Posts Tagged ‘Web Services’

Web Services and Tools for Website Designers

A good designer is only as good as his/her web tools.

Between website design projects, I get a chance to wander the web and I have found some very helpful web services and tools that go into a quick access bookmark toolbar. Over the years we have collected quite a library of useful tools.

Here is my list of web services and tools that have helped make my life easier as a website designer.

Making Sure Things are Working

Are My Sites Up
Are My Sites Up will track you sites to make sure they are still online. The free service allows you to track up to 20 sites and can notify members via email or SMS. Site checks are done up to 25 times per day.
The premium service will check up to 60 sites as often as every 15 minutes and comes with all features of the free service plus Twitter integration and RSS feeds.
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Social Community for Small Business Website Owners

For those of us running an online business, we occasionally run into problems or issues where we don’t know the answer. It’s at times like this that we email or call that friend that we feel may have the answer. But even that isn’t always successful.

Enter the online Social Community for website owners. What’s This Web Thing? – Website Owners Helping Website Owners.

This is a brand new community made up of online entrepreneurs that have already experienced much of the pain of setting up and running a web site or an online business. If you’re interested, you can help build this brand new and FREE social network and community.

The community is currently in beta and dedicated to small businesses who run their enterprise on the web. This is an opportunity for web owners to make friends while learning to promote their business, exchange ideas on how to increase traffic, SEO, exchanging links/banners, making money and much more.