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INTERACTIVETOOLS.COM
An HTML version of this newsletter is available at:
http://www.interactivetools.com/news/
Issue #30 - May 2005
http://www.interactivetools.com/
info@interactivetools.com
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In this issue:
1) Article Manager Special - An $80 Value!
2) Coming Soon - Article Manager Cross-Browser WYSIWYG Support
3) CSS Reference Links
4) Googspy - Useful Search Marketing Tool
5) FireFox 1.0.4 Released
6) interactivetools Overrun by Spiders!
7) Theo in Australia
8) What's happening in our forum?
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1. ARTICLE MANAGER SPECIAL - AN $80 VALUE!
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Just until May 31st Article Manager will be only $269, and as an added bonus, you'll receive an entire hour of consulting time with one of our product experts, absolutely free!
With a savings of $30, and $50 of consulting free, that's a total value of $80 - you can even save $120 off the regular 5-pack price, or $195 on a 10-pack!
With your free hour we can help you get instantly started by doing many of the initial template changes for you. You can even use your free hour to take advantage of Article Manager's most advanced features: set up a two column homepage, place your headlines in different sections of your site, or create an RSS feed. How you use your free hour is entirely up to you. :)
To pick up a discounted license of Article Manager with your free hour of Priority Consulting, just visit our order page at:
http://www.interactivetools.com/order/
Or call us toll free at 1-800-752-0455.
You can learn more about Priority Consulting here:
http://www.interactivetools.com/consulting/
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2. COMING SOON - ARTICLE MANAGER CROSS-BROWSER WYSIWYG SUPPORT
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With so many more people using Mozilla and Firefox, we're getting set to release cross-browser WYSIWYG support for Article Manager. Mozilla and Firefox users will soon be able to format their article content using a WYSIWYG editor.
It's also great news for Mac users. While it won't yet support Safari, Mac users can access the WYSIWYG editor using their Mozilla or Firefox browser.
From what I've seen so far, the editor looks phenomenal. Stay tuned for the next newsletter when we announce its release! :)
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3. CSS REFERENCE LINKS
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One thing that's always helped me out when working with websites was having an excellent list of development resources. I've even gone as far as to create a browser home page loaded with all of these links. In this newsletter I've included some excellent CSS resources. Take a look and let me know what you think. :)
This cheat sheet has almost everything related to CSS, including properties, syntax, and selectors. What's more, the author will even let you print it for your own reference!
http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/css/css-cheat-sheet/
Next is a diagram of the CSS Box Model Hierarchy. Sound confusing? This diagram makes it much easier to understand, clearly illustrating how margins, padding, and other CSS elements are layered.
http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/3dboxmodel/
I'm constantly on the lookout for useful resources we can share. If you know of any tutorials or references please send me a link (luke@interactivetools.com) and I'll see if I can include them in a future newsletter.
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4. GOOGSPY.COM - USEFUL SEARCH MARKETING TOOL
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Ever wondered where your competitors rank on Google, or even which keywords they've purchased?
GoogSpy.com, a very cool search marketing tool released by Velocityscape, helps answer this question. With GoogSpy.com, you simply enter the name or web address of your competitor and it'll return several of their top ranking organic and paid search terms. Googspy.com will even provide you with a list of the company’s top 25 competitors.
You can check out GoogSpy here:
http://www.googspy.com/
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5. FIREFOX 1.0.4 RELEASED
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Mozilla has recently updated their FireFox browser. The latest release is a security update. It turns out that two vulnerabilities were identified, which may be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.
FireFox has a ton of great features such as tabbed browsing, RSS integration, and popup blocking. Most useful is the Web Developer extension, which allows you to resize your browser, disable images, validate your HTML, and so much more.
You can download FireFox 1.0.4 here:
http://www.mozilla.org/
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6. INTERACTIVETOOLS OVERRUN BY SPIDERS!
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Our office is being overrun by insanely large spiders! If you don't believe me, you can see a picture of them crawling on Tara:
http://www.interactivetools.com/news/images/spiders.jpg
Okay, okay, I'm only kidding! :)
Cinemazoo (http://www.cinemazoo.com/), an animal agency, helped Dave and Tara throw a birthday party for Dave's son Jonah. The party was held at Jonah's preschool, and the entertainment included tarantulas, snakes, and all sorts of other wild life. As you can see in the picture, the trainer had the spiders crawl over people brave enough to volunteer.
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7. THEO IN AUSTRALIA
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Theo, our project manager, is on vacation right now in Australia. He sent us an update and we thought it would be great to share his experiences with you.
We're hoping to hear more updates from him, but we really don't know what his computer access will be like.
I've posted his most recent update in the forum. Please feel free to say hi or leave him a comment:
http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/P39987/
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8. WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR FORUM?
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Article/Listings Manager - Vote for your Favourite Login Screen
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Maurice, from the interactivetools forums, created a site where you can vote for your favourite Article/Listings Manager login pages. You can read his post here:
http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/P39641/
You can vote for or upload your own login page screenshots here:
http://www.intraserve.nl/vote/index.php
Article Manager - Add a Last Updated Timestamp
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Want site visitors to know when an article was last updated? In this post Cliff shows you how to add a last updated time stamp to each of your article pages.
http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/P39853/
Listings Manager - Dynamic Image Gallery
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In this post, Ross explains how to give your site visitors the ability to dynamically view a listing's thumbnail image in full size. Visitors can simply mouse over a thumbnail and a full size version is output above.
http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/P39850/
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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The interactivetools.com newsletter is written by Luke Holzken, luke@interactivetools.com
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ABOUT OUR COMPANY
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Interactivetools.com creates world-class web software. Web developers use our software to provide their non-technical clients with an easy-to-use system for managing their websites.
You can visit our website at:
http://www.interactivetools.com/
or demo our products at:
http://demo2.interactivetools.com/
Call us at 1-800-752-0455 if you have any questions not addressed on our site.
Luke Holzken
Product Development
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