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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CMS Roundup

Content Management Systems are more and more available, common and increasingly popular. The WordPress blogging platform is just one example. CMS can be used for all types of web sites from blogs to message boards to collaborative web sites or simply as a way to create a site for a client that they can edit themselves.

There are so many CMS options out there that choosing one can be daunting. Steven Snell at Designm.ag has a great roundup of dozens of the most popular including links to tutorials and tips on how to put them to use. Don’t forget to scan the comments for even more useful thoughts.

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Lightbox Scripts

There are dozens of Lightbox scripts out there to create galleries of all sorts. Which is right for you? It can be hard to know but here’s a great website that lets you compare about 50 of the most popular. You can even sort them by features (can show video, can show image sets, etc)

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Ultimate Website Launch Checklist

Avoid embarrassment by going through this thorough checklist to find any problems before your visitors do.
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Quick Who Is Lookup

If you need to know who owns a website where it’s registered, when it was registered, etc. here’s a quick whois lookup site that avoids the usual captcha step to get you the info you need with minimal fuss.
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Quick Lookup

This quick reference tool gives you a quick rundown, proper syntax usage as well as an example of usage for PHP, MySQL, JS, CSS commands as you type them.
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101 Ways to Improve Your Web-Presence

Some tips are better than others but overall it’s a useful checklist
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Get More Traffic to Your Blog

Starting a website is just the first step and probably the easiest. Now you need visitors, this is the hard part.

Here’s a very good article covering some of the best ways to get traffic to your site. There are no quick ways to get and keep visitors but by following as many of the tips in this article you will be off to a good start.

A chance popular posting to a social networking site could bring hundreds of visitors in a few days, but to build up a good stream of regulars can easily take a year or more so be sure to love what you blog about.
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