The Seven Deadly Sins of Web Site Design

Written by Caterina Christakos


Before you take a road trip it is usually a good idea to know where you are going. It isrepparttar same when you are building a business, creating a marketing plan or building your web site. Know what your end result will be when you are planning and designing your site will help you to build it properly from day one. Here arerepparttar 132736 7 Deadly Sins that most web business owners commit when designing their site.

1) Picking a business without knowing wether there is a deman.

2) Picking too broad of a subject. If you pick a huge subject like real estaterepparttar 132737 likelyhood of soaring torepparttar 132738 top ofrepparttar 132739 search engines is slim. Niches tend to be easier to conquer and more profitable.

3) Picking a low cost web host. You get what you pay for. Many low cost web hosts go out of business leaving your business lost in cyber space.

4) Failure to analyze keywords for profitability. Pickingrepparttar 132740 right key words for your business can berepparttar 132741 difference between making and losing money.

How to Design and Setup a Website

Written by John Wilson


Note thatrepparttar online version of this article contains screenshots that are helpful but could not be included in this article. To view it http://dollarware.us/websitedesign.htm

You need your computer, some software and a connection torepparttar 132734 Internet.

A website can be onrepparttar 132735 Web, (the Internet) like http://yahoo.com or it could actually be on your own computer. When it’s onrepparttar 132736 web, in order for it to be seen by others using their Internet Service Provider, it must be hosted. That isrepparttar 132737 files which compriserepparttar 132738 website must be placed on a computer with an “always on” connection torepparttar 132739 Internet.

A Web site is just a place where a collection of web pages or html documents are located. There are around 16 million of them as of early 2003. You can design and setup a website of your own fairly easily in as little as a day or two. I am going to walk you throughrepparttar 132740 steps that you will need to follow, giving a little explanation alongrepparttar 132741 way.

If you can type a letter in Microsoft Word, you can be live onrepparttar 132742 Web in 2 Days.

The Internet is just a giant network of computers all connected together so that they can share information with one another. Thirty four million of you are connected to that network by a modem in your computer, a telephone line connection to AOL’s computers and then through their connection torepparttar 132743 Internet. If you have a cable modem, or satellite modem, then no phone connection is needed.

Telephones andrepparttar 132744 Internet

Telephones have been around for all your life. You don’t even think about how you can callrepparttar 132745 local access telephone number to AOL. Butrepparttar 132746 Internet is much newer and you don’t understand modems and Internet Service Providers and bandwidth. Who cares, you don’t know that much about how your telephone calls are switched to get you to your final destination. You don’t have to understand how your connection torepparttar 132747 website you want to visit gets switched either. Actually today there is some merging of telephones calls andrepparttar 132748 internet in that some voice and data phone calls are actually travelling overrepparttar 132749 internet. But that’s another story.

So that’s how you would get to someone else’s website, but how would they get to one that you setup? Or what would you have to do to make your website available to others?

Create content, get hosted and tell others.

First if you have an idea for some information, graphics, pictures or sounds that you would like to place on a website of your own and have them available to others what would you have to do? Well, first you createrepparttar 132750 content, whatever it is. Then you arrange to have it hosted and then just tell others how to find it.

Creatingrepparttar 132751 content on Web site pages. For most web sites,repparttar 132752 information is inrepparttar 132753 form of a page containing text and probably a few graphics. It is much like a word processing document. They are created in a plain text file which is written using special coding called HTML. Hyper Text Markup Language isrepparttar 132754 code in which html pages are written. It has various words and symbols that it calls tags. They are just special code words which are standard and which tell your Internet Explorer (for instance) browser how to displayrepparttar 132755 information and graphics onrepparttar 132756 html page.

I am creating this html document using Microsoft Word. So for right now, I am doing nothing different. The difference was that when I asked Word to start a new document, I specified a new webpage. It’s File-New-Blank Web Page fromrepparttar 132757 main Word menu. And then you just type. You can use whatever menu choices are then showing onrepparttar 132758 menu bar. You could insert a graphic, pictures, diagrams or a table, all fromrepparttar 132759 Word menu bar. You can formatrepparttar 132760 text to different fonts, make it bold, italic, underlined just as you can do in a word processing document.

So you probably have Microsoft Word or another competitors word processor. Word can create html documents and if you have a competitive product it probably can also. You can start to createrepparttar 132761 pages that will make up your website. But there are some things that are not so obvious when working with a word processor. How do I get from one page to another and then back again or to yet a third page? It’s done with hyperlinks. A hyperlink is just a special word or phrase, that is usually bright blue in color and underlined which, when clicked on with your mouse loads a different part of that web page or loads a different web page. Back atrepparttar 132762 top of this page when I typed Yahoo’s website address in it’s proper form, Microsoft Word recognized what it was and automatically made it into a hyperlink, and made it blue and underlined it. But here’s another one #Top ofrepparttar 132763 Document which takes you torepparttar 132764 top of this document. You create a hyperlink in Word fromrepparttar 132765 menu bar withrepparttar 132766 command Insert- Hyperlink.

You can do a webpage in Word, but it has some limitations. The Microsoft application that is specifically created to design web pages is FrontPage. It is a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) html editor or webpage creator. Now it is set up forrepparttar 132767 specific purpose of making web pages. But it has some other cool stuff that is going to make creating your web site really easy and once you learn a little, a whole lot of fun. There are other web page programs that are less expensive, maybe even free, those that are more expensive, maybe more powerful in certain ways and those thatrepparttar 132768 professionals use. But many professional web designers like FrontPage because it is powerful and similar to applications that users are already used to and because it is easy for a non-professional to take over and manage his website oncerepparttar 132769 pro has set it up for them. You can probably find a copy of Microsoft FrontPage 2002 for $50 or so on Amazon or Ebay. You may even have a copy on your computer that came with Office.

What is html and what do I have to know about it?

Its that code that tellsrepparttar 132770 internet browser how to displayrepparttar 132771 information and graphics that are onrepparttar 132772 webpage. You can findrepparttar 132773 html tags and some basic information about them in many places onrepparttar 132774 internet. Just search for “html tutorial” in a search engine and you’ll probably get more information than you want to read. If you are using a wysiwyg editor, you probably don’t need to do much more that a quick read through of one ofrepparttar 132775 tutorials that you will find.

See how html works… go torepparttar 132776 Source.

Another way to see, inrepparttar 132777 real world, whatrepparttar 132778 html coded page andrepparttar 132779 page as displayed by your browser is to do this. Pick a simple website that you normally visit and go there in your browser. Now with your mouse, right click on a blank part ofrepparttar 132780 page. You should get a popup menu, choose, “View Source”. Another window will open and displayrepparttar 132781 html source code that is being used to display that page in your browser. You can actually copy that code and save it as a file on your computer. If you save it withrepparttar 132782 proper extension .htm or .html, then using My Computer to viewrepparttar 132783 contents ofrepparttar 132784 directory whererepparttar 132785 file is saved. If you double click onrepparttar 132786 file name, it will start your internet browser and load that document into it and it will seem that you have gone to that previously visited website.

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