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This Week’s Favourites–15th October 2009

Posted by: Cat M. // // October 15th, 2009 // Web Development

This week’s favourites include resources to help you run your online business, create screencasts, make favicons, convert files, and build HTML forms!

If you run an online business, then you need to visit Practical Ecommerce, a site entirely devoted to providing down-to-earth information for online merchants.  Practical Ecommerce offers tons of useful articles and helpful advice designed to help small business owners succeed online.  They also offer free webinars on various topics, such as online merchandising, email marketing, SEO strategies, and much more.

ScreenToaster is a free online screen recorder that works right in your browser, meaning you don’t have to download any software!  You can use ScreenToaster to create tutorials, demonstrations, and screencasts (you can even add subtitles or audio), and then email the video or embed it in your website or blog.  ScreenToaster is compatible with Linux, Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista, and it works best in Safari, Firefox 2 +, Internet Explorer 7 +, Chrome, and Opera 9.

FavIcon Generator is a free tool for making favicons (favorites icons), the small image displayed in your browser’s address bar and bookmarks for a particular website.  The FavIcon Generator is super easy to use, and they even provide instructions on how to add your new favicon to your site.  It supports gif, jpg, png, and bmp images, butyour image cannot be larger than 150 kB.

With Zamzar, you can convert files for free without having to download any software!  Zamzar supports tons of different formats for video, document, image, audio, CAD, and compressed files.  Zamzar’s free service will allow you to upload a maximum of 100MB of data split among up to 5 different files and convert 5 files in one session, but a paid account will give you an upload limit of 1GB and allow you to convert up to 20 files at one time.

If you want an easy and inexpensive way of creating forms for your website, then you should check out Appnitro pForm, a free HTML form builder.  pForm allows you to create custom forms in a matter of minutes–just choose a colour scheme, add fields, edit the labels and choices, preview your form, and then download the HTML to paste into your site.

Links from out Favourite Blogs and Web Sites

Smashing Magazine>15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design
Fuel Your Creativity>6 Characteristics of Great Logo Design
Get Elastic>9 Really Old School Ecommerce Designs
Six Revisions>Performance Comparison of Major Web Browsers
1st Web Designer>10 Important Tips to Optimize WordPress for Search Engines

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