While the domain name won’t really make the difference between success and failure, it’s surely better to have a site accessed via vegetabl.es instead of isellfreshvegetables.com, don’t you think? Sure, that was just an example, since I don’t think anyone bothered to touch the fresh vegetables online sales niche… although vegetabl.es seems to have been purchased already by someone, parked, and now is for sale. Too bad, but I am sure you can still find a bunch of interesting domain [...]

Early warning: if you’re not using subversion repositories or – even worse – you have no idea about what they are, you should move on to the next article! Good, now that I said that, let’s take a look at the open source, Web-based app that allows you to easily browse your subversion repositories, namely WebSVN!

As you can see in the image above, you can easily check previous operations, and apart from the logs, you also get access to the [...]

Most people around me still think that SEO is something that seems to be closely connected to Voodoo practices, but I strongly believe that the path from novice to SEO expert goes through a realm full of logical things and decency. I put it this way because most people who have at least some vague image of the whole deal know that spam sites can get good rankings and keep them, this happening simply because Google seems to have pretty [...]

While deploying a site may not give you really big headaches, keeping it up can surely do that, no matter how reliable may be the server(s) used to host that site. Being able to send custom HTTP requests and view the responses in a timely manner can help troubleshooting a Web-based project a lot, and that’s exactly what hurl does!

To be more accurate, we’re talking about another online service designed to help Web developers, and since it’s also free, I [...]

If you think that building a website is hard, then you should think about maintaining it! Obviously, you can easily use some CMS, work on the template, and the site is ready… but you don’t want to think about broken links that appear once you change permalink settings, or when the sites you linked to some months ago disappear! OK, such things happen, but how to spot broken links before your users start complaining about them?

The answer to the question [...]

Back in elementary school, everyone was crazy about grades. I had maximum ones all the way (10/10), but couldn’t care less about that. Even today I feel this way, but that’s only related to school, because when it comes to my work, I like to polish things as many times as needed to be happy with the result. Anyway, I am sure that most successful Web designers also thing this way, so Website Grader will surely find a spot in [...]

Between those straightforward online tools that will give you just a tiny piece of information instantly and those that make you wait at least a minute or so, and then deliver all the info you need, as well as some details that most people simply don’t care about, there’s a category of tools that manage to provide just what a large category of developers may need…

… and if we talk about Google, Alexa, Compete and Quantcast Rank, Google, Yahoo and [...]

Finally, we get back to some SEO tools. Since there are plenty of them available online, and some of them offer pretty rich features for no price, finding the best ones is a very hard task, if not impossible, but moving around and checking out the most interesting ones is surely more than just research work – to me, it’s a joyride!

Xinu, or Xinu Returns, is a very useful online tool that allows you to easily find out how’s your [...]

Ever wondered how fast is loading a certain website? Sure, sure, you can get a chronograph at hand and do some timed page loading sessions, but why not just type the URL, press a button, and wait for the results to come out, including loading speed and speed/KB?

Self SEO offers a very useful free website speed checker that’s nothing more than a free online service doing exactly what I said before. While some may say that tools offering you all [...]

Most keyword-related tools come for a pretty high price, no matter if they are online ones, or specialized programs for your PC/Mac/mobile phone. Fortunately, there’s always some freebie to put the paid ones to shame, and the first one that comes into my mind, at least when talking about keywords, is Google Trends.

When I encountered it for the first time, it was a few years back, with the help of a friend of mine. We were talking about some keyword’s [...]