and with a few of the tools available it has become very easy too.
Every once in a while I have to go back to basics or re-learn something that time has dimmed in my mind. There are also times when I can't quite wrap my brain around a particular solution needed for a web-site. When that happens there are a couple of old stand-bys that I drop into.
Visit W3Schools. It is a wealth of information that can help both the newbie and the old-timer alike.
Go to AListApart.com for tips and tricks. The focus here is on building sites that are accessible to all browsers. If you want to keep up with what some of the best webmasters around are doing then this is the spot. There is always new information available.
My favorite tool, by far, is HTML-kit
from
chami.com and it is a MUST! You can be pretty sure that I'm using it right
now.
Do your site up right. Nothing gives you more control than writing your own code.
If you have a website you want to promote, you should check out SelfPromotion.com. It's a resource for do-it-yourselfers where you can learn to prepare your pages for the search engines, then use a sophisticated url submission robot to submit your webpages to all the important search engines and directories. You'll also find tutorials about website promotion, submitting to yahoo, and much more. Best of all, you can use the site for free -- if you like it, pay what YOU think it's worth! The guy who runs it has reinvented tipping!
If you do he'll get busy and won't be able to play guitar in our little garage band.
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If you do need a pro to build, promote and maintain a site for you because you really don't have the time to learn it all yourself then I can't think of anybody I'd rather send you to.