Welcome to EZwebdesign.com. If your a seasoned web designer, your probably at the wrong site :) Though you may find a couple of useful tidbits of information. If you need some tips or looking to start your own site, please stay and take a look around.
Designing a good "clean" looking easy to use website is not rocket science. Now I am in no way a web design guru. If you need a professional looking web site that only provides information about you or your business, you can do so easily and affordable by using sites like this one. There are lots of free resources available online and even buying templates is a decent low cost alternative to hiring a web design firm that will charge you hundreds, even thousands of dollars for a site. Take this site for example, does not look half bad. It's a free wordpress template that only requires a link back to the designer.
I’ve been using Paint Shop Pro since version 3, probably close to 10 years now. Since Photoshop has never been in my budget and I’m not a graphic designer, I found Paint Shop Pro served my graphic needs.
Corel bought Jasc and Paint Shop Pro a few years back. I’m not sure that was a god thing. But they do offer a decent list of Paint Shop Pro tutorials for version 8, 9 and X.
If you do not own Paint Shop Pro, take a look at amazon, they usually offer good price.
I have been using Mozy for a few days now and there’s not a lot to report except it does take a very long time to upload 37gb to the Mozy servers. I’ve been running the backup client on my Mac for 3 days and it says I have 4 more days to go. I suppose this is not a huge problem, after all it’s lots of data. And it’s nice to know that if my house blows up, catches fire or my hard drives crash I can still get to my files.
I also found a 10% off coupon code “NOVEMBER” so 2 years cost $94 or about the price of a 500gb external hard drive
I hope Mozy works out better than Omnidrive, I paid for that service last year and now they are out of business, no contacting their customers about closing down and who knows what happened to my data.
If you’re like me and backing up data due to a hard drive crash. You did not back up for over a year and want more than one solution to backing up data or priceless pictures and video, have a look at Crashplan. Mozy seems ok so far but I imagine that retrieving the data would be a slow process as well. With the software from Crashplan you can automatically back up your data to an external hard drive connected to another computer on your network or even a friend’s house. I started using Crashplan before Time Machine was released for the MAC. I actually back up the data to 2 separate drives connected to 2 other PC’s on my network. Crashplan works on all operating systems so my Mac backs up files onto my Windows PC.
Since I’m so paranoid about data loss I do use Time Machine as well to do backups to an external drive bay I’ve had for years. About once a week I boot up the drive bay (It’s kind of loud) and use Time Machine to make a back up.
What have we learned here (probably not much, hahaha) is that extremely paranoid about crashing hard drives. If you want your data safe, use more than one backup solution. Sure you have to shell out a little cash but if you ever had a drive crash and use an “engineer” to try an extract the lost data, you could end up paying $1000 or more. I think the cheapest quote I received for extracting data from a bad drive was $650 and there is no guarantee they can extract the data from a crashed drive. A service like Mozy, Crashplan and an external drive will cost you about $200 to start with a recurring fee for Mozy.
I almost forgot, it never hurts to back up photos and video to DVD’s for safe keeping too!
If you have a large website or maybe a combinations of documents, websites and photos that need a secure, reliable place to be stored in case of a hard drive malfunction, take a look at Mozy.
Mozy Online Backup. 2GB Free or $4.95/mo for Unlimited Backup. It’s simple, automatic and secure!
Mozy is the only free, full-featured remote backup service.
Just released, the MozyPro for Mac beta for business
Backup unity in the workplace is now possible.
* Fully-integrated Admin Console for Mac users
* Server and network drive support
* 24×7 phone support
* Online access to 30-day file versioning
* Sleek and professional Mac styling
Or MozyHome for your Mac
* Download & Install the MozyHome client
* Select the files to back up
* Let MozyHome for Mac do the rest
If you’re using wordpress for your blog or as a CMS for your website then you should visit Weblog Tools Collection Daily. Every day the gang at Weblog Tools blog about the latest plugins, themes and other news about Worpdress.
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If you’re a merchant looking to expand online sales, Shareasale can help you too! For a modest start up fee, roughly $650 you can recruit hundreds of potential affiliates to market your products. If you put some time into your affiliate program it can be very profitable for all parties involved.
I can’t believe I did not mention Open Source Web Design earlier. OSWD is a directory of free web design templates. At the date of this posting there are over 2000 designs available. All designs are totally free but some do require links to stay in the footer.
Here’s a nifty site for free stock photographs, http://www.sxc.hu. Be sure to read the Image License Agreement before you use any of the images. But as long as your not doing anything naughty with your website you should be able to use any image for free!
shopster drop shipping services
If you wanted to dabble in selling online you may want to check out Shopster.com. Shopster provides drop shipping services for anyone who wants to pay a monthly fee for their service. Currently they drop ship over 1,000,000 products. Shopster does everything but promote your store. You can sell products on ebay too!
Don’t expect to get rich overnight. Shopster will provide you a template and building the site is very easy. But in order to really be successful you will have to spend many hours tweaking keywords and finding ways to get your store noticed.
Shopster does offer a free 7 day trial.
Any small business owner looking to save a few bucks on a nice website should take a look at 321Templates.com. They offer some great looking templates in a number of categories like real estate, hi-tech, business, themed and flash.
But buyer beware, if your totally clueless about html you will need to pay someone to insert your company information into the templates. If you have a decent web editor like Dreamweaver you could edit the templates very easily.
Here’s a nifty script for pulling in dynamic content into a DIV, http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/index.html?whichScript=ajax-dynamic-content. You can load external files into DIV’s on an existing page. This can make for easier content management and works as well as server side includes or php includes.
