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Here are some of the tools I use regularly in my coding and
site-troubleshooting work. I hope you find this list useful.
Please feel free to contact me with comments, questions or
suggestions. I'm contstantly trying to build and refine this
list.
Oh, and did I mention, these tools are to be used at your
own risk. There are no warrentees associated with the accuracy
of the results or the availability of the tools. I'll just
do my best to make sure they are right because I use them
myself. Thanks!
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GeekLog Content Management
For one of our partners, we developed an outdoor hiking and adventure photograph site. The site was designed around the content management solution called GeekLog. It's a great system which we have a lot of experiece with. If you're interested in seeing it (or if your just into hiking around the Cumberland Falls, Kentucky, area), check it out!
CafePress
For another one of our partners, we leveraged the capabilities at CafePress.com to design them an online store. CafePress is great if your selling artwork, t-shirts, CD's, or other things which you own the assets for. You merely upload the assets, and they put them on the medium (t-shirts, buttons, coasters, posters, etc.) that you are interested in. They also have a really great affiliate program. If you're interested in selling stuff online, be sure to check them out. If nothing else, check out the online store we developed for posters and such for one of our clients.
DNS
Lookup Tool
iIf you are in the field, this tool is indespensible for looking
up things like SOA and MX records. It also does a reverse
lookup if the authoritative server allows it.
ASCII
Character Set
Nothing fantastic... Just the ASCII
Character Set (also know as the ASCII code table) wih
hexidecimal, decimal, character and control-keystroke equivalents.
For more info about ASCII, read the ASCII
FAQ.
Base Conversion Tools
Here's a simple hexidecimal to decimal (HEX to DEC) and decimal
to hexidecimal (DEC to HEX) lookup
table which runs up to 255 (DEC). Also, here's a JavaScript
app which converts
hexidecimal, binary or decimal numbers into the other
two bases. There is also a JavaScript app on that same page
which converts between any base given you know what the base
(i.e., binary = base 2) is. If you want to know more about
bases, there are two reasonable tutorials I've found (one
and two).
Sooner or later, I'll probably write my own...
Color Charts
Here's a simple
HTML color table. Here's another HTML color chart of just
about
every color imaginable... I also found a decent info doc
on Netscape's limited palete and color theory in general.
This
site touches a little bit on Adobe palette design, too.
Tables
Here's a really awesome tables
tutorial. It also goes into information-layout and presentation
theory.
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