Free online form generator

Wufoo allows you to create 3 free online forms for surveys, contact forms, online payment, and anything else you can imagine.

For free you get:

3 Forms
3 Reports
10 Fields
100 Entries / Month

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jQuery for beginners

I have been avoiding mentioning jQuery but I don’t think it makes sense to ignore it anymore. It’s so popular and useful that to ommit it from this blog would be a foolish ommission.

You will no doubt have come across jQuery by now, and you’ve certainly seen sites that use it whether you know it or not. If you are feeling intimidated by it or simply want to learn about it, nettuts.com has a great introduction to it including 15 resources to help you get a grip on it from scratch,

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Flash Elements

This site offers downloadable flash elements (loaders, calendars, video players, etc) They also sell Video, Fonts and Audio files

I should note that this is a rare post linking to a non-free resource, but they are quite affordable.

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CSS for beginners

Here’s a bonus post for today. In case you are new to CSS or jumped in at the deep end and would like to learn why you do things the way you do CSS Juice has a nice introduction to CSS for beginners

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Free textures

Grunge textures offers a few hundred grungy images from wood to peeling paint there’s some very useful stuff here.

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Texture king offers many free textures in various categories
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A large collection of free textures, also sorted by theme.

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Keyword and Backlink tracker

This free (registration and Google API required) webtool allows you to track keyword and backlinks. Enter as many as you’d like and get a graphical display of your rankings.

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Bitmap to vector

If you haven’t already heard of vectormagic you are missing out on a great graphics tool. This online application does a great job of converting bitmaps to vector graphics.

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Web page load time

Here’s an online webtool that checks the load time of your website. You can enter multiple sites or pages at once.

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Is your website ready for mobile users?

This online tool will check your web page or site for mobile readiness according to guidelines laid out by the W3C in the MobileOK Basic Tests 1.0

A large number of factors are considered and you receive a very comprehensive report including how much it will cost to view your web page.

Some of the aspects checked (from website)

• MIME types
• Character encoding
• Pop up windows
• Alt texts
• Image maps
• Specify image sizes
• Measures
• Page title
• Use of stylesheets
• Stylesheets dependency
• Objects or scripts
• Auto refresh
• Redirection
• Default input mode
• Provide defaults
• Page size limit
• Large graphics
• Tables
• Nested tables
• Tables for layout
• Access keys
• Caching
• External resources
• Structure
• Image Resizing
• Google sitemap
• Form submit buttons

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