RainboRick's Tools and Scripts for Webmasters

In designing websites for our own businesses as well as for others, I've developed a collection of Perl scripts, JavaScript and other tools and programming tutorials that can be used by any webmaster to enhance their website that don't require a Master's degree in programming. I have worked hard to make everything here as reliable as I can and to make it simple to install. You'll find that each of the packages below comes with good step-by-step documentation and you don't have to register your EMail address, submit to a full-body search, or provide a blood sample just to try them out. All you have to do is click on a button and the script will download to your computer.

Most of these packages are freeware and you can use them on your site at no cost on the sole condition that if you use the code from these packages, in whole or in part, that you put a link on your site back to this page. The two shareware packages have a very modest licensing fee that you can pay safely and quickly using PayPal or just send a check. The EMail address you'll find at the bottom of this page is my real everyday EMail box and so if you send a message, I will receive it and do my best to respond as time permits. Thank-you!

Quiet Count© - A Perl script that lets you track page accesses discreetly, without broadcasting the information to every visitor. Results can be EMailed to you every day automatically. Also includes Click Count© - a script that lets you track clicks on your links. $3.00 Shareware fee.
404 Logger© - A Perl script that lets you track bad page accesses. Trap and record invalid links, including the source page! Results can be automatically EMailed to you every day that a 404 error occur. Requires Apache/UNIX server. $3.00 Shareware fee.
Image Shield© - A Perl script that lets you hide the true path to your graphics files. Freeware - All I ask is a link.
RRAnimate© - A JavaScript package that lets you decorate your webpages with a floating image. Great for adding a holiday theme to any page. Freeware - All I ask is a link.
PopZoom© - A JavaScript package that lets you create clickable thumbnail images that show full-sized images in a centered pop-up window when clicked on. Freeware - All I ask is a link.
SMTP_FormMail - A modified version of Matt Wright's FormMail.pl v1.92 that allows the optional usage of an SMTP mail server instead of the system program 'sendmail'. Freeware - All I ask is a link.
Referer.zip© - A package that demonstrates a workaround for problems associated with using the Apache Server Software's .htaccess file to prevent image file "hotlinking" or "leeching". A problem arises when the .htaccess method is used on pages generated by JavaScript and on pages enclosed in HTML frames with respect to the http_referer value. Freeware - All I ask is a link.
No-Frames Navigation System© - A package that demonstrates three methods for a single-file navigation menu system that does not use <FRAME>s. Freeware - All I ask is a link.
Spider Tracks© - A utility that lets you see when the search engine spiders have visited your site and the extent to which they have crawled it. The program can also optionally log the search query strings visitors have used to find your site, and also log the browser programs used by your users. Freeware - All I ask is a link.
SearchLog© - A utility that lets you search your server access log files. Find which files have been accessed, and whether they were accessed by human or automated users. All sorts of useful information can be gleaned by scouring your server logs. Simple to install and use. Freeware - All I ask is a link.
CSS Positioning - A brief introduction to CSS positioning that shows a simple page structure. Freeware - All I ask is a link.
Automatic Frame Page Loader/Re-loader - JavaScript method of making pages designed to be used in frames to be automatically loaded into their proper position in a <frameset>. Freeware - All I ask is a link.

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Those of you using Netscape v7.x or Mozilla v1.x, be sure to check out the Sidebars available from Netscape DevEdge. They offer sidebars that are very useful to webpage designers including Quick Reference guides to HTML 4.01, CSS Level 1 and Level 2, as well as two DOM helpers. I'm finding the Sidebar to be very useful now that I've removed most of the advertising tools and installed several of the developer Sidebars. Use the Manager to rearrange the order in which the Sidebar tabs appear in the list and you'll see what I mean.