1. SlimTimer – A Start/Stop little timer that tracks jobs on a main web interface
2. Tick – Timetracking application focused on keeping track of your budgets
3. Time Assistant – Professional timesheet software
4. Harvest – Simple and efficient time tracking
5. FourteenDayz – Online time tracking for teams
6. PunchyTime – A simple time tracking tool for creatives
7. TimePost – Timer that plugs into Harvest, Basecamp and Tick
8. FunctionFox – Timing for creatives (subscription pricing)

Invoicing
When you don’t invoice, you don’t get paid, so it literally pays to stay on top of your billing. Here are some tools to help:

1. 

   Billing Orchard – Electronic billing and invoicing software, starting at $14.95 per month

2. Billable – Service and invoice tracking
3. SimplyBill – Easy to use invoicing software
4. Blinksale – More easy to use invoicing software
5. Quickbooks – Small business financial software
6. Side Job Track – Free web-based job tracking, invoicing, reporting and project management for the part-time independent contractor
7. Freshbooks – Tracks time, sends invoices by email or U.S. mail, and generally makes invoicing easier
8. InvoicePlace – Easy Invoicing and Quotes From Anywhere
9. LessAccounting – Is your job title Accounting? Probably not. Do less accounting!
10. MS Office Accounting Express (Free) – Free Microsoft Accounting

Project Management and Organization
These resources will help you stay organised and manage those projects and clients

1. Proposal Kit – Proposal and contract management tools
2. Ta-Da Lists – a simple (free!) to-do list application that can be shared with the world
3. Backpack – Service that integrates to-do lists, notes, files, images, and a calendar with reminders that can be sent to your email or cell
4. Writeboard – Sharable, web-based text documents that save edits, so you can collaborate, roll back and compare
5. ConceptShare – Share designs and get feedback with visual annotation tools
6. Wridea – Free tool for writers focusing on idea generation
7. GoPlan – Note-taking, calendaring, task management, issue tracking, file management and online real-time chat
8. Toodledo – Another web based to-do list
9. ActiveCollab – Open source collaboration and project management tool
10. MonkeyOn – Your to-do list for things that you want other people to do
11. Remember The Milk – Another To-Do List manager

Stock Libraries
Templates, Photos, Flash files all to help make you look good

1. FlashDen – A resource selling stock Flash, audio, video and fonts for as little as 50 cents
2. Dreamstime – Royalty free stock photography for $1 – $2
3. Getty Images – When price is no object and quality is essential
4. Istockphoto – Royalty free stock photography, videos, and illustrations for $1 – $50
5. Veer – Rights managed and royalty free photography, illutration, type, and motion
6. Stock.xchng – Completely Free stock photography
7. Ice Templates – Website templates in Flash and HTML
8. Template Monster – The biggest website template company on the web!
9. MyFonts – All the fonts you could ever want and a very handy font identification tool as well.
10. IconBuffet – Icons, more icons and even more icons
11. VectorVault – Vector illustration sets

Business Tools
Resources to help with the business of freelancing…

1. 

   HighRise – Track communication and conversations with leads, employees, clients, colleagues, vendors

2. Campfire – Real-time group chat and file sharing
3. Central Desktop – Shared workspaces and web conferencing
4. Relenta – Manage your email, contacts, documents and activities
5. Google Apps – Communication and collaboration tools from Google
6. Zoho – Free office tools
7. Campaign Monitor – Email newsletter software
8. MailBuild – More newsletter software
9. Breeze – Email campaign and newsletter software
10. Business-Paper – Easy business cards
11. GoToMeeting – Easy online meetings
12. Wufoo – Make forms to survey your clients
13. AIGA Spec Letter – Sample letter to communicate with clients who want spec work or free pitching
14. CPA Directory – Find an accountant (in the US)
15. SBA – Small Business Administration, help and advice
16. Paypal – Online payment system
17. Moneybookers – Online payment system
18. Escrow – Online payment system that protects the buyer and seller, useful for those bigger jobs with anonymous clients.
19. Resources for the Design Entrepeneur – Free sample forms and agreements
20. Work – How-to guides to running a small business
21. XE – Quick and easy currency converter for all your international transactions…
22. Trendwatching – Consumer trends and insights resource
23. FaxZero – US & Canada – Send Faxes for Free

Legal
Because you have to protect yourself and your work…

1. My New Company – Legal and general start-up information
2. Designers Toolbox – Free legal forms for graphic designers
3. Copyright – Everything you need to know about US copyright
4. AIGA Form of Agreement – Standard form of agreement for design services trmplate
5. HelpMeWork – US – Services to help you focus on what you know best
6. CreativeCommons – For licensing…just about anything

Job Boards
A whole bunch of places to find jobs, and don’t forget FreelanceSwitch will be adding its very own job board real soon!

