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Things to Think About When Designing Your Site
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/
Simple One Zip File WordPress Installs With Plugins
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/
Learn To Write :)
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
How “Strong” is your Site?
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.
How Fast Does Your Site Load?
This site is a great tool to use after you get your site set up and running. It tells you basically how long your site takes to load up for an average user. Since most internet studies have shown that visitors will often leave a site if it doesn’t load in less than 7 seconds (and in some cases as short as 4 seconds) you can get a good idea of how your site performs. Keep in mind that this is also testing your web server, so as you get more popular you can keep an eye on how well your site is performing in case you need to make a move to a better performing server.