The following resources are useful tools that will help you build and maintain a website quickly and efficiently.

Creating Your Website

After having tested a few dogs (hotdog and others) I have come to LOVE DreamWeaver and its graphics companion FireWorks. They are both macromedia.com products. If you can get around in Word ... you will be able to ramp up fairly quickly on both of these programs. Try them both for 30 days!

Website Components

If you are looking for high quality photos to use on your site ... check out photos.com   For only $99 you can have access to over 60,000 royalty free photos for a month. Plenty of time to build your new website!

The Logo Creator is a fabulous way to create great looking logos for your site. This is way cheaper then hiring a graphic designer! Take a look at the samples ... they are AMAZING!

Web Hosting

PowerWeb offers an incredible package for the price. Free Marketing, Free Content, Free Easy to use Web Builder + 500 Megs of Space, 30 gigs of traffic and 300 Email accounts. This is more than enough for all of your internet needs. Additionally they have Award Winning 24/7 Customer Support via Toll Free Phone & Email. Free set-up and only $7.95 a month. This service is hard to beat!

Promoting Your Site

Get your site listed on Excite.com. This paid inclusion program guarantees a listing for your site.

Pay Per Click Search Engines are becoming more and more expensive. Overture now has a minimum bid of 10 cents ... and getting a good listing may cost way more than that. My recommendation for a good pay per click is
ah-ha.com   You can still buy clicks for 1 cent ... and your penny also buys you inclusion on the ah-ha network including; Excite, Dogpile, MetaCrawler, WebCrawler, NBC and Verison. Your initial investment of $50 could get you as many as 5000 visitors!

Articles

Good Web Design: The Importance of Navigation  by Debra Bellmaine

Web Design Mistakes - Text and Fonts  Breal Web Design

Seven Tips to a Top Site by Breal Web Design

The Key to Effective Web Site Design by Breal Web Hosting

Web Site Start-up and Promotion Guide For Professionals by Milana Leshinsky

What your website REALLY says about you and why it matters by Peter Simmons

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