Archive for April, 2008

Find a good url

deleted 2If you think all the good domain names are gone you might be forgetting that those domains eventually expire when forgotten. DeletedDomains.com shows you newly expired (and available) domains.you can sort them by length and even see which ones wil be expiring tomorrow.

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Test your website in over 50 browsers

There’s nothing worse than working hard on a website only to find out months later that people using X browser on X operating system have never really been able to see it as you intended.

Browsershots.org has a great utility that will show you what your website page looks like in over 50 different browser versions on Linux, PC and Mac.

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It even allows you to choose screen size, color depth, javascript and Flash versions if you’d like,

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Social Scan

A quick overview of how many social bookmarking sites are indexing or linking to your site. I have noticed thatr even sites that don’t have any stories seem to get a score of 20 on blinklist. This might be due to the fact that if the site is not in it’s index, it suggests similar sites.
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Color scheme generator

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Enter an RGB value. (e.g. 211,21,52) or a HEX value (e.g. FFEEEE) hit "Submit" and ColorToy 2.0 will then generate your complementary color scheme.for your website.

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Check your website’s load time

pingtest 1 This webtool will ping your site and check it’s load time. The report is nicely laid out with easy to read speed charts.

From the site:

The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser.

The load time of all objects is shown visually with time bars.

You can view the list of objects either in load order or as a hierarchy. The hierarchy view allows you to see which objects are linked to in for example a CSS file.

Every test also shows general statistics about the loaded page such as the total number of objects, total load time, and size including all objects.

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How to schedule your blog posts for the future

blogger Soon this post will be obsolete as blogger ads this functionality but for now, if you want to write a post and have it appear in the future you can log into draft blogger (http://draft.blogger.com/) and when you set the date of your post to the future it will appear as “scheduled” and will (most of the time) magically appear on your blog on that day at the time specified.

This doesn’t work with Live Writer and Blogger yet.

wordpress You can already do this now in WordPress blogs simply by modifying the timestamp to a future date and time.

This is a really handy tip if you are going to be away on vacation but don’t want your blog to go ‘stale’.

Update, May 5th 2008: Blogger has now implemented this feature in the standard Blogger intrface, you no longer have to use the ‘draft’ feature. but keep it in mind if you want to use future upcomming blogger tools.

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Browse without clicking

dontclickit

Dontclick.it is an experiment in how we navigate websites. Browse this site without clicking and you will be surprised at how little you miss it. It works on this site, but I can’t quite imagine it on a link heavy site, but that’s why you create tests and experiments like this. It’s a very valiant effort and worth looking at even if just to refresh your mind

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Touchgraph

View your website as a series of interconnected nodes on a graph. Enter your URL and using Google’s database this application draws a map of your site and related sites.

 

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You can also enter words or phrases and see which sites are most relevant to that keyword and how they connect to other related sites.

 

As well as the graph you get a list of all the sites. This is what showed up for the term "online auction"

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From the site:

"The TouchGraph Google Browser reveals the network of connectivity between websites, as reported by Google’s database of related sites."

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CSS Sandbox

CSS Sandbox

This online tool allows you to click on about 80 different CSS properties and watch the effects change live in the window above. If you like what you see you can copy the CSS code at the bottom right.
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