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"In the Spotlight" Article Index
The articles linked here introduce software, tutorials, and generators available to WebSite's Secret members.
Section links:
- Articles About Your Membership
- Behind the Scenes Tools > Downloadable Software
- Behind the Scenes Tools > Generator/Online Service
- Ecommerce > Downloadable Software
- Form Handlers > Downloadable Software
- WebSite Features > Downloadable Software
- WebSite Features > Generator/Online Service
- WebSite Features > Tutorial/Information
Articles About Your Membership
Two Way Discount for Custom Programming
Need some custom programming? WebSite's Secret Members get a deal in two ways, one 25% discount and the other 50% discount.
Another Website's Secret Membership Advantage
Members get 50% discount off regular price of Willmaster software!
Generators in WebSite's Secret
These generators are your easy-to-use, efficiency tools to create "copy and paste" code for your web pages.
Behind the Scenes Tools > Downloadable Software
The Cross-domain Cookie system emulates behavior suggesting a cookie is being used at more than one domain.
Files Monitor, the server hacking alert system, has been upgraded.
With the Secure Server URL Test software you can view the SSL certificate at secure servers. You can select whether to use SSL version 2, version 3, or let the software auto-determine the version.
SCANfile is a password-protected PHP script to upload to your server. Once in place, you simply use the SCANfile control panel to specify the location of the file you want scanned, specify the words to scan for, and click.
Affiliates Without Affiliate Software
This is the ideal solution for when you just need to know which affiliate referred a sale to your sales page. Installing and setting up complicated affiliate program software is not required.
Bulk 755 Permissions for CGI Scripts
When a website is moved to a new server, CGI scripts will need permissions changed to 755 before they will run. If the moved website has a dozen or more CGI scripts or if the location of all the scripts is not easily remembered, use the Setting WebSite's Script Permissions software to facilitate an easier site move; it will set the permissions on CGI scripts for you.
The Files Monitor software is a hacker alert system. It monitors files on your server and sends you an email alert if any of the files' size or content changes. It also alerts when new files are added to monitored directories and when files are deleted.
Double Click Blocker for Links
There are 3 reasons why it is good to have a double click blocker on certain links.
The Project Time Logger is software that will keep track of how much time is spent on projects and tasks.
Force Download Without Right-click
Different browsers have different menu items for right-click downloading. The inexperienced can become confused when the instructions don't match the browser they are using.
This software is in response to the antics a person has to go through to schedule the launch of PHP web pages at some hosting companies. Some hosting companies allow you to specify URLs in a cron schedule. Others do not.
Export CSV All MySQL Database Tables
With the click of one button, the software will export every table in a MySQL database. The export is a CSV file. Each table is exported separately to a separate CSV file. The CSV file name is the table's name with ".csv" appended.
"List All MySQL Structures" software was created with developers in mind (including this programmer). The tool may come in handy even if you are not a developer.
Display randomly selected content on your web page with the new PHP software, "Random Any Content", and JavaScript.
Server Monitor requests a page from a domain. It does this with whatever frequency you set up, perhaps every 5 or 10 minutes. If successful, the software exits silently. Otherwise, it sends you an email and/or logs the fact with date and time.
The content you enter into the "Handy Spot Editor" control panel can be inserted into any number of web pages on any number of domains. When the copy is changed in Handy Spot Editor, all insertions are updated.
Easy to set up. Perfect for testing email presentations. Great for smaller email lists.
In order to make an informed decision about a section of our website, we needed to know how much traffic that section is getting and, for traffic coming from search engines, what terms people use to find us.
I personally use the Snooper 3-Pack more often than any other software in the WebSite's Secret area. Perhaps some of what I do with it is something you could also benefit from.
Let's say there is a CSV file on your server and you want it loaded in your desktop Excel or OpenOffice.org spreadsheet. Excel Download does that for you.
Instead of looking on, unable to do anything about hotlinking, we have real control. The ability to block hotlinks to ZIP files at willmaster.com is especially rewarding for us.
Using Directory Zip for Site Backup
We use Directory Zip to automatically back up most of our websites. Every week, Directory Zip backs up certain sections of our websites into ZIP files. After backing up a section, it sends us an email with the download link.
