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Create a Web Site Tutorial
How
to Create a WOW Web Site
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Site Tutorial----
Internet
Jargon Made Simple
1. Decide
a Purpose for Your Site
2. Choose a Domain Name
3. Select a Web Hosting Service
4. Develop Your Website
5. Do It Yourselfer SEO & Submission
Are you a
professional that wants a website but you’re tired of the
techno mumbo-jumbo? Or are you a newbie and need a step-by-step
guide to setting up your website like a professional. Perhaps,
you are a do-it-yourselfer who wants a no-nonsense approach to
setting up a website on a shoestring budget? If either of the
above descriptions fit you, here’s a 5 step tutorial on
setting up your website.
1.
Decide a purpose for your site. Theme your site and give
it a purpose. What are your expectations for your site? What do
you want it to do? Will it be just a small representation of your
company or profession online? Or do you want it to sell certain
products and services? Will you use it as another marketing tool
for your overall business endeavors? Do you want to sell digital
products online as well as tangible items? Think carefully about
this. The answer to these questions determines how you will develop
your site.
2.
Choose a Domain Name. Domain Names are important. Tie
your name to the theme of your website. If your company is well
established then a shortened version of your company’s name
may be in order. But if you are still building a name, you may
choose to pull your domain name from your market. For example,
Microsoft.com, bankofamerica.com are names of the company.
But pruningyourtrees.com
and dfwcarpetcleaning.com are market generated names. The dfwcarpetcleaning.com
even includes the location in their name. It is a good idea for
local businesses who only serve the neighborhood. Book authors
could go for concept names – taken from their titles.
 
For example,
ChickenSoup.com or Richdad.com focused in on the short concept
not the whole title. Practically, you go to a site that they sell
domain names, you select a name and pay them. You will need a
service called hosting (see below) to designate your domain name
servers. I’ll explain that to you later.
Shoestring
Tip: Stop paying retail prices for domain names. Purchase
your domain name at one of the sites that sell domain names wholesale.
We recommend http://www.godaddy.com for all your domain and hosting
needs.
3.
Select a Hosting Service. After purchasing your domain
name and address you will need space on a web server for your
website to reside on. It needs to reside on a powerful server
so your website can accessed any time day or night.
“Web
pages are designed and developed on a single computer but they
must be transferred to a server, or host, so that they are available
to the rest of the world over the Internet. A host is simply a
computer that has a constant, high speed connection to the Internet.
Hosting companies rent space on these machines.” –Web
Wit Glossary http://www.clickeasywebsites.com/web-site-glossary.htm
There are web hosting companies all over the internet
ready to provide low cost hosting for your new website. While
looking and comparing consider that lots of hosting companies
now offer companion software packages that you can use while hosting
on their site.
Speaking practically, after selecting a web hosting
company and purchasing your web space you are ready to get started.
You will be given a control panel address to access on the web
with a user name and password. Go there and explore.
Look up your stats page. Look for the Fantistico
enabled section of your control panel. Again, this software will
upload for you almost every kind of software tool you can think
of. From shopping carts, chat rooms, forums, content management
software to billing, templates, etc.
Shoestring
Tip: Look for the control panels that are Fantistico
enabled. This nifty piece of software installs the software to
your site with the click of a button. Of course you do need to
know some basic html to customize the software for your site.
Need help with a basic HTML primer? Click here for a free ebook
“Discovering Basic HTML to WOW Your Website!”
4.
Develop your website. Now that you have your domain name
and hosting service, you will need to create your website. Unless
you are a skilled web designer or training to become a web designer/developer,
I recommend using a template for your website. I love templates.
It saves on development time and can give you a jumpstart on getting
your website up in a matter of hours.
But before you get too happy about templates,
remember it’s according to your customization skill level
if it still looks professionally done. In the new millennium there
are low-cost templates as well as high-priced ones available.
Again your budget and skill level may determine your price range.
Remember to check your hosting company for some good looking templates
that comes free with your hosting package.
5.
Submit your website to the search engines. Congratulations!
You have developed your website in excellence. Now it’s
time to let others know about your wonderful site by promoting
it. Yes, you could pay a professional to submit your site. But
since you have crossed the hurdle of developing your own site,
why stop there.
Go ahead and submit your site to the search engines
yourself. Here are some simple tips that will move your site up
in the search engines:
• Determine Highly Searched Keywords Related
to Your Site
• Register Keyword Rich Domain Names
• Target One Word for Each Page
• Use Your Targeted Keywords In Your Copy
• List your major keywords in the links back to your site
• Make your First 100 Words on the page Keyword Rich
• Insert Keyword into your title tag
• Insert Keywords Into Description Tag
• Name your page URLs so that they reflect what your site
is about
• Don’t forget the ALT tag for keywords.
Shoestring
Budget Tip: There are free web submission sites. But
if you want to submit your site like the professionals consider
the software tool WEB CEO.
Don’t stop there either. Continue to improve
your website in the months to come. Use all the tips you have
learned and make it not only the best it can be but make it profitable!
You have grown your business; now take it to another level through
web site marketing. Develop your new website and enjoy watching
your profits soar to new heights. Build it and prosper.
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for visiting our site. Please come again. We update often.
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