Resources
I have used the services and products below and highly recommend them.
Autoresponder/Newsletter Service
Aweber - newsletters, autoresponders and list management.
Shopping Cart
1Shopping Cart - shopping cart, autoresponder & affiliate manager
Web design books
Some of my favourites are:
1.
Principles of Beautiful Web Design
2. Photoshop Anthology
3. Build Your Own Standard Compliant Website
4. The Art & Science of CSS
5. HTML Utopia: Designing without Tables Using CSS
6. Email Marketing
7. The Web Design Business Kit
8. The Search Engine Marketing Kit
The above books are available at Sitepoint
1. The Non-Designers Web Book - Robin Williams
2. The Non-Designers Type Book - Robin Williams
3. The Non-Designers Design Book - Robin Williams
4. Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krugg
Marketing
Robert Middleton of Action Plan Marketing has a free Marketing Plan Start-Up Kit you may want to get.
The InfoGuru Marketing Manual and Website Toolkit are highly recommended, especially if you have a Web site or are planning to have one.
You'll want to attend Robert's workshop "The Fast Track to More Clients" which is coming to your area this summer. Robert doesn't do many public workshops anymore, so this is a real opportunity to get hands-on training from one of the leaders in the field. I'll be at the Toronto workshop and I'd love you to join me.
Blogging
Wordpress is my favourite. Blogger is easier to set up. Click here for setup instructions.
Web Tools
Email address encoder encodes your email address to prevent spambots from harvesting your email address: http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html
SEO Tools
Add keyword rich tags on tags web page
Sitemap generator - http://www.rorweb.com/rormap.htm
Back link checker http://www.iwebtool.com/backlink_checker