Establish Your Web Site
Filed under: Web Business — Jean @ 2:19 pm
Because a home based web business requires content to be published to the Internet, it is obvious that a web site needs to be created to hold the content. When you are ready to begin to create the web site, you need something to call it (the web site name) and you need a domain name to “hold it”.
A domain name is how visitors are able to find your site. our domain name, which of course matches our site name – “healthwiseeproducts.com”. When selecting a domain name for your Internet home business, select a domain name that is close to the “theme on your site” one that is quite easy to remember and to type into a browser window.
When you have selected your domain name for your site, the next step is to go about creating it.
When looking at creating a web site, there are three ways to go about it.
Pay someone to design the site. Pay a web designer to design the web site design for you. You still need to supply the content.
Design the site yourself using a web design program. Requires a high degree of proficiency in designing a web site and good knowledge about computers in general.
Use a all-inclusive web business program, which effortlessly designs the site and takes care of all technical details. All you do is put in the subject matter – everything else is taken care of.
The first approach, paying someone else to design a web site for you, is the simplest but is extremely costly. Since it costs well upwards of several thousand dollars to have a professional design even a small site (and this does not include the content that needs to be added), I do not recommend a person starting off this way when creating their own home based web business. This is especially so since, as you expand the web site, you’ll have to pay the person yet again.
The second approach, designing the web site on your own, requires some technical expertise and some time to learn the programs you use to create the web site. However, for those who have the time to do it, this is an excellent way to go. By designing your own web site, you have total control over how it looks. You will also learn a lot – and I mean, A LOT. To properly design your own web site, though, will require purchasing a good web design program and web graphics program. The two programs I recommend are Dreamweaver and Fireworks, which cost around $500 between the two of them. Other programs you might, later need, include Adobe Photoshop or Photo Elements, Apache, My-SQL, and this list is truly endless.
The third approach, one I recommend for those of us that do not have the necessary web design programs or the necessary computer experience, is to use a very nice program called Site Build.
What this program does is to take your content and fit it into templates that you can then easily customize. Using Site Build requires no technical expertise at all – the program handles everything relating to coding and building your web page.
What separates Site Build from other web design programs, such as Dreamweaver, is that it does a number of very helpful things for successful web publishing that most people new to building a home based Internet business are not familiar with. Site Build It, in addition to allowing the user to build a web page by simply pointing and clicking a mouse, also does:
Web Page Optimization
Submission of Site to Search Engines
Domain Name Registration
Web Hosting
Graphic Tools
Analysis of Web Site
Internet Business Suggestions
We will go into more detail on these area above next time.
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