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Cheap Stock Photography: Fotolia

November 20, 2005November 20, 2005 Christian Watson 2 Comments

Last week, “I profiled Big Stock Photo”:https://smileycat.com/miaow/archives/000187.html as being a worthy competitor to iStockphoto. Well, I’ve since come across “Fotolia”:http://www.fotolia.com/ – another iStockphoto clone.

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Get Your Site Rated by the ‘Experts’ for Free

November 14, 2005November 14, 2005 Christian Watson 4 Comments

Want a free check up on how your site compares with ‘best practice’ in terms of popularity, design, accessibility, and user experience?
“Sitescore”:http://www.silktide.com/tools/sitescore is a online tool that provides an automated rating of your site according to the above four criteria as well as incorporating a user rating feature.

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Cheap Stock Photography: Big Stock Photo

November 13, 2005August 6, 2016 Christian Watson 1 Comment

No idea how I haven’t come across this site before. Big Stock Photo (referral link) looks and works pretty much like iStockphoto, which is certainly no bad thing.

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Track Outgoing Link Popularity on Your Site

October 13, 2005August 14, 2016 Christian Watson

I’ve recently started using MyBlogLog to track which external links on my site are the most popular. Here are my thoughts on the free version of their service. Read More

Create Online Graphs With Flash

July 28, 2005September 16, 2020 Christian Watson

One of our sites has a page of medical treatment statistics. I was never that enthused about how it looked visually – a bunch of tables doesn’t exactly grab your attention – and so I decided to see what I could do in the way of adding some graphs to make the data easier to grasp. Read More

iTunes 4.9: Podcasting Software for the Masses

June 30, 2005August 13, 2016 Christian Watson 1 Comment

Thanks to Apple and iTunes 4.9 I’ve finally got the whole podcasting thing. As I was cycling to work this morning listening to a podcast of one of my favorite shows – NPR’s “On The Media” – it dawned on me at last what a cool technology podcasting is. Read More

Free Online Keyword Analysis SEO Tool

June 1, 2005June 1, 2005 Christian Watson

NicheBOT is a very handy online tool for making the keyword analysis part of your search engine optimization efforts more effective.

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My Favorite Firefox Extensions

May 30, 2005September 16, 2020 Christian Watson

Thanks to its ability to incorporate third party developed extensions, Firefox is so much more than a web browser to me. It’s now an invaluable web development tool – so much so that I really don’t know how I’d manage without it.

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Project Management with Excel

March 14, 2005September 18, 2020 Christian Watson 5 Comments

I don’t have Microsoft Project on my PC; however, every now and then I’m called upon to manage a project of sufficient scope to require an actual project plan. (Shock! Horror!)

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Screen Capture Software Review

January 6, 2005August 14, 2016 Christian Watson 3 Comments

A good screen capture tool is an essential part of the web designer’s arsenal. I often need to grab part of a web page or a graphic or icon and then pull it into PhotoShop. Of course, you can just hit the Print Screen button, but it’s a pain to edit out all the stuff you don’t need. Read More

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