You've got to love endless budgets and the possibilities that provides, for better or worse. Tracking individual bullets flying through a warzone? Impossible? Not anymore.

So most bloggers have probably already tried several pieces of blogging software, so that they're able to update their blog(s) from their desktop, but not me! All that has now changed...

There are many many useful looking webmaster resources covered at Smashing Magazine.

Free quality fonts, design templates, CSS guides, photoshop tutorials, PHP coding examples - you name it, it's there.

Well worth a look, or perhaps a few hundred looks!

There is an interesting article on SEOProToolz which describes how to go about hunting through 3rd party websites such as Wikipedia, to find profitable niche keywords.

Now this is cool. It's a step by step guide on how to setup an AJAX newsletter signup form (with full downloadable source code).

Everyone knows that a fast loading website is important. It means happier users, more pageviews, and usually increased revenue.

This is a simple little tool that will quickly give you an idea of any websites load time, and whether that speed is slow, average, or fast.

Website load speed test

Did I mention Xtra Broadband SUCKS?! Seriously, this has got to be the worlds worst ISP, supplying the worlds slowest, faulty laggy broadband, right here in New Zealand - how convenient.

One thing which I haven't really used much, but have seen web designers use to great effect, is repeating patterns.

When subtlety used they can give great warmth and flow to the background colors, instead of a wall of flat grey as I currently have here!

There are several hundred patterns which can be used free of charge at Squidfingers (what a great name that is!)

The patterns range from very loud designs, to intricate finely detailed subtle designs, so I'm sure there'll be something for every web designer in that lot.

Since I last posted details of my PPC experiment, I've successfully appealed my rejected keywords that I mentioned previously, and increased the traffic some what.

Just saw this MSN adCenter tutorial, it was released a couple months back, but it covers some good points on how to run an effective PPC campaign.

It's a flash tutorial, nicely segmented into logical steps.

MSN adCenter Tutorial