Useful Software for WMs

[johnnybg]

Useful Software for WMs

Ok, I compiled a list of software I use that I consider useful enough for others to consider.

I know good software cost money, so I'll post also for what I use it for regularly. I'm not selling these products - just sharing my experience.

1. Arles Image Web Page Creator
This is thumbnail pages generator. It can create complete galleries from templates. Templates are easy to create since you can convert your existing templates with little effort. It supports automatic creation of different sized thumbnails, based on your template requirements. It also creates fancy thumbnails and can sharpen them to look better. In time you will create really great galleries with little effort.

2. Adwords & Keywords
Cool little utility that can recommend search engine (Google) phrases based on the ones you type in. It displays number of searches and R/S ratio which can help you to decide for which keyword phrases is easiest to obtain high Google ranking. It also displays number of PPC links for your Google advertising needs. I use it to optimise my gallery pages for good keyword phrases.

3. Alexandra's Reciprocal Links Solution (Arelis)
This is powerful tool for obtaining high Google PR. It scans top search engine results for given keyword and scans those pages for contact information. Than you can send customized e-mails to those contacts asking for a link trade. It keeps track of sent link trade requests and after confirmation of trade it automaticaly can create links page with sites who link to you. It can also scan who links to your competitors so you also can ask for trade.

4. ColorImpact
This tool can recommend matching colors for your web pages based on given color. It has prebuilt web page templates from which you can learn which colors match. I use it on all my pages and they look much better with well-matched colors. It also can recommend which color will stand out on a page, so it's great to emphasize a links to sponsors.

5. DomainPunchPro
This tool scans available domain names based on a set of given keywords and their combinations. If you need good domain name this tool will find it for you.

6. Unified Stats
This is freeware-adware product that scans your affiliate stats and group them in single report. I use it once a day to collect info on my sales. It supports many programs.

7. Web Log Storming
This tool analyzes apache web server logs and presents gathered information in readable format. It has too many features to mention. If you want to know your traffic - this is a tool for you. (well, that actually sounded like sales pitch - I make far too many galleries to be able to write normally)

8. Xara Webstyle
Great tool for creatin web page graphics. It can create headlines, banners, bullets, 3D headings, even complete image galleries (but with javascript which isn't very good if you make TGP galleries). It integrates itself into Dreamveawer and it helps me a lot with graphics. It has many built-in templates and is very customizable.

That's it...