Once you’ve gotten done with the design portion of your site, you’ll undoubtedly be wanting to put it somewhere. For most designers this is the tricky part, because most designers (myself included) are creative thinkers. Not business minded.

So here are a few sites to check out, when looking for a domain, or place to host your site

Domain Sites

SEDO.com

Afternic.com

GoDaddy.com

Site Hosting

SiteGround

Yahoo Web Hosting

Network Solutions

When it comes to the design aspect of your site, it all starts with a good logo. If you’ve tackled SEO, then it’s time to make sure that people come back to your site once they’ve found it. The first step in retaining viewership is making sure your site looks professional. Again, it all starts with a standout logo. Here are a few examples of good logos, along with the bad.

I believe that FedEx’s logo is the perfect example of keeping it simple yet being creative. If you hadn’t noticed, Fedex is taking a shot at your sub-conscience. Between the E, and X is an arrow which pretty much describes what FedEx is in the most abstract way. If you’re company is more business related, then look to something like this for inspiration.

Another strategy that could greatly help your site, is creating a logo and having your company name rest beside. The greatest thing about this strategy, is that when people here your name, their mind will almost immediately think of the logo associated with the name. You see this with companies a lot. When you hear McDonalds, almost instantly the golden arches pop in the head.

This is a great, albeit humorous video about SEO, as told by The Poetic Prophet a.k.a The SEO Rapper.

When people ask me what kind of computer I use, I always give them two anwers. I tell them I use my PC for gaming, and my Mac for design. I switch off when doing other things, but when designing, Mac is the way to go.

The greatest thing about using a Mac when you’re designing a site, or even something else is the navigation between programs. It’s much more seemless to switch between programs when using a Mac computer. You can simply hide your current program, open a new one and switch off between the two very quick. With the PC, when you minimize it doesn’t seem to ever help in terms of memory. With a Mac, you save a lot more memory space by hiding programs than with a PC.

The screens on Mac computers are built more for designing as well. The screen that you’ll find on a Mac monitor is much more colorful and vibrant. When you open applications, the windows always seem to have much more space on a Mac than a PC as well. Most of this is due to the development companies, and not the computer. Still, you’ll find alot more use of real estate when you use a Mac.

About the only huge negative I’d give the Mac, is the standard abscene of the right mouse click. You can modify this, but out of the box a Mac doesn’t have a right mouse click. You have to hold down crtl+left mouse button to execute what would be a simple right mouse click on a PC. Again, this can be modified simply by using a two button mouse. So there really isn’t much harm in it.