Form Beautifier

Niceforms from emblematiq.com makes your forms look, well, nice. Before and after images are above.
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Resize Flash Content to Fit Browser

Swffit is a free javascript that automatically resizes your Flash content up or down automatically to make sure that your visitors see the whole thing.

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Get Backlinks With the Backlink Tool

One way of increasing traffic to your website is to get backlinks. This is a time consuming task. Finding the sites where you might be able to get backlinks from is the first chore. The tool below will help get you started.

Enter search terms that are relevant to your site in the box below and you will get a list of web sites and directories online that will likely allow you to add a link to your site in their directory.

For example, if your web site offers investment advice, try entering “financial services” or “investment advice” and you will likely get a series of sites that have financial services directories that you can add your site to. This will help you get both traffic and a better search engine ranking but it will take time and perseverance. When you have exhausted the potential backlinks from your first search, come back and enter another keyword or phrase.

When you add your site to link directories, try to use your keyword in your Title description and link text to better feed the search engine spiders. a link to your site with the phrase “Financial advice from Enterprise Consulting” will do much better for you in the long run than simply “Enterprise Consulting” The former will tell Google what your site is about whereas the latter just tells it the name of your site.

Online Website Template Designer

If you are in need of a simple web site template you can use this online web tool to create a template for you. Pick a base template and then you can customize the colours, fonts, menus etc.

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Free Keyword Tracker

Enter your website and a competitor’s, your keyword(s) then choose up to 3 search engine and exactfactor tells you where each site ranks in each search engine.
 
Sign up for a free account and you can get these or any results you specify, emailed to you. You can also sign up to get email alerts when your position changes or when you reach Google’s first page.
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Photozoom

Here’s a fantastic way to place an image on your site that people can click on to zoom into, drag to pan around and explore and it’s deliciously interactive, and fast too. It excels at allowing you to zoom into an image and reveal details that you can’t possibly see at full resolution.

The images above show the original image on the left and then a highly zoomed in portion on the right (the text is completely legible on the actual site) the red box on the left image was drawn by me to illustrate what I zoomed into. Apart from being very useful, it’s also just a pleasure to use. Click, drag, scroll…all very smooth and intuitive. Try it yourself here

Just to take it to the extreme I zoomed in on some body text in the text box (Which is barely even visible in the original, in the red box on the first image) You can see the results in this image to the left.

This is great for images that need to be seen as a whole for context, but would benefit from interactive zooming and panning, the obvious example would be a map.

The finest level of detail you get will be what you give it, it’s not one of those pieces of software so often seen in movies that can clear up fuzzy photos.

You are probably thinking that this must be very difficult to implement or use on your website. For the technically challenged they have set up a 3 step Embed builder that will generate all the necessary code for you to copy and paste onto your site.
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Banner Rotater

This nice and easy to implement code can create either a banner rotator or an attractive thumbnail image gallery slider
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Automatically Build Carousel Slideshows From a Folder

This JQuery Plugin automatically builds a carousel of images or other elements from a folder of either HTML, SWF, or JPEG, GIF and PNG images.
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CSS Viewer Plugin

If you’ve ever had to analyze someone else’s CSS, or wanted to know how a particular element on a page was coded, install the CSSViewer plugin for Firefox. This was just the tool I was looking for when I was trying to customize a free website template. I had to do a lot of tests to identify which CSS code I needed to modify to achieve the effects I was looking for.

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To use, simply click the “Tool” menu, then select “CSSViewer”. Now just hover anywhere on the page and the css info will show. To turn off simply uncheck “CSSViewer” in tool menu.

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