Depending on your knowledge with HTML and CSS, and how much time you have in your hands, making a webpage for your business can either be easy or difficult. If you find yourself in the latter side of the story, don’t fret. There are still a lot of things that you can do that are fairly easy to understand. Here are more tools to help you make your website:

1. For creating graphics and editing images like retouching, resizing, etc, the following are offered as free open source tools:
   • GIMP – can do photo retouching and image composition
   • Blender – can render images in 3D
   • Picnik – upload your own photos and edit them using this free software
2. For creating your logo, you can try the free services of LogoInstant. They have a gallery of several designs where you can pick and choose, then download to edit at your own customization or style.
3. For tracking website traffic, you can avail of the following which are also free:
   • Google Analytics – all you need is to sign up for a Google account and then you’re ready to go. Google Analytics provide you with a lot of useful data like how many times your website has been visited and what pages people are on, as well as incoming links that have referred your site
   • Stat Counter – this also gives you a complete tally of the number of times your website has been viewed
   • WordPress also offers their own visitor counter as a widget for available for any template
4. For free design software, Adobe offers free downloads for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe DreamWeaver for free trial, which will last 30 days. So once you use it, make sure that you use your time wisely so that you can maximize as much work as you can within the limited time frame.
5. For free hosting of your images, the following are proven to be free and very reliable:
   • Photobucket – upload photos and videos that you can use for your website. You can group your photos into albums. There are also the following built-in services: photo editor, scrapbook builder and slideshow builder
   • Flickr – for a free account you can upload up to a total of 200 photos. You can also group them in several album sets and apply privacy settings if you want to keep some photos private. Flickr also has a very helpful and friendly community where you can communicate with other people and join groups of your interest.

If you have more time to read and a bit of money to spend, you might want to check out the following as well:

1. Build Your Own Website – A Complete Guide For The Novice. This is a great ebook that gives a lot of tips to newbies who are just starting to learn how to make their website. It also contains a lot of ideas on how to monetize your website – a must have!
2. Amazing HTML Tutorial Videos. Are you ready to learn HTML? Here’s your chance to learn from the BEST HTML Video Tutorials series. These tutorial videos are a big treasure trove of knowledge, as they will help you learn HTML in steps that are very easy to understand and to follow.
3. HTML And Dreamweaver For Beginners. This is one of the best out there because you will learn a lot on different techniques and understand the wisdom behind it, like: learning how to use a background to garner more interest from your readers, cleaning up your HTML code so Google can index your site better, and many more. Discover 31 video tutorials that will guide you step-by-step on becoming one of the best in the internet.
4. Website Traffic Hitlist. Once you already have a website up and running, you need to find out how to generate some website traffic. This traffic generating blueprint provides 120 traffic generating strategies including offline traffic techniques and more.
5. Consumer Guard Website Verification. If you would be selling products on your website, then it is important that you look and sound trustworthy from the get-go. This tool will give you online website verification and trust seals, which are very important because you build consumer trust by displaying verification information. A consumer guard seal helps your website improve its credibility.

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