Anytime I run into a web page design I like, I’ll spend some time looking under the covers to see what’s ticking. To help me do that there are some tools that make it very easy to spy on your favorite web pages. Even change a site’s page elements on the fly to see what [...]
August 2009
While writing about How to Stop Blog Comment Spam, I realized that all the comment policies I’ve read over the last couple years were starting to make sense. I’ve read a few and thought I’d start implementing a comments policy myself on one of my blogs. What led to this decision was finally receiving a [...]
One of my blogs was overwhelmed last week with quite a bit of comment spam. Luckily my host locked it down for me until I resolved the issue. Not too much fun when your site is shut down, but here are some remedies that will help you avoid your site from becoming 403′d – the [...]
Welcome again to another 10 more twitter tools to check out as well as my twitter series that you’ll find on my Twitter category page. However, I’ve listed nine tools, allowing you and me to fill in more tools in the comments section. Let me know if any of these help you. Have fun. 1. WeFollowFriday [...]
This past week I found myself creating a web page of images to display in thumbnail size (150px wide), load quickly, but also resize to full size when a user clicked an image. Although there are other tools out there you can use, I used a free Windows program that’s been sitting in my tools [...]
In the article 4 Screen Recording Tools I mentioned TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio to record screencasts because it gives you a lot of tools to get creative, like callouts and transitions to name a couple. But, sometimes you just want a quick way to do screencasts without starting up a program like Camtasia. The solution is [...]
I was creating a screencast and wondered if there was a way to create one in HD or High Definition now that YouTube and other video sharing sites support HD videos that you create. A quick Google search resulted in the article How to Make 720p High Definition Screencast Videos for YouTube from Digital Inspiration. Here’s [...]
