Keyword Bookmarks
A simple site for finding and sharing Firefox keyword bookmarks
Development Period: March 2009.
Coded With: JavaScript, CSS, RSS, HTML, SQL and PHP.
Tools Used: gedit, Firebug, jQuery, MySQL and CakePHP.
Tagged As: Ongoing, Web and Personal.
About
I made Keyword Bookmarks as a side project over a couple of weekends.
Some Web browsers support keyword bookmarks, which let users trigger searches from their address bar by entering a keyword. For example, I can type g edinburgh to do a Google search for Edinburgh. It's a simple idea, but quite powerful, and great for quickly looking up products, articles, programming documentation and the like.
Because some fiddling with URLs can be required to make keyword bookmarks, I figured some means of accessing them 'ready-made' would be useful to people like me.
Technical Details
The site uses the stable release of CakePHP 1.2. I've tried to keep it as simple as possible. There's a search feature, and entries can be tagged and categorised. Entries can be filtered by age and popularity, the latter of which is kept track of with some jQuery that keeps an eye on what gets dragged or clicked on.
I wouldn't want visitors to have to register to use such a simple site, so CAPTCHAs protect places such as the add bookmark page.
Page caching is used in various places to improve rendering times.