tools Posts

May 15, 2009

Sharing information is what the Internet is about. The problem is that not all information is easily made into HTML pages so it can be easily shared. The creation of easy to use content management systems has made it easier for anyone to become a web publisher, but there are ...

May 2, 2009

I tweeted recently that I was doing my invoicing and that I needed to find another way of doing it. Two suggestions I got from people were FreshBooks and Cashboard. I checked out both and signed up for the free trials. Feature wise both FreshBooks and Cashboard offer similar things. Invoicing, ...

Apr 16, 2009

There has been a lot of talk recently about URL shorteners ever since the DiggBar was released. While reactions to the DiggBar are mixed I do have some concerns over the use of frames. I remember creating websites using frames and some of the problems it created. I am also ...

Apr 9, 2009

import Caption from '../../components/Caption.astro'; I have talked about my problems picking colours in the past. Fortunately I have found several tools that can help me, and today I found another one. Color Scheme Designer is a Javascript, browser based application that you can use to create colour schemes based on ...

Feb 20, 2009

I was working on a contact form for a client this last week, and while I have a PHP form processing script that I like to use there are other alternatives to add a contact and other forms to your website if you do not happen to know PHP or ...

Feb 3, 2009

When I need a website thumbnail I usually just view the website in my favourite web browser (Firefox of course), press F11 to switch to full screen mode and press the PrintScreen key to take a screenshot that I can then open in Photoshop or the Gimp depending on what ...

Jan 22, 2009

I like Mozy online backup, as you have probably guessed. I liked Mozy so much that I started offering it as a backup solution to clients and it has worked great. There has been the occasional hiccup but just small things that a quick email to support could solve. Recently ...

Dec 16, 2008

One of the things I have discovered working on the Internet is that DNS changes take time. I have seen changes to a nameserver take up to 48 hours to start to resolve here in Saskatchewan. I know that it is not the case for the rest of the ...

Nov 24, 2008

One of the things I have had on my to do list was to replace the WordPress search with the Google Custom search. The WordPress search gives decent search results, but it is hard to compete with the accuracy of Google website search. I was reminded about that today when ...

Oct 10, 2008

I talked a little while ago about how link building is dead". In that post Danny Sullivan exposes the way some people go about creating links to their website. That is exactly the kind of stupidity I was talking about. One of the best ways I have found to create quality ...