Web Site Management

This site provides access to free downloadable website statistic counters. The site explains what statistics are available, how to use them, and how to download them. It also offers demos, support, and forums.

ChangeDetection is a free service that provides notification of changes to website pages. If a change is detected they will notify the user by email. Furthermore, every time a user's website changes, all visitors to it will be notified. Set up is fast and ChangeDetection will tell the user how many visitors have been notified of changes.

This free webmaster resource lists free and paid web directories as well as reciprocal, niche and article directories. Directory Critic also has a variety of directory management tools available.

Drupal is a free software package that allows users to publish, organize, and manage a wide variety of content on a website. Website contains information about what Drupal can do, offers support for the system, and offers add-on modules such as pods, blogging, podcasting, picture galleries and more.

GoStats, begun in 1999, is a free statistics counter for websites. The Pro version will hide the counter. The website explains how the software works, how to load it onto specific blogs, and what to do if you have problems. GoStats also has a list of Top Sites by subject.

Joomla! is a content-management system that helps build personal websites and complex corporate web applications. Joomla! is free and downloadable from the website. There is also support and help information.

ShinyStat is the Internet Audience Measurement Service that began in 2004 and has over 250,000 users. The software provides a web analytics and counter for websites. ShinyStat is free for nonprofits. It helps businesses track and analyze their Return on Investments, and also measures such things as which keywords are most effective. The website provides full information and how to order.

This site provides access to tools for live web site traffic analysis. On the site, users can find a link to a free 30-day trial or they can subscribe. There are samples of the kinds of statistics that are available. The software is easy to install and requires no knowledge of HTML. Web-Stat.com has been operating since 1998 and currently monitors 10,000 sites.

This site is a service to the web site administrator community. The site acts as a forum for members to share and gain knowledge in operating and promoting a website. Users must register, but this is a free site. On the site is information about latest developments in the internet world, webhosting issues and options, PC and Unix software usage, HTML and browsers, website analytics, and much more.

Zope is an open source application server for building content management systems, intranets, portals, and custom applications. Zope is written in Python. Users who join Zope.org can create and manage their own Zope objects. All of these objects will be available to other Zope members. On the website, users can download the software, become members, post questions, look at documentation, and more.