Many businesses have an employee dedicated to tend to their webmaster needs. They work on salary and can perform many different functions within your organization. You can also have freelancers bid on your project and work within your budget. This is a very popular approach since fall of dot.com. Many highly qualified designers are looking for work and will do a stand up job within your budget.

Pros:

• Knowledgeable professional working on your site within your budget • Free up your time to do your business

Cons:

• Risk of how knowledgeable and dependable freelancer is that is working with you on your site • You will only get what was bided on within their skill set.

Results:

If you get a quality designer that is freelancing you will have a very quality web site. If you specify your needs and have proper budget you should see some return on your investment.

Web Design Firm

Hiring a design firm that specializes in business development is a smart decision. They have expertise and focus on developing you a web site for your business that is geared to accomplish your goals.

Pros:

• Professional design team knowledgeable of how to develop a business site that sells. • Free up your time to do your business

Cons:

• Risk getting a quality design firm that will do a quality job • Some design firms will not be ethical after payment • Some design firms will leave your project to you to market after design is complete

Results:

You will have a professionally designed site with functional structure and components to generate business. If design firm is quality it will be a higher closing rate once visitors come to your site. Many design firms have people versed in marketing that can give you tips on how to bring traffic to your site. This will be priced higher than other methods but will bring higher results.

eMarketing Firm

The final way to get your business online is employing services from an eMarketing firm. These firms provide you an online solution customized to your business model which will include web development, online software application and Internet marketing. This typically is most expensive out of seven methods but it is most complete solution for most business that needs an effective online presence.

Pros:

• Professional design team knowledgeable of how to develop a business site with sales copy, search engine optimization and a marketing strategy to generate targeted visitors to your site • Free up your time to do your business • Staff of experts that keep up with all changes in online marketplace • You will have a marketing plan for your online strategy

Cons:

• Typically more expensive than other methods

Results:

Once again you will have a professionally designed site with functional structure and components to generate business. You will also have a marketing plan with strategies to generate business through your site. Return on Investment (ROI) is typically gained in a shorter period of time.

Conclusion

Many have been told myth, “Build a business web site and they will come”, which proved to fail many businesses eager to expand. To see how to put your business online with no cost you must first understand what cost means in contrast to price. Price defines amount of purchase where cost represents end result. To better explain this I will give you an example.

If you paid $100 for a web site that generates you no business in a year then how much did site cost you? If you paid $1000 for same site but that site brought you $100 a month for a year, how much did that site cost?

The first site cost you $100 after a year were second site paid you $1200 at end of year and cost you nothing. Actually site paid you $200 for having it. Makes sense. The only guaranteed way to get a site for nothing (so to speak) is to have it built right as well as marketed to your targeted market first time. So decide your method wisely.

Ok, here are steps for two major browsers:

In IE or Internet Explorer, go to your Main Menu, then to View, then own to Source.

Thats: Main Menu -> View -> Source

then upon clicking Source, a notepad window will pop open which will show web pages HTML source code for webpage, thats presently within your IE browser.

And in Netscape Navigator,... same thing,...

Main Menu -> View -> Page Source(Crtl+U)

then a Netscape Navigator window will open up, showing web page source code to webpage presently in Netscape. Now with Netscape, code is highlighted in viewer compared to in IE. This makes it a bit better and easier to understand if your familiar with HTML.

I say again, this assumes of course that you know basics of HTML code. However, if your at all knowledgeable in CSS, Javascript, Flash, and so on then you'll get more out of looking at source code.

Being able to view source code of webpages can be quite enlightening, believe it or not. This can be to perhaps get ideas for page layouts and/or keyword placement etc..

It can be a very valuable tool for Search Engine Optimizers to get a better understanding of optimizing a web page with meta tags and so on. And it can also provide a huge aid in learning HTML and understanding how others do it.