Use these helpful web sites to assist you in planning and designing your website.

Network Solutions maintains the master domain records for the Internet, use this site to Find a Domain Name that is available. You can register your selected domain name here, or I can do this for you as part of my web design and hosting package.

Try a different web browser. Firefox is faster, and more Internet standards compliant. All your bookmarks and favorites will automatically move over to Firefox upon installation. Give it a try.

A very handy site to help you select complimentary colors for your new website. Experiment with the Color Schemer, note the hex color descriptions of your favorite colors, these are a great starting point for a new web design.

The Macromedia Flash plugin will allow your browser to display animated content, sounds and movies. Get the Flash Plugin Here.

Marketing is an important aspect of maintaining a successful website. These advanced webtools are helpful in Search Engines Optimization (SEO) and building an online marketing plan.

META Tag Analyzer - www.submitexpress.com

Keyword Verification - how does your site rank for the search terms you want - www.marketleap.com

Link Popularity Check - www.marketleap.com

Search Engine Saturation - www.marketleap.com

Website analysis - www.sitereportcard.com

Google PageRank Check - www.top25web.com

Markup Validation Service - checks documents like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.
html - w3.org
css - w3.org
broken links - w3.org

Copyright check - Make sure your content is at your site only.  - www.copyscape.com

Cynthia Says accessibility checker - www.cynthiasays.com

Accessibility Toolbox -Offers a collection of tools for sites trying to meet accessibility standards. - www.accessify.com

McDar's Google Datacenter Watch - Allows you to query a bunch of datacenters & check your rankings. - www.mcdar.net

Summit Media's Spider Simulator - tools.summitmedia.co.uk

Google's Keyword Tool - build your keyword list with Google's help - adwords.google.com

Ranks.nl Keyword Density (and more) Tool - are you spamming the search engines? - ranks.nl

Amazon.com