Below is a list of resources I compiled to give you a few choices when starting your new site or blog. The following list is a combination of services I have either purchased, used, configured for a client or reviewed and think they’re awesome.
Starting your own site, blog or online business and having money to invest in your project is always an issue, so this list contains mostly products that are inexpensive or free. Enjoy!
Mail and Newsletter Campaigns
Mail Chimp – A free email marketing service with the ability to design, send, and track HTML email campaigns with simple tools.
Aweber – Send email newsletters and autoresponders. Get top-notch email deliverability with expert toll-free support.
Printed Products (Business Cards, Postcards and Brochures)
Moo Print – Moo specializes in beautifully fresh business card and postcard designs. You can upload your own design or select from hundreds pre-made options.
Domains and Hosting
Hostgator – Offers web hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated servers. Over 2200000 websites trust Hostgator for their web hosting needs.
Dreamhost – Providing scalable Linux-based web hosting, domain registration, and dedicated servers.
Site5 – has been providing quality web hosting since 1999! We host over 200000 domains for customers around the world.
Website Builders
WordPress – It’s an open source software originally designed for blogging but is so powerful and popular that it is being used by many business websites.
Joomla – is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications.
Site Builder – Free and easy-to-use web design software for building and designing a professional web site.
Site Build It! – is the all-in-one site-building-hosting-and-marketing system of software tools that delivers success. And we prove it. No one else does, or can.
Photos and Images
PicApp – allows website publishers to get access to millions of premium, legal images, updated by the minute and can use them in your posts- for free!
WordPress Themes
Elegant Themes – Unlimited access to premium quality WordPress themes for $19.95/year.
Premium Themes – Out of the box WordPress Premium Themes. Solutions for Businesses & Pro Bloggers.
Woo Themes – Easy editable premium quality WordPress Themes that offer cutting edge designs and customer support.
Thesis Theme – The Thesis Theme for WordPress is a high-quality template system that you can use to improve your site immediately.
iThemes – offers the best business WordPress themes for using WordPress as a CMS.
StudioPress – The best, Professionally designed WordPress Themes for your blogs by StudioPress.com, the official site of StudioPress & Revolution WordPress themes.
SkinPress – Download free wordpress themes, web templates, flash intros, zen cart templates, pligg templates etc.
TemplateMonster- offers professional web templates, flash templates and other web design products available for immediate download.
Gorilla Themes – No monkey business. Just unique WordPress themes that are easy to use.
Arthemia – theme is combining a magazine and a weblog into one; it is not too magazine-ish nor too blog-ish. Designed for WordPress.
WP Remix – Premium Theme that offers WordPress as CMS experience.
Theme Galaxy – crafts beautiful WordPress Themes that are not only professionally designed but are also affordable. Their themes make use of cutting edge WordPress features at prices which we think are out of this world.
Zidalgo – Premium WordPress Themes that aren’t ugly. All themes 75 bucks.
Themeforest – is a marketplace for buying and selling website templates and CMS themes for all sorts of products, like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla.
Joomla Themes
Template Plazza – Joomla! template club. New templates released every month.
Themeforest – is a marketplace for buying and selling website templates and CMS themes for all sorts of products, like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla.
SkinPress – Download free wordpress themes, web templates, flash intros, zen cart templates, pligg templates etc.
TemplateMonster- offers professional web templates, flash templates and other web design products available for immediate download.
Graphics and Images
Graphic River – a marketplace for buying and selling Royalty Free layered Adobe Photoshop Files, EPS Vector Graphics, Icons, Textures, Shapes, Brushes and much more.
Audio/Video
Audio Jungle – brand new audio community serving up thousands of stock music loops and audio effects by independent authors for use in your projects.
Video Hive – buy and sell royalty free stock footage, motion graphics and project files including After Effects and DVD Menus.
Flash Resources
Flash Den – buy and sell files to use in your Adobe Flash projects. You’ll find everything from preloaders to site templates, all selling for as $1.
HTML/XHTML/CSS Themes
Template World – FREE, tableless, W3C-compliant web design layouts designed by certified web design professionals.
Free Website Templates – Offers a gigantic selection of custom-made web templates, designed by professional web programmers and artists – all for free.
Free CSS Website Templates – Styleshout offers a collection of quality free CSS-based website templates and a list of useful resources which will help you learn CSS and improve your web design skills.
Free CSS Templates – a collection of FREE very lightweight and fast loading, tables-free premium quality HTML/CSS website templates.
Free Website Templates – A a huge selection of FREE website templates created by web designers as well as programmers, animators, musicians and usability experts.
Free Web Templates – a collection of almost 6000 Free Templates available for download created by designers from around the globe.
Blog Directories
These blog directories are a great way to start promoting your site online. Sign up is typically free and it gives you some free advertising.
Blog Catalog – Blog Catalog is the premiere social blog directory on the internet. Search, Browse, Rate and Review thousands of blog sites.
Blogged – Blog Social Network & Blog Directory where you can get reactions to major news events. No more tired old newspapers!
EatOnWeb – A blog directory that matters. EatonWeb measures the best blogs and lists them first in the directory.
Blog Flux – Blogflux is designed to be a central destination for the blogosphere, providing you everything you need to get your blog up and running.
Bloggeries – Bloggeries Blog Forum is a place for bloggers to discuss blogging. Also includes blogs for sale, …
