I’m on vacation this week! So I’m tempted to give a cure for sunburn – but we have been good and I can tell you with confidence that we’re as pale as ever – but not in pain. I have talked about Google Analytics before but I have a renewed interest: http://www.google.com/analytics/ Google Analytics is … Continue reading
Category Archives: Web Developer Tools
Google Analytics
Someone was asking me about traffic statistics packages the other day and I had to suggest Google Analytics: http://www.google.com/analytics First Google Analytics is free, which is always nice. You just need to sign up through Google, add your web site profile by adding your web site address. Then Google will generate some code that you … Continue reading
Password Protect Go Daddy Sites
Today’s Byte is pretty specific – but it you have a web site hosted on Go Daddy and you want to create a password protected section – you’re in luck. (If that isn’t you – here’s something else to help while away the hours – http://www.websudoku.com a web site of Sodokus!) GO Daddy is a … Continue reading
pbwiki
It’s been a long week in Dublin so I’m going to cheat and tell you about a cool tool that I haven’t used – pbwiki: http://pbwiki.com A wiki is a web site that anyone can edit. Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) is probably the most popular example. If you visit the site you’ll see that you can edit … Continue reading
Royalty Free Music
Generally I’m not a big fan of music playing in the background of a web site. You just never know if the visitor might be sneaking a peek during a staff meeting or having a sleeping child nearby. But sometimes music can be fun. Recently I created a fun online holiday card for a resort … Continue reading
Setting Up an Online Shop
I had an email this week from someone who was considering an online shop. They wondered if they could do it themselves. So I wrote up two routes to take. I thought some of the Byte readers might be interested too. Open a Yahoo Store You don’t have to know html. You set up your … Continue reading
Squidoo
Squidoo (http://www.squidoo.com) is a web site that lets you build one-page web sites quickly and easily. The idea is that everyone is an expert on something – and Squidoo is the place to showcase that expertise. Squidoo will put ads on your page – but they will give you commission on the clicks on your … Continue reading
CSS Helper Tools
Today’s Byte is for folks who manage their own web sites. If you don’t build sites, here’s a web site that will help you build a gingerbread house with kids: http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/cafe/grahamcrackergingerb.html (Guess what we’re doing soon? This is from Zoom, and generally their stuff is super easy to do.) Back to web sites… CSS or … Continue reading
MyContactForm
I thought I had mentioned this tool before but apparently not. I love this new tool for building contact forms: MyContantForm http://www.mycontactform.com This is a free tool that will build a contact form that you can paste into your web site. So, what wouldn’t you just code a form? Well here are the things I … Continue reading
Drop Down Menus on Web Sites
Today’s Byte is for web developers. A couple of weeks ago I created a text-based drop down menu for a web site. Here it is: http://www.mn150years.org (If you mouse over the navigation you’ll see the menu drop down.) One nice thing about a text-based drop down menu is that it is easier for search engines … Continue reading
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