1. 37signals Job Board – Mostly full-time design and programming jobs
2. Authentic Jobs – Full time and freelance job board for standards aware designers and developers
3. Coroflot Job Board – Designer job board
4. WebProJobs – Freelance and full-time jobs for designers, developers, copywriters and marketers
5. Jobpile – Aggregates the best job boards on the web
6. Krop – Creative and tech jobs
7. FWjobs – Web jobs board
8. SlashDot – Jobs for IT professionals
9. CSS Beauty Job Board – Job board for web designers
10. MinistryCamp Job Board – Job board for Christian designers and programmers
11. Guru – Freelancer listing service with job board
12. Elance – List yourself for freelance jobs

Web Tools
Tools to get your Web Presence Up and running…

1. Squarespace – Very nice publishing system for websites and blogs
2. Rackspace – dedicated hosting and customer service that is second to none
3. Mosso – Advanced hosting at a reasonable price
4. MyDomain – Domains for $8.50 per year
5. Media Temple – Easy to set up and use hosting
6. Light – Content management for designers and ad agencies
7. SiteKreator – Instant websites – just add your content
8. StrongSpace – Back-up and store important files
9. psd2html – Builds websites in html from Photoshop files
10. xhtml iT – Website builds from design in 24 hours
11. ExpressionEngine – A neat little CMS app
12. Inblogit – A great free blogging tool for web designers
13. PublicSquare – Easy Web Publishing
14. WordPress – The best damn blogging tool around
15. AgencyFusion – Outsourcable programmers
16. XHTMLized – The original – you supply the design and they do the XHTML/CSS

Advertising and Marketing
A few ways to market and advertise yourself online…

1. Text Link Ads – Text ads to sell your wares and improve your traffic ranking
2. Review Me – Get your service or Web site reviewed by bloggers
3. Adbrite – Text and banner ads on over 20,000 sites
4. AdEngage – Text and Photext ads (image and text ad combined)
5. Adwords – Text ads on Google searches
6. Professional On The Web – Get yourself Listed

Miscellaneous
All the many things we couldn’t fit anywhere else!

1. Creative Public – Useful site for anyone starting a freelance graphic or web design career. A $49.95 fee buys unlimited access to forms, manuals, pricing guides, contracts etc
2. You Send It – Send files up to 2GB online
3. Jewelboxing – superior packaging for short run CDs and DVDs
4. eFax – Send and receive faxes by email
5. PowerXChange – Extensions for a variety of creative software, including Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver
6. Coroflot – A great resources for designers to showcase their portfolios, share work and network
7. Cloudmark – Block spam on your PC
8. SpamSieve – Block spam on your Mac
9. Dropsend – Email up to 1GB of files
10. Media Fire – Send 100MB files online
11. Box – Store, share and access files online
12. Icebrrg – Simple web forms
13. Formsite – Web forms and surveys in minutes
14. Lorem Ipsum – Lorem Ipsum generator for dummy copy
15. Textmate – The essential programmers text editor for Macs
16. ETextEditor – Like Textmate but for Windows
17. Kuler – Colour scheme picker
18. Pixie – A useful little colour picker
19. ColourSchemer – A bunch of colour tools
20. Jungle Disk – Online storage for 15 cents a gigabyte
21. AskCharity – free online contacts for journalists
22. TechInline – Remote Desktop Software
23. Protolize – Web Resource Directory

I still have hopes and dreams that the perfect calendar is out there somewhere, but I can’t seem to find The One. I’m looking for a WordPress compatible calendar that can do the following:

• recurring events – monthly, weekly, bi-weekly
• month view
• list view with option to see 15 results for upcoming events and then to click “Next” to see next results
• import a csv file of ongoing events
• Advanced search functionality to do the following. For example, search for Events in New York City on December 1. Or to search by venue, city, topic, and other categories.
• RSS events feed
• user level management – a way for different organizations to submit and manage their own events
• Email notifications when someone has added or edited an event

Event Calendar 3

Display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar.

