Google Maps Mania

Using Google Maps? Google Maps Mania is a blog that tracks the latest in resources for those interested in using or developing Google Maps ‘mashups.’
Google Maps Mania is a blog which tracks these new and interesting Google Maps that are being created by people across the web. There is an extensive categorized list of these […]

Preview and Download Fonts from dafont.com

dafont.com has free fonts you can download fonts to use in your documents, create titles or logos. Best of all, they have a font preview feature so you can type in a word or phrase and see the text previewed before you bother to download the font. Very nice.

iNFOSYSSEC’s Web-based Network Information Tools

iNFOSYSSEC hosts the most complete collection of web-based network information tools I’ve seen in one place. It’s free, and indespensible to any technophile needing to do some network diagnostics, or anyone wanting to quickly research domain names.

Smart Whois
NSLookup and Reverse Lookup
Anti-Spam Multi-tool
Server Response Time
HTTP Headers
Company Factsheet
NetCraft Domain Reporter
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Adding Really Simple (And Free) Chat To Your Web Site

With this software package called ARSC (Really Simple Chat) you can add chat features to your Web site. Runs on PHP and MySQL, relatively easy to set up — what’s not to like?
Once installed on your webserver, ARSC provides a chat interface to the visitors of your site. Your visitors need no special plugins or […]

How to create a favicon.ico for your website

A Favicon is that little icon that shows up in the address bar of your Web browser. Most good Web sites have them. While they’re fairly easy to create (all you need is a 16×16 graphic) they’ve just got a bit easier.
Favicon from Pics is a Web site where you can upload your own image […]

Secure Files in WordPress

WP plugin: Secure Files Allows you to safely upload and download documents stored outside of your web document root for security purposes.

This is great for people using plugins like Registered Only that secure your Wordpress blog (Posts, Pages, etc). The problem with these plugins is that your loose files aren’t protected - only the contents […]

Web Design Cheat Sheets

It can be helpful to have a suite of ‘cheat sheets’ on hand if you do web design or programming. Some cheat sheets available on the web include:

Photoshop CS2 Shortcut Cheat Sheet
Dreamweaver MX Cheat Sheet
CSS Cheat Sheet
PHP Cheat Sheet […]

Making Web Site Printer-Friendly

An excellent discussion of how to make your web site ‘printer friendly’ at A List Apart. 

Alternative CMS’s

For robust content management, my favorite product is Expressions Engine (for complex web sites such as news sites) and WordPress (yeah, it’s a blog, but it’s easy and does all the content management most simple sites need). Both are PHP/MySQL based, and easily extensible by plugins, custom code, API tags, or simply hacking the PHP […]

Workaround to IE Google Maps Bug

Last night I finally figured out a workaround to a frustrating Google Maps issue in Internet Explorer.
I’ve seen IE have problems with perfectly valid HTML in many other cases. Here’s the latest IE issue.
You can’t enclose a Google Map within a <div> tag and have the Google Map render correctly in Internet Explorer. I […]