Small Business Website Development: Listings

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Site Development Resources and Advice

Hundreds of site designers and web-hosting companies provide advice on building websites. Here are some of the more useful.

1. site. Complete listing of HTML tags.

2. site. Handy collection of HTML tips, scripts and articles on web design and hosting matters.

3. site. Advice and articles for professional ecommerce developers.

4. site. Over 5000 graphics, HTML script, etc. resources for the web developer.

5. site. Services to translate your (English) content to other languages.

6. site. Advice on server side includes.

7. site. Advice and tips on building good web pages.

8. site. How to design a customer-friendly site.

9. site. General advice on computer problems: simple introductions to the basics.

10. site. Excellent advice and resources.

11. Site Advice and tutorials on web builds, marketing and programming languages.

12. Site Links to useful web development resources, with reviews.

13. Site Guide to aspects of site design and promotion.

14. Site Listings of sites for most aspects of site build.

17. Site Popular tutorials on most aspects of webdesign and marketing.

Site Development Products

Visit software download sites like Tucows to find an enormous range of software for website development, much of it shareware or free. You can buy second hand and/or earlier editions of software at e-auctions. Here we list a few extra software sites.

1. site. Software to integrate into your coded pages. Search by directory or send a request.

2. site. Literally hundreds of scripts, covering just about everything. Modestly-priced or free.

3. site. Range of popular products: HTML/Flash editors, style makers, etc. from $20.

4. site. The professional's choice of web authoring software. $399.

5. site. Excellent source of scripts for shopping carts, polling forms, chat rooms, etc. Downloads free: support (if needed) by contract.

6. site. Adds a search facility to your site. Free version for up to 32 Mbyte sites carries advertising; professional version from $19/month.

8. site. Adobe's answer to Dreamweaver. Very fully featured. $399.

9. site. Software to add a search facility to your site. Works on most platforms and file types. 24 languages supported. $0 - $149.

10. Site Over 3,000 scripts: competitive prices, some free.

11. Site Handy little editor that strips out HTML tags: basic version free.

12. Site Source of (free) polls to add to your site.

13. Site Free sound files for your site.

14. Site Download updates and patches from this site: now replaced by Download Dispatch newsletter.

Site Testing and Services

1. site. Jacob Neilson's twice-monthly (free) article on web usability.

2. site. Service to tell you when the server is down. From $24/month.

3. site. Tips and techniques for building user-friendly web pages.

4. site. Checks your site is accessible to people with disabilities. Free to use. $99 to purchase program.

5. site. Tracks customer access to selling pages and hence conversion rates. $60.

6. site. Checks all the links, internal and external, within your site, and reports broken or doubtful ones. $35.

7. site. Free online service checks links, word counts, browser compatibility and HTML coding of your pages.

8. site. Services and software to thoroughly test your ecommerce site. For larger companies and telecoms.

9. site. Free tool to alert you when keywords of your choice appear on Google.

10. Site View your pages as the search engines do.

11. Site Listing of some 50 products and services that analyze your web traffic.

12. Site Tests your site for reliability, security and customer friendliness.

13. Site Checks your keywords against those in competing sites.

14. Site Advanced link checker for large sites. From $750.

15. Site Excellent free software for checking links.

16. Site Software to easily calculate return on investment and improve conversion rates. $19.95

17. Site Examines network connect to Internet and reports on what hosts are visible and their vulnerabilities. Input an URL at the free 'What's that site running?' and you're given the server employed.

18. Site HTML Toolbox checks links, coding, appearance under different browsers, etc. $60/year.

19. Site Sophisticated systems to complement customer resource management.

20. Site Services to monitor website performance and report problems.

21. Site CGI (Perl) program to alert you when server is down. $10.

22. Site Sun Microsystems' worked examples of webpage design improvements.

23. Site Alerts you to keywords of your choice on news sites, newsgroups and search engines. From $4/month.

24. Site Site appraisal services, especially security.

25. Site Emails you when your server is down. From $15/month.

26. Site Good listing of tools and services for website testing and management.

27. Site Web-based file transfer service that allows large transfers. Fees on application.

28. Site File transfer and storage facilities.

Logfile Analysis

You'll probably do better to host with a company that provides detailed traffic analysis, but if you do want software or services to make sense of your server logs, these are some of the cheaper options.

