If you really want the world to know, then you need to get on as many of the search engines and directories as possible. These amazing beasts will promote your site by putting you in their database for others to find. Some are business oriented and others have an amazing range of categories that range from adult sites to kids story sites. It is important that you make your Title and key words as relavent as possible to what your site is promoting.
Some Engines also offer best of awards, or are part of promoting such awards.
There are many different site styles and all have a place, my early pages will be text heavy, and very simple as I need to put the Web to work for me, but later I will be extending into graphics and applets that will make my pages more interactive, I also need to take some time to shave my graphics down for faster loading. The content is most important but an eyestriking opening is also useful. If you are planning on getting known then the following search engines and graphics and webpage sites could be helpful. Links to a free submitting service. You are person, frog, or sheep no. to visit this most exciting page, since 29 January 1998.