A good article on fundamental strategies to build better, more relevant web sites, from research to design, testing and modification.

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Check out the suite of free search engine optimization tools, including Meta Tag and Keyword Analyzer, Link Popularity Checking Tool, Meta Tag Generator, Page Rank Checker and more.

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Wrangling with CSS can be a challenge at times, depending how technically-inclined a designer you are. Never fear, there are lots of great tools to help you make quick work of designing a CSS-based site.

Click here to read the full article on the Smashing Magazine web site.

Social Media Explorer has written a great article on the basics of how to start marketing your business using social media. Which sites should you join? How do you keep track of it all? Check out the full article at the Social Media Explorer web site to learn how to hit the ground running.

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WordPress is a powerful tool that can be used not only to power your blog, but also as a highly-customizable content management system (CMS).  Pro Blog Design shows how to design and build a custom WordPress theme step by step.

Click here to view the full article on the Pro Blog Design web site.

Once again, the folks at What Was I Thinking have hit upon a subject on the minds of many business owners – how can I use Twitter effectively to promote my business? How do I set it up? How will I find followers once I have an account?  This article is a great primer for those just getting started Twittering for business.

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NetTuts+ delivers a great post on the variety of ways that Twitter can be incorporated on a web site.

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The Web Design Ledger site features free sets of social media icons, drawn in a variety of styles – from the standard Web 2.0 look, to hand-drawn and wooden icons.

Click here to view the sets of free social media icons at the Web Design Ledger site.

HTML Kit provides a quick and easy way to create a custom favicon for your web site. Just select a photo and it gives you the option to customize the icon on the fly. Or, for an even quicker way to create your favicon, enter your Twitter account URL and your icon will be created from your Twitter userpic. Sweet!

Click here to visit the Favicon creator on HTML Kit’s web site.

Web Designer Wall is a beautifully-designed site that includes tutorials on WordPress, Photoshop and other topics of interest to web designers.

Click here to check out the Web Designer Wall web site.