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Software and Technology Software and Technology
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Web Templates, Royalty FREE Art and Fonts Web Templates, Royalty FREE Art and Fonts
Graphics, Art and Fonts Info Graphics, Art and Fonts Info
Graphics and Art Software Graphics and Art Software
Music and Streaming Media Resources Music and Streaming Media Resources
RSS Content Feeds RSS Content Feeds
Work for Hire - Freelancers Work for Hire - Freelancers
Preparing for Search Engines and Directories Search Engine Optimizing / Marketing (SEO and SEM)
Marketing and Advertising Marketing and Advertising
Affiliate and Associate Programs Affiliate and Associate Programs
Public Relations Public Relations
e-Commerce e-Commerce
Newsletters, Lists Managers, and E-Zines Newsletters, Lists Managers, and E-Zines
Organizations Organizations
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Site and Page Design

Writing for the Web
  • Copywriting Course
  • Which Words Spark A BUYING REACTION In YOUR SPECIFIC CUSTOMERS?Discover the 4 personality types and how to get each to respond to your copy. Boost your sales AND your search engine rankings
    when you download The Step-by-Step Copywriting Course.
  • Writing for the Web
  • Research on how users read on the Web and how authors should write their Web pages. Mainly based on studies by John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen.
  • Ewrite
  • Writing workshops, online courses, examples of good writing, and a free newsletter are features of this site.

    Usability and Design

    Web Site Usability

    Usability design is one of the most important--yet often least attractive--tasks for a Web developer. In Don't Make Me Think, author Steve Krug lightens up the subject with good humor and excellent, to-the-point examples.

    The title of the book is its chief personal design premise. All of the tips, techniques, and examples presented revolve around users being able to surf merrily through a well-designed site with minimal cognitive strain. Readers will quickly ... [more]

  • UsabilityProfessionals
  • The UPA supports those who promote and advance the development of usable products, reaching out to people who act as advocates for usability and the user experience. Members come from across the broad family of disciplines that create the user experience. We invite you to network in our community.

  • Use It
  • Usable information technology - Jakob's column on Web usability.

  • Usability.gov
  • Information about various user-centered design methods that can help improve the usability and usefulness of your site

  • A List Apart
  • Great Resource for People who make websites. A List Apart explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on designing with standards. Explore our articles or find out more about us.

  • Web Design
  • New York metro area web designer Donald Peterson shows how good web design can improve your business.
  • Improving Web Site Usability
  • Guidelines compiled by MSN Usability Research
  • Human Factors Int'l
  • We help our Fortune 500 and high-technology customers create easy-to-use, self-evident interfaces.
  • Lynda Weinman
  • web design training, books, videos and tips
  • User Interface
  • W3C User Interface Domain
  • The Web Standards Project
  • THE WEB STANDARDS PROJECT (WaSP) is a collective effort of web developers, tool developers, and end users. Our mission is to stop the fragmentation of the web, by persuading the browser makers that common standards are in everyone's best interest. Together we can make the web accessible to everyone. We need you, Join Today!
  • Style Guide
  • Yale Web Style Guide - A style manual for the design of Web pages and Web sites.
    Environment, Stats, Analytics
  • Browser Software Archive
  • Need to test different browser environments but can find the software version? Find it here.
  • Web Analytics Solutions
  • Running a successful online business requires you to continually manage, measure and optimize your web presence. Understanding where your visitors are coming from, what content and products they are most interested in and how they are navigating your site are key to improving your online presence. WebSideStory® HBX™ Analytics is the industry's most comprehensive on-demand web analytics solution, delivering up-to-the-second insight into online visitor and customer behavior. This actionable insight can help you increase sales by targeting your most valuable visitors, monetize your site content and measure and improve your marketing return on investment.
  • Browser News
  • This page presents web browser statistics that may be of interest to website designers.
    Maintenance
  • FREE Link Checker
  • W3C FREE Site Link Checker Service.
  • HTML Validation Service
  • W3C HTML Validation Service. Check HTML documents for conformance to W3C HTML and XHTML Recommendations and other HTML standards.
  • More Sites
  • Don't forget to check these additional sites for web site builders.

