How to Keep Your Readers Coming Back to Your Blog | Social Media Examiner

How to Keep Your Readers Coming Back to Your Blog | Social Media Examiner

Excellent ideas if you desire to have many different people watch your blog.
Watching the Social Media Examiner is a good idea if you have a political or commercial site.

Social Media Examiner: Twitter Tips

 Social Media Examiner is an excellent site to monitor to help you improve your social networking. A good example is the page on twitter: Twitter Tips from Copyblogger’s Brian Clark (video) | Social Media Examiner

Computer Tips From A Computer Guy

Computer Tips From A Computer Guy 
The best source for technical information I have found. It covers just about anything from web development to problems with spyware on your computer. Try it! The seach box is for the site and not just a Google list. He writes in English and not techese.

Tips on Making a Website

Yola's tips on making a website.

Create a Google Store App and PayPal

Google Store App
The Google Checkout store gadget allows you to quickly and easily create an online store using a Google Docs spreadsheet. This is a gadget that is placed on your site.

Two major ways to accept payment (except, of course checks) are Google Checkout and PayPal. There are good and bad points for each. This article from Best Shopping Cart Reviews should help you with the choice.  It also suggests some other shopping carts.

Using YouTube to Increase your Traffic

YouTube Can be used to help make your brand and increase your traffic. Create informative or entertaining videos about your niche topic. Yachts 
How about: How to use your scanner as a camera; Lobster Pot Marriages; What is a Land Trust; or A Quick Tour of Maine Farmhouses?
Even a good, interesting ad can get some traffic. Lowes

Google Friend Connect

Google Friend Connect
Enabling Friend Connect on your website couldn't be easier. All it takes is entering your website's URL and name when first signing into your Friend Connect account.

Etsy :: Your place to buy and sell all things handmade

Etsy :: Your place to buy and sell all things handmade.
Do crafts or photography that you wish to sell? Then this is a must see site.

Create custom products and photo gifts from your photographs, images and designs at Zazzle

Create custom products and photo gifts from your photographs, images and designs at Zazzle
No store, but you can sell products online. Again very popular.

websitewizard-guidebook.pdf (application/pdf Object)

websitewizard-guidebook 
A helpful PDF worth reading.

Stock Photography: Search Royalty Free Images & Photos

Stock Photography: Search Royalty Free Images & Photos

Sell stock photos

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions

Set up your own store

Ecommerce Software Comparison with Volusion Social
Compare this to Yahoo Stores

About AdSense for Your Blog - Blogger Help

About AdSense for Your Blog - Blogger Help

Site Build It! Video Tour

Site Build It! Video Tour

Very interesting half hour video if you want to start a business based on your interests. Hand holds you through the whole business development process. Uses the Social Networking Approach that we have pursued. If you really want a successful web business you should really listen to this video even if you do not want to use their services.

Amazon and eBay Stores

The Amazon Stores
Gain the power (and cost) of Amazon with an easy to make store.
WebStore by Amazon: Online Store Feature Tour

What's an eBay Store
Set up store and have your items posted as the famous "buy it now" items. Lots of visibility.
Some interesting information available on these pages.

CafePress.com : Sell Your Designs, Photos and Images on CafePress.com : Introduction

CafePress.com : Sell Your Designs, Photos and Images on CafePress.com : Introduction
They provide the blank products. You put your imprint on it and sell it. The number one site of this kind. Clubs, teams, and online merchants use them.

Make Your Own Website

WIX 
We will Start with Wix.  It has no surprises and is fairly easy with fantastic capabilities for a novice. You may need to finish on your on computer to have easy access to your own information/images. I have started a site called Contig-Variations. It is not complete.  Also just a fun site. Sorry the slide show only held a few phtos.

WIX Support


Weebly
Another free site that is powerful and one you might like. 
Weebly Support  
Weebly Blog


Yola
Yola and Weebly are quite similar. There is a lot of discussion about which people like best.
YOLA Tutorials
 

Web.com costs $11.99 and is an easy setup with very complete support. Sort of a classic site of its kind.

Homestead by Intuit is only $4.99/month after 30-day free trial.I suggest this site for making an effective business/charity site easily. This is probably the fastest to set up if you find a template that suits your purposes.

Godaddy is a domain and/or website builder. Lowest $4.99/mo. Very Popular site that has lots of other features. Good site to build both business or personal site.

WordPress is a free blog builder. These can be very impressive blogs. They have pages that are really regular web pages.

Lunarpages Quicksite Web Hosting Plan
Another popular easy website builder.

DreamWeaver
I use DreamWeaver, the most popular program, to build my sites. It is costly, but very effective. They have a free trial offer.


Kompozer
A free program that is similar to DreamWeaver. If you plan to make and manage a number of sites this is the free program you will want. Must be downloaded

Joomla  is a free website developer and content management progam. It is especiall good if you need to change content frequently or put in a larrge number of "products"


CoffeeCup is free to schools and there is a free trial. Excellent for a quick store on the net. Program must be downloaded to your computer.

Mobile Phone Store Put your whole store on your mobile phone quickly and easily.

How to Create Your Best Website Layouts Ever |

How to create your best website layouts ever | News | TechRadar UK
This is for the serious designer who is willing to use a little HTML. The idea of using a sketchpad and creating a map of the site is useful for those developers who do not use a pre-made template. First, look at lots of websites to see what you like.

Photos/Images: Photo Programs,Online Photo Albums and Photo Editors

If you are going to use your own photos/graphics you will need some place to edit and store them. You have My Pictures on your computer. I suggest you keep a separate folder for each site labeled images. Also it is a good idea to put backup copies on the web or a CD. Images placed on the we are usually jpg.

You can edit pictures in Paint by right clicking on the picture and clicking on edit.

You also have Windows Photo Gallery on your computer. Very basic but makes it easy to tag, caption and burn to CD's'  Also Windows Media Center.

I really like Irfanview as an editor and viewer. It is free to download and is a most complete editor. You can scan and do batch editing and change your photos in a great number of ways.For Photoshop effects free download Gimp. 

InkScape is illustration software similar to the commercial packages Adobe Freehand and Adobe Illustrator, but without the cost.

Godaddy: Photo Hosting Made Easy
by Godaddy.com has a small cost. If you like Godaddy it is worth it.

Picasa is a free site that must be downloaded to your computer. It is very complete and gives you an online web album.

Snapfish is free online site that is quite complete. Not as good editing, but you can do all sorts of things with your photos.

Photobucket is another excellent free site that has a very interesting feature, Scrapbooks.

There are other good sites, and many of the free editor sites, like Godaddy, have image storing and editing capabilities included.

Tools to Boost Your Social Media Productivity � SocialOomph.com

Tools to Boost Your Social Media Productivity � SocialOomph.com

Advanced. An integrated set of apps. Free or Premium.