Download Websites Browse Offline

HTTrack website Copier is a simple tool that will allow you to download websites to your local computer and browse them offline. It will recursively download all the directories getting all the html, images, css , javascript and all other files from server to your computer.

Also, it will rearrange the links in a way that will allow you to browse the website offline. When you find a informative website next time do not forget to download it and keep a copy on your hard drive. In case of site go offline still you will be able to browse and refer to the website content without any problem.

Download HTTrack here.

Building an entire membership system using PHP and XML

This is a great video tutorial that will teach you how to create a login system using PHP and XML. They will show you how to create a registration page, login page, logout page and change password (forget password) page. In addition you will learn how to use sessions, .htaccess to protect your XML files, MD5 Encryption, and may more. Are you ready to learn how to created complete login system using PHP and XML? Visit net.tutsplus.com and source code is available.

404 Custom Error Page

Webmasters always focus on developing the main website and forget about scenarios such as what would happen when a user try to visit a page which is not there. 404 Custom Error Pages will come in o action. Believe it or not it can do a real difference to you website.

Why 404 Custom error page?

By default it will display a boring page that will only notify your visitors that they have reached to a dead end.

However, you need to make it more effective and use that page to make your valuable visitors to live pages. There for you can always create a simple HTML page saying that "Sorry! the page you were looking for could not be found." and then give a search option, or simple direct links to your product and services page. Yes, it is not rocket science but most of the webmasters forget that.

Here are some funky but helpful links that you can learn more about 404 Custom Error Pages.

How to Set Up A Custom 404 File Not Found Page - Gives you and inside out of the technical points of setting up a custom error page. First thin is to log in to your web hosting account control panel and check there is a option to setup the error page. It can be different from web hosting company to company. However, if you are running a dedicated server without a server managing software then you might have to do it manually.

Here are 50 creative 404 custom error page for your reference. These pages can be funny and funky but make sure you will direct your visitors back to your live web pages.

Do you missing a effective custom error page. Create one now and do not loose your valuable visitors.

How to select the best website template?

Choosing a website template is one of the most interesting tasks for both the web designer and owner. Before looking into the practical concept of this article, let me ask you one personal question- ‘What do you feel after looking to any great website on internet?’ I am sure your expressions must be, “wow, great, perfect, attractive, beautiful” and so on! This is what I am going to explain you in this article, making your website template just perfect and attractive.
 
How to select the best website template?

There are lots of things to keep in mind while selecting your website template. Website template is the main attraction of your website as it acts like a banner of your business. The website template solely depends upon the nature of your website and its content. So before finalizing your website template, you have to pen down some of the important things that might include in your main content framework.

One easier way to choose your website template:

There are many people owing more than 10 websites on internet due to numbers of online businesses. These website owners hardly find time to design the template and hence they choose some best website template from internet sites and changes the main and sub-page content to make it look fresh and attractive. This is nothing but imitating one popular website template for your new website launch.

Take suggestions from people:

This is also one of the great ways to decide your website template design. You can select some top ten high level website templates from internet with the help of your designer and can send to some people in your regular network for suggestions. You can go for the template that gets maximum votes or feedbacks. This is nothing new but one of the most common ways to select the website template.

Website template can help your online business to grow higher by bringing in more customers or visitors. It is said that a website without proper design and template cannot help your visitor to stay longer, and this is hindered percent true! A good website template cannot not only help your business to grow high but also helps your online market credit to reach the level of heights with great appreciation and comments. After all, somewhere in this business industry, perfect really matters!

Take time: Don’t mess up

There are many web owners who really mess up while choosing their website template, which really fails for their business growth. Thus, I advise to take efficient time and suggestions from people before finalizing your website template. Once the website template is designed and website is launched, it’s difficult to re-design and re-launch your website with new content and data all over again. So, think before finalizing your website template. Moreover you can surf online sites and read articles on designing website templates for further reference.

Website Loading Time is not a Joke

This is the time to think about the website loading time. Seriously. Time to time I was going through this and came up with small hacks and tricks to make the blog load faster. However, did I do it seriously. I do not think so. Did you took it seriously and really thought about the loading time each time you do a change to your template or adding new gadget? It is time to take it seriously as Google is using site speed in web search ranking.

First this is what Google Search team says about their decision.

Speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we've seen in our internal studies that when a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there. But faster sites don't just improve user experience; recent data shows that improving site speed also reduces operating costs. Like us, our users place a lot of value in speed — that's why we've decided to take site speed into account in our search rankings. We use a variety of sources to determine the speed of a site relative to other sites.

So that means we need to find out ways to speed up our website or blog. Here is my brain storming.

1. Choose/Switch Better web hosting ( Reliable and Faster and cheap web hosting might not going to work any more )
2. Choose/switch faster simple templates for the websites / blog. No more bulky images or flashy content but optimized images. Need to get the HTML coding optimized as well.
3. Use Tools effectively to measure what is really happening with the web site and do the necessary changes.

