4 Reasons
To Avoid Using Dates In URLs
21
January 2008
350pages - createweb pages
easily & quickly
1 June 2008
select template & customize headings, buttons, style, colour,
fonts, dividers, text, images & background; drag & drop
objects; file uploader will compress photos; enhance with inbuilt
photo editor; photo gallery; e-commerce features;
Accessibility
23 August 2006
Positive
steps
to assessing, monitoring & comparing accessibility of public
websites: introducing the European Internet Accessibility
Observatory(Freepint No. 212, 24 August 2006); See also Usability;
Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0;
Accurate
Monitor 1.2
3 May 2003
find position of sites in search engines; generates statistics,
monitors plugins, Win 95+
ActiveX
(WebReference)
9 January
2004
Adobe Acrobat & PDF at
PDFzone.com
26
September 2001
online authority for Acrobat, PDF & document management
professionals: PDF-Basics service by PDFzone.com; Foxit
Reader 2.3 for Windows is faster than Acrobat Reader with
more options for viewing, printing, & annotating PDFs; use it
to fill out PDF forms; How
to embed a PDF document in your website;
Adobe
Acrobat(PDF) publication platforms
7 December 2009
YUDU Plus upgrade allows you to
add multimedia to your free publications, but if you're looking
for more advanced, specialist features for your digital
publications, YUDU Pro includes own branding, in-depth statistics
& reporting, DRM protection, subscription integration, email
marketing tools & additional digital catalog features; Upload
Word, Powerpoint & PDF files converted automatically into
page-turning digital editions, ebooks, ezines & e catalogues
hosted by YUDU free; Add YouTube videos/multimedia with Plus;
Adobe
Contribute 4.0
29 March 2007
update websites without affecting underlying design; edit blog
content, send for editing or publish to the blog; full integration
with Microsoft Word, Excel & Powerpoint..easily add images,
video or sound files; edit images
Adobe/Macromedia
Breeze 5 web conferencing, online collaboration
5 May 2005
live presentations, distance training; multi-point video
conferencing, fullscreen video; text chat, polling, file sharing,
convert PowerPoint presentations into Flash, co-browsing,
application sharing, voice over IP, integrated recording, event
& user tracking/reporting; 15 day trial
Adobe Open
Screen Project
2 May 2008
consistent runtime environment for rich media across myriad
devices; Flash on web, mobile, desktop, TV, & other consumer
electronic devices; Adobe releasing file format specifications for
Flash(.swf & .flv/f4v) & removing licensing restrictions;
expanded to include AIR; Adobe will remove licensing fees
associated with Flash & AIR now free on all devices; Adobe
will publish specs for Adobe Flash Cast protocol & Action
Message Format protocol, device porting layer APIs for Flash
player making it an open format like PDF in mid-90s; Since release
in 1993 PDF has become an open standard for documents &
recently took a major step toward becoming the ISO 32000 Standard;
Advanced
CSS Layouts: Step by Step
2 February 2002
HTML tables; accessible, standards-compliant sites require
separation of markup & content; tutorial to create
WebReference table like layouts(for small window sizes & large
fonts), avoiding bugs & problems in other implementations;
generation 5+ browsers, Win/Mac
Aggregators(Newsreaders)
7 September 2003
NewsGator & AmphetaDesk feed
from BBC, Sci-Fi Today, Slashdot & bloggers; regular updates;
Info
Aggregator RSS-to-IMAP service; feeds by email; MyFeedster RSS
aggregator doesnt need download; Topix.Net
pre-built pages aggregate to 150000+ topical pages (coy names,
industry names) crawling newspaper websites, radio & TV
stations; Urchin RSS
Aggregator & filter queries Urchin database; other
output formats defined & generated using XSL transformations
or HTML::Template;
Newzie; my.netscape.com, my.userland.com, xmltree.com, moreover.com; See RSS
News Readers(below) & News Aggregators on the
Internet(Marcus Zillman); FeedDemon; Feedmarker
aggregator/tagging system users read RSS Feeds & tag them
according to their own classification systems, del.icio.us & Flickr also have open tagging
systems; What's
an RSS aggregator?; Surfwax
News Accumulator; Geoff Daily reviews & compares
software & browser-based RSS aggregators ThinFeeder,
NewsGator,
Sage(Firefox),
Bloglines
& FeedDemon
(Aggregating the Aggregators,
EContent, April 2005,
pp. 37-41); open-source
BlogBridge client-based RSS reader & aggregator works on
PCs, Macs & Linux boxes; Feed on Feeds server-based
RSS news aggregator tracks what you've read on any computer; need
full access rights to Web server running recent version of PHP
& MySQL; fully open-source(GPL), integrates RSS
auto-discovery, OPML export/import functions & full
integration of MagPie RSS providing gzip support; BlogBridge open-source
cross-platform RSS reader-aggregator; see RSS feed
aggregators & RSS news readers(below); Attensa for Outlook; Firefox
as an RSS reader(See Bloglines Firefox
Center); Krawler[x]
personal desktop media aggregator; Topix.net (News Search Engine
& News Aggregator); (3 Apr 2006) The
State of Online Feed Readers feed reader for syndicated
content monitors sites & sources, providing near realtime
updates; there are web-based, desktop, Outlook based feed readers;
only web-based feed readers reviewed -News Alloy, Gritwire,
Attensa
& FeedLounge; Podcast - NewsGator,
Attensa, Rojo & Feedlounge;
AgileRss can display any
RSS, ATOM, & XML newsfeed from sources that support RSS
protocol; runs on any java enabled operating system. Minimum
hardware configuration is Intel Pentium II system with 128 MB of
RAM/100 MB free disk space. Sun Microsystems Java VM version 5.0+;
SharpReader 0.9.7.0
detects & shows connected items threaded together, can group
subscribed feeds into custom categories - Windows 98+; Grazr Javascript- based RSS feed
reader to embed in your site; See also Video aggregators; FeedRaider collect text,
video, audio & photos in free RSS feeds from video sharing
sites(YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion, Revver) photos, podcasts
& comic strips; TinyRSS
reader works inside IE; Yahoo!
