As a speaker, your stage presence is part of your presentation. It's no different online! Your online presence is what others see of you across the web and all other types of electronic media. It ranges from how you answer the telephone to the viewer's experience at your website. None of the pieces can be ignored.

Web Design Resources

You can search for your preferred domain name (URL) at Dotster.com, a service which only charges $15 per year to register your domain. You can also ask them to "park" the domain there until you're ready to use it.

Designing your Site (http://www.magpie.org/webcamp/day1/anatomy.html)
Although, they call this a "web presentation" rather than a site design, all of the elements are here. Excellent resource for looking at the ways to approach a topic and the process of designing the site.

General Recommendations on Design Issues (http://www.magpie.org/webcamp/day2/morepres.html)
Some things to keep in mind when you design your web pages.

Web Traps for the Internet Publisher (http://www.techtamers.com/free_resources/articles/traps.htm)
The 10 most common mistakes in creating a web site.

The T.H.E. Institute (http://www.thejournal.com/institute) offers one of the few online courses on Designing Your Web Site. It is for webmasters who already know how to create pages and need to move a step beyond.

Web Site Garage - Improve Your Web Site (http://www.websitegarage.com/)
You can have one of your web pages "tuned up" free to see if you like the service, before you buy.

Neilsen's "Top Ten Design Mistakes" Illustrated (http://php.indiana.edu/~rxaver/topten.html)

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