Versionista

Web monitor

Versionista monitors web sites and alerts you by email of any changes. It also displays the changes visually on the page.
Here's one mention from the news:

Rachel Maddow

Versionista.com


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Blog Using Word

Easy Editor

Taylor Gibb explains how to set it up.

 Blog with Word


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How Google Works

Backstage

Here's what's going on behind the scenes.

• Googlebot, a web crawler that finds and fetches web pages.
• The indexer that sorts every word on every page and stores the resulting index of words in a huge database.
• The query processor, which compares your search query to the index and recommends the documents that it considers most relevant.

GoogleGuide.com


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Flight Status

Where da plane?

An easy way to find out whether Aunt Mable's plane is on time is to type the airline name and number into Google (or Bing).




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Search Google

Top 10

Tip #1 Fine-Tune Your Query with More Keywords
Tip #2 Search for Either One Word or Another
Tip #3 Include Stop Words
Tip #4 Exclude Irrelevant Words
Tip #5 Search for Similar Words
Tip #6 Search for Similar Pages
Tip #7 Search for exact Phrase
Tip #8 Use Google's Advanced Search Page
Tip #9 Search within Your Search Results
Tip #10 Search Google's Other Sites

Informit.com


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Is it Christmas Yet?

Ideas to consider

All right, when this was posted, November was just put to bed. Still if you are going to do something for the holidays, you might want to start now.

37signals.com has a good selection of suggestions, tutorials, and links the will help you decorate your site. Elves are extra.

37signals is here to help. In these pages you'll find dozens of ideas for improving the holiday customer experience at your site. Each idea is accompanied by examples taken from top retail sites (we've visited hundreds of sites over the past two holiday seasons seeking smart techniques).

Is your Site Ready?


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Head Blog

How to

Some instructions about how to make a header for a Blog or web page.
It talks about Photoshop, but other editors can do the same thing.

PaulStamatiou.com


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Ticker Tracker

Free Code

Create your own tracker graphic. It updates automatically.



TickerFactory


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Better Text

How we read

BookofJoe discusses a better way to read text on a computer screen.
A Better Way


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Hosting Info

Who dat provider?

Find out which provider a site is using.
Find out which internet providers are most reliable.
Find out which operating system is being used by which provider.
Find out . . .

Netcraft.com


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Google Searches II

Tips

Here's a link to a PDF file that shows how to maximize Google searches.

Parameters Cheat Sheet


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Fast Interchange

7 day URL

Go to http://cl1p.net and then:

Enter a URL that starts with http://cl1p.net.
example:http://cl1p.net/assuming/

Paste in anything you want.
Some text, links, etc. Click 'Save' when done.

On any other computer open a browser to the same URL.
You will find the information you entered in step 2.


Do more with CL1P.net. Just open any URL that starts with http://cl1p.net and you can...

• Create a notebook
  
• Have a conversation
  
• Create a community

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Character Codes

HTML and ALT+

Here's another table with the codes needed to insert characters that do not appear on the keyboard:

Keyboard Shortcuts


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CSS Coding

Put by the keyboard

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple way to define styles (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) on Web pages.
Of course there is coding involved. Here is a printable cheat sheet you can keep close at hand.

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Scroll Text

Automated GIF

WigFilp.com


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No Home in IE

Blanked out

You can open Internet Explorer to a blank page.

Sometimes your normal home page may be too busy, or slow to load when you just want to pop out to a different location.

This trick will give you a blank slate to paste in a new URL.

1. Create a new Desktop shortcut
   (Right click an empty spot on the desktop and choose New>Shortcut)
   
   
2. Copy the following, and paste it as the target for the shortcut:
   
   
   

   "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" nohome

   
   
3. Name the shortcut something like Blank IE

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What's the Expression

FrontPage, we knew you well

Microsoft has retired FrontPage in favor of an application called Expression Web Designer.

It is part of four programs that will make up the Expression suite.

Channel9.MSDN.com has a series of videos on the quartet.

Here's the one on FrontPage/ Expression
Expression - Part Four: Web

Also:
Expression - Part One: The Overview

Expression - Part Two: Design

Expression - Part Three: Blend


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Color News

A multidiscipline subject

Here is a study about how color effects a reader's choice of concentration.

It was intended for newspaper publishers, but the same knowledge can be used in Web design, PowerPoint, or any other reporting application. Word and Excel will also benefit.

Color, Contrast, and Dimension in News Design

Color Project

The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists.
Poynter.org


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Cheap Certification

Bargain deal

Becoming certified can be expensive and time consuming.
Here's a way to be certified as an HTML Developer, or ASP Developer.

