Program & Design Tips, tricks, tutorials, and tools on programming & web design

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These little tools were developed by me, for me, to save time. I’m sharing them here with you in hope that you can get some use out of them too.

• AdSense Trends
  Plots graphs of your AdSense earnings so that you can see how well you’re doing and feel better about yourself.
  

  Yes, those are my pitiful earnings

External

These are some of my favorite web master tools from around the web.

• SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool, Google Keyword Tool
  Helps you pick out keywords to target within your niche by giving you approximate search volumes.
• Google Analytics
  You probably already know about this one; it lets you know where your visitors are coming from and which pages they are visiting.
• Google Traffic/CPC Estimator
  I use this tool to get a rough idea of how much traffic my keywords will get, and how much a click will pay.
• Google Webmaster Tools
  This will give you some diagnostics about your site, like which pages have been crawled, top search queries for your site, what Googlebot sees, and other statistics.
• SpyFu
  This tool will arguably give you a more reliable cost/click for specific keywords.
• XHTML Character Entity Reference
  Pretty much what it sounds like.
• CubeStat, WebsiteOutlook, DNS Scoop
  Get an estimate of how much your site is worth.
• DomainTyper, Instant Domain Search, Ajax Whois
  Let’s face it, all the good domains are taken. Use thesetools to quickly figure out what’s left from the slim pickings.
• Regex Tester
  Tool for testing your regular expressions instantly.
• CSS Compressor, Clean CSS
  Tools for compressing/cleaning your CSS to save you and your viewers’ bandwidth and load times.
• JS Minifier, JS Packer, JS Compressor
  Tools for compacting your JavaScript.
• BrowserShots
  This site will generate screenshots of your website from many different browsers, and operating systems. An excellent tool for making sure your site is cross-browser compatible!
• Banklink Watch
  Find out who’s linking to you.
• EpochConverter
  Once in awhile you might want to manually insert a UNIX timestamp into your database; use this tool to convert to and from a human-readable time.
• ClickHeat
  Haven’t personally tried this one, but it will give you a free heat map of where users are clicking on your site.
• XHTML Formatter
  Not only will this tool indent your HTML nicely, it will fix any missing closing tags! Very handy if you’re trying to clean up else’s code.
• JS Bin, PasteBin, CodePad, dpaste
  Share code snippets with others. JSBin and CodePad will let you run your code too!
• Fix My HTML
  Formats your HTML and fixes mismatched tags. A great help when you’re trying to clean up someone else’s mess.