Open an info window on a website

Multiple downloadable pieces of code to open a variety of information windows on a web page.
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Table and Column website designs

If you are looking for inspiration for your column style website Webdesignerwall.com has a great round-up of about 30 or so styles.

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How to create a custom 404 page

If your server doesn’t have one of those custom 404 (the error when a page is missing) error page option in the control panel, add this line to your .htaccess file

ErrorDocument 404 /error.html

Just make sure you actually create a page called error.html!

Colour blender

Pick two colours from a palette and choose how many midpoints you’d like and the color blender webtool will generate a range of colors as well as their values (RGB, Hex or RGB%).

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CSS Resources

Here’s a massive list of CSS resources for beginners to experts.

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Another free web survey maker

Surveyware.com (currently) allows you to create as many polls as you want, hosted right on your site, wherever you choose.

Some features (from their website):

• Geolocation services to enable automatic location of survey takers
• Advanced reporting capabilities - export to all major print formats plus XML
• Drill downs, trend analysis, segmentation of data down to the individual respondent
• Restrict repeat respondents by I.P. address and other methods
• Scheduled reports - have results delivered to multiple recipients on custom schedules

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Yet Another free web survey maker

If you are happy with only 250 survey responses per month, SurveyGizmo is free for you.

You have a lot of control over the look of the survey to make it match your website design.

Some of the features (from the website) :

• Easy to design
• brand your survey
• email link
• Embed surveys
• Google Analytics tracking
• Filtered results
• Charts
• Graphs

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Great WordPress Themes

Smashingmagazine.com has compiled a fantastic list of 100 very useable WordPress themes sorted by category (Magazine Style, Plain, minimalist, etc)
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Collect manage and cite sources Blogtool

This very useful FREE Firefox extension is a great tool for bloggers. It enables you to keep track of all your web sources and citations.

Features (From the site)

• Automatic capture of citation information from web pages
• Storage of PDFs, files, images, links, and whole web pages
• Flexible notetaking with autosave
• Fast, as-you-type search through your materials
• Playlist-like library organization, including saved searches (smart collections) and tags
• Platform for new forms of digital research that can be extended with other web tools and services
• Runs right in your web browser
• Formatted citation export (style list to grow rapidly)
• Free and open source
• Integration with Microsoft Word and OpenOffice
• Saves records and notes in any language
• Integration with WordPress and other blogging software

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How to accept credit cards on your site

If your site is an e-commerce site or you plan to sell goods or services, this site compares about 15 different online payment processors that allow you to accept credit cards on your site so that you can find the credit card processor that best meets your needs.

The comparison charts compare the following

• Setup fees
• Monthly fees
• Discount rate (Percent of sale they keep)
• Transaction fees
• Do they accept Intangibles (digital downloads for example)
• Do they allow payment for Ebay?
• Do they accept adult sites?
• Do they accept online checks?
• Can you sell subscriptions?
• Can you accept phone payments?
• Minimum payment release (How much you have to earn before they pay you)
• Which foreign currencies can you accept?
• How do they pay you? (transfer, check, etc)
• Setup time (How soon do you need to be up and running?)

The site also goes over some of the basics of accepting credit cards. There is also a chart covering which site accepts which particular cards.
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