Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator

The Ultimate CSS Gradient Editor allows you to easily create CSS3 Gradients of any style and color. Another cool feature is the ability to see how the output will look in IE. Also they have quite of few preset gradients you can use. Ultimate CSS Gradient Editor was created by Alex Sirota.

CSS3 Generator

CSS3 Generator is a very cool tool. It allows you to change the border, border-radius, box-shadow, background gradient and opacity. Almost each property has optional and detailed settings like ability to define different border-radius values for each corner or selecting inset our outset shadow for box-shadow. CSS3 Generator was designed by Eric Hoffman and coded by Peter Funk.

CSS3 Button Maker

The CSS3 Button Maker is a very easy way to style your Buttons without coding anything. It gives you a number of sliders and color pickers to style your own CSS3 button. The CSS3 Button Maker was Created by Chris Coyier.

CSSWarp

CSSWarp is a CSS3 Text to Path Generator. It’s a very neat tool that uses the CSS3 Text-Transform Property. CSSWrap is a proof of concept but you cans still use it in your site. CSSWrap was created by Dirk Weber.

Border Radius

Border Radius is a very simple yet effective CSS3 Rounded Border Tool. You just type in the border you want and you are done. Border Radius was created by Jacob Bijani.

If you have any more CSS3 Tools and Generators Please Post them in the Comments!

Designing a company logo is an important first step towards a successful business.  Starting a company logo design contest at 48hourslogo.com might be a great way to create your next company logo.

48HoursLogo.com was created to connect small business owners looking for logo designs with thousands of freelance logo designers all over the world. Company logo design is easy and fun for both clients and designers. For business owners, you can get a professionally designed company logo for less than 100 dollars. For logo designers, it is a great place to practice design skills, built up logo design portfolio, and earn extra cash.

Like the name suggests, many of the logo contests at 48HoursLogo run for only 48 hours, and depending on the project award offered by the client, there are usually anywhere between 30 to 100+ designs submitted for each logo contest, offering great selections for each company logo design.

Here are some highlights about company logo design contest at 48hourslogo.com

• Affordable – The option to start your company logo design for only $29, and pay the rest after seeing designs concepts is a great feature offered by the site.
• For every company logo design, you can get anywhere between 30 to 100 different logo concepts to choose from
• Fast – run the logo contest for only 48 hours.  Client can get a brand new logo in less than a week.
• Fast payout to the logo designers – Designers get paid 48 hours after completing each project.
• It absolutely free to join as a logo designer. It takes only takes 10 seconds to register

In the Firefox version, you can disable the toolbar and still be able to download videos by right clicking on the page and going to Video Downloader.  After you download the add-on they have a great website to teach you how to use this add-on. http://vids.st/help/

The one problem I see about the add-on is that the videos you download are in FLV format. So you will need to convert the videos to a usable format.  But it does have a translate option on the add-on that is very useful.

Anyway check out the add-on and tell us what you think.

So if you need a coupon go to it will save you money!

• Flot – Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. The focus is on easy usage , attractive plots and interactive features. With Flot you can interact with the data, look at specific data by zooming in, plot a time series, and other various options.
  
• Open Flash Chart – Open Flash Chart is a Flash charting component. It is fairly easy to setup and has classes written in PHP, Perl, Python, Java, Ruby on Rails, and .Net to connect to the Chart. You can create some really nice looking Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Area Charts and etc…
  
• AmCharts – AmCharts are animated interactive flash charts. The charts include Pie Charts, Line Charts, Scatter/Bubble Charts, Bar/Column Charts, and even a stock chart. AmCharts can extract data from simple CSV or XML files, or they can read dynamic data generated with PHP, .NET, Java, Ruby on Rails, Perl and ColdFusion. All the charts are free but they have a link to AmCharts on the upper left.
  
• Emprise JavaScript Charts – Emprise JavaScript Charts is a 100% Pure JavaScript Charting Solution that requires no JavaScript frameworks. Emprise JavaScript Charts include Line, Area, Scatter, Pie, Bar charts with zooming, scaling and scrolling ability. Tested and works with all major browsers.
  
