Resources

You are welcome to use the links to free resources and blogging tools listed here. Simply copy and paste the url into your browser bar and click. However, if you do refer to them in any blog post(s) of your own, I will expect you to acknowledge the time and effort I put into compiling them by providing a link back to this Resources page. Thanks, in advance for your co-operation and happy blogging! :-)

blogging polls

Update: October 11, 2008 : PollDaddy polls have now been included in wordpress.com blogs.
Related posts:Put a PollDaddy poll in your sidebar, PollDaddy ShortCode for WordPress Blogs, Blogging Polls and Surveys for WordPress.com blogs, Testing Polls for WordPress.com Blogs 1, Testing Polls for WordPress.com Blogs 2

http://basicpoll.com/ – free service lets you easily set up a customized, interactive opinion poll on your site. BasicPoll.com offers an easy-to-use control panel that lets you generate real-time Web polls. No installation is required (as the polls are remotely hosted).
http://polls.blogflux.com/- Blog Flux Polls are the easiest way to add fun and interactive polls to your sites.
http://www.gfxpoll.com/- create a free graphical poll for your website forum or even email.
http://www.htmlpoll.com/ – simple poll that allows for color customization and textareas.
http://luckypolls.com/ – Free polls and surveys for you web site or blog.
http://www.misterpoll.com/ – Free polls with an added feature – free message boards.
http://www.opinionpower.com/ – Three types of polls available for the duration of one month only.
http://poll.pollcode.com/ – A basic poll tool.
http://www.polldaddy.com/ – An online tool, which allows you to create free polls and place them on your website or blog.
http://quibblo.com/ – Free polls, quizzes and surveys.
http://quimble.com/ – A simple poll tool with two extra features poll RSS and poll discussion.
http://www.snappoll.com/ – Create a free online poll for your website by using an easy poll generator.
http://www.vizu.com/ – A sophisticated tool with 10 options. You can include images in questions and answers.

blogging surveys

http://freeonlinesurveys.com/ – Free easy to use survey builder.
http://simplesample.org/ – A free survey tool for creating, editing, and distributing surveys online.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/- A powerful tool to create and publish custom surveys in minutes, and then view results graphically and in real time.

blogging tools

http://www.dead-links.com/ – A free broken links checker spider will read the html code and check for the broken links in two categories, internal, from the same host, and external, outgoing link to different domains. Note: the spider doesn’t crawl links inside frames or javascript or flash.
http://www.dead-links.com/check_links.php – A free broken links checker. The spider will crawl one by one each of the addresses you input looking for links to your website within link partners html code. Note: the spider doesn’t crawl links inside frames or javascript or flash.
http://www.recip-links.com/ – A free reciprocal links checker. The spider will crawl one by one each of the addresses you input looking for links to your website within link partners html code. Note: the spider doesn’t crawl links inside frames or javascript or flash.
http://htmlhelp.com/tools/valet/- A free links checker. When you enter the URL of an HTML page on the Web, it will fetch the page, and print a report on it. Link Valet will also spider your site. When a link references another HTML page at the same site and hierarchy as the URL, Link Valet will recursively follow the link and prepare a similar report on the page referenced. Note: the spider doesn’t crawl links inside frames or javascript or flash.
http://wholinkstome.com/ – A free tool for locating and reporting links.

browsers

http://www.browsercam.com/Default2.aspx – Cross Browser Compatibility Testing Tools. See your web design on any browser on any operating system. Check javascripts, HTML, forms and other dynamic functionality on any platform. Not just yours. Use a bank of testing machines remotely to test your website.
http://browsershots.org/ – test your web design in different browsers.
http://www.browsrcamp.com/ – allows you to test the compatibility of your design with Mac OS X browsers.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/- The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/recommended – recommended add-ons.
http://www.thesitewizard.com/webdesign/multiplebrowsers.shtml – How to Check Your Website with Multiple Browsers on a Single Machine (Cross-Browser Compatibility Checking)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/getitnow.mspx – Internet Exlporer 7.
http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/content.aspx?ctId=388#develop – Develop High Performance Web Applications
http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/ – Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple — all your Internet needs in one application
http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/- allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter
http://www.opera.com/ – Download, learn more about the Opera browser or check out the new beta

