If you’re in the market for hosting, the following links will give you an assortment of invaluable info. Simply plug in the hosting providers URL on each of these services.
Sitelogr.com is one of my favorite Internet tools. Take a look.
What does Sitelogr offer?
Sitelogr is a free service that provides a vast quantity of valuable information to webmasters about every website on the internet, gathered from diverse sources in real-time.
Among those are the queried website’s estimated value in dollars, it’s world rank, estimated income per day, estimated visits per day, the hosting country, the website IP, Alexa Rank, Google PageRank, Google index, Yahoo index and a nice suite of Domain tools, including robots, hostname, headers, trace, service status, ping and DNS. Throw in a Domain Traffic Graph, IP Map Location and Whois Information.
markosweb.com (smartviper) is another of my favorites.
What does Markosweb offer?
It’s a web service that collects and analyzes any data about domains and keywords they are optimized for. Smartviper includes a domain worth analyzer and historical statistics. They currently use around 25+ open API sources researching the most popular domains and keywords. Markosweb stores over 250,000,000 records (for over 3,300,000 domains) in their database and continue to grow.
Their goal is to help webmasters check their competitors and understand why their ranks are so high. Besides that, on the basis of some of their conclusions, they create useful summary tables for webmasters.
Serversiders.com is my third featured Internet tools favorite
What does serversiders.com offer?
Insert a domain and find out that sites title, language, global traffic ranking, traffic ranking within .com, pages indexed by Google, tags, hosting locations, hosting provider network, launch, IP address, reverse lookup, domains linking, domains on IP addresses near and domains with similar traffic rankings.
I know we all have our favorite links - for everything from hosting to retail outlets and services. I thought I’d ask if anyone wishes to share some of their favorite website design links?
Some of my favorites are:
Website Design Tools
Color Wheel - Color choices can make or break a website. Use the online color wheel at this site to find the right color and HTML codes for your site.
WhatTheFont - Have you ever seen a font that you like, but have no clue what it is? Submit an image to WhatTheFont to find the closest matches in their database.
WAVE is a free web accessibility evaluation tool provided by WebAIM. Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows the original web page with embedded icons and indicators that reveal the accessibility of that page.
Webmaster Tips Library at NetMechanic are a must read for website designers. Here you’ll find in depth articles on everything from Accessibility, Search Engine Promotion, HTML Tips to Usability.
W3Schools - My absolute favorite is W3Schools. Wow, if you only link through to this one site, it’ll be worth all the others combined – it’s that good. Hungry for website design info – you can certainly fill your plate here. They even offer online developer certification courses for HTML, JavaScript, XML, ASP and PHP.
It seems like hosting, SEO and design forums disappear faster - than my wife’s apple pie. The forums listed below are the most active forums in their respective categories, both in terms of overall memberships and simultaneous guests online 24/7. Most of these forums cover a broad range of topics from marketing to legal, hosting plans, SEO, design, support and everything in between.
Nearly all of these forums allow you to set up - a signature, normally from one to four lines with links to your website. Not all of them are ‘do follow,’ but many are. Do follow links from relevant, high PR sites absolutely strengthens the authority of your website, thus helping your SERPS (search engine results pages). Higher SERPS, in turn, draws more organic traffic which translates into increased sales.
Of course, your threads and posts on these forums - needs to be relevant to the discussion. An added benefit to participation in their discussions is that most of these forums will allow you to freely advertise your site and services in their ‘MarketPlace” after a set number of posts.
DigitalPoint Web Hosting Forum
SEOChat SEO Forum
WebProWorld Web Hosting Forum
ABestWeb Affiliates Forum
BZimage Web Hosting Forum
ComputerForums Computer Forum
Cre8siteForum Design/SEO Forum
DANIWEB IT Discussion
DataCenterTalk Data Center Forum
HostHideout Web Hosting Forum
HostingDiscussion Web Hosting Forum
HTMLForums HTML Forum
SitePoint Web Hosting Forum
TalkFreelance Web Hosting/Design Forum
v7n Web Hosting Forum
WebCosmo Web Hosting Forum
WebHostingTalk Web Hosting Forum
WebHostJabber Web Hosting Forum
WebMasterForums Web Hosting Forum
tycoonTalk Web Hosting Forum
Website Babble Web Hosting Forum
Have you ever wanted to create your own fonts? A quick Google search returned these results, plus plenty of commercial ($$$) applications.
Font Constructor - Font Constructor is a standalone mac only application to build fonts in an intuitive way.
FontForge - An outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap (bdf, FON, NFNT) fonts, or edit existing ones. Also lets you convert one format to another. FontForge has support for many macintosh font formats.
FontStruct – Is a free font-building tool sponsored by the world’s leading retailer of digital type, FontShop. This program lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. You create ‘FontStructions’ using the ‘FontStructor’ font editor.
