Your website is one of the most important parts of your business. In many cases, your website will serve as the first impression you make upon your customers. In order to make the best impression possible, you will want your website to look professional and visually appealing. If your website is not visually appealing, your [Continue Reading]
Website Tutorial #9: Features of the Website Builder
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Website Tutorial #8: Use Website Builder Software
Using a website builder, rather than design software, can make the website process quicker and easier to tackle. If you are contemplating your choices, here are a few reasons why you should consider using a site builder. Using a site builder can save you money in the beginning. Design software can easily run upwards [Continue Reading]
Website Tutorial #7: Three Methods to Build a Website
On the technical side, you can choose from three methods to create your own web pages:* Do it yourself (D.I.Y.) – if you are well versed in using web page tools such as Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage to create your web pages then this option is probably the best for you. W3 [Continue Reading]
Website Tutorial #6: How to Build a Site with FrontPage
Let me just say that I love FrontPage and have built most of my sites with that software. The unfortunate thing is that FrontPage is no longer being produced. You’d have to find a copy of the software on eBay or somewhere else. So if you don’t already have it, these instructions may not work [Continue Reading]
Website Tutorial #5: Set Up the Nameservers
A nameserver is a set of letters and numbers that help your web browser find your website. When a visitor to your website types in yourdomain.com into their browser, the name server points your browser to your host, and then your website. An example of a nameserver would be: “NS335.YourHost.com”. Even if you purchased [Continue Reading]
Website Tutorial #4: Get a Web Host
The next thing to do is find a web host. Any business needs a place to call home. If you run a conventional business, you have to rent space in an office or shopping complex. In the case of setting up an Internet Business, you need to set up a virtual space. You do so [Continue Reading]
Website Tutorial #3: How to Buy Your Domain
(TIP: be careful using a domain hosting site to do your domain research. If you like a domain, purchase it before checking out of a site. If you don’t, some sites have spiders that search for good names that have been entered into the search tool. These systems purchase great names and you lose your [Continue Reading]
Website Tutorial #2: Your Domain Name
Basically, your domain name is the internet address of your website. Your domain name will be the first thing people discover about your online business, whether through advertising, word-of-mouth, or search engine results. The domain name is whatever comes between the www and the .com (or other entity) in your web address: for example, in [Continue Reading]
Website Tutorial #1: Get Your Website Online
Are you finally ready to talk about setting up your web present? In looking at setting up a web business, one of the most difficult parts is understanding how to get a presence online. It took me a long time to figure out how to set up a website. I almost gave up the idea [Continue Reading]