Internet Marketing Resources

Web Design Tools

Web Design Mastery: The Bible of Web Design. 100's of HTML tips and tricks.  Covers planning, designing and promoting your website.

Optimize your graphics: Reduce the size of your graphics for a faster loading site.  From Netmechanic.

Get Stock Photos and Clip Art: One of the best sources of graphics for your site is no other than Microsoft itself.  You can freely use Microsoft Design Gallery Live's graphics if you own a license for Microsoft Office or FrontPage.

HTML Tutor:  Step by step tutorial with everything you need to know about HTML.  A must read for anybody interested in designing a web page.   Highly recommended.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Tutorial: Style sheets ensure visual continuity throughout your site and minimize maintenance, since one change to the style sheet can be immediately reflected in all pages linking to it.

MyFreeTemplates.com - 100% Free, professional website templates: Probably the best free templates on the web.  Very professional.  You can customize the templates with Photoshop and an HTML editor.  Highly recommended.

Get HTML templates:  Free HTML templates that you can use on your site.  By the Open Source Web Design organization.

216 Color Safe Palette:  Helps you pick colors that will work with all browsers.   Shows the Hex Code for each color.

Add a Search Engine to your site: Freefind's advanced site search and navigation technology can be added to your website in minutes.  Just copy and paste a few lines of HTML code.

Search Engine Optimization Tools

SEOBook: The best and most updated Search Engine Optimization book.

SEOTutorial: Learn the basics of Search Engine Optimization in four easy steps.

Find broken links:   This free tool from Microsoft's bcentral detects the broken links on your site so you can fix them.

Overture Keyword Tool:  Overture's free keyword suggestion tool gives you an idea of how popular a keyword or keyphrase is.  Use it before you optimize and submit your pages to the search engines.

Link Popularity Tool:   One way to improve your search engine rankings is by having other pages link to you.  Find out who is linking to your site.

Meta Tag Generator: Meta Tags are still important to some search engines.  Our Meta Tag Generator lets you create your meta tags in a few minutes.

Server Header Checker:   Checks the HTTP status of a web page.  Useful in identifying pages using 301 and 302 redirects.

Google Toolbar: Shows you the Pagerank of the page you're viewing.

Email Marketing Tools

The Step By Step Guide to Creating and Promoting Your Ezine: If you are serious about effectively promoting your business and building profitable relationships with your customers using email marketing read this ebook first.

Host your mailing list:  Topica Exchange hosts and manages your mailing list for free. Probably the easiest way to start your newsletter.  I use it to send the Digest's newsletter.

Get articles for your newsletter:  This page gives you names of several sites that offer articles that you can reprint free of charge.  You can also submit your articles.

Text formatting tool:  Format your article before submitting.