The next step is how you are going to display your content. It is very important to know that,when designing your own website, place more emphasis on the content rather than the looks of your site. To really grab your visitors’ attention, and to hopefuly keep them coming back to you, you must have rich content, of which would be of great value to them. Of course, having a pleasant and good-looking website will be beneficial, but if you’re looking to make sales, don’t focus too much on the looks but what it contains on your site. It is important to learn that people are always looking for information, not necessarily the pretty design. Anyway, sketch out a design layout on paper first. Think about how much graphics you want to display, or how many pictures you want on your site. Remember to use the minimal amount of both, so as not to deter visitors from your site with its slow page loading. Keep the graphic and photo files as small as possible. With photos, you can give the visitor the option of enlarging your picture from a smaller picture, by clicking on the image. These smaller images are called “thumbnails” and are commonly used, to avoid slow downloading, specially on sites with more than one photo on display. Next, think about the background color you would like on your pages. Do not blind your visitors or use a color that will make your text unreadable to visitors. I sometimes come across websites which make this mistake, and you can be sure they will not see me back there in a hurry! So, when choosing a color for a background, keep it subtle and see how it will fit in relation to what your website will be about. It’s no good choosing a black background with red text if you’re selling children’s books!
How To Create Your Own Website. [Home] Marketing Tool. One of the most important tools to possess in any type of Internet marketing business, is of course, a website. There are two ways to go about owning your own website. You can either create a site yourself using popular website creating software, (or using on-line site building services, which does almost everything for you), or you can seek a professional designer to create one for you. There are two major disadvantages of getting a professional to do it: a) They charge alot of money to use their services. Typically, you have to pay as much as $2000+ b) The website they create for you, may not be exactly how you want it to be. Even if you do not know how to build a website, using software or on-line services, will help do it for you. You do not have to learn how to use HTML with most software these days. They are mostly referred to as WYSIWYG software (What You See Is What You Get). If you do decide to create your own site, it is highly recommended that you choose on-line services because, not only do they help you build your site, but also help you host, promote and choose your own domain name for your site. All at a low monthly rate. For a list of website building/hosting services, please scroll further down the page. Planning. As with anything that is worthwhile, planning is one of the most important steps in creating your own website. You should put alot of effort into planning your site. It will save you alot less effort later on that way. So, get a pencil and paper and plan how you want your site to look like, what kind of people you want to target with your site, and what kind of value you will want to provide. You can either create your own content or you can seek providers on the internet, who offer dynamic information that you can easily incorporate into your site. When seeking information for your site, be careful not to violate the copyright laws. Don’t copy anybody’s webpages, so either seek permission from that person to use their content or seek free sources, or even better, create your own rich content. One thing you can do, is to find information related to your planned website, and read and learn what they’ve written on their webpages and in their articles etc...Just simply soak up the info and formulate your own content in your own words from what you’ve learnt. Designing. The next step is how you are going to display your content. It is very important to know that,when designing your own website, place more emphasis on the content rather than the looks of your site. To really grab your visitors’ attention, and to hopefuly keep them coming back to you, you must have rich content, of which would be of great value to them. Of course, having a pleasant and good-looking website will be beneficial, but if you’re looking to make sales, don’t focus too much on the looks but what it contains on your site. It is important to learn that people are always looking for information, not necessarily the pretty design. 1. Graphics. Anyway, sketch out a design layout on paper first. Think about how much graphics you want to display, or how many pictures you want on your site. Remember to use the minimal amount of both, so as not to deter visitors from your site with its slow page loading. Keep the graphic and photo files as small as possible. With photos, you can give the visitor the option of enlarging your picture from a smaller picture, by clicking on the image. These smaller images are called “thumbnails” and are commonly used, to avoid slow downloading, specially on sites with more than one photo on display. 2. Background. Next, think about the background color you would like on your pages. Do not blind your visitors or use a color that will make your text unreadable to visitors. I sometimes come across websites which make this mistake, and you can be sure they will not see me back there in a hurry! So, when choosing a color for a background, keep it subtle and see how it will fit in relation to what your website will be about. It’s no good choosing a black background with red text if you’re selling children’s books! 3. Simple And Subtle. Consider how you will place your graphics along with your textual content. If you are a beginner, do not overwhelm yourself, seeing other websites with fancy frame designs and animations etc...Just keep your site simple and subtle at first, and then later on, you can be able to learn how to add frames and things. Remember, your main aim is to get your content and products across to the internet world and its prospective customers. 4. Errors. Remember to take great care when typing content and to avoid glaring mistakes in grammar, spelling or language. Always double check by reading over your textual content before uploading your pages to the internet audience. If your website’s main priority is to sell products, you do not want to have big mistakes littered all over your pages, as this will look unprofessional to a visitor. People will most likely be discouraged from purchasing anything if the vendor has typed, “bye fruits from my site” instead of “buy”! 5. Navigation. If you have more than one page on your website, it is VERY important that you provide your visitors with a good well thought-out navigation scheme. How this can be done, of course, is to add hyperlinks to your pages, which will enable visitors to move back and forth through all the pages of your website. There are several ways of linking the pages, but I would recommend that you have a navigation bar at the top or side of your page, which has a set of links for visitors to simply click on. You can include textual links on your pages as well as, or instead of the navigation bar, if you wish. You do not want your visitors to end up becoming lost on your site and find themselves at a dead end! Affiliate Programs. If you want to create a website to sell products but you cannot think of what you sell, then you should consider making money from selling other companies’ products. By becoming an affiliate, you can insert a special link on your pages, so your visitors will click on it and be redirected to the site of the company you have affiliated with. For more information on affiliate programs, simply click here. Here is the list of highly recommended on-line web design and hosting services: Websitewizard.com Sitesell.com SfiwebBuilder.com IndHosts.Net
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