by Stephen on March 26, 2009
I have to admit to being quite a messy coder, especially when it comes to CSS files. I can understand exactly what is going on in my stylesheets, but I would be quite embarrassed to show them to anybody else.
Now there is an online solution which will clean up messy code and present it back [...]
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CSS,
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by Stephen on February 27, 2009
Title Tweaks is the name of a new Gmail Labs release which allows you to monitor the amount of unread emails within your Gmail account without having to have the tab open.
When Title Tweaks is disabled the browser tab will say “Google Mail – Inbox (7) – emailaddress@gmail.com“. This is showing you the website name, [...]
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email,
Google Gmail,
labs,
timesaver,
Web Tools
by Stephen on February 10, 2009
When designing a new website or developing a theme for a blog, it is very important to test how it looks in multiple browsers. This is especially so for older versions of Internet Explorer, which are known to cause coders a multitude of problems.
There are a few major players in the browser market – Internet [...]
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compatibility,
CSS,
display,
Firefox,
flock,
Internet browsers,
internet explorer,
opera,
safari,
testing,
Web Design,
Web Tools
by Stephen on December 19, 2008
There is absolutely no question about it, if you are running, developing or writing for a website or blog, the only browser you should be using is Firefox.
The reason for this is very simple – there is a massive community of programmers and developers writing addons which make it much more than a browser. It [...]
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Firefox,
Firefox Browser,
Internet browsers,
timesaver,
Tools,
Web Tools
by Stephen on December 18, 2008
StumbleUpon! is one of my favourite websites.
It works by people voting and recommending websites they “stumble upon” by clicking on an icon on the StumbleUpon! toolbar. Newly Stumbled pages (rather than sites) will be given high priority and will be frequently delivered to StumbleUpon! users over a fairly short period of time.
To gauge the likability [...]
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Advice,
information,
StumbleUpon!,
Tools,
Web Tools
by Stephen on December 18, 2008
It seems like everyone loves a list. Everywhere you go there are top tens for this and top twenties for that.
We were going to compile our own list of great WordPress plugins, but we have decided to compile a list of great WordPress plugin lists.
Here are 10 popular WordPress plugin lists:
21 of the Best WordPress [...]
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Tools,
Web Tools,
WordPress,
WordPress Plugins
by Stephen on December 16, 2008
Tnerd has just put me onto the AutoPager Firefox plugin which downloads the next page of a website inline with the previous page. This means you can just keep scrolling down the page without having to click on the “next” button to get to the next page of the website.
So far I have tried it [...]
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browser add ons,
Firefox,
firefox plugins,
timesaver,
Web Tools
by Stephen on December 16, 2008
The CrunchBase Widget is a handy little tool to use on web pages containing articles or information about companies, people, financial organisations or products. The widgets can be used in singular fashion as in the examples below.
CrunchBase Company Widget
CrunchBase Information
Google
Information provided by CrunchBase
CrunchBase Person Widget
CrunchBase Information
Matt Mullenweg
Information provided by CrunchBase
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facts,
information,
Web Tools,
widgets
by Stephen on November 19, 2008
ReelSEO is a website focused on providing valuable tips, information and other resources for video search optimization and online video marketing. The content comes from news reports, tips, conference coverage, commentary and other resources and is updated on a daily basis.
If you are serious about your online presence you cannot afford to ignore the power [...]
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Video,
video content,
video streaming,
Web Tools
by Stephen on October 22, 2008
Following on from a previous post about focusing on a specific task, I would like to mention an automated system provided by Google which I find almost as useful as RSS feeds. It’s called Google Alerts.
You will need to have a Google account to use the Alerts system. Once you have that you can login [...]
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Google,
Google Alerts,
Search,
Tools,
Web Tools
by Stephen on October 9, 2008
SiteUptime offer a service which tracks the availability of a website and sends an email when a website is down, which will happen to you from time to time, no matter how much uptime your web host boasts about.
There are three levels of service available, the base package is free and allows you to monitor [...]
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downtime,
monitor,
Web Tools,
webmaster,
website uptime
by Stephen on October 9, 2008
In a recent post at ProBlogger it was suggested that bloggers track which phrases are entered into a blogs internal search engine in order to find out just what people are looking for. The thought process being that content could then be tailored toward the search phrases. This, of course, is an excellent idea. The [...]
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analysis,
Google tools,
internal search,
search engine,
search results,
site search,
Web Tools