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Website Grader

Grade Your Website Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective. websitegrader.com

Twitters to Cherish

I have been reading article after article lately on how Twitter can help promote and manage a business. At first I thought to myself, “how can anyone REALLY be doing anything when they have to type everything they do on Twitter?” The point of this micro-blogging site is to keep each other updated on a… Continue reading Twitters to Cherish

http://www.prepressure.com/

Prepressure Prepressure covers design techniques, PDF, PostScript, fonts, JDF and numerous other prepress topics that have to do with printed communication. ANSWER all of your prepress questions here.

Twitter Search

Twitter Search Search Twitter in realtime – see what the world is doing right now.

Creative Day

Excerpts from: http://creativeday.unitedsituation.de/ressources.html The Artist Way at Work, The book reveals why imagination and curiosity are the keys to success and satisfaction at work and in life. It will make you more creative in your business, but just as important, it will make you more creative in your life as a whole. The result will… Continue reading Creative Day

network-tools.com

Go to network-tools.com to trace a domain or IP

Plug & Play Shopping Carts

Shopping carts that handle the cart design and the back-end getshopped.com fastcommerce.com WP Plugin http://www.instinct.co.nz/e-commerce/ (can we use this with 1shoppingcart? – who knows. . .)

Tips: Improve Ranking

Below are some tips that will help you improve your ranking with the major search engines: 1. Title lines – Make sure that your Title Line, Meta Tag Description and Meta Tag Keywords (These are embedded into the HTML script of your website) have the main keywords that you want people to search for. We… Continue reading Tips: Improve Ranking

The Amazing YouTube Tools Collection

From Quick Online Tips This is a collection of the best Youtube tools, hacks, mashups and top ways to download Youtube videos. YouTube is the most popular site to share your favorite videos. Recently YouTube was acquired by Google for a few billion dollars. Here is a collection of several YouTube third party tools which… Continue reading The Amazing YouTube Tools Collection

Empty Cache

On a MAC: If you are using the Safari Web browser, choose “Empty Cache…” from the Safari menu. Tips & Warnings The cache keeps copies of recently viewed Web pages on your hard disk. Instead of reloading a page every time, the browser just uses the cached version, which is very fast. (However, it also… Continue reading Empty Cache

Tara Reed: How to Get Started in Art Licensing

Art Licensor and marketing maven, Tara Reed, has recently put her outstanding knowledge base of art licensing information in to this thoughtful and easy to understand e-book. Perfect for beginners, this 72 paged book will walk you through everything you need to know to get started putting your art on products. Tara Reed has wonderfully… Continue reading Tara Reed: How to Get Started in Art Licensing

Pandora

http://pandora.com/ When was the last time you fell in love with a new artist or song? At Pandora, we have a single mission: To play music you’ll love – and nothing else.

Free Rice

This is a great site for improving your vocabulary and feed the hungry at the same time. Pass it on. http://www.freerice.com/

Tags vs. Categories

If you are confused about the function of these two things, read this article. http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/09/categories-versus-tags-whats-the-difference-and-which-one/

Paypal Button Generator Toolbar

http://www.webassist.com/professional/products/productdetails.asp?PID=133 Add instant eCommerce to any blog, profile or Web form your way with the PayPal for the Web collection. Whether you’re a Firefox or Internet Explorer, you can now easily add a PayPal toolbar-both with Buy Now, Donate Now, Tip Jar and Subscription buttons. Just place your cursor in your blog, profile or Web… Continue reading Paypal Button Generator Toolbar

Free Secure Logo Hosting

http://www.sslpic.com/ SSLpic E-junkie’s FREE SSL image hosting & click tracking service. Our GeoTrust SSL image URLs do NOT generate a security warning on the PayPal or any other payment processor’s payment page. We provide you tracking report of unique clicks for your payment buttons.

6-screenshot-utilities

http://konigi.com/notebook/6-screenshot-utilities-you-should-know-about