    CSS, XML, XHTML, DHTML and HTML Info

    CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
  • CSS in 5 Minutes
  • Cascading Style Sheets are a necessary ingredient for, and one of the key components of, DHTML. They're also a good idea for managing Web pages in general.
  • Developing a CSS Strategy
  • One of the big advantages of using CSS is that it saves you time and effort by pulling repetitious formatting code out of the HTML markup and consolidating it in the CSS style sheet.
  • CSS at quirksmode
  • CSS contents and browser compatibility.
    XML
  • Learning XML
  • Learn about the XSL "choose" command in Richard Baldwin's continuing lessons on XML and XSL.
    XHTML
  • XHTML
  • info from CNET
  • HTML Validation Service
  • W3C HTML Validation Service. Check HTML documents for conformance to W3C HTML and XHTML Recommendations and other HTML standards.
    DHTML
  • insideDHTML.com
  • Your Complete Source for Dynamic HTML
    HTML
  • HTML Code Tutorials
  • Free Reference Guide for help with HTML Tags Including Form, Frames, Tables, and more!
  • HTML Goodies
  • HTML stuff and more.
  • HTML Writers Guild
  • The first international organization of World Wide Web page authors and Internet Publishing professionals.
  • All about HTML
  • All about HTML from the W3C - the World Wide Web Consortium
  • W3C - HTML 4.0
  • World Wide Web Consortium Publishes Public Draft of HTML 4.0
  • ColorMaker
  • Colors, patterns, links...
  • TableMaker
  • Make Tables for Netscape & Other Browsers Easily!
  • Frame Shop
  • Makes experimenting and creating frames easy.
  • HTML Validation Service
  • W3C HTML Validation Service. Check HTML documents for conformance to W3C HTML and XHTML Recommendations and other HTML standards.
    General
  • Tips and Tricks
  • Create a 'Better Web Page with "Tips, Tricks, How to, and Beyond"
  • More Sites
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    HTML, DHTML, and XML Editors

    XML
  • CNET's list
  • What XML authoring tools can I use?
    DHTML
  • Macromedia's Dreamweaver
  • A visual Web page layout tool with the control of an HTML text editor, and support for Dynamic HTML.
    HTML
  • CWSApps List
  • Advanced HTML Editors

    Web Templates, Royalty Free Art, Free Art, and Fonts

    Web Template

  • The Template Monster
  • Template Monster website templates, flash templates and other products are ready-made web designs, that can be used as a basis for fast and high-quality website. Our website templates, flash templates and all other products are completely customizable and ready for immediate download.
  • Windy's Designs Studio
  • FREE Web Templates for your website!
  • Site Skins
  • SiteSkins allows you to make a free website, as well as create a Personal site, with 5 pages, and a Pro site with up to 30 pages.

    Royalty Free and Rights Managed Stock Photography



    Find the perfect image at Shutterstock or Make $$ from your professional images.

