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Cool Tools Update for Webmasters
Darlene FichterData Library CoordinatorUniversity of Saskatchewan
Frank CervoneAssistant University Librarian for Information TechnologyNorthwestern University
Computers in Libraries 2006Session B104
Tuesday, March 22, 2006
Lots of tools… Tools for you: Working smarter
Basic programming stuff Firefox browser extensions Site monitoring Widgets Productivity tools
Tools for your users: Mashups and fun effects Zoom in Directions and maps
PHP Editor
http://paginas.terra.com.br/informatica/php_editor/index_en.html
PHP Expert Debugger
http://www.ankord.com/phpxdbg.html
Fabulous Firefox Extensions
Web Developer 1.0.2
Colorful Tabs 1.1
Tab X 0.9.2
Html Validator 0.7.9
(based on Tidy)
Screen grab! 0.7
Copy Plain Text 0.3.2
EditCSS 0.3.5
View formatted source 0.9.4.6
https://addons.mozilla.org
LiveHTTPHeaders
PageInfo
New TAB
Watch itlive
http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org
EyeonSite
http://www.virdi-software.com/eyeonsite/
Link Popularity Check
www.CheckYourLinkPopularity.com
Widgets at Your Fingertips Konfabulator (bought
by Yahoo July 2005) Personalized
weather, maps, Flickr photos on your desktop
Windows XP
Mac OS X 10.
http://widgets.yahoo.com/
eXactMapper Lite
http://www.exacttrend.com/eXactMapperL/index.html
Web Based Organizers – Top 3Zoho Plannerwww.zohoplanner.com
Remember the Milkwww.rememberthemilk.com
Backpackit ($)www.backpackit.com
Sticky Brain
http://www.chronosnet.com/Products/sb_product.html
$ 39.95
Password Keepers Roboform - ($) 29.95 KeePass – open source Agatra – web based
SuperGlu
Several Feeds
One Page
http://www.suprglu.com
MultiRSS Add this link to your site Visitors can add your feed
to 39 newsreaders of their choice
http://www.multirss.com
Wink
http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
Powerbullet Presenter
http://powerbullet.com/info.html
File Exchange Utilities Dropload http://www.dropload.com
Drop off files and have someone else pick them up Up to 100 MB
YouSendIt http://www.yousendit.com- Up to 1 GB
Send this file http://www.sendthisfile.com No file size limit, 3 day pickup
MailBigFile http://www.mailbigfile.com Up to 1 GB
NVu
http://nvu.com/download.html
Zoom In
Web Monkey’s Live Thumbnailshttp://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/06/08/index2a.html
Web Gallery Creator
http://pranas.net/webgallerycreator/
BIMP Lite
http://www.cerebralsynergy.com/download.php?view.52
Thumbshots – Liven Up Web Links
http://www.thumbshots.org/
Free version has thumbnails for dmoz sites only.
Altsoft XSL-FO Debugger
Visual debugging software for XSL stylesheets
http://www.alt-soft.com/support_downloads.jsp
Meta Tag Expert
http://www.dark-street.com/darkstreet/meta_tag_expert.php
Tag Clouds ZoomCloud
http://www.zoomclouds.com/ TagCloud
http://www.tagcloud.com
Stats & Filters
Google SiteMap Builder
http://www.sitemapbuilder.net/http://www.sitemapbuilder.net
Map Web Visitors gVisit
www.gvisit.com ClustrMaps
clustrmaps.com
1. Sign up for Maps API keywww.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html
2. Find the latitude and longitude of your library. maps.google.com Zoom in and center the map on your library Double click on your library location Choose “link this page” Grab the lat/long from the URL http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=saskatoon&
ll=52.13707,-106.632271&spn=0.121587,0.31929
3. A. Clone a real world example B. Read the Google API documentation C. How to add a Google Map to any web page in less
than 10 minutes http://tinyurl.com/gq2vd
10 Minutes: Google Maps & Library Site
Google Directions Add directions to your
site (without API) http://tinyurl.com/cfmbb
USA/Canada Convert long ugly URLS to short ones.
www.tinyurl.com
Yahoo Pattern Library “A pattern library describes an
optimal solution to a common problem with a specific context."
Patterns include designing breadcrumbs, search results , tabbed navigation, product ratings, …
Check the context - how similar is it to your own?
http://developer.yahoo.net/ypatterns/
Antispam Encoder
http://www.natata.com/antispam_encoder.htm
Thank you! Darlene Fichter
Data Library Coordinator
University of Saskatchewan
Frank CervoneAssistant University Librarian for Information Technology
Northwestern University