Pipes interactive feed aggregator & manipulator; Use
Yahoo Pipes to grab TV show feeds; Top
5 online RSS readers(Pandia, Feb 07); Which
RSS Reader Is Right for You?(Dec 08) Bloglines new design,
Google Reader will analyze what you read, My Yahoo or through
Yahoo Mail for lite use, Netvibes easy to personalize; Access
Facebook updates from a feed reader; Did
someone finally pull the plug on Bloglines?; 30 April
2010: Bots, Blogs &
aggregators(Macus Zillman); 17 Sept 2010: What’s
the law around aggregating news online?Harvard Law report on
risks & best practices; Aggregators
blekko slashtag; Google
Reader; Feedly
converts Google Reader into a newspaper with browser plugins for
Chrome, Firefox, & Safari; 9
content curation tools that better organise the web; Liferea 1.7 Linux
feed reader compatible with all computers running Linux;
Ajax Matters
1 February 2006
Advanced Javascripting & XML, Asynchronous JavaScripting &
XML; Ajax:
New Approach to Web Applications; RSS Readers for
Ajax; Ajax Cookbook;
40+
Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS:
tooltips scripts for intuitive,well-designed visual clues;
Alternate
The Display Of Multiple Images On A Web Page
11 May 2004
3 commercial solutions, 1 manual PHP approach to display alternate
images randomly(or by more specific rules)
Annotum open-source,
open-process, open-access scholarly authoring & publishing
platform 5 January 2012
based on WordPress, built on Carringon Theme framework provides
complete, open-access scholarly journal production system
including peer-review, workflow, advanced editing & formatting
features such as structured figures, equations, PubMed &
CrossRef reference import, structured XML input & output
compatible with National Library of Medicine's Journal Article
DTD;
Announcing your website 27 January 2003
APIFinder lists available
Application Programming Interfaces
15 September 2006
APIs(ways for programmers to use resources/data of an online
resource) listed by category including language & operating
system; browse by function(wireless, e-commerce, search, etc);
brief list of API articles; description for each API includes
costs, functions, languages/ OS, interface to the data(SOAP, REST,
XML-RPC); .APIFinder FAQ;
Archiving
tools See HTTrack
Web Site Copier(below) & 2
other local archivers;
7 June
2006
Atom
Syndication Format 0.3 (PRE-DRAFT)
24 September
2004
XML-based file format - lists known as feeds are
synchronised between publishers & consumers; Atomenabled; Background:
Atom; RSS
or Atom?;
Attensa for Outlook (RSS
reader)
29 December 2005
feeds updated; IE/Firefox toolbar plugin; network podcast feeds
with iTunes or Windows Media Player; import OPML, del.icio.us
integrated tagging; publish blogs; synchronizes desktop, web &
mobile RSS reader clients by Attensa; free, public beta for
Outlook 1.5
Audio
Transcription For Podcasts
14
January 2006
JC Human(US$20 for up to1 hour) vs. CastingWords.com (42
cents/minute); electronic payments via PayPal
Automated Content Access
Protocol(ACAP) standard for publishers
Seeking to contribute to the development of methods to manage
copyright on the scale of the Internet without human intervention
& without recourse to lawyers;
Barewiki
15 July
2006
quick, easy collaborative website builder utilizes standard wiki
features like revision history & full protected access; Ms
Word style editor; free;
Beall's List of
Predatory, Open-Access Publishers by Jeffrey Beall 2012
Edition
9 January
2012
open-access publishers that unprofessionally exploit author-pays
model of open-access publishing(Gold OA) typically spam
professional email lists, soliciting article submissions for
additional income; vanity presses with a low article acceptance
threshold, false-front or non- existent peer review process, add
little value to scholarship, pay little attention to digital
preservation, & operate using fly-by-night, unsustainable
business models;
Best Blog
Technologies Compared
6 June 2004
blogging technologies compared in tabular format; Movable Type, pMachine
Pro, WordPress, b2evolution, TextPattern, Pivot; Excel
spreadsheet for download.
