Dear Lifehacker, Like most Lifehacker readers, I love Dropbox. And I use it a lot. But I’m wondering: What sort of bandwidth limits does Dropbox place on my file sharing? Could I use Dropbox to host static files for my website? More »
Opening a browser and loading a website you built yourself is a great moment. If you or someone you know needs some help getting to that point, The Web Book is a free, roughly 300-page PDF resource of DIY web building. More »
Though you can make a strong argument for hand coding your web site the appeal of a What You See Is What You Get approach is undeniable. This week we take a look at the five most popular tools for WYSIWYG HTML editing. More »
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I have a single HTML file that I would like to post online. I don’t need scripts or web editors or any of that. What is the best (and cheapest) way to post a plain, non-dynamic web page? More »
If you’ve got any kind of web presence, showing up in Google’s search results is undoubtedly important to you. So there’s few things more annoying than discovering that your site simply doesn’t show up, even if you’ve specifically submitted it and done a search that includes your domain name. What gives? More »
Windows/Mac/Linux (with Adobe AIR): Polaris is a free Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics (Google’s statistics tracking tool for web publishers) to your desktop with an attractive look and feel. More »
Testing your own site’s loading time doesn’t need much more than a stopwatch, but if you want to see how your site measures up against rivals, Webslug could be a handy option. More »
Google offers a free, embeddable widget for web site owners that can help fight back against link typos, permalink problems, and other issues that send visitors to non-existent pages. The customisable JavaScript widget suggests the URLs on your site closest to the link visitors come in on, and offer a search box pre-loaded with search terms relevant to the bad link. Anyone who’s run a site for a long while knows that page URLs are a hard thing to keep linked and standing properly, and this widget is a nice step to preventing aggravation on both sides of the site. The widget requires signing up for a free Google Webmaster account and heading to the Tools menu, then the “Enhance 404 pages” link.
Custom 404 pages [Google via Google Blogoscoped]Need to give your blog or personal site a more modern look? AjaxBuddy, a free repository of Web 2.0-style site tools, is great for site owners who don’t have time to learn an entire programming language, or just need a starter block of code to get building. Grab free, easy-to-modify code for Flickr-like editing fields, quick-loading slideshows and tabbed galleries, instant graphs, date-choosing calendars, and dozens more examples. Many require replacing just a few values to get working, but even the more complex tools are great learning tools.
AjaxDaddy [via Online Tech Tips]
