Do You Wish You Could Make a Web Site?
By Phyllis Wheeler | November 10th, 2008Getting into the global marketplace is easier now than ever before. The Internet allows you to tap that marketplace from your living room. But what if you don’t know how to make a Web site?
There are other big changes happening as well. For example, job security isn’t what it once was. Fewer companies are offering benefits, and the ones that do are charging for them. With all this considered, perhaps you’d like to start a Web site to earn some money. Perhaps you’d even like it to become your mainstay.
But you are a novice, and you aren’t moving on this idea. Plus, you think you can’t afford a Web site.
Making a Web site is easy for novices these days. There are plenty of Internet businesses set up to create a template Web site, so you don’t even have to learn HTML. But there’s a drawback–without HTML, you don’t know what you need to know to manage your Web site! You will need to know at least a bit of this formatting language for Web sites. As Webmaster you will need to add affiliate links and shopping carts, not to mention clickable ads, if you want your site to earn money.
Learn HTML? Isn’t that like learning a programming language? Isn’t it hard? The answer is, no it isn’t really a programming language. It’s a formatting language. And it’s really not hard at all. The basic principles are very simple. Here’s another bonus for you: you don’t need to know very much HTML at all to do what you need to for a simple Web site.
To make your Web site, you will need special software that creates the Web site and the HTML code. Here are your alternatives: Macromedia Dreamweaver, the top of the line at several hundred dollars; Microsoft Front Page, at around $100; and Nvu. Nvu is open-source software, in other words free. Open-source software is maintained by programmers or companies who donate their time, and it’s available to anyone at no cost. Why would programmers work for free? Many of them want to provide us with an alternative to Microsoft.
Another expense for you is Web hosting. When you buy Web hosting, you are actually renting space on a server. There are plenty of hosting companies out there, many offering fancy solutions that you as a novice don’t need. There are hosting companies offering inexpensive solutions, too. For example, you can find a Web hosting company that will give you both hosting and domain registration for about $25 per year. Domain registration is something else you need–reserving your domain name, such as www.mywebsite.com. Usually it costs under $10 by itself. Try this: put “cheap domain hosting” into a search engine and look for user-friendly and simple solutions.
E-books are becoming more and more common. When you buy an ebook, you are paying for the information in it, pure and simple. In fact, that’s all it is, information. You have to provide the printer if you want a hard copy. E-books are popular because they provide information instantly–something that folks in our culture are happy to pay for. In fact, you may be able to find an e-book on how to use Nvu.
More information:
website;design
Tags: computer software, computers and internet, do-it-yourself web design, ecommerce, internet business, make a web site, make a website, marketing, Marketing Software, nvu, small business, software instructions, using nvu, web design, website;design
March 7th, 2012 at 12:57 am
Aloha! ncl