Links to Business Tools For Website

[solvingbusiness]

Hey all. I have lurked here for a while gathering up great info from everyone. I started a small business about six years ago and decided to put a website together (solvingbusiness.com) with links to sites and tools that helped me and hopefully help others starting websites. I wanted to find out if anyone had good links to tools or websites that can help a start-up or small business. Let me know if there are any more categories as well. Thanks.

[kerrylinux]

I wanted to find out if anyone had good links to tools or websites that can help a start-up or small business.
I have at least three suggestions:

# Cat: Contact : "Offer your customers a secure channel of communication" The Secure Contact Form (http://kerry-linux.ie/wee/securecontact/) (FREE)

# Cat: Web Tools, Software, and Hardware: "Can't afford Photoshop?" : GIMP GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program (http://gimp.org) (FREE)

# Cat:Web Tools, Software, and Hardware: "Need to sync files from computer to computer?" RSYNC.net rsync.net - Secure Offsite Backups, Offsite Data Storage and Remote Encrypted Filesystems, Offsite Backup (http://rsync.net) (Low pay, worth every cent)

[WolfStores]

I wanted to find out if anyone had good links to tools or websites that can help a start-up or small business

Hi there,

From my experience most small businesses and start-ups would need a website to either advertise their businesses or sell online (ecommerce websites). But it is not always easy to build a nice and clean website when you have no experience hence in some cases you need a professional to do this for you. On the other hand when you are just starting up you cannot pay a fortune for a website hence you need a good solution at low cost.
I had a look at your website. It is a nice design and it allows the visitor to get quickly to the part that is of interest to him or her. For websites you offer only a link to weeby so I think that you could list some more options here that would cater for the above need.

Hope to have been of help :)

Best Regards,

Tim

[billbenson]

I had a different approach which won't work for most depending on product but can still be an approach. I wrote a website about 10 years ago. I think it's horrible, but maybe it was ok for the era. In any case, I think the site frustrates people and they just call me. That's ok because the product is a consultive sell anyway and I have to talk to 60% or more of the customers anyway.

The point is, I guess, that a lousy website is better than no website at all and there are tools today such as WordPress that can help an armature make a pretty decent site.