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Artists WebsiteTips and Software
Whether you are an artist planning to create your own web pages, have someone else create them or if you need to update your present site, below are links for software and site building tips that may come in handy..
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Creating and Designing A Website
Tips on how to develop your first website:
Domain Names
Things to avoid when chosing a domain name:
www.websitedesignguide.info/hosting.htm
Web Site Optimizing
Ways to get your website seen and indexed by the top search engines:
www.websitedesignguide.info/optimizing.htm
Browsers
Web pages can view differently in the various browsers.
Test your pages in them all.
Internet Explorer: www.microsoft.com/windows/ie
Firefox:www.mozilla.org/products/firefox
Opera: www.opera.com
Safari: www.apple.com/safari
HTML Editors
Used to assemble web pages.
Nvu(free software): www.nvu.com (recommended)
Antenna(free trial):www.stormdance.net (highly recommended )
FTP Programs
Used to upload your webpages to your hosts servers.
IpswitchWF_FTP(free trial): www.ipswitch.com/products
CuteFTP(free trial): www.cuteftp.com
Photo & Graphics Editors
For editing & resizing photos and creating headers & logos.
Gimp(free) Windows: www.gimp.org/windows/
Gimp(free) Mac: www.gimp.org/macintosh/
PhotoRazor(free): www.stormdance.net (recommended)
Things not to do in a web site
www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs
Odds and Ends
Paypal credit cards services: www.paypal.com
Free and Simple Hit Counter: www.statcounter.com
Button Image Generator: www.buttongenerator.com
RESOURCES
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