1. site. Software to thoroughly analyze visitor behavior. $40.

2. site. Popular free program that comes in 31 languages and works on any server.

3. site. Free code to paste onto your pages and provide site statistics.

4. site. Program to thoroughly analyze visitor behavior. $495.

5. site. Advanced site traffic tracking and analysis: $20/month and $50/month.

6. site. Simple-to-install traffic analysis service: $0 to $9/month.

7. site. Comprehensive website traffic analysis tool. Unregistered version free.

8. site. Well-recommended traffic analyzer for Apache and Windows servers. $75.

9. site. Popular site analysis software.

10. Site Improve the focus of your site by analyzing server logfiles: helpful articles.

11. Site Affordable service, from $1.95 for 15,000 hits/month.

Site Testing: Browsers

Download browsers from these sites to thoroughly test your site.

1. site. Includes most of the common browsers, including some not so common.

2. site. Netscape browsers from versions 4.

Or (better) use the following tool:

3. site. View your site in versions 2.0 to 6.11 of IE, NN, AOL and Opera on PC, Mac and WebTV platforms. $15 for single use; annual subscription $150/site.

Improving Conversion Rates

1. site. Marketing online ads to people rather than demographic groups: fees on request.

2. site. How to improve website conversion rates through education, articles and resources.

3. site. 29th November 2000 article summarizing conversion rates reported by ecommerce surveys.

4. site. Articles, tools and services to use your customer data and improve profitability.

5. site. Handy summaries of ecommerce statistics under various categories.

6. site. Free newspaper on how to improve conversion rates, plus services as needed.

7. site. Free, simple spreadsheet to track changes in the marketing effectiveness of websites.

8. site. Hurol Inan's ebook with articles, tips and resources for measuring and improving your conversion rates. A$ 49.95.

9. site. Software to test and improve conversion rates. Free articles.

10. Site Services to test web pages for sales effectiveness and conversion rates. Lots of free tips.

11. Site Eric T. Peterson's ebook on optimizing websites for sales. $49.95, but previews and free downloads.

Company Accreditation

Belonging to one of these associations will help to inspire confidence in your site.

1. site. Leading US association: you provide information that potential customers can check.

2. site. Claim a 15-30% increase in sales when site shows their accreditation.

3. site. Dedicated to providing customers with choice, security and redress with regard to their personal information.

Software Reviews

Read as many reviews as possible before purchasing any item of software. You will find reviews, comments and much useful information at these sites:

Online Editions of PC Magazines

1. site. Online edition of UK magazine for net professionals: use search box to find past reviews.

2. site. Current edition of this popular UK Internet magazine online. Useful articles.

3. site. Excellent reviews and much else in this leading US magazine.

4. site. Reviews of Mac products, plus links to Mac magazines.

Review Sites: Free

1. site. In-depth reviews of leading design products.

2. site. Hundreds of reviews of software, hardware and Internet services.

3. site. Extensive database of product reviews, opinions and best prices.

4. site. More popular programs reviewed, though not in great depth. Includes links to UK software auctions.

5. site. Short guide to evaluating software.

Review Sites: Commercial

Many IT companies will undertake software evaluation, but you may prefer the specialists:

1. site. Programs to compare over 115 accounting packages in the $150 to $90,000 price bracket. Standard program is $395.

2. site. Australian IT company offering ecommerce solution evaluation.

3. site. Guides to and evaluation of business and accounting software.

Software Vendors

1. site. Look in Electronics | Business & Software | E-Commerce for product listings and occasional reviews.

2. site. Internet's largest index of Unix and cross-linked open source software.

3. site. An amazon.com for software; includes brief reviews.

4. site. Software for the Macintosh.

5. site. Good listings of products, each with a brief review. Internet's oldest software evaluation site.

6. site. Product descriptions, with simple rating system.

7. site. Smaller selection than Tucows, but fuller reviews.

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