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If you have a website or blog you probably want to know if anyone is looking at it, and where they are coming from. I know I do! I use two different statistic applications.
StatCounter - (free) What I like about StatCounter is that it’s realtime and I can know immediately if how […]

I have e-mail addresses assigned for most of my domains come and go. I might sell any one of those domains tomorrow, so I always keep one main “general” e-mail account. About 6 months ago, I made that account Google’s gmail. It is heads above hotmail and yahoo mail, with a lot […]

Sooner or later (and probably sooner) every webpreneur is going to need to edit an image or create a graphic. Photoshop is the most commonly referred to, but it’s also very expensive and can be a bear to learn. Fortunately, Photoshop isn’t the only game in town anymore. Here are a few […]

The use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) drastically streamlines the job of web design and makes styling much more consistent and efficient. If you don’t know what CSS is, do a google search and learn all about it (or at least a little.)
You can edit css files in a simple text editor like notepad, […]

If you’re going to have your own web page/site chances are you will need a web editor. Unless you want to use the builder included in your hosing package, which can often be limiting.
I use DreamWeaver, but it’s pretty expensive. Back when I started there weren’t any other good options and I’ve just […]

After being online for years and years (I won’t show my age and say how many) I’ve built up quite an arsenal of tools and resources. Like many others who have been working at a keyboard for awhile, I tend to take for granted and assume that everyone else knows about all these things […]