Useful links.

Colour combinations and Colour Schemes...

Great website for showing which colours work in combination, with sometimes surprising results.

Nifty tool for &"grabbing" colour schemes from other sites. Let's you modify any colour in a scheme to see how it works and even gives the Hex code for your final choices.

WORDPRESS

Probably the best blogging media around. Free, almost limitless extendability with free hosting for a standard blog.

Quoting from the Wordpress website: WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free an d priceless at the same time.

The largest web developer site on the net

If you want to start coding your own site this is the place to start. Packed with free tutorials. references, examples, character sets.Absolutely invaluable.

Card payment services.

Probably the best service for accepting card payments on-line. Now part of the Sage group, so support is pretty good and the payment interface is fairly straight forward. Also one of the best for value.

Add this website sharing tool.

.AddThis makes sharing easy for Blogs, Websites and Flash - Configurable button to share just about anything with anybody anywhere. Seconds to add and Free!

If you sign up you get AddThis Analytics (Site statistics).

Web analytics.

Track where your visitors have come from, what they entered into a search engine to find you, how long they were on your website, what they clicked on.

For Google Ad Words an absolute must and an important tool for anybody concerned about monitoring and improving their web traffic.

Web hosting.

Business to business Internet Service Provider offering the full range of Internet solutions to your company.

Great guys with real people at the end of the phone. If you need to host a database and don't want to share your hosting with thousands of others on the same server using all the processing power then talk to Hosting Systems.

Nominet is the Internet registry for .uk domain names.

If you want to find out who owns a particular uk domain name, where it's hosted and when it's due for renewal. Also handles disputes and transfers.