My on going list of personal web design tools

I use this page on my blog to keep note of all the plug-ins, components, frameworks, platforms and anything else that I use for website efficiency and development time savers.

Software I Use and Love:

• Thunderbird - eMail
• Lighting - calendar plugin for Thunderbird
• Foxmarks - Automatically synchronize Firefox bookmarks on multiple computers

Mac OS Modifications & Addons:

• MagiCal - Puts a better calendar in top system bar
• StartupSound.prefPanet - Remove the Mac OS boot up sound

WordPress Plug-ins:

• Akismet – Comment spam protection
• All in One SEO Pack – Gives the blog editor the SEO control needed for professional use
• Google XML Sitemaps – Automatically creates sitemap files for Google and other spiders (good SEO practice)
• Simple Tags – Makes tagging easier (so you do it)
• AdSense Manager- plugin for managing AdSense (and other) ads, generates code automatically and allows positioning with Widgets
• WordPress.com Stats – Simple concise stats

Dreamweaver:

• Ordinary SiteMap - plugin that creates a list of links to every page on your site automatically
• Sitemap Everyday - plugin that creates a sitemap.xml file of every page on the site automatically