Cool tools and mashups for webmasters
Frank Cervone
Darlene Fichter
*font tester-see how fonts are going to look online
*meta tag expert- utility that allows you to have a standard data entry form to create Dublin core. at the end you end up with code you can cut and paster into web pages
*URL investigator-link check site and lets you see data about site. Check out someone’s URL
*link popularity check- lets you put in a URL and lets you see how it rates against other sites. Compare hits between sites
*eXactmapper lite- keeping site map up to date. Lets you create a number of views of sitemap for your site.
*google site map builder-much more effective google view of your site. upload file to website. overview visually of how these things workout
*wink – allows you to create flash applications lets you create tutorial sort of products
*powerbullet presenter- allows you to create a stand alone exe file
*PHP editor- good for a number of programming languages
*PHP expert debugger-can set it up in 2 different way 1. locally or 2. on server.
Mashups in a nutshell
new breed of web applications. using info from more than one data source. information comes from 3rd parties . mix it up with your local data.
APIs/web services
step 1 get idea
step 2 sign up for developer token
step 3 read the fine print
Step 4 create your 1st mashup
-learn from others. copy how other people do things.
-online tutorials
-point and click sites
-developer toolkits
-program it
*IDEA* create google map for branch libraries.-pictures+info
point and click mashups
digital life aggregators. – suite of tools that let you bring different things together in one place. pulling in all those RSS feeds into one place.
mashups for anyone. – communitywalk.com –show a route–
make different kinds of tours. (one example- a book that has different landmarks etc..)
Frappr – blogging librarians
a map of different communities
other google map builders
yourgmap.com
mapbuilder.net (google or yahoo users)
googlemapbuilder (not free)
Book ideas
-lots of options
reviews, book covers,
-book carousel–
click through popular new fictions by book cover
yahoo user interface library (goldmine)
FLICKR toys –
-captioner! (add captions to photos)
-colr pickr search flickr for photos of a certain color
web gallery creator
tool that allows you to go through directories on your computer and create web pages with all the photos in there. creates thumbnails as well.
-BMP lite – takes photos and compresses them in batch. uses a couple of different formats
-Gliffy- quickly drawing and sharing docs on the web.
-community toolbar from conduit. use wizard to create toolbar (previously known as effective Brands)
-Firefox extensions:
1.duplicate tab-new page
2. tab x-any tab you can close
3. tabs export
4. snapper*:create snapshot
5.Browster- preview a site before you go there.
6.google notebook
7. measureit:measure dimensions of image
8.linkification:converts text links into genuine clickable links
Zotero- research , note taking,
-DFincBackup: backup program to local hard drive or network automatically.
-CCleaner: cleans up crap in windows
gets rid of uneccesary system files, registry entries. *makes things run faster
-a-squared HiJackFree: manage the autoruns on your system (similar to msconfig?) helps you find out what processes are running, what their properties are etc…
-Retrievr:sketch or upload photo to see what photos match.
