My Website Tools

By David Walsh on February 7, 2008

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

By David WalshApril 15, 2015
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...
By David WalshJuly 28, 2011
Animating CSS3 Transforms with MooTools Fx
I recently posted an awesome (if I may say so myself) CSS3 / MooTools tutorials called Create a Photo Stack Effect with Pure CSS Animations or MooTools. The post presented two ways, a pure CSS method or MooTools-powered class, to duplicate Google+'s elegant photo stack...

By David WalshMay 13, 2013
Multiple Background CSS Animations
CSS background animation has been a hot topic for a long time, mostly because they look pretty sweet and don't require additional elements. I was recently asked if it was possible to have multiple background animations on a given element and the answer is yes...with...
By David WalshOctober 27, 2011
Control Element Outline Position with outline-offset
I was recently working on a project which featured tables that were keyboard navigable so obviously using cell outlining via traditional tabIndex=0 and element outlines was a big part of allowing the user navigate quickly and intelligently. Unfortunately I ran into a Firefox 3.6 bug...

Jade Robbins
The link to the css compressor gives me a “not found” :(
david
@Jade: All of these tools have been moved to:

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