Tips
Search Engines
Top Tips
- Domain Name Registration
- Registering with an ICANN Accredited Registrar, protecting your privacy, and marketing your website with the help of a well chosen domain name.
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- The scientific approach to marketing a website.
Quick Tips
- DIY Web Authoring & Content Writing
- Email security is most important
- Organisational Direction: The role of the Director
- Hard-coded means value-added
- How to tell a programmer that his design is dull and boring...
- Don't confuse your users with too many links per page
- A useful website will market itself
Beginners
- Web Design
- Graphics Design
Forums
- Accessibility
- Accessify Forum
- Accessify Forum: Accessibility Discussion Forums
- WebAIM Forums
- WebAIM Accessibility Forums
- Marketing
- Digital Point Forums
- Webmaster Forums - Internet Marketing & Search Engine Forums
- Graphics
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Lorelei Web Forum
- Photoshop Tutorials, Webmasters discussion, Graphics, Web Development, SEO and Make Money Online
Tools
Downloads
Browsers
- Mozilla Firefox
- v3, British English, for Windows
- v3, All languages & operating systems
- v2 (renders SVG properly, unlike v3)
- Google Chrome
- Opera
- Safari
- Internet Explorer
- AOL Explorer
- Flock
- K-Meleon
- Mozilla SeaMonkey
- Amaya
Security & File Management
- AVG Free 8.0 for Windows
- General antivirus, anti-malware tool
- CCleaner
- User-friendly, comprehensive, temporary file deletion with secure (multi-pass) option
- WinDirStat
- Funky hard-disk filetype composition reports
- FileZilla
- FTP
Lookup Tools
Live, online lookup tools for instantly checking the facts and stats about websites, keywords...etc.
Whois Tools
- whois.domaintools.com
- One of the most popular and universally-compatible whois lookup tools with links to further website analysis
- ICANN Whois Report Generator
- Most official tool - provided directly by ICANN, but doesn't support as many domain name extensions as some whois tools.
- Nominet Whois Tool
- Official whois lookup tool for ".UK" domain names, and only works for ".UK" queries.
Keywords
- Google Keyword Analysis Tool
- By far the best keyword tool on the web, providing comprehensive access to Google's search data.
- Google Trends
- Google Trends for Searches historically summarises search volumes, with comparison between queries. Trends for Websites is Google's version of Alexa and Compete.
- Google Insights for Search
- Similar to Google Trends for Searches
- Google Sets
- Synonym generator
- Search-based keyword tool
- Another Google keyword tool
Site Widgets
Visitor Stats
Maps
- Google Maps
- Ordnance Survey OpenSpace (UK mapping for non-commercial use)
Beginners
Free Websites & Spaces
- BT Tradespace
- Voice
- Google Sites
- Google Page Creator
- Google Docs
- Yahoo! Geocities
- YouTube
- Blogger
Free Email
Free Semi-Pro Hosting
- AwardSpace (PHP)
- Freehostia (PHP)
- 50webs
- AtSpace
