The latest Adobe hosted web service, BrowserLab, was launched as a free preview for webmasters who want an instant report about a certain website compatibility across multiple web browsers. BrowserLab is a tool for testing websites compatibility with various web browsers, providing multiple viewing options and comparison tools, alongside highly customizable preferences.
A widget represents a small application capable to run on your desktop. Opera Widgets are cross-platform and cross-device compatible applications that can be built only by using common Web technologies like HTML, JavaScript or CSS. Opera Widgets Software Development Kit (SDK) comes to simplify the widgets development process because it provides tools, libraries, documentation, and examples on how to make Opera Widgets for various devices.
SPNbabble is a new microblogging platform deployed with Laconica software. It provides services similar with Twitter, Jaiku and Plurk, but SPNbabble is intended primarily for webmasters and site owners. People are allowed to publish short messages of 140 characters over the web. The messages are transmitted directly through the web, RSS feeds or can be automatically published in the same time on Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, Plurk and other popular social networking services.
Starting from the idea of focusing user attention only over the playback of a movie published inside a web page, Paul Bakaus has made a media player called Uberplayer and coded with JavaScript, that does not show unnecessary elements during the video file playback. If an user runs a movie within Uberplayer, only a search interface and video information are shown at the top of the graphical interface. Uberplayer provides slide-in elements for controlling the video with the help of the mouse or keyboard.
YouTube is a great source of video content for any website or blog. Every video published on YouTube website has an automatically generated HTML code, which can be copied and pasted into an existing website page in order to include and republish a certain video. If you want to create a full featured PHP video blog or website, there are available many libraries to simplify the YouTube video republishing process. A free library to display YouTube video galleries automatically in WordPress blog posts, pages or sidebar is TubePress.
Usually, in order to have a presence over the Internet with a new website, you must register and buy a domain name. As an alternative, free domain names offers you multiple possibilities to shorten an existing subdomain name or deploy a completely free website. Free domain names can be managed in a similar manner as payed ones, like the manual setting of Domain Name Servers, changing of current zone records or defining an URL forwarding method.
Mozilla Labs has started eighteen months ago an experiment called Prism, which allows Internet users to bring any website or web based application directly to the desktop. The web experience will be based on the same features like in case of Internet navigation with web browser, but in absence of it. Now, the developers from Mozilla Labs have released Prism 1.0 Beta, alongside a new website, where users can download Prism as a Firefox extension or as standalone application.
There are many situations when you need to have a different layout for a certain page in a WordPress blog from various reasons. For example, a banner does not fit to the layout offered by the default page template or you just want to remove a sidebar because an iframe does not appear correctly. The solution for these issues is simpler than you might think: WordPress platform supports more pages templates with different layouts, that can be selected while a new page is edited or created from the administration area.
If you have a website created with the popular WordPress blogging platform and want to deploy a forum within your blog, WP Forum plugin provides the easiest alternative to other complex methods, like the integration of an external phpBB 3 bulletin board. The WP Forum plugin is a simple to use bulletin board and supports BB code, as well as posts moderation. The forum appearance is customizable through skins (three skins are provided by default) that can be changed easily from the WordsPress administration interface.
If you do not want to spend money with a paid website promotion campaign, such as pay per click programs, there are also other free ways to increase your website traffic and popularity, as well as to create a high number of one way links (direct links) to an existing website. The most important web places where your website URL must be present and can be published for free are search engines result pages and web directories. In this article are described the main steps that should be performed in order to promote a website through web directories.
Google AdSense users can easily predict their daily, monthly and yearly earnings with AdSense Calculator, a simple to use web based tool which can be accessed from any modern web browser. The AdSense Calculator takes into account the values of Daily Page Impressions, Click Through Rate (CTR) and Cost Per Click (CPC) parameters and displays the estimated results for earnings, correlated with the daily, monthly and yearly number of clicks.
Piwigo (formerly PhpWebGallery) is a web based images publishing and management tool, which allows you to create photo galleries online. It is a PHP application which stores the data into a MySQL database. In addition, Piwigo provides an API, enabling the possibility to request data from within other PHP applications to display photos or for administrative purposes for example. This PHP / MySQL application has an enhanced navigation system through tags, categories trees or based on picture’s metadata (chronology).
Google has recently introduced, O3D, an open-source JavaScript API which allows the creation of 3D graphics applications capable to run in a web browser. Based on O3D JavaScript API, you are enabled to build virtual worlds, games, product demos and more 3D interactive applications. The O3D application can be deployed as a browser plugin and as a consequence, the users do not have to download and run the standalone application on their operating systems. Even more, the applications performance is maximized by the usage of GPU’s shader language directly, as compared with the software rendering.
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