Resources

December 11, 2009

Hootsuite Review

Filed under: Social Media Tools — Tags: , — Tim @ 7:46 pm

If you use Twitter, you have to be using Hootsuite. Forget TweetDeck, Hootsuite rocks!

http://hootsuite.com/

Manage Social Networks: Hootsuite lets you manage Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and more from one place!

Create Groups

Track Statistics: Automatically shorten your tweets and track click throughs.

Track Statistics

Twitter Lists: Import your Twitter lists, add new ones, and manage them from within Hootsuite

Create Groups

Schedule Tweets: My favorite feature, schedule your tweets ahead of time.

Schedule Tweets

Team Workflow: Manage multiple accounts from one dashboard.

Team Workflow

Brand Monitoring: See what people are saying about you and your brand.

Quick Search

Check out Hootsuite. It is a great tool, even if you’re just getting started with Twitter.

~Tim

December 4, 2009

Beta Google Analytics code – speedier page loads

Filed under: Code — Rob @ 9:19 am

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We’ve all seen it happen, you load a website  – the loading hesitates and in your status bar you see “transfering data from Google Analytics”.

Google has a solution for this problem with new analytics code that uses asynchronous tracking which optimizes the way the web browser loads the Google Analytics code.

While the code is in beta I’ve used it with great results.  The new code also has other benefits.

  • Faster tracking code load times for your web pages due to improved browser execution
  • Enhanced data collection and accuracy
  • Elimination of tracking errors from dependencies when the JavaScript hasn’t fully loaded

You can get all the information you need to install the newer snippet at Googles Code page.

Rob

1000 Free Web Icons

Filed under: Web Resource — Rob @ 9:07 am

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An invaluable resource. We all need icons for all sorts of applications, and here are 1000 high quality icons packaged under the GPL for your free and legal use.

These icon sets are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. This means you can freely use these icons for any purpose, private and commercial, including online services, templates, themes and software.

Rob


Find a color scheme for your site from a picture

Filed under: Web Resource — Rob @ 8:59 am

colorsuckrlogo http://colorsuckr.com/

Sometimes you’ve got an image or logo that is going to become the central focus of a website, and you’ll need to build a color scheme around it.  This task just got a whole lot easier.

colorsuckr

Colors return in Hex and Web safe colors – you even get RGB.

  • Flickr pages: If you enter a Flickr photo page (e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitterlysweet/33358201/) in the ‘Enter image url’ box, ColorSuckr will find the main photo.
  • Web pages: If you enter a web page url (e.g. http://abduzeedo.com/) instead of an image, ColorSuckr will scan the page and show you the images on it & you can choose from there.
  • Use color photos: Yes, this sounds silly, but black and white images will only return a few shades of grey.
  • Bookmarklet: Drag and drop this link – Get image colors – into your bookmarks bar or save it to your favourites and make getting colors from web images easy. Next time you are on a webpage with images you’d like to get colors from – just click the bookmark. (Works on images larger than 50px x 50px)

And the best part – it’s also a Firefox plugin.  Yep, install it and all you need to do is right click on any image in any website and chose “Extract image colors”

A fine way to get a color scheme quickly.

Rob