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Pasco Chamber of Commerce

Source: www.pascochamber.org
    The webiste project that my youngest came over to have help with is online, http://www.pascochamber.org We don’t recommend building a site in 10 hours, but if you have to do one quick, use good tools. This site is powered by WordPress, and several other custom addons.    

Buy Our Webservices.net Blog

Source: www.buyourwebservices.net
    Found out that I can add hosted ad banners (from OPENX.ORG) and serve them on my own blog http://www.buyourwebservices.net/theblog much less load on the server having the banners on OPENX.ORG instead. Also, tweaked some of the other blog settings while I was at it.    

Full Security Suite :: Add-ons for Firefox « Guy R Cook …. thinking aloud

Source: guycook.wordpress.com
    Just got this list from Firefox, recommendations for security add-ons form SANS Internet Storm Center.
http://guycook.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/full-security-suite-add-ons-for-firefox/ http://guycook.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/full-security-suite-add-ons-for-firefox/
    

Wikimedia Commons

Source: commons.wikimedia.org
    A database of 5,172,313 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute. For that day when you need a photo, video etc. Yes, it’s another tool.    

KompoZer | Get KompoZer at SourceForge.net

Source: sourceforge.net
    Tools and more of them everyday, today I’ve added KompoZer to the desktop for building webpages, etc, has built in CSS editor that makes editing very fast, as the changes are viewable right then, proof it in preview then upload it to the server. Two thumbs up as they say, and it’s cross platform, there are versions for all major operating systems.    

Internet Marketing and Consulting Services – Guy R Cook.com

Source: www.guyrcook.com
    http://www.guyrcook.com rebuilt with a template in just under 3 hours, just to see if I could, some areas yet to be fillled in, but it’s 90% done, entirely using Linux desktop, nyah Windows. Things like this will bear out in the econonmy downturn by using less expensive tools to get the job done. http://www.guyrcook.com    

punypng – PNG Compression and Image Optimization – Gracepoint After Five

Source: bit.ly
    Compress PNG, JPEG, and GIF images http://bit.ly/2NZIqN is a free tool that reduces page load times by reducing the file size of an image. Easy to use, upload the image (under 150K) and the compression happens and you get a link to download the new image.