Bitpedia digital media
encyclopedia
31 October 2006
community-built collection of the best available identifying,
descriptive, editorial metadata about all kinds of digital files
from volunteer contributors, customers, public sources; improve
the metadata's reliability & usefulness over time, publish in
a variety of formats;
Blogbar free search engine
bar
31 August 2006
visitors search within your blog/website & search the web with
the major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Technorati,
Ask, Bloglines; free
Blogbox free, open-source
rich Internet applications for your personal website, wiki or
blog 25 November 2004
PhotoBlox image viewing Internet application; SoundBlox MP3 audio
playing; WeatherBlox weather forecast application; ClockBlox;
LinkBlox provides a compact list of your favorite URL links; Blogossary;
Blog
Comparison Chart compares features, licenses & costs of
blogging software
14 June 2004
see also Blog Functionality
Scorecard; Comprehensive
Blog Comparison Review; Mary
Hodder
(Nasperization.org) research post compares how major
weblog/rss engines work(in
a chart -PDF); Using the
Right Blogging Tool?(Online Journalism Review, 14 July
2005); analysis of major blogging software, terminology guide,
Blog software comparison chart; Blogscope analysis &
visualization tool for blogosphere tracks; 30.8m+ blogs with
541.71m posts;
Blogdigger
24 May
2005
uses state of the art syndication technologies such as RSS &
Atom, to index blog content & make it searchable in RSS or
Atom; services include Blog
Search, Media,
Groups, Link Search.
Blog Editors
2 November 2005
Qumana - free, compatible
with most blog platforms, enables addition of text, pictures &
links, built-in spell checker & thesaurus, allows
editing of multiple blogs, WYSIWYG, offline & multi-window
editing, supports Technorati tags. AdGenta built-in advertising
system lets bloggers choose ads for their blogs & RSS feeds,
format, positioning & when they will be displayed;
BlogFlux
18
August 2005
blog directory service includes a Google Page Rank checker for
adding to any web site, an automatic pinging service; 1400 listed;
checked weekly
Blogger
25 July 2001
free weblog publishing tools & services; free weblog creation
tool & companion publishing site, Blogspot; How to
post pictures; Blogger for
Word toolbar publishes Word documents directly to blog (Win
& Word 2000+); Disabling
the Blogger Navbar ;
Bloggers'
Code
of Ethics
1 January 2005
adapted from code of ethics of Society of Professional
Journalists. From CyberJournalist.net blog of American Press
Institute's nonprofit think tank, The Media Center; See also
EFF: Legal Guide for
Bloggers
Blogger
Screen Shots, see blogger, type, play, publish, relax
21 October 2001
easy tool to use; concentrate on writing & publishing your
content to the Web instead of formatting HTML
Blogging
platforms Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr See Social Media
Platforms
26 December 2010
Bloglines
defunct Dec 2010
19 December 2003
free online service; subscribe to any RSS feed/Web site/blog &
"search query"; access RSS feeds without needing to have an RSS
newsreader; feed
management; get YouTube Flash-based content to appear within
Bloglines; Bloglines
Beta Re-design(28 Aug 07); 22 Apr 2010: Did
someone finally pull the plug on B?; B
site will be maintained until at least December 1, after
which it will transition to MerchantCircle;
Blog
Platforms Head to Head: Six Apart & Automattic Compared
11 July
2007
See also Social Media Platforms; Micro-blogging
platforms; Open
Social: Google's New Social Networking Platform; Microsoft
releases Open Source blogging platform; Tumblr uses PubSubHubbub
format to announce updates; realtime
hub powered by Superfeedr sends out realtime alerts to
any service that supports PubSubHubbub;
Blogs & Blogging
Tips, Tools, & Resources
25 October 2006
blog search engines & directories, ratings & reviews,
hosted blogging services, offline/desktop blog editors, blog roll
tools, feed creation tools; Information
Design: Beginners Blog Design; How
To Blog: A Beginner's Blog Publishing Guide;
Blog
Software (see also Social Media Platforms)
free or inexpensive(<$50) used on either a 3rd-party host or
your own server: Radio
Userland, Greymatter,
Moveable Type; WordPress open source
blogging application; TheWeblogProject
movie about Blogs, what they are used for, & why; See also EFF: Legal Guide for
Bloggers; SuprGlu
pastes all your content together; WordPress
2.1 autosave drafts, streamlined visual editor interface,
instructional material including installation & design, Mac OS
X+; Wordpress
semantic personal publishing platform - aesthetics, web
standards, usability - free open source with plugin
architecture; support
forum; Apture
tool for bloggers & online publishers adds interactive
multimedia links & embeds(review & overview);
State
of the Blogosphere 2009(Technorati);
Blogs,
wikis, podcasting, social networks & file sharing: how the
web is transforming itself
November 2006
Part
I 3 November 2006; Part
II - Introduction to Blogs; Part
III - Introduction to Wikis, Master Newmedia, 6 Nov 06; Part
IV - Introduction To Wikipedia & WikiNews; 6 December
2006, Part
V: Podcasting & File Sharing; January 2006, Part VI: Introduction to Social
Networks & Social Services; Next part: The
Transformation of the Web - Overview & Conclusions; Blogs
&
blogging, Dec 09;
Bobby
identify & repair barriers to access by individuals with
disabilities
4 January 2003
test web pages using guidelines established by World Wide Web
Consortium's(W3C) Web Access
Initiative(WAI) as well as Section
508 guidelines from Architectural & Transportation
Barriers Compliance Board(Access Board) of US Govt.
