Guide to Building a Website – Create Money – Making a Website For Your Business in One Hour

06. October 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Build a Website · Tags: , , , , , , ,

Do you want to spend your whole marketing budget and months of your time on a sophisticated website or do you want to have your website up and running in an hour?… and save the rest of the marketing budget for your website promotion.

There has been a time, 10 years ago or so, when creating a website was a big and complicated project, which took too much time and cost money.

For some reason, the idea that creating a website is a costly and long process still lives. However, after 10 years of fast technological development, it is not true any more. Far from it.

In this short guide to building a website for complete beginners, I will show you how you can easily create your website in an hour.

What you don’t need:

an expensive web designer
any special tech help
any programmers
too much time & much money

If you have nothing, you can have your first website up and running in just 3 easy steps:

Find the hosting company which supports Fantastico and CPanel.
Get your domain name and hosting
Automatically install your website

Before all this, make sure you know what is your website about. Prepare your main keywords for your market, the website title and subtitle, and a website name (a domain name).

The Right Hosting Company

First, search for a web hosting company, which supports Fantastico and cPanel. These tools help you to install any software that you would need. Don’t worry, it is easy.

Where to start? Simple search for “web hosting fantastico cPanel” on Google (without quotes).

If you already have a web hosting, make sure Fantastico is there. Ask their tech help.

Domain Name And Hosting Account

Get your domain name and create a hosting account. The reputable hosting companies have very good software wizards, which guide you step by step. It is just point and click. There is no tech stuff involved.

If you are just starting up, go for the simplest hosting account possible. There is no need to spend more money now. You can upgrade later if necessary.

Automatically Install Your Website

When you have your hosting account ready, you can create a website. It is very straightforward. In your account, in the main screen (this is the cPanel screen), click on Fantastico icon.

There you will find pre-built software packages for you to install and use immediately (website builders). I recommend installing WordPress. It is widely used, easy to manage for beginners, and reliable.

If you need more detailed instructions search for “installing WordPress using Fantastico video” (without quotes), and you will find very detailed videos that will guide you through the process.

And that is it – you have created your new website!

Last Words

A quick tip: if you get stuck in any step, just simple type ” video” into Google and find the solution immediately.

This simple guide to building a website is the easiest way to start your online business today. There is no need to be intimidated by the technical issues, simply because there are none!

Do you want to know how to build business web site for effective online marketing and positive ROI, without tech headaches? Look for another guide building a website now!

If you do not want to stress about tech stuff and really have somebody, who understands technical AND marketing side of your business look at http://www.websitesforsmes.com/guide-building-website.html.

Entrepreneur, online marketing practitioner and business owner with background in software development, outsourcing and IT. Especially focused on using internet, online and mobile technologies to automate marketing and business growth. Always interested in fresh business ideas and bright partners.

Get Help Building A Website That Will Grow Your Profits

18. September 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Build a Website · Tags: , , , ,

I was sitting here thinking about what I could share with you today and one of the things that came to mind was the amazing power of having your own website.  So, I would like to share with you how to get help building a website that will grow your profits.  There is no better Internet medium out there for helping you to accomplish the simple 3-Step Process for building a successful business online:

1.  PERSONAL BRANDING

2.  LEAD GENERATION

3.  THE “FUNDED PROPOSAL”

Your website is like the store which your prospects will be shopping in.  Getting them there is the easy part… keeping them there is the hard, but absolutely necessary part.  And believe me – not all website-hosting services are created equal.  There are definitely website-building/hosting services that are much more user-friendly than others.  Having a user-friendly service, can be extremely helpful, especially if you tend to be a bit of a Techno-phobe, or have no previous experience creating your own website. 

Once you decide on a web-site building/hosting service, I would strongly recommend paying the small monthly fee to upgrade your website-building capabilities.  Free is great, but when creating this ESSENTIAL part of building a truly successful business online, honestly, it is well worth it to “step it up a notch” to get the additional tools you need to create a profitable website.  There are services out there where you can get all the tools you need for the monthly price of one fast-food meal.

Where can you get help building a website that will grow your profits?  Imagine for a moment if you could find a website service that LITERALLY walks you through setting up your own website, with video tutorials, search engine submission (this is crucial for getting your site ranked with the top search engines like Google and Yahoo), your own domain name, an unlimited number of website pages to work with, and some free advertising for your business. 

Such services do exist and with a little time spent surfing the web, you should be able to find one which suits you and your needs.  You can build a professional, profit-making website and have it up and running as quickly as you can create the content.  It really can be that simple.

If you still think you can’t do it, visit me at www.debbiedonner.com, click on “Build Your Own Website” and get started creating a profitable website for your business today.

