When you start a website, no matter if you have chosen a top business hosting package or a cheap website hosting package, you will find various website analysis tools in your web hosting admin panel. Website analysis tools, such as Awstats, are typically included in both business hosting and cheap website hosting packages and these tools are indeed good. However, if you want options when it comes to website analytics tools, here are some suggestions.

JAWStats

If you like Awstats, you will certainly appreciate JAWStats as well. JAWStats runs in conjunction with Awstats and produces more graphics than Awstats.

goingup!

Goingup! is one more tool website stats freaks will love because it offers many kinds of statistical data, which is represented in visually attractive ways. A substantial part of the functionality of goingup! is SEO-related, so if you don’t use any other SEO-tools, this tool will do this job as well.

Clicky

Clicky also made the list of useful website analysis tools not only because it has tons of great features but also because it is one of the few website analysis tools you can use from your iPhone.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is rightfully considered one of the best because it is really a comprehensive tool, which gives you tons of useful data about your site.

W3Counter

W3Counter is a free, hosted website analytics solution for answering the key questions about your website: who’s your audience, how they find your site, and what interests them.

Woopra

Woopra is another excellent website analysis package. It has many, many features and there are webmasters, who name Woopra, not Google Analytics, the most comprehensive website analysis tool.

W3Perl

W3Perl can use server’s logfiles and/or be used as a page tagging tool. The perl scripts analyze logfiles and produce HTML/PDF reports. It can be run from the command line or from the web interface.

Piwik

Piwik has all the features you can expect from analysis application. Its main advantage is that its features come in the form of plugins, which means you can choose which features to get and which to skip.

TraceWatch

TraceWatch lets you keep track of the visitors to your website in real time with detailed statistics and deep analysis using an innovative user interface for FREE and helps you make your website more effective. It can be easily installed on any website supporting PHP and MySQL. You only need to upload some files to your server.

Snoop

Unlike almost all the other tools on the list, which are either used on the server of their developer, or have to be installed on your web host, Snoop is a desktop application. Snoop has a Windows and Mac version and after you install it, it runs in your tray and you get notified if an important event on your site occurs.

There are lots of web design tools available on internet, which will help you accomplish your tasks easily and quickly, and still more are coming. Every designer now has his/her own toolbox. I will try to make such toolbox for you too. I have collected 25 such tools, and if you know more feel free to add in the comments.

Ready to make your own toolbox?. Okay! Here is the list of 25 web design tools.

1. HTML Entity Character Lookup

This lookup allows you to quickly find the entity based on how it looks, e.g. like an < or the letter c.

HTML Entity Character Lookup

2. Blueprint CSS framework

It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing.

Blueprint CSS framework

3. Typetester

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier.

Compare Fonts For Web Design

4. Em Calculator

Em Calculator is a small JavaScript tool which helps making scalable and accessible CSS design.

Making Scalable and Accessible CSS Design

5. Web Developer Toolbar

Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

Web Developer

6. MeasureIt

Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

Draw Out A Ruler

7. ColorZilla

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.

Advanced Eyedropper and ColorPicker

8. Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

Firebug

9. Designers Toolbox

All kind of print and web documents sizes.

Designers Toolbox

10. What the Font?

Submit an image to WhatTheFont to find the closest matches in our database.

What the Font?

11. Easy Web Form Builder

FormSpring gives businesses and organizations an easy way to build any type of online form, integrate it with their website and begin collecting data.

Easy Web From Builder

12. Browser Shots

Test your site in different browsers.

Check Browser Compatibility

13. Icon Finder

An Icon search engine.

Icon Search Engine

14. Button Browser

Its a button gallery and button maker.

Button Gallery and Button Maker

15. Rounded Corner

This generates a basic box with rounded corners. It will create four image files and the necessary HTML and CSS code for you to put rounded corners around your content.

Generate Rounded Corners

16. BlogFlux Button Maker

You see those 80×15 buttons everywhere. Our Button Maker lets you make some yourself. Fiddling around with Photoshop or any other graphics editor can be a pain. Make 80×15 or 88×13 buttons with a few clicks.

Button Maker

17. Vecteezy

Get free vector graphics.

Get Free Icons

18. Background Image Maker

Nice application to create background images.

Background Image Maker

19. Photoshop Brushes

Cool Photoshop brushes available for download.

Photoshop Brushes

20. Tartan Maker

Tartan Maker – the new trendsetting application for cool designers.

Tartan Maker

21. Color Schemer

ColorSchemer Studio 2 is a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals.

Color Scheme Gallery

22. Webs

Create your own website for FREE!

Web Site For Free

23. Sampa

Make a Free Website: Every day, thousands of people just like you use Sampa to create their own personal website, family website or baby website.

Make a Free Website

24. Format Pixel

Create your own online magazines, fanzines, brochures, catalogues, portfolios and more.

Online Publishing Tool

25. Weebox

Flash-based website creator.

Flash-Based Website Creator

Here i have compiled 5 web sites giving free web monitoring services. The first one is best as i am using it myself.

