Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category

Stop Comment Spam On Your Blog

Posted in Tools | On 18th February 2010 | 10 Comments
Stop Comment Spam On Your Blog

As most bloggers know comment spam is highly annoying and can make your blog look really unprofessional and look somewhat unmaintained.
There are a few hosted online services that can rid you of your spam, and when used with a good solid Captcha can almost eradicate it all, leaving you with actual responses and replies.
Below are [...]

12 Essential Captcha Solutions

Posted in Tools | On 17th February 2010 | 15 Comments
12 Essential Captcha Solutions

Unfortunately in modern web design we now have to work around people abusing our contact forms and comment boxes, if left unprotected we can literally be overwhelmed by spam in a relatively short space of time.
Fortunately we now have Captchas (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) and we can add [...]

10 Online Resources For Code Snippets

Posted in Tools | On 11th February 2010 | 6 Comments
10 Online Resources For Code Snippets

These kind of resources can be a coding goldmine, when you get stuck on a problem odds are someone else has has the exact same issue at some point, so in these archives coders share snippets for a multitude of languages which may help you out.
They can be used to simply save code for yourself [...]

A Selection Of PHP Frameworks

Posted in Tools | On 7th February 2010 | 15 Comments
A Selection Of PHP Frameworks

PHP can be extremely useful when you are working on web applications or web services, they quickly allow them to be built and keep the app relatively lightweight.
Whether your fluent in PHP or not, PHP frameworks can be huge timesavers for anyone creating apps or softwares and they have a pretty gentle learning curve.
Below are [...]

A Few Twitter Tools To Monitor Trends And Your Stats

Posted in Tools | On 3rd February 2010 | 12 Comments
A Few Twitter Tools To Monitor Trends And Your Stats

Twitter socially speaking probably contains more data and realtime information than any other resource on the web, you can find pretty much every niche and topic imaginable, as a networking tool you can have some awesome results and really promote your product/project to the masses.
So with all this data Twitter holds its probably beneficial to [...]

Online Tools For Image Optimization and Resizing

Posted in Tools | On 30th January 2010 | 6 Comments
Online Tools For Image Optimization and Resizing

Website optimization in general is an important factor for any designer as page load times can be crucial, if your page takes 30 seconds to load users will not want to hang around.
What we are covering today is image optimization, basically image optimization is making your images smaller without losing quality so your page loads [...]

The Print Designer’s Toolkit

Posted in Tools | On 29th January 2010 | 12 Comments
The Print Designer’s Toolkit

Print designers can’t do the job without the proper tools at their disposal. These tools include industry standard software packages, essential physical tools used on a daily basis and several online applications, which can give you a winning edge over competitors. We’ve compiled a list of these tools below for you to peruse.
Chances are if [...]

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