InnerPeace Webmaster ToolKit
Inner Peace is not primarily a webmaster programming site. However, in the
course of doing our web site, we have discovered few things that other
webmasters may find helpful, many of which are not elsewhere available.
There are lots of places to get beginning HTML information. We see no
need to duplicate those resources. Most of the resources here would be
classified as intermediate level and require some knowledge of HTML code.
Many of these items are included as part of the
download package.
You can also copy the source code of the ones you like.
By having local copies of these files, you can use them anytime, even when you
are not connected to the Internet. Local copies load much faster than online
versions.
All of the Inner Peace authored tools are free software licenced under the
GNU General Pubilc License,
so feel free to play with the source code and improve them.
HTML
Discovering
Art and the Zen of web sites
was a major philosophical shift for us. Many of the ideas of creating web pages
began in ancient times when most web pages were limited to what would fit on a
monitor. Scrollbars were almost nonexistent. The strategy was to pack in as much
information as possible into 480 x 640 pixels.
Art and Zen broke us out of that mold by suggesting such revolutionary ideas as
using margins and blank space to make our web pages less cluttered and easier
for our users to read. While we don't adhere to all of their suggestions, we
never plan any design changes without referring to it.
As with many zen writings, deeper meanings come through with subsequent
readings. Put your preconceptions aside and check it out.
This item IS included in the webmaster download package.
There are LOTS of 16 million color pickers out there. Many of them are slow.
Most of them only show one color at a time.
Colors on web pages do not exist alone. How they look together is very
important, or sometimes you want to compare possibilities side by side.
After an exhaustive search to find such a tool, we finally made our own. It puts
three colors together on the page and changes any one of them, rather fast.
You can open separate windows to compare different combinations. You can also
display a full layout of how sample web pages look using any of the
4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 different combinations,
which is what you get with 16 million plus colors to the third power.
It works with hex or decimal color codes and even generates random colors. We
use this tool a lot, especially for making our
FastLoading Banners.
For a while, we couldn't get this color picker to work on Netscape. Now it
screams on NS3.
This item IS included in the webmaster download package.
Graphics can make a site look good, but they sure can make pages load slowly.
If you look at this page, there are no graphic files. All the banners and
buttons are
FastLoading Banners
made with nothing but HTML code.
FastLoading Banners
are usually 90 to 99% smaller in file size than graphic banners.
This item IS included in the webmaster download package, along with another page
of banner code.
Page redirection does not get any more seamless than this.
PageJumper
instantly transfers your visitors to your new page. No "this page has moved"
text appears. Most users will not even notice the redirection has occurred.
PageJumper is search engine friendly. Your new address is placed right where
search engines are programmed to look. PageJumper does not use META REFRESH tags
which cause some search engines to ignore your pages.
PageJumper is Back button friendly. PageJumper pages are invisible to back
buttons. Users clicking their back buttons go straight to their previous pages.
PageJumper eliminates those annoying back button loops sometimes caused by META REFRESH
tags.
If you ever have to move any web pages, check out PageJumper.
This item IS included in the webmaster download package.
Are you getting too much junk email from your web site?
Would you like to provide your email addresses to legitimate visitors of your
web site without ending up on more junk email lists?
EScrambler
may be just what you need.
Your spam problem comes from spam crawler robots. They crawl your web site for
only one purpose -- to add your email addresses their spam lists. EScrambler
makes your email addresses invisible to spam crawlers.
EScrambler hides your email addresses in plain sight. Visitors to your web pages
can read and click on your email addresses the same way they do now.
EScrambler does not stop search engine robots from indexing your site. It only
hides your email addresses from robots.
This item IS included in the webmaster download package.
JavaScript
Todays browsers do far more than many computers could do in the days of DOS. Yet
many programmers are still reinventing the wheel by writing their programs from
scratch in languages like C++ and Basic.
Today's browsers are fully equipped with all the code for windowing, scrolling,
fonts, printing, saving, and a wide range of far more sophisticated
capabilities, such as counting down the number of milliseconds until your
birthday.
Use
BrowserBased Programming.
Write your programs with simple scripting languages like JavaScript. Over 99% of
today's browsers can process JavaScript. No other programming language has such
an install base. Put your JavaScript programs on the Internet and make them
easilly available to the entire world.
This item IS included in the webmaster download package.
The
JavaScript Source
is an excellent JavaScript resource with tons of "cut and paste" JavaScript
examples for your web pages. All for free!
If you are new to JavaScript programming, this is probably a good place to
start. Even advanced JavaScript programmers find this site helpful.
There are literally hundreds of free JavaScripts that are available to you for
use on your web pages. The scripts are available via a user friendly interface
-- including a working JavaScript example of all the scripts plus the complete
actual JavaScript code used.
This item is NOT included in the webmaster download package.
There was a time, way back in the last millenium, when respectable authorities
cautioned about using tables and other such "advanced" features on web pages
because users could not see them. Such things were once said about JavaScript,
too.
Now that about 99% of all browsers have it, the question is not whether or not
to use it, but which version. We chose JavaScript 1.1, which works on Netscape
3, Internet Explorer 4, and any later brower, basicly most anything since 1995.
