1. Cool Tools Update for Webmasters Darlene Fichter Data Library Coordinator University of Saskatchewan Frank Cervone Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology Northwestern University Computers in Libraries 2006 Session B104 Tuesday, March 22, 2006

2. Lots of tools… Tools for you: Working smarter  Basic programming stuff  Firefox browser extensions  Site monitoring  Widgets  Productivity tools Tools for your users:  Mashups and fun effects  Zoom in  Directions and maps

3. PHP Editor http://paginas.terra.com.br/informatica/php_editor/index_en.html

4. PHP Expert Debugger http://www.ankord.com/phpxdbg.html

5. Fabulous Firefox Extensions Web Developer 1.0.2 Colorful Tabs 1.1 Tab X 0.9.2 Html Validator 0.7.9 (based on Tidy) Screen grab! 0.7 Copy Plain Text 0.3.2 EditCSS 0.3.5 View formatted source 0.9.4.View formatted source 0.9.4.6 https://addons.mozilla.org

6. LiveHTTPHeaders Page Info New TAB Watch it live http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org

7. EyeonSite http://www.virdi-software.com/eyeonsite/

8. Link Popularity Check www.CheckYourLinkPopularity.com

9. Widgets at Your Fingertips Konfabulator (bought by Yahoo July 2005) Personalized weather, maps, Flickr photos on your desktop Windows XP Mac OS X 10. http://widgets.yahoo.com/

10. eXactMapper Lite http://www.exacttrend.com/eXactMapperL/index.html

11. Web Based Organizers – Top 3 Zoho Planner www.zohoplanner.com www.zohoplanner.com Remember the Milk www.rememberthemilk.com www.rememberthemilk.com Backpackit ($) www.backpackit.com www.backpackit.com

12. Sticky Brain http://www.chronosnet.com/Products/sb_product.html $ 39.95

13. Password Keepers Roboform - ($) 29.95 Roboform KeePass – open source KeePass Agatra – web based Agatra

14. SuperGlu Several Feeds One Page http://www.suprglu.com

15. MultiRSS Add this link to your site Visitors can add your feed to 39 newsreaders of their choice http://www.multirss.com

16. Wink http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

17. Powerbullet Presenter http://powerbullet.com/info.html

18. File Exchange Utilities Dropload http://www.dropload.comhttp://www.dropload.com  Drop off files and have someone else pick them up  Up to 100 MB YouSendIt http://www.yousendit.comhttp://www.yousendit.com - Up to 1 GB Send this file http://www.sendthisfile.comhttp://www.sendthisfile.com  No file size limit, 3 day pickup MailBigFile http://www.mailbigfile.comhttp://www.mailbigfile.com  Up to 1 GB

19. NVu http://nvu.com/download.html

20. Zoom In Web Monkey’s Live Thumbnails http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/06/08/index2a.html http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/06/08/index2a.html

21. Web Gallery Creator http://pranas.net/webgallerycreator/

22. BIMP Lite http://www.cerebralsynergy.com/download.php?view.52

23. Thumbshots – Liven Up Web Links http://www.thumbshots.org/ Free version has thumbnails for dmoz sites only.

24. Altsoft XSL-FO Debugger Visual debugging software for XSL stylesheets http://www.alt-soft.com/support_downloads.jsp

25. Meta Tag Expert http://www.dark-street.com/darkstreet/meta_tag_expert.php

26. Tag Clouds ZoomCloud  http://www.zoomclouds.com/ http://www.zoomclouds.com/ TagCloud  http://www.tagcloud.com http://www.tagcloud.com Stats & Filters

27. Google SiteMap Builder http://www.sitemapbuilder.net/ http://www.sitemapbuilder.net

28. Map Web Visitors gVisit  www.gvisit.com www.gvisit.com ClustrMaps  clustrmaps.com clustrmaps.com

29. 1. Sign up for Maps API key www.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html 2. Find the latitude and longitude of your library.  maps.google.com maps.google.com  Zoom in and center the map on your library  Double click on your library location  Choose “link this page”  Grab the lat/long from the URL  http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=saskatoon& ll=52.13707,-106.632271&spn=0.121587,0.31929 3. A. Clone a real world example B. Read the Google API documentation C. How to add a Google Map to any web page in less than 10 minutes http://tinyurl.com/gq2vdhttp://tinyurl.com/gq2vd 10 Minutes: Google Maps & Library Site

30. Google Directions Add directions to your site (without API) http://tinyurl.com/cfmbb USA/Canada Convert long ugly URLS to short ones. www.tinyurl.com

31. Yahoo Pattern Library “A pattern library describes an optimal solution to a common problem with a specific context." Patterns include designing breadcrumbs, search results, tabbed navigation, product ratings, … Check the context - how similar is it to your own? http://developer.yahoo.net/ypatterns/

32. Antispam Encoder http://www.natata.com/antispam_encoder.htm

33. Thank you! Darlene Fichter Data Library Coordinator University of Saskatchewan darlene.fichter@usask.ca Frank Cervone Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology Northwestern University f-cervone@northwestern.edu