Web design tips, tools & resources
Pictures and images can make or break a site. Using imagery well can guide an audience, reinforce website copy, and solidify your brand.
On the web, pictures are “worth a thousand words” because they can illustrate a concept in milliseconds, provide visual interest, and break up the monotony of text.
In case you haven’t seen, Google Analytics, the powerful website stats package, is now available for free without an invite.
I highly recommend checking out Google Analytics. I use it on several sites because it provides some extraordinarily powerful reports that I just can’t get with AWStats, Webalizer, or other free packages. Perfect for a stats junkie.
Trying to measure ROI? If you’re using Google Adwords for PPC marketing, you can track specific conversion information that can help you make better marketing decisions.
Finally, if you’re running a Wordpress blog, definitely check out Joe Tan’s plug-in for Google Analytics and Feedburner reports.
I’ve been messing around with the Flock web browser lately and am really impressed. Although it’s a beta, it has a bunch of great features that make some aspects of web browsing and content management easier and even fun.
Flock is built on the open source Mozilla Firefox code base, which is a great start. It’s very standards-compliant and stable from the get-go. Why didn’t Microsoft think of that?
The folks at Flock have taken the browser in a little different, Web 2.0 direction.
Overwhelmed with the number of passwords you have?
Use the same username/password combo for every site?
Here’s a handy open source tool I use in WinXP to generate secure passwords and keep them securely stored in a database on a USB drive. I highly recommend this program.
Website owners: make sure that you own, and can manage, your domain name.
This may sound silly, but you’d be surprised how many website owners have no idea where their domain is registered and who really controls it.
If you have a website and own a domain name make sure you:
