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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    LightFace:  Facebook Lightbox for MooTools

    One of the web components I've always loved has been Facebook's modal dialog.  This "lightbox" isn't like others:  no dark overlay, no obnoxious animating to size, and it doesn't try to do "too much."  With Facebook's dialog in mind, I've created LightFace:  a Facebook lightbox...

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    9 Mind-Blowing Canvas Demos

    The <canvas> element has been a revelation for the visual experts among our ranks.  Canvas provides the means for incredible and efficient animations with the added bonus of no Flash; these developers can flash their awesome JavaScript skills instead.  Here are nine unbelievable canvas demos that...

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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    Animated AJAX Record Deletion Using jQuery

    I'm a huge fan of WordPress' method of individual article deletion. You click the delete link, the menu item animates red, and the item disappears. Here's how to achieve that functionality with jQuery JavaScript. The PHP - Content & Header The following snippet goes at the...

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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