These are a few of the sites and resources I’ve found useful in designing and maintaining my various websites:
Webhosting and Domain Registration:
- I use Hover.com to register my domain names. (You can almost always do a Google search for “hover coupon codes” and get a discount!)
- Jaguar PC has been my hosting company for several years and I’ve always been happy with their service.
Images:
- SXC.hu has lots of free stock photography.
- iStockPhoto has low-cost stock photography and illustrations.
- Flickr for finding great Creative Commons licensed photography and hosting my own photos.
- Pugly Pixel for great frames/embellishments to enhance photos.
(Check out her Blog Bling Kit!)
Social Networking:
- Twitterfeed publishes tweets automatically based on your RSS feed updates from your blog.
WordPress Plugins:
- Akismet (v. 2.5.6) by Automattic.
- And The Winner Is… (v. 1.1.1) by Spencer Sokol.
- Comment Reply Notification (v. 1.4) by denishua.
- Contact Form 7 (v. 3.1.2) by Takayuki Miyoshi.
- FD Feedburner Plugin (v. 1.45) by John Watson.
- Instagram for Wordpress (v. 0.3.5) by Eriks Remess.
- Jetpack by WordPress.com (v. 1.3) by Automattic.
- Lightbox 2 (v. 2.9.2) by Rupert Morris.
- OPML Importer (v. 0.2) by wordpressdotorg.
- Plugins list (v. 1.0) by Davide Benini.
- RSS Footer (v. 0.9.8) by Joost de Valk.
- StatPress (v. 1.4.1) by Daniele Lippi.
- Twitterlink Comments (v. 1.25) by Andy Bailey.
- Ultimate Google Analytics (v. 1.6.0) by Wilfred van der Deijl.
- Viper's Video Quicktags (v. 6.4.1) by Viper007Bond.
- WordPress Editorial Calendar (v. 1.9.1) by Colin Vernon, Justin Evans, Joachim Kudish, Mary Vogt, and Zack Grossbart.
- WordPress Importer (v. 0.6) by wordpressdotorg.
- WP-Paginate (v. 1.2.4) by Eric Martin.
- WP-Stats (v. 2.50) by Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan.
- WP Etsy Treasury (v. 1.0) by Proper Dog Media.
- WP Remote (v. 2.1.3) by Human Made Limited.
- WP Render Blogroll Links (v. 2.1.8) by Tanin Ehrami.
- WP Super Cache (v. 1.0) by Donncha O Caoimh.
- Xbox Live Avatar (v. 0.1) by Dan Miranda.
