Sometimes the Best Things in a Webmaster’s Life are Free

Find Websites That Help Make Pretty Pictures You Can Upload

This is one of my favorites for beautiful image slideshows. You can use the free download trial to get the hang of it (3 simple steps) and buy it if you like it. Here is a slideshow I put together in less that 5 minutes. It includes a romantic photo theme of 50 images. Yeah, there are some pretty hot images!

Sharing knowledge is power

I was thinking today about all the things I do online, it was actually frightening at times. It got me thinking about the cliché “knowledge is power”. I think my previous 2 years in web analytics has corrupted my thinking, I find myself trying to analyze everything, including the Big Mac and Fries I had for lunch, always delicious but today’s Big Mac had more special sauce than the last one. Is knowledge power? I say no; knowledge is power when used! Being able to take your knowledge and harness it will make you better than those that cannot. If you work on the web it’s your lucky day because I am going to share some of my secrets with you that have helped me become successful at what I do.

WARNING: DO NOT READ THIS ARTICLE IF YOU ARE COMPANY THAT REQUIRES PROFESSIONAL WEB DESIGN HELP. (we need your business)

Leverage free tools to help you build killer websites

The Best Free Programs to Help Build a Website from Your Computer

There are countless free tools that webmasters can use to build high conversion websites. If you are someone that likes to get your hands dirty (play with code) and view an html preview on the same screen Dreamweaver is for you. You can download a Dreamweaver free 30 day trial, build a few user centric websites, and buy it if you like it. It is my top choice for the hands on webmaster; along with the Fireworks 30 day free download. Suppose you don’t want to get your hands dirty and you still want to make nice websites. Try creating your own flash website with Wix, it really is a cool website that guides through the creative process. You can even start with some very sexy marketing templates.

Twitter Helps Make Your Own Website to Help People

With the popularity of social networking finding out where people need help is easier than ever. One network I love for measuring the pulse of any industry is Twitter. Download your own free copy of Twitter Deck to start with.

Twitter Deck to Find out what kind of help people need

After you click the icon another screen will pop up, allowing you to enter a search query. If my livelihood included working on websites I may enter a phrase like “website problems” or “website help”.

Find the marketing answers you need by looking for problems

You can enter many different searches, anytime another Twitterer uses that key phrase in a post you will see what they are saying. Here’s is a few examples of what Twitter Deck finds:

Look at what other Twitterers are asking for

Tweeting BirdyI can reply, retweet, or just make notes. In this case I have performed many searches and concluded that WordPress is a hot topic right now. If we look at the first post “Trying to solve some problems with my website. I’m using WordPress and Jumplaunch for webhosting, but somehow it’s not running smoothly.” I decided to write an in- depth comparison to help people understand the difference between a WordPress blog and a website. In a matter of 5 minutes you can find CURRENT topics people need help with, how cool is that?

Why Create and Employment Profile?

Websites that Help Creating an Employment Portfolio

Having and online job portfolio may be the difference between making it and breaking it when stacked up against other job candidates. Remember that your portfolio online makes it portable. What if the position you are applying for requires a decision from more than one person? Sometimes with high profile opportunities conference calls are needed. Your online portfolio can easily be shared with anyone you like. It can be password protected or made public. People I know create complete websites about their work experiences exclusively. On your WebPages list achievements, training, job experience, abilities, and skills.

Employment Sites

Why Use HTML Tables For Website Design?

Lose the html tables and use CSS

That’s what designers today are doing, out with tables and in with CSS styles. If you are one of the website designasaurisses that can’t seem to shake the habits of using html tables read this short article on why html table are stupid.

Do You Need Help Maintaining Your Website?

That’s time to think about CMS like free Expression Engine or free WordPress. Be careful when you jump into a CMS website, some systems do not fair well with search engines. The two examples I listed are great for content management and SEO. Beyond that we can help with website design and content migration.

What were the words to that song?

Websites to Help Find the Name of a Song by the Lyrics

A fun project I started a while ago was compiling my favorite music of all time on my website. I started with YouTube and simply searched for my song title. When I found it I would copy the embed link onto my website, then I would find the song lyrics by entering the song title+ lyrics (the word). The result is a full music video with the song lyrics listed right under the video. Example, one of my all time favs Low Rider on my website.

Website to Help Paraphrase Sentences

In the English language it is next to impossible to paraphrase sentences through software. Although Cornell University researchers may argue the fact, even they will admit this is a highly complexed task, too difficult for computer software to reliably perform. Creating rewrites of sentences or stories is a task you can only rely on a human for. Some sentences are incredibly challenging even for the human mind. The first step to paraphrasing is analysis of the original. As you can see analyzing the original sentences is not always easy.

Can you solve quadratic equations?

Website to Help with Quadratic and Exponential Functions

For all you math learners the web is a fantastic resource for education, quadratic and exponential functions often present challenges for students. To learn the concepts you will need this free website for math students will definitely help. Then when you feel confident take the quadratic and exponential function math test.

Free help websites are a great addition to any person wishing to improve their knowledge based on any topic. This is an investment in your future that you will not regret. With the number of websites available to us it is a good idea to find out which will work best for your style of doing business or learning. This article outlines my style of learning with the most helpful free tools. If you have something to contribute, your comments are welcome :-)

Cheers,

Robert

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