Features

• iCal feed subscription
• sidebar widget – monthly & list view
• easy admin to add events from Write>Post
• links to a post for more details

Cons

• no recurring events
• no RSS event feed
• no large view calendar
• no categories
• no fields within events such as location, contact person
• no user level management

Calendar

A simple calendar plugin for WordPress that allows you to manage your events and display them in list or month format.

Features

• Monthly view of events
• Mouse-over details for each event
• Events can have a timestamp (optional)
• Events can display their author (optional)
• Events can span more than one day
• Multiple events per day possible
• Events can repeat on a weekly, monthly or yearly basis
• Repeats can occur indefinitely or a limited number of times
• Easy to use events manager in admin dashboard
• Sidebar function/Widget to show todays events
• Sidebar function/Widget to show upcoming events
• Comprehensive options panel for admin
• Modifiable CSS using the options panel
• Optional drop down boxes to quickly change month and year
• User groups other than admin can be permitted to manage events
• Events can be placed into categories
• Categories system can be switched on or off
• Pop up javascript calendars help the choosing of dates
• Events can be links pointing to a location of your choice

Cons

• no events feed
• no fields within events such as location, contact person
• no search feature
• no bi-weekly recurring events
• no way to import a csv of recurring events

Gigs Calendar

This plugin is designed for bands touring but can be used for any events.

Features

• list view
• amazing options in the admin panel – arrange table view of events, link to Google maps, etc.
• events feed
• fields for city, venue, start time, contact details
• once you select a venue, the contact details appear automatically! Big time saver.
• each event links to the details
• user level management

Cons

• no month calendar view
• no recurring events
• no way to search/sort by month, venue, city, date

Gigpress

Another plugin designed for bands touring but can be used for any events.

Features

• list view
• user level management
• events feed
• fields for venue, venue website, address, country, etc.
• connects to posts with a link that says “related post” [I think it should say "More details"]

Cons

• no month calendar view
• no recurring events
• doesn’t connect to a post – all the info needs to be written in the table which isn’t good if you have a lot of text
  
• no way to search/sort by month, venue, city, date

Easy PHP Calendar Plugin

EasyPHPCalendar is a script you can buy for $20. To integrate it into the WordPress admin, you can use the WordPress plugin. This is by far the most comprehensive calendar you can use in conjunction with WordPress. It has tons of features, template options, and display options. Just beware of the clunky setup which may take a few hours to do properly. Also, there are certain features which can’t  be modified because they’re encrypted by the Calendar developers. Luckily, the support forum on the site is pretty active.

Features

• mySQL database support
• Flat-file database support – No mySQL server required!
• Single events, recurring events and floating events plus multiple categories
• Complete and easy event and setup administration
• Mouse-over and pop-up event details
• Customizable categories and multiple event administrators
• Rich event descriptions including font sizes/colors and images
• different templates for list view and month view
• active support forum and RSS feed for latest entries in forum
• See more details

Cons

• complex setup
• weak search and filtering
• no easy way to import a CSV of recurring events
• no events feed
• some encrypted code which may leave you helpless if you want to modify certain functionality

Domain Registrars

If you’re starting up on the web, then you’re gonna need an address where people can reach you:

1.

Namecheap

- $8.88 per year with free WhoisGuard

2.

GoDaddy

- $8.95 per year (and lower)

3.

1&1

- $5.99 per year with free private domain registration

4.

MyDomain

- $8.25 per year

Hosting
Once you’ve got yourself an address, you’re gonna need a house to store all of your juicy blog posts – so grab yourself some server space:

1.

Dreamhost

- Great plans, great prices with loads of bandwidth and diskspace.

2.

Frozen Webhost

- Small company but only $5/month and very reliable.

3.

Media Temple

- Awesome recommendations, grid and dedicated hosting.

4.

Rackspace

- Managed, dedicated and scalable web hosting for businesses

5.

Hostgator

- Shared hosting at $6.95 per month

6.

Bluehost

- Affordable, Reliable, Web Hosting Solutions

Content Management Systems
These babies are the core of your blog, so choose carefully. Take pricing, customisation and aesthetics into account for this one:

1.

WordPress

- The industry standard and most widely used – and its FREE!

2.

Blogger

- quick blog creation, but FTP can be slow and you don’t have full control

3.

