Software
Software
The following is a partial list of software you may find useful to maintain and administer your Dolphin site.
I will be adding to this list in the very near future.
Gimp - Some powerful features similar to Photoshop, without the price Photoshop wants. Gimp is FREE!! Check this out if you are looking to do some graphic, design, image editing and creating, etc. The price is definately right on this one!!
Supports a number of operating systems.
http://www.gimp.org/
XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
(Also see my article here: http://www.dialme.com/articles/entry/How-To-Install-Dolphin-On-WAMP )
WampServer is a Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web applications with Apache, PHP and the MySQL database. It also comes with PHPMyAdmin and SQLiteManager to easily manage your databases.
WampServer installs automatically (installer), and its usage is very intuitive. You will be able to tune your server without even touching the setting files.
WampServer is the only packaged solution that will allow you to reproduce your production server. Once WampServer is installed, you have the possibility to add as many Apache, MySQL and PHP releases as you want.
WampServer also has a trayicon to manage your server and its settings.
http://www.wampserver.com/en/
(Also see my article here: http://www.dialme.com/articles/entry/How-To-Install-Dolphin-On-WAMP )
Putty: FREE
A free telnet and SSH Client for Windows and Unix platforms.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
PHP Designer 2007 - Personal 5.0.2 - FREE Version
Download FREE Version from Cnet
PHP Designer Homepage
-PHP Designer 2007 is a free PHP Editor/IDE for both beginners and professional developers.
The personal edition is a free simplified version that contains a smaller selection of features found in the professional edition.
Although the personal edition provides a smaller selection of features it is still a simple PHP IDE that is enjoyable and efficient with less experienced and demanding developers in mind who will need a simple but powerful development environment for learning writing applications and websites powered by PHP!
The personal edition gives you right to create works solely for your own PERSONAL USE ONLY. You may NOT use it or works created with it for any commercial, business, governmental or institutional purpose of any kind.
WinSCP: FREE
http://winscp.net/eng/index.php
WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Legacy SCP protocol is also supported. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer.
filezilla: FREE
A really good ftp client program for uploading/downloading files to your host. And it's FREE.
http://filezilla-project.org/
cam studio: FREE
http://camstudio.org/
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
winrar: Trial
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
One of the better zip/unzip programs out there.
7zip: FREE
http://www.7-zip.org/
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
Dolphin Database Maintenance Video Guide FREE based on cpanel but will work for others:
http://www.expertzzz.com/Downloadz/view/3225 info at expertzzz.com
http://www.thedanielsolution.com/autobackupVideo/ Direct video/guide link
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=101066 The actual free script
Highly recommended Google related tools:
Google Analytics: FREE
Google Analytics
A tracker by Google that provides a ton of statistics about your site visitors and traffic.
Google Adsense: FREE
Google Adsense
Make money by running Google ads on your site. Customizable to match your site, run text ads, image ads, or a combination. Get paid per click.
Google Webmaster Tools: FREE
Google Webmaster Tools
Find out information about your site. How google sees your site, how Google crawls your site, any errors google finds, etc.
Google AdWords/Keywords Generator: FREE
Google Adword/Keyword Generator
Another useful tool by Google for creating keywords. Analyze your site or page find statistics about the popularity of a keyword or keyphrase and much more.
Google Internal Pagerank Checker Tool: FREE
Google Internal Pagerank Checker Tool
FREE Google Internal Pagerank Checker Tool. Download and check your sites internal Google Pagerank in a matter of seconds.
