Recommend a Website Host/Page Builder - How do you build your webpage? Do you use an Affiliate site, a programer, or do you Do It Yourself? (

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Permalink Reply by Stanislav-Stan: KrTil on July 4, 2009 at 5:36pm

Hi Laila,

I have been using services of this provider http://tiny.cc/bestsite for almost 2 years now. Their customer base of over 100 thousand worldwide and their case studies speak for itself.

They designed our site, asigned an advisor for us, developed a logo and the colours. But most of all, the guidance in generating traffic to the site we received was the most important. No matter how cheap, good, or expensive the website is, if there is no qualified traffic to it, it may as well be located on the North Pole.

We've had nothing but praise for our website from hundreds of visitors worldwide. Just see for yourself as one picture is better than 10 thousand words: www.Homo-Sapiens-Conscius.com

Respectfully yours

Stan: KrTil

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Permalink Reply by David Ogden on July 4, 2009 at 7:47pm

Hi Laila,
your site is a well made affiliate site however if you are looking for search engine ranking it will be hard to get it to the top of google as you share the same keywords with other affliates and do not have ability to change content.

Having your own site will resolve that issue, no if you are concentrating on SEO for a website forget about flash and colours because spiders cant see, you can keep it plain and simple click here for sample.

I build my own pages some custom designed others are from free templates. I have used both Frontpage and Microsoft Expression Web in the past but now tend to use Editplus as it is plain and simple and provides clean code for HTML pages.

I use Knownhost for my hosting with unlimited subdomains, excellent valaue for money and very responsive help desk.

David Ogden - Helping people help themseves to turn dreams into reality

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Permalink Reply by Laila on July 5, 2009 at 7:15am

You should have a link to your webpage so we can check it out! :-)

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Permalink Reply by Laila on July 5, 2009 at 1:26pm

One of my Tweeple suggested http://www.720media.com/

Anyone have any experiences with these guys?

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Permalink Reply by startfeline1986 on July 9, 2009 at 12:50pm

It depends on your budget really...or do you have one??

Web designing is a skill and art and will take a long time to master. If ANYTHING is taking your attention off your core business, outsource it.

Odesk is a good place to get your skill workers...they have all sorts of talents there and i am sure you will find good partners to work with long term.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Ressler on July 10, 2009 at 12:03am

I have worked as a freelance web developer and custom applications programmer for several years.

I have recently started writing a series of articles on my blog entitled "How to Build a Website Yourself - Using Free Open Source:

http://rressler.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-to-build-website-yourself-...

Richard

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca Beasley on August 31, 2009 at 10:13pm

Laila I recommend that anyone who wants to build a site learn at least basic html.
Here's a good piece of software you can use on your own computer to build a page.
Go to http://www.myfreewebsitebuilder.com/userguide/
to get both the software and the userguide to learn how to build your own site.
This is so easy! They even have step by step videos.

There are a lot of great resources that teach you the basics. I just googled it (well
actually there wasn't a google when I started), LOL but I searched for html courses
and found some really good ones and learned it on my own. And I know you're at
least as smart as I was at your age, so it should be a piece of cake.

Then after you've mastered the basics you'll have a lot more control than you do using
pagebuilders. And you can get hosting for really cheap, even at Godaddy for building a
page and often you can get it for a yearly price even cheaper than monthly.
Or you can get it from me;)

I also recommend a good ftp (file transfer protocol) program to send your pages from
your computer to your server. And for that I recommend FileZilla. You can get it at
filezilla.org but it's best to get it from download.com reason being the last time I got
it from the open source site there was a corrupted file and the download failed.
Download.com is very safe and you'll find lots of good tools there.

FTP is also easy to use once you get the hang of it. Basically all you're doing is sending
files from your computer (left side) to your server (right side) and it shows you the files
and you just double click to send. Setting up the server information isn't hard. And that's
the hardest part. You just need to know where your site is located (the url) and your username
and password.

It's a whole lot easier to do it this way, even if you don't know html. The hardest part is
believing you can do it and once you get that down, you're home free.


Becky

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