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Easy Blogging Writing Web Service Without Technical Knowledge Needed

Neha — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:30:43 +0000

Blogging has become a huge rage not just with the gadget crazy whiz kids or the technical freaks, but with the regular folks out there with bare minimum technical expertise. WordPress and Blogspot have been there for a long time and have for long been the best avenues for posting content online. However, people are often on a constant look for out for something which further simplifies the process so that they can completely focus on the content.

Calepin is one such cakewalk option up for grabs for everyone who finds maintenance of dashboard a huge overhead. This blogging tool takes simplicity to an absolutely new level which will be relished by a lot of technically challenged writers. The tool lets you completely enjoy the writing process while promising to take care of making it presentable for sharing it with the larger audience.

As a first time user, sign up on the website and you are good to go. A dropbox will be made available to you with a folder where you just have to upload basic blog post in plain-text. Anytime you want your post to be made public, just hit the ‘Publish’ button and you task is over. Calepin will immediately publish your entries under the URL as per the convention: .calepin.co. No formatting and minimal intervention is needed from the user.

Calepin has two innovative features which are unique and make this website original in concept. Markdown and Dropbox are extensively used as helpers by the website. The underlying concept of dropbox is to facilitate easy conversion of plain text document into a blog post. It looks like a simple folder on the web which provides you 2GB space completely free for uploading your works. It also syncs up all your writing on different devices like laptop, iPhone or desktop.

Markdown as per the website “allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, and then convert it to structurally valid HTML”. It saves you from the learning heavy dose HTML and has very easy syntax to follow. You can read more about Markdown in the FAQ section for details around compatible editors.

This self publish tool also generates Atom Feed for people to subscribe to your blog. It is indeed a tool which allows you to have your cake and eat it too!

Visit: http://calepin.co/#

Easily Make Backup Of Your Website

rahul — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:53:15 +0000

If you are a webmaster than there is nothing more painful than losing your websites data, suppose you mistakenly delete something or if your website got hacked and hackers wiped off all your data from server than you will left with only one option and its restore your web site from an external backup.

So creating a backup is must for every webmaster, creating backup is not the thing you have to make regular backup so that latest file of your website remains with you, SnatchCode is a nice web service which lets you automatically backup all your website.

SnatchCode backup your web site through FTP and MySQL, In order to take up automatic backup , SnatchCode will need ftp information of the folder which needs to be secured. So a user will need to enter his website’s correct FTP details , and rest will be done by them.

As a backup is made you will be notified via an email and then you can download your backup copy anytime through your dashboard.

This web service provides a nice feature, UNDO, suppose you are working on your web site and designing it but on this process you had mistakenly deleted some files and thus your web site stop loading, so now you will need hard to get it fix as you have to look at each and every code.

But using SnachCode’s UNDO feature if you website files get broken , all you have to do is to login into the dashboard and press “Undo” button. SnatchCode’s system will automatically fetch the latest available backup of your website and replace it with the broken files.

You may choose whether you want to backup your files daily, weekly or so on.

If you had a small website which is less than of 1 GB then you can use their free version but if you had bigger website then go for premium one.All plans provide one click backup.

you may take a look at video below to know more :- SnatchCode on Vimeo.

Visit site :- SnatchCode

Quickly Create Favicon For Your Web Site

rahul — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:54:05 +0000

If you are a webmaster then you must know the importance of favicon for your web site or blog, favicon is that icon which is placed just before your web sites or blog’s address in address bar of browser, it look nice and give a nice look to web site too.

Every web site owner use favicon for their web sites, favicon also helps to distinguish your blog with others, and this is the icon which is shown when anyone Bookmarks your website, these icon are small in size, generally 16×16 pixel but you can use 32×32 pixel to but 16×16 pixel is best one for your web site or blog.

But if you wanna create a favicon for your web site or blog then you can use any image editing tool out there, but if you don’t edit photos and don’t have a image editing tool then its not a good idea to buy and install a program just to create a favicon.

Favicon.Cc is a free online web service which allows you to create wonderful favicon for you, you can create your favicon in just few minutes and it can be used on your blog, you can create a new icon by your own by painting those squares with your favorite colors.

Or you can upload a image from your computer and edit it to generate your favicon, you can set the transparency level of your logo, can erase any part of it, not only this you can also create animated favicon for yourself too.

Once you are done with edit you can download it and then place it on your websites root folder and refresh your webpage and you will see Favicon now appears, you can also publish your icon on Favicon under CC (Creative Commons) license.

You can also search for others Favicon or browse with the help of Tags which are available their and see the work of other.

Visit Site :- Favicon

An Online Tool To Get Full Information About Any Website

rahul — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:55:49 +0000

If you are planning to launch a new web site of your own then before doing so you need to do a lots of research on it, like what kind of audience to target what keywords to use and so on, and for this you can analyze your competitors websites and then make your own strategies and use it on your own website.