HotlinkALARM is software to detect unauthorized hotlinking and the theft inherent in that illegal activity.
Behind the Scenes Tools > Generator/Online Service
Sensitive Information Transfer Service
Getting passwords to clients, friends, or associates can be problematic when they don't have a secure server where you can leave it.
Form Field "Word/Character Limits"
HTML can be used to limit the number of characters for a type="text" field. But that's all. It can't be used to limit characters for a textarea field and it can not be used to limit words in either type of field. However, JavaScript can be used.
The WSS 'redirect 301' Generator
When web pages are moved or their files renamed, it is good to put a "redirect 301" line into the .htaccess file of the directory where the web pages are moved from.
Generator for Blocking Bad Bots
We're happy to announce a new generator in the WebSite's Secret area that can be used to generate the .htaccess code to block those "bad bots".
Your market reach is global. It has 24 hours' worth of timezones. A deadline time in one place is 23 hours wrong at another place.
Dropdown Navigation List Generator
Creating clear and effective navigation links for large websites can be a real challenge. One solution is dropdown lists. Here is a dropdown navigation list generator.
Ecommerce > Downloadable Software
Custom Amazon Simple Pay Button
Amazon's Simple Pay button can be used to pay for products and services from your website by anyone who has purchased anything from Amazon and still has their account. Provided you are set up for it.
Custom Thank-You Page for PayPal Payment
When PayPal returns a buyer to your website, the URL contains information that can be used to customize the thank-you page.
PayPal Custom Payment Software
This PHP script lets your customers type an amount into a form, then submit the form to PayPal so they can pay you their specified amount.
Form Handlers > Downloadable Software
With the Ajax for Forms software, a form on a web page can be submitted without loading a new page or reloading the current page.
FormJobber(TM) was built so forms can submit to more than one CGI program.
WebSite Features > Downloadable Software
The Easiest Banner Rotator Ever
This is the Easiest Banner Rotator Ever. Publish banners on your web page with a line of either JavaScript or PHP code, your choice.
Content Change by Holiday is PHP code to publish certain content on a web page on specified holidays and other special days (vacation days, for example).
Content Change by Date and Time
Content Change by Date and Time software is PHP code to publish certain content on a web page depending on the date and time.
In the WebSite's Secret Members Area:
PHP code that makes it possible to publish certain content on a web page at different times of the day- automatically.
Some web pages in iframes load slowly. Google Docs' spreadsheets, for example. To assure the site visitor knows the content is loading, a loading message can be displayed over the top of the iframe.
Now available in the WebSites Secret member area: all the code you need to implement a QR code generator on your website like the one in the Willmaster Library.
Recommend forms on websites can hold privacy concerns for your site visitor. No matter how boldly you state, "We don't spam," or "We never share your email address, nor the addresses of your friends," some will not believe you.
Content Changes for Repeat Visitors
Sometimes you want to say one thing when a person first visits a page on your website, and a different thing when they come back or when they visit another page.
WebSite Features > Generator/Online Service
Simulated Mobile Device Generator
To attract attention on your webpage, a message can be placed into an image of a mobile device. The message would be in the device screen area. It could be an announcement, a quote of the day, a photograph of the employee of the week, an ad, or even a video.
WebSite Features > Tutorial/Information
Universal Display/Undisplay Function
(with optional Auto Scroll Return)
A new tutorial in the WebSite's Secret members area makes coding a web page to display and undisplay content with a click much easier now- even if you want to present multiple "click to reveal" links on a page.
Display a small image on your web page. Click on it to display the full-size version in a picture box centered in the browser window. That's the technique offered in the tutorial, "Click for Large Image", available in the WSS members area.
Actual Time vs JavaScript Time, a New Tutorial
JavaScript and time don't work quite the way one would expect. Functionally, JavaScript's date and time algorithms work well. It's the time itself that could give a person a merry chase.
You've seen pull-quotes: an excerpted line or phrase taken from the main text of an article and presented in a box or other graphic feature.
New Tutorial: Self-expanding Textarea Field
The new tutorial describes how to implement a self-expanding textarea field in a form; when more lines are needed in the text box, the box automatically expands.