Bravenet(Web tools for
webmasters)
7 June 2003
Browsera simultaneously
tests your site in different browsers
1
December 2009
all-in-one tool testing web sites for errors, complications &
layout issues; not just a multiple screen shot tool, provides an
in-depth assessment of problematic areas in need of attention;
Browser-Based
Spell
Checkers
9
September 2004
ieSpell free Internet
Explorer extension spell checks text input boxes; button in IE
toolbar, menu item under Tools;
store & use personal word list across applications; works on
IE based browsers such as SlimBrowser, CrazyBrowser, MSN, MyIE; no
spyware/adware; free personal use, Commercial licenses
from US$15; SpellBound(Firefox)
enables spell checking in web forms(html text & input
elements; message board post, blog) Firefox 0.9+; works with
Windows, Linux, & MacOS X. SpellBound is available in 43
languages; Free;
Buttonator
7 July 2006
Click & drag button templates to preview window; Click on the
text to edit; automatically resize for your text; change font,
size & width, colour; download gif;
Calais (Thomson Reuters
)
5 January 2009
toolkit of capabilities to incorporate state-of-the-art semantic
functionality within your blog, content management system, website
or application; free for commercial & non-commercial use;
creates rich semantic metadata for your content; Tools; Gallery;
Cascading
Style Sheets, HTML(Webmaster Tips Newsletter) design
& maintenance tips 10 August 2001
see also CSS( below); Style Sheet
Reference Guide; 10
Best Resources for CSS; CSS Help Pile;
Stylesheets
guide(WebMonkey); Style Sheets(BlackStump);
CSS
links; CSS play:
experimenting with cascading style sheets; Web Design, HTML,
& CSS Tools & Tips; Terrific
tables
with CSS; CSS
Float Property incorporates table-like columns in HTML
layout without using tables; Start
using CSS3: Extensive round-up of CSS3 techniques, tools
& resources; Cascading Style Sheets Recommendations Level 1 & Level 2;
ChangeDetect
2 April 2004
Free service for monitoring web page content changes monitors a
maximum of 5 pages a week; receive web page with colour coded
changes; checked twice-daily ; notifications via email, pager, ICQ
or text messaging; ChangeDetect Personal costs US$1.95/m to
monitor 10 pages; Watchthatpage & Wisdomchange monitor
unlimited pages free of charge; more sophisticated options
include Copernic Tracker
& Website Watcher; summary of a
selection of page monitors
Chicago Manual of Style Online US$30/yr 6 October 2006
Choosing
& Changing Your Web Host(Freepint No.152) guide to Web
hosting
22 January 2004
search engine for Web hosts; see also ISP guide; articles, search
engines, rankings, & discussion forums on sites devoted to Web
hosting & Web development The Site Wizard & Web_Hosting_Topics-Selection_Criteria;
a three-part
article & Web Host
Industry Review
Clusty Cloud Creator
dynamic tag clouds webmasters or bloggers use to visualize
topic/query 6 October 2006
generated using search results for the topic you enter, no need
for tags or months of content on a subject; click on tag cloud to
go to Clusty’s search results; up-to-date because the clusters
generated in realtime;
Clusty.com
launches free site search for Nonprofits, Schools &
Universities
25 March 2006
CNETBuilder.com 27 July 2003
Collaborative
websites
29
December 2007
Using
open source software to design, develop, deploy a
collaborative Web site(IBM developerWorks); Textflow: collaborative
editing made easy;
Collecta: widget brings Real-Time
content to websites
31 January 2010
Conduit free service for
creating community toolbars
5 March 2007
provides standard icon buttons; customizable; prepackaged
features; changes instantly seen by users without downloading new
versions; works on IE & Firefox; standard reporting such as
number of downloads, active users; include RSS & video feeds;
toolbars gallery;
Configurable Home Pages: Netvibes vs. My Yahoo 16 July 2006
Content
Management Systems
1 January 2009
List
of content management systems; Joomla! free open source:
powered Web sites different from those manually updated, static,
HTML files; dynamic Web
application using MySQL
database to store content & information about sites &
using PHP programming
language for interactive functionality & dynamic Web pages; Complete
beginners guide to Joomla;
Content Management Systems
Versus The Custom Development Route
14 June
2004
Drupal, DotNetNuke, MovableType (requires licensing), Wiki,
PHP-Nuke or SnipSnap, Rainbow Portal - web applications based
around blog concepts (e.g. E2 day logs) to install & configure
with skins; functionalities include News, Forums, Comments, Skins,
Polls, Content Management System & User Admin;
Content
Syndication
14 May
2005
Etamp.net tracks &
collates what's new on web sites & blogs; supports most
content syndication formats including XMS, Atom, RSS, RDF
Copy text from web without formatting 26 February 2006
Copyscape, currently in
beta
10 July 2004
Search Engine detects sites using your content via Google API;
Results include title, description, & URL; cached copy shows
copied parts in color; works with web addresses, not sections of
text; links for copyright & plagiarism issues; German, French,
& Spanish;
Creative Commons
1 April 2003
Commons licence websites
& weblogs share work while keeping copyright. Others copy
& distribute your work on condition; attribution licence lets
others copy, distribute, display, & perform copyrighted &
derivative works if they give credit; 3 licences: 1 Commons Deed
simple, plain-language summary of license with relevant
icons; 2 Legal Code fine print needed for license to stand
up in court; 3 Digital Code machine-readable translation of
license helps search engines & other applications identify