• PlotKit – PlotKit is a Chart and Graph Plotting Library for Javascript. PlotKit works with MochiKit javascript library. It has support for HTML Canvas and also SVG via Adobe SVG Viewer and native browser support. PlotKit also has great documentation.
  
• Flotr – Flotr is a javascript plotting library based on the Prototype Framework version 1.6.0.2. Flotr lets you create graphs in modern browsers with features like legend support, negative value support, mouse tracking, selection support, zoom support, event hooks, CSS styling support and much more.
  
• PHP/SWF Charts – PHP/SWF Charts is simple yet powerful tool to create attractive web charts and graphs from dynamic data. You use PHP to gather the data and put it into flash. It supports many charts types, Line, Column, Stacked column, Floating column, 3D column, Stacked 3D column, Parallel 3D column, Pie, 3D Pie, Bar, Stacked bar, Floating bar, Area, Stacked area, Candlestick, Scatter, Polar, Mixed, Composite and Joined. These Charts have some great features like Animated transitions, Printable charts, and more.
  
• Visifire – Visifire (Powered by Silverlight) is a set of open source data visualization components. With Visifire you can create animated Silverlight Charts with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails or just simple HTML.
  
• FusionCharts – FusionCharts is a cross-browser and cross-platform flash charting component that can be used with ASP.NET, ASP, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, simple HTML pages or even PowerPoint Presentations. All you need to know is the language you’re programming in.
  
• JFreeChart – JFreeChart is an open source Java chart library that makes it easy for developers to display quality charts in their applications. The JFreeChart project was founded seven years ago, in February 2000, by David Gilbert and is used by approximately 40,000 to 50,000 developers. JFreeChart supports many different output types that includes JPEG, GIF, PDF, EPS and SVG. This is a great resource for Java developers.
  

If you know of any other Charting Scripts please post below.

Background

• Background Image Maker – Background Image Maker allows you to create backgrounds with the choice of stripes, gradients, and dot background style.
• Stripe Designer – Stripe Designer allows you to create any type of stripe or texture you want, with any color you want.
• Stripe Generator – Stripe Generator allows you to create a stripe background of any size and color. You can even add up to 5 colors for the stripes.
• Tartan Maker - Tartan Maker which is created by the same people who did Stripe Generator allows you to create a yarn like design.

• Web 2.0 Badges – Web 2.0 Badges lets you create all sorts of bursts and symbols with any text you want. It also lets you have gradients and very nice colors.
• Fresh Badge – Fresh Badge is another badge creator that allows you to select different types of shapes, colors, text, text effects, and more. You can save the badge you create in png format.
• Official Seal Generator – Official Seal Generator allows you to write text, choose a border, an emblem, and pick your colors to create an official looking seal for your website.

• My Cool Button – My Cool Button is an online tool that you can create a button that you want. My Cool Button features 3 shapes, 50+ fonts, 170+ icons.
• Buttonator – Buttonator is a button generator that allows you to create many different variations of buttons.

• ButtonGenerator – ButtonGenerator allows you to create single buttons and has an option to buttons for navigation.

Domain

• MakeWords - MakeWords is a domain name generator that creates random words that you either supply or you don’t. It lets you know what domain name is available.
• NameBoy – NameBoy creates domain names based on a word that you want in your domain. It then tells you what domain is available.
• Dot-o-mator – Dot-o-mator is a web 2.0 domain name generator that allows you to select words and then have it combine them to form a domain name.

Favicon

• Favicon Generator - Favicon Generator takes an image that you upload and makes it into a favicon.
• Favicon.cc – Favicon.cc allows you to create a favicon icon online without having to upload any file.
• Favicon Editor – FaviconEditor allows you to upload a photo or you can create a favicon.

Gradients

• Gradient Maker – Gradient Maker allows you to generate a gradient of 3 types, with instant previewing so you get exactly what you had in mind.
• Gradient Texture Generator – Gradient Texture Generator allows you to create up to 4 different types of gradients with any colors that you want.
• Online Gradient Image Maker and Button Generator – This generator is the most in depth I’ve seen it has so many different options. It is a must see for any one.

