Kick Ass Web tools

Concepts – Creativity - Research
http://faveup.com/ - Logo ideas
http://99designs.com/ - Get artists to design a logo to your liking.
http://www.domaintools.com/ - Registering domains, look ups, with a list of domain registrars cheaper than $9.
http://StumbleUpon.com – Creative ideas on many topics if you just can't think of one on your own. Inspirational.
http://smashingmagazine.com - Excellent content and a bunch of cool freebies.
http://www.coolwebsiteideas.com/ (maybe not so cool)


Planning
http://blog.deskera.com - DeskEra interoperates wonderfully with popular Project Management softwares like Microsoft Project®. It lets you export/import to & from Microsoft Project®. (down at the time of posting)


Collaborate:
http://www.basecamphq.com/ https://website.qtask.com/index.phphttp://mashable.com/2007/07/22/online-collaboration/ 60+ collaboration tools.
http://www.sharepoint.com Not directly a web app but still good.
http://www.activecollab.com/ with api
http://www.skrbl.com/ - Allows the user to write graffiti on uploaded images and embed them into a site via iframes.
http://grouploop.com - Simple web-based software to organize your committee. Group messaging, calendar, file sharing, RSVP system, and more!
http://www.protonotes.com/ - Take notes on the screen. Add javascript and start noting.
http://www.near-time.net/ - Near-Time integrates wikis, weblogs, and file-sharing to deliver the fastest ROI for your collaboration investments. –Google maps, calendar, Upcoming, Polling, Linked in a Box, Video from Picasa, HipCast, YouTube, Google, BrightCove, Veoh, RSS feeds, Real Time Chat, and more.
http://docs.google.com/
http://www.sitscape.com/dashboard - Situational Remix of the Web. Enable on-demand composite web applications with componentization, redistribution, and remixing of the web.


Execution:
http://elance.com, http://scriptlance.com, http://rentacoder.com, http://hirerussians.com (name says all), http://dice.com etc. or of course hire from your local community.
http://snappages.com/ - Create and manage a professional quality website with drag-and-drop simplicity.
Choose appropriate language platforms.
Google Apps Engine - http://code.google.com/appengine/


Testing:
Nothing beats listening to your users.
http://crazyegg.com – Heat maps on landing pages. Stats.
http://browsershots.org/ - Free online cross browser check
http://www.browsercam.com/ Cross Browser Compatibility Testing Tools including PDA’s.
http://16bugs.com/ - Track and manage bugs from a simple and productive interface.
http://getfirebug.com/ - Firefox plug in to help inspect HTML, tweak CSS and more.
https://www.google.com/analytics/siteopt/splash?hl=en - Website Optimizer is an easy-to-use tool for testing site content that delivers
actionable results.


Widgets:
http://www.iwidgets.com/ - iWidgets drives traffic and interest from your fans and their friends by socially syndicating your website's interesting content and user activity to popular destinations such as Facebook, MySpace, and iGoogle.
http://www.google.com/ig/directory - Google’s widgets.
http://sproutbuilder.com/ - Build, publish and manage widgets, mini-sites, banners, mashups and other rich media Web content in three easy steps.


Generating Traffic and Visitors
Tracking and diagnostics:
http://www.whoson.com/ - Real time stats with chat ability from website visitor to you.
http://www.liveperson.com/ - Stats, chat and get included into their directory of online experts.
http://www.craftysyntax.com/- Open source live support solution that helps customer support with live help functionality that can be proactively pushed to visitors to your site or requested by the consumer.
http://google.com/webmasters/tools/ - Find what your missing on a site. Site maps, bad links, crawl stats, duplicate meta tags etc.
http://suggestionbox.com – Get feedback from users.
http://cli.gs/ - Similar to tinyurl but with tracking, 301 redirects


Community:
http://www.socialgo.com/ - Social network
http://www.ning.com/ - Original social networkhttp://www.neeetz.com/ - Social network
http://www.yuku.com/ - Social networkhttp://www.minggl.com/- Social networkhttp://mindtouch.com - Wikis Of course http://Twitter.com and all apps based on it.
http://squidoo.com
http://plurk.com


Blogging and other media
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping - Make sure Google knows about your blog.
http://pingoat.com/ - back in action. Add pingoat link internally to your blog for more exposure.
http://pingomatic.com - Standard blog comes with this.
http://www.deeptagging.com/ Powerful and rich presentations using content from Powerpoint, multi-media, and includes viewer questions and more.


SEO –
http://www.seomoz.org/http://www.webconfs.com/ - an oldie but a goodie.http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/seo-tools.html https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal - Google's keyword lookup.http://www.avangate.com/articles/online-seo-tools_79.htm

 

Some good info! not here http://www.coolwebsiteideas.com/ (maybe not so cool) LOL

 

yea, I have a few clients and a few things of my own.


In the process of working a deal with http://timesharingdirectory.com to do 487 websites for them. And they will ALL be a cookie cutter from a already coded template, with just a few minor changes. HERE are a few of the domain names. This will BY FAR by my best client.

 

Any really good places to learn CSS & webcode? I've done a few online tutorial sites already and have been playing with very simple code. I seem to be stuck on the 'orientation' of which it LOOKS at the data and how/where to stick stuff, label stuff, code itself,etc and how it related to eachother....(hard to explain).
And even some of the webcode forums are sooooo far advanced that I'm embarrassed to ask questions there....

 

Here's a nice site for viewing CSS in action. All the sites on the right use the same text code and vary the look and feel with different CSS code:
http://www.csszengarden.com/

 

Very cool!
I actually have a test index and css style sheet that I've been playing with. I think now - I'm adding things to it but not quit putting 2+2 together on exact placement methods and/or not quit sure how div tags work and where to put them within all the code, etc. It's hazy right now.

I just need more time, research, and playing with it. It surely isn't gonna be learned over night.

I'll check out more of that ZEN garden tomorrow. THANKS!