Typepad

- another blogging platform, but pricing from $4.95/month

4.

Joomla

- CMS and Web Application Framework and free

5.

Drupal

- Full-featured content management/discussion engine suitable to setup a news-driven community or portal site

6.

SquareSpace

- Publishing system for managing websites and blogs

7.

Movable Type

- Weblog publishing system developed by California-based Six Apart

Communication
If you want to be a proper blogger, you’ve gotta communicate with your fans. Instant Messaging and Email are the quickest and easiest ways to do so:

1.

Gmail

- Free web-based email service that includes over 2 GB of storage (and growing)

2.

Hotmail

- Free web-based e-mail with 2GB e-mail storage

3.

Yahoo Mail

- Free web-based email with unlimited mail storage

4.

Outlook

- Email manager which can be used with

MS Exchange Server

for shared mailboxes

5.

Windows Live Messenger

- Instant messaging program, talk to Yahoo contacts as well!

6.

AIM

- AOL Instant Messenger, free online chat service

7.

Gtalk

- Instant communication in conjunction with Gmail

8.

Yahoo Messenger

- Free instant messaging with file sharing

9.

Basecamp

- Project collaboration, management and task software

10.

Campfire

- Real-time group chat for businesses

11.

GoToMeeting

- Web conferencing and online meetings service

12.

Thunderbird

- Open source cross platform email from Mozilla

13.

Meebo

- IM service which supports MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Gtalk and Jabber

14.

Twitter

- Social networking and microblogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface

15.

Skype

- Free internet calling from PC to PC

Research
To be the best, you’ve got to overcome the rest, so find out what your competitors are doing, and beat their blogs at their own game:

1.

Whois

- Domain and registration name lookup

2.

Overture

- Keyword selector and traffic analysis tool

3.

Google Bid Analysis

- Keyword Bid Tool in conjunction with Adwords

4.

Wordze

- Keyword research tool from $35/month

5.

Firefox Search Status Extension

- see how any and every website is performing

6.

SEO for Firefox

- Useful research and data, with loads of other

tools

Customisation
Standing out from the crowd is very important in this growing blogosphere. Take a look at these tools to help you and your blog look fine:

1.

WordPress Themes

- Collection of free WordPress themes with graphical and textual preview

2.

Template Monster

- Premium WordPress themes from $50

3.

Dreamweaver

- Web development and streamlined coding environment

4.

Adobe Photoshop CS3

- Image editing software from $649

5.

iStockPhoto

- Royalty free images

6.

FlashDen

- Buy stock flash, video, audio and fonts for as little as 50 cents

7.

FamFamFam

- Sets of icons available for use free of charge

8.

Adobe Illustrator

- Leading vector-graphics software

9.

Filezilla

- Fast and reliable FTP client

10.

Cyberduck

- Secure FTP for MAC OS X

12.

psd2html

- Online conversion service – does what it says on the tin!

Statistics
Track your blog’s every move with these statistics packages so you know what you’re doing right and what you should be spending some more time on:

1.

AWStats

- Free log analyser, normally already in your Hosting Cpanel

2.

Statcounter

- Free yet reliable web tracker and hit counter

3.

Sitemeter

- Free basic counter and site statistics tracker

4.

Google Analytics

- Trendy interface with detailed site statistics, integratable with Adwords campaigns

5.

Feedburner

- Manage and track RSS Feed Readership

6.

Mint

- Extensible website analytics program, all on 1 page!

7.

103Bees

- Search engine traffic analysis and statistics tool

8.

pMetrics

- The new Performancing Metrics with detailed visitor information and clean interface

Creating Posts
Your articles are the things that will matter the most above all else. So take the time to spell-check and to make sure that they look presentable:

1.

ScribeFire

- full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser

2.

Spellbound Spell Checker

- Firefox extension that enables spell-checking

3.

Microsoft Word

- Industry standard word processor

4.

Adobe Reader

- PDF file reader

5.

SlimTimer

- Time tracking

6.

Ta-Da Lists

- Simple list making and tracking

7.

BlogDesk

- Free offline weblog client for creating and publishing posts

Ranking
When it comes down to the crunch, you’ve gotta be the best. So find out if you are with the following ranking tools:

1.

Technorati

- The Internet Search Engine for blogs, provides popularity and authority ranks

2.

BlogTopSites

- Directory of the Best Blog sites

3.

