By Hugh Garber -

Three people told me this past week that their New Year’s Resolution was to finally learn how to create a simple website.
There are lots of great tools that make creating a website pretty simple. Here’s a good overview of some of the “how-to’s” of website creation.
The article does a good job of suggesting tools and software to get you started. And it’s nice to see my personal favorite secure file transfer software is recommended: “Use a file transfer program (FTP) such as Ipswitch WS_FTP to upload and download your website creation and any updated pages between your computer and web site host computer.

By Erik Small -

I have come across a nifty online search engine optimization tool, called Website Grader, that scores a website and generates a ‘grade’ for website optimization purposes. It scores the website in areas relating meta tags, inbound links, indexed pages, etc. It’s free and worth a run through! A couple of simple tweaks can optimize your website to generate more no-cost inbound website traffic from the search engines.
Check out this website analysis tool at http://www.websitegrader.com