RifScan is a free online tool which allows you to analyze any website, it can analyze almost any website which is present on internet, it will tell you almost all data about that site like how many visitors that site get daily, what’s its page view what’s its alexa ranking and lots more.

The website is very easy to use, all you need to do is visit it and then type the full address of the site which information you are looking for in on search box and then hit enter, it will take few seconds it fetch data regarding that site and once it get then it will present it in a simple manner.

It will tell you that websites description of that site, a small thumbnail of that sites homepage, its Google Page ranking, what’s its ranking in Alexa, what’s the number of its visitors and what keywords that website is using to attract visitors.

It also tell you when last Google Bot has visited site, how many back links that site is getting, web page indexed by Google and Bing, whether its listed in DMOZ or not and the age of that web site means how old that site is, and an amazing thing it shows is worth of site, it could be useful if you wanna sell your website.

It also shows WHOIS information about the site and some top similar websites with it, you can visit RIFSCAN on your mobile by simply visiting its mobile website or you can download its mobile app on your Symbian, Windows Phone, iOS, Android, MeeGo, BlackBerry, Bada or palm webOS and get information about any websites on the go.

Visit Site :- RifScan

An Online CSS Editor To Edit and Preview CSS

rahul — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:30:14 +0000

Many of you might be running your own blog or website, there are some time when you need to make the changes in your web site or blog so that it can meet the new format of web. You cant keep same format over the long time.

But while making changes on your website you cant take risk of making while running website, because if anything went wrong then it might spoil your whole website, so it’s a best option that you make any kind of changes not directly to website, but test it before making it live.

WebPutty is an nice online CSS editor which can help you to make changes on your websites CSS, you can not only make changes in your website’s CSS but can also see how those changes will look like as it provide live preview, means as you make modification changes will be shown immediately.

Here it will be noted that changes are shown inside the WebPutty interface not on your real website. After creating your account either you can upload CSS or can import it directly through your website.

To import you need to copy an code provided by WebPutty between your and tag of your header, once code is added your CSS will be imported and you will see it in right side pane and your website will be shown on the left side pane.

Now you can start making changes to it, each and every change made by you in right side pane will take effect in left side pane and you can know how your website will look like with current change.

If you put your cursor on CSS editor then on the left pane all matching elements will be highlighted and you can easily recognize and can make changes to it.

There are two drop down option at the top of preview pane or the pane showing your website, Preview which will show the current changes which are being made by you and another on is Published which shows how your website looks to other who are currently viewing it.

WebPutty supports SASS (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) and SCSS (Sassy CSS).

Once you are happy with the design you can publish it by just clicking on Publish button on top right corner.

You can take a look at the video below to know more :-

Visit Website :- WebPutty

Translate Your Web Site Into User Friendly Language

rahul — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:30:50 +0000

Many time when we search for some content over internet then we land on some web sites which language is something different and we cant understand it and then we go for some other web sites which are understood by us.

If you are a webmaster then you may face these kind of problems and this cause us to loss visitors and it will not a good sign for your website or blog, as visitors are all for you and if you loss them then you are left with nothing.

So you must provide user friendly content for your website in readers language, it may not be possible for you to write on every language, you may use free widget of Google which let users to translate you webpage into their favorite language, but some user might don’t wanna do another click or sometime they wont find it.

You may use GTranslate which powerful translator allows you to translate your website into multi-language, means more than in 65 languages are supported by GTranslate, it uses Google and Bing translator tool to translate your web site or blog, and when users land on your page they will get content delivered on their favorite language automatically.

All translated pages are hosted on Gtranslate URL, like http://gtranslate.net/fr/URL, and all your Adsense ads get translated to another language too, there are 2 plans, Free and Pro, You will get analytics for your account, means you will be able to know from where.

Pro account allows different search engines to index the translated pages of your website for wider audiences. This is perfect for online stores and directories. People will be able to find a product you sell by searching in their native language.

On pro account you can ask human to translate your website, all translated pages will be cached to make sure the next run would be smooth.You will be able to edit the translations manually also.All the HTML websites are supported. However the contents of media files like images and flash will not be translated.

Visit Site :- Gtranslate

Check Your Web Page SEO Information

rahul — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:56:43 +0000

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a very vital section on any website, almost all webmasters pay close attention on this topic, they do a lot on search engine optimization of their website, even new web new web masters also do a lot to optimize their web site and gain web traffic from search engine.

Most of the web masters optimize whole web site through meta tags, keyword and most of the time the don’t do anything on individual page, they forget to customize their individual web page, but its very important to optimize single page also to gain high traffic.

SeoPageExplorer is nice place which can help you to optimize and tell the section in which you can work and improve you pages SEO.

To start just visit the site SeoPageExplorer and enter the webpage URL, here you must notice that you have to enter individual web page URL not the URL of your website, and then click on Go button,

Then you will first see the score of your web page, this score is calculated on the basis of various things like meta tags, meta keywords etc. used in the web page, on the same page you will see various Tabs, the first one is of Title and Meta, it will show title, and description used in the web page.

