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Presumably, you already knew what internet is all about. Its all about content. With free quality content, you can easily attract masses. Some may consider this as an investment while some may treat it as a hobby.

If you are wondering, why some may treat it as an investment. What are there to invest in? Well basically, having your own article website can often be most powerful marketing weapon. You can increase your product sales or even attract many advertisers to place advertisement (Banners, text links) at your website should site grows. Visitors will stay at your web site longer because there are lots of articles to read. This gives you additional opportunities at getting more click throughs to your affiliate programs. You could feature links to your affiliate programs on each page you have articles.

While for hobby purpose, some just want to share their knowledge.

In either case, you as writer, will be treated as a professional by public within your article categories range.

Now you have a brief idea of benefit in having an article website so how do you go along creating one? Let's imagine in case where you have establish a very popular article resource site, consisting of some excellent graphic designer and some award-winning writers. How can you make sure each of individual does their job well and focus on only their section of professionalism? For example, most designers ensure that your article website content looks great. This is what they do best. Writers on other hand, write excellent articles but can't draw well or build websites.

Hence, you need to allow everyone to concentrate on what they are best at and bring their output together to provide website a pleasant place for your visitors. The answer? Vezine Content Management application software is what you need.

Brief introduction to Vezine

As you may already have referred to Vezine's website, it is an online content management software that helps you create a full article website easily. Vezine allows you, owner or administrator (as you call it) manage not only articles, but also allows you to handle your writers, designers and files or images uploaded for any individual articles well.

In addition, Vezine recognizes that Search Engine Friendly Optimization is especially important. Without optimization, your listing in search engine will not be in a good position.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can be easily enhance within your Vezine's administrator panel. The most common optimizing options are friendly URL and meta keywords and descriptions for each individual articles. You can already see an example here in this site.

So as earlier on, we are talking about having individual professionals to each handle their own job well. For this, Vezine allows you create multiple Groups. For example, you may want to create a Writer group. Allow this group to access only Articles Management section and throw all writer's account into this group and have them login into admin panel. Once login, they will be restricted with a limited access. Allowing them to only create articles but not tamper with website templates and designs.

Of course, do same by creating a Designer group, whereby you should only allow them to access Templates Management section of administrator panel. This is how and what you should consider if you want to create a successful article resource website.

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It's my ambition that it will do much more, but long before profit, there must be content.

What if you simply cannot afford twenty to thirty dollars a month it takes to get a great interface? Or what if you simply don't have knowledge or time to set one up? What good does it do you to have a host that can run perl and php if you haven't vaguest idea what those things mean? What if you just want to write, or share pictures?

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I've been using Bravenet resources for several months now, because it allows me to avoid incurring further costs and lets me get experimental. It's a trade-off, of course. The ads detract from professionalism I'd prefer. But unlike other "No-Cost" solutions, Bravenet is scalable and upgradeable to meet highest standards.

I've never once been able to set up an eCard interface. I've tried, and there seems to be a jinx. Even when they work, they take up space and eat up my bandwidth.

Now, I don't want to be a one-stop-shoppe for e-cards. I don't want to devote that sort of time to it. I don't need thousands or even hundreds of cards.

My eCards are items of whimsy, little bits of commentary, often topical and possibly intended as a companion to an article of mine. Because I use this service, I don't HAVE to think commercially. If I change my mind, I DON'T have to change my solution - I simply hand them price they ask. Since that price includes all hosting and software and traffic overhead, it's damn reasonable. I can even pay to have their branding removed.