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While it doesn't take a lot of hardware to become a web designer, you do need a computer and some software to do it. I have created a list of equipment that is good for a beginning web designer to have to do professional level work. I have a Windows list and a Macintosh list. Or you can share your own hardware setup.

Different Computer Systems for Web Designers

• Beginning Web Designer's Setup (Windows)
• Beginning Web Designer's Setup (Macintosh)
• Ultimate Windows Web Designer Computer Hardware and Software Setup
• Ultimate Macintosh Web Designer Computer Hardware and Software Setup

Google Instant was released on September 10th, and while some people don’t like it I have found it useful for brainstorming. I’ve never been very good at “surfing” the web, but with this new tool, I am finding lots more things to read about and that is helping me come up with lots of things to write about too. This article has 4 ways you can use Google Instant to help you brainstorm.

Finding Content Ideas

• How to Use Google Instant for Brainstorming
• What to Write About - Finding Content for Web Pages
• 6 Ways to Get Unblocked
• Some Great Ideas for Web Page Content from About.com Readers

Yesterday, Google started rolling out a new feature to help searchers better find what they are looking for — Google Instant. This feature displays your search results as you type, changing the results as you refine what you're searching for.

Some people think that this will make SEO completely obsolete or irrelevant. Steve Rubel's argument is that because no one will be seeing the same results every time, optimizing for those results will be impossible.

Personally, I think that this is just going to force how we optimize pages to change. Google is trying to make it possible for people to find your website without you needing to know SEO. But, as Matt Cutts says in the video on this page, 'the same way that you polish your resume, you figure out how to put your best foot forward, SEO tries to figure out how to put the best foot forward for your website.' While the end results may change, you still want to put out the best SEO you can so that your website has a better chance than the others.

That doesn't mean that how and what we optimize for isn't going to change. As web designers, we need to always be learning and looking for new ways to improve our sites. The web isn't sitting still, so we shouldn't be either.

Once I got used to it, I started enjoying Google Instant. It gives me new ideas and takes me places I might not have otherwise gone. I'm hoping that that will help me improve my site and help my readers find more to read on my site. I'm not worried that SEO is dead, it's just growing up.