Newbie Looking to Design Own Site

It sounds like all you need is wordpress.
If you do need more check out all the free software I offer from Index of /software I'm changing servers, so if that site doesn't come up wait a bit and try again until the dns resolves.

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Righttech,

I am just before pre-launch of a quality site development program which is presently being beta tested by individuals of varying different levels of design understanding.

Being an absolute newbie, I would be interested in you beta testing this product before its launch.

Here is a link to the site under construction. There is a video on it which explains the concept of the product and its intended design purpose.

http://affiliate-niche-site-pro-deluxe.com

If you are interested pm me with your phone number and convenient time of contact.

pete

Hey Brett,

It's good to see that you are willing to learn the fundamentals of internet
marketing and expect there is a learning curve before you make the big
bucks.

It's good to have at least a basic understanding of designing sites so even
if you decide to outsource down the road, which is something to consider,
you'll be able to take care of shop to make some quick changes and so forth.

I use Dreamweaver and Fireworks for designing my websites. Dreamweaver is
an WYSIWYG/html editor and Fireworks is the graphics program that is geared
for web based graphics.

They are a little pricey, but if you plan on buying any web design tools those
are the ones to consider.

I recommend beginners to use NVU which is an open source WYSWYG editor, and
to outsource the graphic design, since it is very important to have a professional
look and feel. If you feel you feel you have enough creativity to create decent logos
an other graphics you could use try using the open source graphics editor Gimp.

I run a free membership that will teach you many fundamentals, such as using NVU
to design minisites and how to do other tasks, such as upload files, add a paybutton,
traffic strategies and more. This should help take a big chunk out of the learning curve.

In addition, if you have some money to invest in your business I recommend
you consider outsourcing for your first site, and possibly the ad copy so you
can get yourself online quickly and concentrate on learning and applying
marketing strategies to increase traffic and conversions.

If you have any questions you PM me. I would be happy to help you get started.

Take care,

Bryan

Yeah, it sounds like wordpress would be a good choice. You can start out by making blog posts and gaining readership, and have an About page set up. Then as you can start working on eBooks as well. If you decide to build a Web site, you can always link it to the blog and vice versa. Good luck.

Brett I would recommend trying to limit how much you are going to spend setting everything up, in order to make money. For example you might want to avoid paying a couple of hundred dollars for a website template or even more money on a web designer, when there are plenty of free templates that will serve your purposes nicely.

Another idea is to actually make a plan of what you want to accomplish, and use it as a reference as you make progress. For example, you don't necessarily need to write a business plan for your idea if you can summarize what is called the entrepreneur's script. It's a 1-2-3 list of the steps you want to take, and how that will earn a profit. This is only an overview, or high level picture. In your case, it might look like:

1. setup a website
2. sell ebooks and membership subscriptions
3. sell advertising space on each webpage
4. earn money from sales and subscriptions
5. reinvest profits to improve website or fund my ad campaigns

Your entrepreneur script might be different, but this is the general idea. From there you can be more specific about domain registration, web hosting, membership management, advertising networks, and deciding how you are going to produce reports for yourself to know that things are working correctly.

It helps to write things down if you really want to accomplish your goals. I know a lot of people do not do this, but I strongly recommend that you research and write your own business plan, develop a custom marketing plan, and put the measurement components in place so you will know for sure that you are not being lied to, and are on track to produce the right results. If something is not working, figure out why and make adjustments immediately. Listen to your customers and follow up quickly.

There is a lot more to say, but since you are at the beginning, I'll wait to hear your feedback.

I use webpro 5.0 editor. It will do most of the work for you. the greenest of the green can build a nice web page with this.

Wordpress is a good advice, also consider downloading a HTML editor to understand HTML and make your own pages. Try to Google the word coffeecup software and try the HTML editor, also if possible, get Dreamweawer from Adobe for best results.

Some very good tips there Many recommending Wordpress .. Can someone list the best plugins for wordpress? or a link where the best plugins can be evaluated? Many Thanks!

Why spend a lot of unnecessary cash on HTML when there are so many great free sites on the web?

For instance: W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
The address is: www.w3schools.com/




Good Luck!

take a look at our service -- simplweb.com

we'll be rolling out a membership w/ subscription package in the soon.

Hi - to get started use NVU - just to get the feel of it - it has been updated and and called Komposer -http://www.kompozer.net/
google free add free hosting to find some free space to play with or
get the hostgator baby hosting http://www.hostgator.com/
I use WYSIWYG Web Builder - very easy to create sites
For all other info re web marketing just search your topic on this forum
this is where the gold is
my tip: keep your credit card in your pocket unless you really need it right now
good luck

try ning.com they provide easy to use website creator. its like blogger and wordpress but much better!

As some people have already stated, there are PLENTY of free tutorials online for you to start with. If you are really keen to begin from scratch you should try 'HTML 4 for Dummies'. It starts with the very basics and takes you on from there.

You should also consider the possibility that you don't need to learn all of this to begin Internet Marketing. As somebody else aready suggested, Wordpress would fulfill most of your needs if not all and it's free. I use Wordpress to make all my sites and the host of add-ons available usually mean you can get it to do whatever you want.

Also search engines love to index Wordpress blogs which is great if you plan on using your site for Internet Marketing purposes.

It all ultimately depends on your personal goals.

Hope I helped a little and good luck!

One quick thing about Wordpress though, which I found out after I registered (I guess I should have looked at the TOS more closely). If you have WP host your blog/site for you, then you can't use Adsense, you have to self-host for that. Just to keep in mind if you want to start out with advertisments on a WP site.

look online for some good tutorials...there are loads on youtube

Wordpress may be a good choice for you. You can use Wordpress to both sell ebooks and also provide a place were people can interact with you via the blog posts. Check out the Flexiblity theme which is geared toward letting you setup to sell an ebook, etc.

At the risk of echoing everyone else here I am a big fan of Wordpress, although I also strongly recommend that people supplement their knowledge of this CMS with some learning of HTML, CSS and PHP. Those languages can really help you to tweak your Wordpress sites to be unique and to look incredible.

w3schools.com really is an invaluable resource when it comes to teaching yourself coding. For learning WordPress I'd recommend just finding yourself a couple of free themes and having a bit of a play around with how they work. There's hundreds of great tutorials about getting set up with WP and how to upload your chosen themes.

Although I'd recommend starting cheaply, with free WP themes and tutorials from websites, I would also strongly suggest getting your own web hosting rather than using Wordpresses own. It's a good idea to have as much control over your domains as possible and with the fees for these services being so much lower these days than they used to be it's generally quite an affordable thing to do.

Hope that helps a bit and best of luck with it!
Bex

I would go with dreamweaver, it may be difficult to get used to at first but in the long run you'll find its probably the best way to create completely unique websites

I suggest getting prebuilt free templates from sites like freecsstemplates and constructing on tehm, makes life easy a lot easy. But I recommend wordpress, its setup right out of the box and its extremely easy to use.

Start with WordPress, Joomla is also another good one that I found fairly easy to start off with. WP is still easier though.

I am so glad I found this post! I've taken all the advice in and am extremely grateful for all the detailed information. I'm also interested in not only blogging but getting my own site out there and this information has been something I've needed for a long time!

try w3school.com they have good tutorials on how to start your own website