If you are thinking of purchasing a new website or already have one, we have some useful hints and tips and a range of free software from jpeg optimizer to help you resize your images for your site to a free paint programme.

I want to be on page 1 of Google

Here is an interview with Matt Cutts from Google giving a few tips on how Google indexes your website.

www.picturetray.com

picturetray.gifPictureTray is a freeware tool for resizing and rotating pictures quickly and simply. You choose how you want your pictures resized, then drag your picture files into the "In" tray. A resized copy of each picture is made and put in the "Out" tray. You then drag the pictures from the Out tray into another program (like Eudora, Outlook, or FrontPage). This is great to reduce the file size of your piccies before putting them onto your site.

www.nvu.com

nvu.gifnVu is a great WYSIWYG editor. I prefer text editors to WYSIWYG editors, but if you don’t, then nVu is a great choice, especially considering that it’s free. I love that it has a site manager to allow you to review the sites that you’re building. It’s surprising that this software is free. Feature highlights: XML support, advanced CSS support, full site management, built-in validator, and international support as well as WYSIWYG and colour coded XHTML editing.

www.freeserifsoftware.com

serif6.gifPhotoPlus 6 it is free version that features an export optimizer which is great for resizing the file size of your images/photos to put onto your website, Which helps to make your site fast loading. With Photoshop plug-in support, red-eye removal tool, and photo enhancement tools, this is great programme for editing your photos/images.

www.ambientdesign.com

ArtRage.gifGet professional looking art and graphics results with ArtRage 2, a free (paid version also available) desktop art program. ArtRage, the easy to use, stylish painting package that lets you get painting from the moment you open it up. You can paint with oils, sketch with pencils, sprinkle glitter, and more. You can paint with gold leaf, silver foil,and other metallic colours. You can even load in your photos as Tracing Images to help you recreate them as paintings.

Advertising your site

Your website is a powerful marketing aid for your business. It accompanies your other advertising and can be your shop window to the rest of the world.To get the most from your site it is best to tell everyone about it. There are a lot of ways to do this from simply linking to other sites on the web, placing ads onto forums & web based magazines, simply sign writing your vehicle, to placing adverts in magazines and journals.

As we are based in France we advertise in The Connexion,Dordogne Advertiser and Normandy Advertiser. We also have many links across the web for example on Angloinfo, Total France, Franglo, Normandy magazine, etc. As you can see from our client portfolio we have many clients from France, the UK and Jersey!Plus by placing regular adverts people begin to recognise your name and this increases visitors to your site and gets you extra business!

It is worth remembering that when placing an advert, keep it bold and simple, as no body wants to read through loads of tiny, tiny, type, always put in your website address,as clients can then go to your site for more information.

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