Tools are a virtual or physical items that is used to obtain a goal. The term tools is very broad and can be used on Webmasters when referring to an application that is aiding to achieve a certain task or goal.

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Perl or PHP for web development [closed]

so, if one was developing a website and taking into consideration that it might grow, which is the better language for implementing CGI scripts? Perl or PHP? i know PHP language itself (as opposed to ...
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Good tools to get all resources for a particular URL?

I'm looking for clues on which tool to use to see all the resources that a browser would load when going to a particular URL. This would be similar to the list seen in Chrome's Developer Tools -> ...
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mass data collection for twitter [closed]

I have a list of about 4000 twitter users I need the number of followers and number of tweets for. Is there a tool that can do this automatically without having to manually input them? How about a ...
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Software/service for feature requests used by mojang

I am looking for a service where users were able to submit feature-requests on a website/game/etc and vote for/against them. If I remember correctly, Mojang used a service like that for Minecraft. ...
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Tool for running a diff against production and test servers?

We're about to have a major site infrastructure migration (new OS, upgraded PHP, etc). We currently have a live test mirror of the new environment running, using the production file system. We're ...
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Detect other blog posts on the Internet similar to my posts

Others can modify or copy and paste my articles and put it in their blogs without any link to me. Is there any way to recognize or track my copied content? Are there any tools on the Internet that ...
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how can I find out which websites are linking to mine?

How can I have a RSS of new sites that link to mine? I would like to know which sites are linking to us. Is there any way to do that?
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Are there tools to measure displayed dimensions in percentages?

I use MesureIt! to measure pixels on websites, generally to check if things add up right when developing. I'm making a fluid layout right now, and would really like to do the same, but I couldn't find ...
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How to run/test JavaScript? [closed]

I'm reading David Flanagan's "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 6th ed". It only actually tells users how to run JS code on page 311, where users are told of the following solutions: "Client-side ...
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Keyword ranking tracker that works on a per-domain basis [closed]

I'm looking for a keyword racking tracker tool for google. I have found a lot of them over the internet. However I need one that can track the ranks of a site on domain basis (not exact full URL). ...
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Using cracked software and tools [closed]

I am seeing people complaining about expensive tools such as Dreamweaver or Photoshop. I am just wondering about that, because everyone knows that they can get this software running for free (if it is ...
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Benchmark for website speed optimization

I working on website speed optimization. I mostly used 3 tools for analyzing speed of optimization. Speed analyzing Tools: Google pagespeed tool Yslow Firefox extenstion Web Page Performance Test ...
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Tools to operate these websites [closed]

I would like to design such websites: portfolio , glispa.com , e-commerce Do you know any free tools with which I can build and especially operate such websites? Do you know any free host which I ...
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Blogs & Websites [closed]

Do you know any free and most useful tools to operate blogs & websites concerning strong SEO and social media marketing?
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Unrestricted free tool for finding 404's?

Google WebMaster Tools limit to the first 1000 (I won't get into that), Xenu doesn't seem to list the page the offending link is on, and W3C limits to the first 150 pages. Can someone suggest a tool ...
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Is there any web application to manage people doing Link Building? [closed]

I am doing SEO for a website and collaborating with 4-5 people that are working on Link Building for my keywords. I was wondering if there is any application similar to a project management tool but ...
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How can I simulate a website loading slowly? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I simulate a slow connection for page load? I found some old treaths about this topic but is there a new/working way to slow down the loading of a website (local ...
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Is there a comparison of Frameworks, Grid Systems and Boilerplates? [closed]

There are so much of them, how can I know what to use for a project?
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How do you make websites? [closed]

Which Tools (IDEs, Editors, Frameworks, Grid Systems, Boilerplates, picture editing software, cms) do you use, and why these instead their alternatives? When you make websites, or design them, how do ...
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Which tool to create a sitemap to plan a future site?

I'd like to create a sitemap to plan a future site, and I'm looking for a tool to do it. I'd like to create a list of all articles first. Then a hierachy. Then I'd like to put the articles on ...
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wordpress website based on big resolution images [closed]

I have a wordpress website based on lare resolution images like 1920px wide and I really want to improve the website loading speed. I've installed a cache plugin for wordpress, but I want more ...
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Is there any tool or add on or anything by which i can know how many times I have opened a website in a browser? [closed]

Is there any tool or add on or anything by which i can know how many times I have opened a website in a browser? I use google chrome. I want to know "whether I have visited a particular website ...
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How do non-coders do simple local templating to avoid redundant HTML? [closed]

I'm a web developer. When I start designing a site, I use a framework to handle templating for me, even if it's just rack + erubis. What do non-developers do? If you want to implement a site in HTML ...
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fault tolerant uploading tool

I'm setting up a wordpress site for a friend who has some large audio files (around 150M). He's on a bad connection and it'll take him a while to upload those files using the normal wordpress upload ...
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AutoMatically Creating New Sites When New Users Sign Up [closed]

