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If you'd prefer a professional-looking template at a sensible price (there are even a few free ones!) that you can use as it is or adapt at will, visit our huge Monster Template Store and look at thousands of options created by top website designers worldwide. |
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Have a wander around our software mall and
try out the software from one or more of the authors with whom we are proud to
be affiliated. Several offer excellent web-authoring software. Can't spare the
cash for any software? Nip over to Honor Mission's
Fun With
Freeware review site and see if anything there takes your fancy or try
asking any of the major search engines for 'free website creation software' or
website creation freeware'. |
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216 Web-safe Colors |
Here's a handy colour picker that offers you 256 web-safe colours to play with (they don't look completely different on different browsers as some colours do). |
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Get your own Calendar HERE |
Want to include an availability calendar for a rental property or for a band doing live concerts,
team season or whatever? |
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Don't really understand Meta-tags? Try this website for help. |
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Want to be able to include a Google search box on your site like that one? http://www.google.com/services/free.html
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Just in case of trouble, here's an excellent File Recovery Software that is completely FREE, although donations are welcomed by the author... |
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How would you like some snazzy 3D headings
for your pages? You can create them very easily with the little interface
below - try it out for yourself, it's great fun! |
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Now that your site is ready to publish, you'll need to get it hosted by a server...try
the one we use. If we thought there was a better one we'd be with them :-) |
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Here's a free classified ad site you can join to tell the world about your
new site - remember to hone your text to fit 100 characters including spaces before you sign up. Writing copy requires calm and thought. Write a few different messages that add up to 100 characters or less (most free ad sites have a limit) and try them out on your nearest and dearest to see which one they think is best. Better still, try them out on someone who doesn't have a clue what you are advertising before they read the message and then ask what they think you are offering... |
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If you plan
to communicate a set of information via a series of e-mails to members of an
opt-in mailing list, a tutorial for example, or to ask people to contact you
in order to receive something from you - an e-book, a program or a password
with which to enter a restricted area of your website for instance, you can
either hover around your inbox and answer requests as they come in or you
can use an auto-responder to handle it.
This is the
program we use. You can use their message or replace it with your own, as we
do, and open as many accounts as you need. It's all completely free! They
offer various products and services for sale and appreciate it if you
purchase one or more to help them support the free services they give to an
ever-increasing webmaster community. |
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Affiliate marketing is big business for a few affiliates and merchants and a
steady but low trickle for the rest. You must have your own domain and web
host to qualify as a network affiliate with most outfits. Here are some of
those with which we have been involved (and still are, to one degree or
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| Whether you are selling one or more products and would like to find affiliates to advertise your goods on their sites or you are a webmaster looking for products to sell on commission, this is an excellent place to look for unusual and international items. This is the best place to find Australian merchants and there are plenty from the UK and USA too,
mainly from medium-sized to small businesses. |
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This is another
excellent place to find merchants with products to sell on your site or
affiliates who will put your products on their sites. ShareASale is a
particularly popular network with professional affiliate marketers.
There is a lot to be said for signing up with more than one affiliate network,
as they do not all have the same merchants registered with them or all the
same affiliates either.
However, make sure this
is a slow process, familiarising yourself with the workings of each network
before you add another, or you may confuse yourself and make a rod for your
own back instead of a profit... |
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If your website is a sideline to
your real income source, the best advice is to pick one network and stick with
it. If, on the other hand, you intend to make your living from marketing on
the Internet, you may not want to place all your eggs in one basket - it would
make sense to have a contingency plan in place at all times and to diversify,
spread the burden and be prepared for immediate action if the worst should
happen to one of the merchants or networks that you have been involved with
over a period. Such failures are rare but they do occur. |
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That advice is given out of hard
experience. Don't let anyone fool you into thinking you can just chuck a ton
of links into your site, forget about them and watch the cash roll in. Links
need husbanding like any other commodity.
Our relationship with LinkShare goes
back to 1998, on and off. This is a very professionally run network and with
mainly high quality merchants who are pretty fussy. Make sure you read all the
terms and conditions before signing up to each merchant with any and all
networks. A good reputation can take years to build but be lost overnight. A
bad reputation can spread faster than a brush fire and take a lifetime to
overcome... Make sure you will always be welcomed back anywhere you have been
before. |
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(Available for US-based businesses only) |
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Want to use a FavIcon (the little personalized icon that comes up on the address bar on lots of sites these days)? Generate one online for free at DynamicDrive! |
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More links coming soon! Meanwhile, check out our favourite PIM (Personal Information Manager) |
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All too much like hard work? Let us build your site and take a load off! |
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