Useful Links
Web Designers
- Mango Sky: My daughter’s website
- VirtualSilk: A friend’s website
Domain Name Registration Services
- Hosting Matters
- Network Solutions
- Register.com: Requires email confirmation when making changes; not AOL friendly
- Go Daddy: Inexpensive. Annoying sales pages before you can sign up; not very Mac friendly
- There are lots of others: but these are the ones that most of my clients use.
Website Hosting Services
- Stormer Hosting: Starting at $62.76/year: 300 MB of server space, advanced control panel, several e-commerce shopping carts, spam filter and much more. Highly recommended - Signup page for my clients only.
- Hosting Matters: Starting at $36.00/year - they also register domain names for $15.00/year
- American Internet, Inc: Looks good. I have one client hosted here.
E-commerce Services
- Stormer Hosting: Very good Dansie Shopping Cart support
- Mals Shopping Cart: Free using PayPal and your own merchant account; Premium version costs $8.00/month: allowing you to use several credit card processing services: shipping via USPS and UPS tables: plus a little bit more influence over the look of the cart. Free version is a bit weak on s&h options. Pro option is much better. A separate catalog called OptionCart is available for $45.00, which allows you to upload your own products
- Zen Cart: Zen Cart™ is a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system. The software is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce could be and should be done differently.
- Americart: $249.00/year; many special options
Web Design Tools
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