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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    5 HTML5 APIs You Didn’t Know Existed

    When you say or read "HTML5", you half expect exotic dancers and unicorns to walk into the room to the tune of "I'm Sexy and I Know It."  Can you blame us though?  We watched the fundamental APIs stagnate for so long that a basic feature...

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    Being a Dev Dad

    I get asked loads of questions every day but I'm always surprised that they're rarely questions about code or even tech -- many of the questions I get are more about non-dev stuff like what my office is like, what software I use, and oftentimes...

Incredible Demos

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    Creating Spacers with Flexbox

    I was one of the biggest fans of flexbox before it hit but, due to being shuffled around at Mozilla, I never had the chance to use it in any practice project; thus, flexbox still seems like a bit of a mystery to me.  This greatly...

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    MooTools: Set Style Per Media

    I'd bet one of the most used MooTools methods is the setStyle() method, which allows you to set CSS style declarations for an element. One of the limitations of MooTools' setStyle() method is that it sets the specific style for all medias.

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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