Build your own website with a online builder

Welcome to our blog, we hope you are enjoying spidersitebuilder.com for all your online website building needs. We decided to put a blog together compiling some website builder tutorials, links to useful software, SEO help and just general hints and tips for using Spider. Keep in mind the tutorials on this blog relate to using spidersitebuilder.com
Spidersitebuilder is the ultimate builder available for do-it-yourself websites and it can be used for any type of business. Building and managing your website has never been this easy. We are constantly surprised by the kinds of sites that our customers have created with our online website builder which vary hugely in their purpose, style, structure and language.

Included are:
Photos galleries/Slideshows
Super easy to use text editor - total control with your template
Built in SEO
Forums
Image effects
Custom Forms
Tons more.....

There is a free no-obligation trial for our online website builder program, so why not have a go.




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Website Backgrounds

One fun aspect of working within Spider site builder is you can upload any type of background you like.  You dont have to choose from the available options that are already preloaded into the editor...so get creative!

Great place to find unique backgrounds for your website


Examples of websites that use large colorful backgrounds


One of my favorites is Black carbon    (this is free, just right click and save)


Make sure to use one of the image editors listed on this page to resize your background (if needed) to the size of your website. (Pay close attention to the "size" of your website page, the background size will need to reflect this size)


If your not yet comfortable using the image to create on of your own backgrounds and your not finding exactly what you want from above, I recommend trying graphicriver.net.  Usually to purchase a background is just a few bucks, and they have some amazing stuff.

*Make sure to check the License options before purchasing
*Make sure the background you buy has a ".jpeg" file in it and not just a ".psd" file.  PSD files are photoshop files and you have to have that program to open them.

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Free Image Editing Software to use with your website builder

Working with different site builders it is essential to use some type of image editing software. Photoshop is the ideal, with its full range of abilites, it can open up endless possibilites for creating banners, logos, buttons, images effects, cropping & resizing and special effects fonts/text. My idea of a fun afternoon is going to the bookstore and getting one of Scott Kelbys "Down and Dirty - Tips and tricks" Photoshop books, and sitting down in front of the computer for hours trying to nail some of the lessons they provide. Ive created some amazing headers/banners and the best part, one of the reasons I love Spider...you can upload your new website header right into your control panel as a .png image file. Once its uploaded you can resize it, move it around..do anything you wish with it, giving you the ultimate control of your website design.

Now with all that being said about working with Photoshop and Spidersitebuilder, Photoshop does come with quite a hefty price tag. So the question is.. are they other more affordable image editors out there, or perhaps even free ones? The answer is yes!

Below are some Free Photoshop Alternatives for you to try out, plus some related tutorials to boot:

Photofiltre

Photofiltre Tutorial
Photofiltre Tutorial 2
Photofiltre Tutorial 3

Paint

Paint Tutorial 1
Paint Tutorial 2
Paint Tutorial 3
Paint Tutorial 4

Gimp

Gimp Tutorial 1
Gimp Tutorial 2
Gimp Tutorial 3
Gimp Tutorial 4

Irfanview

Irfanview Tutorial 1
Irfanview Tutorial 2

Now for those of you who prefer visual live tutorials, then dont forget about Youtube.com.  Type in "photofiltre tutorials" (or any of the above programs) in youtube, and you will find there are thousands of different topics out there with live demonstrations.

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Icons for your website

Have you been looking around for some nice Web 2.0 icons for your website?  Below is a very cool collection of icons that you can use on your site.


~Remember, once you have downloaded the images, you can upload them directly into the control panel of your site.  Then its just a matter of "inserting" them on the page and moving and resizing them as you like!

Icons Resource Page

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Website Builder Stock Photos | Images for your website

When building your website most likely you will need to incorpoate images.  Its great if you can take your own pictures and upload them, however in some instances you will need to get professional ones to reflect the image you want to your audience.  There are several resources I use to search for and get the images I want for my sites:

Free images
These have limited selection, but dont rule them out ...you may just find what your looking for.

http://www.sxc.hu/
http://freestockphotos.com/
http://www.freeimages.co.uk/

Paid Images
These are high quality mass selection images searchable by keyword.  Pay close attention to sizing.  Sometimes its better to go with a medium or large for clearer resolution purposes.

istockphoto.com
photolibrary.com
dreamstime.com

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