Tools

Tools

A variety of site tools that are not strictly content but can enhance any website.

  • Soundrangers

    Wow — What an excellent website. Although this site is dedicated to the sale of all sorts of royalty free sound effects they do offer a weekly free sound for your use. Well worth checking out to ss if you can use it on your website or not.

    • Frequency: Weekly
    • Cost: Free
    • Revenue Bearing: No
    • Country Bias: Applicable
    • Links: Website
  • Hot Scripts

    An excellent site to find a script to enhance and manage your website. Although I don’t quite feel the same way as HairyNose does in the forums about this site, thanks for giving us the Heads Up on it anyway !

    • Cost: Free
    • Revenue Bearing: No
    • Country Bias: Not Applicable
    • Links: Website
  • CQ Counter

    Add a simple counter to your website that also tracks other statistics such as number of hits, where your traffic comes from etc.

    • Cost: Free
    • Revenue Bearing: No
    • Country Bias: Not Applicable
    • Links: Website
  • The applet depot

    A small collection of free Java applets you can add to your own website.

    • Cost: Free
    • Revenue Bearing: No
    • Country Bias: Not Applicable
    • Links: Website
  • Sparklit

    Nice quality Polls (12 different types, with graphs), Surveys, Guestbooks, Counters, Mail forms and an Adrotator. All run off site and not on your server so you just drop in a little html into your page.

    • Cost: Free
    • Revenue Bearing: No
    • Country Bias: International
    • Links: Website
  • Free Find

    A search engine for your website, hosted on their servers. They index your content and it appears seamless to the user.

    • Cost: Free
    • Revenue Bearing: No
    • Country Bias: International
    • Links: Website
  • EZ-Freebies

    This website contains a searchable index of various free offers and items from all different categories all over the internet. They are offering a syndicated list of their latest additions to the site for you to add to your website. If you have traffic in excess of 2000 unique visitors per day they will create a custom list for you.

    • Frequency: Daily
    • Cost: Free
    • Revenue Bearing: No
    • Country Bias: International
    • Links: Website
  • PayPal

    Accept payments for your goods and services from your visitors and sell individual items on your website — by creating a customized payment button your buyers will be able to make their purchases quickly and securely on PayPal hosted payment pages. They accept international signups now and you can bill individuals or groups by email — even if they don’t have a PayPal account!

    • Cost: Free
    • Revenue Bearing: Yes
    • Country Bias: International
    • Links: Website
  • Auctiva

    It took me quite a while to actually figure out what this site did. From the descriptions on their site it wasn’t quite clear what the service was. Anyway, I persisted and I beleive this is a great tool for your site actually. If you have listings on eBay, Amazon etc. Auctiva will scan for your listings and present them in a branded page on thier site. Quite a handy tool to drive traffic to your listings !

    • Cost: Free
    • Revenue Bearing: No
    • Country Bias: USA
    • Links: Website
  • eXtreme Tracking

    An excellent counter and statistics tool. It gives excellent statistics and tracking for the page it is on, such as number of hits per day, geographical tracking of your visitors, what sort of browsers, operating system, search engine keywords used to locate the page etc. Also it is fairly non-obtrusive, leaving a small graphic of a globe surrounded by lightning on the page.The only drawback I could see is that it only tracks a single page for the domain.

    • Cost: Free
    • Revenue Bearing: No
    • Country Bias: International
    • Links: Website
  • Lycos HtmlGear

    Add your own polls, guestbook, links manager and rotating text phrases to your site.

    • Cost: Free
    • Revenue Bearing: No
    • Country Bias: International
    • Links: Website