I am often asked about my recommendations for various blogging and website resources. So here, in list form, is everything I recommend for websites and business. Enjoy!
New to websites? New to WordPress?
- Grassroots Internet Strategy‘s eCourse Step-by-Step Website Planning for Start Ups is essential and great value for anyone starting out with their first website.
- Check out the WordPress codex’s beginners section.
- Don’t forget to download my free guide – Using WordPress!
Want awesome and cheap website hosting?
- I use and recommend Bluehost – click here to find out why.
Want a great-looking theme that’s easy to set up?
- Check out StudioPress Themes for WordPress. They have a lot of choose from and top-notch support.
Want to get more visitors?
- Grassroots Internet Strategy‘s eCourse Create. Share. Be Discovered is a great place to start learning about content marketing.
- Send out email newsletters with the most stylish monkey on the block – MailChimp.
Want to get your hands dirty?
- Artisteer is a great piece of software for generating the basis of WordPress themes.
- Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 is the design standard for a reason! (I use Photoshop, Illustrator, DreamWeaver, InDesign and Flash.)
- I use Apple Aperture to manage and edit my photos, and Final Cut Pro 7 to edit video.
- CyberDuck is the best FTP application I’ve used for Mac.
- DaFont is an incredible repository of free fonts.
Want to be more productive?
- Sync RSS feeds and stay updated on many blogs at once using Google Reader.
- I use the GTD (Getting Things Done) application Things on my Mac, iPhone and iPad.
- Dropbox is a beautifully simple, drag-and-drop file transfer and cloud storage service.
Want some essential WordPress plugins?
- The All in One SEO Pack will manage all those pesky tags for search engines.
- Let Akismet manage your spam.
- Wordbooker can automatically post to your Facebook page whenever you update your blog.
- The WordPress Database Backup plugin, combined with regular backups of the files of your site, provides a painless way to back up your precious work.
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