10 Steps to Developing Your Own Website
10 Steps to Developing Your Own Website
I have developed and managed my own website for many
years and would like to share with you 10 steps that I learned to
make your website development a pleasant one.
Developing your Website:
1. Come up with a good domain name that relates to your website’s
topic.
2. Find a hosting company that offers all of the necessary tools
at a reasonable price. Shop around but I recommend Hostway -- http://www.hostway.com/.
3. Learn all you can about web development via books and online
tutorials. You can find used programming books at you local used
book store or eBay.
4. If the thought of learning programming is too much there are
companies that offer free templates but you may have to host your
site with them. Here are a few companies to look at http://www.freewebtemplates.com/,
http://freesitetemplates.com/ they are not as dynamic as if you
learn it yourself but will get you started.
5. Next is to find a good editing tool, which will enable you to
edit you web pages and upload then to your host’s servers.
I recommend CoffeeCup -- http://www.coffeecup.com/.
6. If you are selling a product you will need a way to collect
money. I recommend using PayPal -- https://www.paypal.com/. They
offer many merchant tools including a shopping cart feature.
7. It is a good idea to sell ad space on your site to increase
your revenue. You can accomplish this by placing Google AdSense
ads on you r site - http://www.google.com/ads_by_google.html and
selling your own ads by using third party software like AdPeeps
-- http://www.adpeeps.com/.
8. You will want to offer link exchange to other websites to better
your web visibility. I recommend using LinksManager -- http://www.linksmanager.com/index.html
it will cost you about $30 dollars a month but well worth the time
you will save.
9. You will want to offer an affiliate program to help sell your
products or get traffic to your site, I recommend ClickBank -- http://www.clickbank.com/
and clixGalore -- https://www.clixgalore.com/. ClixGalore offers
a pay-per-click option that allows you to pay affiliates as little
as $.01 per click. If you want to mange your own affiliate program
there is free software offered by COSMIC -- http://www.cosmicperl.com/.
10. Lastly, to get a jump on promoting you site join several free
traffic exchange sites. I recommend TrafficSwarm -- http://www.trafficswarm.com/
I hope this will help you get started, remember that it takes time
to get your site up and running but will be very rewarding once
it is done.
For a good example of all of these recommendations in action visit
my website http://www.zeoh.com/.
Good luck.
About the Author Dennis Watson has been
and is still helping others promote their products and/or services
through his Free Classifieds website - http://www.zeoh.com
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