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Inexpensive Usability Testing for Your Website

UserTesting.com provides usability testing for your site for $19/test. Their sample for Travelocity is interesting (not least because I really want to visit Waikiki). The tester talks their way through... 
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How to Pick an Online ECommerce Shopping Cart: 6 Carts Reviewed

A more recent version of this article has been posted at SitePoint, which also has links to related articles that might be of interest. The SitePoint article also has a review of Google Checkout. Selling... 
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The Perfect Host: Choosing a Web Hosting Service

Inc.com has a good article with questions to ask potential web hosting vendors. My experience is that you have to rely on knowledgeable people you trust, develop a list of questions, and when you move... 
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Web Hosting by FatCow

I could not resist mentioning FatCow, a webhosting service. I’m partial to cows for some reason (a long, non-sordid story). I have no idea how good they are but the disk space, throughput, and email... 
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GeoBytes IP Address Locator

This is a very cool location tool that provides not only the city and country for an IP address but also a map for US locations. To analyze the log files for this website, I currently use DNSStuff.com. An... 
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Convert your document into PDF or HTML for Free

goBCL.com is a free online document conversion service. It will convert your documents into either PDF HTML, then zip them up and email them back to you. No registration is required & there’s... 
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Neat Fonts (including Kon Tiki, Varsity, 50s, 60s)

Just got a slick catalog from Veer, a source of photos, flash movies, film footage, and fonts. The fonts, in particular, are worth a look: Jukebox (Baileywick Curly, Kon Tiki, Twister, Varsity, and Fenway... 
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Security and Web integration key to Longhorn OS

“Microsoft Corp. let loose early bits of Longhorn at its Professional Developer Conference (PDC) here and for the first time provided more extensive details around the key components of its next... 
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The Accidental Business Coach

MarketingProfs has an interesting article about SiteBuildIt software and how it can help with the business planning process (and building a website, submitting it to search engines, etc.). While I’m... 
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Time Equals Money: Review of Time Tracking Software

“Keeping track of how your designers spend their time is one of the keys to profitability because, in essence, time is all designers have to sell. Most firms use paper or digital time sheets that... 
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BrowserCam.com Screen Grabs: Any Browser, Any Platform

BrowserCam is an online web service that will create screen grabs of your web pages as they appear in a wide range of browsers and platforms. Great way to check your design appears okay no matter what... 
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PayPal Adds Merchant Accounts

“In a move that gives online shoppers an alternative payment option to credit cards and electronic checks, Mountain View, Calif.-based payment provider CyberSource Corp. Thursday said that it will... 
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csArticles Content Management System released

csArticles, a $199 CMS is now available, including a demo site. Includes image control (a critical requirement in these tools) plus user management, news syndication, templates, and other features. It... 
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In an About-Face, Siebel To Deliver Software on Net

“The new approach is designed to relieve companies of the large initial investment and lengthy installation process required to run their own CRM (for “customer relationship management”)... 
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Yahoo! Pushes Small-Biz Online Marketing

“Yahoo! Small Business customers can now create accounts for online marketing with a half dozen marking providers, with services ranging from product-search listings to pay-per-click listings to... 
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EcommStats Adds Click Paths

I see that EcommStats, an online website activity reporting tool, has added the ability to see paths visitors follow. That includes real time, as visitors visit. EcommStats uses a bit of javascript in... 
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Votations: Free polls and surveys and direct marketing tools

In doing an online survey for the Pew Internet Project, I decoded their URL and found Votations. They have a free (up to 15 questions) online survey capability like SurveyMonkey. Looks like a great alternative... 
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HitLinks & other hosted website statistics tracking and analysis tools

HitsLink is a real time, remotely hosted, service that provides website activity reporting for a monthly fee. Their demo has excellent detail. Peers include ClickTracks Hosted, IndexTools, EcommStats,... 
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The Content Mill – All in one website, email, hosting vendor

The Content Mill appears to be a good all-in-one vendor for brochure and ecommerce websites, including email newsletters. You pay a monthly fee instead of the usual lump sum fee paid to a designer or programmer. ... 
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Interland’s New Hosting and Marketing Services

Interland’s New Hosting and Marketing Services: “Interland, a provider of Web hosting and online services for small and medium businesses, this week launched Interland Business Solutions, a... 
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