Web Design Resources
This page provides useful links for both clients and web designers that will help you to make an effective web design. Click on the link to the right of each item to view the resource.
Tips on Taking Pictures For Your Website
Provides tips for taking general website pictures as well as taking product pictures for e-commerce web sites. Remember to use the ALT for each picture so they show up in Google Image Search
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Tips on Writing Effective Text For Web Pages
Tips on writing text for web sites. The most important part of your web design is the words you write. Search engines read your text and rank you accordingly.
Google Keywords Tool
The very best tool for deciding on what keywords to build into your website for maximum effectiveness.
Google Keywords Tool... Broken Link Checker
This resource will check your entire web site for broken links and generate a report.
Broken Link Checker... Check Domain Name Availability
To see if a domain name is available, and see suggestions if it is taken, go to this page.
XML Sitemap Generator
Create a sitemap online for submission to the major search engines. A site map helps them index your site fully.
XML Site Map Generator... Stock Photography
Add still images, animations, illustrations and video to your website using stock photography.
Stock Photography... Professional eCommerce
We recommend BigCommerce for a professional solution. BigCommerce websites are easy to setup and maintain, and can be easily customised. Their impressive feature list is 7 pages long!
Hosting Services
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Domain Name Registration
Namecheap is a leading ICANN accredited domain name registrar. Namecheap has over 500,000 clients and over 2 million domains under its management. Click Here to go to their site.