If you are anything like me you absolutely hate Javascript coding. It’s got to be the most annoying crap language ever designed, or at least in the top 5. So, it’s a good thing when other people have taken the bullet and created a toolkit that allows you to simply reference a command to cause a complex thing to happen. The Dojo toolkit may end up being a great free resource to anyone who wants to add complex Ajax/Javascript stuff to their site but can’t stand the annoyance of coding it up (or more likely, don’t know how to code it).

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I am always excited to see new Open Source web package development, and none more so than Ecommerce solutions. I’m really excited about a new system I discovered recently called Magento Commerce. I haven’t had much time to fully evaluate it, but from what I can see, these guys are building a really super store website system. It looks just as good as any professional online store, with all of the features you’d expect. The fact that you’d normally have to pay a ton of money to get something like this developed, and this is open source and free, is spectacular.

The only lingering questions are how secure this program is, how easy it is to work with, and how difficult it is to upgrade it. But all I can say is if you have been struggling with OSCommerce or any of those other free store site programs, I’d suggest taking a look at this one.

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As time passes there are examples of how something becomes more established in a certain genre or area. In this case, webcomics already have quite a few large hosting services (like webcomicsnation, keenspot, etc.), some news sites (comixnews, fleen, etc.), and now they have a new social bookmarking site dedicated to passing around comic links: http://www.comicsby.us/. As time passes we will certainly see more of these markers toward full acceptance and general usage.

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One of the better things to pay attention to other than visitor traffic is who is linking to your site. If you are getting a large amount of linkage odds are you’re doing a good job on developing your site (unless of course every site that links you has “sucks” at the end of it’s URL name). The easiest way to check who’s linking to you (besides looking at your pingbacks and trackbacks) is to google yourself. The more specific version to look at though is Google Blog Search. While regular links on websites are good to know about, it’s what people are saying in their personal blogs and forums that gets you the real meaty information about how you’re doing. I definitely recommend doing this at least once a month to see how far out your site has reached into the Internet.
There’s also the possibility that you might find someone using your content illegally, so that’s good to know also.

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As Blogging gets more popular it’s becoming more and more difficult to figure out where to go to find good news on blogging itself. I wanted to point you all to a place that I’ve found that has a ton of great information for anyone interested in learning what works and doesn’t work for blogging, or for any type of website. Daily Blog Tips is exactly that, a daily updated site that has great articles about pretty much anything you can imagine in regard to making a successful website. I’m looking at tons of articles there to get ideas about the future of this site. Go, check it out, you never know what you might find there that can be beneficial.

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