• Study and train for your certificates at no cost
  
• Study and train for your certificates when it is convenient
  
• Study and train for your certificates from your own computer
  
• Complete your studies in a few weeks
  
• Take your exams over the Internet

W3 Schools

Even if you don't take the test, the tutorials are free!


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Plan for Your Site

Outline then do

Always a good idea. Pre-plan and then do. Too often projects are started without a plan and too often plans are made and not carried through.

"When creating a website there are several different tools and methods available, but it is important to plan the steps. This guide will help outline the important steps required for website creation and promotion. Information in this document should help readers avoid many pitfalls and save time throughout the process."

1. Inception and Planning
   
   
2. Design
   
   
3. Construction
   
   
4. Promotion

CompTechDoc.org:
Website Creation Tutorial


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Update Excel on the Web

Auto Republish

You can save an Excel file as a Web page and makes it easy to update data in a worksheet that has already been saved to the Web.

Here is how to save an Excel file as a Web page and set it up it for automatic updates:

1. Click Save As Web page from the File menu. (click the Office logo in 2007+)
   
   
2. In the Save As dialog box, click the Publish button. (click Publish, Create Document Workspace in 2007+)
   
   
3. Use the drop down arrow beside Choose to select what you want to publish.
   
   
4. In the File name field, enter a file name.
   
   
5. Place a check beside Auto Republish every time this worksheet is saved. This way the data will be updated each time you make changes to the worksheet.
   
   
6. Select Open published page in Web browser to view the data in your Web browser after you click Publish.
   
   
7. Click Publish.

Lockergnome.com:
 Save Excel as Web Page

DevX.com:
 Four Ways to Use Excel on the Web

Penn State:
 Interactive Excel on the Web


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Unicode is Huge

More symbols and letters

This free download lets you see and select more characters in the Unicode set. The Unicode Character Grid shows all assigned characters and private use characters in Unicode 6+.



BablePad

Here's a blog covering Scripts, Unicode, Character Encoding and BabelStone Stuff
BableStone Blog


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Who dat

And Where

Let's say you wanted to set up a web site for your friend Bob, who lives in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Would you know that the root zone code was .ba and that the contact person has an office at:

Universtiy Telinformatic Centre (UTIC)
Zmaja od Bosne 8 (objekat 33)
Sarajevo 71000
Bosnia-Hercegovina

See:
International Assigned Numbers Association:
Root-Zone Whois Information

There is also a page that defines such top level domains as .COM and .NET.
Generic Top-Level Domains

BTW.
Sorry feline fanatics,

"The .cat domain is reserved for the Catalan linguistic and cultural community and is sponsored by Fundació puntCat"

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Relative Font Sizes

What size are your relatives?

Relative font sizes make websites more accessible and easier to read - but they're not much help unless the person using the site can find a way to actually change text size.

Here's a simple solution for text resizing:

Power To The People: Relative Font Sizes
Article by Bojan Mihelac

Original link from Lockergnome


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HTML Tutorials

How to HTML

Expression Web/FrontPage can quickly create good looking web sites. If you want more versatility and the ability to edit the underlying HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language ), look at these sites:

HTML Code Tutorial (NCSA )

And others:

FrontPage Solutions


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Animated GIFs

For use on the Web or PowerPoint

• Harry the cat.com
  
  3,000+ Royalty Free Copyrighted Animated Gifs for non-commercial use
  
  
• Fg-a.com
  
  Free Gifs & Animations, also editors, guestbook's, etc.
  
  
• Gifs.net
  
  1,500 FREE Animated Gifs and many other items (gifs, jpgs, letters, buttons, backgrounds, etc.)
  
  
• Web Developer.com
  
  There are more than 300 of them from which to choose.

 

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Test Your Web Site

How does your site score?

Here are a collection of tools that can be used to analyze your web site for validity.

Sorry, it doesn't check for source information reliability.

Readability Test

The readability test analyses a Web page to determine how readable it is.

CSS Analyzer

The CSS analyzer tests for basic accessibility errors such as color contrast and units of measurement.

Luminosity Contrast Ratio Analyzer (Beta)

Tests whether foreground and background colour combinations are sufficient using a new algorithm developed by Trace R&D Center.

Color Contrast Analyzer

The color contrast analyzer tests whether the contrast between the background and the foreground is sufficient.

Image Analyzer

The image analyzer tests Web pages to ensure that images have been specified properly.

Link Analyzer

The link analyzer lists all links on a page with an icon to indicate whether or not the link resolved successfully.

Juicystudio.com:
Quality Assurance


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Automated Newsletter

ASP and HTML

Pre-RSS, the predominate method of communication for members of a like minded group was through an emailed newsletter.

