Brand Building Resources

Website Setup

Domain Name Registration: GoDaddy is the most reasonably priced, and reliable, domain name registration firm we've found.

Website Hosting: Dreamhost is an excellent web hosting service. You can host all of your domains in one place, with all the email boxes you need, for one low price. And, they have good uptime, and they don't make the process overly technical.

Full Shopping Cart: One Shopping Cart is a great advanced shopping cart tool — perfect for creating your online shop, setting up autoresponders, and even digital delivery of eBooks and running your own affiliate program.

Temporary Shopping Cart: PayPal is a great solution if you have just a few online products, and you don't want to set up your own merchant account to accept credit cards.

Merchant Account: Practice Pay Solutions is a reasonably-priced merchant account that integrates will with One Shopping Cart.

Email Newsletter: Email Brain is an easy-to-use HTML newsletter mailing program.

Website-Editing Software: Macromedia Contribute is a great software package to use if you'd like to be able to change the text on your website (HTML-based sites only).

Blog: TypePad is an easy-to-use blog system.

Amazon Affiliation: If you'd like to recommend books for your clients to read, consider signing up as an Amazon Affiliate. It's an easy way to make a little extra money!

Website Books

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows & Macintosh, Student Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Macromedia Contribute 3 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2nd Edition)

GoLive Classroom In A Book