Looking for a professional font for your website design or advertising graphics?  Check out http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/Design/Fonts/75-free-fonts-for-professional-design.html for 75 great options.

Need a quick picture edit?  Don’t feel like opening Photoshop or PSP?  Just surf to www.resizr.com, upload your photo (from URL or your computer) and click to go to their editing interface.  You can resize, crop, and optimize in just a few clicks.  Simple.  Free.  Very cool.

Have you ever tried to send a large file via email to a client, or struggled with trying to FTP a graphic or PDF file for your website designer?  Discover YouSendIt.com!

YouSendIt allows you to easily send large files via email.  You upload the file on their website and enter the recipient plus a short message, then YouSendIt delivers the file.  The receipient receives a link so they can download the file at their convenience (no clogging up their email box, endlessly waiting for a large file to download when they weren’t expecting it).

The free version works beautifully for files under 100MB.  A paid version is also available for larger files or companies who want to use it more frequently with more features.

Considering offering teleseminars or Q&A calls for your business?  Check out http://www.nocostconference.com where you can get a free conference line.  It includes a recording of your call so you can download and save it.  You can send it to people who weren’t able to make the call, or convert it to mp3 and upload it to your site.

Not using teleseminars, Q&A calls, or anything similar yet?  Here are some ideas you might consider:

• Offer a free or low-cost call on a topic you’re an expert in, then take that recording and have it transcribed and package the transcript and mp3 file into a product to sell on your website.
• Do a monthly Q&A time, start with a quick overview of what you offer, then let customers ask you any questions they’d like to about your products.  Sort of like an “open house” for your online business.
• Put together a short teleclass about your products or a service you specialize it, offer it live, and then add the recording to your website as a bonus when visitors sign up for your newsletter.
• Get in touch with an “expert” and interview them on a topic that would be helpful to your customers.
• Have someone else interview you on a topic that would be helpful to your customers.
• Create a mastermind group with some of your fellow business owners or colleagues and meet on a conference line monthly to encourage and support each other, share your goals, and keep each other accountable.

This week’s cool tool is for you DIY web designers.  It can be craziness trying to test your site design and code out on different browsers to be sure it works nicely in all of them.  Make it easier on yourself and use BrowerShots!  Go to www.browsershots.org and put in your domain name or development URL then choose from 60+ different browsers that you can view your design in.  Takes anywhere from a couple of minutes to an hour, but when it’s done you can see exactly what your design looks like in a stunning array of browsers.  Very cool.

And a bonus tip: if you work on a Mac and want a quick IE preview, go to http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php and instantly see your site in various versions of IE.

Need a secure, random password?  How about a random list, flip of a coin, or roll of the dice?  Find it free at www.random.org  It’s a quick and easy way to generate password strings of random letters/numbers for better security.  I use the “string generator” feature regularly.  And the coin flipper’s just plain fun to use.  Bookmark it and it’ll be there waiting when you need it.

Vizu offers a simple way to add a poll to your website, blog, or MySpace page.

The basic version is free and simple to use.  Polls can be private or public.

They’ve even got a widget available for you to add polls to your Facebook page.

http://www.vizu.com/index.html

It’s not a good sign. The blue screen of death on my kids PC.  That spinning beachball of doom (sometimes it means just be patient, other times it means Eudora decided to eat my mail… again…) on my Mac.  Oh no!

I’ve got multiple backup drives, and I use them regularly.  But not every night.  My backup drive saves the most important files weekly, but a crash today could mean I’d lose up to 7 days worth of important email and work files.  And the most recent pictures of my kids, too!

A complete crash could spell minor or major disaster for a small business owner who stores everything from email and website files to financial records to client projects to virtual product files on the computer.  If you only do incremental backups to an external drive like me, or just haven’t gotten around to setting up a backup system yet, this “cool tool” is for you!

I’ve found a fabulous solution to backups (and can sleep peacefully at night).  :)

Mozy!  It’s an extremely secure online backup system.  When I say secure, we’re talking 448-bit Blowfish on-disk encryption and you can even keep your own key. The first backup takes a while as it encrypts and copies everything you’d asked it to, but after that it’s smart enough to save only the new files and files you’ve changed, and it does it all in the background.

You can choose from home or business accounts, and even get 2 GB free! Perfect for just backing up the most important files. Click the logo for more details.

I like it so much I’ve got a MozyPro account!

2GB Totally Free Online Backup! Compliments of Mozy

For managing projects in my design business as well as working with my VA, I use Basecamp’s Plus version.

Working with my VA: It allows me to easily login and setup to do lists, upload files to share, and set deadlines – then it notifies my VA by email.  When she logs in, she can add in her time tracking for each to do completed.  At the end of the month it’s easy to print out a report.

Working with Client Projects: I’m able to setup a login for each client so they can securely login and view various things I’ve setup including overviews, project milestones and deadlines, files, and to do lists.  They can add their notes and feedback as I work.  And I can track my time spent on the project.

Saves me time and keeps me organized.  Very cool!

This week I’m introducing a new feature on my blog.  Each Tuesday I’ll post about a great tool.  Here’s the first!

Ever wished you could add a form to your website to collect information, but felt intimidated by the HTML form coding needed to make it work?

Check out http://www.jotform.com/ where you can build a free form with drag and drop!

Free video tutorials show you what to do, step by step: http://www.jotform.com/tutorial