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ALEXA SPARKY FIREFOX ADDON

netdudette — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:36:20 +0000

Well this could be useful – to check any random website’s traffic, I used to use the handy tool checksitetraffic.com but now alas it is some crummy spy tool.

I like to know roughly what a site’s traffic is and I cannot seem to find any data!

I’m experimenting with this: ALEXA SPARKY FIREFOX ADDON

Will keep you posted!

Twitterfeed.com – Update All Your Social Media From ONE Place (Your Website!)

netdudette — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:32:42 +0000

I just signed up netdudette.com at twitterfeed.com and It successfully updated my twitter … now to test it on my facebook!

Here’s how it works:

you go to twitterfeed.com, create an account, enable it to update twitter & facebook (there are other services too, but those were the only ones I use personally).

Your website’s RSS feed powers the whole thing, so it’s rather foolproof… I hope.

I’ll keep you posted!

iFrames, Hover Effects, Being Lazy, & So On

netdudette — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:01:16 +0000

Honestly, sometimes I am too lazy to write out iframe code and with WordPress, I really need iframes sometimes.
Here is a handy iFrame code generator – all you need is the link:
http://www.htmlbasix.com/iframe.shtml

It’s inconvenient to add special CSS in the style.css (or add it to the ), then put code in the of a WP site,
and THEN add the little block of text, but because I wanted to demo it, here it is (code is from DynamicDrive):

HOVER YOUR MOUSE OVER THIS – JUST DO IT!

What a hassle – sometimes the expedient solution is to drop the code into a simple whatever.htm file and embed it in an iframe lock stock and barrel without going into 3 different places:

More Podcasting Experimentation …

netdudette — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:10:44 +0000

Subscribe2

netdudette — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:12:01 +0000

Subscribe2 is an excellent subscription management tool – featuring double opt-in signup and a nifty module right in the WordPress admin panel where you can send out plain text emails to your list(s).
Apparently, there is an upgrade for those who want a nice shiny HTML newsletter template, but so far I have stuck with the free version and it works just fine.

Free Web Surveys

netdudette — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:29:29 +0000

This is an example from www.questionform.com – nice, but they have a 5-question, 5-answer limit, and doesn’t automatically direct survey participants to the results

http://netgenus.questionform.com/public/New-Website-Poll

Here is SurveyBob.com survey – you get more bang for your zero dollars, but it doesn’t have the “other” feature that questionform.com has, where you generate an “other” radio button or checkbox and it creates a text box beside it automatically:

Survey Bob Test Survey

How do you like the Survey Bob survey

Awesome

Pretty good

Not that great

Sux

What are your favourite WordPress Plugins (multiple selections are permitted)

All-In-One-SEO

NextGen Gallery

Google Sitemaps

Subscribe2

Akisment

Other

Why do you like WordPress so much? (‘short answer’ – 2,000 characters permitted)

What are the most important things to bear in mind when blogging for SEO? (‘essay question’ – 2,000 characters permitted)

Rate the following open source CMS systems for small business:

	Sux	Pretty bad	OK	Pretty good	Awesome
Drupal
Joomla
WordPress

What platform do you prefer:

Linux

Microsoft

What is your favourite hosting company

WebHostingPad

HostGator

BlueHost

Other

What is your favourite blog site

Are you a programmer

Yes

Check all that apply:

I am a web developer

I have a personal blog site

I have a corporate website

I make the hosting & registrar decisions

Check all that apply

my site has affiliate ads

my site has Google ads

my site has other ads

Check all that apply

I use Google AdWords to promote my site

I do a lot of SEO work on my site

I use email lists for emarketing

My best performing site gets:

fewer than 100 unique visitors a day

100-200 unique visitors a day

200-300 unique visitors a day

300-400 unique visitors a day

400-500 unique visitors a day

over 500 unique visitors a day

This is from www.freeonlinesurveys.com – 20 question maximum, nice interface, fancy formatting:

Click here to take our Online Survey

This is from SurveyMonkey.com – also not embeddable, and you don’t see the results after taking the survey
Click here to take survey

This is from SurveyGizmo.com not free, but embeddable:

Urtak.com – really nice and you can see survey results, BUT … yes-no questions only:

create a free poll on pollsb.com

Didn't work at all - wonder if it's just because my computer and i are tired

This is PollDaddy.com 10 Q max with the free package and only 100 responses. also just a text link and no results viewable after you take the survey

Here is a survey from KwikSurveys.com - embeds but you don't see the results after taking the survey:

OK - is Google Docs the Answer?
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Google Player

netdudette — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:45:59 +0000

This is a nice way to embed your own MP3s just on the odd chance that you don’t want to use YouTube.

The code is super simple and thanks to this awesome website, Digital Inspiration for the following code:

MP3_FILE_URL” width=”400″ height=”27″ allowscriptaccess=”never” quality=”best” bgcolor=”#ffffff” wmode=”window” flashvars=”playerMode=embedded” />

Just one thing you need to change in the code above: replace MP3_FILE_URL with the actual MP3 absolute URL (in this case http://www.netdudette.com/images/Pachelbel_Canon_in_D.mp3)

Animated Favicons

netdudette — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:04:35 +0000

Here’s a little extra for your website – what could be more fun than an animated favicon?!

http://www.animatedfavicon.com/

ONLINE ANIMATED GIF CREATOR

netdudette — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:17:22 +0000

This is a great tool when flash is overkill: http://picasion.com/

THUMBSHOTS – This Looks Cool

netdudette — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:22:19 +0000

And then I asked myself – why didn’t I already know about this?!

THUMBSHOTS:

This totally cool – FREE – service allows you to paste one line of code per photo and it automatically generates a thumbnail image.
Now I am free from the hassle of taking a screenshot, resizing with my graphics programming, inserting the image in my posts/pages, blah blah blah.

What a miracle – highly recommend it… well, if you see screenshots above, you’ll know it’s working – right now it just says ‘Image Coming Soon’.

All they ask in return is for a footer link – nooooo problem – mine is below