Links and Resources

Wordpress - Robust platform which can be used to blog, or to develop a full featured website.
Web Developer Toolbar - Extension adds a menu and a toolbar to Firefox of Chrome with various web developer tools
Evaluating Site Accessibility - Discusses web site accessibility issues.
Google Analytics is the industry standard for monitoring website traffic
Google Trends
Web Design Features - Is your web site good or bad? This is an oldie, but goodie, which outlines the do's and don'ts for web design.
Website Design Checklist - from a site called "web pages that suck"; includes links to tools you can use to facilitate making these changes
How does your site look in a text-only browser? You may be shocked to find out! Why do you care? Essentially, all search engines see when they surf your site is the text... none of those pretty pictures or fancy layouts.
- Lynx viewer - This tool is for designers and developers who have access to their own site files.
- Search Engine Simulator - Tool to give you an idea how search engine see your page.

Who Links to Me? - A fun and useful tool which gives you a quick way to find out what other sites link to yours. You can do this in any search engine, but this is a handy way to check on more than one at a time.
How Fast Does Your Website Load? You may be losing customers if your site takes too long to come up. This tool gives you a ranking, and lists the sizes of all the graphics on your page.
Dr. Watson - A nice overall checker of coding syntax, links, download speeds and more. Very useful!
Colour Lovers - Great resource for color inspiration
Background designs - Nice roundup of background design websites and tools

Surelutions offers website design and web services, graphic design, domain and web hosting.
Located in Chelsea, Michigan and serving clients locally and nationwide.