Web & Internet Resources, Tutorials
Today's internet is constantly changing, and I love staying current and sharing what's new and helpful! Here are some of my favorite resources which you may benefit from. If you have resources to share or if you have questions, feel free to contact me.
- FTP Help
- Whether you're using Windows, Linux or Mac, I highly recommend downloading & installing the free, open-source program "Filezilla". When you're set up, get the ftp address of the site you need to upload or download your files set up.
- Check out these helpful tutorials at http://www.butterscotch.com as well.
- Web Hosting
- The web host I recommend for most projects these days is Bluehost.
I find their customer service to be pretty decent, you can reach them by telephone within a reasonable time, they appear to be fully US-based, and offer decently priced packages and service, and they host both the Spectrum sites.- Lunarpages offers decent plans as well, but I still prefer Bluehost's service to theirs.
- Choosing Web Color
- If you're picky about color on the web, keep in mind that colors will shift across different monitors and also look different on Macs vs PCs. Use one of these sites to help you pick the right shade by its hex or rgb code:
Wikipedia on Web colors
Visibone Color Lab
Web Color Picker- Search Engine Promotion Tips and Help
- Search Engine Guide Our first stop for SEO/SEM info... subscribe to their newsletter..it's great!
- High Rankings SEO Resources - another of our favorites.. and Jill also offers a tip-packed newsletter.
- High Rankings Forum - good discussion forum on Search Engine Optimizaiton.
- Search Engine Watch Another informative resource about search engines
- Social Media
- Trying to wrap your brain around Facebook, Twitter and the other social media outlets and how to use them? I really like pretty much anything Jennifer Laycock has to say about the subject (and SEO), and you can learn alot about marketing in this "web 2.0" world from The Digital Marketer's quick little podcasts
- Web Authoring
