Website Project Management

ReelSeo.com has written an excellent article about hosting videos on your on site vs posting to video sharing sites. A great read for anyone considering using videos as a part of their website marketing strategy.

It's difficult to search for themes at Drupal.org as you get a long scrolling list of themes, many are not good quality so it takes a while to filter through them all and find the best ones. DrupalThemes.org is working to resolve this issue by providing demos of quality Drupal themes and categorizing them according to specific use cases so that you can quickly find a theme that will meet your needs.

If you want a quick and easy way to record a video of your computer screen and easily post a link to it on Twitter then try out Screenr from Articulate.

Gorton Studios created an excellent write up about their Drupal development process. Highly recommended reading even if you develop your websites using other platforms.

Here's an outline of their website development process using Drupal

Phase 1: Planning
- Step 1 - Strategic Brief
- Step 2 - Kick-Off Meeting
- Step 3 - Competitive Analysis
- Step 4 - Content Types
- Step 5 - Site Map
- Step 6 - Wire frames

Open Atrium - a Drupal distribution that looks like a very promising alternative to Basecamp and other commercial project management and collaboration tools.

Commercial Screen Recording Software

Camtasia by TechSmith - http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

Open Source Screen Recording Software -

http://camstudio.org/

SnagIt by TechSmith is a great communication tool for website project management. It allows you to quickly take screenshots of a website with options for taking only small sections of the screen up to a full screen capture, you can set a time delay for capturing menus and other mouse actived actions of a website. You can then crop the screenshot as needed, add notes, arrows, etc...

What is a favicon?

A favicon is the little icon that you see in your browser.

What is the function of a favicon?

The function of the favicon is to allow folks to easily bookmark your website or drag the link into a word processor, blog post, etc... When someone bookmarks your website the favicon will also display in your list of bookmarks and clearly distinguishes your link.

Favicon Conversion Tools

Easily convert an image to a favicon using these favicon generators:

• http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/
• http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/
• http://www.favicon.cc/