Who-Iz.com

Here is a great resource for many web developers. This site has a good amount of free ajax scripts to help with your site’s development. The site includes scripts for contact forms, bubble tool tips, mirror reflections, polling, dragable content and more! A very nice selection of free ajax scripts.

Here’s a link to a free game you can download the script for and include on your website. It’s new and a fun one to boot. A great addition to any blog or site.

http://rapidshare.com/files/106729368/YoyoBall.zip.html

The game is called YoYoBall and has many levels for you and the visitors to your site to try and master. Good luck.

Here is a very useful free generator site. Put into implementation because of the recent change to Google’s Terms of Service, this site has made available a free privacy policy generator. Input the specifics of your site and this generator will form it into your very own personalized privacy policy.

It works great, check it out.

Check out this great find… ReadTheWords allows you to type in text (or import it a variety of other ways) and then it converts the text to speech and plays it back for you. A quick example is found below. This has many great uses, it can be used for podcasting, providing an audio version of your blogposts, or just to make an interesting welcome to your site. Best of all, is that it is free. Really deserves being checked out.

Here is a great new take on a niche search engine, it’s called Twing (Twing.com). Twing allows you to type in what it is you’re searching for and then it performs that search only on online forums and message boards. This is a great way to see what people may be saying about you, your site, or an issue you care a great deal about. You can search by post, topic, or forum and the results are brought back for you. An interesting idea in search engine technology.

One note for those of you with forums, you may want to check Twing out and make sure that your forum is coming back in the search results.

Check out Picnik.com and see what this free online photo editor can do for you. Works great for some quick editing touches you may need when it isn’t convenient to use the photo editing software you have on your computer. Many more options than just fade, color, and red-eye reduction. Very useful in today’s world!

Here is a site offering a service that with the right application could be a very nice feature to add to your website. Have you ever thought about offering free SMS services on your site? This would enable visitors to your site to use an input form to send a text message to a mobile phone or other device.

This link here shows exactly how to do it.

Among the services offered:
* Add SMS tools to your site for FREE
* Receive real SMS in 202 countries!
* Does NOT use premium rate SMS
* Mobile numbers are kept private, they are NOT marketed to or passed to 3rd parties
* Easy to configure
* Customise colour, style and size
* Perfect for webmasters, bloggers and users of eBay, Facebook, MySpace and Bebo

If you have a development idea for a feature like this, then this service would definitely be worth checking out.

A few words about submitting your site to online directories…

While directory submission isn’t viewed by most as one of the big ways to drive traffic to your site that it once was, it can still be a valuable way to get incoming links pointed your way. Before spending big money on paid directories that claim they have nice page rank, check out the page rank of the pages your listing will actually be placed on. If the directory’s home page is a PR7 but the page where your link is placed will be a PR3, you may not want to pay PR7 prices for that. Also, don’t forget to occasionally submit your site to directories that carry no page rank at all. Remember, these may be the PR2,3,4, or 5 directories of the future.

Here are a couple of free directories accepting submissions:

http://www.cybepk.net/links/
http://www.freshlinkmedia.net/

Looking for a widget that you can plug into your developed website and give your visitors the chance to watch live TV? The people at MedaTV provide just such a widget for free. Here it is in use:

There are a number of channels to view and its a great way to get more people to both come to your site… and stay there too.

Check out this site offering you a way to place a flash clock on your website.  Graphics like this are not only useful features to those that visit your site, but they also make your site look that much more professional.  There are many examples of things like this that you can use to dress up your site.