Site Builders

How To Build A Website Without Knowing HTML?
- Do It Yourself

You've decided to take the leap and have a website designed for your business - great! Now what?

You have two options: 1) Do it yourself using a design package such as Frontpage or an online template-based service, or 2) get someone to do it for you.

The Do It Yourself option is usually the first avenue approached by small businesses or sole traders, mainly to save costs. If you have a creative mind and can produce professional looking designs, then DIY can work for you. Unfortunately for most businesses going the DIY route, their design skills are limited and they therefore rely on the templates that come with the design package they're using, resulting in hundreds of similar amateurish websites. Such badly-designed sites reflect poorly on your business and can only do your reputation more harm than good, so only use the DIY method if you are really confident of producing a website to be proud of!

You don't need to know HTML to create your own website. Packages such as Frontpage and Dreamweaver allow you to create web pages by simply typing in the text and inserting images using a typical Windows interface. Spend some time doing the tutorials and getting to know the package before attempting your own site and you will find it much easier and the results much more pleasing!

The Best Web Design Tools & Resources For Internet Business

	Amaya 9.3 Amaya is a complete web browsing and authoring environment and comes equipped with a WYSIWYG style of interface 7.41 MB | Windows NT/2K/XP | Freeware
	Yahoo! SiteBuilder 2.2.3 New, improved software makes web site design easier than ever! 10.5 MB | Windows All | Freeware
	Blockstar Website Builder 2.0 Blockstar Website Builder - Create blogs, galleries and web pages with our website building service 5.39 MB | Windows All | Freeware
	WYSIWYG Web Builder 2.7.2 A What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get Web site builder. No HTML knowledge needed 521 KB | Windows All | Freeware
	Portello 1.05.0032 Portello is a plug-in to Internet Explorer that makes your web page editable online 5.16 MB | Windows All | Freeware
	BestAddress HTML Editor 2006 Professional 9.0.1 BestAddress HTML Editor 2005 Professional - Easily create Web sites with full-featured HTML editor 7.25 MB | Windows All | Shareware
	DHE Editor Site Builder 2.7 DHE Editor the Fast and Simple WYSIWYG WEB Editor! 6.85 MB | Windows All | Shareware
	Easy Web Creator 0.6 Easy Web Creator - create a small website as easy as 1-2-3. 564 KB | Windows All | Shareware
	Blueframe Web 3.9.1 Blueframe Web - For individuals and companies wanting to quickly create a professional website 5.69 MB | Windows All | Shareware
	Bitrix Site Manager 4.0.5 Bitrix Site Manager - Powerful tool for creating and managing of the modern web site 14.3 MB | Windows ME/NT/2K | Shareware
	Macromedia Contribute Trial Update content for any HTML website - even those built with Dreamweaver, FrontPage or other editors... 18.1 MB | Windows All | Trial
	WebLight 4.0.6 WebLight is a Website Link and HTML Analyzer 16.8 MB | Windows XP/Unix | Trial
	OverSite 1.0 OverSite allows you to easy define your web site's hierarchy 15.8 MB | Windows All | Shareware
	AzDGDatingPlatinum 1.6.3 AzDGDatingPlatinum - most powerful Dating script working on PHP and MySQL 794 KB | Windows All | Shareware
	Matchmaking Solution 2005 Matchmaking Solution is a convenient and effective web site for online marriage agencies 343 KB | Windows All | Shareware
	Trellian Internet Studio 2 Internet Studio is a range of tools for web authoring, ecommerce and searching 23.38 MB | Windows All | Shareware
	Professor PageCraft 2.0.2009 Professor PageCraft is used to generate content-heavy pages 1.07 MB | Windows All | Demo
	PayPal Shop Builder 1.5 PayPal Shop Builder - Sell your products anywhere with PayPal 5.78 MB | Windows All | Shareware
	Show.kit 2.11 A treat for everybody who needs to create a website in lightning speed 5.41 MB | Windows All | Shareware
	Easy Website Pro 2.01 Easy Website Pro - build high quality homepages in a few minutes 13.5 MB | Windows All | Trial
	WebSmartz 2.1 Website Builder, Flash Intros, & Website HTML Templates Software 9.61 MB | Windows 9X/ME/2K/XP | Shareware
	dbQwikSite PE 4.0.0.5 dbQwikSite is a Free Software to Create Database Web Sites in Seconds 11 MB | Windows All | Freeware
	SiteGrinder 1.0.6 SiteGrinder is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop that converts Photoshop designs into whole web sites 7.35 MB | Windows All | Shareware
	PowerWebTools 2.0 An exciting new design interface with a collection of scripts 2.83 MB | Windows All | Trial

Top 10 Tools to TurboCharge Your Marketing

Copyright 2005 Donna Gunter

Most business owners hate the entire marketing process. I find marketing to be an energizing exercise to showcase my creativity, however, and enjoy it -- when I do it. However, I fall into the same trap as millions of other small business owners -- I'm so busy with clients (my profit-generating days) that I often push aside my marketing (my business development days).

