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Cool Tools Update for Webmasters. Darlene Fichter Data Library Coordinator University of Saskatchewan Frank Cervone Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology Northwestern University. Computers in Libraries 2006 Session B104 Tuesday, March 22, 2006. Lots of tools….
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Cool Tools Update for Webmasters Darlene Fichter Data Library Coordinator University of Saskatchewan Frank Cervone Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology Northwestern University Computers in Libraries 2006Session B104 Tuesday, March 22, 2006
Lots of tools… • Tools for you: Working smarter • Basic programming stuff • Firefox browser extensions • Site monitoring • Widgets • Productivity tools • Tools for your users: • Mashups and fun effects • Zoom in • Directions and maps
PHP Editor http://paginas.terra.com.br/informatica/php_editor/index_en.html
PHP Expert Debugger http://www.ankord.com/phpxdbg.html
Fabulous Firefox Extensions Web Developer 1.0.2 Colorful Tabs 1.1 Tab X 0.9.2 Html Validator 0.7.9 (based on Tidy) Screen grab! 0.7 Copy Plain Text 0.3.2 EditCSS 0.3.5 View formatted source 0.9.4.6 https://addons.mozilla.org
LiveHTTPHeaders PageInfoNew TAB Watch itlive http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org
EyeonSite http://www.virdi-software.com/eyeonsite/
Link Popularity Check www.CheckYourLinkPopularity.com
Widgets at Your Fingertips • Konfabulator (bought by Yahoo July 2005) • Personalized weather, maps, Flickr photos on your desktop Windows XP Mac OS X 10. http://widgets.yahoo.com/
eXactMapper Lite http://www.exacttrend.com/eXactMapperL/index.html
Web Based Organizers – Top 3 Zoho Plannerwww.zohoplanner.com Remember the Milkwww.rememberthemilk.com Backpackit ($)www.backpackit.com
Sticky Brain $ 39.95 http://www.chronosnet.com/Products/sb_product.html
Password Keepers • Roboform - ($) 29.95 • KeePass – open source • Agatra – web based
SuperGlu Several FeedsOne Page http://www.suprglu.com
MultiRSS • Add this link to your site • Visitors can add your feed to 39 newsreaders of their choice http://www.multirss.com
Wink http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
Powerbullet Presenter http://powerbullet.com/info.html
File Exchange Utilities • Dropload http://www.dropload.com • Drop off files and have someone else pick them up • Up to 100 MB • YouSendIt http://www.yousendit.com - Up to 1 GB • Send this file http://www.sendthisfile.com • No file size limit, 3 day pickup • MailBigFile http://www.mailbigfile.com • Up to 1 GB
NVu http://nvu.com/download.html
Zoom In Web Monkey’s Live Thumbnailshttp://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/06/08/index2a.html
Web Gallery Creator http://pranas.net/webgallerycreator/
BIMP Lite http://www.cerebralsynergy.com/download.php?view.52
Thumbshots – Liven Up Web Links Free version has thumbnails for dmoz sites only. http://www.thumbshots.org/
Altsoft XSL-FO Debugger • Visual debugging software for XSL stylesheets http://www.alt-soft.com/support_downloads.jsp
Meta Tag Expert http://www.dark-street.com/darkstreet/meta_tag_expert.php
Tag Clouds • ZoomCloud • http://www.zoomclouds.com/ • TagCloud • http://www.tagcloud.com Stats & Filters
Google SiteMap Builder http://www.sitemapbuilder.net/ http://www.sitemapbuilder.net
Map Web Visitors • gVisit • www.gvisit.com • ClustrMaps • clustrmaps.com
10 Minutes: Google Maps & Library Site • Sign up for Maps API key www.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html • Find the latitude and longitude of your library. • maps.google.com • Zoom in and center the map on your library • Double click on your library location • Choose “link this page” • Grab the lat/long from the URL • http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=saskatoon&ll=52.13707,-106.632271&spn=0.121587,0.31929 3. A. Clone a real world example B. Read the Google API documentation C. How to add a Google Map to any web page in less than 10 minutes http://tinyurl.com/gq2vd
Google Directions • Add directions to your site (without API) • http://tinyurl.com/cfmbb USA/Canada Convert long ugly URLS to short ones. www.tinyurl.com
Yahoo Pattern Library • “A pattern library describes an optimal solution to a common problem with a specific context." • Patterns include designing breadcrumbs, search results , tabbed navigation, product ratings, … • Check the context - how similar is it to your own? http://developer.yahoo.net/ypatterns/
Antispam Encoder http://www.natata.com/antispam_encoder.htm
Thank you! • Darlene Fichter Data Library Coordinator University of Saskatchewan darlene.fichter@usask.ca • Frank Cervone Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology Northwestern University f-cervone@northwestern.edu