The online apps which are created by web developers store their information in databases. A database is composed of various tables that work together to store and retrieve information for users of a web application. One ‘fetching’ of information from the database is called a query. When the web app makes a few queries, the [...]
If you want to serve better content on your website that is more relevant to what your site visitors are interested in, you must begin reading what comments people leave on your website. But in order to do this, you must first have comments incorporated into your site. If you are looking for a tool [...]
Webmasters need to ensure that their websites are up and running, even when they are not near their laptops. Here to help with this through SMS alerts is a site called MonitorHub. MonitorHub is a free to use web service that has something very valuable to offer web developers. The ability to monitor one’s website [...]
Web developers who design websites must ensure that your website looks good and glitch-free on popular web browsers used by computer users. One way to do this is to manually check out the website on a bunch of different computers that have a different operating system installed along with different web browsers. Needless to say, [...]
A lot of websites today have a bar placed right on top of them. This bar can be used for a variety of purpose including advertising, providing a quick link to the site’s homepage, or providing a link to any other. If you would like to easily get such a bar for your own website, [...]
Web application developers need a database to test their apps with. Creating a database manually can take quite a bit of time. Here to help you automatically generate a test database is a web service called Database Test Data Generator. Database Test Data Generator is a free to use web service that will be extremely [...]
PlagSpotter is a web service that helps you battle against a very common nuisance – online plagiarism. A web content creator works hard to exercise their creativity so that unique content is created for people to read. Unfortunately there are others online who simply copy this content and paste it on their own websites. There [...]
If you are a web developer, you will know how important it is that your web service/web app is working with optimal performance, with no errors, delays or downtime. Usually, to track different performance metrics of your web app you will have to use different online services like Pingdom, New Relic and others. Now you [...]
For certain Internet users, there might be websites that are necessary to stay in contact with. For example, you might be using the website to prepare for your exams. It would be catastrophic then to have the website face unexpected downtime. In order to avoid such situation and ensure speedy access, you can download the [...]
Are you looking for a slick website that allows you to find out WhoIs information about any domain quickly and easily? There are lots of sites out there that can do this, but not all of them are easy to use, and many of them come with less than stellar user interfaces. WhoIsrequest comes with [...]
When you have a website, it is important that it is accessible at all times because when your site is down you lose traffic and potential customers. The uptime of your website depends mostly on your hosting provider. However, due to various circumstances even the most reliable hosting companies go down taking their websites down with [...]
Google has a large number of tools for web developers to sink their teeth into, from advertising solutions to the world’s most accurate visitor and search traffic monitors. Deploying these products require you to have access to the pages so you can input Google’s own tags which prove that you are the owner, and tell [...]
Are you looking for a simple way to create banners for various projects without needing any coding skills? Do you need these banners to feature animations and other cool elements? Well if so, you need to check out BannerSnack on Google Chrome. It is an awesome application that allows anyone to create beautiful web banners [...]
As a webmaster, you must ensure that your website is not being used for anything wrong. For example, the ads that appear on your website could be redirecting visitors to a virus or a malicious web tool. In another scenario, one of your site’s embittered editors could have planted a malicious link into the content [...]
To run a website you have stay on top of a lot of things. You might monitor your site’s traffic statistics, traffic trends, heatmaps for where visitors click, social media popularity, and a lot of other things. But imagine being on top of all these things, leaving everything in perfect form, and going on a [...]
Allow visitors to your website to quickly share your pictures on social networks. Slingpic is a WordPress plugin that adds a share button to every picture on your site – but don’t worry, it only shows up when the user’s mouse hovers over the picture (so there’s no extra clutter). Users can click a social [...]
While online text chatting has greatly bridged the gap present between people who are not physically together, it still lacks the communication advantages that are offered by an audio or video call. This is why many online professionals who are running a web service feel the need to offer their website visitors a way to [...]
Placeholder text is a necessary but boring tool for designers working on print, media and web projects. Without dummy text to put in place, it’s often hard to see how your finished design will work. The quintessential placeholder text is Lorem Ipsum, which many software suites can generate on-demand to fill up your design. Of [...]
For a webmaster, monitoring domains is a necessary part of the job. The most important thing a webmaster needs to keep an eye on is whether or not his websites are active. While checking this status and other information for a simple website is simple enough, doing so for multiple websites can be a bit [...]
If you own a website, then you are already aware of the various responsibilities that a webmaster has and the numerous things a webmaster has to manage. The job can become even more complicated and difficult if you buy your site domain from a company that is not offering a free DNS management solution. This [...]