Jazz Up Your Forms With MooTools Pt. 2 | StoutLabs

Im using this to create a nice, user friendly form on my web site

Jazz Up Your Forms With MooTools Pt. 2 | StoutLabs

WooThemes | Premium WordPress Themes

Some really cool Wordpress Themes that I found, might use some in my next project...

WooThemes | Premium WordPress Themes

Low cost usability testing - UserTesting.com

A low cost usability testing service. I havnt used it yet but I plan to and believe it can be invaluable tool in any professional web designers arsenal!

Low cost usability testing - UserTesting.com

Setting Up A Virtual Host in Apache

I've been trying and failing to get my local Apache server configured to run several of my web sites locally on a single instance of Apache. Their online documentation is very obviouslly written by geeks for geeks and is difficuly to fathom out.

Luckily I found this well written and straightfoward guide to what I wanted to achieved and I was up and running in no time. Back of the net!

Setting Up A Virtual Host in Apache

reate a new audio media with Odiogo podcasts.

Convert your blog posts into a computer generated podcast automatically with this service.

Bloggers create a new audio media with Odiogo podcasts.

HTML Email Design PDF from MailChimp

Everything you need to know about designing an managing HTML Email from the good folks at Mail Chimp

html email design PDF

Web Design Dashboard

A great dashboard/list cointaing links to everything related to building and marketing web sites.

AgencyTool Web Design Dashboard

Google AdWords: Keyword Tool

A great tool from Google which shows you how many times a particular keyword is searched and all similar keywords related to the term you type in.

Google AdWords: Keyword Tool

Keeping Navigation Current With PHP

A List Apart: Articles: Keeping Navigation Current With PHP: ""

WampServer

I've been trying to setup and configure PHP, Apache, MySQL , and phpMyAdmin on my PC to install wordpress and christ almighty, talk about painful! I think you need a degree in computer science to get it all up and running!

After pulling my hair out for nearly two days I have just stumbled across this gem of a package called WAMP. It contains everything you need in single install with a handy GUI menu to make the installation and configuration a million times easier.

Install PHP 5 Apache MySQL on Windows : WampServer

Best Fonts for the Web | KathyMarks.com | notes, incarnation 5003

Not a tool but a good article on which fonts work best for t'internet.

Best Fonts for the Web | KathyMarks.com | notes, incarnation 5003

Free Site Search Engine - put a search engine on your web site or add search to your blog

Free Site Search Engine - put a search engine on your web site or add search to your blog

Favicon Generator and Gallery

Generate a favicon simply and easily using a bitmap image on your computer.

Favicon Generator and Gallery

How to Create HTML Wireframes

Not a tool as such but a great article and guidelines of how and why you should use HTML to create web site Wirframes. Well worth a read if you want a wireframe creation framework or if you want to learn what a web site wireframe is and how to create one.

HTML Wireframes and Prototypes: All Gain and No Pain - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

Make Friendly URLs with Shorty

Shorty is a simple tool for creating shorter, human- readable links from long URLs. You install Shorty on your server, so the links you create with it never go away. You can also manage your links and see how often people click on them.

Shorty

Detecting search keywords for which a site is ranked high.

With Seodigger.com you can find out for which keywords your site ranks high enough to be in Google Top 20. You can analyze your own sites as well as sites of your competition, using the information obtained for SEO analysis, building a semantic core, finding out how well is a site optimized for this or that search request, and a lot more.

Add Search To Your Website for Nowt

A free search engine for your t'internet site. It's Free for sites with up to 50 pages. Upgrade to a reasonable Pro licence for 99 US bucks and you get 200,000 plus it will index PDFs and Flash.

A handy tool if you want to add search to your own site and you dont have to use Google advert ridden technology to do it......which is nice.

Zoom Search Engine - Add search to your website, intranet or CD/DVD

Really Cool Free Fonts - datfont.com

I really liked the font used in the Vimeo.com website logo so was hunting it down today, its actually called 'Black Rose' and i found it on this web site called dafont.com.

There is also a load of other cool free fonts as well. Check it out.

Download Free Fonts Searchable by Category

There's a plethora of free font sites out there in cyberspace, this collection I found to be particularly well designed, easy to navigate and preview and most importantly - you can filter the font sets by styles.

For example, you can click 'Gothic', 'Curved', 'Handwritten', etc, and the site will load just the fonts relevant to the category you select. This is the first time Ive seen such a feature and find it to be very useful when picking a font to be used for a particularly style of site I design.

Download Free Fonts | UrbanFonts.com

Simulate Eye-Mouse Tracking Heatmaps

Feng-GUI service is an automatic alternative to eye-tracking.

See which area of your website get most of the attention. This artificial intelligence service simulates the human vision and creates an attention heatmap and it claims to be 70% accurate. See their comparison charts on the site.

This is a cost effective solution to generating heatmaps.

Feng-GUI - Feng Shui for Graphic User Interfaces

Position a footer at the bottom of a page

Not a tool as such, more of a technique to place a footer at the bottom of a page using CSS. Ahh, this used to be a piece of cake in that halcyon days of table based design, but is pretty tricky in CSS based layout. This good article called FooterStickAlt from the Man In Blue should solve a lot of problems, I know it has for me.

Check out the example page I have produced here and see how the footer looks across all Grade A browsers

Yahoo CSS Grid Builder Tool

A tool from Yahoo which creates a HTML file for virtually any CSS based grid layout you desire. The code this tool generates is based on its grid.css framework and will work across all Grade A browsers.

YUI: CSS Grid Builder

Yahoo YUI - CSS Templates

An excellent CSS development framework provided by the Yahoo developer network.

Run a free SEO report on your web site

Looking for a simple tool that will give you some solid search engine optimization ideas? Look no further than Web Site Grader, a nifty little Web-based tool that will point you in the right direction for higher rankings.

Domain Tools: Whois Lookup and Domain Suggestions

Domain Tools: Whois Lookup and Domain Suggestions

Monitir your sites and other's page rank with PaRaMeter

PaRaMeter - free Google PageRank software. Monitors Google page rank. Online help.: "PaRaMeter stands for 'Page Rank Meter' - a free Google PageRank™ checking and monitoring tool. It is a simple application. Add all URLs whose PageRank you want to check to the list using the corresponding field. To update PageRank (PR) of all URLs, please click the Update PR button.

If you want to exclude some URLs, clear the checkbox to the left from these URLs. After the update is over, you should see the Page Rank values in the PR column. The Trend column shows the change since the last update.

You can export the data to a CSV file using the Project | Export to CSV menu item."

Dreamweaver Keyboard Shortcuts

A handy PDF that details all the Dreaweaver keyboard shortcuts for the PC. Can be a real time saver, Ive downloaded it and have printed it out + is pinned to the wall next to my monitor.

dreamweaver_8_shortcuts_pc.pdf

Switch - Audio Converstion Tool

It's been a while since my tool post, just been doing a lot of tedious content work - oh well, needs must sometimes. Anyway, I have recently had the need to try and convert some of our old speeches from WMA to MP3 format due to the new audio player I am implementing on the Kleeneze Intranet.

I have found this ace and free tool called 'Switch' which does the job quickly and with little fuss.

Switch