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  • Art Life Images
  • A creative and editorial stock photography agency and website offering a diverse image bank of Rights-Managed and Royalty-Free photos and illustration images of people, nature, food, sports, fine art, business, medical, and travel destinations with over 1 million images online.
  • Shutterstock.com
  • Shutterstock is the largest subscription-based stock photo agency in the world. Simply sign up for an affordable subscription plan and download 25 images every day (that's 750 each month!) with no hidden costs. Or make money from your professional images.
  • Shutterpoint.com
  • Huge collection of digital royalty-free stock photography provided by our members. Allows photographers promote and sell their stock photos and features a photo rating system and subscription-based storage of digital images. Stock photo buyers can find image zoom, search by color, lightboxes, photo requests and buyer rewards.
  • Photos.com
  • Subscription-based royalty-free stock photography resource, with unlimited downloads of photos. 150,000 stock photos for $139.95.
  • Acclaim Stock Photography
  • Acclaim Stock Photography offers original stock photography direct from the photographer. Over 30,000 Original Images.
  • Stock Photos Directory
  • Find the perfect photo for your website from the variety of stock photography companies listed in this directory. Amazing pictures from the big stock houses to those special ones from the professional photographer's light table. If you are a professional photographer and offer stock images, add your website to their directory list.
  • matton images
  • Matton Royalty Free Stock Photography - Provider of Royalty Free Stock Photos, including Business Images, Sports, Travel, Lifestyle, Healthcare, Medicine, Industry, Education, Wildlife, and more.
  • Animations.com
  • 250,000 Royalty-Free Animated Gifs!
  • Illustration Works
  • Featuring the works of over 300 illustrators worldwide, this edgy, eclectic,
    collection specializes in unique, eye popping, meaning-rich alternatives to
    the usual stock photo. New Royalty Free Collection.
  • Stock-Photography-Now
  • Subscription-Based Royalty-Free Stock Photography resource. Comprehensive database of quality images.
  • Veer
  • Royalty-free (RF) and Rights Managed Photography collections
  • StarkPhoto.com
  • Royalty Free and Rights Managed Boutique Stock Photography
  • Creatas
  • Royalty Free Stock Resources
  • Fotosearch Stock  Photography
  • Stock Photography & Royalty Free Stock Photos - 50 Photo Vendors
  • ArtBitz
  • Designer's Stock Resource. Royalty free stock design elements.
  • Image100
  • Royalty-free stock library, with thousands of thought-provoking, evocative images available on-line. Pay once and use as many times as you like.
  • morgueFile
  • A morguefile is an inactive or post production material reference file. This morgue file contains high resolution stock photography images free for either corporate or private use. The purpose of this site is to provide artist, illustrators, designers and educators raw reference material.
  • StockPhotoAsia.com
  • A library of Royalty Free digital images of Thailand on photodisc. Each photodisc contains 100 quality, hi-resolution, Royalty Free images showing subjects and locations from across Thailand.
  • ArtIneed.com
  • Original collection of royalty free clipart, illustrations, webart, photos, fonts and sounds for the use by web designers, graphic artists, students and professionals in web sites, printing projects and presentations. Online and downloadable!
  • Framerate.net
  • Royalty free stock footage, photos, production music and sound fx - the easiest and most cost effective way to instantly enhance your productions.
  • A Luna Blue
  • Royalty free stock footage and images. Digitally produced for broadcast, desktop publishing and all new media.
  • Digital Vision Online
  • Digital Vision, royalty-free stock photography library, providing over thousands of top-quality, downloadable images and moving footage, ranging from people and business to nature and digital art.
  • CNET's Graphics Library
  • Animated GIFs, Photos, Icons, Clip Art, Wallpapers, Interfaces, Graphic Sets and more.
  • Don Barnett
  • Fonts and Seemless tiles.
  • EyeWire
  • Eyewire is a resource for high quality typefaces, clip art, stock photography, video and innovative digital design tools.
  • Ultimate Symbols
  • Comprehensive, useful, and high-quality electronic art specifically for serious, discerning designers.
  • STOCKbyte
  • Stockbyte royalty-free images are produced by professionals. Shot on transparency film more than FIVE times bigger than most of their competitors.
  • PictureQuest
  • Stock photography from 60 leading providers, including The Image Bank and FPG International, and the highest quality royalty free images and CD-ROM titles from Digital Vision and many others. PictureQuest offers free access, natural language searching, instant downloading, free lightboxes, and free photo research.
  • PhotoDisc
  • Quality High res and Low res images for immediate download.
  • Inmagine.com
  • Royalty Free Photos, Stock Photos, Photography and Royalty Free Images.
    Bananastock, Blend Images, Brand X Pictures, Comstock, Corbis, Digital Vision,
    Image Source, inspirestock, PhotoAlto, Photodisc, Photographer's Choice, Stockbyte, zefa RF, 40260, American Spirit Images, Artbox, Aurora Photos, Big Cheese Photo, Bigshot Media, Bilderlounge, BLOOMimage, BlueMoon Stock, Clover, Creatas Images, Cubestock, Cultura, DAJ, Denkou Images, Design Pics, Dex Image, Dynamic Graphics, Epic Images, EyeCandy, Food Collection, fStop, GlowImages, GoGo Images, Goodshoot, Gourmet Images, Hana, Health Head Images, Hola Images, Iconotec, i dream stock, image100, Images Bazaar, Image Club, Imagehit, Imagemore, Imageshop, ImageState, ImageZoo, Image Werks RF, Index Stock, Ingram, Inmagine Asia, InsideOutPix, IZA Stock, Juiceimages, Lushpix, Lushpix Illustration, MIXA, moodboard, National Geographic, OJO Images, Panorama Media, PhotosIndia, Pixland, Pixtal, Polka Dot Images, Purestock, QxQ Images, Radius Images, Redchopsticks, Retrofile, Rubberball, SassyStock, Score, Somos, Sozaijiten, Suitemedia, TetraImages, Thinkstock, TongRo, UpperCut RF, Urikiri, Value Stock Images, Westend61, ZenShui, ZZVE , Footages & Flash, Bigshot, Creatas Footage, Digital Vision, Photodisc, Reel Life Stock Footage, Thinkstock Footage

