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Web Design Resources

1. Do you recommend any blog scripts? #

   Laughing Squid highly recommends WordPress. We think it’s the best blog script out there. For more info on WordPress, please see our WordPress FAQ.

   We also support other popular blog scripts including Movable Type.

2. Do you recommend any image gallery scripts? #

   Many of our customers use Coppermine Photo Gallery and Gallery and singapore, all open source, image gallery scripts that use PHP and MySQL.

   Another option would be to create your photo galleries using an online photo gallery service like Flickr and then link to the galleries from your website. Flickr supports many blog scripts and includes numerous features such as a slide show option.

3. Can you recommend an easy way to setup a feedback/contact form? #

   Check out Wufoo, a free HTML form builder.

4. Do you recommend any discussion board or forum scripts? #

   A couple of open source forum script sthat some of our customers are bbPress and Vanilla.

5. Do you recommend any shopping cart scripts? #

   We don’t have any specific recommendations, but here are some PHP e-commerce and shopping cart scripts.

6. Do you recommend any content management system (CMS) scripts? #

   An open source, CMS script that some of our customers use is Drupal. This script uses PHP and MySQL.

7. Do you recommend any Wiki programs? #

   MediaWiki is a free Wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It’s the wiki script that is used by Wikipedia.

8. Do you recommend any online calendar services? #

   Trumba

   Google Calendar

   Yahoo! Calendar

9. Do you recommend any traffic analysis services? #

   Google Analytics (WordPress plugin for Google Analytics)

   Clicky

   SiteMeter

   Mint (blogs only)

   FeedBurner (RSS/Atom feeds)

10. Do you recommend any website or blog advertising services? #

    Google AdSense

    AdBrite

11. Do you recommend any general web design resources? #

    Webmasters Reference Library (WebReference.com)

    The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Web Technology (WDVL)

    SitePoint

12. Do you recommend any HTML resources? #

    HTML Home Page (W3C)

    XHTML Tutorial (W3Schools)

    HTML for Beginners (WebDeveloper.com)

    The Bare Bone’s Guide to HTML

13. Do you recommend any HTML editors or web design programs? #

    Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 (Mac/Windows)

    Adobe GoLive (Mac/Windows)

    Bare Bones Software BBEdit (Mac)

14. Do you know of any resources for creating and using a favicon? #

    favicons are those little graphics that show up in a browser’s url window, bookmarks, newsreaders, etc. For example, here’s the one we use for all of our Laughing Squid websites. You can easily create one for your website using an existing graphic. Here are a few favicon resources that will walk you through the process:

    FavIcon from Pics (HTML – Kit)

    How To Create a Favicon (Windows) (Photo Matt)

15. Do you recommend any color charts? #

    Super Color Chart (ZSPC)

    RGB-2-Hex Tool (Univox)

16. Do you recommend any JavaScript resources? #

    Authoring JavaScript (WDVL)

    JavaScript Source

17. Do you recommend any Java resources? #

    Gamelan

18. Do you recommend any search engine optimization (SEO) resources? #

    Please see the search engine entry in our general FAQ.

19. Do you recommend any website testing resources? #

    Pingdom

    LinkAlarm

    NetMechanic

20. Do you recommend any mailing list resources? #

    Please see our mailing list FAQ entry for more info.

21. Do you recommend any internet terminology resources? #

    Wikipedia

    whatis.com

    Webopedia (internet.com)

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