design reverb

Crazyegg is site tool which tracks what your visitors click on. It gives you an inside look at where you visitors click and where they click the most.

They have three types of visualizations, to help you see what’s being clicked. You can view your results in Overlay, List and Heatmap. Overlay gives you details of each individual element. List is a summary of your “raw click data”. Heatmap, well Heatmap is pretty cool. It shows an hot and cold type of infrared style image. It shows you which areas are “hot” and which areas are “cold”. Very, very cool.

Give it a try. They have a free version. It will track up to 5,000 hits a month, and you can track up to 2 pages. Their Standard Plan is only $19 a month, and tracks up to 25,000 visits, and unlimited pages. Plus the Standard Plan has live updating whereas the free only updates every few hours.

Crazyegg should definitely be a tool in your SEO toolbox. Especially those of us using google ads, or any ads for that matter.
Check it out – Crazyegg.com

I’ve been trying out an online collaboration/project management tool that you may or may not have heard of: Basecamp. Some clients like it, some don’t, or I should say some use it, some don’t. Seems it would be nice to have more control of the process, without worrying about wether you are paying for something your client won’t use. Well now I’ve found a free competitor that does all of the same things as Basecamp, yet is free and you can host yourself: activeCollab.

activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool. Set up an environment where you, your team and your clients can collaborate on active projects using a set of simple, functional tools. 100% free!

activeCollab is written in PHP 5 and MySQL, and will not operate under PHP 4, so be sure you have PHP 5 installed. Give it a try, since its completely free, unlike Basecamp (from $12 to $149 per month), you have nothing to lose.

On a sidenote, this is a nice read: How to live happily with a great designer.