So, to aid me in my marketing efforts, I try and "get the most bang for the buck" out of what I actually end up doing -- and try to do that with a minimal amount of effort. These are 10 tools that I use in my marketing efforts that help me turbocharge my marketing:

1. Assessment Generator: Like to create an interactive survey or assessment that will help your visitor learn something about his/her life or business? With Assessment Generator, you can create online assessments that you can post to your website to increase your traffic and attract more clients. http://www.profcs.com/app/aftrack.asp?afid=256129&u=www.assessmentgenerator.com

2. AudioAcrobat: AudioAcrobat makes audio streaming fast and simple, whether you want to add an audio greeting or audio testimonials to your website or send out an audio postcard or record a teleclass. http://dgunter.audioacrobat.com/

3. Ezine Director: Ezine Director is a great service for creating, mailing and reporting back on the success of your newsletter. I love to be able to see how many readers opened my newsletter, who opened the newsletter, and what links they clicked on from the newsletters. EzineDirector offers the service free of charge if you send out less than 249 emails per month. http://www.ezinedirector.com?affiliate_id=250924

4. FreeAudioConferencing.com: Ever need to meet with colleagues, associates or even family members at a distance but don't want to do it face-to-face? A teleconference bridge line can bring up to 100 people together at one place over a teleconference phone line. You can also conduct classes and training this way. And best of all, it's free! www.freeaudioconferencing.com

5. Google News Alerts - Need a quick way to find out who's talking about you online? Want to know on what sites your content might end up? Need to discover what your competitors are up to? Google Alerts let you type in an unlimited number of search terms, like your name, your company name, your industry, the name of your competitors, etc. Google will then deliver an email alert for any mention of your search term online. This is a wonderful way to track your own PR as well as industry trends. http://www.google.com/alerts

6. Kickstart Cart: Kickstart Cart is easy to use and setup, and offers the ability to create affiliate programs, follow up with prospective and current customers with autoresponders, create coupons for limited-time offers, as well as enable buyers to immediately download electronic purchases (ebooks, audio files). There is a free 30-day trial, but don't sign up until you have the time to test drive it--30 days goes by fast! http://www.kickstartcart.com/app/?pr=31&id=59401

7. Press Release Distribution Services: A well-written press release about a new development in your company can earn you great amounts of free publicity, at little or no cost! I use the services that distribute the releases at no cost, and several of them offer a low-cost upgrade ($10-$30) to expand the reach of your release. To see the listing of the free services that I use, visit http://www.onlinebizcoachingcompany.com/resources.htm

8. Submit Your Article: If you've ever tried to manually submit your articles to article directories, you'll find it to be a time-consuming task. SubmitYourArticle.com automates this process by allowing you to submit up to four articles each month and then distributes the articles to hundreds of web sites, article directories and ezine publishers. I've just started using this service, and I'm already seeing results! http://www.submityourarticle.com

9. SalesLetter Generator: Need to create a quick one page website for a special program or product you're offering? I often need to do this, but need a bit of help in writing the content. Salesletter Generator asks you a series of questions about what you're offering, and when you've answered the questions, generates a one page sales letter in HTML that you can post immediately! It saves me lots of time and energy--much easier than trying to determine how to write this on my own! http://www.ebookgenerator.com/cmd.php?Clk=1227194

10. Typepad: I've tried out several blogging software services, and Typepad is the one that I found to be both simple to use and powerful. You can set up as many blogs as you desire with a Pro account, and you can customize your blog in an infinite number of ways. You can also password-protect your blog and use it as a client-only portal to share info and files with your client base. http://www.typepad.com

Marketing can be a chore, or it can be a creative process that ignites your business. See how these tools can help you turbocharge your marketing plan!

About the Author
Online Business Coach Donna Gunter helps self-employed professionals make more profit in less time online. To sign up for more FREE tips like these and claim your FREE ebook, TurboCharge Your Productivity: 50 + Tools To Help You Automate Your Business and Make More Profit in Less Time Online!, visit her site at http://www.OnlineBizCoachingCompany.com

Free Website Builder

Many web hosting packages include special software to design and implement websites using predefined templates. Unlike Microsoft's FrontPage or Macromedia's Dreamweaver, Website Builders are included in the price of some web hosting packages. Web Builder software normally runs on the web server and no additional software is required on the client machine. The generated websites can be simple brochure-type webs to highly sophisticated e-business applications with shopping carts and credit card processing functionality. 

Web Builder software is appropriate for individuals and organizations that wish to launch a website quickly and at a relatively low cost.