• Web 2.0 Logo Creator – Web 2.0 Logo Creator generates a web 2.0 logo. All of the logos that this generator creates will have all the same styling.
• Logo Creator – Logo Creator has a few different styles to choose from and it works pretty well.
• Logo Generator – Logo Generator allows you to create logos with any color you want and with any background. You can even add a symbol to the logo.
• Web 2.0 Stylr – Web 2.0 Stylr is another Logo creator that allows you to change the gradient of the text and the background color.

Rounded Corners

• RoundedCornr – RoundedCornr is a very in depth rounded corner generator. RoundedCornr has 4 different types of rounded corners and the output gives you CSS and html.
• Cornershop – Cornershop creates 4 rounded corner graphics and gives you the css and html to implement the corners. You specify the color and radius of the rounded corners you would like.

Optimizer/Formatter

• CSSTidy – CSS Tidy is an open source CSS parser and optimiser.
• CleanCSS - CleanCSS is a powerful CSS optimizer and formatter. Based on CSSTidy
• CSS Optimizer – CSS Optimizer reduces the file size of cascading style sheets.
• CSS Analyzer – CSS Analyzer allows you to check the validity of your CSS against the W3C’s validation service

Font

• Em Calculator – EM Calculator calculats pixel font sizes to ems.
• CSS Font and Text Style Wizard – This wizard is good to experiment with font and text styles and generate sample CSS style source code.

Forms

• CSS Form Code Maker – Generates ‘Colorful Box Layout’ For Forms
• JotForm – JotForm is a web based WYSIWYG form builder

Navigation/Buttons

• CSS Buttons - Css Button and Text field Generator.
• CSS Menu Generator – CSS Menu Generator will generate both the CSS and the HTML code required to produce a text-based yet appealing set of navigation buttons.

Generator

• CSS Creator – Css Creator is a layout generator that will create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer.
• QrONE CSS Designer – QrONE is an online CSS generator and editor.
• Web 2.0 Generator – Web 2.0 Generator creates a full website layout with HTML and CSS.
• CSS Mate - CSS Mate is an online CSS editor.

If you have any more tools that could help you save time then please comment below.

• PassPack – With PassPack you can quickly login to websites, as well as organize and store logins and private notes. PassPack is very secure and when I first signed up I was surprised at how easy it was. PassPack even allows you to Import, Export, Backup and Restore your data.
  
• PasswordSafe – Password Safe has been around since 1998 and offers a quick and easy solution to the problem of too many username / password combinations to remember. Your username and passwords are encrypted before it is passed across the internet and it is also encrypted in the database. Password Safe even comes with a desktop application. The interface–wisely free of JavaScript–is uncluttered, has a search function and a password generator, and lets you create categories.
  
• Agatra – Agatra is a Password Manager that uses AES SSL certificate for all pages that require or display sensitive information. This is the highest security available. You don’t need to worry about anyone getting into your passwords. For the most popular sites, Agatra will automatically log you in.
  
• Clipperz – Clipperz is a password manager that not only stores passwords but it also stores credit card numbers, account numbers, anything really. Local encryption within the browser guarantees that no one except you can read your data. Not even Clipperz knows what your password is.
  
• eSecureKey - eSecureKey will help you manage your private sensitive data online without sacrificing your privacy.  eSecurKey uses a secure key to encode and decode data.  This is different from a password because without you won’t be able to read your data.
  
• Passlet – Passlet is a online password manager, currently in beta. It  encrypts the data by deriving 128-bit AES key from your master password.   It is very secure  and easy to use.
  

If you would like to add to this list please comment below.

I really think that both these editors are very good editors, but they each have there strong points. Lets say that you want a free solution to manage files and be able to edit text. You would want to go with FCKEditor. If you are very concerned about valid XHTML and CSS Code you would go with TinyMCE.

I’m not going to tell you which one is better, because that is for you to decide. But I think in order to fully understand the capabilities and functions of both FCKEditor and TinyMCE you must try them out.

