Online Website Planner

Jumpstart is a sophisticated free online website planner. Among other things, it allows you to export your online website outline to a WordPress blog.

From the site:
Use Jumpchart to quickly plan out the navigation of your site by adding pages, and sub-pages. If you change your mind, easily drag pages to new spots within the site hierarchy. There is no better way to organize the content for your website.
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Google Analytics in Excel

Excellent Analytics is an Excel plug-in that enables you to import web traffic data from Google Analytics into an Excel spreadsheet. If you’re not using at least Google Analytics (also free and more than excellent) you are really missing out. This adds a new way to sort and investigate the vast amount of data it offers.

From the site:
• Build queries with all dimensions and metrics available in Google Analytics
• Apply filters to create advanced queries
• All queries are stored in the spreadsheet

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Huge list of CSS Resources

Allwebdesignresources.com is the biggest compilation of links to websites, forums, galleries, layouts, and blogs dealing with css that I’ve seen. From guides for beginners to reference sites for experts they cover and summarize hundreds of css resources on the web.
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More Visitor Recording

I recently mentioned userfly as an addition to the growing number of web services that let you record visits to your site and play them back as movies where you watch visitors navigate your site in real time, complete with page navigation, mouse movements, clicks, keyboard entries and much much more today I discovered yet another; clixpy. Like userfly your first 10 sessions are free and a further 100 will set you back $5 with discounts at higher volume.
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Site Checker

DingItsup will notify you when a site goes down and/or comes back up. It will send you your choice of email, text or twitter to alert you.
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Free Vector Graphics

Here’s a site dedicated to giving away free vector images. Also If you missed it, check out our massive list of thousands of free vector graphics.
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Google Monitor

This free monitor allows you to track your position in Google for any number of keywords you choose. It records your best and current position. Supports multiple sites and keyword lists.
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WYSIWYG Blog Editors

Most blogs have decent posting interfaces but if you want to write blog posts offline or in something more like a wordprocessor there are quite a few excellent free options.

Blogdesk

A freeware offline blog editor with lots of features and support for many blog platforms. Images can be directly inserted and are automatically uploaded. With the ImageWizard you can not only insert images to your posts – it’s possible to edit them as well (crop, resize, rotate, shadow etc)

Links can be easily inserted and edited. If you link to local files (such as MP3 or PDF), BlogDesk will automatically upload them. You can even publish simultaneously to multiple blogs with one click.
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Post2Blog

Similar to Blogdesk but has a few unique features. This blog editor allows you to use a flickr account to store your photos. It also offers live spell checking as well as the ability to post directly from MS Word.

Windows Live Writer

Last but not least is my personal favourite, Live Writer, the free offline blog post editor from Microsoft. Perhaps the slickest of the three, it has quite a few nice features and supports plugins, of which there are many. My favourite is the Snagit screen capture plugin which makes it a breeze to add a screen capture which will then be automatically uploaded to the blog when you publish the post.

A new feature in the latest version is the ability to insert a video from your computer and have it automatically published to YouTube when you publish the post.
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Watch Your Visitors

Want to know why visitors are not completing that form on your website? Why do so many people leave your comments page without leaving a comment? The best way to answer these types of questions is to watch your visitors to discover how they use your site.

I’ve previously mentioned the excellent tracking tools from Woopra and Clicktale. Much like Clicktale, userfly is another great visit recorder. You can record 10 users per month for free and watch the visits back on video in real time; including mouse movements, clicks and keyboard entries. To set it up you copy and paste a small piece of code into the head of the page(s) you want to track. You can place it on as many pages you want to but if you are only using the free option you might want to limit it to some specific pages you want to learn more about.

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