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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    How I Stopped WordPress Comment Spam

    I love almost every part of being a tech blogger:  learning, preaching, bantering, researching.  The one part about blogging that I absolutely loathe:  dealing with SPAM comments.  For the past two years, my blog has registered 8,000+ SPAM comments per day.  PER DAY.  Bloating my database...

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    fetch API

    One of the worst kept secrets about AJAX on the web is that the underlying API for it, XMLHttpRequest, wasn't really made for what we've been using it for.  We've done well to create elegant APIs around XHR but we know we can do better.  Our effort to...

Incredible Demos

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    PHP Woot Checker – Tech, Wine, and Shirt Woot

    If you haven't heard of Woot.com, you've been living under a rock. For those who have been under the proverbial rock, here's the plot: Every day, Woot sells one product. Once the item is sold out, no more items are available for purchase. You don't know how many...

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    Full Width Textareas

    Working with textarea widths can be painful if you want the textarea to span 100% width.  Why painful?  Because if the textarea's containing element has padding, your "width:100%" textarea will likely stretch outside of the parent container -- a frustrating prospect to say the least.  Luckily...

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

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