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Jumpchart, a website architecture builder, has just announced that they have shed their beta status. What is Jumpchart? Jumpchart is a way to make the basic architecture or frame of your next website, site map, or interactive project. It is a WYSIWYG online editor that simplifies the process of creating the basic framework of a website, especially when it is a collaborative effort. Basically, you could use Jumpchart to show a client or boss a very rough estimate of what their website might look like. That way you could nail down where the content will go before the graphical design begins.

You begin by creating a new project with a single page. You can add text…

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Simply-Basic.com is a relatively new blog. What’s something that most new bloggers worry about? Making sure someone actually reads their articles! Previously I wrote about two free sources of web traffic. Writing this post really piqued my interest, and made me wonder what other services were available to increase exposure to a new blog like mine. There are many things you can and should do to increase the quality of your blog. A good list of things that will help your blog can be found at Problogger, here. But this list is not meant to be a comprehensive list of how to market your blog.

Rather, I’ve collected 17 websites that will help you promote your…

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This is usually beyond the scope of my blog, but I’m excited about this one. A single player demo has just been released for Call of Duty 4. Looks like it will be pretty good. Use the link below to download it. There’s lots of info on the game out there, feel free to do a Google search if you aren’t sure what this game is.

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I just installed two plugins today that you guys should enjoy. The first one has been around for a while. It’s called DoFollow, and it removes the automatic nofollow that wordpress appends to all links commenters leave (such as the website address that your name links to in the comment).

The second, which just came out a month ago, is called CommentLuv. It scans the URL you enter for your website in the comments for your RSS feed. If it finds one, it shows the title of your latest post underneath your comment. If it can’t find your RSS feed, or if you don’t have one, it just posts a normal comment. You can see an example…

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Getting web traffic can be one of the most frustrating and rewarding things about starting a new website. Luckily, it just got a little easier. Enter ReviewBack and Adgridwork. These two websites, created and maintained by the same group, let you create an easy flow of traffic to your website by participation in blog post exchanges (RevewBack) and an ad swap (Adgridwork). Both are easy ways of brining in traffic to your new site. Oh, and both are free. Hey, you may even see these services around here once in a while. Read on to find out the details.

Let’s start with ReviewBack. Swapping blog posts with other bloggers is not a new concept. But ReviewBack has…

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Apparently my host was down yesterday for almost nine hours. They said it was scheduled work done on the servers that I, of course, should have known about. I apologize for the inconvenience, hopefully that won’t happen again.