Useful
Links, recommendations and ideas that are likely to be useful to you.
Domain names: we use UKREG – good service and they don’t charge if you want to transfer your domain elsewhere (watch out for others that do)
For website hosting we use United Hosting – their customer service is the best we’ve come across – they are seriously on the ball and continually improve their service and servers (both in the UK and US)
Find out how customer-oriented your web page is with the “We We” calculator
Internic
Provides information on domain name registration and services (the .com and.org addresses).
Nominet will have information on all .uk domains.
The official source for information about AdWords – essential reading if you run a Google Adwords campaign.
Honest SEO report: A straightforward guide for any one wanting to know more about search engine optimisation – easy to read and very useful – highly recommended.
Virus or hoax? Your kind colleagues and friends that tell you when they know of a virus may be misinformed themselves. Some are hoaxes and can be just as much trouble as the real thing. Perhaps bookmark this page, or the link page so that you can check whenever a well-meaning colleague/friend sends you a virus warning.
Get a free entry in Yell.com
Convert a Powerpoint presentation to Flash – making your presentation easier for more people.
Accessify
Contains advice, reference material and tools to make your website accessible.
A List Apart
A website dealing with all aspects of web design, especially web standards. Links to many articles.
Sitepoint
Another resource covering all aspects of the web – some great books too.
Statcounter
Discover information about the visitors to your website – keywords, number of visitors and more. An excellent free visitor stat counter that everyone should install on their web pages.
W3C Schools
A learning resource for web design and scripting.
Webmonkey
A learning resource for web design.
PHP Advanced Transfer Manager A free file manager – allows you to upload and download files online.
Google Local
Enables you to search locally, providing detailed directions by using a map and routefinder.
Indentifont
Helps you identify a font by asking a series of questions.
myfonts
Upload a scanned image of your font for identification.
Images: When you want royalty-free images – photographs and graphics – visit stock.xchng first – great quality, an ever-growing supply of free images to use. And if you don’t find what you want there, try stockxpert – again royalty-free images but you do have to pay for these – starting from just $1.
Sitepoint forums
Forums on web design, programming, hosting and managing your site.
Newsletters:
Jill Whalen’s High Rankings Advisor – essential reading
Nick Usborne’s Excess Voice – writing for the web
Blogs worth regular visits:
Conversation Marketing
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SE
Seth Godin’s Blog
Books that everyone with a website should read:
Don’t make me think – Steve Krug – sample chapter here
Conversation Marketing
And I keep a list on Amazon of books suggested for small business owners
And if you want to get into the nitty-gritty of CSS – Rachel Andrew’s CSS Anthology is a must-have
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