Once you’re done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application.
Raster Font Editor - Is an easy-to-use font editor for the creation of bitmap fonts. It supports several file formats and has a very simple yet fully customizable user interface.
The application can open font resource files (*.fnt) created by other tools such as Borland’s Resource Workshop. It can import DOS 8×16 fonts, fonts from BMP images and can convert TTF fonts to raster fonts.
You can save your raster fonts as Font Resource (*.fnt), Resource Script (*.rc), Text (*.txt) and Windows Bitmap (*.bmp). Saving as Text file is useful for debugging purposes and creating text representation of characters
Type light - Is a freeware OpenType™ font editor. With Type light you can design, edit and convert OpenType TrueType (.ttf) and PostScript (.otf) fonts. Type light is free for personal and limited commercial use (you can sell your fonts provided that is not your profession). Please read the license.
Features:
System requirements: Windows 98, 2000 or XP platform, 128MB min. [v3.0.011]
These are my favorite business and social bookmarks, listed in order by Alexa Ranking (May 13, 2011) – Part 1 of 4
| URL | Alexa | Description |
| http://www.facebook.com | 2 | Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. |
| http://www.twitter.com | 9 | Instant updates from your friends, industry experts, favorite celebrities, and what’s happening around the world. |
| http://www.LinkedIn.com | 17 | Over 100 million professionals use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas and opportunities |
| http://www.tumblr.com | 50 | Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors, to your theme’s HTML. |
| http://www.myspace.com | 76 | Myspace, Inc. is a leading social entertainment destination powered by the passions of fans. Aimed at a Gen Y audience, Myspace drives social interaction by providing a highly personalised experience around entertainment and connecting people to the music, celebrities, TV, movies, and games that they love. These entertainment experiences are available through multiple platforms, including online, mobile devices, and offline events. |
| http://www.reddit.com | 138 | reddit is a source for what’s new and popular online. vote on links that you like or dislike and help decide what’s popular, or submit your own! |
| http://www.digg.com | 140 | Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our community. |
| http://www.yelp.com | 199 | Yelp is the fun and easy way to find and talk about great (and not so great) local businesses |
| http://www.delicious.com | 235 | Social Bookmarking |
| http://www.xing.com/ | 256 | THE PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS NETWORK WITH MORE THAN 10 MILLION MEMBERS WORLDWIDE |
| http://www.ning.com/ | 260 | Ning is the world’s largest platform to create powerful, custom social websites. Top organizers, marketers, influencers and activists use Ning to create social experiences that inspire action. |
| http://www.multiply.com | 387 | Multiply is a vibrant Social Shopping destination that feels like a visit with friends to the Shopping mall, but faster and more convenient. |
My favorite business and social bookmarks listed by Alexa rank, Part 2.
| http://www.slashdot.org | 1343 | SlashDot |
| http://www.diigo.com/ | 1420 | If you browse or read a lot on the web, we believe you will find Diigo indispensable. Diigo is two services in one — it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other. |
| http://www.jigsaw.com/ | 2235 | Jigsaw is the world’s largest database of up-to-date, downloadable, and complete contact and company information. With a directory of more than 25 million business contacts and over 36,000 contacts added and edited daily by a dedicated user base of over one million, the quality, content, and scope of Jigsaw’s world-class contact directory is unrivaled. Every Jigsaw business contact is complete with a phone number (over 70% of which are direct dial), position, company, mailing address, and business email address. Jigsaw also offers free tools for researching companies as well as a user generated company research wiki pages |
| http://www.entrepreneur.com/ | 2368 | Be sure to check out Entrepreneur Connect on their Community Tab – lots of great forums |
| http://www.folkd.com | 2724 | Using social bookmarks with folkd.com will enrich your web-surfing experience |
| http://www.blinklist.com | 3575 | BlinkList is a powerful productivity tool that makes is much easier for anyone to share and save their links for later. |
| http://www.mister-wong.com | 4130 | Mister Wong is a leading social bookmarking service with over 1 million users globally. |
| http://www.faves.com | 4239 | Sites you’ll love, from people like you |
| http://www.kirtsy.com | 5084 | kirtsy is a social media platform of pure goodness. A plaza for the peachy. A portal to the pretty. A place to find cool things. To read smart scoop. To connect with fab ideas, exceptional people, useful information, excellent products. All of it. And more. |
| http://www.buddymarks.com | 6233 | BuddyMarks.com has been called “The online personal, group and social bookmarks manager.” |
| http://www.spoke.com/ | 7460 | Spoke is a Personal Connections Management Service that enables people to leverage their lifetime of personal contacts to discover and re-connect with specific persons that can help them with current needs – even if they no longer remember their names or how they originally met. |
| http://www.mylinkvault.com | 7521 | Online links made easy |
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