1. HyperSpin

Website monitoring, web server monitoring & server monitoring from worldwide locations. Receive downtime alerts via SMS & Email.

2. Mon.itor.us

Mon.itor.us is a free, yet powerful website, server and traffic monitoring service. It is a part of Monitis family, which provides professional, premium all-in-one monitoring service, integrating application performance with backend infrastructure with cloud monitoring.

3. Site 24×7

Site24×7 is the easier, faster and effective way to monitor the uptime & performance of your websites, online services & servers.

4. Internet Vista

InternetVista® is a monitoring infrastructure that watches over your website 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. If it is unavailable or malfunctioning, you are immediately notified by email and by SMS.

5. Server Mojo

There are those whose servers have downtime, and those who don’t know their servers have downtime. Either way, ServerMojo is exactly what you need.

iStockPhoto http://www.istockphoto.com/

ShutterStock http://www.shutterstock.com/

Fonts Identity http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

Banner Mall http://www.bannersmall.com/

Standard Banner Sizes http://www.designerstoolbox.com/designresources/banners//

Logo Mojo http://www.logomojo.com/

Logo Design Pros http://www.logodesignpros.com/

Design Guru Ryan http://www.designgururyan.com/

Trendy ECovers http://www.trendyecovers.com/

ECover Geeks http://www.ecoverbee.com/

Pulp Minisites http://www.minisitefrog.com/

Images are very important because they will make your web pages look nicer and more attractive. But, high quality and beautiful images always huge in file size. They make your pages load slower and consume more bandwidth. So we, the designers should optimize the images so that they are tiny in file size, but good in quality.

There are a lot of useful image optimization tools which can help us to optimize and reduce the file size of the images. These applications are available as both web-based and desktop-based applications.

Web based Image Optimization Tools

1. Smush.it

Smush.it is a popular image optimization tool that able to reduce the image file size but retain the quality, which is what we called “lossless” image optimization! You can run Smush.it through the web site (5 images at the same time) or through Firefox’s YSlow extension.

2. Dynamic Drive Online Image Optimizer

The Online Image Optimizer lets you optimize different image file formats such as GIF, JPG and PNG. You can either upload the image from your local machine or paste the URL of an image. This tool able to optimize and convert your image to different file format. The limitations of the Online Image Optimizer are 200KB per file, and only single file allowed per conversion.

3. PunyPNG

PunyPNG uses several optimization techniques. It will first check your images and then determine which technique is the best for that particular image. PunyPNG supports most of the popular image file formats and will automatically determine the converted image format for you.

4. SiteReportCard Image Optimization Tool

SiteReportCard Image Optimization Tool support GIF, JPG and PNG formats. You can either paste the image’s URL or upload it from your computer, and the tool will compress and optimize the image into various size and quality.

Desktop Image Optimization Tools

1. Shrink O’Matic

Shrink O’Matic is an AIR based application which is able to rize image on the fly by drag and drop images onto it. You can choose options like the output formats, output name or the output sizes.

2. OptiPNG

OptiPNG is an advanced PNG Optimizer, which will convert various file formats into optimized PNG. Windows users can integrate OptiPNG into the shell through the OptiPNG Windows Shell Integration project, or use OptiPNG as Paint.NET Plugin. While Mac OS X users can enjoy OptiPNG through the PNGCrusher application.

3. ImageOptim

ImageOptim is a front end tool for a set of image optimization tools. ImageOptim uses AdvPNG from AdvanceCOMP, OptiPNG, PngCrush, JpegOptim, jpegtran from libjpeg, Gifsicle and optionally PNGOUT.

4. PNGOUT

PNGOUT is a command line application which has a lot of different options. It supports PNG, GIF, BMP, JPG, TGA and PCX formats.

5. PNGGauntlet

PNGGauntlet is a .NET application that use the PNGOUT to optimize PNG files. It is able to convert JPG, GIF, TGA, PCX and BMP files to PNG. If you are not familiar with Windows Command line, you can try PNGGauntlet.

6. JPG & PNG Stripper

This application able to remove unnecessary metadata from the image files. It supports JPG, JFIF and PNG file formats.

7. TweakPNG

TweakPNG is a low level tool for optimizing PNG files. So, you need to familiar with PNG file format in order to use this tool. You can read more about PNG through this site.

8. RIOT – Radical Image Optimization Tool

RIOT able to read and optimize different image formats by reading the magic number. So, it is able to optimize images with uncommon extensions, which makes it unique compare with other image optimization tools. RIOT will display the original and output images side-by-side, so that you can compare the quality of them easily.

If you run or manage a website, you probably have experience with a web analytics package (like Google Analytics). These tools are great at answering the quantitative questions, the “what?” questions that every good webmaster should ask themselves. Questions like, “How many visitors did I have last month?”, “How many conversions?” and so on. However, they aren’t so great at giving you qualitative insight, the “why?” questions that are just as important. Questions like, “Why is my bounce rate so high?” and “Why are conversion rates so low?”.

