Resources: Café Noir Design: Web Design and Branding: Montreal, Monteregie, Centre of Quebec

Tools

These are some of the tools we recommend to help you get started. We are in no way affiliated with the following products, brands or companies and they do not endorse Café Noir Design Inc.

Domain Names

10dollar

This Canadian company offers domain name registration for very affordable prices and their online interface is very easy to use.

Hosting

EcoHosting is an Internet Hosting Company based in Montreal and pledging to donate 20% of its hosting revenues to registered charities around the world. EcoHosting servers and computers are 100% wind powered! They also offer trilingual customer service.

BlueHost

Bluehost offers professional web hosting plans which are affordable and reliable. They have built in support for a number of content management systems and shopping carts.

Stock Images

iStockphoto

iStockphoto is the internet’s original member-generated image and design community. Search for over 4 million photographs, vector illustrations, video footage, audio tracks and Flash files.

Colour Palettes

Colourlovers

COLOURlovers™ is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles.

Planning

Basecamp

Basecamp® provides tools tailored to improve the communication between people working together on a project. It is fast easy and hassle-free.

Backup and Storage

Dropbox

Put your files into your Dropbox on one computer, and they'll be instantly available on any of your other computers that you've installed Dropbox on (Windows, Mac, and Linux too!)

Content Management Systems

ExpressionEngine

ExpressionEngine® is a flexible, feature-rich content management system that empowers thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to easily manage their website.

It is an easy to use, easy to customize, and secure commercial solution. ExpressionEngine is modular by design, enabling you to easily add new features and capability with add-on modules, plugins, and extensions.

Wordpress

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. An open-source solution.

Joomla!

Joomla!® is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Social Networking Tools

Elgg

Elgg is an open source social engine which powers all kinds of social environments - from education and business to martial arts and rugby. If you are looking for a professional social intranet or just want to run a site for your fishing club, Elgg is a great choice.

Payment Processors

PayPal

With more than 150 million accounts in 190 countries and regions, PayPal™ offers a fast, affordable and convenient online payment service.

Shopping Carts

Pinnacle Cart

Pinnacle Cart is an extremely powerful php shopping cart and website builder application. Designed from marketing perspective, this eCommerce application is feature-packed, robust, scalable and easy to use.

Shopify

Shopify® is for people and small businesses who want to sell great products through an online store that does those products justice. This is a hosted solution.

Magento

Magento™ is a feature-rich eCommerce solution offering complete flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of an online store. An open-source solution.

osCommerce

osCommerce is the leading Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is powered by a dedicated, strong, and ever growing community, and is released under the GNU General Public License.

Zen Cart

Zen Cart™ truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.

Mals e-Commerce

Mal's e-commerce is a FREE Shopping Cart Service. Built with both designers and merchants in mind, it's full of features that make it simple to setup an online store and easy to manage customer orders.

Analytics

Google Analytics

Google™ Analytics now makes the features that experts demand easy to use for everyone. Gain rich insights into your website traffic with Advanced Segmentation, Custom Reporting, Motion Charts, and more.

Email

Google™ Apps

Businesses, schools and organisations can now get powerful communication, productivity, collaboration and security tools right from the browser, leaving more time and money to focus on core objectives.