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Plannings

Planning! The worst thing is to start over and over again. Write down all the sections you want on a sheet of paper. Think that you'll might have new sections in the future If you have a lot of sections, regroup them in directories.

Research

Also, it's a good idea to see what's already exist. It can gives you ideas. Make sure to don't copy websites. You'll not get more visitors by offering what's already exist. Offer something different.

Speed

Do small pages, with minimal graphics that loads fastly. Today, there is any ways to go on the Internet : cellular, Iphone, WebTv, Airplaine, etc.

Access

Access meens to use alternate text links for your navigation, use readable size text. If your site is for Elderly, be even more careful about the size of the text.

Test

It's a good idea to test your site really well. Test all pages and all links into it. After many days of hard work we sometime forget some little parts. Maybe to make someone else test your site is a good idea.

Getting more traffic

Submit your site into the search engines like Google and Yahoo. Create "offline" word-of-mouth buzz buy using direct mail, media ads, business card, etc. Get complementary sites link to your site. Do contextual online advertising, such as Google Adwords.

Images

http://www.wpclipart.com - collection of high-quality public domain images. There are thousands of color graphic clips as well as hundreds of illustrations and photographs.

http://www.photocase.de/en - Photocase is a community for stylish high-resolution photography. You can use the photos for commercial and non-commercial projects for free.

Web building

http://www.w3schools.com - At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP. It's Free.

Scripts

http://cgi.resourceindex.com - A site that lists useful cgi scripts and programs in a variety of languages by category.

 http://php.resourceindex.com - Site with complete script, code snippets, documentation and other PHP related resources. In affiliation with cgi-resources.com Around 700 entries.

Text effects

http://cooltext.com - Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like.