your work by its terms of use;
CSS Zen
Garden: Comprehensive Design List
16 May 2007
DataFerrett data
mining & extraction tool
4 January 2008
select a databasket of variables & recode those
variables as you need, develop & customize tables;
chart or graph for visual presentation in html page;
locate & retrieve data you need across Internet;
receive data in ASCII, SAS, SPSS, Excel/Access file;
query, analysis & visualization of data in one
package; lets data providers share data easier, &
manage their online data;
Demonstration EPrints
Archive for self-archiving or creating an institutional OA
archive
14 May
2005
DHTML
scripts
DHTML scripts, Javascripts & VBscript
15 March 2004
Digital
Content Management(DCM)
16 May 2009
Open
Source
Tools for Content Management Zope, Typo3, Midgard Project,
OpenCMS, Apache Lenya, PHP Nuke, Drupal, Mambo, Claroline, Moodle,
Fedora, DSpace, Greenstone, Cofax, Open Journal System,
EPrints, eGroupware, phpCollab, Wiki, WordPress; (13 May 2009)Fedora Commons & DSpace Foundation are merging
to form DuraSpace;
Dipity create interactive
timeline with photos, video clips, text
23 October 2010
for journalists, government organizations, teachers, &
museums; basic version free; compatible with all operating systems
Draac.com's
Character Stripper Strip
unwanted characters in emails & codes
4 September 2004
Drupal 5.0(open source content
management platform)
3 February 2007
place content online with a minimum of technical knowhow;
different modules extend functionality; forums; Windows 98+ or Mac
OS X+; Gov
2.0 guide to Drupal open source platform & content
management system(CMS) for building dynamic web sites;
eBook readers
18 September 2004
Microsoft
Reader free download; e-books with file extension .lit at www.mslit.com,
some free; MobiPocket
download free for titles at www.mobipocket.com;
Ebook
usage trends & statistics - Springer Report 2008; E book readers;
Read
Google eBooks on Iriver
Story HD Reader featuring dictionary & translate; 4 Nov
2011: Free
tools convert documents into Ebooks;
EditGrid edit, store & access
spreadsheets from any browser
11 May 2006
import from & export common formats - MS Excel, CSV, Gnumeric
& OpenOffice's Calc; supports Microsoft Internet Explorer,
Mozilla FireFox (Safari coming soon); free; see also free Numbler web-based spreadsheet
editor..
EFF: Legal Guide for
Bloggers(newly revised)
16 June 2005
Electronic
Text Center - Online Helpsheets
18 February
2002
Online helpsheets in HTML, SGML, XML, other
languages, Scanning & other areas
EndNote
X(Win 2000 & XP; free 30 day trial)
4 July 2006
integrates into word processors to insert citations directly &
create bibliographies & figure lists; entries automatically
& consistently formatted as you dictate;
eNewsletter
Manager Free Edition 2.3.17
23
November 2006
send personalized HTML messages, hi & goodby emails to
subscribers in languages including Spanish, Italian, & French;
Windows 98, Me, 2000, & XP;
Enlarging
images
25 January 2007
Rasterbator
rasterized(taking an image, blowing it up, pixelating, &
printing onto numerous pieces of paper) images from any picture;
posters up to 20 meters in size sent as PDF; needs Macromedia
Flash Player 7 & Adobe Reader(or other pdf viewer); free
EServer TC Library produce, manage, archive,
distribute technical information
9 March
2005
technical communicators, editors & publishers, researchers,
illustrators, animators/multimedia developers, instructional
designers/educators, web designers; free Content Management,
Editing, Publications, Software, Usability, Web Design &
Writing.
Essential web design
resources
18 October 2002
etVlog for
posting video to a blog
13 October 2005
add video content to website, blog, IM, email, or eBay auction
page; registered users upload the video via a secure URL; add
captions, transcripts; Windows Media 8+ at 100 kbps+, with audio
at least 70Kbps; basic version is free;
FeedAdvisor
3
February 2006
identify content that will interest you based on aggregated
subscription patterns of FeedBlitz subscribers; up to 3
results/new subscriptions;
FeedBlitz
9 January 2006
email your blog new content automatically to anyone; Readers
sign-up, either on FeedBlitz subscription button, or at FeedBlitz
if your site is not an active FeedBlitz supporter(something you
can't do with Bloglet);
supports audio & video blogs, email announcements to
subscribers, import of Bloglet subscribers; supports AdSense, Feedburner(Google,
June
2007), UTF-8
encoding & international characters; free, no ads;
FeedDirect
--
A Headline Gatherer for Your Site
3 July 2004
FeedFiles: the feed codex
30 January 2006
guidance to webfeed applications, services,
scripts, reading lists & feed related or derived resources
Feed filters
AideRSS works with Google
Reader to rank & filter feeds
3 September 2008
FeedFire input URL of page to create RSS feeds from
virtually ANY web page; no charge
27 October 2004
FeedJumbler
27 July 2005
Lazytom's application to merge RSS or Atom-based
feeds into a single RSS or Atom feed or HTML & Javascript
FeedMap geocode
your blog & generate a badge-sized map
30 September 2005
gFeedMap
puts FeedMap'd blogs onto Google Maps; browse for location by [US]
city or state;
Feedmarker
28 March 2005
free RSS/ATOM aggregator & bookmarks manager; combined
aggregator/tagging system; users tag feeds according to their own
classification systems
Feed Readers see RSS News Readers
Feedroll: Format an
RSS Feed & Put It On Your Site
22 February 2004
Feed-Shark
16 March 2005
submit RSS feed to Daypop, Feedster, Technorati, Blogdigger,
Bloogz, NewsMob, Fastbuzz, EasyRSS, PubSub, WeBlogAlot, RubHub,
Fuzzy Software, Blogs R Us, DevASP, Bulkfeeds, Search4RSS,
Genecast, VisualBuilder, BlogMatcher, CompleteRSS, Ngoid.
