Web Developer Resources

A popular and useful widget for live traffic is Feedjit. It shows statistics on your website in realtime like the city and country where your visitors are from, which website they came from, the page they visited on your site and the external link that they have clicked to leave your site.

To protect the privacy of visitors, Feedjit has the option to discontinue showing their future visits by clicking on “options” on the widget and selecting “Ignore my browser”. It does not slow down the site as it is very fast and is used by several high traffic commercial websites. Web owners can also choose the size and design of their Feedjit by customizing the colors to fit their layouts.

A portable and embeddable chunk of code is what widgets are. It can be installed and then executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user. Widgets can also be called as badge, module,snippet,gadget,flake and mini. It often uses Javascript, DHTML or Adobe Flash.

Most bloggers often use widgets either to advertise or put entertainment and design on their site.

Making it easy to improve your results online is the New Google Analytics. It has been re-designed to help the web owner know where your visitors came from and how they interact with your website through the detailed statistics.

It also aims to strengthen your marketing initiatives, create higher-converting websites and write better ads. The best part is that it is free to all publishers, advertisers and site owners.

One of Mozilla’s useful extension is the HTML Validator. It adds HTML inside Mozilla Firefox. The number of errors of the HTML page can be seen of the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing. Details of the errors can also be seen when looking at the HTML source of the page.

Why is there a need to validate HTML? First, validating HTML makes it possible for your site to be listed on search engines. Browsers will also render better and faster. Most of all, broken link and ugly pages caused by poor HTML can drive visitors away.

1. PayPal Merchant Services: Free Individual Purchase Buttons: The first step to access PayPal is to go to the Merchant Section on its website. Generate the HTML code needed to make your buttons which you can add to your product pages: Buy Now, Donate, Add to Cart, Subscribe and Buy a Gift Certificate. If you want to sell a single item, you should use the PayPal “Buy Now” button.

2. PayPal Merchant Services:Free Shopping Cart Buttons: Using free shopping cart you can sell multiple items on your site which you can customize your buttons and messages. Instead of linking a button on individual product pages, the PayPal cart is designed to let your would be customers to browse all your posted merchandise before purchasing.

It’s an ultimate user interactivity, drag and drop is basically not given importance in some desktop applications but it is an integral test for web applications. If you will try to implement drag and drop in your web application framework, then you made the right decision. Nowadays, drag and drop for web apps has been limited to JavaScript frameworks such as Script.aculo.us and Rico. With the advent of GWT it does not explicitly support drag and drop, it provides you with all the necessary ingredients to make your own module.

3. PayPal Widgets: Free Storefronts The widget lets you create you create online your graphically pleasing Web Storefront. Upload your products, prices, shipping parameters, set descriptions and then display the widget to your website. You can customize it with a theme, title, information on your store and don’t forget the logo. After that, choose the product you want to display and select selling options. You then publish it for auto insertion into the TypePador get the HTML code to copy and paste on your Web space.

4.  PayPal Flash Button Creator:Free Trial or $29.99 to Buy: Its free for 30 days, this tool will let you create Shock Wave Flash files for any PayPal buttons including;Buy Now, cart, View, Donation or Subscription. To start creating your customized button, you choose one item, cart or subscription and fill in the required fields like: price, ID, item number, currency, tax and your business and Web site information plus your policies. However, this is a 30 days free trial, a registered version is available online for $29.99.

5. PayPal Button Machine:Free Trial or $19.99 to Buy

A second offer from the same company is the Button Machine, this button generating tool is an excellent option to those who do not have or use a broadband Internet connection. You can make any of the buttons like - Buy it Now, Subscription and Cart..offline.  Its interface is the same with the Flash Button Creator. Once you finished creating the button, you go into the Button Code tab and get your code and you can choose to encrypt or update the code. The trial version is free for 30 days, you can buy the registered one for $19.99.

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Nowadays, one of the most important components of any online store is payment processing. There are several methods available to merchants, but one of the most popularly used is PayPal, it lets its consumers pay for their purchases using a credit card, bank transfer or with funds from their own PayPal account balance. When checking out, the customer is directed to a page designed to match your own site that’s located on PayPal’s secure servers. Once consumer is done choosing a payment method (PayPal cash payment or credit card), the customer is then returned to your site and the payment, once cleared, is deposited to your own PayPal account. PayPal also supports international payment terms.

The Oracle DBA’s have long been wished to be able to capture applications workloads in a production environment and then it replays that workload against a test environment to determine the impact of the proposed database or application changes on the database performance. The new Database Replay feature enables an Oracle DBA to capture, massage and then replay workloads either selectively or in their own entirety within a wide range of database platforms and environment.

(Source:databasejournal)

The Firefox Web Developer Extension toolbar pins to the browser top along with your other toolbars, and is available from the browser’s menubar “Tools” button. The photo above shows the Outline Block Level Elements feature. The Drop-down, hierarchical menus makes navigating the many features very easy and accessible. There are way too many features to describe individually, but the top-level navigation selections, and a few standout components are well noted. These are; Disable, Cookies, CSS, Forms, Images, Informations, Miscellaneous, Outline, Resize, Tools, View Source and Options.

(Source: htmlgoodies)