1. Cool Tools for Web Development Internet Librarian Darlene Fichter darlene.fichter@usask.ca University of Saskatchewan November 3, 2003

2. Find that link Bookmarklet: List All Links Creates a new page with just the links (the URLs) that appear on the page you’re viewing http://www.bookmarklets.com/tools/data/  Frames

4. FavIcon Create icon to display Online FavIcon generator http://www.html-kit.com/e/favicon.cgi Tips and a downloadable icon editor http://www.chami.com/tips/internet/11 0599I.html http://www.chami.com/tips/internet/11 0599I.html

6. Mouse-over generator Enter in all of your image information Automatically generates mouseover code http://neilm.com/javascript/mouseover start.hts

8. 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 http://www.swishzone.com

9. SWiSH – animation, movies

10. Beware of illegal video cassettes Warning: Addiction zone!

11. Color blindness and color on screens Shows the display at millions of colors At 256 colors 3 types of color blindness http://www.htmlcompendium.org/detail -notes/6cblind-1.htm

12. Red text on white

13. Black text on lime green

14. FastPDF Free for documents less 12 pages Add a small watermark $1.99 to create PDF sans watermark  Payment http://www.fastpdf.com/

15. FastPDF

16. Watermark

17. 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. http://rtt.planetaclix.pt/

19. Scripts Looking for a feature to add to your site? HotScripts.com has a LOT of scripts Very well organized By language

21. ColdFusion poll

22. Just the “FAQTS” FAQTs.com is a growing collection of high quality information. There are knowledge bases for many different web languages and Platforms http://www.faqts.com/

23. php.faqts

24. Unix file permissions JavaScript tool www.lights.com/~scott/chmod.html

25. Search engine saturation Checks keywords, link popularity, etc. http://www.marketleap.com/siteindex/

27. Saturation – how many pages?

28. Keyword – placement in search results

29. Site awareness – how many links to your site?

30. Toolbars Added functionality at your fingertips

31. Google toolbar Search Search histories See page ranks Stop pop up ads http://toolbar.google.com/  Internet Explorer

32. Merriam-Webster Toolbar 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 http://www.m-w.com/tools/toolbar/  Internet Explorer

33. Toolbar in the browser

34. Shop-a-holics? E-Bay toolbar Alerts just before auction ends Search http://pages.ebay.com/ebay_toolbar/

35. Web developers toolbar Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird Adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser Features Off/on for java, JavaScript Controls for forms, styles, outlines, validation Download it from: http://chrispederick.myacen.com/work/firebir d/webdeveloper/

38. 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 http://www.peterbailey.net/fValidate/

40. Example

41. 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 http://hjem.get2net.dk/fec/shtmlc/shtmlc.html

43. Hiveware Enkoder form Online web form for protecting your email from spam email-harvesting robots Encrypt your email address and convert the result to a self evaluating JavaScript http://hiveware.com/enkoder_form.php

45. Browser.cam Paste URLs into our Capture Wizard Select the browsers and operating systems you want to check Hourly $10.00 - Up to 10 URL's in unlimited browsers Monthly $ 39.95 Unlimited use  Payment http://www.browsercam.com/

46. 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 http://www.inknoise.com/experimental/ layoutomatic.php http://www.inknoise.com/experimental/ layoutomatic.php  4.x browsers

48. 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 http://www.accessify.com/tools-and- wizards/list-o-matic/list-o-matic.asp

49. Examples

52. Firdamatic ™ Design tool for uninspired webloggers Online tableless layout generator 2 or 3 column layout http://www.wannabegirl.org/firdamatic/

55. Questions? Tools from the Internet Librarian 2002 http://www.lights.com/talks/