My Website Tools

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For those of you who eat up my RSS feed (thank you), you may not know that I have some pretty helpful tools on my website.

Alexa Rank Fetcher

Your Alexa rank can come into play when you try to sell advertising on your website.

https://davidwalsh.name/alexa-rank-fetcher/

CSS Compressor

Don't make your website visitors download your bloated CSS file! Use my CSS compressor to clear extra whitespace!

https://davidwalsh.name/css-compressor/

Domain Availability Checker

Need to know if that domain is available? Use my domain checker. I wont auto-reserve it like Network Solutions -- I promise!

https://davidwalsh.name/whois-domain-availability-checker/

Google Result Grabber

Need to know how many pages your customer has indexed in Google since you gave them a great SEO run? Find out!

https://davidwalsh.name/google-domain-results-number/

.htaccess Username / Password Generator

I use this all the time. If your client needs a directory protected, you're gonna need to generate the password somewhere.

https://davidwalsh.name/htaccess-username-password-generator/

Javascript Compressor

Javascript files can get bloated in a hurry -- save some bandwidth!

https://davidwalsh.name/javascript-compressor-packer/

XHTML Compressor

Have some text you know doesn't need to be updated again? Pack it for good!

https://davidwalsh.name/xhtml-html-compressor/

Recent Features

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    An Interview with Eric Meyer

    Your early CSS books were instrumental in pushing my love for front end technologies. What was it about CSS that you fell in love with and drove you to write about it? At first blush, it was the simplicity of it as compared to the table-and-spacer...

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    Chris Coyier’s Favorite CodePen Demos

    David asked me if I'd be up for a guest post picking out some of my favorite Pens from CodePen. A daunting task! There are so many! I managed to pick a few though that have blown me away over the past few months. If you...

Incredible Demos

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    Scroll IFRAMEs on iOS

    For the longest time, developers were frustrated by elements with overflow not being scrollable within the page of iOS Safari.  For my blog it was particularly frustrating because I display my demos in sandboxed IFRAMEs on top of the article itself, so as to not affect my site's...

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    Spoiler Prevention with CSS Filters

    No one likes a spoiler.  Whether it be an image from an upcoming film or the result of a football match you DVR'd, sometimes you just don't want to know.  As a possible provider of spoiler content, some sites may choose to warn users ahead...

Discussion

  1. The link to the css compressor gives me a “not found” :(

  2. @Jade: All of these tools have been moved to:

    http://davidwalsh.name/web-development-tools

Wrap your code in <pre class="{language}"></pre> tags, link to a GitHub gist, JSFiddle fiddle, or CodePen pen to embed!