 

Debbie Donner Is An Internet Marketer Who Shows Network Marketers How To Use The Amazing Power Of Technology To Build A Legitimate Network Marketing Business At:

Building A Website That Works For You

05. August 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Build a Website · Tags: , ,

These days building a website can be done easily with the immense amount of software or tools. Once upon a time, people use to dread making a website because of the amount of technical knowledge required. People will dread HTML codes, Javacripts to name a few and this really kept people away from having their own website. Now powerful softwares can make anyone a great website designer. But if you want to build a website that works for you, there are certain key issues that you need to focus on.

Choose a Good Title

These might seem unimportant to most people but this is the first thing that your human visitors as well as search engines look for. Write a short sentence for your title. Having one or two words really doesn’t tell much about your website. If you are stuck about thinking for a good title, go to Google Keywords. It is a free tool to use. Choosing a high traffic phrase for your title can mean more visitors to your website. Alternatively, take some time to think of a good title for your website.

Research on Your Website Topic

Taking some time to research on your website topic can work wonders for you in the long run. Be sure about what you want to write about. This is especially important when you have a blog on your website. You need to decide what your blog or website is about. If your website is about weight loss, make sure you know enough about weight loss before building a website. Doing some reading about weight loss reading weight loss blogs are some examples you can do before adding content to your website. Mind you, do not plagiarize!

Keyword Research

You might have heard this before but keyword research must not be underestimated this days. Having good keywords in our website can help promote traffic and boost your search engine rankings. Building a website using non specific keywords may be alright for you and your human visitors but not to search engines. Search engines are constantly looking for new content based on specific keywords. Again using the Google keyword tool can help you decide which are good high traffic keywords.

Monetize Your Website

I am sure you must have heard of this. Monetizing your website basically means making money with your website. One way is to join an affiliate program. An affiliate program basically means you earn a commission for each product you sell for others. The best and easiest place to start choosing products as an affiliate is Clickbank. You can also monetize your website by adding Google Adsense to your website. Google Adsense helps you earn when someone clicks on a Google sponsored link located on your website.

Drive traffic to your website

I have explained certain things about driving traffic to your website above but there is a lot more to driving traffic than it can be explained in this entire article. To make this as brief as possible, I’m not going to discuss the details of driving traffic. Some simple things you can do is to write articles and submit them to article directories, participate in blog discussions and forums and leave your links or forum signatures there. Join social networking programs and add links or content that lead back to your website. Pay-per-click advertising is also another excellent way to drive traffic.

Conclusion

Most websites don’t get traffic and don’t earn any money unless done in the right way. If you were to follow the simple instructions noted above, you are on your way to building a website that works for you.

 

Wishing You Success,

Bryan Wong YH

 

For More articles, please visit my blog at Earn Money From Home Blog

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Now You Can Get Rich And Make Money – Learn How To Get Rich Building A Website Online

22. June 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Build a Website · Tags: , , , , ,

If you are tired of your job, hate your boss, sick of the commute, then perhaps it is time for a change. How many times have you said to yourself that you wish you worked for yourself? Now you can. Dust off your PC and build yourself a website and it can be easy. Whether you have the know how you build it yourself or have someone do it for you. If you are considering building a website there are several steps that you can follow.

Learn how to: Make Money Online

Step 1. Decide what product or service you are going to sell. Make sure that you have enough products to sell. Establish a fair price for your new products and one of the best means to attract people to your site is through ebay.

Learn Information About: Secrets to Making Money

Step 2. After you have created your website make sure that it is user friendly. Make sure that your customer will not be driven away from your site because they can not order a product or service. Always keep in mind that most of your customers are computer virgins.

Step 3. You should make use of affiliate programs such as google adsense and amazon. Both of these affiliates can offer you some great revenue with offering great information on awesome topics.

Step 4. You want to make sure your customer stays on your sit and comes back often and this is best achieved by creating a members only section to to your site. If you have sections designated for horoscopes, fan clubs and newsletters you will get people to sign up and keep coming back. These types of sites are a great source of revenue and the secret is you give your prospective customers a little information for free then keep them coming back for more with a reoccurring monthly charge.

Step 5. Try to get your site a high ranking in the search engines. You want to have as many visitors come to your site as possible and this will make the net worth of your site much higher. After your site has produced a decent amount of revenue over a period of time you may want to sell your site for a profit.

Don’t waste your time thinking of what might have been, build yourself a site and get on the road to Financial Independence.

Bryan Burbank is an expert in the field of Getting Rich. For more information go to: http://www.makemoneydirect.net

Part 3 of your Free Guide to Building a Website

06. April 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Build a Website · Tags: , , , ,

By now you should have the hang of adding pictures and editing text in the existing text boxes. You should also know how to add new pages to the site by adding them to the menu (see previous tutorial). Now let’s look at adding extra elements to a page and adding pages without them appearing in the menu – it’s the next step to help you create your own website using Webeden. Lets do it – here’s 10 steps to adding extra elements to your pages

Step 1

Click on Files to open the File Manager and then select the Library tab and click on Animations / Handwritten. Click on “Circle it” and select Use this. The animation will be added to the page. By default, the line drawn is white. Select the animation object and in the Editor dialog click on the Style tab and change the colour to black. You can also resize and rotate the animation on the Info tab (see previous page). Position the circle over the top of an area of the page that you want to draw attention to, like a picture.

