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This page is created just for you so you can easily browse most popular posts on this blog by category and enjoy my collection of resources. I will be updating this page often to ensure the information presented here is up-to-date and accurate. I recommend bookmarking this page for your later reference. You may also subscribe to the newsletter<\/a> if you wish to be notified when this page is updated. <\/p>\n Domain Name<\/strong> - GoDaddy<\/a> Web Hosting<\/strong> - Blue Host<\/a> & Dreamhost<\/a> Blogging CMS<\/strong> - WordPress<\/a> Email Marketing (Newsletter)<\/strong> - iContact<\/a> Web analytics<\/strong> - Google Analytics<\/a> WordPress Themes<\/strong> - ThemeForest<\/a> Website templates<\/strong> - Template Monster<\/a> Online Storage<\/strong> - DropBox<\/a> Project Management<\/strong> - Basecamp<\/a> Invoicing<\/strong> - Freshbooks<\/a> Feeds Reader<\/strong> - Google Reader<\/a> Business Cards<\/strong> - Minted<\/a> Anti Virus<\/strong> - ZoneAlarm Security Suite<\/a> FTP<\/strong> - FileZilla<\/a> & Net2FTP<\/a> Twitter & Facebook<\/strong> - TweetDeck<\/a> Photo Editing<\/strong> - GIMP<\/a> How to code an HTML Email Newsletter<\/a> How to use hi-res images in web apps for iPhone4<\/a> Recommended Web Hosting for WordPress 3.0<\/a> Align an image in center and middle using CSS<\/a> Read more using jQuery live event<\/a> Hello developers, designers and web professionals, This page is created just for you so you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1688","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nResources<\/h2>\n
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\nGoDaddy is the World's Largest Domain Registrar providing Domains, SSL certificates. All my .com, .net and .info domains are registered at GoDaddy and I have been with them for almost 10 years. <\/p>\n
\nI use Blue Host and Dreamhost for my websites. Blue Host<\/a> is perfect for normal users and Dreamhost<\/a> is better suited for more advanced users. <\/p>\n
\nWordPress is a content management system that is both free and priceless at the same time. It has a huge community and the core system is developed by hundreds of community volunteers, making it a very robust and powerful content management system. It is one of the most popular blogging software used today. Web Development Blog is built on WordPress. <\/p>\n
\niContact is the leading email marketing service provider with over 70,000 clients and 700,000 users. With iContact, anyone can easily create, send, and track email newsletters, autoresponders, surveys and RSS feeds. You can try iContact FREE for 30 days before upgrading to a paid subscription.<\/p>\n
\nI use Google Analytics to track statistics to my websites. Google analytics is free, enterprise-class, and it is very easy to set up. Some of things I look at from my Google Analytics reports are Browser Usage, Screen resolution, Referring sites, Total visits, and most viewed pages. <\/p>\n
\nThemeForest is a Premimum theme provider and they are very famous for WordPress Themes. I have written a review on ThemeForest vs WooThemes<\/a> if you would like to find out more about their WordPress themes. ThemeForest provides more than just premium WordPress Themes; they have email newsletter templates, psd layouts, web 2.0 graphics and many more. While I use website template designs from Template Monster<\/a>, I go to ThemeForest for WordPress Themes, newsletter templates and web 2.0 graphics. <\/p>\n
\nTemplate Monster offers premium website templates, flash templates, web templates and other web design products for immediate download. They are one of the oldest template seller, have a wide range of categories (Health, Beauty, Corporate, Food & Drinks, Retail, etc) and unique designs. I have been using them for more than five years and no other template provider comes close to Template Monster when it comes to website templates. <\/p>\nBusiness Tools & Software<\/h3>\n
\nDropBox is free storage service that lets you upload and share photos, videos, files and documents. You can get 2GB of Dropbox for free, and with subscriptions up to 100GB available. The best thing is you can access your files from dropbox even when you are offline if you have the dropbox software installed on your computer. <\/p>\n
\nBasecamp is the top choice for entrepreneurs, freelancers, small businesses, and groups inside big organizations. Unlike other project management software that concentrates on charts and numbers, Basecamp tackles project management from an entirely different angle: A focus on communication and collaboration. 30-day Free Trial is available on all accounts. There is also a free plan that lets you create 1 project, 2 Writeboards and comes with 10 MB file storage. <\/p>\n
\nFreshBooks is a web based invoicing software ideal for freelancers, small businesses, agencies, and professionals. Not only is Freshbooks good for sending invoices, it is also an excellent tool to track your time spent on projects. For most freelancers and small agencies, the Evergreen package is the best choice as it allows unlimited number of clients and unlimited of invoices to be sent. <\/p>\n
\nEver since I started using Google Reader, I have never looked back. It saves me a lot of time and bandwidth download. It also makes me feel organised because all my favourite reads can be accessed from one single place at any time. <\/p>\n
\nMinted is a new online store offering fresh, modern and affordable custom business cards for freelancers, and business professionals. The business cards are printed on luxurious signature paper and you can choose from many unique designs and customise with your own logo and color scheme.<\/p>\n
\nZoneAlarm Security Suite is a powerful Antivirus engine that blocks online threats and hackers, detects viruses during installation, monitors suspicious behavior and cleans and removes spyware and virues. Anti virus is a must-have software in any PC and ZoneAlarm provides complete PC and Home Internet Security solutions.<\/p>\n
\nFileZilla is an excellent FTP program, and it's my absolute favourite. But sometimes when I need to upload\/download files from a computer that doesn't have FileZilla , I use Net2FTP. Net2FTP is a web based FTP tool with an easy-to-use user interface and it allows you to connect to your FTP server via SSL or a normal connection. <\/p>\n
\nBecause I have more than one twitter account (a personal one<\/a>, and some business ones), TweetDeck is really useful for me. I can tweet to multiple twitter accounts at once and read timelines from more than one accounts without logging in and logging out.<\/p>\n
\nGIMP is an open source photo editing software that lets you open many types of image files including photoshop (psd) files. It is lightweight and handy for photo retouching, image composition, and cutting up psd layouts. GIMP can be installed on Mac, Windows, and Linux operating systems. <\/p>\nPopular Posts<\/h2>\n
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