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Would you help build open source tools for webmasters.
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:07 pm
by dezine
Tools Include:
Free Stats Counter.
Free Forum Script.
ree Shopping Cart.
Search Engine.
Directory.
Expired Domain Finder.
Property Listing Manager.
Link Brokerage Inventory Manager.
Domain Name Suggestion Tool.
Reverse DNS.
Automated Forum Poster.
Large Scale Search Engine.
Open Directory Project.
Form
Validation
Mail
Crawler
Search Engine Submission Tool.
Directory Submission Tool.
Keyword Research Tool.
Keyword Density Analyser Tool.
Site Value - Pagerank, Links, Age, DMOZ Listing, Alexa Rank etc.
Forum Poster.
Search Engine Rankings Monitor.
Top Ten Analyzer.
Site Comparison Tool.
This Tools will be usefull to a lot of webmasters. If you are intrested. I will let you know more.
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:13 pm
by feyd
Those are all available in one form or another of open source already, upon quickly looking at your list.
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:18 pm
by dezine
Yes I am aware of the fact. But I want to build something more like what the webmasters themselves recommend. I mean rebuild the way they want it.
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:28 pm
by jayshields
How many webmasters do you know that are unhappy with the scripts you listed that are currently available for free?
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:57 pm
by dezine
Like for example the Open Directory Project. Webmasters are already fed-up of it. Ours will be released open-source.
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:05 pm
by patrikG
I applaud the enthusiasm, but I'm not quite clear who "webmasters" are? Developers? People who maintain websites? Content-providers?
I have the impression that maybe, you're talking to the wrong audience here - if people on this forum need tools, they tend to build them (see swiftmailer, html purifier, the rebuild OSCommerce initiative etc. etc.)
Probably a very good way of keeping up your good intentions and enthusiasm is to seek an audience that's less in need of developing tools and more so of marketing - i.e. "the long tail".
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:07 pm
by dezine
My aim is to build tools for those who cant write code
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:29 am
by patrikG
On a coders' discussion board like this one, you' find it somewhat hard to find an audience then, I should think.

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:23 am
by dezine
I am sure you are suggesting source forge
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:57 am
by onion2k
dezine wrote:Like for example the Open Directory Project. Webmasters are already fed-up of it. Ours will be released open-source.
DMOZ is open source. You can download an RDF dump here:
http://rdf.dmoz.org/ Also, considering they've recruited nearly 75,000 editors, I don't really see how you can claim people are fed up with it.
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:39 pm
by dezine
If you go looking around the www you will find a lot of feedback about dmoz and its currupt editors. Secondly the count that is shown is the total number of members that have registered till date, out of which hardly 7500 are active (as per dmoz press release)