Web Tracking Tools

www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/ Tracking software for Web sites	http://speedtest.net/ Checks the speed of your internet link
www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ Webalizer - free utility	www.linkpopularity.com LinkPopularity:  Tells you how many sites link to yours.
http://awsd.com/scripts/index.shtml Webscripts and logging software.	www.webtrends.com Management and traffic reporting for Internet and Intranet servers
www.cookiecentral.com Cookie Central.  All about Cookies.	www.netwhistle.com Checks the up time of your Web site.
www.alexa.com/ Web site metrics	www.quarkbase.com/ Quarkbase
www.webmetrics.com/ Web site monitoring/metrics

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Internet Traffic Report Sites
Use these sites to find out how busy the Internet is and how far away the site you are contacting is.

www.internettrafficreport.com The Internet Traffic Report	http://isc.sans.org/ Internet Storm Center
www.akamai.com/en/html/industry/net_usage_index.html Net news traffic report

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Web Promotion/Site Submission

www.linkingmatters.com Step-by-step site linking for marketing	http://deadlock.com/promote Web Site Promotion.
http://www.marketleap.com/siteindex/ Search engine saturation tool	www.minonline.com Min Online.  Tracks site launches
http://jimworld.com/ Virtual Promote.  Web site promotion	www.primitivezone.com/primitive-word-counter.html Word counter for search engine optimization

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Web Building Tools

www.klever.net/kin/dipstick.html Dipstick.  A free utility that tells you the closest server from which to download a file.	www.webmonkey.com/tutorials/ Tutorial on web page building
www.register.com URL registration.	www.usernomics.com Usernomics.  A site focusing on ergonomics
www.jumpchart.com/ Online web design and mockup	http://reallybig.com The complete resource for Web builders
www.linkalarm.com/ Web site link checking	www.useit.com Site provides design advice to Web builders
http://infosthetics.com/ Discussions of data visualization	www.netmechanic.com/ Web Site Tuning Tools
www.webdeveloper.com Web Developer e-zine	www.gamelan.com Java applications
www.december.com/html The HTML Station	www.htmlhelp.com HTML help
http://xml.org Extensible markup language	www.hwg.org/resources The HTML Writer's guild
http://javascript.internet.com/ The Javascript Source	http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html?tag=cnetfd.ld CNET bandwidth meter speed test
www.sitemapspal.com/ Automatic site mapping	www.cgi-resources.com The CGI Resource Index
www.bignosebird.com Free site filled with web building advice and tools	http://echoecho.com Web tutorials, resources, tools and documentation.  Also, Web news and statistics.
http://feedvalidator.org/ Validates RSS and atom feeds	www.streamingmediaworld.com Tools, advice to produce streaming media
www.speedguide.net Information about DSL	http://kompozer.net/ Web authoring
www.buttonator.com/ Makes online buttons	www.hostcompare.com Check out ISPs
www.thearling.com/ Data Mining tools and explanations	www.softwareqatest.com/ Software QA Test Resource Center.  Links to test tools.
www.webdeveloper.earthweb.com Web developer tools	www.webhostingratings.com/ Web hosting ratings
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home Data visualization services	www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ Collection on online visualizations of data
www.seamonkey-project.org/ Web authoring tools	http://webhostinggeeks.com/ Reviews of web hosting companies
www.webdesign.org/ Web design help	http://home.techsoup.org/ Web help for nonprofits
www.weebly.com/ Web site design	www.grassroots.org/ Free web services for nonprofits

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Web Style Guides

http://webreference.com/dev/hotstyle/ HotWired Style	www.webword.com Usability and human factors
www.gooddocuments.com Good Documents.  Focuses on good design and writing	www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/ A visual vocabulary for design and interaction
www.washington.edu/computing/training/560/zz-tufte.html Web design principles based on Edward Tufte	http://webreference.com/greatsite.html What makes a great Web site?
www.webpagesthatsuck.com Web Pages that suck.  Its motto is "learn good design by looking at bad design."	http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/ Kairos.  A journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments
www.worstoftheweb.com/ Worst of the Web.  A funky, sometimes funny site that shows just how bad web sites can be.	www.usableweb.com Keith Instone's Usable Web.  Links to research and usability resources.
www.useit.com Jakob Nielsen's Alert Box newsletter on web usability	www.ucc.ie/hfrg/resources/qfaq1.html A list of tips on using questionnaires in usability studies
http://smallinitiatives.com/ Internet design journal	www.art-teez.org/pro.htm Basic Web site design and promotion

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