Online Business and Blogging Advice
This section is a collection of some of the best tools I have found online for helping you grow and manage your business. These are the tools that I use, like, and trust. I have found great success using these resources on my site.
If I didn’t think these tools would help you in your own business they would not have made it to this page. Period! As I test new tools and resources that I find useful I will add them to this list so that you can take advantage and benefit from them!
Disclaimer: Some of the products I recommend are affiliate products which I do make a commission on if you buy through one of my links provided below. Please know that I use these products on my own website and recommend them because I have found them very useful and would never recommend something I haven’t used or thoroughly researched.
The very first step in creating a website is choosing a hosting company that will be able to house your website online so that it is always accessible, fast and easy to reach. Excellent customer service, plans that cater to your needs and assistance with getting started and setting up your website are all essential elements of a good web-host.
BlueHost: If you are just getting started and are looking for a hosting service for your first website I use and highly recommend BlueHost.
They offer unlimited hosting space, a free domain name for your first site, great customer service and a 99.9% uptime guarantee for your website. (at time of writing*)
Bluehost also integrates easily with WordPress allowing both small and large websites to easily design their websites and create/publish content.
Our article on How to Create A Website teaches you how to set up your first website in less than 30 minutes.
This is a great article for anyone who wants step by step directions for quickly creating a website and getting started on your journey.
Feel free to skip to our visual guide here for plenty of step by step images to guide you through each step of the process!
Once you’ve set up your website the next thing you’ll want to do is choose a professional theme/design that represents what you are trying to communicate. The theme companies below offer an excellent variety of themes that can accommodate the needs of most individuals who are looking for an attractive, clean and easy to navigate website.
StudioPress offers an assortment of beautifully designed professional themes that cover a wide range of popular categories including blogging, business, Real Estate, Magazine, Photography, eCommerce and Lifestyle inspired websites.
StudioPress themes are easy to install, highly customizable, mobile optimized and WordPress friendly allowing you to quickly design a website that looks and functions beautifully.
Best of all the prices are fairly competitive, especially with their Pro Plus Package that allows you to purchase all of their themes at a huge discount!
This section is a work in progress and new resources will be added soon to help you start, design and develop a website you can be proud of!
This is an example of a text widget which can be used to describe a particular service. You can also use other widgets in this location.
Examples of widgets that can be placed here in the footer are a calendar, latest tweets, recent comments, recent posts, search form, tag cloud or more.