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• 10 Step Website Planning Guide
  

• 13 Ways to Evaluate an E-Commerce Provider
  Find out concrete ways to help you figure out whether the solution you are considering for your shopping cart web site is right for you.

• Managing Spam
  Tips on how to reclaim your inbox and eliminate spam.

• Site Design Tips to Improve Your Sales - Part 1 By James Maguire
  This is one of the best articles we've seen that talks about important web site design considerations. And the eCommerce-Guide web site the article appears on is packed with other good resources.

• Site Design Tips to Improve Your Sales, Part 2 By James Maguire
  This is the 2nd of a two-part series. One of the best articles we've seen on good web site design practices.

• What Google Says About Search Engine Optimization Services
  This article gives some tips about how to evaluate offers to optimize your site for search engines or how to evaluate whether a company offering SEO Services is reputable.

• IrfanView and You: Working with Images
  Find out how to crop and resize your product images using IrfanView.

• e-junkie
  

• Overture
  

• Wells Fargo Merchant Services
  

• Big Oak SEO Company
  Big Oak offers fully-featured and up-to-date search engine optimization (SEO), Internet marketing, website design and development services. With expertise gained from years of experience, Big Oak makes an excellent partner in helping your business grow.

• Out of the Box Marketing
  Getting exposure on the web is easy with MightyMerchant, but to get the most out of the search engines, you need to do keyword research and optimize each of the pages on your site. Out of the Box Marketing can help.
  

• Authorize.Net "How It Works"
  Here is an easy Step by Step Diagram which explains the process to a successful online transaction.

• JG Design Group - Web Site Design for Small Business
  Do you need something other than an eCommerce site? Do you offer professional services such as seminars, health services, consulting. Visit JG Design Group to see how we've put JG Design Group technology to use in developing a wide range of business services web sites.

• Search Engine News
  Looking for in-depth coverage of what's hot news in the search engine world? This subscription web site is packed with the latest tips and tricks (We follow it closely to make sure JG Design Group gives our clients' websites the edge.)
  

• NicheBOT.com - Find what people search for.
  NicheBOT is a free keyword service that helps uncover hot keyword markets, allows you to check your search engine ranking on Google, and much, much more.
  

• Market Leap
  This site offers some nifty free tools to help you evaluate how your site is doing in the search engines.

• Practical eCommerce Magazine
  The e-commerce magazine for CEO's to small online business owners with articles, tips, tools, guides, and resources about e-commerce software, web marketing, website conversions, web analytics, SEO and much more for your online business success!

• FileZilla
  Open Source, fast, reliable, easy to use FTP-client for Windows 9x, ME, NT4, 2000 and XP with many features.

• GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)
  Free but powerful image editor that can be used for tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Similar to Adobe Photoshop. Works with Windows and Mac OS X.

• PDFCreator
  Open Source program that can easily create PDFs from any Windows application.

• Jaws PDF Creator
  Affordable software for making high-quality PDF files. Many advanced features, works on Windows and Mac.

• Transmit
  Affordable, easy to use Mac OS X FTP client with a multitude of cool and powerful features.

• web designers
  Is a national directory of 4,004 web designers

• Web Designers
  Is an international directory of 20,790 active freelance web designers and programmers