Make Your Web Site and Edit Your Pages

PLAN both the content and the layout. Would you want to bookmark the page and visit it again? If you can focus on genuine value and forget about disposable recycled content, you will build the well traveled virtual real estate of your dreams. Your content must be valuable and original for the greatest success. Define why you are making this web site and keep in mind that if you can help other people, you will, in the long run, find success. The following will help you know how to plan your pages:

• What is the reason you are making this web page? to get sign ups to your list, to sell an affiliate product, or your own product, to share your knowledge, to gain referrals to an online opportunity...
• Check out the competition. Study other pages similar to what you want to build and see how you can do it better!
• Who is your targeted market? I have a Dutch friend who has taught me an important lesson. If I am going to get anything done online, I must focus. You need to keep the image of your targeted reader in front of you as you work. Stay on your keyword topic.
• The outline of your planned site will become your site map. Sketch out on paper a list of potential pages in a site, how the pages will look, the color scheme, and where images will fit.
• A simple 3 color scheme will work best. Color is important as it creates the environment for your message. Note the effect of the color orange in the image above. What effect does the orange color have? Would a teal blue image have been a better choice? Use color as a communication tool on your page.

Your next step in making your web site is to place an empty folder on your desktop. You can name it 'site' or whatever you wish. Click on this folder to open it up, right click inside the folder and select 'new' -> folder and name this inner folder 'images'. If your plan includes images, you should edit them to fit on your page and put them inside the images folder.Please study the Editing Images page if you need help getting your image files prepared.

Download, install and open your HTML editing software. If you don't have this already, please visit the Web Tools page and select one. If you don't want to buy one, I recommend NVU. which is free. When your page looks as you want it, move to the FTP page to learn how to get it onto your free web hosting account.

First I will show you how to use NVU to make a simple Splash Page composed of a nested tables with an image background, text and a "Click Here" button.

Make a Simple Splash Page using NVU

Put Ad Code on a New Web Wage

Change ad code on Published Pages

Website editing videos:

The following videos are a series made by Louis Allport. You can learn many basic and some more advanced web site building tips by watching these. Click each topic to be taken to the flash video in a new window.

How to make a multi-page web site with linked pages.

Create a mini-site in 30 minutes

Build multiple pages and link them together

How to edit a web site already published on the web

Using Frontpage to edit your web pages

Use Dreamweaver to build web sites

When you are finished making your pages, it's important to test them to make sure they will work in the majority of browsers. Test your page in both Internet Explorer and Firefox. If something doesn't look right in one of them, it means you need to work on the page some more. Sometimes there can be a problem with tables not having correct sizes to fit together on the page.

I know you don't want to buy software right now, but eventually you may want to and I want to tell you that my new favorite is XSitePro. I like it much better than Dreamweaver. It's not just an HTML editing page maker, but a complete site manager. Check this out!

Click here to view the "7 Reasons Why You Need XSitePro Now!" video