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CIL2006, Day 1: Cool Tools Update for Webmasters

by davidleeking on March 22, 2006

This talk by Frank Cervone and Darlene Fichter is always good (translation: I always learn about new tools!). Here’s basically a list of most of the tools they mentioned, with a brief description of some of them. So go check them out!

PHP Editor - paginas.terra.com.br… professional-grade PHP editor

PHP Expert Debugger - run and debug php code

Firefox extensions:
- colorful tabs 1.1
- web developer 1.0.2
- editcss
- html validator
- screen grab!
- Copy plain text
- view formatted source
addons.mozilla.com

livehttpheaders

eyeonsite - client on local machine - monitor another server, sends email

link popularity check - checkyourlinkpopularity.com

widgets - konfabulator, flickr photos, personalized weather

a to-do-list widget!

widgets.yahoo.com

eXactMapper Lite - sitemaps - free, generates a sitemap.

web based organizers - zoho planner, remember the milk, backpackit

sticky brain

chronosnet.com… “and now I’ll drag this to my sticky brain” $40, for mac users

password keepers: roboform (COSTS), keepass (open source), agatra (web based)

superglu - several feeds, one page - superglu.com

MultiRSS - fancy RSS chicklet that supports 39 different feed readers

Wink - creates flash animation for simple things, like reference instruction sessions…

Powerbullet Presenter - a little more powerful version of wink - free!!!

file exchange utilities - dropload, yousendit, sendthisfile, mailbigfile - mail large files

Nvu - free open source web editor (wow - lots of comments on this product)

zoom in - zooms in and out of photos

web gallery creator - creates a web gallery - automatically creates the HTML

Thumbshots - liven up your web links - thumbnails of URLs…

altsoft xsl-fo debugger - debugs xsl stylesheets

meta tag expert - creates meta tags for web pages - will do dublin core or more traditional tags

zoomcloud, tagcloud - tag clouds… zoomcloud provides stats

google sitemap builder - it helps google index your site better. sitemapbuilder.net - a good google sitemap creator

map web visitors: gVisit, ClustrMaps - maps out web visitors

Google Maps and Library Site…

tinyurl.com/gg2vd - how to add a google map to any web pages in less thatn 10 minutes

Or - add directions - google directions. tinyurl.com/cfmbb - add directions to your site without api

yahoo pattern library - patterns - they published their soutions to common web design problems. Hmm… they include things like breadcrumbs, search results, tabbed navigation, product ratings, etc. - they have tons of data that says “this worked best for Yahoo” - it will probably work well for others!

antispam encoder

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