Follow me on MY Social Networking sites for more updates, browse my friends (Thanks Dana for catching my two typos ! )

lists and see if you can make any connections.

Linkedin:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/helpbuildmywebsite

Twitter:

http://www.twitter.com/cindymarks

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=1575324676&hiq=cindy%2Cmarks

Blogger.com

http://helpbuildmywebsite.blogspot.com/

Good Morning All,

Youll notice help build my website has a new page in the menu buttons called "website widgets".

Im using and advanced gallery to display all the widgets I have in categories so you can find exactly the ones you want. Right now I have animal widgets, Blog widgets and Chat room widgets up, this list is going to grow significantly in the coming days. Coming soon will be recipe/cooking widgets then I want to add some misc widgets so there will something for everyone.

The great thing about most of these widgets is you can customise alot of them to use your own sites colors by clicking "get widget"

Follow me on twitter to get updates as well.

http://www.twitter.com/cindymarks

Some new links for great ways to help you build your ecommerce or informational website

It’s a simple service to convert the web pages to PDF files. You do not need to install applications on your computer. It’s free and without registration.

http://www.html-pdf-converter.com/

DocJax is a search engine for documents, which allow you to search documents and e-book from everywhere, preview them and even download them for free.

http://www.docjax.com/

A temporary inbox is a disposable email address, which doesn’t require registration and can be used to avoid spam. Use this email address in forums, lotteries, erotic sites or wherever. The spammers will never find out your private email address. You can also use their forwarding email address to register at websites, boards, lotteries and so on.

http://www.temporaryinbox.com/

CopyTaste enables you to create your own private URL with the data you wish to share with your friends or colleagues. You can paste codes, tips or stories into the text editor, upload an image or a video file, or share a video link from any video streaming site. And the best part is that you can do all of these at once without any registration required.

http://www.copytaste.com/

With this free service you can write a letter to a friend or relative and send to anywhere in USA. They will print, envelope, stamp, and send your letter via regular U.S. postal mail 100% free of charge. You pay nothing.  After you write your letter you will be asked to accept one of their free offers. This is at no cost or hassle to you and takes truly no time.

http://www.esnailer.com/

Color Scheme Designer is a web based color tool that allows you to create advanced color schemes for web or for multimedia. This amazing tool lets you decide what colors would be more compatible with others.

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

Some Things To consider Before Planning Your Ecommerce Website

1. Understanding the need of your business

2. Know Your target audience

3. Your product is vitally important. A Pictures worth a thousand words

If your website does not reflect the idea behind your business and products relatvely quickly it will not be received well.

I wouldnt advise getting too caught up in the beauty of the design, take this for instance, there are sites out there like http://www.smartyhadaparty.com   (not that pretty) however the prices keep people coming back. 

There are others such as http://www.boscovs.com ( alittle better looking) However once they shop their once they wont go back.....who wants to wait weeks on end for their items and then find out only part of it is coming and the other "parts" will come weeks later still.....ecommerce websites need to be easy to use, have great prices and ship quickly and you need to let you customers know your ecommerce website does ALL of this and that alone will keep them coming back.

Easy Navigation
Make sure that your website navigation is simple and easy to find. Oten times people see a product they want to order and have to jump through hoops to find it to buy it.   Also, make it easy to find all your main pages. Use a common navigation bar throughout your pages, so visitors could easily get back to your home page or any other category pages.

Visible Search Bar
A great Ecommerce store should have a well placed Search Bar, which your visitors can use when they are not able to find what they are looking for, using the category navigation, it is a easy step for them to follow and if you have this placed ideally on the top of each web page it is easy to locate and use.

Buy Now or Order Button
A very visible order button is foremost important in any ecommerce website, make sure your product page has a distinctly visible Order / Buy now button.

Cross Selling Items
If you place some items related to each of products that you are selling, right next to the order page, it is lkely that your visitors will also end up buying them.

Just drop me an email and as long as you have a site that doesnt promote anything bad,  I'll add the thumbnail image of your site to the left side of my site.

See the ones I've allready added. All of them are very dear to me and there isnt much I wouldnt do to help them out.

A special Thanks to everyone who has donated to the cause on my homepage.....I have to tell you when she got the first donation she came to me in tears just overjoyed that someone else cared too....

She sends everyone a great thank you letter as well because she really does appreciate anything you do to help her save as many dogs as she can.

Her email is there if you want to just write her a letter.

Hey All,

Just wanted to update here as I havent posted anything new here in a while.

This is super cool.

http://www.helpbuildmywebsite.com/35.html?sm=48969

Need gradients for your website.

Create Buttons Free

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/button/  Need small buttons for your site that YOU customize.

Need to convert images to gif, png, or jpeg and optimize it? Easily optimize your gifs, animated gifs, jpgs, and pngs, so they load as fast as possible on your website.

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/

Hi All,

I have found some new awesome html codes for you. Check out the

Loan calculator Code page

Make Font on page larger or small for the viewer

HTML Calculator Code

Open any URL nside your page

and all its sub pages to see the new html codes !!!!

I especially like the inline frame that allows your viewers to search google or shop on their favorite site or even shop from another page in your site all while staying on one page of your site !!!!

Cindy