When getting ready to start your own business you want to get as much information as you can before you start. Compile all the information and then you decide what applies to your business. In doing this you don't just want to get information from one source. Although Legitimate Home Jobs may have a lot of really great information, and always doing research for more tools and resources, you will want to get information from various different sources. Here are a couple of great sites to start with: |
To get started with your website you have to have a domain name. If you have web space or space on a server already available to you check out: |
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| If you are looking for a company that can do it all. If you are brand new at this and you really are not sure which direction to go. The company that can answer all your questions, help you with webspace, and have staff on hand to help you with your web building as well. You will want to check out Verio. |
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| Now that you have your site it is time to build it. If you are really good at writing HTML code you can write your site in a reagular test editor such as notepad, and use an FTP program to upload it to your server. Notepad should already be on your computer in your accessories menu. When you are ready to upload it you can use the built in FTP prgram in your internet explorer window. To do this you will simply type ftp://yourusername@yoursitename.com (or .net, or .org, etc.) Then you will be prompted to enter your username and password to your server. After you do this, you will see all the files in your server. Be sure you know which folders are writing directly to your site, or else you may put your documents in the wrong place and you won't be able to see them. If you are not familiar with any of this, call the web hosting company and ask them where your files should be writing to. |
| If you are seriously confused by the FTP and HTML and all that computer talk, you can get around it and make a fine site with a what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) editor. These are usually quite easy to figure out. There are a few downfalls with the WYSIWYG editors, but all-in-all you can make a professional site with them. |
Microsoft Office FrontPage Editor This is by far the most widely known editor, but there are some downfalls. With Microsoft FrontPage you have to make sure you have Front Page server extensions in place. Click on server extensions to find out more about them. If you are not sure about server extension check with your web hosting company. You can find more about Microsoft FrontPage on the Microsoft site. Adobe DreamWeaver is a very well known Web Editor, it is catching up to Microsoft FrontPage, and is pretty easy to use. You can view your documents in a split screen, which helps with learning HTML code. You can get a 30 day free trial of Dreamweaver 8 at the Adobe site Microsoft Visual Web Developer is another good Editor, and it is free. There are not as many features as in FrontPage and Dreamweaver and you will want to familiarize yourself with asp to use it more efficiently. Download that at Microsoft's Site |
| You will want to track your traffic on your site. There are several free tracking sites out there. Try some of these. |
What about making some money from your site? |
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