With lots of banners, ad blocks, in-line ads and annoying pop-ups, it is easy for the consumer to lose attention rather than focus it on the message brands are trying to convey. How about if you actually make the consumer type in your brand message? Research has proven that actually typing in a statement makes [...]
One of the factors that determine the success of a website is the site’s domain. You need to come up with an suitable domain name that catches attention, is easy enough to remember, and is available. To help find such a name you can use dnFellow. First you select the domain extension you want: COM, [...]
The most successful companies are the one that interact with their customers and find out what their needs are. For online businesses, one effective way to increase interaction with customers is through UserVoice. UserVoice is a web service that provides you with a web forum where your customers can interact with you. While the advanced [...]
Interaction with their site’s visitors helps webmasters figure out which parts of the site please or displease the audience. While comments and feedback forms are effective, they are relatively slow when compared to live chatting. To add a live chatt feature to your site check out ChatBadge. ChatBadge is a web tool that is currently [...]
Many websites have free and premium content on them. The premium content is provided to the site’s subscribers who pay a particular fee. If you want to generate additional revenue by charging for your websites content, MediaPass can help. MediaPass is an online service that lets site owners earn money by providing subscribers with premium [...]
By displaying the traffic and social networking of your blog or site to your visitors, you can help others learn how popular your site is. In turn, this can get you an increasing number of visitors and networking mentions. An easy way to display the ranking and networking stats for your site is MyµStats. My [...]
Most bloggers and content creators can be very obsessive with spelling. As writers, we do not want our articles to get nit-picked by the wrong spelling and ruin an awesome article. One tool that can manage your spell checks is Respelt. This web app lets you check the spelling of your articles and notify you [...]
Do you want to make an eye-catching web ad banners to put up on a website? If yes then you will need to familiarize yourself with HTML and learn how to code up a banner. But that will obviously require a lot of time. For a quicker, better way, check out Banner Hive. Banner Hive [...]
Looking for a new way to connect with your site’s visitors? If yes then a website toolbar with social networking buttons is exactly what you need. Thanks to TurnSocial, you will not need to go through extensive coding to create your own network-loaded website toolbar. TurnSocial is a very simple and easy web service that [...]
Monitoring the functionality of your website on a regular basis is a must for serious website owners. While there are a lot of monitoring systems available today, not all of them are accurate when it comes to detecting glitches and bugs in application codes, database, and applets. These monitoring services only uses light scripts and [...]
Considering the huge popularity of the iPhone around the world, and its amazing web browsing capabilities, it becomes important for webmasters to make sure that their site displays correctly on the iPhone’s interface. TestiPhone.com is a nice web based tool that acts as an iPhone simulator, showing how a site looks on an iPhone. You [...]
Websites often provide their visitors with related content to their partner sites and the partner sites return the favor. This way the visitor gets relevant content to read and the site owners get extra traffic. Blog Traffic Exchange is a web tool that works on the same principle. Blog Traffic Exchange is a cloud-based service [...]
If you are interested in tracking all kinds of rankings for your site, like Alexa, Pagerank, and so on, and also want to keep an eye on real time stats like Twitter mentions and other social buzz, then Moniitor is something you could make use of. It’s a simple, online stats and ranking monitoring tool [...]
Webmasters face a lot of worries when it comes to traffic. Good and bad traffic can often not be distinguished and because of heavy loads the site’s loading speed is slowed down ““ something unappreciated by site visitors and search engines. A wonderfully innovative solution to this site loading speed situation is offered by Cloudflare. [...]
Since the .htaccess file on your web server is read on every request, you can get it to do a number of different things to match your needs. If you want to know what these things are and you want the .htaccess files that implement these functions, pay a visit to Htaccess Tools. The site [...]
Website developers often have to ensure that their site will display properly in the most common screen resolutions. To test website resolution compatibility they often change their own screen resolution manually or use an external program to change the browser’s resolution. But many developers will find the method offered by Simures to be more convenient. [...]
If you are a website owner looking to attract advertisers then displaying your Google Analytics data would be a good move. You could always capture screenshots from your Analytics account and put them on your site, but that means you’ll have to update them as the traffic changes. SeetheStats offers a better solution. It uses [...]
If you are a site owner wanting to gain a loyal viewership, you will need to find out what catches people’s attention. Heat maps are one way of checking visitors’ activity but they do not reveal what visitors remember after they view your website. A solution to this is presented by ClueApp. ClueApp is a [...]
Blungr is a nice service to generate catchy domain names and then immediately buy the domains if available. You need to type two words, choose the domain type (.com,.net etc), choose a prefix or suffix for the name if needed, and then hit go. It’ll mix up the two words and generate a bunch of [...]
For web developers, a sitemap is the required plan before they begin building a website. A sitemap displays how the webpages on the site will flow and what their connections will be. WriteMaps is a wonderful visual sitemap creator to easily create and share sitemaps. WriteMaps is a free web service that lets you create [...]