Searching the Web for a few great bookmarklets to make your web site coding a little easier?  I have found a great collection of them over at Squarfree.com.  You can drag and drop any of these bookmarlets to your saved bookmarks to use later. 

• test styles – Type in CSS rules to experiment or to create a temporary user style sheet.
• edit styles – Experiment with changes to the page’s style sheet.
• ancestors - Lists the ancestors of any element you hover over in the status bar.
• computed styles – Lists the computed styles of an element and of its ancestors.
• zap style sheets – Disables all style sheets.

Most of these bookmarks work for Firefox only, but a few will work with Internet Explorer and Opera too.  Go chec out the Web Development Bookmarklets page at Squarefree.com to check out the 18 other tools they have for you to use.

Here are some of the Web’s best tools for checking online popularity.

• PRSearch.net Popularity Tools
• Webconfs.com – Backlink and Anchor Text Analyzer
• Uptime Bot
• Webmaster Toolkit’s Link Appeal
• LinkVendor.com’s Link Popularity and Site Analysis Tool
• MarketLeap.com Link Popularity Checker
• Link Popularity Tool from Iconinteractive
• Webmaster Toolkit’s Link Popularity Checker

Have another search engine optimization popularity checker to add to the list?  Drop in a comment and share with the group!

Well worth visiting to see the comics up so far.  It is updated every second Monday, so there will be more fresh content worth checking out soon!  Enter the Web of Pain!

We all like feedback right?  Here is how crowd sound works.  All you do is sign up for your free account, and then login.  Once you do, you can embed the widget into your web site.  Just copy and paste some simple JavaScript into your own design.

Now with the web site widget, you can add some entries. and then have other visitors vote up the idea or vote down the idea.  So this separates things into the people who want to give you good suggestions and the people who just like to vote for things.  You can also via the widget browse through the most recent or the most popular.

I think crowd sound is delivering a very unique way of looking at feedback gathering from your base.  Those could be customers, they could be readers.  The thing that is important is that you get their views to make your content better.

I promise you, once you get started you will see this is just more fun to figure out if you play with it some… change your colors up, and try to get as creative as you can.  Want to see an example of the end result?  I used the first background I made on my Twitter profile.

Snazzy right?  Check it out and make your own at BgPatterns.com.

At the time of writing this they have seven great set to choose from and use for free.  Feel free to use them on your blog and be sure to thank the Iconjoy team for releasing them out for all to use and enjoy.

I don’t care though, because I am still proud!

So you know what, lets do it again! Episode 116 of the Web Hosting Show was just uploaded today. Download it, share it – give it to a friend because it is one heck of a good show if I do say so myself. On this week’s show I covered:

• Company Bio of FastServers.Net (Part 2 of 3)!
• Google Webmaster Tools Setup Guide and Help!
• How to Catch Hosting Friends with LinkedIn!
• The Best Way to Submit Your Site to the Search Engines!
• What is a Reverse IP Lookup?

So what are you waiting for? Go download the mp3 and lets see if we can get 4,000 downloads this week!