  • Web Spice
  • 1,000,000 images to help spice up your web pages
    Free Art
  • morgueFile
  • A morguefile is an inactive or post production material reference file. This morgue file contains high resolution stock photography images free for either corporate or private use. The purpose of this site is to provide artist, illustrators, designers and educators raw reference material.
  • FlamingText.com
  • Create cool, custom images for FREE, to use on your website, or in your e-mail. Personal or Commercial
  • www.myclipart.com
  • FREE web graphics, clipart and more.
  • Bay Area Photos
  • All Bay Area Photo Gallery images are in the public domain. Images may be used for personal or professional purpose. (read license)
  • Media Builder
  • 1 picture = 1,000 words is still the going exchange rate, so grab some eye-candy from our collection of free files. All of the images in the MediaBuilder Image Library are Public Domain, so feel free to take as many as you need and use them in any way you wish.
    Fonts
  • FREE Fonts
  • Download more than 1000 free fonts for PC and MAC at this site that offers only high quality fonts collected from all over the net! Also has a list of the most popular fonts!
  • www.BuyFonts.com
  • Welcome to BuyFonts.com, the affordable and quick way to buy fonts for Windows PCs. With most font collections, you have to buy a lot of fonts you never use, but with BuyFonts.com you only pay for the individual fonts you actually want, so you save money.
  • Agfa Monotype Fonts
  • Font libraries from Agfa Monotype include typefaces such as Arial and Times New Roman, numerous Unicode fonts, localization fonts, Japanese fonts, Kanji fonts, Chinese fonts, Arabic fonts, Hebrew and Indic fonts, font technologies for software and hardware manufacturers, embedded type and color technologies
  • ITC - International Typeface Corporation
  • ITC's Web site allows you to browse, view, compare, and download PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts to your Mac and PC. The site also features articles on type and graphic design from ITC's quarterly publication, U&lc (Upper and Lowercase).
  • Don Barnett
  • Unique Fonts
  • The Font Pool
  • 27,372 categorised fonts, customisable previews, for Windows and Macintosh

    Fonts, Graphics and Art Information Resources

  • TalkGraphics
  • Talkgraphics - Tutorials, Forums and Galleries about graphics
  • Microsoft typography
  • Microsoft's Typography group researches and develops fonts and font technologies, and supports the development of TrueType and OpenType fonts by independent type vendors. We also manage the TrueType rasterizer built into Windows. Our goal is to make text highly legible on any device.
  • SVG
  • Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML.
  • Learning How to Code SVG
  • Scalable Vector Graphics will let you draw graphics using inline code...and it's efficient! "I want to show you what real, working SVG code looks like, and at the same time, make good on my earlier promise that you don't need anybody's fancy SVG authoring software to create SVG docs, because in actuality, any ordinary text editor will do."
  • Don Barnett
  • Illustrations, Fonts and Animation - This site is (simply) cool! and a great resource for Design Elements.
  • desktopPublishing.com
  • Graphics and Desktop Publishing Topics
  • More Sites
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  • Macromedia Flash
  • Flash is an industry standard and key to designing and delivering low-bandwidth animations, presentations, and Web sites.

    Graphics and Art Software

  • Xara Product Line
  • Whether you're a professional graphic artist or a complete novice at computer art, Xara has a product for you.
  • Macromedia Flash
  • Flash is an industry standard and key to designing and delivering low-bandwidth animations, presentations, and Web sites.
  • Jasc® WebDraw
  • A complete SVG authoring solution, WebDraw delivers a robust set of graphics design and source code editing tools for faster, more flexible SVG design and development.
  • MediaBuilder
  • Free Online Image Tools Use our online tools to instantly make 3D banners and buttons online, and to optimize your images so they will download faster!
  • XARA Webstyle
  • Template-based utility for creating web graphics. Webstyle's professional templates allow you to easily create all the web graphics you need - NavBars, buttons, banners, bullets, dividers, backgrounds and 2D and 3D headings.
  • Adobe PhotoShop
  • Professional raster image editor.
  • More Sites
  • Don't forget to check these additional sites for web site builders.