color tools

http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html/ – websafe colors – color wheel 4096 Color Wheel Version 2.1 by Jemima Pereira. Free for any use.
http://lab.rails2u.com/bgmaker/- Background Image Maker http://dev.sessions.edu/ilu/ilu_1.html- color calculator. Use it to select a color scheme for a corporate identity or design project. Rotate shapes on the color wheel to identify harmonious color schemes. Adjust saturation and lightness. Save RGB, CMYK, or HTML color values, then send them to a colleague or client.
http://slayeroffice.com/tools/color_palette/- It will create 10 shades of the base color, located top-left, at varying degrees of opacity.
http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/index.php – Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image you want to work with.
http://jrm.cc/color-palette-generator/ – generate color palette based on image.
http://www.colorschemer.com/- a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals. Work with a dynamic visual color wheel, instantly explore harmony relationships and even let ColorSchemer Studio intelligently suggest color schemes for you!
http://www.colorblender.com/- free online color tool for color matching and palette design
http://www.colourlovers.com/ – Search Thousands of Color Palettes – Search Thousands of Patterns – you’ll find over 284,457 user created color palettes to inspire your creative projects. Get the RSS feed of the latest palettes created or use our pro palette maker to create and share your favorite color combinations
http://colormixers.com/mixers/cmr/- ColorMixers grew out of my simple, yet popular color tool. I’ve updated the design, and made it expandable – I have plans for more variations – “websafe” colors, etc.
http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorsontheweb.asp – The purpose of any web page is to convey information– or at least that should be true for the vast majority of sites. Thus, the use of colors should facilitate this communication. Using the wrong colors is likely to turn your visitors away.
http://www.cgtextures.com/- CGTextures strives to be the worlds best texture site. Being a 3D artist myself, I know how hard it is to create textures without good photo materials. Making textures should be about creativity, not about spending hours looking for the right image on the internet. I hope that by supplying good quality textures in an organized manner, your everyday work will be easier and more enjoyable.
http://www.iosart.com/firefox/colorzilla/ – for download – Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies
http://websitetips.com/colortools/sitepro/- This colour schemer tool helps you choose colour schemes for monochromatic, analogic, complimentary, split complementary, triadic, and double contrast. It’s especially great for exploring color combinations easily and quickly.
http://www.colr.org/- colors from images
http://www.easyrgb.com/- Match your computer generated RGB values to color cards, paint lines, inks, fandecks and more… Find an industrial standard match for your computer colors. Transform “virtual” colors in “real world” references.
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/gradient/ – We created this online tool to allow you to painlessly generate a gradient image of 3 types, with instant previewing so you get exactly what you had in mind.
http://www.hscripts.com/tools/web-page-color/ – Use this online website designer tool to play with, change and choose web page, background and font color combination,text size, font family and font style to your website. Find and chart colors that will match and copy the hex code in to your html pages.
http://www.benmautner.com/widerangle/2005/11/html-color-code-combination-chooser.html
http://www.redalt.com/Tools/ilyc.php – I like Your Colors – Type the URI of a page and submit it to see what colors it uses.
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/ – Pick a color value format, input two valid CSS color values in the format you chose, and pick the number of midpoints you’d like to see. The palette will show the colors you input as well as the requested number of midpoint colors, and the values of those colors.
http://realcolorwheel.com/colorwheel.htm – Use this Real Color Wheel to match pigments that are correct colorwheel oppositions.For mixing dark shadow colors with out using black pigment. A color wheel designed for a natural artist painting on location.
http://www.stripegenerator.com/ – the ultimate stripe generator
http://www.stripedesigner.com/ – Stripes, stripes, stripes! You see them everywhere in web2.0 sites but how do you actually create them? Now here is your chance to experiment and make those stripes!
http://www.stripgenerator.com/ – create a comic strip
http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/Technicolor/ – a marvelous color tool
http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/big.html – the webmasters color library

css tips

http://www.netmechanic.com/news/webmaster-resources.shtml#css-tips
http://www.html.net/tutorials/css/introduction.asp

css tools

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2289
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
http://www.mandarindesign.com/blogger.html
http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/
http://htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck

email address obfuscators

http://digitalcolony.com/lab/maskemail/maskemailascii.aspx
http://www.coderlab.us/playground/email_encoder.php
http://services.nexodyne.com/email/
http://www.signaturegenerator.net/
http://kontactr.com/

fonts

http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/res_fonts.htm#a01

HTML

Related posts: Free HTML Resources for bloggers
HTML international codes, accent marks and diacriticals
To clean up messy HTML code see:
Clean up HTML http://www.cleanuphtml.com/cleanup.html
HTML tidy http://infohound.net/tidy/

