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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