Archive for June, 2009

Online Website Planner

create a website online

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

Google analytics in excell

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

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

watch your website visitors in real time

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

site up or down notification

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

free vector graphics site
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

monitor your rank in google

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

free wysiwyg blog software

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

offline blog editor

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

write blog posts offline

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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