Step1 :Learn webpage design
Golden Rule:If you want to start a web business you should and you must have a business website of your own.
Building a web site and webpage design is not too difficult.If you have an idea that web page building is the area of hard-core programmers , you are wrong!!!. I have built this site with my own hands . I have no programming background except some basics of FortranIV taught in my graduation courses and that too 25 years a go. So if I can manage to do it, YOU can do it too.
A General Idea of HTML:
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.It is more like a formatting language rather than a programming language.The basic elements used in an HTML document ( a webpage i.e.) are Tags.Basically, Tags are formatting elements enclosed in "<" and "/>" and often come in opening and closing pairs.
This tags are central to HTML, which is afterall a system of marking up text. As for example, text that should appear in bold is preceded with opening tag <B> and closing tag </B>. Like wise, Italic text is surrounded with <I> and </I> tags.
Next time you are looking at a webpage, select View -> Source in your browser. You will see that the document is broken down into a header followed by the main body of the page.Within the header, is information about the page itself such as default page color, text and links. The body contains actual information marked with tags that instruct the browser how to display the text.
A simple page might look like this :
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> My Web page</TITLE>
<meta name="keywords" content="A,B,C,D">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Welcome to my web page... blah blah blah....
</BODY>
</HTML>
I think you have noticed that a new line is there between head section-"<metaname=..>". This meta name is not important for web page as a whole but have immense importance if you want to submit your page to search engines and want to have a good ranking. I shall discuss this in details in my Promote section
Buy a good book on HTML if you seriously want to build your own website.There are many in the market..don't go for a costly one.
At the time I wanted to do a page of my own I knew nothing about computers or web pages but I wanted to do a page of my own, a very personal page, I couldn't understand the programs that were out at that time so one day accidentally I found the easiest program already on my computer... Microsoft Word. So I had a go even though I have been told Web pages can not be made in word. But I did do my web page from Word and has actually been uploaded. Ok it may not be the best way to make a web page if you wish to be selling on line, for security reasons but my page is just an information page, so it is good enough for what I wanted a page for.
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Bring up Word (Go to Start -> Word)
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Go to File/New. Then click on Web Pages (way over on the right)
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There are abundant layout choices. There's even a Web Page Wizard, that can lead you through many additional choices.
We're going to keep things simple and straightforward. -
Select Left-aligned Column and click OK
Word has created a Web page structure for you. Once you get used to using this format, you'll be able to switch off and implement additional formats. But we'll just play with this one to get comfortable.
Save the Web page frequently -- Go to File/SaveAs. Use .html (for hypertext markup language) as the extension. You'll be creating a number of Web pages, so it might be convenient to number each. Don't include any spaces in your file name.
Add links to Web resources --
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Click where you want your link to be, and type what it will be called.
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Highlight the name you gave your link, and go to Insert/Hyperlink (or use the keyboard shortcut -- Ctrl K)
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Type in the URL for the Web site you want to link to, then click OK.
Try yourself and within a day you will be able to larn making your basic page with MS Word. Of course that is not the end.I you want to have a better web page for your online business, you will have to learn using Macromedia Dreamweaver , Frontpage and Photoshop.
How many here have tried to build their own Web site? How many decided not to because it seemed too complicated? Gosh…seems like you need to understand rocket-science, doesn’t it? For the majority of the population, things are way too complicated. There are too many barriers, too many obstacles and too many friction points. Of those that built their own Web site, who feels their Web site is doing what they hoped it would do? In other words, automatically generating substantial targeted traffic that is being monetized? Don’t feel bad… most people coming online have done it WRONG. They quickly put up a Web site (or hire someone to)… throw in a shopping cart… and then wonder why nobody is visiting their site. How many of you know which tools you need to create a successful Web site? There are way too many tools needed in order to create a successful web presence and an over abundance of suppliers out there offering these tools.
I’m now going to show you several Web sites that I hand picked from the Internet. They all have certain things in common. First, they were all done by average people, most of whom are novices who have no special HTML skills.. even with zero L&F skills, they could be able to achieve results that...
There is no reason that
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their more important results, the ones that really count -- they are all in the Top
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