http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ This site is an online magazine that offers free how-to internet knowledge for budget-minded businesses and designers, programmers, and others who support them. en-us tim@reachcustomersonline.com 2006-08-10T19:41:47-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.html.it/articoli/niftycube/index.html Nifty way to create rounded corners using only two parameters (one of which is optional) with CSS and Javascript. Includes a detailed discussion with examples. 3412@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/css/index.php?t=Rounded Corners with CSS 2006-08-10T19:41:47-05:00 http://www.wetpaint.com This is a hosted wiki that makes it very easy to build online communities and participate. They provide templates and lots of ways to navigate information. They also provide links to interesting wikis maintained by other users, for example, a Lego wiki and a Joke wiki. This appears to be a free wiki. 3411@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/software_wikis/index.php?t=WetPaint Wiki 2006-08-08T13:36:30-05:00 http://digishop.sumeffect.com This is the cart I currently (2006) recommend to my clients. While no cart is perfect, the digiShop interface is easy to use and has a lot of features and flexibility. And while they have templates you have to change, it's only four compared to many more with other carts. And they provide an online widget that takes your page design, adds their code, and generates the templates. Their pre and post sale support is excellent and thorough. After 90 days, you have to pay for support but that should not be a problem for most users. Both the cart and support are reasonable, below $1,000 USD. 3410@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/software_ecommercecarts/index.php?t=digiShop 2006-06-16T15:14:42-05:00 http://spamcheck.sitesell.com/ Free resource that evaluates your email to determine how likely it is to be tagged as spam AND offers ideas to reduce your score. One caution: if your email delivery service is blacklisted with SpamHaus and other services, that will prevent your perfect un-spammy email from being delivered. Thanks to Emi at Nash Interactive for the link. 3374@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/spam/index.php?t=SpamCheck 2006-01-28T12:18:50-05:00 http://www.fileinfo.net/ FileInfo.net contains a searchable database of file extensions with detailed explanations of each file type. Every entry contains information about the file format, a description of the file, and how to open the file. Programs for opening the files are listed for both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. One thousand entries make this a comprehensive resource from a reader, Per Christensson, who runs another neat site about computers, Sharpened.net. 3373@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/file_extensions/index.php?t=FileInfo.net 2006-01-28T11:55:24-05:00 http://www.userscape.com/products/helpspot/ A well-rounded and well-supported software tool with lots of features and reasonable per-seat pricing. They have a 45 day free trial. 3371@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/software_help_desk/index.php?t=HelpSpot 2006-01-14T12:39:29-05:00 http://www.wikimatrix.org/ Looks to be an excellent way to compare wikis based upon their features. Also inlcudes links to websites for each tool. They also have a wizard to compare a range of wiki software. Note, however, that their wizard does not compare a large number of hosted wikis, also known as wiki farms, just big ones like JotSpot. I assume they'll add more hosted wikis over time. 3370@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/software_wikis/index.php?t=Wiki Matrix 2006-01-04T22:04:38-05:00 http://www.same-page.com/groupware.html This is a full-featured service to consider alongside BaseCamp, Intranets.com, and similar services. Their costs are competitive. 3342@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/software_groupware/index.php?t=Same-Page Online Project Management 2005-07-12T11:05:36-05:00 http://www.wannabegirl.org/translucent/ Excellent one page tutorial from Firda Beka that shows how to get see-through backgrounds to achieve a multi-layer effect in your page design. 3341@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/graphic_design_layout_templates/index.php?t=Translucent: See-Through Backgrounds for the Masses 2005-07-03T12:18:21-05:00 http://www.shopping-cart-reviews.com A good to great Australian site that tries to keep its information up to date. If you don't know, there are a number of sites that claim to have comprehensive lists when, in reality, their sites hawk a small set of solutions. This site appears to offer a neutral take on a broad set of possible shopping carts. 3340@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/software_ecommercecarts/index.php?t=Shopping Cart Reviews 2005-06-23T14:57:31-05:00 http://www.statcounter.com/ Excellent free service with a good set of visitor activity data. Consider it as a nice alternative to SiteMeter and ecommstats. 3339@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/software_website_activity_reporting/index.php?t=StatCounter 2005-06-20T17:34:57-05:00 http://www.glasshaus.com/samplechapters/1159/default.asp This sample chapter from a book is an excellent introduction into most/all aspects of color and web design, from a non-designer point of view. Includes lots of examples and a wide range of topics. 3337@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/color/index.php?t=Web Graphics for Non-Designers 2005-06-17T22:40:47-05:00 http://www.mysql.com/products/administrator/ A free open source software tool to access and control MySQL databases, brought to you by the people who maintain MySQL. 3330@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/mysql/index.php?t=MySQL Administrator 2005-06-16T20:01:02-05:00 https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp Competive pricing and a good range of products to compare with GeoTrust and other low-cost vendors. 3328@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/ssl_certificates/index.php?t=Go Daddy Secure SSL Certificates 2005-06-05T21:39:37-05:00 http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm An excellent, to the point, tutorial about how to configure your robots.txt file and control how search engines crawl your web pages. 3327@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/search_engine_optimization/index.php?t=Robots.txt File Tutorial 2005-06-01T07:28:39-05:00 http://www.tigercolor.com Looks like an excellent low-cost ($39 USD) software to evaluate against Color Schemer. Both tools help you pick colors for websites that work well together. 3326@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/color/index.php?t=Color Scheme Designer 2005-05-29T21:28:54-05:00 http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/ Free open source tool that lets you design, model, create, and maintain MySQL databases. Works in Windows and Linux. 1786@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/mysql/index.php?t=DBDesigner 4 2005-05-09T21:15:57-05:00 http://www.bbpress.org A lightweight newsgroup and forum software that uses PHP, MySQL. Connected with WordPress, the open source weblog publishing tool. 1785@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/software_newsgroups_and_forums/index.php?t=bbPress 2005-05-05T19:25:38-05:00 http://typo.leetsoft.com A lightweight CMS and weblog that lets you manage it with the desktop software of your choice. The site includes links to lots of desktop clients. 1784@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/software_content_management/index.php?t=Type 2005-05-01T13:31:49-05:00 http://www.htmlarea.com/directory/WYSIWYG_Editors/index.html Excellent set of links to software that can be used within web publishing tools to make content management easy for non-technical people. Includes links to free open source tools as well as good paid tools in different price ranges. 1776@http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/ http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/software_htmlcss_editors/index.php?t=WYSIWYG Editors 2005-04-20T10:54:41-05:00