Top 5 Website Statistic Systems

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Every webmaster wants to know how many hits his website is getting, whether it be daily, monthly or just sporadically; but with so many stat tools available, which one is the best to use? In this article, we’ll review some of the top systems available.

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Protecting your website from spam and misuse

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If your a owner of website that is generally popular and your website features functions like commenting, then you are bound to get random spam comments that appear everywhere, other functions that are often targetted include contact forms, random bot users that register to your website (If it has some form of member system) and more functions that spammers generally attack. As well as spam there also the problem of what is known as leeching. Leeching is the act of where some leeches your content e.g. Grabs the source code or url for some form of content thats hosted on your website and posts it somewhere (While linking to the file on your webspace). These problems need to be controlled and stop and in this article, you'll see some methods of how to to exactly that. Ladies and Gentlemen were in DEFCON 3!

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Internet Explorer 8 and CSS3

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In the past month or so I have wrote three articles/tutorials on various CSS3 elements that the developers of CSS3 have been working on, I've shown you some of my favorite new features such as the border-radius attribute and box-shadow, but I have had to stress on each article that only certain browsers will allow to use CSS3 modules and elements. The main two browsers that have supported CSS3 along it's on going development path are Mozilla Firefox and Safari, both using there own frameworks the moz and webkit, with Mozilla constantly making revisions to there browser and currently working on Mozilla Firefox 3.1 (Currently in BETA) alot of CSS3 is supported and able to be displayed, similar with Safari, particularly the latest version of Safari (which is version 4 BETA) packs in more CSS3 into the webkit and like Mozilla people are able to use CSS3 and see the effects.

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Website Development Tools: Whois Domain Lookup

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Rolling out the next website development tool we bring you the Whois Domain Lookup tool. Which is simply a domain query tool. This tool allows you to enter either the domain or IP Address of a website and look at certain information such as where the domain is hosted, it's creation and expiry date and more. The tool gets this information from InterNIC Whois database which is updated daily. Information such as when the database for that domain was last updated is also avaliable to look at, however because we are using a standard whois database you will also see alot of random information such as terms/use of the database, we can't remove it as it's part of Internic's policy. But the information you want is at the top and easy to find!

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Website Development Tools: Image Uploader

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A few months ago in a random blog update post, I talked about providing some free website development tools for anyone to use, while I did mention this quite a while ago, I have started creating these tools, and today I finished the official image uploader for James' Blog. Using the script that was featured in this tutorial I have created a public image uploader, which is free for anyone to use. Yes there are alternative services which are dedicated image/file hosts, ImageShack being one of them, but I have the webspace for small uploads and im not going to completly visually rape you with silly advertisements so why the hell not!

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