This excellent
free manual
from Netscape, the developer of JavaScript, says JavaScript 1.1 is out of date.
So are some people's browsers. The advantage of using slightly out date
technology is that you don't miss users with older systems.
JavaScript 1.1 works just wonderfully for most applications, even on newer
browsers. For most applications it will do everything you need.
This manual is also an excellent HTML reference. If ours were a book it'd be all
dog eared and worn by now.
This item is NOT included in the webmaster download package. It has it's own
separate download, which we highly recommend.
We use this guide so often we keep a local copy of it on our hard drive and
shortcuts to it on our desktop and in our web folders. The download version is
identical to the online version but loads much faster. It's written in HTML and
runs on any browser. INDEX~1.HTM is the main page.
Because, unlike our BrowserBased programs, it is made up of many separate html
pages, it will not work as an offline bookmark. To run it offline, you have to
download it. Maybe someday somebody will write a BrowserBased JavaScript manual
in JavaScript.
This item is NOT included in the webmaster download package. It has it's own
separate
download,
which we highly recommend.
Here's a direct quote from this Netscape Developer web site:
"JavaScript is the scripting language of the Internet ... easy to learn, easy to
test, and easy to debug."
If only we could say such things about navigating the Netscape web site.
It does have a truly amazing collection of articles, manuals, and references on
JavaScript and many other web technologies. But is it also very easy to get lost
in, especially if you go in through the front door. Worse yet, it's amazingly
easy to click yourself completely out of the site.
Here's the
doorway
that gets you past all the sideshows.
Just remember to stay a few years behind the latest technology and your web site
will work wonderfully for most of your users. Instead of joining a usergroup to
get the latest technology, read the old postings in the archives. Unless you
feel a calling to be a frontier pioneer, wait until a road is well traveled
before you put your web site on it. Meanwhile, focus on how to better utilize
the wonderful resources already in most browsers.
This item is NOT included in the webmaster download package.
Have you ever had problems making JavaScript do what you want it to do?
Do you need some JavaScript tricks and workarounds that really work?
How about a working piece of code that says "0=1"?
Inner Peace
contains over 100 interactive pages in one HTML file using JavaScript. It
contains almost 5000 lines of JavaScript code. We know of no other program which
does so many things with JavaScript.
Inner Peace is an advanced example of JavaScript programming in an expert system
application. In order to conserve file size there are few comments and lots of
cryptic variable names.
You can also use Inner Peace as a programming teaching tool. We welcome your
suggestions on how to improve the program.
This item is NOT included in the webmaster download package.
Python
While not yet as popular as Perl, Python is growing quickly in popularlty. Once
you already know JavaScript, Python is very easy to learn. Even if you do not
use cgi programming, sometimes you might need to so some utility work, such as
change something in every one of your web page files. Python works wonderfully
for such things. It's most everything you like about JavaScript, plus you can
access your files. We like the Idle GUI interface since it allows for copying
and pasting of code.
David Beazley has written three highly regarded tutorials on Python. We made
this index
to David's tutorials to have a Python tool similar to the JavaScript Guide.
David has been kind enough to allow us to bundle his slides with our index.
This item IS included in the webmaster download package.
There are lots of Python sites.
Python City
links to most of them. The Python City webmaster is a big fan of JavaScript,
and his slant on Python makes it easy for webmasters already familiar with
JavaScript to use Python.
This item is NOT included in the webmaster download package.
Free Software
The Free Software Foundation is, by far, the most leading edge authority in the
field of free software. Besides the famous
GNU GPL software license,
there are pages and pages of convincing writings which challenge the whole
concept that ideas can be owned.
The Free Software Foundation approaches the idea of free software from a high
philosphical position. When they say free software, they mean it in the sense of
"free speech" rather than "free beer."
This item IS included in the webmaster download package.
Completely Free Software takes the more practical "free beer" approach to free
software. Everything is fully functional and has no expiration dates.
All the software on the site is reviewed and checked for viruses. Some of it is
truly excellent.
This item is NOT included in the webmaster download package.
Links are not endorsements. Be aware that about half
of all web sites are below average.
Since Inner Peace is not primarily a site of links, some
rather popular sites have been omitted in favor of some
helpful resources that may be less well known.
If you have any problems with these links, please let us know. Your comments,
suggestions for additions to these links, and notification of bad links help
keep this page vital.
Your feedback helps us continue to improve Inner Peace and is greatly
appreciated.
Update: All the email links on this site have been disabled. To reach us, use our
contact page.
Thank you.
Brand new self help process.
We have been instrumental in creating a brand new self help process for
Lovers in Training.
The process is called
Healing the Me I See in You.
It is still in beta, so watch it develop. Enjoy.
Software Designed with Your Privacy in Mind
Inner Peace software is
BrowserBased. Nothing you enter is sent over the internet or recorded anywhere. Inner Peace writes no cookies on your computer. Nothing is written to or read from your computer files.
Once the program is loaded into your browser window, you can disconnect your computer from the Internet and all its features will still run. Once you close the program, everything you entered into the program is erased. Because this is an open source program, you can see the source code and verify all this for yourself. You can comfortably process your issues with Inner Peace self help software, knowing that your entries are confidential.
Getting Support with Inner Peace Software
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contact form.
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