    Music and Streaming Media Resources

  • Streamalot
  • Streaming Media Explained - Tips, Tricks and Hints
    Streaming is easy and free! Learn how to set up a streaming server, produce content, and troubleshoot problems all right here!
    Learn the basics, download players, or troubleshoot a problem.
  • Framerate.net
  • Royalty free production music and sound fx - the easiest and most cost effective way to instantly enhance your productions.

    Flash

  • Flash Developer
  • Our mission is to serve the Flash Developer community as a resource improving the interaction between Flash XML and SVG, and to provide more information on Macromedia Flash, XML and SVG itself.

    Software and Technology

    AJAX
  • AjaxPatterns.org
  • Welcome to AjaxPatterns.org, an Ajax portal and homepage for the upcoming "Ajax Design Patterns" book (O'Reilly), with full text online. Maintained by Michael Mahemoff.
  • Sun Developer Network
  • AJAX made easy. AJAX in action.
    Check out a 15-minute video on AJAX and Java technology.
  • Adaptive Path
  • Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications
    Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates: ....(more)
    ASP and .NET
  • ASP Resource Index
  • ASP Resource Index. We are the definitive guide for ASP web applications, components, scripts, and other related resources for Active Server Pages. Accomplishing more with your ASP website is easy with the help of these pre-packaged, tested, and ready-to-run resources. Dig in and have fun!
  • GotDotNet
  • The Microsoft .NET Framework Community
  • Microsoft's ASP.net
  • The www.asp.net site is a portal site for the ASP.NET development community. From here you can download ASP.NET, download Web Matrix - a free web development tool, and ask questions on the forums.
    CGI and Perl
  • CGI Resources
  • The CGI Resource Index, A Product of Matt's Script Archive, Inc.
    JavaScript
  • JavaScript from Quirksmode
  • Information about browser quirks in the implementation of CSS and JavaScript.
  • JavaScript Library
  • These sites provide libraries of sample JavaScripts that you can use on your own pages. Sample scripts are often the best way to learn how to do new things in JavaScript.
    JAVA
  • JAVA Home Page
  • java.sun.com - the source for JAVA
  • Java Boutique
  • The Java Boutique is a collection of java applets, games, scripts, and tutorials. Learn programming and download free java applets and source code. You can also find news about java and jini
    Other
  • Dev Shed
  • Open Source Web Development Tutorials - Apache, BrainDump, Flash , Java, JavaScript, Multimedia, MySQL, Oracle, Perl, PHP, Practices, Python, Reviews, Security, Style-Sheets, Web Services, XML, Zend
  • ChartWorks
  • Visual Mining gives you the exciting ability to include live java based charts and graphs on your corporate site. Free downloads.
  • Developer.com
  • A Professional Developers Online Resource
  • What time is it?
  • The official time.
  • Real Audio and Video
  • Live and on demand audio and video for the internet.
  • Shareware.com
  • The way to find shareware on the Internet.
  • More Sites
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    RSS Content Feeds

  • 2RSS
  • RSS feeds, RSS directory, RSS software, RSS scripts, RSS articles, RSS syndication, XML, RDF, news and more.
  • RSSfeeds
  • RSSfeeds.com is a RSS directory containing links to RSS feeds.
    We do not collect the data in the feeds, like some other sites, but
    we specialize in categorizing the feeds in a directory that is based
    on Netscape's DMOZ Open directory.

    Work for Hire - Freelancers

    Get custom programming done at ScriptLance.com!

  • RFB
  • Request for Bids. Programmers, Webmasters and Designers, put in your best bid for these projects.
  • Programmers for Hire
  • Need Programmers? Describe your project and get bids quickly. This system has an escrow account and rating system to ensure the completion of your project.
    I use them and love it!
  • Web Designers for Hire
  • Need Web Designers? Describe your project and get bids quickly. This system has an escrow account and rating system to ensure the completion of your project.
    I use them and love it!

