CREATING A WEB PAGE
| Creating web pages is really quite easy and you should not be concerned about how to do the various functions as we cover everything you will need to know. There will be some practical work to help you with each step. It is also important to know that a web page is never finished. They are always works in progress. As you learn more you will want to add more features. |
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When I first started I had some text and a graphic on one page. Over time this has now blossomed into over 65 different sites, 500 pages and multiple graphics and audio and some video. I have created pages for large companies, organizations and also individuals. I had no one to help me or provide information like you have here.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
After completing this workshop you will be able to compile a web site with a dozen or so pages complete with graphics, links and text. You will also be able to capture your visitors e-mail addresses and publish your pages to a website. We will use one of the free hosting programs for this. You will also learn ways to promote and advertise your site to generate traffic.
NAVIGATION
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All the links on the left for the workshop are in order so you can progress at your own pace. Do the examples and practice. Once you feel confident in each section branch out and try some other ways of doing the same thing. |
Don't be scared of making mistakes because in most cases you can choose the undo function to take you back. This is especially useful when building pages as you can have a look at what it looks like first and if you don't like it you can try something different. Remember to save your work.
THE WORKSHOP
The workshop is the core of this package and is a fully interactive set of pages that will help you learn most of the major skills required to produce professional pages. While a little bit of computer knowledge and some artistic flare are preferable I have tried to accommodate every type of user.
You will find ways of building web pages with little or no artistic skill by using templates and graphic resources. There are many other sites that provide this type of information however very few give you the opportunity to practice as you are reading. Also by using certain software you can bypass the need for learning html. This means you can have a site up and running in a few hours. Each lesson will continue with a link like the one below.
In the new section we have added you can also set up a fully functional data base driven dynamic website however you will still need to know the various functions provided in this workshop.
What we will be doing!
1. Purchase a domain name
2. Organize some Internet Real Estate (Hosting Server)
3. Build our pages
4. Upload to our hosting server
5. Add some functionality
6. Set up our e-commerce
7. Add some products
The basics for a great website is as follows.
- Have a great product or service. This may be your own products or affiliate products. It also maybe your local sporting or social group.
- Create a functional web site.
- Accept Credit Card Payments
- Automate delivery as much as possible
- Follow Up and provide outstanding service
Before we go any further lets have a look at your new address.
One thing I learnt about butterflys when I was young is that you cannot help them to much.
I remember seeing a butterfly strugling to get free from its cocoon and it was almost free so I pulled out my pen knife and cut the cords holding the butterfly back.
Unfortunately after a few minutes it was on the ground dead.
Many years later I learnt that the strength the butterfly expends to get free if the same strength it needs to stay free.
So many people want the quick fix and dont realize that what they are going through now often provides the knowledge and strength to maintain the freedom they gain.
Bypass the problems and pain and in most cases you will have to go through it again or just loose that opportunity.
I just finished reading a report on people who have won lotteries or received huge insurance payouts. Most of them after 5 years are back to where they were before they won or are worse off.
Why?
Simply because they had not got the strength it takes most of us to get the freedom. They bought a big house but forgot with big houses comes big bills and responsabilities. So eventually they had no strength to keep the freedom.
Susan Bradley, who authored "Sudden Money: Managing a Financial Windfall," says winners get into trouble because they fail to address the emotional connection to the windfall.
"There are two sides to money. The interior side is the psychology of money and the family relationship to money. The exterior side is the tax codes, the money allocation, etc."
"The goal is to integrate the two. People who can't integrate their interior relationship with money appropriately are more likely to crash and burn," says Bradley.
"Often they can keep the money and lose family and friends -- or lose the money and keep the family and friends -- or even lose the money and lose the family and friends."
Bill Pomeroy, a certified financial planner in Baton Rouge, La., has dealt with a number of lottery winners who went broke.
"Because the winners have a large sum of money, they make the mistake of thinking they know what they're doing. They are willing to plunk down large sums on investments they know nothing about or go in with a partner who may not know how to run a business."
Internet marketing is very similar in that there are huge windfalls to be made but just remember that the problems and pain you are going through now will give you the strength you will need later to maintain the freedom you get.
Before we go any further lets have a look at your new address.
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