Word actually works fine with mail merge to email, but if you want to combine the data gathering and the distribution in a neat package, take a look at this tutorial.

Step 1 : Create a simple HTML Form where users can insert their email addresses and an ASP page which will receive the Form email address from the HTML page and insert it into the database.

Step 2 : Create a simple Access database to store user's email addresses.

Step 3 : A simple admin ASP page from where you can send email messages to all the users whose email addresses are present in the database.

Step 4 : An ASP page from where the users can delete their email addresses from the database if they later choose to.

Scripts20.com:
An ASP Tutorial to create your own News Letter


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Access-Excel-XML-HTML

Transfer data

XML makes data transferable between applications.
Here is a tutorial with downloadable files.

Some simple guidance of how to transfer data from Excel or Access into HTML web pages using XML data files. VBA programs can be used to export data tables from Excel or Access into simple XML files. There are several examples of using different methods to display the XML and XSL files on web pages in order to quickly share your data with others.

An introduction to Excel and XML data files

 Also:
Some nice photos and calendar layout:
Monthly calendar with photos


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CSS, PHP, and all that jazz

Collections of suggestions

Under the belief that more information leads to more understanding, here is a site that may help you round the corners of web design and function. Besides CSS templates there are PHP code nibblets.

In 2003 artypapers was created by R. Marie Cox as a springboard for ideas and a working space of technical implementation -- a place to test and build an extendable collection of core classes (alliteration!) that acts as an application framework for a diverse set of projects and applications.

artypapers.com

Also:
Links and Discussion About the Best CSS Resources Available on the Web.
CSS Help Pile


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30 Days Hath

One Day at a Time

Here's how to add a calendar to your web page.


Publishing Outlook Calendars on the Internet or an Intranet
(From THE definitive Outlook/Exchange site - Slipstick.com.)

Other methods:

Htmlgoodies.com
It's actually just a simple table with a couple of additions. (free)

HTMLCal
HTMLCAL is a Web calendar maker and editor that lets you maintain a group calendar for your Web site or intranet.
This software will let you maintain live calendars on your site that anyone can view or update from any Web browser. ($25)

Htmlcalendar.com
HTML Calendar Maker Pro was designed with ease of use in mind. Now you can type your events quickly and easily and they will be transformed into a customized and professional monthly calendar within seconds. Simply follow the on-screen tutorial to create your calendar and then place the finished web page on your site. It's perfect for planning for the weeks ahead or noting past historic events. ($26.50 +)

All about Calendars by:

Claus Tøndering


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Scripts you can use

DHTML, Javascripts, PHP

Dynamic Drive provides original DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web site.

There is an extensive collection as evidenced by this TOC.

• Calendars
  
  
• Date & Time
  
  
• Document Effects
  
  
• Dynamic Content
  
  
• Form Effects
  
  
• Games
  
  
• Image Effects
  
  
• Links & Tooltips
  
  
• Menus & Navigation
  
  
• Mouse and Cursor
  
  
• Scrollers
  
  
• Text Animations
  
  
• User/System Preference
  
  
• Window and Frames

From

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Preview Resolution

Browser View

To see what your web page will look like in other browsers, go to File>Preview in Browser.




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Unicode and other Characters

Why's A 65?

Underlying the intriguing prose spread across the monitor screen are numbers and more numbers.

Joel Spolsky, a New York software developer has written a combination history/tutorial about this numeric-literary liason.

He calls it:

"The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)"

Unicode and Character sets


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Clocks - Time Flies Like an Arrow

Fruit Flies Like a Banana

• Human Clock
• Official US time

Here's a collection of clock sites.
There are also links to code to add a clock to your web site.

 Internet Clocks, Counters, and Countdowns


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Forms on the Web

Fill in the blank

As long as you have FrontPage extensions on your server, you can create original forms for your site.

(yoiu can also create forms wth Expression Web)

You can use forms on your Web site to:

• Retrieve contact information from site visitors (for example, guest books)
  
• Receive feedback about your Web site
  
• Accept orders and gather shipping and billing information
  
• Conduct surveys
  
• Provide online registration
  
• Offer search box mechanisms
  
• Prompt users to log in to your Web site

Expression.Microsoft:
Forms with Expression

Feedback Forms:
Feedback Forms for Your Website

Flash tutorial
Expression Web Forms


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More Cascading Style Sheet Help

Tutorials, Tools, and Links

"Cascading Style Sheets separate the presentation from the structural markup of a web site. By applying a CSS style you have the ability to keep the structure of your document lean and fast, while controlling the appearance of the content.