    Search Engine Optimizing and Marketing (SEO, SEM)
    Optimizing your Site for Search Engines and Directories


    "I use Web Position GOLD Professional Addition for my Search Engine Optimization Service. I can't imagine doing it without it. Download a FREE TRIAL today.
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  • Web Position Gold
  • There's a pervasive myth among Web site managers that submitting your Web site to hundreds of search engines will result in thousands of new visitors. That's just not true. An award winning product by FirstPlace Software called WebPosition Gold™ offers proof that submitting alone is not enough. Download a FREE TRIAL today.
  • SEOChat SEO Tools
  • The SEO Tools found here were designed to assist you in configuring your website(s) for search engine optimization within the different search engines.

  • Search Engine News
  • Search Engine News - Search Engine Marketing Strategies from Planet Ocean.
    Since 1997 the definitive source of Search Engine information for the professional optimizer.

  • Domain Popularity
  • The domain popularity tool lists all backlinks including pagerank, host-ip and url. Choose between Google, Msn, and Yahoo.

  • SEOBook
  • SEO for Firefox is a free Firefox extension which adds many search engine optimization data points into Google's SERPs and Yahoo!'s SERPs on the fly.

  • FREE Link Popularity check
  • Axandra has a free link popularity check software program for you. If you want to find out how many web pages link to your site, download this software.

    Link Popularity Check is a freeware program that checks the link popularity of your web site on several search engines and compares it to other web sites on the Internet.

    You can quickly find out how many people link to your site, how many sites link to your competitors and how you compare to other sites.

  • Cool SEO Tools
  • Free SEO Tools by We Build Pages. These seo tools will help you analyze your competition and your own website.
  • SEO Specialists
  • The SEO-Specialists.org Web site has been developed to provide SEOs, Webmasters, and Web Designers with useful information gathered by our team from various areas of the Web. We hope this information will help you gain an insight into the vast amount of information available within this topic of Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Rankings. We now provide an SEO forum for search engine optimization topics.
  • Ajdee
  • Ajdee.com is a professionally managed, advertisement free, general web directory. It provides categorized listings of quality websites from all around the world. The submission price for commercial sites is US $25.00 (refundable), and for noncommercial sites US $1.00.
  • FreeWebSubmission.com
  • We offer free manual and auto submission to the highest-rated, Free Internet Search Engines and Directories.
  • SearchEngines.com
  • SearchEngines.com features lists of search engines and directories, web marketing tips, URL submission section and more.
  • Virtual Promote
  • Spiders and robots and hits, oh my! Start here to learn all about promoting sites that need a lot more traffic.
  • Search Engine Secrets
  • Electronic Book and Newsletter - Keep up to date with how the search engines work and more.
  • Search Engine Watch
  • Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Watch: News, Tips and More about search engines.
  • Search Providers Chart
  • Many major search engines get their results by turning to third-party "search providers" to "power" their listings. To make matters more confusing, these search providers may run their own search engine sites, as well.
  • Market Position
  • Search Engine Marketing Resource Center. 7 Valuable Search Engine Marketing Resources to improve your rankings including free discussion forums, free search engine optimization tips, free link popularity checking service, and more.

    Sales, Marketing and Advertising

    Marketing
  • LED Digest
  • The LED Digest is an email discussion list for Internet marketers. It's been published since 1997 (each Mon-Fri) and has about 40,000 subscribers. The format is old-school: just a standard text email. The list is moderated to keep the posts relevant and it's delivered in a tidy, readable digest. The LED has a very high signal-to-noise ratio.
  • Cylution
  • Internet Marketing Resources, find daily updated information related to E-Commerce, Promotion, Solutions and Market Research. You are able to specify your search by selecting information types such as: articles, studies, academic papers, statistics and more.
  • WDFM
  • Larry Chase's Web Digest for Marketers
  • Demographics
  • American Demographics - Marketing Tools
  • Net Marketing
  • Advertising Age's Net Marketing
  • ClickZ
  • Internet Advertisers, Marketers Resources and Information
    Advertising
  • Adbility
  • Advertising Networks, Brokers & Reps. A great resource for those doing or wanting to do banner advertising.
  • Advertising Age
  • Marketing and advertising news and information.
  • IAB
  • Internet Advertising Bureau
  • More info
  • See also lists, newsletters, and newsgroups related to marketing and advertising.

    Affiliate and Associate Programs

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  • Amazon Associate
  • Create an Amazon store dedicated to your area of expertise.

