This Conversion rate website wrote a great article. One interesting point is that it seems big or long webpages sell - I'm not talking detailed I'm talking HUGE pages! interesting...
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04:27
So you want to make a website but don't want to pay a penny to get it done. Its not as hard as you may think.
There are some great free tools I highly recommend:
Paint.net For image editing
Notepad++ For text editing of html, css and js
Firebug For tweaking and testing changes
IE Tab for a quick swap between firefox and IE (the 2 most used browsers) for testing (as Internet explorer is not a standards compliment browser so makes web creation hard)
There you have it, you don't need to buy expensive software like photoshop or dreamweaver, the above make free replacements - sure paint.net does not have as many features but its much more user friendly and sure notpad++ is not a WYSYWIG editor and is not as powerful as dreamweaver but its free! and it will make you better at writing code from scratch. Remember you can always use free templates as a starting point.
I'll list some of the sites I have made with the above soon.
08:14
This SEO and Analitics tool lets you check page rank Yahoo indexed backlinks and all sorts of great stuff, that are a bit cheeky and make you use a image you have to put in a webpage - which is fair enough for a free tool - but no fear a note pad page or opening a new tab and using firebug to edit the html will suffice.
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