XHTML 101 – Free HTML Course – XHTML 1.0 / HTML 4.01 Free Online Course
HTML: An Interactive Tutorial – Dave’s HTML Code Guide http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/
Free Online Course Materials – MIT OpenCourseWareFree Lecture Notes, Syllabus, Tutorials, Audio & Video from MIT professors. All Free. No registration. MIT OpenCourseWare
w3schools HTML Tutorial – Excellent for beginners. http://www.w3schools.com/Html/default.asp
HTML GOODIES – Getting Started Tutorials http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/getting_started/ http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/getting_started/
Learn HTML and CSS: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/html-css-beginners-guide
HTML Code Tutorial http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
HTML Quick List http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/quicklist.html
HTML Tablemaker http://www.ahfb2000.com/tablemakertool2.php?sub=gen_form
HTML Tidy is a tool for checking and cleaning up HTML source files. It is especially useful for finding and correcting errors in deeply nested HTML, or for making grotesque code legible once more. http://infohound.net/tidy/
WC3 Markup Validator http://validator.w3.org/
WDG HTML Validator http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
HTML 5 Visual Cheat Sheet by Woork http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/09/html-5-visual-cheat-sheet-by-woork.html
HTML Cheat Sheet – Use this HTML cheat sheet to quickly find the code you need. All you need to do is copy (from this cheat sheet) and paste into your website’s code. If need be, you can change the values to suit your particular situation. http://www.quackit.com/html/html_cheat_sheet.cfm
HTML Tag Quick Reference Guide
HTML and CSS Tutorials. And Stuff. http://htmldog.com/
HTML Dog is the web designer’s resource for everything HTML and CSS, the most common technologies used in making web pages. http://www.devx.com/projectcool/Article/19816 http://htmldog.com/
A Simple Guide to HTML – HTML Cheat Sheet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/757944/posts
Reference HTML Cheatsheet – WebMonkey http://htmlguide.drgrog.com/alpha/cheatindex.html
HTML Codes Cheat Sheet http://www.killersites.com/HTML_CODES/index.php
HTML Tags – a free online cheatsheet by VisiBone http://html-tags.info/#legend
Commonly used HTML elements and their corresponding codes http://cedesign.net/help2j.htm

image hosting

Related posts: Free Image Hosting Services

http://www.4freeimagehost.com/- upload all the images you would like. When you need to share images on Forums, your Blog, Ebay auctions, classifieds and even your family and friends.
http://www.freeimagehost.eu/- Upload a zip file containing the images. Do not create subfolders. The server will extract the images from the zip file. 100 images max per zip-file. 100mb upload limit.
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/- Filename extensions allowed: gif, jpg, bmp, png Filesize limit: 3,000KB. FreeImageHosting.net is mainly for people who don’t want to use their own bandwidth to share images.
http://www.freepichosting.com/- Unlimited uploads. Host images, videos, documents, and any other file
http://www.freepicturehosting.com/- Upload Unlimited Images. 100mb/month Bandwidth. Branding On Your Images.
http://www.imagecave.com/- Free accounts get enough storage for hundreds of images, and unlimited data transfer! Direct linking and remote loading is what we’re here for!
http://www.imageshack.us/ – You can upload as many files as you want but each image you upload must be less than 1.5 megabytes in size. If it is greater than that amount, your image will be optimized for internet use. Flash files will be rejected if they are over 1.5 mb. Video files must be less than 50MB and they will be automatically optimized.
http://www.imgplace.com/ – provides for basic uploading, flash uploading and zip uploading as well as a gallery option. Content types: “Adult content” or Family Safe”.
http://www.free-webhosts.com/image-hosting/PhotoBucket – free image hosting company for ebay, online auctions, classifieds, message boards, blogs, live journals, and online photo albums. Easily upload, categorize, add titles and delete images. Direct linking is allowed, and there are tutorials for directlinking images on eBay auctions, MySpace, and Xanga. You can upload up to 20 pictures at once and images larger than 1 MB are automatically scaled down.
http:/imagetitan. com – free hosting service for auctions, message boards, guestbooks and more. Hosted on high speed dedicated servers, we are the perfect solution for quick, easy, and reliable hosting. Upload all the pictures you want.
http://www.picshome.com/en/index.php – You can sign up for a free account choosing a username and password that you will use to upload images to your account. A valid email address is required when you join. maximum 300MB
http://www.pictiger.com/- upload images, create a thumbnail from it, resize the image or the thumbnail, create albums, post images to sites, forums, blogs or anywhere – hotlinking to thumbnails allowed.
http://www.screenshots.cc/ – applet upload, common upload and URL upload. Images can be made private and resizing is provided for.
http://www.theimagehosting.com/register.php – unlimited images – upload zip files.
http://www.webasyst.net/photos/ – free and paid accounts. Free accounts limit 50 images; 20 MB. Both Free and Paid accounts include all available features and functions, but Paid accounts have no limitations on the number of images
http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/- Download Webshots Desktop to upload multiple photos at a time and easily manage them – store and share 1000 photos + 100 more for each month of membership.

