Cool Tools Update for Library Web Sites Computers in Libraries Darlene Fichter University of Saskatchewan March 10, 2004

Color Scheme Tool - Pixy

Color blindness and color on screens Shows the display at millions of colors At 256 colors 3 types of color blindness -notes/6cblind-1.htm

Red text on white

Black text on lime green

SWiSH Inexpensive, and has a free trial A single user license is only $49.95 USD Equips anybody with 10 minutes to spare with the ability to make simple (and not so simple) flash animations for their site

SWiSH – animation, movies

Beware of illegal video cassettes Warning: Addiction zone!

FavIcon Create icon to display Online FavIcon generator Tips and a downloadable icon editor I.html I.html

PDF Explorer Fast and effective placement in a database file of Filename, Title, Subject Author and Keywords fields of all the PDF files present in a certain folder or disk.

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Toolbars Added functionality at your fingertips

Google toolbar Search Search histories See page ranks Stop pop up ads  Internet Explorer

Merriam-Webster Toolbar or Lookup Button Adds a search box to your browser for quick and easy lookups No need to type—just highlight a word on a Web page and click Results display in a new browser window so you don't lose your page  Internet Explorer

Shop-a-holics? E-Bay toolbar Alerts just before auction ends Search  Internet Explorer  Netscape 4.xx

Unix file permissions JavaScript tool

Web developers toolbar Adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser Features Off/on for java, JavaScript Controls for forms, styles, outlines, validation Download it from: d/webdeveloper/  Mozilla  Mozilla Firebird

fValidate - JavaScript form validation Validate many different data types (zip, cazip)data types Disable Submit and/or Reset button(s) upon successful validation Prompt user with optional confirm message before sending Twenty-Nine predefined error notification modes Meaningful error messages to the user, per field Custom error message on a field-by-field basis

Example

sHTMLc Save HTML code Show the HTML code on your web page Cut and paste the code. Press a button and voila! Perfect for adding code snippets in a Web Style guide Tell people how to link to your site

hjem.get2net.dk/fec/shtmlc/ shtmlc.html

Hiveware Enkoder form Online web form for protecting your from spam -harvesting robots Encrypt your address and convert the result to a self evaluating JavaScript

Layout-o-Matic from inknoise CSS layouts cross-browser compatible One, two or three column layouts View and pick up your multi-column CSS layout starter kit layoutomatic.php layoutomatic.php  4.x browsers

List-o-Matic Create CSS menus Type in labels Choose a list style Create it, save it, add it to your CSS style sheet, change colors wizards/list-o-matic/list-o-matic.asp

Examples

Browser.cam Paste URLs into our Capture Wizard Select the browsers and operating systems you want to check Hourly $ Up to 10 URL's in unlimited browsers Monthly $ Unlimited use  Payment

Brower Cam

Firdamatic ™ Design tool for uninspired webloggers Online tableless layout generator 2 or 3 column layout

Bloglines server-based RSS aggregation system blogs and newsfeed services

ieSpell ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage Adds to same dictionary as other office programs

FURL Click and save what you’re viewing Create your own topics to store items under Annotate or “clip” part

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