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Want to build a web site but have virtually no
site building experience or money?

Good news! The Internet is bulging with web sites, tools and resources you can use to build a great and functional website with virtually no knowledge and no money. And if you do have some experience and even only a small amount of money you can do some even more phenominal stuff.

Once you have a site, you can potentially generate a significant Internet income by putting into action some appropriate strategies to market and sell your products or site - if you want.

So below are links, references and programs you can use to build a web site - either a quick free one or a more complex professional one.

Because the Internet has so many options and offerings, I have listed only those that I use myself and those that are easy to use, have a wide range of resources and appear to be value for money (if any).

First, a few Tips:

1/ Plan out your website on paper first.

2/ Decide on your Domain or Website name and choose your Hosting Company

3/ Build your site using your hosting company's building tools or using a free program such as NVU

4/ Submit your web site to the search engines.

5/ Promote and Market your website to get traffic and earn money (if you want).

Now, simply use the links above on the left to find the tools and resources you need.

and domain registration

Firstly, search for your domain name here.

New Zealand based hosting companies ensure easier help and support for beginners who made require assistance getting started.
 www.feeparking.co.nz is a full featured, reliable, reputable mid priced option and one of NZ's larger, more trusted companies.
(I use freeparking for my .co.nz names).

www.cheaphosting.co.nz - NZ based Hosting only - from $10 a month.
www.netneeds.co.nz basic hosting plans start from just $1 a week. Competitive domain name pricing.
www.domains4less.co.nz can register domain .nz names for about as cheap as you can get.

Overseas Hosting and Domains can be somewhat cheaper than NZ hosts and can have lots of features given they are often large foreign companies. But if you need help and support, it may take longer to get answers and resolve issues. Prices will be in foreign dollars (usually US) and while some can only register top level domains (ie .com .net .org and not .co.nz) they can almost all still host .co.nz names if registered first in NZ (such as through freeparking, which is what I do). Virtally all hosting companies now provide free web site building facilities with their hosting packages.

Need to Shrink Pictures/Photos for your website?

http://www.grsites.com  Absolutely huge offering of images, buttons, menus,
textures, patterns,banners etc. First place to look!

www.flashvortex.com  For 'Flash' menus, buttons and banners.

www.backgroundcity.com  Good selection of patterns, easy to navigate.

www.graphicfreebies.com Backgrounds, wallpapers, images, all sorts

www.banner-generator.net for free page banners.

Free Banner Maker - Excellent tool for custom making page banners and ad images.

www.slide.com for instant 'flash' image slideshows.

www.mediabuilder.com Clipart, animations, images and a link to 3DText Maker.

www.allstuff.dk/engindex.htm  Good selection of graphics, images and scripts.

http://www.bellsnwhistles.com for a little bit of evrything.

www.webbuilderzone.com - huge directory of web building resources.

Insites image samples

For 'Royalty Free' photographs:

www.morguefile.com
www.flickr.com
www.freephotosbank.com
www.freefoto.com

Copyright and 'Creative Commons' Licensing information

Adding music and sounds to your page.
Just Jazz Midi Files
Partners in Rhyme - Sound effects, music loops etc.

Adding video clips to your web page.

Video conversion programs:
Internet Video Converter - Free

How to build website for under $15 at 000webhost.com

Web DevelopersVirtual Library - Tutorials, scripts and everything!
Possibly the Internet's most professional and comprehensive site.

Javascript Tutorials

'dhtml' scripts and tutorials

Using Cascading Style Sheets CSS

Another CSS tutorial

www.thesitewizard .com - Tutorials on almost every subject.

Newbie Website toolkit - an NVU Tutorial that you can make money from yourself.

http://www.bignosebird.com - just about everything to do with websites - great site to explore!

www.2createawebsite.com - Good beginners tutorials

Adding music to your page.

Adding video clips to your web page.

www.CreateAndMarketYourWebsite.com - Good, simply explained info on many website building sibjects.

Begginners Guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

'Link Popularity' and it's importance explained

www.webconfs.com

www.searchenginewatch.com

www.seomoz.com

www.submitexpress.com

www.seochat.com

HTML Page Templates to download
www.mastertemplates.com - free html/css templates.
Free CSS templates, CSS layouts, CSS menus and more
http://www.getcsstemplates.com/
http://www.interspire.com/templates

Don't know what 'CSS' is? Click here for tutorial

Free 'Flash' Templates to download
www.freeflashbuilder.com - For Free 'Flash' websites
www.flashbuilder.net  - For free 'Flash' websites too

Genealogy templates and site tips for
all you genealogists.

Free programs:

www.xnview.com

(FREE, for editing images)

Download NVU - Free website building program. NVU Tutorial available here

www.webbuilderzone.com - For website building programs, reviews and links - some will cost $

www.bignosebird.com- some great little software tools

Colour palete converter - Convert hexadecimal colour numbers to RGB and Visa Versa.

http://www.echoecho.com/tools.htm Various tools such as HTML checker and flash embedder.

'Commercial strength' products:

Winzip - Program for 'Unzipping' downloaded template files etc.

Menu

Using 'Squeeze Pages' to build an email subscribers list.

Squeeze pages program for building quick squeeze pages.

Dynamic drive some good 'Fine tuning tools'.

Email Obfuscator- to encode an email address to prevent spambots
sending you spam from your website.

Using 'Cgiemail' for processing forms on your site and having the info emailed to you.

'Favourites' icon maker for address bar and favourites list.

Splash page example.

Example of a Squidoo site

Website promotion:

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