It’s good to pick a 15 character or less brand name for your website. You can use this for your twitter handle and for other social media sites. We have dummieswebsites for our twitter handle. A very useful tool for discovering if your chosen brand name is taken is Know Em. You just enter the name you are thinking of using and KnowEm will search over 340 social media networks to see if anyone is already using that name. Link to this post!

If you want to build a website then you need to have the right tools. One of the tools you must have is a browser. We recommend Google Chrome instead of Microsoft Explorer and Firefox. It is fast becoming superior to Firefox as the webmaster browser of choice. The following are extensions we recommend you install:   +1 Plus One Extension This puts a google +1 button in the top right of your browser. It allows you to quickly +1 any post from Chrome. +OneFB: Plus One Button for Facebook This extension allows you to boost each of you facebook…

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