free tools for your website AND about a great blog design - article reviews

Someone actually put that effort in to compiling 99 Plus Free Tools For Your Website - thanks to wildlysuccessfulmarketing - This list of 100 free tools to track everything on your Web site will get you though until you can get an IT guy on the phone.

• Web Site Statistics and Counters(Ritecounter, GoStatis, Who’s.Amung.Us, eWebCounter, etc)
• Surveys, Blog Tools and Web Site Communication Gadgets(Feedburner, Woopra, Enquisite, 4Q, etc)
• Technical Web Site Stuff for Smart People(Web Page Analyzer, Netcraft, DNS Stuff, JAWStats, etc)
• Analytic Programs for Web Sites(blvd, Google Analytics, Slimstat, etc)
• Help for the SEO Impaired(Majestic SEO, Google Trends, Search Engine Position, Spider View, etc)

Continue to read this article - 99 Plus Free Tools For Your Website - online.

On the other hand, there are some characteristics of a great blog design - 10 Important Traits of a Great Blog Design(ten essential characteristics of a solid weblog design).

1. Good readability
2. A strong focus on the content
3. High findability
4. A great comment section design
5. Tight integration with social networking/media sites
6. A memorable header
7. The use of effective visuals in the content
8. A semantic HTML structure
9. Logically and coherently organized content
10. A good headline/post title design
    

Read more about each of these traits online - 10 Important Traits of a Great Blog Design.

List of Tools for Testing your Website - article reviews

For webmasters or any other person who either wants to check his own website or any website, the people at GraphicRating have posted a list of 15 Tools for Testing your Website including validators, accessability, Cross Browser Testing, Website Performance Testing, etc. Excellent collection of links

15 Tools for Testing your Website

Validators

1. HTML Validator

2. CSS Validator

3. Links Validator

4. RSS Feed Validator

5. Free Site Validator

Accessibility

6. WebAIM Wave

7. Functional Accessibility Evaluator

8. Hera

Cross Browser Testing

9. Xenocode

10. Browsershots

11. IeTester

12. Microsoft Expression SuperPreview

Website Performance Testing

13. Pingdom Tools

14. YSlow

15. Web Page Analyzer

Read more about these solutions(each one has a little explanatory paragraph attached) at the 15 Tools for Testing your Website.