  • Click Bank
  • Want to start a successful affiliate program? Affiliate Traction can help. Your site can succeed. Increase your revenue with affiliate software from Affiliate Traction.
  • LinkShare Affiliates
  • Join LinkShare Today!
  • www.AssociatePrograms.com
  • This site aims to help you find the best associate programs and market them successfully.
  • AffiliateMatch.com
  • Affiliate Programs Directory, Create the perfect match between your website and the affiliate programs that will help you make money.
  • Global Affiliate Programs
  • Affiliate programs, sometimes called associate programs, partner programs, referral plans and pay-per-click plans are the fastest growing part of the new e-economy. They are also the easiest way for webmasters to turn their website into a source of income.
  • More Sites
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    Public Relations

  • TransWorldNews
  • Quick, reliable distribution of Press Releases and News items to our network of 700 newsrooms, 8,000 journalists, Internet Affiliates, Google News etc.
  • Internet News Bureau
  • Press Release services for businesses and journalists.
  • PR Newswire
  • PR Newswire is a leader in the electronic distribution of full-text news to the media and the financial community.

    e-Commerce

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    Lists, E-Zines, and E-Newsletters


  • LED Digest
  • The LED Digest is an email discussion list for Internet marketers. It's been published since 1997 (each Mon-Fri) and has about 40,000 subscribers. The format is old-school: just a standard text email. The list is moderated to keep the posts relevant and it's delivered in a tidy, readable digest. The LED has a very high signal-to-noise ratio.
  • The Directory of E-Zines
  • EZINE ADVERTISING WORKS! Find the perfect ezines in minutes!! Save time. Make money. Easy to use. Free ads too. Start selling today!
  • A List Apart
  • Advanced Web Development Discussion - A List Apart is for experienced creators of web content and programming.
  • E-Zine Directory
  • e-zines related in some way to webmastering and web news.
  • E-Zinez.com
  • The E-ZineZ site is dedicated to providing you with information to produce and publish an Internet E-mail Newsletter.
  • Web Techniques
  • Solutions for Internet and Web Developers

    Organizations

  • Web Developers Association of America
  • An association for and about web professionals involved in Web Design, Web Development, and Internet Services. The WDAA™ promotes and advances the professional interests of its members. The WDAA is committed to educating non-web related companies and corporations about the value of professional web development.
  • World Organization of Webmasters
  • The WOW site provides members with the latest news and information concerning internet law, security, online marketing, and webmaster tools. WOW also offers webmaster certification programs, online training, insurance, and job opportunities.
  • W3C
  • The World Wide Web Consortium
    Leading the Evolution of the Web.
  • HTML Writers Guild
  • The first international organization of World Wide Web page authors and Internet Publishing professionals.
  • TRUSTe
  • TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit, global initiative aimed at building trust and confidence in online transactions through the adoption of a branded trustmark informing users of how their personal information is handled by online organizations.
  • SPA
  • The Software Publishers Association
  • The BBB
  • The Better Business Bureau - Helping Consumers and Business to Maintain an Ethical Marketplace

    Conferences and Trade Shows

  • Ad Tech
  • ad:tech is an interactive advertising and technology conference dedicated to connecting all sides of today’s brand marketing landscape.
  • Affiliate Summit Conference
  • Affiliate Summit, Inc. was founded by affiliate marketing industry veterans Shawn Collins and Missy Ward and serves the affiliate marketing professional community. The mission of Affiliate Summit is to be the leading global source of learning and networking opportunities surrounding the affiliate marketing industry.
  • Trade Show News Network
  • Locate information about thousands of tradeshows, exhibitors, industry suppliers, and convention facilities.

    Seminars, Classes and Tutorials

  • Learn2Design.net
  • Build a website, Tutorials, instruction and education for all phases of Website design and construction.
  • Dev Shed
  • Open Source Web Development Tutorials - Apache, BrainDump, Flash , Java, JavaScript, Multimedia, MySQL, Oracle, Perl, PHP, Practices, Python, Reviews, Security, Style-Sheets, Web Services, XML, Zend
  • Web Master Certifications
  • Our Webmaster certifications are endorsed by the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW).
  • Element K
  • The business world's best resource for the knowledge that will lead to a competitive edge. Explore the benefits of online learning and experience all Element K has to offer.

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  • The strangest name in web authoring resources.
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  • Resources for Web Developers
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