Facebook has added two new widgets. It already had the fanbox and live stream box and now there is photo and page badge. You can embed your facebook content anywhere. Why would you want to do this? Social marketing is the new must-do promotional activity. So, if you have a facebook account, adding the widgets on your website directs visitors to your account. People are curious. They want to know about you. And you can’t have too many links.
As a webmaster you need to know the popularity (or not) of your website. Here are 15 tools for monitoring a website’s popularity, compiled by Jacob Gube. These are 15 of the best, free and simple to use tools, available anywhere. I have to admit the only tools I use currently are the statistics programs provided by my webhost. So, I will definately be trying them out.
With wordpress under attack, security threats are a real problem for all webmasters. So, network integrity monitoring is a common secure server practice. A works like this; a crypographic checksum of all your files is calculated and if something changes, you get an alert. As David Montine says, attackers are getting smarter, so you need to protect yourself.
The icon nobody really notices, on almost every website, is the humble RSS feed. It’s on every blog and many people ignore it, because email opt-in rates are usually much higher than RSS feed subscribers. But I think the RSS feed is underrated. Here’s a super video from Gideon Shalwick on what RSS is and why you need it.
I’m always find websites with colourful icons that have a crystal clear meaning very engaging. What could be easier than a picture of a printer. You know instantly to click to print the webpage. But how do you create them? Did you you know there are specialised search engines for designers to find icons? Well, there are, and Pelfusion has found six for us.
Is it time to add some widgets, icons or tools to your website?
