When creating sites it is per tenant to be organized it helps you and other people on the project. I personally use Dream Weaver which is a great editing tool to debug and upload sites. Also in this industry its good to stay on top of the new technologies that can be implemented in a website, a good app to look at now is adobe air and flex, it goes with what I was talking about companies going more towards application style websites.

“Testing” the mockup, very important and not the easiest thing to do – you’ll want to install common browsers and test in all as you go, even the smallest change could send 1 browser off into its own world

I’ve recently come across a handy tool for XP’ers, pretty sure this isn’t Vista compatible, but if you’ve already upgraded to IE7, this can install IE6 as a stand alone browser, I use it alot to test my mockups for clients, since I still need to make sure the site is viewable on IE6: http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

Also educate yourself as much as you can on XHTML and CSS, validate what you’ve coded and if it doesn’t validate, don’t shrug it off because it works anyway – find out why its giving you errors, you will learn alot in the process and build a better, more accessible website.

they actually helped me out quite a bit, now my site is [i]sort[/i] of valid!

Industry researchers and analysts Forrester Research have released a report predicting that businesses will increasingly turn to Web 2.0 tools such as RSS feeds, wikis, and social networking platforms to manage internal information.

Forrester expects that companies such as Google and Microsoft will acquire smaller Web 2.0 firms, while CRM solution providers like Salesforce.com and SugarCRM will embed Web 2.0 functions into new offerings.

This trend will tie into the move to deliver business services via Web platforms, or SaaS.

The use of RSS in enterprise firms will increase from 9 to 20 percent by the end of 2008, Forrester believes, and the use of social networking tools will grow along with it.

As these tools become more common and migrate downward, as technology always does, SMBs with information management issues should find more solutions coming available to them within a year or so.

Sources:

CRM Outsiders:
http://www.crmoutsiders.com/?p=112

Forrester Research: http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,43882,00.html