Useful Links

[instantinlaw]

Hi Folks,
Although I have 100's of links I decided to only post only the most useful of them. If you have a really useful link why not post it here for the community to benefit from?

Please enjoy the links! :D

Joomla Extensions Listings
If you don't already know about this site you should'nt be using Joomla. There are hundreds of extensions; http://extensions.joomla.org/ (http://extensions.joomla.org/)

Browsershots
Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server; http://browsershots.org/ (http://browsershots.org/)

Stock.XCHNG
A huge gallery containing over 250,000 quality free and paid-royality free stock photos by more than 25,000 photographers! Need a wallpaper for your desktop? Need a pic for your commercial website design? Looking for inspiration? Have a look around; http://www.sxc.hu/ (http://www.sxc.hu/)

Webmaster Toolkit
This site came into existence as a collection of webmaster tools developed to help webmasters with our daily webmaster chores. The suite of free tools and resources offered continues to grow to this day; http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/ (http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/)

Summit Media Spider Simulator
To help you find out for yourself how a search engine reacts to your pages and what can be done to boost your visibility, Summit is developing a set of tools - available over the web - that perform mature assessments on demand.
This search engine spider simulator provides you with a report on aspects of the page that are used to determine how highly in a search engine the page is ranked, and also gives some general usability feedback. The spider sim is completely free to use; http://tools.summitmedia.co.uk/spider/ (http://tools.summitmedia.co.uk/spider/)

[ncrc]

Here's some more links I use on a daily basis.

http://dynamicdrive.com/
Welcome to Dynamic Drive, the #1 place on the net to obtain free, original DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web site!

http://www.urbanfonts.com/
See our amazing collection of free fonts and free dingbats. With over 8,000 freeware fonts, you've come to the best place to download fonts. Wicked selection of free fonts. :laugh:

http://forum.joomla.org/
Lot's of answers there as well! (If you can't find em here)

http://nvu.com/index.php
Nvu (pronounced N-view)
Finally! A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.

Web Developer Firefox Addon (http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/)
The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock, Mozilla and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

http://www.joomlapolis.com
Home of Community Builder

Artio JoomSEF (http://www.artio.cz/en/joomla-extensions/artio-joomsef)
This component for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) will rewrite your Joomla! URLs not to be only Search Engine Friendly (SEF), but also to be human easily understandable. Provides support for multilingual sites using JoomFish. Enables full customization of wide-range of meta tags for any URL in your site! Works with both with Apache and IIS. May be easily updated on-line.

More to come.

[instantinlaw]

Hi ncrc,
Great list of links. The only one I never knew about was Nvu (pronounced N-view). It looks promising for those who can't afford Dreamweaver. That post reminded me of another open source program that would be of enormous benefit to the users here.

The Gimp for editing .psd files.
It is suposed to be just as robust as Photoshop, and best of all it's free. http://www.gimp.org/ (http://www.gimp.org/)

[BigRK]

Nice Links Guys! Thanks :cool:

[instantinlaw]

Nice Links Guys! Thanks :cool:
Don't be shy bigrk, post some too. ;)

[BigRK]

The Joomla Help Site - The name says it all!
http://help.joomla.org/content/category/16/153/153/

The Joomla Help Site - Editorial Style Guide - Watch what you say and how you say it.
http://help.joomla.org/content/category/39/168/214/

W3C Markup Validation Service - Free service that checks Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards. This is important to building a quality site and to help to fix some basic problems.
http://validator.w3.org/

Max Design - Web Standards Checklist - Interesting article then go to home page and check out their blog. Lots of good info here!
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/checklist.htm

Free Guide To Joomla Css - this site gives you a foundation from which to start from when dealing with Css.
http://www.m65.net/articles-joomla!-knowledgebase-free-guide-to-joomla-css-51.html

Color Schemer Studio - Color Schemer Studio is a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals.
http://www.colorschemer.com/

Just a few more to add to the list.

RK

[instantinlaw]

Nice links bigrk!
The Joomla Help Site is one that I am sure is well needed here. ;)
I have been using the Color Schemer for a few years now and although a paid program, it's very useful, and the CSS guide is very useful too. I purchased the Media 65 template extension, but decided to go with Joomlart instead so I could concentrate on the content. I will check out the rest.
Thanks!

Anyone else?

[tcraw1010]

I've found this one to be helpful from time to time . . .

