Category Archives: Web Development

Established Domain’s for sale on Webmaster Forums

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

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Browser compatibility - Screenshots from different Browsers

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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Websafe Custom fonts in HTML

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
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Essential Wordpress Plugins

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

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Google Insights - Rising Trends in UK

If you are looking for a more long term view of search queiries than trends/twitter then Insights is worth a look:
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#geo=GB&date=today%2012-m&cmpt=geo

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Wordpress mu plugins and theme packs

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 [...]

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AJAX Charts

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

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Purify your HTML - Strait Laced HTML Filtering

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.

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Widgetised Page Parts - Page Flakes

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.

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PHP Frameworks

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

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