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/
