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Useful links and "various tips"
("tuyaux") for Webmasters and surfers...
For
my site :
Pages & architecture :
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Dreamweaver 4, excellent professionnal tool.
Before, I had used FrontPage, and I don't miss
it ;-)
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Photos & design :
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Paint Shop Pro, really, really good
! Recommended ! |
File transfer :
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I loved LeechFTP but it's not developped
anymore, so I'm trying to get used to Smart
FTP. |
Hosting :
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Infomaniak,
my actual host, not much expensive, professionnal,
extra. Based in Switzerland.
OVH and Hébergement
Discount (France) were two of my previous hosts,
not expensive, pretty much reliable.
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Counter :
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Sitemeter,
free, reliable and fast. No adds. Seems to send some
tracking cookies, though. |
Visitors stats :
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Xiti (French)
: free, no adds, basic stats with intersting analysis.
To get what it doesn't provide, I help a friend
to develop a PHP script which gives us full clickable
URL of the referers, the page/page track of the
best visitors, the list of orphan pages (...) in
addition to the history, the counter... We'll offer
it to the public when it'll be developped enough.
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Guestbook :
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Hurray for independance again, with this free PHP
Guestbook : @lex
Guestbook. Really good ! I help @lex a bit on
his forum and to design new skins.
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Navigation menus :
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WebReference
: site of the developpers of the menu I use on this
site, which is really good, but...since March 2002,
you have to pay for it :-(
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Forum :
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An execellent and customizable forum
script : PhP BB,
free and regularly updated by a large users community. |
Site search engine :
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I tried a couple of the free services
and Atomz
is the one I chose for its efficiency and discretion.
Recently they added "sponsored links" on
the results page, but they wrote well in advance to
let us know and it's actually well done, not much
invasive. |
To be in the search engines :
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Brioude
: very good free service, in French. Recently added
the requirement of posting their logo on your pages. |
Pictures, icons...
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One reference among many : CoolGraph. |
To
surf the Web...
Navigation :
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I loved Netscape but switched to Internet Explorer,
first by laziness, then because Netscape would give
more and more trouble. In 2005, I switched to Mozilla
Firefox but then came back to Internet Explorer.
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Email :
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Same laziness... Outlook. Then
I also changed for Mozilla
Thunderbird for the same reasons, then came back
to Outlook for compatibility. |
Antivirus :
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For about ten years I used Norton Antivirus, which
I carefully kept up to date. But I didn't like the
oversized new version nor, most of all, the attitude
of their online staff. So I bought Kaspersky
Antivirus online and I wasn't disapointed except
for its tendancy to slow down the PC. For two years
now I'm using TrendMicro
PC-Cillin (antivirus and firewall).
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Cleaning spywares :
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To remove "spywares" (who
spy on your habits) installed without your knowledge
by other programs : Ad-Aware
(free), to update regularly. |
Cleaning the history logs on the computer :
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"On January 15th 1998 at 08:14pm, you visited
www.XXX.com. I know it." How ?
If I have access to your computer, even if you deleted
the history and cache of your navigator, Windows
has recorded everything in an "index.dat"
file, which by the way keeps growing, and growing
; and the same for the cookies. The catch ? You
can't (easily, that is) delete these files, Windows
won't let you ! Unless you have a great knowledge,
or a specific program for this. No need to
be paranoïd, but...
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To stay informed (viruses, hoaxs...)
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Secuser :
(in French) THE security portal, with a useful mailing
list if you opt in. Also has a free online antivirus.
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Translation :
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Voilà
Traductions : free translation of Web pages and
small texts. |
Page créée le 20 mai 2000 - Mise
à jour le 28 décembre 2006
©opyright 1997-2007
Pierre Gieling - tous droits réservés
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