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If you’re involved in a small web design business sooner or later you will also be asked for your advice and help in promoting your clients’ websites. There are a lot of people out there who will tell you that the best places to start doing that are the social media sites such as Digg, Reddit and other places where people on the Net can discuss what they see.

However, there’s a dark side to social media sites and there are some good reasons why you may not want to promote your clients’ sites in that way.

The isms of SM over on the SEO Igloo Blog has some great food for thought.

If you happen to use Firefox as your browser of choice here are two useful add-ons that I just came across thanks to WebbyOnline

The first is extremely helpful if you work across several computers. Foxmark allows you to sychronise your bookmarks across all your computers and keep them synchronised automatically. It even keeps a master copy of your bookmarks online so if you need to upgrade your computer you simply download your bookmarks and you’re ready to go.

It took me a total of around five minutes to install Foxmarks across the three computers I use every day.

The second Firefox add-on is Firebug. Firebug is a great tool for web designers and developers because it allows you to edit, debug and monitor CSS, HTML and JavaScript live on any web page. There’s also a Lite version for IE, Opera and Safari users.