Some of the Web speed tools - Page Speed, YSlow, WebPagetest, Webmaster Tools
Also you can us Google Analytics asynchronous tracking.

Like I said earlier it is a better move from Google as it will improve the quality of the billions of websites and will come to an standard. Would like to see you thoughts as well.

What is 44tips?

Are you lost in the cyber space? Do you remember all the forums, social networks, blogs and all sort of web sites you have joined? How many interesting sites you might have forgotten over the time? To be honest I have no clue. 44tips came up with a simple but cool idea to solve this problem.

What is 44tips?
44tips helps you Create a start page with everything you love!

Import your photos, videos, music, bookmarks and more
Bring all your online accounts together in one place: simple and organized!



View your favorite websites in one place
Read, view, listen and play! Easy access to all your favorite sources, like YouTube, Flickr, LastFM and Delicious.

Discover similar content
Find new content everyday with our suggestions of sites, videos, music and photos similar to what you already love: convenient and surprising.

Collect everything you like
Save the content you find and build collections of your favorite videos, music, photos and bookmarks. Or create your own multimedial presentation!

Share your 44tips with your friends
Send your favorite content to your friends. Give them tips about new music or videos and show them what makes you tick!

Keep up with your social networks
If you are using many different social networks, such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Hyves, it’s easy to get lost. How to keep up with all those networks? How much time does it cost you to check for messages and updates?

Why don't you give 44tips a try and see how you can organize your favorite sites.

What is TweetBoard Alpha?

Tweetboad is introduced as "Tweetboard is True Twitter Conversation for your website"

Basically you can add twitter conversation in your website or blog. Visitors with twitter account can log into twitter account and start or join a conversation or leave a message. At the movement Tweetboad Alpha is open up for invitations. You will receive instant message from them with the instructions and make sure you tweet the correct homepage URL as it's needed to enable your Tweetboard instance.
If you would like to add more interaction with your visitors this might be a good add-on.

For more information and request an invitation visit tweetboard.com

Real time Vs Non-real time web statistics

If you are running a website or blog web statistics play a big role measuring your success as well as planing the future of your blog or website. Most of the cases you might like to see the real time statics of your website. That is quite natural even though it can waste lot of your valuable time.

This problem can be solved by two simple web statistic programs. Non-real time web statics can easily tracked and analyse from Google Analytics. I do not have to describe more about it as there are lot of good tutorials as well as it is quite simple and easy to use tool for anyone.

When it come to real time we statistics only thing you need to know is how many users are using your website at any given time. Also it would be great to know which page they are in and where are they coming from. These statistics can be easily display on you website by using whosread.com Click on get you own counter and insert it in to your website or blog and it will start showing the real time statistics when ever you go to your website.

In that way check real-time statistics without wasting time. You can detect the sudden changes by using whosread.com and analyse the statistics by using the Google Analytics.

[Proxy] What is Ktunnel.com?

Ktunnel.com is not a English website. Is it worth knowing what is Ktunnel.com? It is a quite simple free Proxy web site. There are coupled advertisements and pop-ups but it seems like quite nice.

How did I find it? It is quite unusual to find a non English web site. Ktunnel is breaking searched word on google.com related to computer and Internet.

Enjoy the Ktunnel.com free proxy when you have a restriction from your administrator. 

Google news down

http://news.google.com/

After the Google May Harm Fiasco - today Google News is down - http://crazzycool.blogspot.com/2009/02/google-hacked-this-is-crazzy.html

[GoodWebsite] How to build a cool blog/website

Set up and maintaining a website with a blog, forum, gallery and a content management system requires lot of programming skills plus money. Statement was true couple of years back but now you do not need much programming skills or money to build such a website with all the functionalities. I have done so many mistakes and learnt from them and would like give tips and tricks for building a website that can be used for your business or for personal use. 

Topics I would like to discuss in details related to developing and maintaining a quality website spending little money are:

1. Give a good start 

2. Get the Domain name First

4. Build the website/blog

5. Analyse and learn Website statistics

6. Add better Email client/server

7. Manage a News Letter

8. Interactive Forms to your website

9. Manage your team in style

10. Future of your website

In addition I would like to discuss any other issues and add-ons that you can use to make your website/blog cool. Stay tune, subscribe to CrazzyCool and you will not miss any of these hacks tricks and tweaks. If there is any more please send it to me and I will add it on my future posts.

Seasons Greating From Adsense

I got this Seasons Greating from Adsense Team wich is a small game that give out tips to optimise your website. All these optimisation tips come from Santa. and Hope you will enjoy and learn from Santa.

Santas Search Tips

FREE File Conversion

Do you need to convert from PDF to DOC? DOC to PDF? MPG to AVI? WAV to MP3? or in hundreds of different format?

