Useful Links

Here is a collection of useful links.  Most are aimed toward helping my clients help themselves.  If there are other Web sites you have found useful, please let me know so I can add them. info@leejballard.net

Recommended Web Hosts

• Blue Host professional Web Hosting plans include all the features you are looking for at the best possible price.
• EasyStreet offers secure, reliable, high-speed data services and Internet connection solutions for Portland-area businesses.
• ActiveHost offers feature-rich web hosting through our support of Microsoft technologies, such as ASP and ASP.NET Hosting, as well as through our status as a Microsoft Certified Partner.
• Brinkster web hosting, an excellent, low-cost alternative.
• 1and1, good middle of the road web hosting

Search Engines & Internet Marketing

• Search Engine Showdown  The Users' Guide to Web Searching
• Search Engine Watch  The Source for Search Engine Marketing & Optimization
• Affordable Website Promotion Website Promotion Book for beginners
• SiteSell Value Exchange Find quality link partners with this free service
• Internet Search Engine Database  A great site to help you find directories to submit your site to.

Internet Security

• Zone Labs 
• Symantec Worldwide, makers of Norton's line of utilities
• Microsoft Security Homepage
• McAfee Security
• World Wide Web Security FAQ World Wide Web Consortium

E-News

• E-Commerce Times
• TechWeb: The Business Technology Network
• Too busy to visit all the tech forums? Subscribe to The Web Server Times to get news about servers, security and new technologies. All from the Webmaster's viewpoint. Check us out at: www.webservertimes.com

Professional Organizations

• International Webmasters Association, member
• The HTML Writers Guild, member
• Web Design & Developers Association, member
• Portland Area .NET Users Group, member
• Society for Technical Communication, Willamette Valley Chapter
• Association of Database Developers
• Good News Web Designer Association, member