Bluehost

Bluehost provides hosting for most small businesses online.  keeping your webste’s files at bluehost makes them secure.    Their customer service which runs 24/7 through live chat etc is perfect.   Enough notice about site maintenance and renewal dates is given to customers.  Bluehost hosting is one of the cheapest available online.  They also provide backup and restore facility.

Wealthy Affiliate

WealthyAffiliate .com is where you are given two free websites after registering and taught to customise [add images, content, learn to make the site appear on search engines like google etc].  It has a large community of several thousand  members who help each other with questions and answers.  There are also tutorials on most subjects by the administrative team and also from posts of members.  There’s always something new to learn from this community and its instructions are quite straight forward.   Join wealthy affiliate here to find out more.

Nichehacks Private Mastermind Group

Nichehacks is also a group where you can get more than enough ideas on niches [blog topics] to use for a blog.  Members participate in niche selection, blog set up, profitable niches, actionable tips etc.  A lot of other seasoned bloggers with successful websites are also featured in these discussions.

Graphic Design

I use the following:

Canva:  inside canva, you can search for free images, fonts, various social media image sizes, backgrounds for your images etc.  It has a drag and drop feature, which means you drag your chosen image unto the editor.  It has free and paid options.  I use the free option.

MS Paint is a graphic editor on Microsoft windows.  You import your image into it and add text and colours etc.  MS Paint 3D is replacing MS paint.  Both paint tools are available for use, though.  It is free to use.

Powerpoint – resizing, blurring, adding shapes, and more.

Find out more about graphic design from here.