Alexa

- Traffic rankings and graphs (sometimes can be inaccurate)

4.

Live PageRank

- Displays current Pagerank Value in Google index

Feedreaders
In order to build a solid readership, you’re gonna have to do some reading yourself. Using a feedreader can cut down on the time you spend going from site to site, and you can have one place where all the latest articles will appear:

1.

Google Reader

/

Homepage

- Web-based RSS and News Aggregator

2.

Bloglines

- A web-based personal news aggregator that can be used in place of a desktop client

3.

Newsgator

- Free online RSS reader

4.

NetNewsWire

- Award winning RSS Reader for MAC

5.

Socialist

- Social bookmark manager that works with del.icio.us and RSS feeds

6.

FeedDemon

- RSS Reader for Windows Desktop

7.

NetVibes

- Personal news aggregator with RSS and Atom support

8.

NewsFire

- MAC RSS with style

9.

Omeo Pro

- All-in-one feed reader

Social Media
Using social networking can help market your site to a big audience which is essential for your blog’s growth. Spend some time networking yourself and submit your best articles to find more readers:

1.

Digg

- Stories and submitted and voted to the front page by the community

2.

Del.icio.us

- A social bookmarks manager. Using bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them

3.

StumbleUpon

- Channel surf the internet with the StumbleUpon toolbar, can be a huge source of traffic

4.

Reddit

- User-generated news links. Votes promote stories to the front page

5.

MyBlogLog

- Free site stats, and a cool widget to find out who’s been visiting your site

6.

LinkedIn

- Online network of 11 million experienced professionals (including bloggers)

7.

Facebook

- One of the fastest growing social networking sites on the net

8.

Myspace

- Free social networking which has blogging capabilities and ability to attract a lot of friends!

9.

Squidoo

- Set up your own lense (sub-site) and spread the word about your blog

10.

Ning

- Create your own Social Networks

Monetization and Advertising
Whether you want to or don’t, blogs can be a fantastic way to make a bit of dosh, so check out the following ways you can earn yourself some cash online:

1.

Google Adsense

and

Adwords

- Contextual advertising solution and make money through Pay-Per-Clicking

2.

Adbrite

- Webmasters can buy and sell text ads based on their site’s topic area

3.

Yahoo Publishers Network

- Contextual advertising with PPC online revenue stream

4.

Text Link Ads

- Sell static HTML links on your blog sidebar and post for $$/month

5.

Kontera

- In-Text Advertising on Cost-Per-Click basis

6.

Chitika

- CPC Revenue due to displaying of related products

7.

BlogAds

- Image and Text Ads for set prices per month

8.

Amazon Associates

- Link to Amazon products and earn a commission from 10% per product

9.

Commission Junction

- An online advertising and internet marketing company that specializes in performance-based affiliate programs

10.

ReviewMe

- Review products/websites and receive a flat-fee. Reviews must be nonbiased and stated as sponsored

11.

Feedvertising

- Sell links in your RSS Feed for set price per month

Blogs and Forums
These blogs are forums are must-reads for every aspiring blogger, so take some time to browse through the archives and read some threads to make sure that you’ve got all the knowledge about your field and your blog:

1.

Problogger

- the No.1 site about blogging

2.

Daily Blog Tips

- Focusing on blog promotion, monetization and optimization

3.

Blog Herald

- Premium source of blog and blogging related news for bloggers

4.

John Chow

- This guy makes a lot of money through his blog online. Articles especially on monetization

5.

Digital Point

- Sub-forum related to blogging with other areas on SEO and Optimization

6.

Namepros

- Buy, sell and discuss domain names

7.

Sitepoint

- Web design tutorials and a buzzing community and marketplace

8.

Earners Forum

- Full of online earners and blogging money makers

9.

DoshDosh

- A blog about making money online through affiliate marketing and advertising and social media

10.

QuickOnlineTips

- Technology news, blogging tips, useful computer software and web services.

11.

Lorelle on WordPress

- The WordPress Blogger!

Miscellaneous
And finally, here’s all the other tools that wouldn’t in any of the above categories:

1.

Paypal

- The best way to send and receive money online

2.

Nochex

- UK Based online payment company

3.

Escrow

- Third party which protects buyer and seller in larger transactions (blog sales?!)

4.

WorldPay

- Offers a range of e-payment and e-commerce solutions

5.

CreativeCommons

- You need to protect your articles!

