Just caught a Six Revisions posting about things to help fine-tune the performance and reliability of your site, and it included a link to a free website service called mon.itor.us that accoriding to the article “set up alerts for when a service becomes unavailable”
tried to check it out, but…
it was unavailable.
so if they are using their own service, how will they know that their site is down…?
(probably, dugg hard)
Great tool to share today.
Ran across this website XML-Sitemaps.com that does exactly what you would want it to do.
You enter the website you want it to crawl and generate the XML sitemap for and a few minutes later it provides links to XML (compressed and uncompressed), text and HTML sitemaps for easy use.
It also allows you to specify the frequency, priority and created dates.
There is a 500 page cap on the service, but they also offer a PHP script version for about $20 bucks that you can install on your own server to generate sitemaps for unlimited pages.
Check them out and save yourself some time.
XML-sitemaps.com : Free Online Google Sitemap generator
As kids (and morally questionable adults), who hasn’t wished for X-ray vision? Superman had it. Of course, he used it fight crime- truth, justice and the American Way - and I think I can speak for all of us when I say that my wish for X-ray vision was always for more …um..”personal” reasons. But I digress.
Well now web developers and designers can have the equivalent of those dirty little night-vision Sony handicams to point at websites with this little gem I ran across this week. Everyone I have shown it to so far has been amazed and it has taken a top spot in my web tool kit.
It’s called, quite simply, XRAY and it is a Bookmarklet that you add to your bookmarks and then whenever you want to “x-ray” a site, you just click on the bookmarklet and it will evaluate the page and provide an overlay will all sorts of CSS style information. One of my favorite features is the ability to navigate back up the page elements like a breadcrumb trail (in picture below see under “instance hierarchy”).
Here it is in action on this site - click for larger image:
Hope you enjoy