Joomla Tutorials
FREE Visual and Animated Tutorials for a variety of Joomla functions and components (including Community Builder and VirtueMart)
http://www.joomlatutorials.com/walkthrough/visual_tutorials.html

[instantinlaw]

Looks like a very useful site Tom. I'll check it out in detail later on. I am sure I will learn something new.
Thanks for the link. :)

[ShannonN]

Looks like a very useful site Tom. I'll check it out in detail later on. I am sure I will learn something new.
Thanks for the link. :)

Already stickied in my tutorial thread in general section http://www.joomlart.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2930 :D

[instantinlaw]

Already stickied in my tutorial thread in general section http://www.joomlart.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2930 :D
Hey Shannon, let loose some of those other great links you're holding back on.;)

[ShannonN]

Hey Shannon, let loose some of those other great links you're holding back on.;)

Hi Bill
Good to see you active on the forum again looking forward to more of your great tutorials, and anticipating lots of votes for member of the month this time was close last month wasn't it?

Re the links I have a lot but I don't see many using them or indeed knowing they exist we have to start a dedicated thread where al external helpful links can reside they just get overlooked or missed otherwise, I can provide links to how to edit graphics but no one would go there as it's too hard to learn etc etc and someone here will do it for ya attitude:)

I'm trying too churn out video instructional stuff but college starts next Tuesday and I still have an assignment to redo hee hee

I'll see what direction JA goes regarding improvements etc as you raised in another thread etc first I think

Cheers ShannonN

[instantinlaw]

Hey Shannon,
Same here on seeing you active again. :)

I was actually hoping that this would become a dedicated links thread. I am sure that the members who are willing to take the time to learn will find it useful. As for the others, they will always be lamers. Post for the grateful ones and forget the rest.

Don't worry too much about the assignment. The project is not going anywhere soon and will still be around when you are ready to work on it. ;)

Have Fun!

[instantinlaw]

Here is one that should have been posted in the first post. It is the official Joomla user manual.
http://help.joomla.org/images/User_manual/user_manual_v1%200%201_10%2021%2006.pdf (http://help.joomla.org/images/User_manual/user_manual_v1%200%201_10%2021%2006.pdf)

[Sean]

Salyris Studios Joomla! Flash Tutorial Center

http://www.salyris.com/joomla_tutorial_center.html

[ShannonN]

Salyris Studios Joomla! Flash Tutorial Center

http://www.salyris.com/joomla_tutorial_center.html

Just a rip of some of the ones I posted in general thread ages ago leading here http://www.demoplaza.com/FlashHelp/Tutorial_Center.htm and a self plug for the poster

[MuffinDCC]

I am going to concentrate on plugins I use in Firefox to make my web life that much easier :)

Probably the greatest extension for Firefox, Firebug (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843). It allows you edit HTML and CSS live on your site. When you are debugging problems on your site, this makes the process phenomenally quicker, its just crazy. You cannot comprehend how awesome this plugin is unless you actually use it.

Another great extensions for Firefox is the Web dev tool https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60 This has many more options than firebug but not as comprehensive in firebug's css/html capabilites. I normally use web dev tool to validate my content as I write it - fantastic piece of kit. The window resize tool is great if you want consistent sizes when doing video tutorials

MeasureIT https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/539 is a browser based rule, basically. Great for getting rough dimensions on this, especially if you are using lots of inline styles in content which I do

Colorzilla https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271 its basically a colour picker for firefox so you can see what colour anything is on your site in hex format and rgb. Another great tool

Fasterfox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269 Shows you the time it takes to load a page.

IE view, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/35 quick way to open pages in IE if you are testing in a cross-browser platform.

Download and use these are see how much web bulding is :)

[instantinlaw]

Great links MuffinDCC!
Please check your PM.

[ShannonN]

I am going to concentrate on plugins I use in Firefox to make my web life that much easier :)

Probably the greatest extension for Firefox, Firebug (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843). It allows you edit HTML and CSS live on your site. When you are debugging problems on your site, this makes the process phenomenally quicker, its just crazy. You cannot comprehend how awesome this plugin is unless you actually use it.

Another great extensions for Firefox is the Web dev tool https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60 This has many more options than firebug but not as comprehensive in firebug's css/html capabilites. I normally use web dev tool to validate my content as I write it - fantastic piece of kit. The window resize tool is great if you want consistent sizes when doing video tutorials

MeasureIT https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/539 is a browser based rule, basically. Great for getting rough dimensions on this, especially if you are using lots of inline styles in content which I do

Colorzilla https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271 its basically a colour picker for firefox so you can see what colour anything is on your site in hex format and rgb. Another great tool

Fasterfox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269 Shows you the time it takes to load a page.

IE view, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/35 quick way to open pages in IE if you are testing in a cross-browser platform.

Download and use these are see how much web bulding is :)

You missed yslow for firebug
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5369