images (free sources)

http://aarinfreephoto.com/
We offer free images for personal and commercial use. You may download and use our images on your web site, print ads, brochures or any end products. To maintain your right to use these images, you will need to display the copyright information “© AarinFreePhoto.com” or “images courtesy of AarinFreePhoto.com.” wherever any of these free images are being used, regardless of medium. The copyright information will need to be legible. If these images are in use on a website, a link to our AarinFreePhoto.com is required. Please view our Terms of Use before downloading or using our images.
http://amazingtextures.com/textures/index.php
Welcome to our texture library, we have hundreds of free textures to download, high-resolution textures, images, backgrounds, wallpapers and texture maps. Check out our massive collection of Tiled Textures or see our users Top Textures.
http://www.amgmedia.com/freephotos/
Free Stock Photos for you to use… All these digital photos (taken with Nikon Coolpix) are 72dpi. Click on the thumbnails below to see the larger version for use on your website. You may use any of the royalty free photos shown at right as long as you give credit to the photographer: Ernest von Rosen, www.amgmedia.com
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/
The Image Gallery is provided as a complimentary source of high quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.
http://www.1stopstock.com Offers 1 million+ Stock Photography Photos, royalty free photos and images searchable under one site.
http://www.aframephoto.com – picture library specializing in surf and beach images, including waves, surfers, landscapes, flowers, portraits, sunsets, kids and beach culture.
http://www.agefotostock.com – Rights Managed and Royalty Free Images
http://www.alamy.com – Hard to Find Rights Protected and Royalty Free Images from all the main photo stocks.
http://www.artbitz.com – The Designer’s Stock Resource! We offer affordable royalty free stock design elements.
http://artlex.com – ArtLex is a dictionary of art for everyone interested in art production and its history. You will find articles on thousands of art terms, along with terrific images, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and links to other resources on the Web.
http://www.barrysfreephotos.com/
http://www.bigfoto.com/
http://www.bigstockphoto.com – Beautiful, royalty-free, low-cost stock photography for web developers and graphic design professionals. Use our photos on your websites, templates, marketing, sales or practically any use at all.
http://www.brandx.com – Unique Royalty Free Images – site has a nice look, a little hard to search.
http://www.burningwell.org/
http://www.callofthewildphoto.com – Private collection of high quality Royalty Free Stock Photography available in both high-resolution for print and low resolution for web based projects. Specializing in Oregon, outdoor, scenics, and floral photography. Commercial license high resolution images to 2400 x 3600 pixels. Secure online ordering with electronic delivery.
http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/
http://www.comstock.com/web/default.asp – Specialize in commercial stock imagery, especially model released “Lifestyle” and “Business” imagery. Comstock sells both Royalty-Free and Rights Protected images.
http://www.corbis.com – Enjoy over 1.6 million images online – the largest digital collection on the web. Enjoy royalty-free or traditional licensing of images.
http://www.creativity103.com – This site currently contains almost 200mb of free abstract digital photos and backgounds ready for you to download.
http://www.creatas.com – Creatas provides high-quality, royalty-free stock photography, illustration, and footage, as well as design tools such as Pantone, Linotype, and FontHaus. Its vast library brings together the world’s most highly recognized and highly-regarded brands, providing innovative, compelling, and thought-provoking images.
http://www.cyberphoto.com – Supplier of professional hi-resolution and super hi-resolution royalty-free digital images.
http://www.deadlinepictures.com/deadlinepictures.php – Deadline Pictures is a photostock agency, launched on March 2000, with the purpose of making alternative photography available for designers. As a new-born company we only use the ideal medium for distributing pictures: the Internet. Fast, cheap, 24 hours a day.
http://dexhaus.com – A supplier of hard to get, experimental, world-class photography.
http://www.digitalvision.com – Digital Vision is a leading producer of digital content for the creative community. Our goal is to help creative people create more easily.
http://www.dreamstime.com – Photographers and designers using film or digital equipment are enabled now to sell their portfolio of images online. Dreamstime.com aims on creating a powerful photo community, providing royalty free images and royalty free stock imagery or photos to DTP designers, web designers, photos for printing brochures, advertisements, magazine or newspaper ads, and electronic use on websites or Flash interactive animations.
http://www.epictura.com – Online searchable library of royalty free images. Collections of CDRoms and instant download of high resolution, ready to use photographs and illustrations.
http://www.firstlight.ca – Rights-managed and royalty-free, plus a whole extravaganza of other exotic treats.
http://www.fotogenika.net/modifica/igallery.asp
http://www.fotosearch.com – Search royalty free and rights managed stock photos, medical clipart pictures, royalty-free illustrations, royalty-free motion stock video clips, royalty free vector maps, and background clip art imagery.
