Displaying code on a blog or website can be a frustrating task. Simply enclosing our code within PRE tags can sometimes cause more problems than it solves. What you need is an attractive way to display code that’s powerful enough to be used by tutorial giants like Nettuts, and easy enough to be installed on a personal blog. May I present SyntaxHighlighter.

Ever have a recent surge in traffic but not realize what happened until four hours later because you were using Google Analytics? Perhaps you want to show off your traffic in an attractive and easily embeddable format? Let me introduce you to the truly analytical world of a great open source program named Piwik.

Most popular blogs and websites have those small 80 pixel x 15 pixel buttons on their website. (Maybe that’s why they’re so popular? Not really.) Sometimes a tool comes along to make a simple yet tedious job suddenly seem unlike what it was before – productive. This little web application will help you make that familiar “RSS VALID” badge and help you create a few custom ones yourself.

Was your website ever taken offline due to a recent surge in traffic? Google Analytics wouldn’t report the issue until a few hours later! What’s a web developer to do? W3Counter might be the needle in the haystack you’ve been waiting for.

So you have a great site, your visitor notices this too, and wants to grab some of your greatness to his or her own website, blog or facebook. What’s a man to do?! The answer is simple: have a widget. And if you want to make an incredible (and I mean incredible) widget, look no further than a modest widget creator named Sprout.