FeedShot Multi-Feed
Submitter submits RSS feed to
20 RSS search engines
30
September 2005
FeedSweep streams content from one web site
to another
7
February 2005
display sports & business news on your site; updates &
news from other sites; FeedDigest
mixes RSS feeds & gives you code to put on your site; OK in
Firefox, erratic in Opera; Feedshake
mixes RSS feeds with two levels of expertise - regular &
advanced
Feedzilla
11 July 2006
one-stop-shop for bloggers
& webmasters tracks, collects, categorizes & delivers
online content
Find broken
links on your site with Xenu's Link Sleuth(TM)
11 July
2001
spidering software checks for broken links. Link verification on
"normal" links, images, frames, plugins, backgrounds, local image
maps, style sheets, scripts & java applets; continously
updated list of URLs you can sort by different criteria; reports
generated at any time
Five
Purposes of Metadata(Library + information update
Jul/Aug 2004)
Five
Steps To Create Streaming Video
6 June 2004
Digital video clips published online & "stream" instead of
requiring end user to fully download before viewing; encoded
video clips hosted "stream" their contents progressively to end
user(even people on dialup connections); links to useful
resources
Floodgap public
gopher proxy translates gopher pages
into HTML
15 April 2004
see gopher repository at Quux.org
Free Web
Hosting Sites
3 July 2006
Geocities-15Mb,
free Yahoo! 360º Blog, PageBuilder & PageWizard tools; Tripod site building
& file management tools, 20Mb of disk space, blog builder,
photo album builder; Angelfire
blog, photo album, & planet builders, site building & file management tools, 20Mb
disk space; Freewebs;
Google
Sites; 350pages create
web pages by template & customize headings, buttons, style,
colour, fonts, dividers, text, images & background; drag &
drop objects; file uploader will compress photos; enhance with
inbuilt photo editor; photo gallery; e-commerce features; Google
Sites - Share information with a few people, a whole
organization, or everyone (tutorial);
Frequently used tools
(IWebTools)
10 June 2006
Gateway to Educational
Materials
17 October 2003
consortium of education information providers & users;
metadata tools & standards; metadata for digital libraries.
Google
Knol
17 December 2007
selected people try knol(a unit of knowledge) tool; authoritive
articles on particular subjects; Write
better knols with object embedding & PicApp;
Google
Reader tracks updates on feedless web sites
26
January 2010
Google Play to
explore Google Reader items more visually; GR
adds support for video & audio Tags(only IE doesnt
now); Primer:
getting started with RSS; Feedly
converts Google Reader into a newspaper with browser plugins for
Chrome, Firefox, & Safari; 21 Oct 2011: Google
Reader integrating with Google+; 31
Oct 2011: Many of Reader's social features will soon be
available via Google+ retiring things like friending, following
& shared link blogs inside of Reader;
Google
sites free, easy way to create & share webpages
17 July 2009
Single-click page creation, Customizable look & feel, Dozens
of pre-built templates, Settings for accessing & sharing
information, free; Blog;
Google Webmaster
Central channel
6 August 2006
includes Site
Status
Wizard(indexed by Google?), Submit
Content
to Google Base & Book Search, Google
Webmaster Blog, Google
Webmaster
Group, & Google
Webmaster Help Center, [Google Sitemaps now called] Google
Webmaster Tools (Statistics, diagnostics, management of
Google's crawling & indexing;
Google Web
Toolkit(GWT) (builds
AJAX apps in JAVA)
6 October 2008
compiles Java applications down to JavaScript code for execution
in browser
Gopher Floodgap
public gopher proxy translates gopher pages into
HTML
15 April
2004
gopher repository at Quux.org
Graphics
editors See also Image editors
23
January 2010
STOIK Imagic 5.0.4 free
graphics editor previews & organizes images, indexes video
files into collapsible folders for manipulation; video editor can
mix media files & transform sounds; Windows 2000, XP or Vista;
Grazr
Javascript-based RSS feed reader to embed in your
site
22 August 2006
Greasemonkey
the Web
20 July 2006
Firefox extension adds
bits of DHTML(user scripts) to web page to change its behavior
Group
& Multi-user Blog Platforms compared
18 May 2005
Guidelines for Web Accessibility
12
December 2008
Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0;
How
To
Make
A
Website:
The Complete Guide
8 April 2011
Part
I: Understanding & writing HTML; Part
II: Styling & CSS; Part
III: Site from start to finish; Part
IV:
Choosing
a
host
&
launching
your site; Part
V: Additional Resources;
How To Publish Your Existing Web Site Content To RSS 4 January 2005
How
To Select Images For Web Publication
8 November 2007
HTML
& XML Tutorials
23 July 2002
Tutorials, tips, & information to help you
learn & master HTML & DHTML from About.com; HTML Code Tutorial;
Rendur:
dynamically
preview HTML & CSS;
htmlArea: A directory of browser-based WYSIWYG editors 27 February 2006
HTML
Cheatsheet
26 December 2002
HTML editors
PageBreeze free with
visual(WYSIWIG) & HTML tag/source models;
1 July 2007
TinyMCE - Javascript
WYSIWYG Editor(Moxiecode
Systems AB) platform independent, web based Open Source
under LGPL
licence; can convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements
to editor instances; integrates with Content Management Systems;
HTML to RSS
Converter (HTML scraping) & RSS Feed Generator (RSS Wizard)
20 February 2006
See How
To Create A RSS Feed From Any Web Page;
HTML/XML guide from About.com
29 April 2002
HTTrack Web Site Copier
7 June 2006