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
http://www.freefoto.com – FreeFoto.com is the largest collections of free photographs for non-commercial use on the Internet.
http://www.freeimages.co.uk – FREE digital photographic images for web, dtp, and design. Royalty and cost free stock photos.
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net – Free pictures for websites, newsletters and documents etc. For commercial and non-commercial use.
http://www.free-photographs.net/
http://www.freephotostation.com/
http://freestockphotos.com/
http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/
http://www.gettyimages.com – The leading provider of imagery and film to communications professionals around the world.
http://www.graphicobsession.com – 500 000 royalty free images online, 30 000 character fonts, more than 7000 video
http://www.highwayimages.com – Highway Images offers 50,000 35mm stock photos depicting interstate transport and specialized hauling by Class 8 tractor-trailers in settings throughout the U.S.
http://www.image100.com – premier royalty free stock photography and images for the advertising, design, corporate, publishing and new media professional.
http://www.imagesource.com – A market leader in Royalty Free photography. Image Source offers instant access to thousands of contemporary images ready for creative use.
http://www.imagestate.com – Welcome to the new imagestate.com – today’s imagestate was once a number of image libraries such as Adventure Photo, Pictor, John Foxx, Images Colour Library and Zephyr.
http://www.indexstock.com – An expanded collection now includes Advertising and Commercial color, Editorial color and B&W, Vintage B&W, Retro color.
http://www.imagestate.com – Known for its original, stylish imagery and the professional way the company always incorporates the latest digital techniques into their products, John Fox Images has more than 15,000 professional royalty-free stock images.
http://www.im-visions.com – Buy unique high resolution images at affordable prices.
http://www.istockphoto.com – iStockphoto members buy/sell high resolution, royalty-free stock photos
http://www.itstockfree.com – Check out the exciting new royalty-free images from IT Stock Free, one of the world’s prominent independent picture producers.
http://www.liquidlibrary.com – LiquidLibrary is the refreshingly different design resource that includes unlimited access to over 75,000 high-quality, royalty -free photos and illustration, and a Media Mix consisting of lively, energetic music tracks, attention-getting motion, and professional PowerPoint templates.
http://www.alunablue.com – Stock Footage and Image Library. A Luna Blue provides highly creative royalty-free stock footage and photography. Digitally produced for broadcast, desktop video and all new media. Available on QuickTime CD, DVD and file download.
http://www.mediabakery.com – Media Bakery provides royalty free content and media licensing services to businesses around the globe. Combining an aggregated collection of Royalty Free publishers, broadband and internet technologies with one of the world\’s largest royalty free publisher sources.
http://www.morguefile.com – A place to keep post production materials for use of reference, an inactive job file. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.
http://www.ozimages.com.au – OzImages offers a comprehensive range of stock photography and photographer research services to genuine photo buyers.
http://www.photoessentials.com – Select from thousands of high-resolution royalty-free images, including premium quality model-release assignment photography.
http://www.photosphere.com – PhotoSphere Images provides royalty free digital stock photos on cd and online downloading
http://www.photospin.com – Subscription based royalty-free photos, illustrations, fonts, film and sound. Pay annually and get unlimited downloads of over 100,000 available images.
http://www.picturequest.com – Filled with digital content including stock photography, pictures, illustrations, maps, graphics, royalty free photography & other design images, PictureQuest stock photography agency has a photo research service to find digital photos & specific graphics.
http://www.picturestation.net – We both love the web, photography, and design. One day we just figured that web pictures are numberless, but rarely reasonably priced. Hence we started Picturestation.
http://www.rubberball.com – digital stock photography of people and lifestyles on CD-ROM.
http://www.shutterstock.com : Royalty free stock photography
http://www.stockvault.net/
http://www.sxc.hu/index.phtml
http://www.thinkstock.com – Thinkstock is a vibrant community of stock web sites. Each site in this community is dedicated to providing exceptional imagery within specific content niches.
http://www.timetunnel.com – Vintage illustration and stock photography for the graphics professional; Specializing in fun, royalty-free collections of pinup art, pulp and comic book cover art, vintage labels and textiles.
http://www.ukstockimages.com – UK based royalty free stock library. All UK models in UK locations. All images exclusive to the site and available for online purchase.
http://wylio.com – all-in-one picture finder and re-sizer made specifically for bloggers. When you use Wylio, you’re searching through the millions upon millions of Flickr photos that have been designated as Creative Commons works by their owners/uploaders. We don’t guarantee the validity of the licenses since we can’t control what people decide to upload to Flickr. So, be pragmatic when you decide what photo to use.
http://yotophoto.com/

