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Watch Business Technology at VendorDemo.com

X-Man — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:59:46 +0000

This is a new site my companyÂ recently launched. It’s meant to connect technology buyers with technology vendors. Technology vendors can post their product demos, webinars, brochures, and more for free. Check it out.

Â http://www.vendordemo.com

Got dead links on your website? Find them with this free tool.

X-Man — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:48:41 +0000

As a lot of webmasters create more and more pages for their website(s), pages gets move around and sometimes people forget to make a redirect. So search engine spiders would craw through your website(s) and see certain broken links within their website. There is a great way for webmasters to check their website(s) for broken links on www.dead-links.com. It craws through all the pages that are linked together and from a search engine stand point. This can help you find where search engines are not going to and help prevent certain SEO effort that you are putting forth onto those pages. The spider also goes through to tell you how many out-going links it finds on each page. If you’ve linked to another domain it’ll check whichever page you’ve linked to and that’s it. So you don’t have to worried that it’ll just auto follow any links it find. Right now since there is a lot of development on our website, I tend to use this once per month to check. It only takes a couple of minutes and you can always let it run int he background and come back to it later.

Easily build Web Forms without Programming – PHP Code Generator

James L — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:07:01 +0000

PHPRunner is a great tool for businesses that need to build custom database-driven forms but do not have the deep technical expertise of programming. It’s got a drag-n-drop user interface and you can in minutes create and customize a form to fit your need.

Update (3/10/07): Although this application can generate code without any programming, if you need to heavily customize the look & feel of the pages it does have some limitations. I am looking at a couple of other applications right now and will write up a more thorough review of these php code generation programs.

Update (3/12/07): We’ve decided toÂ go withÂ PHPMakerÂ instead of PHPRunner. I personally thought PHPRunner was much easier to use and is probably better for someone who does not know how to program or know HTML. However, PHPmaker is great and now it takes us 1/10 of the time to build simple web-based applications. Also, PHPMakder is cost about 1/3 of the cost of PHPMaker. Both have ree trials so give them a try.

Need a Search Engine for your own website?

X-Man — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:34:02 +0000

We found Pico while doing a search on Google. We needed a search engine for our websites so our visitors can more easily find information as the amount of content is increasing so ever rapidly. It’s a sweet(Free) deal for small sites with less than 250 pages. You can also index up to 3000 pages for less than $250/year. This is a nice deal.