Step 2

Now add the arrow from the Handwritten section in the same way. Use the Rotate feature on the Info tab to enable freehand rotation using the object’s handles. When you add a page to your site, you can choose from a list of different page types. There are different templates readily available so you don’t have to design a complicated page from the ground up, which makes for a handy shortcut when you’re website building. For example, the blog/news page will create a ready made weblog for you, together with an integrated editor to allow you to add items.

Step 3

You can also add links only, so a button appears in the menu, but no page is created (the opposite of adding a page, but not having it visible). There’s even an image gallery – one tip with images you upload is to ensure the dimensions aren’t larger than you need to keep download times down, somthing you should take not of when you create your own website.

Step 4

Now click on Insert and select Button Link. This will add a bevelled image to the page. Move it to within the left column. Click on the Link tab in the Editor dialog and enter the URL you want to link to, like http://www.webeden.co.uk/. Click on Apply and you’ll see that the text on the button changes also. Click on the Style tab and you can now change the text on the button. Do it in this order, as changing the link will overwrite the text.

Step 5

The next step on your website building fast track is to click on the More arrow in the Editor dialog (top right) and select Body Text Box (you can hover over each icon to get a tooltip). Drag the text box to the left column, underneath the button we just inserted. Use the handles at the corners and bottom of the text frame to resize it to fit within the column. Now select the Style tab and click on the Background button to enable a background for the text frame, and select a colour from the drop down menu to the right, and do the same for the border.

Step 6

An alterative when you make your own website to using the text frame’s background and border is to add a background frame, such as a shape with bevelled edges from the Library, and then add a text box on top, which will show the frame beneath it through it.

Step 7

Now go to Insert / New page and click on the Add new page button; just make it a blank page. Label the page “Chat” and then disable the radio button in the Page visible column. This will add the page to the site without it being added into your automatically generated menu. We will add a link to this new page within the master page, but to do this, you must create the page first as you cannot add a link to a non-existent page, even if you know what you are going to call it. You can still access the page to edit it from the Pages menu – a perfect website building tip.

Step 8

On the new page, double click in the title text box to edit the text and change it to “Chat to other user online” and then single click on the main text box and click on the Delete icon.

Step 9

Now click on the Files button to bring up the File Manager and from the library, select Functional and add the Chat object to the page. Close the File Manager and then resize the chat object to fill the content element of the page underneath the headline. Click on Design / Page master and remember to save the page when it asks you. Always remember this if you want to quickly build your own website!

Step 10

Add a new button link and drag it to the top right of the page, above the date. With the button selected, choose the Link tab in the Editor and select the Pages icon (it looks like horizontal lines). This allows you to link to a page on your site. Select Chat from the drop down menu and click Apply. As before the button’s text will change.

Step 11

In the Style tab change the button text to “Chat to other users”. Click on Save and Exit.

Step 12

Change to the View my site, so you can see the site as a user, rather than editing it, and you will see that we have added a fully featured chat feature to our site, all within the space of a few clicks. What an amazing what to create a website that looks professional and advanced.

Expert tip

When you add a page to WebEden, you can choose from a list of different page types. There are different templates readily available so you don’t have to design a complicated page from the ground up. For example, the blog/news page will create a ready made weblog for you, together with an integrated editor to allow you to add items. You can also add links only, so a button appears in the menu, but no page is created (the opposite of adding a pgae, but not having it visible, as we did in Step 3). There’s even an image gallery – one tip with images you upload is to ensure the dimensions aren’t larger than you need to keep download times down.

That’s all for now

Check in for part 4 to find out how to add some really cool stuff to make sure that you can build a website, and it’s the best one possible!

Charles is a website building expert and wants to help everyone to build your own website

Function & Form: Building a Website That Works

10. March 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Build a Website · Tags: , , , ,

When having a website built, it’s great to think of how you want your website to look…most designers will appreciate you having a “vision” for your site. However, do not let your vision overshadow your purpose for building the website. If you do, the site will could end up falling short of, not only your needs but also, your expectations. So, how do you avoid that pitfall? Well, in order to build a website that works—literally and figuratively—for you, the site must be functionally correct first and the visual elements used should work with the functionality.

Functional For Site Visitors & Site Owners

It is critical to keep the purpose of the website you’re building at the forefront of your mind. That’s to say, what do you want site visitors to (be able to) do while visiting the website? Are you building a community site where you want people to interact? Maybe you’re looking to sell products. Or perhaps you’re a business owner or non-profit organizer and just need an online presence so people can learn more about what you do. They’re all valid reasons to have a website built but the functional requirements for each is different. The community site needs an element that will allow site visitors to communicate with each other but the product site needs a way to process transactions and the online presence site simply needs to be informative.