6.

Ezine Articles

- Article submission website for PR and authority

7.

ArticlePR

- Article submission tools

8.

PRWeb

- Press Release Distribution for small business

9.

Six Figure Blogging

- Blogging course made by Problogger Darren Rowse himself and Andy Wibbels

10.

SEO Book

- Aaron Wall’s famous Search Engine Optimization book

11.

Blog Mastermind

- Yaro Starak’s blog mentoring program

12.

Flickr

- Online photo management and sharing application

13.

Blog Profits Blueprint

- Free ebook in PDF format about making money with blogs from Yaro Starak

For moderately sized sites (including simple e-Commerce sites), WordPress does a pretty good job as a CMS, making it easy to maintain your site, and update your content. Of course, it does this best with the help of a good theme, and some great plugins. The strength of WordPress is the community of developers who have already done almost anything you can think of with it. Here are the best plugins we’ve run across, the ones we install for nearly all of our client’s sites.

1. Cforms II – This is far and away the best contact form plugin there is. The reason? configurability. You can easy build literally anything with it. We’ve built out employment application forms, wedding checklists, and more for clients. It also drives our own quote form. There’s also built in spam protection, via question and answer or captcha. by delicious days

1. WP e-Commerce – Unlike cforms, this plugin has no competition. It provides an easy to manage storefront and shopping cart as an integral part of your wordpress installation. It includes the ability to sell digital downloads as well, which is great for photographers, musicians, and authors. By default it includes support for PayPal, although the $29.99 fee for the authorize.net module will pay for itself in lower fees for most serious e-Commerce sites. by Instinct Entertainment
2. Search Everything – Since most of the sites we develop focus more on their static content than on their blog posts, this plugin is essential for allowing users to search your entire site without leaving your site and relying on google. by Dan Cameron
3. Google Sitemap Generator – The biggest benefit of using wordpress is the manual labor you save because the software already knows where all of your content is. This Plugin submits a comprehensive index of your site to google, yahoo, MSN Live, and Ask.com every time you update your site. It’s a huge boost to your site’s SEO. by Arne Brachhold
4. Subscribe2 – Subscribe2 is a newsletter plugin for your site. It allows you to create newsletters and manage subscribers within your WordPress Dashboard. It also allows you to email subscribers when you post a blog entry, which allows you to have a permanent copy of the newsletter that you can refer people to. plugin homepage
5. Event Calendar 3 – There are a ton of event plugins out there. This is the best & most integrated one we’ve used. It provides an iCal feed, in addition to the standard RSS feed. Since the events are created as Blog posts, it’s easy to integrate them into your site. by Alex Tingle
6. Page Links To – by far the simplest plugin on this list, This plugin allows you to create “pages” that link to something else. It’s the easiest way to add links to your main menu, without mucking around in code. It’s good for adding a link to an external photography portfolio, for example. You could also use it to link to sections of a page, rather than an entirely seperate page, which could be useful for linking to sections of a restaurant menu, or other small sections of a larger page. by Mark Jaquith
7. TinyMCE Advanced – I’ve posted a lot about using this plugin. It was referred to me by Jim Burke from TSG Real Estate, who needed a way to easily add classes to blockquotes, tables, and images. The plugin also does a great job of making tables work well with WordPress posts. plugin homepage
8. XSPF_Player – As much as I’m not a fan of auto-playing music on websites, This MP3 player makes it easy to manage playlists, cover art, and artist links. It’s a great way for music venues to highlight upcoming shows. Used in conjunction with Event Calendar, you can make the track link lead to the post for their upcoming show, all of which is easily manageable from your wordpress dashboard. by Boriel
9. pageMash – I just posted about this, but it’s worth mentioning again. This plugin makes it very easy to put your pages in order, without having to edit every page individually. by Joel Starnes

Bigger than Plugins:

DFGallery by Dezinerfolio provides an easy way to set up a flash slideshow without relying on flickr, or another external service. There’s not really an easy way to manage the photos, but we’ve used the gallery successfully for several clients.

WP Contact Manager by The Design Canopy is a great start on a project to make wordpress into a directory. It’s not just one plugin, it’s actually a series of plugins and a custom theme. While a public LDAP server would certainly make a better (and easier) contact manager, we’ve used the project to create vendor lists, and we’re working on building in microformat support, easier installation, and eventually the ability to use it as a paid-inclusion directory: