Search for some basic website monitoring I one found an easy to use solution called WebSecretary. It is fairly easy to install and does a really reliable job at all. I do call it in a cron job and monitor several own and customer pages with it. What I really like is that it sends me an email if the pages has changed, highlighting the differences by comparing it’s stored copy from the day before.

Today I found a customer page, I had made once, reported as changed and in fact it was totally messed up by the customer itself had tried to update it himself. Mainly surprised to hear from me, he told me about his bad luck changing the pages, when I called him this morning with the intention to tell him about the overall ugly actual appearance of his pages.

With the automatic info stored from the day before, I was able to repair his frontpage in seconds and now he even pleased me to come over discussing a redesign of his pages with him.

I really like my little helpers … yeah I do!