This is what search engine crawler see when it hit your web page, next Tab is of Keywords, this will tell you the most popular keywords of your web page, it will tell you the used keywords in Title, URL and in Meta, if you found they are not there then you can add them by spending few minutes.

Linking of web pages is very important, it will increase the page rank of your website, both internal and external linking has its own importance, on the Link tab you will find both Internal and External links and percentage of internal page links.

Lynx tab will show you how a text based web browser will see your web page or you can say that this is the exact way in which a search engine will see your web page, it will tells you how special characters used by you on your web page are seen by search engines.

Visit Site :- SeoPageExplorer

Create An Animated Loading Image Online For Your Website/Blog

rahul — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:00:40 +0000

If you are an web developer Or web owner then you must be working hard to create an Load Animation for your website, load animation is an animation which shows that requested page or any other request made by the user is being processed, your browser will tell you that page is being loaded but its an good and nice idea to show or provide information from your end too.

Creating load animation is not an easy task, many web owner or web developers keep some load animations in their libraries or on their computer and reuse those animations over and over again.

But if you are looking for something new for your website and wanna develop new load animation but don’t have time to create new one or you don’t have much knowledge about CSS then CSS Load is an perfect app for you.

You can create bars or spinner animations for AJAX and JQuery by using CSSLoad, The process of creating Load animation at CSS Load is very easy and after creating animation you will get a code which you can use on your website.

To get, just visit the website and then select one animation style from 8 presented in the left side, animations are consist of bar and disc/ spinner styles.

Once you select any animation it will be shown under Your Animation Preview and any change or customization you will made will reflect here.

To customize click on the box just next to First Color and select any color of your choice from the Color Picker and then set the brightness level from the box at the mid.If you load animation support second color then select color and brightness level for it too.

Now its time to select the size of your animation, just choose the appropriate Height and Width which you are required, and at last select the speed of your animation from the horizontal Animation Speed bar.

To preview your animation just click on the Generate Preview button and then you will get a preview of your animation which you had just made, if you are satisfied with your animation then click on Get Code button and copy it and paste to your HTML of CSS file.

Create Your Own Load Animation :- CSSLoad

Now Create RSS Feeds Of Any Website Even If The Website Doesn’t Provide The RSS Feed Option

Kabir — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:49:06 +0000

As an avid reader and online surfer, I used to face a lot of problems while surfing the internet especially when the web site didn’t have an RSS feed.

I could just not open it up on Google Reader and thus ended up blacklisting such web sites. Trust me, it can never get more irritating than unable to opening a file or a blog entry or even a news feed for that matter.

FeedDude came as a pleasant surprise and also as a savior. It helps you convert a web page into RSS feed which you can easily access from Google Reader.

Gone are the days of sufferings and frustrations my fellow readers, FeedDude is here, it’s a free service which requires no signing-up.

How to use? Well, all you have to do is copy-paste the URL of the web page and hit ‘enter’. Next thing you know is that you are able to download the ‘entry’ directly by clicking on the link provided by FeedDude. Try out this new service and let us know about your views on it.

Do keep in mind that if you want to use the service commercially for bulk web sites, then there is a paltry fee of just $9.99 per month which you have to pay.

Visit : www.FeedDude.com/

Monitor Uptime Of Upto 50 Servers From 2 Locations For Free

rahul — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:30:52 +0000

If you are an webmaster then it is very necessary for you to look the uptime of your servers or website. you will need to get notified whenever your website or server goes down so that you can take appropriate action on time.

tagBeep is a free tool to monitor the uptime of your website, it is a very useful tool for every webmaster, you can add upto 50 servers on it and get notified whenever anyone of them goes down or is unreachable.

tagBeep checks the uptime of servers from two locations, US and EU (European Union), it sits on your system tray and shows all added websites on it,

All up websites are shown with green icon just next to them whereas all down websites are shown with a red icon next to them, to add a website you can click on Check –> Add and then it will open your browser and from there you can add website.

tagBeep not only sends alerts when there is slow response time, timeouts, blank pages or content errors on your server/website.

It will also lets you Test the pagination and archive pages of your site with randomly generated numbers and dates.

It will also let you get sms alerts whenever your server goes down, It will also save the thumbnail of errors which it get during checking uptime of website/server.

If you have some kind of error reporting on your app, the page that generated the downtime alert will be saved by our system.

It will checks your servers/websites even if you had turned off your computer system, it will check and sends alerts to you.

Features :-

Allows you to add upto 50 servers/websites,
Totally free tool,
Checks uptime 24 hrs,
Sends free SMS alerts
Alerts you for slow response time, timeouts, blank pages or content errors on your server/website,
Also sends email alerts

Currently this tool is in beta version and several other features are expected to be introduced in coming versions like you might have to pay for SMS alerts, and so on.

Visit Site :- tagBeep