I would like to know how hosted eCommerce sites like www.shopify.com, www.3dCart.com etc.. automatically creates new sites when new users sign up. What kind of tools do they use to create those sites ...
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More or less accurate online tool to estimate other's website traffic

I am looking for a free online traffic estimation tool. I have seen statshow, WebDetail and Yandaloo, but they are giving quite different results for a given URL. Can anyone recommend a tool ...
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Confirm that a dns zone is served by a nameserver

We currently have a domain which has custom nameservers. Our host has their own nameservers. I'd like to switch our domain to use our host's nameservers for a while. Our host tells me that their ...
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getting started as a web developer [closed]

I have over 10 years of programming experience building (Windows-based) desktop applications and utilities (VC++, C#, Python). My goal over the next year is to start transitioning to web application ...
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Releasing a CSS minification tool - should it be downloadable or accessable through the cloud?

I am thinking of releasing a CSS minifaction library, which has dependencies on other libraries. Since CSS Minification is not something that occurs a lot (compared to optimising PDFs for example), I ...
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Element Css color changing that allows robust cycling through colors for comparison

I frequently find myself testing out new colors for elements (finding that one doesn't work with the rest of the color scheme). Unfortunately, the process when using even firebug or google chrome is ...
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Web crawler tool that generate a list of all the anchors used on a site

I'm looking for a web crawler tool that'll go through all the anchor text on a whole web site and generate a list for me to check. I want to make sure all the anchors are really descriptive outside ...
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Are there any image manipulation tools for a website that don't require installation?

Are there any tools for to manipulate images that don't require installation. Or better put, imagemagik and GD both require installing, whereas something like jwplayer or ckeditor (not image related ...
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How do I create a changing content paragraph in an html, like news sections which change every day, or hour or mins?

How do I create a changing content paragraph in an html web page, like news section which get changed every day, or hour or mins?
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web designer question - How to create a dynamic paragraph or any text in an html file? [closed]

web designer question - How to create a dynamic paragraph or any text in an html file? I mean the < p>If I want to change this text portion< /p> I am a web designer who just know, html, css, ...
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Good tools to measure a page’s usefulness?

I'd like to add a "Was this page useful?" part at the end of multiple pages for visitors to rate the page and leave feedback. I could program this myself, store the data and make the reports that my ...
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Fixed Mini Feedback Form Widget on the Bottom Corner of a Web Page

On some websites, there are fixed mini contact forms on the bottom corner of a web page. An example website is Olark. I couldn't find out the name of this kind of form apps. Does anybody know what ...
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How to recover a website from google cache?

My host provider told me last night their server crashed and they had restored the website from from an image they had from months ago, They told me this is the only backup they have. I also have no ...
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Secure enterprise wiki technology? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a secure wiki technology that will allow shared note taking and documentation. Security, ...
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Tool or plugin required to show out in which html files a given css selectors is used [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to identlfy unused css selectors and rules for css pages which cover multiple pages and are installed locally? I'm looking for a tool which is capable of indicating ...
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Any tool for image to CSS?

I have an image (not gradient) color, I tried to identify the color code but not possible. Is there any tool to convert image to css or css color code?
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404 monitoring tool for websites? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Online dead link alert service Is there a tool to monitor or discover 404's or broken links online? Google Webmaster 404 tool is a bit slow. I'd like to discover the ...
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testing random pages for uptime (part of an SLA)

We have outsourced hosting of a large website. We have an SLA for response times of random pages. I.e. every minute a random page will be chosen from a pool of 30,000 pages and its response time ...
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How do PR checkers work? [closed]

How do the millions of online 'pagerank checker' tools work? Don't get me wrong, pagerank means very little to me, I just wondered how they give you a pagerank number, given that many of them give ...
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Tool to check non-SSL calls?

Is there a tool that will scan all elements on a webpage and report which item is making a non-SSL call? My webapp keeps showing the mixed use icon and everything I can see is good. :/ Thanks!
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Easy way to determine if a client's web host supports/allows creating SQL databases?

This is a very particular question, but I'm working on establishing a criteria at my company for when we bring new web clients aboard. Our sales team is looking for an effective way to determine ...
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How to tune up colors in web page

Could you advise me some techniques and tools that you use to tune up colors in a web site? The website has background and there are some images with logos. If I change the background I need to change ...
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Is there a tool or browser add-on which will overlay images with their filename?

Is there a tool or browser add-on which will overlay images with their filename and/or alt tag? Without needing to mouse over each one. Something like this made up example:
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Looking for a desktop application similar to jsFiddle

Is there a desktop application or IDE for Windows or GNU/Linux similar to jsFiddle where I can insert my JavaScript code, HTML and CSS and see how it executes? I don't mind writing HTML, CSS and ...
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What tools to use for automated link and spellchecking

I'm looking at two automated tools to scan our site and alert us of spellcheck and link error problems. Check Dog - http://checkdog.com/ Site Check - ...
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A tool for test webpages in older Browsers? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers? Hi, at the moment I develop a ASP.Net Page Community board. I have installed FF4, IE9 and Opera 10. A ...

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