free; archivists build caches based on websites downloaded by
HTTRACK; save an entire site with just 2 or 3 clicks; back up
blogs & wikis hosted on 3rd party servers; download WWW
sites to local directory, building recursively all directories,
getting HTML, images, & other files from server; arranges
original site's relative link-structure; update existing
mirrored sites; resume interrupted downloads; See also 2
other local archivers;
iConvert converts
icons for multiple platforms
26 January 2009
supports file types: .icns, .ico, .png, .svg, .tif, .jpg, .bmp,
.tga, .cur & outputs to .hqx, .icns, .ico, .png; output files
flagged by which operating system they go to;
Image
editors
28
December 2006
Fauxto free Photoshop-like
interface based on layers; still in beta, no undo option; Online Image Editor
upload, resize or crop digital images free; Pxn8 to upload images, zoom,
resize, crop, rotate & adjust colors & image tones free;
red eye removal, whiten teeth; fully customized via CSS; upload
to Flickr; hosted version is free, license for installation on
private/corporate web server, US$749; Online
Image Editing Tools - The Best (Jan '07);
Inclue free RSS
reader for Outlook
27 April 2006
Get blogs, news, highlights, podcasts; Job listings, travel
deals, stock quotes, blog postings, new highlights; Windows
2000/X;
INetFormFiller Freeware
2.8.08
1 July 2005
automatically fill out forms & create individualized settings
for webpages; manage passwords & export or import user
profiles; Windows 2000+
Infominder
28 March 2002
free for monitoring up to 20 pages; monitor individual URLs or a
collection of bookmarks; email when a page changes; text changed
can be included in the email.
InfoRSS
8 May 2006
lightweight, non-intrusive, RSS, ATOM, NNTP & HTML headlines
reader for Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape & Thunderbird; extension
installs small icon in status bar, headlines are displayed besides
icon in status bar or in separate bar(top or bottom of screen);
drag & drop new URL of feed onto extension icon to add new
feed or click on extension icon to select specific feed to read;
feeds can be grouped;
Interface
& Navigation Design
30 August 2007
Design
Strategy: Using research & experience keywords to avoid
customers design ambitions
Internet Industry Codes of Practice(Internet Industry Association (Australia)) 12 August 2005
Internet related Catalogs 24 August 2004
Internet Watch Foundation hotline for reporting illegal
content
9 March 2005
Internetworking
social-networking technology
1 April 2004
work, college, church, neighborhood, friends & their friends;
2nd- or 3rd-degree connections can lead to that elusive potential
client or employer. Companies mentioned: Tribe.net+ Visible Path+ Spoke Software + Broadb& Mechanics+
LinkedIn+ Ryze
Intranets
2 April 2009
The Lean
Intranet: from Intranet Zero to Intranet 2.0 & beyond;
Part One:
Intranet Zero; Pt 2:
Intranet 1.0; Pt 3:
Intranet 2.0 and Intranet 3.0;
iPodder
2.0 Select &
download streaming audio programs; Windows
2000, XP, Mac OS 10.3+ 22 April 2005
iUplog
Personal Publisher
30
December 2004
integrates user-defined categories, RSS(automatic RSS feeds for
category, event & photo album), trackback, rich text
formatting, photo albums, basic traffic statistics(a-la-Typepad),
blogroll(self-managed list of links); posting from mobile
phones(email to personalized address); support for RSS
enclosures allows independent publishers to podcast(publish
MP3 audio clips, interviews or personal audio stories).
Java
Generics FAQs
26 June 2006
See also Free
Javascript Resource HTML Tutorials. HTML Scripts.CSS
Scripts, Server Side Includes
JetAudio Basic
7.0.3.3016
23 June 2007
compact application to create Internet broadcasts can play
all major file formats; nice cross-fade & bridge transitions
between songs as well; Windows 98+;
Juice
cross-platform podcast receiver
27 October 2006
implemented in Python, supports RSS protocols, scans for
enclosures, bitTorrent enclosures downloaded in background; select
& download shows & music to play on iPod, portable digital
media player or computer; Windows & Mac;
Kebberfegg:
Keyword Based RSS Feed Generator
6 October 2005
generate keyword-based RSS feeds from multiple sources with a
single search; enter query, specify categories of feeds, & get
feeds based on that query in HTML(with links to RSS feeds & My
Yahoo subscription link) or an OPML
file you can import into another RSS feed reader; select
categories of feeds you want to generate(news, blogs, press
releases) & plug RSS results into aggregator; create up to 64
feeds in 11 categories;
Kibin editing &
proofreading
15 October 2011
peer-editing review service; submit papers for review assistance
from someone in Kibin community; sign up to try service free or
purchase points to have someone edit document; FAQ; compatible
with all operating systems;
Kindle(Amazon)
ebook reader
18 October 2011
Footnotes
for the Kindle; Klip.me
browser add-on to reformat articles on internet & email to
your Kindle; Kindle
blog;
Krawler[x]
personal desktop media aggregator free social collaboration network tool
16 February 2006
to create, share & search multimedia content, building
vertical community; contextual P2P document search from: Office
documents presentations help files; tutorials; project data;
instant messenger, forums & full file transfer capabilities;
Windows & .NET Framework 1.1
ListGarden
1.0
30 June 2004
free Perl-based software program for generating RSS feeds runs
locally or remotely on different platforms, including Windows
Web servers that have installed Perl.