image optimization and resizing (free programs)

Irfanview www.irfanview.com/
Picasa www.picasa.com/
GIMP www.gimp.org/
Photofiltre www.photofiltre.com/
FastStone www.faststone.org/
Pixia www.ne.jp/asahi/mighty/knight/
Pixresizer www.snapfiles.com/get/pixresizer.html/
GIFWorks! Free Online GIF eTools http://www.gifworks.com/
Image Optimizer http://www.imageoptimizer.net/
iResize.com http://www.iresize.com/
myImager.com – Online Image Editor http://www.myimager.com/
Online Image Optimizer- GIF, JPG, and PNG http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/
Pic Resize http://www.picresize.com/
Reduce load time by optimizing graphics with GifBot http://www.netmechanic.com/GIFBot/optimize-graphic.htm
Shrink Pictures http://www.shrinkpictures.com/
Smush.it™ – http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/smushit/
Web Resizer http://webresizer.com/resizer/
Fotosizer http://www.fotosizer.com/Default.aspx
pngcrush http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/gif2png/webinterface/pngcrush.cgi
pngout for windows http://www.ardfry.com/pngoutwin/

image watermarking (free online image watermarking services)

Ping services

blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
1470.net/api/ping
api.feedster.com/ping
api.moreover.com/RPC2
api.moreover.com/ping
api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
bblog.com/ping.php
bitacoras.net/ping
blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
blogmatcher.com/u.php
bulkfeeds.net/rpc
coreblog.org/ping/
mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
ping.amagle.com/
ping.bitacoras.com
ping.blo.gs/
ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
ping.feedburner.com
ping.myblog.jp
ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
ping.weblogs.se/
pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
rpc.newsgator.com/
rpc.pingomatic.com
rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
topicexchange.com/RPC2
trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
www.blogoole.com/ping/
www.blogoon.net/ping/
www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
www.blogsnow.com/ping
www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
www.popdex.com/addsite.php
www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
www.weblogues.com/RPC/
xmlrpc.blogg.de
xping.pubsub.com/ping/

SEO Forums

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/
http://forums.seochat.com
http://www.seroundtable.com/forums.html
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/
http://www.searchguild.com/
www.v7n.com/forums
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
http://www.seo-guy.com/forum/
http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/forums/

stats counters and programs

http://www.google.com/analytics/
http://www.sitemeter.com/
http://www.statcounter.com/
http://firestats.cc/
http://www.woopra.com/
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
http://www.shinystat.com/en
http://activemeter.com/
http://www.expertcounter.com/
http://tracker.icerocket.com/
http://www.clustrmaps.com/index.htm
http://feedjit.com/joinjs/
http://whos.amung.us/

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