The list below represents a compilation of some of the best qualitative tools out there, all of which you can start using to improve your website today. These tools will help you understand how users interact with your site and, most importantly, why they act the way that they do.

Qualitative Tools to Improve Your Website

This list is certainly not comprehensive, nor is it meant to be. However, it is meant to give you a sampling of the wide variety of qualitative tools available. So what are you waiting for? Pick one from the list that you haven’t used before and give it a try, I guarantee you’ll discover a new way to improve your site.

There are a lot of great Photoshop tutorials online that will teach you all kinds of techniques and tricks, but sometimes you may find that the basics of the tools are not always covered in the tutorials. If you’re looking to step up your Photoshop skills, understanding the basic tools and knowing how they work will make a huge difference in your work.

This post features more than 20 tutorials that will teach you essential techniques in Photoshop. In addition to tools, we’ll also showcase some tutorials that cover the Photoshop basics of layers and actions.

Pen Tool:

Photoshop’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide

Become a Master of the Pen Tool in Under 30 Minutes

Making Selections with the Pen Tool

All-In-One Pen Tool Resource

A Different Pen Tool Technique

Pen Tool Extraction

Selection Tools:

Selection Tools Photoshop Tutorial (part 2, and 3)

Unlock the Full Power of Basic Selections in Photoshop

Using Photoshop CS3’s Quick Selection Tool (Video)

A Comprehensive Introduction to Photoshop Selection Techniques

Brushes:

Define Brush Photoshop Tutorials

Tools & Tips: Photoshop Brushes

Painting Tools Photoshop Tutorial

Photoshop’s Painting Tools

Photoshop Brush Tutorial: Brushes Overview

General:

Photoshop’s Toolbox

Layers:

Photoshop Layers Tutorial: Life Without Layers

Saving, Loading and Reusing Layers in Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial: Understanding Layer Masks

Working with Layers in Photoshop

Actions:

Tools & Tips: Photoshop Actions

Automating Actions to Save Time

Lights! Camera! Photoshop Actions

so we all like convenience, right? Most of us aren’t sitting around wondering how we could make our lives just a little more complicated. Well, for us at cosmosblog, we’ve found 7 online tools that we use daily to help keep things, and by things I mean us, more organized, focused, and overall on track. To add a little more convenience to your daily dose of online activity simply gaze at our assembled structural saviors.

1. iGoogle

If you’re like us and use a ton of google services, then you may have already heard of igoogle. But if you haven’t, then perk up because life’s about to get simpler. igoogle arranges all of your google services plus more on your own personal homepage, built right into the google search engine.

2. Remember The Milk

The best todo list reminder site we’ve found. Remember the Milk allows the user to personalize multiple categories to completely customize the service to suit your various needs. Need to have reminders sent to you via email or your cell phone, done. We know. It’s awesome.

3. Evernote

Speaking of spoilage. How about Digital notebooks. How about as many Digital notebooks as you need or want? Coupled with both an online version as well as a downloadable program, both which can also easily be synchronized with each other, makes Evernote simply wonderful.

4. Gmail

First, let us offer a suggestion. Dump all of your external mail clients and start using Gmail for all of your email needs. It can smoothly access other online mail accounts such as hotmail and yahoo with a little help from Izymail. You can also use Gmail seamlessly with your own domain. Turn on keyboard shortcuts and make good use of tags as well as the archive feature. Download Gmail Notifier for Firefox and add the gmail widget to your igoogle page for access to your email where ever you have access to a computer.

5. Toggl

Time may be on our side, but it’s a pain to always keep track of. Though Toggl’s changing all of that. This is an extremely easy to use time management system. Allows you to deftly track the amount of time spent on various projects so you don’t have to. This will help you remove the guesswork from time tracking for your clients.

6. Pandora Radio

While working through your various projects, if you like to have music going in the background, as we do, then this is a website you need to know about. Just plug in your favorite artists, albums and songs and let Pandora build a radio station tailor made to suit your preferences. By matching other artists tonalities, styles, rhythmic structures, and much more to your favorites, Pandora will open your music world up wider than you ever imagined.

7. Rescue Time

Rescue time keeps track of everything you do on your computer so that you know exactly where your time is being spent. If you need to follow your productivity, or want to torture yourself, log on and let the trail be spun. Let’s face it, we can kid ourselves into believing we worked more hours on our computer than we gamed last week, but Rescue Time puts the undeniable truth out there.

So, what are some of the online tools that make your life easier?

Free Keyword Tracking/Research Tools

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Adcenter and MIVA offer their own free keyword tools which would be sufficient enough to generate a comprehensive list of keywords and also long tail.

Google Adwords Keyword Tool ：https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Overture (Yahoo ) Keyword Suggestion Tool ：http://inventory.overture.com

You would be lucky if it alive….

MIVA Keyword Generator： http://www.miva.com/uk/content/advertiser/landing1.asp

All of the above tools are also available in other languages.

I think you will like these seo tools!