By Woody | December 31, 2008
Another gem from Gath Adams here - We Got Domain will show you domains for sale on forums like Digital Point, great to pick up some established domain bargains.
I am hoping he is scraping these and not adding by hand as its currently at 10k domains
This is an epically helpful tool for webdesigners, I have seen a fair few versions of it requiring sign ups but this one is the slickest and is free!
To see an example : http://browsershots.org/http://woodylabs.com/
Or stick your own url in : http://browsershots.org
I originally found this gem on Gath Adams blog so props to him!
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By Woody | December 27, 2008
Using non common font’s in html is achievable in lots of ways - but often messing about with cross browser compatabilities pushes people into creating solid graphics, using flash or video for simplicity. A lot of fots are on most peoples boxes…actually:
Common Fonts - with percentages
Blogosphere posts on Websafe Custom fonts in HTML
Web-safe fonts?
Creating a [...]
Also posted in Flash, Web Design |
Wordpress is a superior blogging platform, mainly because it democratises the tools of personal/business/communicative online publication/communication.
One of its winning factors is the ability to easily write/add custom plugins. I wouldn’t recommend all of the following plugins but a fair few are essentials.
21 Wordpress Plugins / 9 SEO Plugins for Wordpress
No doubt you have heard of Wordpress, the HUGE free blogging platform. This in fact runs on it. If your upscaling wordpress mu is a great way of running multiple blogs on one box without the hassle of maintaining with updates across multiple blogs.
Further to that WPMU is a great place to find plugins specifically [...]
By Woody | October 29, 2008
componentart.com Have some very nice components if your looking for out of the box AJAX UI / Charting
Great for a paid version of Open source flash charts
Also posted in AJAX, Java Script |
Often running your HTML through the HTML Purifier is a good idea, for those seeking out of the box html purification in a nice easy to work with download.
Its a brewing AJAX requirement in modern web dev - Moveable, dockable, widgetised web pages. Google may not love it but the idea is good for the end user. Page Flakes is the ultimate example of this widgetised page segmented idea.
Also posted in Google, Web Design |
By Woody | October 18, 2008
I’ve dabbled with a few of these in my time but often still opt for procedural programming rather than the behemoth that oop can become. Still its nice to know some php frameworks