HTML was intended as the structural markup language. This language focuses on the roles that the different elements of a document have to play, not how they have to look. CSS has been invented and developed for the Internet. It is not an adapted tool from print or programming, but a means of enhancing HTML."

• CSS Creator site is a place for you to learn about and create CSS, Cascading Style Sheets. The CSS Forum is a place where you can discuss CSS page layouts, positioning, bugs and just about anything related to cascading style sheets. The forum is new, free and most of all needs people like you to create a community. Talk about CSS, ask questions, find solutions, and help each other learn at the CSS Forum.
  
  
• The original CSS Creator is a CSS generator, which you can use to create styles and test them on your site. If you are learning CSS have a look and see how changes will affect your site and generate the styles. The CSS Creator has been used tested on 5266 urls.
  
  
• The CSS Layout Generator will generate layouts with a flexible center column and fixed width left and or right column. All columns will be the same length, the layout can be centered on the page or full width and a header and footer can be easily added. 10545 CSS Layouts have been generated.
  
  
• A light weight multi level menu, which uses a very small JavaScript file for browsers with bad CSS support. The markup of the menu is simply unordered lists, it can support multiple levels and will degrade to a simple unordered list if CSS is turned off.
  
  
• A Useful CSS Links page has been added to the site and contains great links to CSS tutorials, tools, tips from all over the web.
  

CSS Creator.com


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Kahanamoku Keyboard

Surfboard - Keyboard

People ask you how to increase the font size in Internet Explorer?

"Oh, well, go to View>Text size and pick one between Largest and Smallest."

Here's another way:

Resize Text Size IE

Hold down CTRL key and move the wheel on the mouse.
The page text will enlarge or shrink.

Here are some others from Penn State University

Browser Tricks

Quick jump to Web Site IE

Type just the Internet domain name in the URL Address field and hold down CTRL+ENTER keys.
This will fill in www as the machine name and add .com

Presentation Mode IE

Select the F11 function key to enter Presentation mode (full screen).
Select the F11 function key to toggle back.

Page forward and back IE

Hold down SHIFT key and move the wheel on the mouse.
This will page forward or backward through the pages selected.

Page scroll using mouse wheel button IE

Push down on the mouse wheel button and slide the whole mouse up and down.
This will page up and down the screen.

Open a New IE Window with One Click

Hold down SHIFT and click on the link.
A new IE browser window will appear.

Page forward and back using arrow keys IE

Hold ALT button and use the arrow keys to page forward and back.

Get to Your Favorites with Keyboard Shortcut IE

Enter CTRL+I will bring up your left pane favorites.
Enter CTRL+I will make it disappear
Enter CTRL+B to organize your favorites

Duke Paoa Kahanamoku (1890-1968) is called the Father of Modern Surfing. There were others before him, such as George Freeth, who died in 1919, but Duke is the most widely known.

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Survey on Line

Test the wind electronically

Surveys can be used to appraise the sentiments of your audience, or just to gather data.

Here is a tutorial about how to use the Expression Web tools.

"Designing surveys is an art unto itself, requiring careful analysis, skill, and an absolute attention to detail. On the other hand, coding or developing a Web page that contains an electronic form that collects the data from a willing participant is often just as arduous.

Expression Web/FrontPage makes developing and publishing a Web form or survey a breeze. Moreover, it doesn't require that you know any programming or scripting languages that interactively collect and dynamically display results from a database as you will see in this tutorial."

Creating Online Surveys

by William C. Jeansonne


Also:

Survey Forms


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Border Magic with CSS

Consistent formatting

Cascading Style Sheets can be helpful in applying dependable format characteristics to web sites. Like Styles, CSS provides a reference point when a certain look is called for.

Stu Nicholls provides directions for "Fluid" borders:

"If you resize your browser window you will see that these borders are fluid and stay in shape. Resize the text and they will also stay in shape."

Even in this static shot, you can see some nice possibilities.

Fluid Borders to with CSS


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Web Magazine

The difference between a blog and a magazine is thin

Here's on online mag that collects information, direction, and designs for web sites

"A List Apart Magazine (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards.

Steal our code? Copy our content?

ALA's content is protected by copyright shared jointly by the magazine and its writers, but our source code is freely available to all."

A list Apart


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More CSS

Can't get enough

Demonstrations, Layouts, Menus


This site provides a wealth of examples about how to use Cascading Style Sheets.

Poke around and then come back when your project calls for something different.

"Because my site deals with experimental CSS that is exactly what you get JUST CSS, no javascript or any other programming language has been used in any of the demonstrations."

CSS Play by Stu Nicholls


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