday, March 13th, 2008 |

A compilation of tools, sites and code snippets to create tag cloud:

  • ZoomClouds: create a tag cloud using any RSS feed. Using a small snippet code embed the cloud on any web page (e.g. TechCrunch tag cloud). It has its API using which you can have better control over the cloud you create and also build powerful mashups.
  • Tagline Generator: a simple PHP codebase that lets you generate chronological tag clouds from simple text data sources (e.g: US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud)
  • TagCrowd: web-based tag cloud generator. Manually enter text or upload a text file to create a tag cloud.
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Popularity: 23% [?]

10+ Useful Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 |

Nowadays web 2.0 is popular and have become a trend on the web. Here is the list of online generator particularly for web 2.0 design.

Ajaxload – Ajax loading gif generator

Ajaxload

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Popularity: 54% [?]

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This is a site to share my knowledge, discovery and experience related to my hobby and work. Most articles on this site are related to web design, web development, graphic design, short reviews, tips and tricks. I sometimes write some about Microsoft Office Application too.

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