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

darlene.fichter@usask.ca

Frank CervoneAssistant University Librarian for Information Technology

Northwestern University

f-cervone@northwestern.edu