Screen Capture Using FireFox
How do you usually capture a web page? The usual way is to capture a web page by pressing Print-Scrn button, then paste it into your favorite image editor (Gimp, Photoshop, Fireworks, etc.). The painful part is when the web page is longer than your screen size. You might need to capture the screen a few times and resemble them back into one image.
Andy Mutton has come out with a brilliant FireFox add-ons to grab any web page. It can capture the entire web page as PNG or JPEG file. It can also capture only the visible portion of the web page or capture a selected portion of the screen.
Click here to download and install the ScreenGrab.
How Easily Search Engine Spider Your Web Page
Besides having good content and search engine optimization (SEO), your web site also must have a good spiderability.
In other words, your web page must be able to be read, interpreted, and indexed by search engine effectively.
SpiderTest is a free web tool to test how easily search engine spiders can spider the content of your web page. I found SpiderTest is useful to crawl all your web pages and it checks if your HTML is valid and if links point to existing pages. To test your web page:
- Go to SpiderTest.
- Enter your web address and click Check.
- SpiderTest will read your web page and run tests on it to tell you what you need to do to improve its spiderability, such as meta tag content, file robots.txt, stylesheet and javascript, top 20 most common words, etc.
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26 Best Ways to Implement AJAX, CSS and Javascript-based Tabs
Nowadays, it is common to see tabs for menu and selection in any web site. Tabs is useful when you want to present different categories in neat way.
This is a compilation of 26 best collections of CSS-based tab using AJAX and non-AJAX.
How Fast Your Web Page Loaded
Pingdom Tools is a free web tool to measure the speed of a web page loaded from a browser.
It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser by loading a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). The load time of all objects will be shown visually with time bars.
