Tips for Developing Successful Web Sites:

Website Development:

• 8 Main reasons for having a website
• Your complete guide to web design
• Principles of Good Web Design
• Designing for the Web
• 10 Tips for Better Web Sites
• Creating Useful, Traffic Retaining Web Sites
• Seven Tips on How to Select a Domain Name
• Domain Name Registration Tips
• Tips for Choosing a Domain Name
• Flash Web Design: Pros and Cons
• Flash: 99% bad
• Using Frames or No Frames?
• Usability of Websites by US Department of Health and Human Services
• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
• Government's Section 508 web site
• Website Usabiltiy Testing on a Zero Budget
• Website Navigation
• Does My Web Site Suck? Checklist 1 - 148 Mortal Sins That Will Send Your Site to Web Design Hell
• Does My Web Site Suck? Checklist 2

Website Content :

• Tips for writing Web Site Content
• 10 rules for your small business home page
• How to Differentiate Your Online Business on Your Home Page
• Building a Content Rich Website
• Passing the Ten-second Test: The frantic haste of information-seekers
• Avoiding Website Assumptions that Mask Your Blind Spots
• Home Page Goals by Derek Powazek
• How to write a good About page
• Getting What you Want: How To Secure An Effective Testimonial
• The Basics Of Tip Sheets
• Education-Based Marketing: How to Make Business Come to You
• Secret Formulas for Writing Headlines That Sell
• Navigation: Not Confusion
• What's this "RSS" all about?
• A Case for Publishing via RSS Feed and E-Mai

Website Promotion/Optimization:

• Develop an Internet Marketing Plan
• Google Information for Webmasters
• How to Rank high on Google
• Search Engine Optimization: Preparing your pages for the search engines
• The Web Marketing Checklist: 29 Ways to Promote Your Website
• Search Engine Optimization Tips
• All About Title Tags
• Web Page Title Tags for Search Engine Optimization & Web Usability
• Use Link Bait to Catch Better Rankings
• Search Campain Considerations
• The Risky "Top 10" Guarantee
• Bad Search Engine Optimization Tricks
• Statistics for Traffic Referred by Search Engines
• 12 Essential Strategies for Building & Structuring Inbound Links
• Creating Your Website's Promotional Strategy
• Link Farms grow SPAM
• Promoting your blog

Advertising & Marketing Tips:

• Getting Going with Email Marketing
• You're Only As Good As Your List... and What You Email To It
• Everything on e-mail marketing
• Six Reasons Why You Need an E-Mail Service Provider (ESP)
• How Anti-spam Laws Apply to You
• The CAN-SPAM Act: Requirements for Commercial Emailers
• Will a Press Release Really Help My Business?
• 10 Essential Tips to Ensure Your Press Release Makes the News
• 12-Step Online Marketing Plan
• Ideas for Designing Your Frequent Buyer Program
• Top 10 Do's and Don'ts for an Effective Business Referral Network!
• How to Write a Business Plan - Leeds School of Business
• Secrets of Successful Advertising
• Turn Ghosts Into Visible Customers
• E-Merchants Should Submit Products for Froogle Using Google Base
• How to Market Online via Flickr and Photobucket

Rules & Regulations:

• Small Business Administration. This is one of the best web resources for the small business owner.
• How Anti-spam Laws Apply to You
• Copyright Information
• Understanding the Can-Spam Act of 2003
• Nolo: Small Business Legal information, accessible to everyone
• Colorado Department of Revenue: Starting a Business in Colorado
• United States Patent and Trademark Office

Recommended Tools and Websites:

• Free Photo Editing Program: Irfanview
• E-mail marketing tool
• Buy mailing lists from Dun & Bradstreet
• Is the domain name available?
• Color Chart
• Google Document/Spreadsheet sharing program (free)
• Custom full-color printing of postcards, business cards, stationary, etc.
• Protect your computer privacy: Lavasoft - Ad-aware
• My Computer Cop - Internet Privacy and Security
• Remove Spyware from your computer with Spyboot
• Tool to convert MS Word documents to PDF format: Cute PDF Writer (Download GhostScript from same page)
• Version Control Program
• Flyer Printing Services

Techno Talk:

• Spell it Out:How to handle abbreviations on your website
• Spamproof Your Site
• How can I make my pages look good on all monitors?
• Free Web-building tutorials from basic HTML and XML to advanced scripting
• Glossary of Internet Terms

Newsletter Archives:

• December 05 Website for Mobile Devices? PDA's Cell Phones, Blackberries..., How to achieve top ranking on search engines (Part 1)
• August 05 Love your Complaining Customers!, Five Tips To Speed Up Newsletter Creation, Web Yodel's Website Starter Package for $135
• June 05 Boost your Search Engine Ranking by Adding a Blog to your Website, Nine Strategies for Successful Testimonials, E-Commerce Market Size to double by 2006, When to Use Animations on your Website