My arsenal of tools

[Clinton]

I like the idea of "If This Then That" but ... heck, it's not a software download. The site wants me to give it access to everything I do online - my gmail account, my facebook account, Twitter, YouTube, email accounts ... everything!

Jeez, do people actually sign up for stuff like this and give a completely unknown company full access to all their logins? I went to the About page to see if I could learn anything about the company itself, but nada ... nothing at all! Yet, if I want to best use their service, I have to give them unrestricted access to all my personal and work emails, my admin login to this site and every other site I visit, logins to my escrow accounts.... passwords to all my databases. With that kind of access one rogue employee in the company could clean me out - take all my domains and websites, reset my Paypal password, empty my bank account!

[TheGreenMan]

I like the idea of "If This Then That" but ... heck, it's not a software download. The site wants me to give it access to everything I do online - my gmail account, my facebook account, Twitter, YouTube, email accounts ... everything!

Jeez, do people actually sign up for stuff like this and give a completely unknown company full access to all their logins? I went to the About page to see if I could learn anything about the company itself, but nada ... nothing at all! Yet, if I want to best use their service, I have to give them unrestricted access to all my personal and work emails, my admin login to this site and every other site I visit, logins to my escrow accounts.... passwords to all my databases. With that kind of access one rogue employee in the company could clean me out - take all my domains and websites, reset my Paypal password, empty my bank account!

Agreed, thats pretty crazy! I liked the idea of it and it sounded great, but thats like handing your life over to a stranger, and it would be extremely easy to walk away with everything you owned haha. Are we missing something?

[lhw455]

I swear by adminer for Mysql management - it's one file you upload and you're good to go! No software install, no creation of diretories.

[grynge]

I just found a little useful tool for giving you ideas about headlines and then maybe a story to go with the headline.

Portents Content Idea Generator

It seems to be free and has given me a few ideas on the first few tries.

[grynge]

User Testing is offering a free peek into your website, basically they get a random person to video themselves wandering around your site, if you don't want to hand over an email
mine came through for my handles site http://peek.usertesting.com/result/0...?autoplay=true
rather interesting and from it I found two ways I can improve the user experience

it is easy when you work on a site to know your way around but listening to someone wander around does open the eyes somewhat.