Maine Business Resources
What we USE and who we TRUST
Maine Technology Group
MTG specializes in helping businesses throughout New England implement and leverage technology solutions.
Pioneer Telephone
For more than two decades, Pioneer Telephone has provided reliable, affordable communications services.
DropBox
The secure file sharing and storage solution that employees and IT admins trust.
Our Favorite Resources
Business resources for website owners – These resources and tools will assist you with your online presence.
Business Communications
- Slack – The best inter-office communication software we’ve used, great for remote employees. Slack is where work flows. It’s where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
- Zoom – The #1 video communications solution. While Slack has inter-office video communication, Zoom is perfect for larger groups, one-on-one training, webinars and more.
WEBSITE BUILDING
Website Builders
- WordPress – The #1 Online Website Content Management System (CMS) on the market!
- Kopage – Beats Wix, Squarespace, and Weebly hands down; feature for feature. No Upsells!!
Getting Started – Web Design
- MHS University – Everything you need to know about using your MHS web hosting account. From setting up email to configuring a database it’s all here.
- Download.com – Free software tools for developing and maintaining a website.
Online Fonts
- Google Fonts – The defacto standard for online fonts, Kopage and most WordPress themes automaticall support Google Fonts, this is the place to view them live.
Java Script Resources
- Java Script Source – A very large archive of free cut and paste javascripts.
- JavaScript,com – The best place to get started with JavaScript.
Social Media Marketing Resources
- Buffer – The best way to push content to all of your social media outlets.
GRAPHICS RESOURCES
Finding FREE royalty-free images for your website:
- Pexels – 1+ Million Royalty Free Images
- Pixabay – These guys also have a great WordPress plugin that allows you to easily embed their photos on your pages.
- Unsplash – The internet’s source of freely usable images.
- Barn Images – Free high-resolution images for everyone.
Our favorite PAID image resources:
- Dreamstime – 131 million stock photos, world’s largest stock community
- ShutterStock – Royalty-free stock images, photos, videos, and more for your creative projects
- Getty Images – Moving the world with images
Choosing a color pallet:
- Coolors Color Scheme Creator
- Adobe Color Wheel
- Palleton Color Pallet Maker
- ColorMind Pallet Generator – Just keep hitting the Generate Button to view new palletts, great for ideas.
Best places to find ICONS:
- Flat Icon – Best place to find Maching Icon Sets
- Icon Finder
- Font Awesome – Best CSS Icon Toolkit
Online Image Editing
Image Editing Applications
Also check out our recommended WordPress Resources
