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| Thread ID: 110280 | 2010-06-10 10:17:00 | I want to build my own website! Advice? | camo (4895) | Press F1 |
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| 1108842 | 2010-06-11 01:03:00 | Having done a reasonable amount of web design, I can tell you that to ensure cross-platform and multi-browser support takes a lot of effort, time and knowledge of HTML and CSS. If you are prepared to invest the time to learn these technologies, then starting with some sort of template and working from there as others have suggested may be a good idea. However, if your time is better spent on actually setting up and running your business, then a WYSIWYG client of some sort may be the way to go. Are you doing to be selling products on your website, or is it just to promote your services? If it is the former, once again, if you have the time to learn about payment processors, online order scripts and have learned the basics of HTML and CSS then you should have no problem setting up something along these lines yourself as it would be very similar to integrating your design into a CMS system. As for web hosting, I'd recommend Nexcess (www.nexcess.net/) or Ubiquity (http:). I have accounts with both, the former costs more and is slightly more stable. The latter costs less, but also has really good 24/7 support (uptime is also very good, just not as good as Nexcess). |
maccrazy (6741) | ||
| 1108843 | 2010-06-11 01:13:00 | I know I'm going to annoy the purists but MS Publisher 2007 is used by me to maintain a site on a regular basis. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 1108844 | 2010-06-11 02:24:00 | Then you may want to track entry/exit points, unique visitors, reach, search queries, conversions (create goals), traffic source and keywords, locations, visitor time, etc, to help landing page optimization and ranking in the serps - important for competitive e-commerce sites. I create segmented reports to track only relevant parameters, as described here at search engine land. (searchengineland.com) Helped me to change content a bit to sought after search terms and to understand the source and intent of visitors landing on your site. Basic visitor/customer analytics site info described here. (www.searchenginejournal.com) So consider installing Google Analytics, using Google Webmaster Tools, and Google Website Optimizer. Use Google's Adwords Tool - to find what people are searching for in your business (use excat search) and incorporate those keywords/phrases in your content. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1108845 | 2010-06-11 02:43:00 | Webalizer helps too as in cPanel. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 1108846 | 2010-06-11 06:44:00 | How about using wordpress? Don't need to buy anything. | notechyet (4479) | ||
| 1108847 | 2010-06-12 02:37:00 | Best advice I can offer, if you decide to design the site yourself at minimal cost, is use a free html wysiwyg editor (such as included in Seamonkey), then pay a small amount for a host to upload it and run it for you for a short time until you're comfortable with doing it yourself. Don't bugger around with learning html or css - use your time better to get the site up and running first. I can do this for you - no contracts, and really inexpensive. PM me if interested. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1108848 | 2010-06-12 09:56:00 | CSS is definitely the way to go. It is worth the upfront learning to make future maintenance and modification much easier. I learnt CSS from a couple of books: "HTML with CSS and XHTML" ISBN-13 978-1-59059-747-7 "Pro CSS Techniques" ISBN-13 978-1-59059-732-3 both published by apress. They are two of the best written books I have come across on technical topics. My only other advice would be to start simple and grow the site as you get more experienced. If you try for all the bells and whistles straight off you run the risk off becoming bogged down and never finishing. Have fun! I found the challenge of learning basic CSS and HTML skills well worth while, and by validating them online I was able to be confident that they would (pretty much) work on all browsers. I was then able to utilise various bits of script, including the odd bit of Java, incorporate it into my site, and retest for accuracy. As I said, well worth the effort! |
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