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8 Simple Steps to planning your site
What makes a really good website? The answer is more simple than you think. This guide will teach you how to create the mystical combination of content, design and functionality and bring to life your dream site. Everyone has their favorite websites to visit online. These are the websites that you happily go back to again and again. It’s not only because of the information that they provide you with, but also because they’re easy to use.

Planning Your Web Design Content
If you want your free website to be a success story, it must contain premium content. Whether you are developing a new website or redeveloping an old one, one of the most important things on your checklist should be to create top notch content for your site. A jaw-dropping, eye-popping Flash web design is great, but it isn’t the primary element that will make your website successful.

Flash Websites, HTML Websites & Wix Sites

Stepping into the great Flash vs HTML debate

For years there has been a dispute in the website building world between the Flash mob and the HTML gang. These days, however, the dispute is coming to an end, with flash offering what it always had to offer AND what HTML has to offer as well. Ok, so we may be a tad biased here, but hear us out....

Top 6 Benefits of Flash

Flash has become a popular option for web design. It’s versatile, entices visitors to come back for more and with Wix offers you the chance to make your own  website  without any prior experience or technical know-how.

Tips on promoting your new website
Today, you can still find all sorts of middle-aged forms of PR. Using word of mouth, promoting events and giving sponsorships, making press announcements, bla bla bla. That's great, but we're talking internet here. The first amazing thing you need to remember is that the internet never forgets.Links are here forever, search engines map out the entire web universe and if you spread yourself well enough, people will end up bumping into you....

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7 Public Relations Techniques for Small Businesses - By by Jim Peake

There is no guarantee that PR (public relations) will work, but when it does it can be extremely powerful, ask Paris Hilton. There are a few things that every business owner should know about PR. PR offers a lot of reach, creditability and can drive a lot of business into your business weather it be web site traffic or foot traffic. There are a few simple rules of the game that we will cover in this article that will be helpful on your journey to getting in the news.

Things to Consider before Starting a Business
Quite often, when I talk to potential founders, I hear them say: "I have an idea. I guess, now I need a business plan." Yes, right. But before jumping straight into such an exercise (which most people by far underestimate in terms of time and effort required), there are a couple of completely non-business questions to be answered. Whenever you have trouble answer them, make sure to get them resolved before continuing, as they have a huge impact on any business plan:..

Six recommended articles by David Airey
Your website opens you to a world of contacts you’d never have imagined you’d meet. Now more than ever, millions of people have access to your online presence, who, whether you like it or not, will immediately judge you upon your web design. What does your website design say about the person or business you are? All too often the impression you think you’re giving is very different to the one you actually are…

Design Fundamentals for Novice Web Publisher

If you are ready to start designing the "look" of your first  free website or blog here are my specific recommendations on how to move in this direction. What I am going to tell you is not a collection of tips collected here and there and assembled again for you here. What I am going to suggest to you is a radical, no-frills approach to web site design that I have developed over my own experience as a professional web publisher and as a strategic communication adviser for many online brands.

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