So you’ve got a great idea for a site, but you’re facing one of the toughest part of web development, the site name. It can make or break your company. A really easy to remember name will help bring in returning customers.
Traditional domain name searching can be very painful and slow, not to mention heavy lifting since you’re trying desperately to think of different combination of words that will work for you. Luckily there are some really nifty domain name searching tools out there that are completely free to use, helpful with search results, and are fast!
You have two options for domain searching on this site. One is a keyword suggestion area, where you can enter keywords that are relevant to your site. The more keywords you add, the better chance you have with a combination that is available to use. The other option is to do a quick domain name search, which is standard for many of these domain name searching tools. On the plus side, it gives you the ability to save your search results for a later hunt.
This one is pretty cool. It’s simple to use and as you type, it will search for your domain. So if you’re looking for a shorter name, I would recommend using this domain search tool.
Need help finding keywords that are related to your domain? This tool will give you suggestions that you might not otherwise think of. It’s not as sleek as the other tools but it does give you results.
This is another good site that combines your domain with keywords and endings. You choose the “theme” of the keywords, such as business lingo, food terms, animals, and so on.
This site gives you the standard suggested sites to register when you type it in. I like them because of their firefox extension, so you don’t have to waste a tab on domain searching. They also give you the option to register and have your domain results saved.
These sites should help you on your domain name searching. The method of domain name searching might change later, but for now .com, .net, and .org are the strongest forms of domain names out there.
jQuery simple comment form
jQuery is such a powerful tool, and mastering it will take only a few months at best. Here’s a very simple form that you can use to test out jQuery’s ajax ability. For best practices, you want to make sure that the form still works when javascript isn’t enabled. Why sacrifice functionality?
Before we begin, you need to download jQuery (current release 1.3), otherwise you’ll get a bunch of errors. Also make sure that you’re making a connection to the javascript file. So often the script won’t work because the browser cannot find the jQuery javascript file on the server.
Now once you upload that javascript file and make sure that it’s there, you’re ready for the form.
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script> <script language="javascript"> function ajax_submit(){ var nameField = $("#name").val(); var emailField = $("#location").val(); var commentField = $('comments').val(); $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "submit.php", data: "name=" + nameField + "&email=" + emailField + "&comments=" + commentField, success: function(msg){ $('#message').html(msg); } }); } $(document).ready(function () { //begin document ready $('#name').focus(); $('#submitbutton').click(function() { ajax_submit(); return false; }); }); </script> <form method="POST" action="submit.php"> <div id="message"></div><br /> Name: <input type="text" name="name" id="name"><br> Email: <input type="text" name="email" id="email"><br> Comments: <br /><textarea id="comments" name="comments"></textarea><br /> <input type="submit" value="Send email" id="submitbutton"> </form>Now for the submit.php page, which is simplified for the purpose of getting an answer.
<?php $name = $_POST['name']; $email = $_POST['email']; $comments = $_POST['comments']; if($name) { //if someone typed in a name echo "Thanks for using the comment form!"; } else { echo "I don't know who you are..."; } ?>You can test out the script demo to see what it will look like. You can add more creative stuff to it, but this will get you started.