Seems simple enough, right? Well, sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t.

 Many of today’s websites serve multiple purposes. Some large sites may even have different purposes for different sections or pages within the website. That may result in the overall site needing a variety of functional capabilities—search result generation, form submission, multimedia interfacing, e-commerce, or even customized databases. Therefore, asking yourself, “What do I want site visitors to do / to be able to do on my website?” may seem like an easy-to-answer question but it really is a question that anyone wanting a website designed should seriously consider before contacting a web designer.

Beautiful AND Smart Design

Once you have clearly thought out the functionality requirements for your website, then you can turn your attention to how you want your website to look. Here’s a look at some things to keep in mind as you’re imagining how you would like your website to look:

• Use The 3-Click Rule Whenever Possible.

The 3-Click Rule is an unwritten rule that many professional designers adhere to when designing website. The rule states that it should not take a site visitor more than three clicks to get to a particular function. Translation: Make sure that the website’s navigational structure you decide on for your site is super simple. If it takes more than three clicks for a site visitor to get to a particular link or page, it isn’t likely the site visitor will get there. Instead, most will give up and move on to the next website in the search engine results.

• Don’t Fight What The Consumer Has Been Conditioned To Do.

Web users are accustomed to going to certain links and locations to find certain information. For instance, most web surfers automatically look to the left or top of the screen for main site navigation options; site users have also become increasingly used to being able to click on a company logo to get back to the homepage. Don’t fight these web surfer design preferences…go with it! The exception: You can consider straying from these “norms” if you’re attempting to create a specific surfing experience for your site visitors.

• Plan To Add Purposeful Content!

Don’t just put text on your website for the sake of “having something up there.” Site visitors will see right through fluff copy…especially if you attempt to fill the site with keywords to improve your search engine ranking without providing valuable content along with those keywords.

Also, think about how you speak to your site visitors. Your tone and writing style that you choose should fit the overall purpose of your site as well as the “vibe” you want site visitors to have when visiting the site. For example, if your website is going to be the equivalent of an online brochure, make sure that the design and text read as simply as a brochure would. If your site is geared towards children, use age-appropriate wording. Or, if your site is supposed to be a profit powerhouse, generating thousands of dollars each month from product sales, make sure that you have copy that sells on every page intended to sell site visitors on your product / service. FYI: Hiring a professional copywriter or working with a website design company that provides copywriting services can come in handy here!

Finding The Right Web Designer For Your Website

Once you have determined the basic functionalities of the website you’d like developed as well as some of the aesthetics you’d prefer, the next step is to find a professional website designer to actually build the website for you. The best way to begin is to ask friends for a referral but do not stop there. Website designers have different capabilities and specialties. The referred website design company may or may not be the right provider for the job. So, the next step should be to find one or two other potential website designers. When selecting designers for your short list, keep the following in mind:

• Budget & Price: Have a budget range in mind for your website that’s appropriate for the functionalities your site requires. Let your budget determine the designers who you consider for the job. However, the designer who wins the project should be determined first by their ability to design the website as you envision and second by price.

• Professionalism: Take note of the professionalism of the provider during phone conversations and / or email correspondence. It’s indicative of what the experience of working with them will be like.

• Work Samples: Request to see work samples but do leave room for some speculation. Work samples, unless created specifically for you, are always the result of the provider’s client’s preferences and not solely the designer’s abilities. Designers can make suggestions to clients for how a website should look or operate but in the end, it’s what the client prefers that goes.

• Value-Added Services: If you will be requiring more than just web design to make sure that you have an optimal website, consider finding a provider that offers value-added options. Some value-added services that design firms sometimes offer that simplify website operation or improve website effectiveness include website hosting, website maintenance, domain services, copywriting, and search engine optimization (SEM).

When you find the professional designer that you want to work with, explain what you have in mind for your website in detail, including your functional requirements. Then, be prepared to listen; a true professional designer will have additional questions to clarify your “vision” as well as insight about what else you may need in order to have the website look and operate the way you want it to.

The final tip for building a website that works: Be open-minded to all of the designer’s suggestions. You don’t have to go with all of the design firm’s recommendations but you should at least hear the designer out. Remember: You’re hiring a professional web design firm because of its expertise and creative abilities! Don’t cripple your designer by not allowing for at least some free flow of ideas. After all, the designer is the professional and there’s always more to beautifully designed and user-friendly websites than meets the eye!

Mauricio Navarro is President & CEO of Rationale Hosting. Rationale Hosting is a web hosting company delivering affordable web hosting solutions, domain name registration & FREE web hosting to consumers and business clients.