Free Website Monitoring - Get Downtime Alerts via SMS and Email How to use Google Sheets as a free website monitoring tool and receive instant email and SMS text alerts when your website goes down. The app runs on Google Servers and can monitor unlimited websites. Would you like to receive instant alerts as soon as your website goes down or is inaccessible to users? Would you like to receive these downtime alerts as an email message or text on your mobile phone or both? Most website monitoring services follow the “freemium” model – they have free plans for basic downtime & uptime monitoring of a website but need to pay for unlimited email or SMS alerts. You can create your own website monitor that runs on Google servers and sends email alerts or SMS when your website goes down or is up again. How to Setup Website Monitor Here’s how you quickly configure Google Docs to monitor the uptime /downtime of your website. Click here to copy the website monitoring Google sheet into your Google Drive. How Website Monitor works with Google Docs
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Designers Studio Over the past couple of years we've seen a huge evolution in the way designers and developers are approaching UI/UX design. Responsive, Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery, Less, Sass, and HTML5 all come to mind. And now for the first time in a long time, a new graphic design trend has emerged out of accessibility. I'm talking about Flat Design. uvLayer HTML5 Boilerplate, un template puissant et complet HTML5 Boilerplate est un template (HTML+CSS+JS+...) lancé par Paul Irish (Modernizr) et Divya Manian. Il contient toutes les bonnes pratiques du moment en terme de performances, de compatibilité inter-navigateurs, de JavaScript, avec un soupçon d'accessibilité (si utilisé à bon escient), voire de Flash. Une version sur-mesure peut être générée via Initializr. Vous retrouverez donc dans un zip tous les fichiers et sous-répertoires organisés pour débuter votre intégration avec d'excellentes bases. Bien entendu, vous l'aurez deviné, le but est de favoriser l'adoption de HTML, d'où l'inclusion par défaut de la librairie Modernizr, ainsi que jQuery via GoogleAPI (avec fallback local). Bien entendu d'autres sont à découvrir dans le code source, comme par exemples les indications pour les icônes Apple touch + favicon par exemple.
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Creative CSS3 Animation Menus Being in the mood for experimenting with CSS3, I'd like to show you some creative menu hover effects in today's tutorial. The idea is to have a simple composition of elements, an icon, a main title and a secondary title, that will be animated on hover using only CSS transitions and animations. We'll be exploring some different effects for the elements. View demo Download source Being in the mood for experimenting with CSS3, I’d like to show you some creative menu hover effects in today’s tutorial. The icons used in the demos are actually a Web Symbols typeface that we’ll include with @font-face. The Markup The HTML structure for the menu will be an unordered list where each item is a link element that consists of an icon span and a content div that will contain the main title and the secondary title: As we are using a symbol font for the icons, we write letters for the icons. The CSS The common style for all the examples will be the inclusion of the symbol typeface: Example 1 Example 2
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Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene Abstract We present a framework for automatically enhancing videos of a static scene using a few photographs of the same scene. For example, our system can transfer photographic qualities such as high resolution, high dynamic range and better lighting from the photographs to the video. Some of the video enhancements produced by our system. Demo video