This site hosts a list of questions for the web designer to think about before they get too far into making a crappy website. This is especially true for sites that really want to make money or gain a branding identity. It helps you understand in pretty plain terms why some design ideas may appeal to YOU, but have no value to a visitor and will actually make you lose customers or readers.

Link: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/04/20/10-rules-for-your-small-business-home-page/

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wpZipper is a new website that does one thing: Makes a zip file of Wordpress along with whatever plugins you want. You go through the long list, select the plugins you want, then bam, it makes the zip file for you. Just unzip the whole thing, upload to your server, and you have it all there ready to set up. This takes the hassle out of looking all over for things and doing it one by one.

One small qualm: They haven’t put MY plugins up there yet! I’ll berate them until they correct this oversight :)

Link: http://wpzipper.com/

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Ok, this isn’t really web page specific, but a good read to know how to use punctuation correctly in your posts. Cuts down on the embarrassing comments posted in regard to your incorrect usage of the apostrophe :)

link: http://www.wikihow.com/Use-English-Punctuation-Correctly

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The AWSOM Drop Down Archive has been updated to version 1.0.1 and is now available for download from It’s product page. The update covers a minor bug that could have the Archive appear in the Admin area image upload form. To update simply overwrite the 1.0.0 files with the new 1.0.1 files.

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This website has a tool that supposedly shows the “page strength” of your website (think overall popularity and exposure). A good tool to get some info on how many links and references there are out there to your website (they compile things like who’s linking to your site, Wikipedia references, what types of sites are referencing you, etc.). They have a few other tools also, but most require you to pay $$$ to use them.

Link: http://www.seomoz.org/page-strength

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