FCC releases Internet speed test tool

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday launched a broadband test service to help consumers clock the speed of their Internet. Located at the site www.broadband.gov, the test is aimed at allowing consumers to compare their actual speeds with the speeds advertised by their providers.
The FCC release follows an FCC meeting in September where officials [...]

Website Calendar Options

Recently, I had to implement an events calendar on a website I was working on. My first idea was to find an open source package written in PHP. I did some Web searching and found the following:

VCalendar
WebCalendar
iCalendar
PHP iCalendar

After thinking about this a bit more, though, I opted for an online calendar. The two that I [...]

Google Grants

Google offers free Google AdWords for nonprofits:
Google Grants provides eligible organizations with in-kind keyword advertising using Google AdWords so you can connect directly with your target audience. Through simple, short text ads that run on Google.com, thousands (or even millions) of people can learn about your organization online as they are searching for related information. [...]

Cool PHP Frameworks

While PHP has enabled even the most novice programmer to build Web applications, the result is often poorly-coded websites that are a bear to maintain. I should know. I’ve worked on this kind of project myself.
The problem is that building a proper software infrastructure for each project is a time-consuming process, and the cost of [...]

Content Management on the Cheap

There are several good content-management systems or publications, such as Vignette, that will satisfy just about any content-management need that a publishing company could come up with. The problem? They’re expensive—both to set up and to maintain.
These are definitely not solutions for small publishers. A friend of mine worked for a publisher who installed [...]

Cool Survey Tools

If you run a website for very long, either you or your client will want to do a survey. Magazines, for example, often want to do readership surveys to see how well their content is meeting readers’ needs. Organizations like to ask questions about their services.
Many of them sign up with a service like SurveyMonkey. [...]

Cool Tools for Blogging

I’ve been blogging for quite a while now. My  amateur radio blog, for example, has been online for nearly four years now. In addition to my ham radio blog, I also  blog on automotive testing at AutoTestNews.Com.
But even though I’ve been at it so long, there  are always new things to learn. For example, I’ve [...]