In addition to its content, a website’s layout and design play major roles in the website’s success. As a site visitor you would not want to visit a site that has the information at a different part of the page than you would prefer. Other things that you as a visitor might not be happy with are particular fonts used on a website, the colors and backgrounds used, and the borders of the tables.

If you are facing such a problem on any website, one of the things you could do is send an email to the developer or fill out the website’s feedback form. However a much faster and effective solution is the free tool Styelbot.

Style is a browser extension for Google Chrome. The extension gives you remarkable control over a website’s layout. After you install the extension, you see a “CSS” icon in your URL bar. Go to any website and click on this icon. A side window will appear.

The next step is to select any webpage element. As you hover your mouse pointer over the page, its elements will be highlighted – this will help you in choosing.

With the element highlighted you can return to the sidebar where the controls are. There you can change the element’s font style and size, colors and backgrounds, etc.

You can enter the Advanced options in the sidebar and edit custom CSS for your selected elements.

If at any time you want to undo the changes, the Reset buttons at the bottom of the sidebar will help.

Once you have made your changes, your webpage’s view will remain the same every time you visit it.

Imagine you have two forms of a sentence, both grammatically correct; how do you decide which one is the more appropriate option to go with?

You could ask your English teacher or friends. Or you could get a little creative and Google both sentences; the one with the more search results will be the one mostly used by people. This could be helpful in determining the appropriate sentence. A website that provides this “Google” feature in a more convenient way is “Phras.in”.

Phras.in is a free to use website that lets you compare two different sentences in the abovementioned Google way. It simply shows which sentence gets more search results on Google. On the service’s homepage you find two fields where you can enter the sentences.

Suppose you want to decide between “Should I say?” or “Shall I say?”. After you type the sentences in the fields, their number of results is displayed next to the field.

After clicking on the “Contextualize ‘em” button you can have the site show you which sentence could be used. The sentence with the lower number of hits will be grayed out.

Under these fields you will find the search results that were generated by each sentence.

Especially for people whose 2nd language is English, Phras.in could prove to be a very useful tool.

Video conversion software is quite abundant on the web. Normally they follow a simple rule: if it is freeware it supports conversion of only a few formats; and if it is a paid application it can handle most file format.

But following its motto of “good software must free” Freemake has created a greatly useful video converter that in addition to being feature-rich, is also a freeware.

Freemake Video Converter is a freeware sized at 10 MB and compatible with Windows operating systems. After you install the program, this is what it looks like:

The program’s most basic feature is video conversion – something it handles remarkably well. You can convert almost any video file into an AVI, MP4, WMV, and 3GP format video.

A DVD creator lets you convert your videos into a DVD movie along with complete options for a menu:

The program even facilitates YouTube videos: it breaks down your video into 15 minute pieces and then adds them to a playlist on YouTube.

Other features of the program include a DVD ripper and an audio converter. Through the audio converter, you can choose to merge audio and video thereby overlapping the audio on a video file.

If you have a good number of images, then you can use the audio-video overlapping feature to create an images slideshow with a song playing in the background.

Overall Freemake Video Converter is a brilliant video conversion tool to have.

Are you trying to locate a place you have not been before? Or perhaps you need to give your friends the directions to your house? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you could use maps. Maps are an excellent way to mark your position and locate where your destination is. Like many other things today, maps have been ported to the internet.

If you are looking for a practical online maps tool, then Tinymap is definitely an option worth exploring.

Tinymap is an online map service. It is completely free to use and it lets you view and modify maps in a number of helpful ways.
You can start by entering the location’s coordinates or area in the location box.

After you locate the area you can set waypoints to mark out a territory or highlight a path. Waypoints of different colors can be placed to indicate different paths and areas.

Points of interest can also be added to a map. These points of interest are highlighted by icons. After placing an icon you can add notes and details to it; when the mouse is hovered over the icon your entered details are shown.

The site generates a unique URL for the maps you create. You can choose to keep the map private by setting a password for it.

In addition to a unique URL you can get your map’s embeddable code or KML file to use with Google Earth.

A feature-rich website, Tinymap will serve all your online map creation needs.

If you have a very busy day ahead of you that demands you to complete many tasks, then a to-do list would be highly helpful. A lot goes on in our minds and it is easy to lose track of chores when our schedules are tight. To-do lists ensure that we don’t forget about the important things. By checking them, and checking off tasks, we can constantly monitor our day’s progress.

To-do lists can be created online. One website that supports the creation of to-do lists is FIshMemory.

FishMemory is a great website that can be used to form to-do lists. Its usage is friendly and absolutely free. You start by creating an account on the website after which you can name your to-do list and start creating it.

One feature of the list creation I noticed was unique in FishMemory was indentation. You can add categories and subcategories within a list; each category is appropriately emendated and gives a neat and organized look. This means that you can create a to-do list for tomorrow; add a category titled “Meeting at 9am” and then add the points to discuss at this meeting under this category.

FishMemory’s simple interface makes it a very useful web application.