Resources to help you ...
... buy IT products or services
The Business Link website offers help on choosing and managing IT suppliers.
Here are some guides from Clearsight Consulting:
... create a good web site
Steve Krug's book "Don't Make Me Think" is an excellent guide to thinking like a user when it comes to structuring your website and creating its content. He also shows you how you can test your website even before it is built. You can find out more from his website.
Gerry McGovern is another expert who advises on creating effective site content. He has written "Killer Web Content", and you can also sign up on his website for regular nuggets of thought-provoking expertise delivered in his newsletters.
Jakob Neilsen's site has a vast amount of helpful advice on website usability. You can sign up for his Alertbox newsletters there as well. Neilsen's books are also well worth buying.
... stay in touch with IT
Computing's website and weekly magazine (available online as well as on paper) provide news, articles and comment on IT-related issues and practice. You can also sign up for more specific newsletters, for example, about security or storage, or geared to smaller businesses. They also have a TechFinder service for researching IT products, solutions and services.
If you are concerned with information management (content, records, email, documents and so on), you can sign up as an associate member at AIIM's site for informative newsletters and access to free web seminars.
Other useful IT sites, all offering free newsletters, include: