The real magic is in the use of stylesheets which allows the separation of content and design. It also makes for smaller page sizes and therefor, faster downloads and access times.
Comment Server
If you would like to learn more about this powerful toolkit for building high availability, high traffic, dynamic web sites, please look at arsdigita.com, photo.net and the Web Tools Review for more information.
Book Links
In Association with Amazon.com Amazon.com provides one the best services for ordering books. The ability to read reviews before making the decision to purchase a book as well as having the convenience of having the books delivered directly to me means that I seldom have to go to a book store to hunt down the books that I want to buy (ok, I still do that in case something interesting catches my eye).
Once side benefit of displaying the links on my site is that they will give me a small kickback for every book you purchase going through my links. Right on!
Oh, you want to do the same and get your own kickbacks? Check out the Amazon.com Associate Program and become a member.
Domain information
These are not necessarily the best services now available for registering domains, but at the time, they were the ones that I used.
Hosting Server
Web Server
Web Development Tools
Vim? What can I say? It's vi on steroids. It annoys Emacs users (reason enough to use vi!) It's powerful, it's fast, it's open source, it's free, and whatever computer you choose to use, it's probably there (or at least vi is anyway) and as a bonus, it's an established religion with a long history of holy wars!
I keep of Vim related information here.
Another valuable tool that is well worth considering is Macromedia Fireworks. This tool has many features, but the best tool in this package allows you to optimize the size of your graphic images allowing to you get the smallest size with your images and maintain the best quality possible. Both Macromedia packages can be purchased online.
Screen Fonts
(Someday, if we are lucky, Microsoft will release the cleartype technology as part of the font rendering driver under Windows so that those of us with LCD screen will see much clearer text displays.)