Easy for Beginners/New Bloggers and Those New To WordPress

For someone new to hosting and WordPress Dreamhost is the perfect place to start out. Their documentation and auto-installers make getting started with WordPress easy as pie and depending on your setup, you can have them automatically update your wordpress installation as upgrades become available. All the other common web hosting features are included in their shared hosting package.

Tech Support

Dreamhost’s customer service/tech support is also pretty good. They are available by the forums and email which is a lot more than I can say about some of the other providers and the wait isn’t that long at all. Online chat is also available but it costs extra if you are on a shared server. If you upgrade to their virtual private hosting, chat support is free.

I’ve posted some of my favorite Mac webmaster and writing tools here. The benefit of these is that they are easy to use and will save you a lot of time. I’ve  attempted to provide decent windows alternatives for each of these solutions.

1Password

The average web or computer user has more passwords than they would like to remember. This is where 1password fits in. It will remember all your passwords for you. Furthermore, it can be used to store all of your other personal information such as credit card numbers, software serials and combination lock codes. The only thing you have to remember is the password to use the program hence the reason why it is named 1password.  I cant live without this program, especially as a webmaster. Right now this program is mac-only but a windows beta version has just been released. If you run both windows and mac there is also a method described on Agile Solutions website to sync your 1 password data between mac and windows through Dropbox.

Transmit

This top-of-the-line FTP program is loaded with features and has the ability to create multiple connections in the background so you can upload your content to your servers even faster.  There are