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.

Google for Webmasters

Google for Webmasters 
If you are realy serious about your site use these tools. They often come with the site-builders. Not useful if you just want a site that friends can pull up using your URL.

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.

TwitterLocal

TwitterLocal
TwitterLocal is a purely Adobe AIR based application that allows you to filter Tweets by location. Download required.

Welcome to the Local Business Center

Welcome to the Local Business Center
A must for business sites social  or regular sites.

Twellow :: Twitter Directory, Twitter Search, & Twitter Yellow Pages

Twellow :: Twitter Directory, Twitter Search, & Twitter Yellow Pages

**TweetDeck

TweetDeck
Have your SN sites all at one place with lots of special features.

See also Flock.com

Twitter - Business Exchange

Twitter - Business Exchange

Articles about using Twitter in business. Good source if you plan on any commercial or charitable enterprise.

***Beginner’s Guide to Twitter @ Using Twitter: The How to Twitter Guide

Beginner’s Guide to Twitter @ Using Twitter: The How to Twitter Guide
We should go over this guide.
Not the same as more extensive Mashable Guidebook to Twitter. (See earlier post.)

Twitterfeed.com : Feed your blog to Twitter

twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter
Also other social sites. You need to post only once to have the post on each site. Posting is by set times, e.g., by the hour.

Twitter and Facebook as Instant News Service

Ping - How High Will Real-Time Search Fly? - NYTimes.com

" When a US Airways plane landed in the Hudson River in January, the first picture appeared on Twitter. In June, Twitter users were mourning Michael Jackson before major news outlets reported his death. And, this month, as much of the nation was riveted by images of a balloon believed to be carrying a 6-year-old boy, every twist and turn was tweeted and retweeted instantaneously, drowning out just about everything else on the site.

As major events unfold, Twitter, Facebook and other similar services are increasingly becoming the nation’s virtual water coolers. They spread information quickly, sometimes before the mass media do, and their ricocheting bursts of text and links become an instant record of Americans’ collective preoccupations."

Twitter Fan Wiki / Hashtags

Twitter Fan Wiki / Hashtags
Hashtags are tags that connect topic across the social sites.
Examples from Twitter Search.

YouTube - Flutter: The New Twitter: a Parody- Maybe

YouTube - Flutter: The New Twitter
While this is playful, don't be surprised if there is not something similar in a year or three.

HOW TO: Retweet on Twitter

HOW TO: Retweet on Twitter
A Mashable guide.

Twitter Post Update

I corrected the links and added a link to Mashable' online Guide to Twitter.
I can see more value to twitter, but I am still no fan.

AddThis - The #1 Bookmarking & Sharing Service

AddThis - The #1 Bookmarking & Sharing Service 

Share across sites. For the serious SN worker. Seriously increases traffic. (Good or Bad?)

Revised List of Active Social Networking URLs

SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES


URL

http://www.bebo.com/

http://www.blogger.com/

http://www.bravenet.com/

http://www.broadbentpage.blogspot.com/

www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking

http://www.craigslist.com/

http://www.delicious.com/

http://www.digg.com/

http://www.drupal.org/

http://www.facebook.com/

http://www.flickr.com/

http://www.flock.com/

http://www.frank-broadbent.blogspot.com/

http://www.friendfeed.com/

http://www.furcadia.com/

http://www.gather.com/

www.gimp.org/

http://www.gmail.com/

http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html

http://www.groups.google.com/grphp?hl=en

http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlereader/tour.html

www.google.com/talk/

http://www.grandparents.com/

http://www.imeem.com/

www.irfanview.net/

iWeb

iPone and others

http://www.kompozer.net/

http://www.linkedin.com/

http://www.mashable.com/

http://www.mashable.com/2007/10/23/social-networking-god/

www.mashable.com/2009/01/13/free-social-media-iphone-apps/

http://www.meebo.com/

http://www.meetup.com/

http://members.suscom-maine.net/?body=support&cat=webspace

www.myfamily.com/welcome/tour/

http://www.myspace.com/

www.units.muohio.edu/psybersite/cyberspace/cmcreal/index.shtml

http://www.opensocial.org/

www.irfanview.net/

http://www.orkut.com/

http://picasa.google.com/  

http://www.pixlr.com/

http://www.photobucket.com/

http://www.regroup.com/

www.shutterfly.com/

http://www.snapfish.com/

http://www.spoke.com/

http://www.tweetdeck.com/

http://www.twitter.com/

http://twitter.com/fbroad

http://www.typepad.com/

http://www.vimeo.com/

http://www.weebly.com/

www.wetpaint.com/

http://www.wikipedia.com/

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

http://www.wix.com/

www.microsoft.com/windows/rookies/kylie4/?ocid=ftp_rookpmk_wl_281

http://home.live.com/

http://www.fbroad.spaces.live.com/

http://www.wordpress.com/

http://groups.yahoo.com/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/broadbentclass

http://www.yola.com/

http://www.youtube.com/

Yahoo Broadbentclass

Jim set up A Yahoo page for us: .http://groups.yahoo.com/group/broadbentclass/