Web Tools to Help Launch a Successful Web Business

Concepts – Creativity - Research
http://faveup.com/ - Logo ideas
http://99designs.com/ - Get artists to design a logo to your liking.
http://www.domaintools.com/ - Registering domains, look ups, with a list of domain registrars cheaper than $9.
http://StumbleUpon.com – Creative ideas on many topics if you just can’t think of one on your own. Inspirational.
http://smashingmagazine.com - Excellent content and a bunch of cool freebies.
http://www.coolwebsiteideas.com/ (maybe not so cool)
http://www.dailybits.com/11-undiscovered-website-ideas-to-steal-and-make-you-rich/
http://webmastercourse.com/articles/101/personal/
http://www.google.com/insights/search/# - See what people are searching for on Google
http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/63/1/Where-to-get-ideas-for-a-niche-website **

Planning
http://blog.deskera.com - DeskEra interoperates wonderfully with popular Project Management softwares like Microsoft Project®. It lets you export/import to & from Microsoft Project®. (down at the time of posting)

Collaborate:
http://www.basecamphq.com/
https://website.qtask.com/index.php
http://mashable.com/2007/07/22/online-collaboration/ 60+ collaboration tools.
http://www.sharepoint.com Not directly a web app but still good.
http://www.activecollab.com/ with api
http://www.skrbl.com/ - Allows the user to write graffiti on uploaded images and embed them into a site via iframes.
http://grouploop.com - Simple web-based software to organize your committee. Group messaging, calendar, file sharing, RSVP system, and more!
http://www.protonotes.com/ - Take notes on the screen. Add javascript and start noting.
http://www.near-time.net/ - Near-Time integrates wikis, weblogs, and file-sharing to deliver the fastest ROI for your collaboration investments. –Google maps, calendar, Upcoming, Polling, Linked in a Box, Video from Picasa, HipCast, YouTube, Google, BrightCove, Veoh, RSS feeds, Real Time Chat, and more.
http://docs.google.com/
http://www.sitscape.com/dashboard - Situational Remix of the Web. Enable on-demand composite web applications with componentization, redistribution, and remixing of the web. **

Execution:
http://elance.com, http://scriptlance.com, http://rentacoder.com, http://hirerussians.com (name says all), http://dice.com etc. or of course hire from your local community.
http://snappages.com/ - Create and manage a professional quality website with drag-and-drop simplicity.
Choose appropriate language platforms.
Google Apps Engine - http://code.google.com/appengine/

Testing:
Nothing beats listening to your users.
http://crazyegg.com – Heat maps on landing pages. Stats.
http://browsershots.org/ - Free online cross browser check
http://www.browsercam.com/ Cross Browser Compatibility Testing Tools including PDA’s.
http://16bugs.com/ - Track and manage bugs from a simple and productive interface.
http://getfirebug.com/ - Firefox plug in to help inspect HTML, tweak CSS and more.
https://www.google.com/analytics/siteopt/splash?hl=en - Website Optimizer is an easy-to-use tool for testing site content that delivers actionable results.

Widgets:
http://www.iwidgets.com/ - iWidgets drives traffic and interest from your fans and their friends by socially syndicating your website’s interesting content and user activity to popular destinations such as Facebook, MySpace, and iGoogle.
http://www.google.com/ig/directory - Google’s widgets.
http://sproutbuilder.com/ - Build, publish and manage widgets, mini-sites, banners, mashups and other rich media Web content in three easy steps.

Generating Traffic and Visitors

Tracking and diagnostics:
http://www.whoson.com/ - Real time stats with chat ability from website visitor to you.
http://www.liveperson.com/ - Stats, chat and get included into their directory of online experts.
http://www.craftysyntax.com/- Open source live support solution that helps customer support with live help functionality that can be proactively pushed to visitors to your site or requested by the consumer.
http://google.com/webmasters/tools/ - Find what your missing on a site. Site maps, bad links, crawl stats, duplicate meta tags etc.
http://suggestionbox.com – Get feedback from users.
http://cli.gs/ - Similar to tinyurl but with tracking, 301 redirects

Community:
http://www.socialgo.com/ - Social network
http://www.ning.com/ - Original social network
http://www.neeetz.com/ - Social network
http://www.yuku.com/ - Social network
http://www.minggl.com/ - Social network
http://mindtouch.com - Wikis
Of course http://Twitter.com and all apps based on it.
http://facebook.com
http://squidoo.com
http://plurk.com

Blogging and other media
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping - Make sure Google knows about your blog.
http://pingoat.com/ - back in action. Add pingoat link internally to your blog for more exposure.
http://pingomatic.com - Standard blog comes with this.
http://www.deeptagging.com/ Powerful and rich presentations using content from Powerpoint, multi-media, and includes viewer questions and more.

SEO –
http://www.seomoz.org/
http://www.webconfs.com/ - an oldie but a goodie.
http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/seo-tools.html
http://www.avangate.com/articles/online-seo-tools_79.htm