Color Scheme Designer

Don’t know what colour your print material is? If you have an electronic copy ( scan it into your computer if you need to) and use this tool

http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/

Here are a couple of great articles to help
How to Select a Great Domain Name for Your Company by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson Web Marketing Today – Feb 17, 2009

Tips on Choosing a Good Domain Name : Considerations you should be aware of when registering your domain.

Once you have something in mind, you need to check that it does not belong to someone else. Check the  domain name commission.  When you have found something you like, that does not belong to anyone else, then you need to register it. I use KiwiWebHost to register my domain names and also for my web hosting. Registering a domain name has an annual cost of about $40 a year for .co.nz domain names.

A domain name is a little  like owning a personalised number plate . Then one has to “host” the registration ie put your licence plate somewhere – buying the car: Putting the domain name (licence plate) onto the files (the car). This is called the “hosting ” ie the space for the the files. You have to pay to have your files somewhere and then the name is added to the files. Hosting plans vary, I use $1 a week hosting from KiwiWebHost with additional web space. The $1 a week comes with 10MB but you will need about 40MB. SO purchase an additional 30MB at $3 a month or $36 + GST.

I was reminded how many people are using wordpress when I read on www.interest.co.nz :

“We use WordPress on this blog and it’s a brilliant (and free!) content management system. We use numerous plugins on this site, including our poll.”

New plugins ( new add-on features) are being developed all the time. Bernard linked to this website which listed some plugin to make a website mobile phone friendly.

Here are some links to lists of other great website that use wordpress

rubiqube.com

www.ndesign-studio.com

www.tripwiremagazine.com

and if you want to be really impressed have a look at the WordPress.org showcase: 1000s of websites

wordpress.org/showcase/

Begin today to build your website! Don’t know anything about wordpress or making a site? I’ll be the link between you and your website.

“Such is their power today that the Treasury and Federal Reserve both circulate “blog watch” e-mails, which are sent to the White House every day. Aides on Capitol Hill solicit bloggers for advice and explanations on complex regulatory issues, according to government spokespeople and the bloggers themselves.”  Taken from an article on “The Rising of Financial Blogger ZeroHedge ”

If you have skills in a area, it could be your hobby, a past or present career, anything really, time to blog about it. Zero Hedge started humbly with a simple no frills site:  ”If Zero Hedge got four comments, it was a great day. His early readers were day traders, many running their own private message boards and invite-only blogs. Commenters tended to be confrontational, poking holes in his lengthy arguments about the inevitable implosion of New York’s pension funds or how Citigroup’s stock was a bear-market bellwether: “You’re kind of a moron,” said one anonymous reader.”

But his audience grew and he refined his direction. Whether you agree with him or not, his has since, taken on staff, revamped the the site and  added income generating ads. ”  Zero Hedge could potentially rake in $25,000 a month in ad revenue alone. That’s a pittance for someone accustomed to hedge-fund wages, but it’s a healthy foundation for a nascent web-publishing firm that’s less than a year old.” see here.

“She was stuck in dead-end jobs, having dropped out of school at 15 after she had a baby. But thanks to the power of the internet – and a little initiative – Lauren Luke is on her way to becoming a millionaire.”

Read more:  from the Daily Mail

Here is her UK website http://www.laurenluke.co.uk and her American one http://www.bylaurenluke.com/

She started making videos and posting them on YouTube about something she enjoyed and knew something about, make-up. Don’t be a perfectionist, this will stop you beginning. Start today with what you can do.

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