Working with a web forum can be a dreadful task. Setting up categories, permissions, and public/password posts can hurt. Trying to attract users to your forum is hard enough, why should setting up the forum be the same? Replace those fears with a scoop of Vanilla.
When dealing with clients, whether you freelance or not, it is important to maintain a constant line of communication. Details the client wants may get lost in translation or simply forgotten. You used to have to pay top dollar for the ability to share files, send emails, assign tasks, and payment integration. Not anymore.
Using Excel to add, organize, edit, and search your data can be a pain. Not only will it be available only on that computer, but to customize the look, mass edit, or export to pdf, charts, or even maps, would be impossible. Say goodbye to Excel and hello to DabbleDB.
Sometimes choosing a color can be a bit intimidating, and for good reason. There’s 16.7 millions colors for you to choose from! The one question you have to answer for yourself then is which color are you going to choose? Or should I say, Kuler?
We always found it odd why Feedburner required you to doubly opt-in. First, you enter their Captcha code before sending you a confirmation email with an activation link inside. Well, FeedMyInbox did what Feedburner didn’t – make it extremely easy to subscribe to any RSS feed via email.
You’re on the road and you don’t have your laptop. A friend calls to warn you a photo you uploaded has someone doing **insert something ridiculous here** in the background. The nearest computer is a cyber cafe, and the nearest thing to Photoshop is Microsoft Paint. Thankfully, Splashup came up with a solution.
Firefox, Safari, IE, Oh My! Windows, MAC, Linux, Oh My! With more operating system/browser configurations than you can shake a stick at, the ability to make a cross-browser, cross-operating system, website is getting harder than ever. BrowserShots takes care of all that.
Designers would create attractive themes and interfaces, but when content overflowed and scrolling was necessary, those pesky gray scrollbars would appear and clash with the design. With the failure of scrollbar CSS properties, designers were forced to design scroll-less themes. Not anymore.
Displaying code on a blog or website can be a frustrating task. Simply enclosing our code within PRE tags can sometimes cause more problems than it solves. What you need is an attractive way to display code that’s powerful enough to be used by tutorial giants like Nettuts, and easy enough to be installed on a personal blog. May I present SyntaxHighlighter.
After launching on August 1st, we have seen some incredible traffic! Yesterday alone we received over 1000+ visits, and now have 50 RSS subscribers; and we’re just getting started. Apparently people like useful, open source, original web apps (Who knew?) In any case, there’s never been a better time to advertise! (Quite literally since we just launched 3 weeks ago) Click on the “Download” link below to view our analytics reports to see for yourself.
When developing websites for clients, I often find that they either don’t have the time to learn a content management system like Joomla and Drupal, or they get overwhelmed by the dozens of publishing features. Sometimes you just need to change the paragraph on the front page, and for that you need a web app like CushyCMS.
Ever have a recent surge in traffic but not realize what happened until four hours later because you were using Google Analytics? Perhaps you want to show off your traffic in an attractive and easily embeddable format? Let me introduce you to the truly analytical world of a great open source program named Piwik.