LiveJournal
7
December 2004
simple-to-use, customizable personal
publishing(blogging) tool built on open source software
LivingInternet.com
29 March 2002
Internet's history, design, usage; ranked by Google as world's
top site in Internet Courses category; only site with published
reference length work integrated with net, 2000+ intra-site
links; 2000+ external links;
MAILtoRSS
28 February 2004
FREE service for authoring RSS channels by email accepts text
& rich content email; email content to a secure MailbyRSS
account. Alternative:Awasu(free
RSS news reader) has plugin that takes email from POP or IMAP
account & generates feed for it.
Major Players on the Internet 8 December 2002
Make
Your Own Search Engine:
Step by Step Eurekster Swicki Tutorial
9 November 2005.
Eurekster Swickis are search engines tailored to you & your
community;
Managing
Web
Resources for Persistent Access
14 September 2003
Mashup Feed
29 January 2006
drawn from Mashup
& API
databases at ProgrammableWeb;
list of recent mashups - date added, Mouseover description &
list of APIs used; list of most popular mashups - date
updated, Mouseover description, list of APIs used, number of
visits, & average user rating; list of APIs ranked by number
of mashups - link to API's page at ProgrammableWeb.com; list of
most popular tags & times used - tag clouds for APIs &
for mashups; stats & an RSS feed; See also ProgrammableWeb
Web 2.0 Mashup Center
Mashups(web
application hybrids)
1
August 2006
website or web application that seamlessly
combines content from more than one source into an
integrated experience; technologies or
services conflated e.g. Retrivr
conflates Flickr's image
database & an experimental information architecture
algorithm to search images by
data not metadata;
by sketching images; WikiBios
users create online biographies of one another blending blogs
with social networks; OpenKapow
download free RoboMaker visual scripting tool for
point-&-click mashup interface & non-commercial REST,
RSS,ATOM or HTML services; ProgrammableWeb; Google
Mashup Editor rapid development framework for mashing
feeds into Google services using common technologies such as
XML, JavaScript, CSS & HTML; See Yahoo!
Pipes; Ultimate
Yahoo! Pipes Creations List; Mashups: What Are They?
Part
1- Mashup Genres & Technologies; Part
2 - Technical & Social Challenges; Mashups:
the new breed of Web App; an intro by Duane Merrill; Yahoo!
Pipes limited to data structured in certain formats whilst
Openkapow desktop
application allows manipulation of data from websites without
RSS feeds & APIs;
MasterNew
Media (Robbin Good) See Professional Online
Publishing: New media trends, communication skills, online
marketing
MediaFire
2 November 2006
upload multiple unlimited size files to share via copy &
paste codes, by email, AIM, or Yahoo Messenger; free
registration; unlimited bandwidth; .
MediaMiner
27 October 2005
data miner tool for news, press releases, stocks &
blogs; save results as HTML, pdf or XML(Atom or RSS); search for
specific media & present it on the web as XML or HTML;
useful for generating reports & sharing data; free trial;
Memento(real time
comparison of live & archived sites)
11 January 2011
technical framework aimed at better integrating current &
past Web adds a time dimension to HTTP protocol &, inspired
by content negotiation, introduces notion of datetime
negotation;
Memorandum
20 December 2001
Copyright Implications of Reproducing Published
Materials on Law School Course Web Sites
Metabrowser
authoring tool(aka Tag Tool) V. 1.8101
13 April 2005
view & edit metadata on websites; supports 12 standard
metadata schemas including DC, Australian Government Locator
Services(AGLS), NZGLS & Australian Justice Sector schema; 30
day free trial; $162.82; discounts for multiple installations
Metadata:
seven tips for writing better keywords
6 March 2006
Micro-blogging
platforms & activity stream sites
8 September 2007
10
Micro-Blogging Tools Compared(Twitter, Pownce, Tumblr,
Jaiku, MySay, MoodMill, Frazr, IRateMyDay, Emotionr, Yammer);
mon.itor.us
27
April 2006
free 24×7 website & server monitoring; server
performance & availability tests, uptime reports, alert
notifications; personalized page; all major browsers.
Movable Type 3.1 create weblogs using templates
& create static or dynamic page generation 18
September 2004
schedule posts to appear at any given time; Windows 95+; 6 June
2007Movable
Type 4.0 Becomes Social Media Platform with an open source
component(see also Wordpress);
WordPress
v Moveable Type;
MyFeedster Web-based RSS aggregator; free
registration
29 December 2003
requires user name, email, & password; add & delete
feeds, import or export OPML files; option of viewing feeds
updated recently or not. (If Feedster doesn't index a particular
feed, that feed won't have a timestamp); posts of one Web log at
a time, with search option;
MySpace free online
community Making
MySpace Almost Usable in 4 Steps
1
July 2006