Archive for May, 2008

Create a page-flipping brochure

Flash Page Flip Free

This free dynamic Flash page-flipping software has a surprising amount of features including live streaming video inserts. You navigate your brochure by clicking in the bottom left or right to browse the pages or drag the edges like you would a magazine to watch the page turn to the next or previous pages.

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Banned from Google?

If your site is not showing up in any Google searches there’s a chance you may have been banned from Google. One way to get banned by Google is to link to “bad neighbours’ (sites that Google doesn’t like or has already banned) You can check your links automatically for bad neighbours using this free online tool: Bad Neighbour text link checker
bad neighbourhood link checker[4]

bad neighbour links[5]

If you want to learn more about what will get you banned by Google here

Here’s a web tool to check if you’re banned:

Google banned checker
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Test your website design for contrast

check website color contrast This tool will convert your site to gray in order to check it’s perceived contrast.  A great way to see what ‘pops’ on your site design-wise.

A good tool to check which elements stand out on your website.

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Create a Favicon from an image

Fav Icon Genrator

If you want to create an icon that will be used as a favicon when people bookmark your site (the one that shows up next to the url in the browser bar) Favicon may be your tool. Upload an image, and optionally, add scrolling text and animation.

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Generate a corner ribbon

Ribbon generator custom If you’d like one of those excitement building ribbons for the corner of your website look no further than this great web tool. Choose the text, the font, font size, ribbon style, the 3 colours that make up the ribbon generator and finally, the link that clicking on the ribbon links to and you are given the javascript code to place on your site.

Ribbon generator
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Hoverbox image gallery script

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Nathan Smith has kindly offered a free download of his Hoverbox Image Gallery script. Move your mouse over a thumbnail and a larger version pops up.
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Online form generator

 webform maker[4]

If you want your website visitors to be able to send you feedback, signup for membership you might need to create a web form but don’t know how to, you can use this free online form generator. Enter your email address (this is where the results will be sent), then enter all the field names (or select one from the suggestion dropdown) field type and whether you want the data validated or not and this tool spits out the code to display your form on your website. You can generate a form in ASP, PHP or PERL.
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Web designer cheat sheet cheat sheets

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The ultimate list of cheat sheets for web designers. I don’t know how they became known as ‘Cheat sheets’ as they are really just mini reference lists. Whatever you call them, they are very useful.

This tremendous resource at foxinni.com contains links to cheat sheets, including (from the site):

  • $ command line ruby cheat sheets
  • .NET Cheat Sheets
  • 100 Essential Resources for Web Developers
  • 250+ Tools and Resources for Coding the Web
  • A Web Developer’s Cheat Sheet List
  • Action Script Cheat Sheet
  • Adobe Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Advanced CSS/XHTML Explained
  • Agile Work Resources
  • Ajax Cheat Sheets
  • Apache Cheat Sheets
  • Apollo Cheat Sheets
  • Best Programming Cheat Sheets
  • Blogging Cheatsheets for Blogger, TypePad, WordPress and Movable Type
  • Bravenet Quick References
  • Blog Cheat Sheets
  • Cheat Sheet Roundup
  • Cheat Sheets & Assorter Others
  • Cheat Sheets and Sites for Cascading Style Sheets
  • Cheat Sheets for CSS and HTML
  • Cheat Sheets for PHP, AJAX, JavaScript, CSS, MySQL, Perl, Google
  • CheatSheet Ultra Collection
  • Cheat Sheets for Geeks
  • Cool CSS Cheat Sheets on the Web
  • CSS Cheat Sheets
  • CSS References
  • Developer (and other) Cheat Sheets
  • DevGuru Quick References
  • Dotnet Cheat Sheets
  • Firefox Cheat SheetsGreat Cheat Sheets
  • Handy Cheat Sheets
  • HTML Cheat Sheets
  • HTML, CSS, PHP, and More Cheat Sheets
  • IT Cheat Sheets For All
  • IT Cheat Sheets
  • Google Cheat Sheets
  • Java Cheat Sheets
  • Javascript Cheat Sheets
  • JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and More Cheat Sheets
  • jQuery Cheat Sheets “Post”
  • Lifehacker Cheat Sheets
  • Microsoft AJAX Library Cheat Sheets
  • My Personal Collection of Cheat Sheets
  • Progenic.com Cheat Sheets
  • Programmer Downloads, Tools, Resources, and 100 Cheat Sheets
  • Programming Reference Sheets
  • Python Cheat Sheets
  • Quick Reference Cards
  • Quick Reference Cards, Cheatsheets & Cribsheets
  • Randompage Cheat Sheets
  • Ruby Cheat Sheets
  • Ruby on Rails Handbook
  • Our Favorite Cheat Sheets
  • Over 30 Cheatsheets for Developers
  • Perl Cheat Sheets
  • PHP Cheat Sheets
  • Search Engine Cheat Sheets
  • Selected Microsoft and Code Cheat Sheets
  • Spider Diagram for WordPress Development
  • Symfony Cheat Sheets
  • Stuff You Can Download
  • MySQL Reference Sites
  • Technacular Quick Reference Guides
  • The 50 Most Popular Web Design Blog Posts, Resources & Cheat Sheets of 2007
  • The Big Cheat Sheet List
  • The Developer Cheat Sheet Compilation
  • The vast majority of the great cheat sheet lists out there attempt to cover just about everything, so you can go big with this collection.
  • Top 119 Cheat Sheets
  • Top 8 CSS Cheat Sheets
  • Ultimate Web Development Cheat Sheet Guide
  • VBScript Cheat Sheets
  • Web Technology Cheat Sheets
  • WhatIs.com’s Favorite IT Cheat Sheets
  • WordPress Cheatsheets Summarized
  • WPCandy WordPress Cheat Sheet
  • Yahoo! User Interface Library Cheatsheets
  • ZVON Cheatsheets

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Open websites, Images and more in a blocker immune pop-up

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Great 22kb script that allows you to open a new browser window inside a window, or images or, well, much more. The site includes links to tutorials on how to open Flash or other video windows on your web page. This script claims to be immune to pop up blockers.  Don’t forget why people hate pop-ups, use it sparingly. VERY sparingly and only when appropriate.

There is a very concise 2 step installation tutorial, followed by a link to comprehensive documentation should you need it.

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