What's better than Paypal when it comes to setting donations or direct payments on your website.

Paypal Plugin


What do you use?

Google Analytics is known to be the best tool to track your WordPress website easily.

Check this Plugin to learn more about the features they have:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-anal...wordpress/

Is there anyone here who is using Photoshop to make templates? If yes, how are you doing that and if you have some ebooks or tips for beginners, that would be nice.

www.stockfreeimages.com/

www.morguefile.com/‎ : There are paid images but the one I've seen are about 1$ to 5$

www.freedigitalphotos.net/‎

www.istockphoto.com/‎

www.stockvault.net/‎

And http://www.deviantart.com/ many people don't use it but you can find some pretty neat stock images which already have a TOS or you can contact the owner if you want to use their photos.

If the images accompany a specific posting: one of the new features in WordPress 2.0 is that you can upload images directly from the Post and Page editing screens. WP will store them in a directory structure yyyy/mm under WP-content/uploads, e.g. WP-content/uploads/2006/01/myimage.png.
If the images are part of a theme then I'd suggest WP-content/themes/theme-name/images

1. Host Assets Separately: Things like images, javascripts and CSS that doesn’t require server-side processing.

2. Compression: Compressing the content reduces the time needed to process each request.
Here's a website to understand more about it: http://www.sitepoint.com/web-output-mod_gzip-apache/

3. Merge Multiple Javascripts Into One : I guess this doesn't need any explanation, it's more logical too.

4.Handling Web Images: if you want to avoid images slowing down your website and losing impatient viewers, you need to learn about the formats and how you should save your images for the web.
Link: http://inobscuro.com/tutorials/optimizin...or-web-35/
If you have any more tips or see something wrong with my post, say it in the comments.

Beginning WordPress 3


Head First WordPress

The WordPress anthology

You can also read them online if you like.

Choose a web host

So I've found the link above which a step by step on how to find the right Web host for your website. I found it helpful to an extent because I'm still wondering which one to choose but here it is if you guys and wondering as well.