Well you can do it now using a free online webservice. You will not be required to install a single software on your computer! Now that is Crazzy as well as Cool!

Visit

http://www.zamzar.com/

Book Mark: pdf to flash convertors

I am kind of searching for website or software that can convert pdf to flash plus creat this cool flipping effect on it. Still I am not satify with my search results but this is what I found so far.

Adobe FlashPaper2 free trial onlybut I don't think it does the dog-ears thing where you can flip pages over

www.yudufreedom.com Convert your docs for free. Create Interactive publications in secondsFirst one works fine (but email doesnt came to me may be because of the spam filter)After that I could not tst it keeps on giving errors,

http://www.flipr.ch/

http://page-flip.com/component.htm
Flash Component – is a standard extension for Adobe Flash MX, MX2004, Flash 8 and Flash CS3 . You simply install the MXP file and then you just drag & drop the extension from the Components panel onto the scene of your movie.

The object is a ready-to-use SWF file that you simply integrate into your HTML page. We have developed the object for users who do not have Macromedia Flash. The object cannot be controlled with ActionScript. It can work only with external files and set up only through an XML file.

http://www.3dissue.com
This is a software you can download the Trail version. However, the price for the full version is bit too much it seems.

I will update as I progress through this search. I know this is a cool and crazzy plugin that can be added to your website. Pdf to Flash Convertor.

How to: Block URL (websites) you don’t want to visit

You can easily block list of URLs (websites) with out using any software. I have tried this in windows XP and it works fine.

Why you should block any websites?

1. Even it is your personal computer there is great chance of going to these nasty website that install adwares, spywares and all these unwated stuff in your computer. Some websites are using banner advertisements from different websites. These websites should be blocked.

2.You might be managing couple of uses or computers and you don’t want them to go to certain URLs.

Cool if any of these are your requirement then you can follow this. Secret is in the C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\. Path might be different from windows version or the way you install your windows.

You will find couple of files there; protocol, service, network and host. File you will be required is host (there is no extension for that file). If you don’t find it you can create it (Right click > new > create a text document and remove the extension).

Sample host file will look like this.

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 www.myspace.com
127.0.0.1 www.youtube.com


Create exact file and add any number of URL in the same format (127.0.0.1) and save it. Sometimes you might have to restart the machine but it worked for me without restarting.

Cool all the URLs listed there will be blocked.

Crazzy Web: Rave Generator

This is another simple but fun web site...it s not about hacking, programming or coding...it s all about having fun ...Try this... you can be a dj ...full credit goes to toffu for sending me this site

You can select given Drum beats, breaks, bass or lead and creat your version of music...it is cool

Back to old School

One Button - Add this

This is really cool website if you have a blog or a website and if you want to add links to the following book mark or feed sites

You need to add only one button for all this sites ... how cool is that ...

So you better try it yourself and it is totally free but you have register to get the botton.

Click here to go to Addthis.com


These are the list of sites that addthis web site provides.

Favorites, Google Bookmarks, Delicious, Digg, MySpace, Facebook, Furl, Yahoo, MyWeb, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Newsvine, Live Technorati, Twitter, Yahoo Bookmarks, myAOL, Ask Fark, Slashdot, Propeller, (Netscape) Mixx Multiply, Simpy Blogmarks, Diigo, Faves (Bluedot), Spurl, Link-a-Gogo, Mister, Wong, Feed,MeLinks, Backflip, Magnolia, Seganlo, Netvouz, Tailrank, Blinklist,

How to recover your website after it got defaced (Hacked)

Few of our websites got defaced. Hackers manage to change the home page of our website to one of their page. I thought it would be interesting to share how I recover my web sites with everyone.

One of the major side effects of such attack is your website will lose the Google (Search engine) organic clicks. When Google BOT visit the website it will cash hacker’s website rather than your page. However, if you found out quickly and recover the web site you can minimise the lost.
As soon as you notice that your website got hack, you should trying to figure out what exactly happened. Actions you have to take will be different from type of attack. You can ask the basic questions.

What type of attack is that?
What is the damage done to the files?
How long will it take to retrieve to original website?

Relax and then go through the files and check which files been modified or deleted or added. Simply you can do this by looking at the last modified date. Replace the modified and deleted files with the original files. At least it will bring the website back to live. If the database is attacked or changed then you will have to apply the latest backup and minimize the damage.
I believe that is the first step you should take to place your site back where it was. It will help your site to go back and catch your valuable users.

If you are using pay per click advertising it is really important to keep your site alive. Otherwise you will be losing your valuable users plus you will loos what you pay for those clicks.
Second thing you have to do is to identify the issue or the security hole. If you are not a security expert it is better to give it away to a security expert. Because, if you haven’t cover up the weak points same attack will occur again and again. It will affect your Google ranking plus your business.