I would love to hear what you think on this subject. So please comment below.

Below is a list of Text Editors that I found.

• TinyMCE – TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor. TinyMCE is very easy to integrate and use. It also has very good HTML markup. I decided to Switch to this editor.
• Damn Small Rich Text Editor – DSRTE is a very small text editor script that works by creating an Iframe element. DSRTE works on top of the jQuery framework. It is very easy to implement all you need is the jQuery library, a Javascript and a CSS file. One of my favorite parts is that it has a resizable text area.
  
• jWYSIWYG – JWYSIWYG is a jQuery Plugin to editing rich HTML content on the fly. It is a very small file less than 26kb. I like this editor because it doesn’t have tons of features and it is just the basics.
  
• NicEdit – NicEdit is a WYSIWYG editor for websites. NicEdit is extremely lightweight and can be easily integrated in any site. NicEdit doesn’t have the best markup but it is very fast and doesn’t overload you with tons of features.
  
• Whizzywig – Whizzywig is a completely free web based text editor. It is written in javascript and is very easy to implement. Whizzywig runs very smoothly and is cross browser compatible.
  
• widgEditor – widgEditor is an easily installed, easily customizable WYSIWYG editor for simple content. It is written in javascript and is very simple. It doesn’t have that many features but it is very fast and works well.
  
• sLedit -sLedit is an in place rich text editor using Mootools. The code works very fast. I really enjoy this script because it is an edit in place text editor. You must check this out. The only thing that is a bummer is the installation is annoying.
  
• Yahoo! UI Text Editor – YUI Text Editor is a text editor that is based on the Yahoo UI library. It has many different options and features that you can choose from. You can go from a very simple and basic text editor to an advanced editor. You can even customize it.
  

If you have any more that you use please comment below. Thanks.

Now on to the list. The list below is categorized by the tracking Code. Granted that some of these tools don’t work exactly like Google Analytics or have the same features, they are still good alternatives to Google Analytics.

CGI

• AWStats – AWStats is a free powerful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. There is no tracking code you must install on your website in order for AWStats to track users, It uses your server or hosting log to track your visitors. I have used AWStats in the past and it is a great tool.
  

PHP

• Stuffed Tracker (Buy to Use) – Although Stuffed Tracker is a Analytics Software you must buy to use. It still has some great features like Click Fraud detection, Examine Exact Path Visitors Take, and you can track sales, downloads, and sign ups. The purchase cost is $99.95 for 5 websites. I am not sure but I think it allows for a Javascript Tracking code.
• PHP-Stats – One of the best features of PHP-Stats is that you are able to see what pages your visitors view in order they do it. Another good feature is that you install it on your own server and all the stats are tracked on your server. The one reason why I didn’t choose this software is fact the forums and support are currently in French. But they are currently translating it in English.
• SlimStat – SlimStat is a simple web stat analyzer. SlimStat was based on ShortStat which is not supported anymore. SlimStat is a fairly in depth that allows you to get IP addresses from visitors. The problem I have with Slimstat is that it doesn’t have any graphs, but then again it does reside on your server and gives you decent data to go through.
• BBClone - BBclone is a web counter written in PHP and gives a detailed view of the visitors of your web site by displaying the number of pages a visitor has visited with the details of the browser and operating system. It gives you some very good details on your visitors. Thanks to Tim for bringing this to my attention.
  

Javascript

• Clicky – Clicky is a web analyzer that works great with any web site, even Ajax and Flash sites. Clicky also allows you to fully modify your dashboard. Clicky is a free service for any website with under 1,000 page views per day. The Free service will put ads on your site. The next level up is the Blogger level that costs 3.99 a month. Clicky is a great service with many more features than Google Analytics.
• StatCounter – StatCounter is a free Analytic software that tracks visitors in real time. StatCounter has no Ads. StatCounter is very similar to Google but a great alternative. I have used StatCounter in the past and have had no problems at all with it.
• HitStats – HitStats is completely free with no limits, no ads, and real time web stats. HitStats will allow you to add a counter on your website. It has a great support forum for any questions. I haven’t tried HitStats but the backend the dashboard has some very beautiful graphs with some great data.
• SiteMeter – SiteMeter is a real time website tracking tool. Sitemeter is about the same as everything else except that it allows you to view who is on your site now. It is a neat feature that could be pretty useful. It also has a counter that could go on your website.
• Mint (Buy to Use)- Mint is a self-hosted web site analytics program. It costs $30 for a site license. A great feature that Mint has is that it allows you to track your RSS Feed subscriptions. It also subscribes names to users that visit your site so you can track these visitors.
  
