Cool Tools Update for Webmasters
Mar 23rd, 2006 by Karen
Presented by Darlene Fichter & Frank Cervone
PHP Editor -
PHP Expert Debugger - http://www.ankord.com/phpxdbg.html
Fabulous Firefox extensions - https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/
- Web Developer 1.02
- Colorful Tabs 1.1
- Tab X 0.9.1
- HTML Validator 0.7.9
- Screen grab! 0.7
- Copy Plain Text 0.3.2
- Edit CSS 0.3.1
- View Formatted source 0.9.4.6
- LiveHTTPHeaders
EyeonSite (can monitor what is going on on a given server) - http://www.virdi-software.com/eyeonsite
Link Popularity Check - http://www.CheckYourLinkPopularity.com
Widgets at Your Fingertips - http://widget.yahoo.com
eXactMapper Lite - http://www.exacttrend.com/eXactMapperL/index.html
Web Based Organizers
- Zoho Planner - http://www.zohoplanner.com
- Remember the Milk - http://www.rememberthemilk.com
- Backpackit ($) - http://www.backpackit.com
- Tada - http://www.tadalist.com/
Sticky Brain ($) - http://www.chronosnet.com/Products/sub_product.html
Password Keepers
- Roboform - USB version available
- KeePass
- Agatra
SuperGlu - http://www.suprglu.com
MultiRSS - http://www.multirss.com
Wink (create simple tutorials in flash) - http://www.debugmode.com/wink
Powerbullet Presenter - http://powerbullet.com/info.html
File Exchange Utilities
- Dropload - http://www.dropload.com
- YouSendIt - http://www.yousendit.com
- Send this file - http://www.sendthisfile.com
- MailBigFile - http://www.mailbigfile.com
Nvu - http://www.nvu.com/download.html
Zoom In -
Web Gallery Creator - http://pranas.net/webgallerycreator
BIMP Lite - http://www.webattack.com/get/bimp.gif.html
Altsoft XSL-FO Debugger (visual debugger for XSL stylesheets)
Meta Tag Expert
Tag Clouds
- ZoomCloud - http://www.zoomclouds.com
- TagCloud - http://www.tagcloud.com
Google SiteMap Builder - http://www.sitemapbuilder.net
Map Web Visitors
- gVisit - http://www.gvisit.com
- ClustrMaps - http://www.clustrmaps.com
10 Minutes: Google Maps & Library Site
- Sign up for Maps API key
- Find the latititude and longitude of your library
- maps.google.com
- Zoon in and center the maps of your library
- Double click on your library location
- Choose link this page
- Grab the lat/long from URL
Add direction to your site (without API)
Yahoo Pattern Library (a pattern library describes an optimal solution to a common problem with a specific context [breadcrumbs, search results, tabbed navigation})- http://developer.yahoo.net/patterns/
AntiSpam Encoder -
Shiny! You do realize that now I will get absolutely no work done.
Great post! I wish I was at CIL2006. Hello from sunny or SUNY central New York!
Feeling uncool…
Walt Crawford said it: it feels like all the cool kids are at Computers in Libraries (well, some of the cool kids are at PLA, but that’s not my scene, man). Even Flickr knows that “cil2006″ is hot–no kidding, check……
Many thanks for posting the links. In case some one wants the Power Point version to remix to show at their own library, it’s linked at http://library.usask.ca/~fichter/
[...] In a follow up to a previous “cool tools” post, here’s another resource for finding great little tools: Library Web Chic’s Cool Tools Update for Webmasters. Included in the list are link popularity checkers, password keepers and php editors. Worth bookmarking. [...]
Hi, good list of tools you have there. I realized that you have two web sites for tag clouds. I wanted to provide a third one called http://www.tocloud.com/ which converts a webpage into a keyword cloud and is combined with Google Suggest as a mashup. So, a webmaster can generate a keyword cloud for his website, and then click on each word to see what Google things are the popular searches for each of those keywords!