• W3Counter - is a web tracker for your website or blog. It has multiple plans that you can sign up for. The free signup is limited to 5,000 page views per day and one website. The cool thing about W3Counter is that it tracks visitors in real time and it tracks your RSS feedburner account. I’m not sure if the free version puts ads on. Also thank you Jimbo letting me know about this stat tracker.
• Reinvigorate – Reinvigorate is very cool it streams website and blog events to you live, in real-time on to your desktop. It tells you exactly what page your visitors are on and there IP address. To get this working you must first register with the Beta, then download and Install Snoop which is the reinvigorate desktop application, and last input the Javascript code on your page. Thank you parrfolio for bringing this to our attention.

Flash

• Mochibot – I decided to end with a tracking software different from the rest. MochiBot is a Flash traffic monitoring tool that tracks the performance of individual Flash content files no matter where they end up on the web. Mochibot is completely free and it works very easy. Just put some Actionscript code into your flash file and it will be ready to be tracked. If you have lots of Flash files than Mochibot is for you.
  

If you would like to add more please comment below are give your feedback. Feedback is always appreciated.

Also Stay Tuned for a list of Google Analytics alternatives.

If you have any platforms you would like to add comment below. Feedback is always welcome.

1. Akarru: Social BookMarking Engine
   “Akarru is a social bookmarking engine, used to build a social bookmarking sites, like http://www.blogmemes.com. Users posts links and promote links to front page using voting system.”
2. Bookmark4U
   “Bookmark4U is an web-server application, which is based on Apache + PHP + MySQL. Bookmark4U is intended to provide a comfortable bookmarking environment for users.”
3. CommunityNews
   “CommunityNews uses social bookmarking and Bayesian techniques to provide periodic postings to blogs. Users can vote for or against RSS sources ti increase the chances that the source is used again.
4. ContARTE
   “ontARTE is a social bookmarking multiuser engine, is used to build social bookmarkings sites, like http://www.contarte.info.”
5. GetBoo
   “Web 2.0 bookmarking system, both social (with tags) and private (with folders). Import and export your bookmarks from Firefox, IE, Mozilla, Netscape. Admin management section, translations, groups, bookmarklets, Firefox extension, RSS feeds, and more!” This is a very unique platform that is like Del.Icio.Us.
6. Laicos – Social Bookmarking in ASP.Net
   “Laicos or social backwards is a social bookmarking website development application. Use this project to create a Digg style clone. In asp.net and MySQL environment.”
7. Pligg
   “Pligg is Web 2.0 Content Management System (CMS) unlike any other existing CMS. The user interface gives your visitors a reason to come back to your site by making them decide on the site’s content and giving them the chance to build a social network.” Pligg is very similar to Digg but allows you to add you own content. This is one of my favorites.
8. Scuttle: Open source social bookmarking
   “Scuttle is a free open source software for creating social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us. You can create a social bookmarking site in minutes using scuttle for your personal or for community use. Scuttle supports most of the del.icio.us API, so you can modify the del.icio.us tools to work with scuttle. Import your existing bookmarks from browsers or from del.icio.us. Scuttle has several AJAX features and it generates an RSS feeds.”
9. Taggly
   “Taggly is an online social bookmarking software written with usability and scalability in mind.”
10. Unalog
    “Open source bookmarking software written in the Python programming. You can get an account and add your own links, and create and join groups. If you get an account, or create a group, either one can be made private, so nobody but you (if a private account) or your fellow group members (if a private group) can see your links.”