Make a Blog or Website to Earn Online
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
After having a online business idea in your head, the next step you gonna do is to make a new blog or website. At present, you can either make your own website from your HTML knowledge or using softwares like Dreamweaver or Frontpage. On the other hand, there are many free or paid websites that provide you with thousands of professionally-designed templates. Bu before doing so, you need to make a self-assessment and think about the following questions:
1. Would you like to make money with PPC programs like Adsense, Bidvertiser or TLA? If yes, you'll need to plan for on-site advertising space in the website design.
2. Do your website design need to have forums or message boards so that you can interact with your readers?
3. Do you want to reserve some space to display articles or posts?
4. Are you going to use a content management system (CMS) to run your website?
5. Is there a need to add audio or video player on your website?
Once you have answered these questions, it is time to start designing a website for your online business. You have a few general options to consider when deciding how to design a website:
1. Search for a ready-made professional web template from free website template sites, or buy one from a web template provider. Personally, I prefer to search the free templates since their qualities are already up-to-my-standard, and most importantly, they are FREE! After downloading the template, you should, if you have basic HTML knowledge, customize the template to fit your needs.
2. Pay a web design company or professional Web designer to design and create a custom website according to your requests and needs.
3. Design a website yourself if you already possess web design skills and experience or you can take a course to learn about web design and HTML code.
No matter which methods you are going to choose, get a groovy website for you because only those websites with professional appearance will attract visitors. Last but not least, you may wish to show the website to your friends to have review. In order to thank my readers, I am always glad and available to review websites for them.
1. Would you like to make money with PPC programs like Adsense, Bidvertiser or TLA? If yes, you'll need to plan for on-site advertising space in the website design.
2. Do your website design need to have forums or message boards so that you can interact with your readers?
3. Do you want to reserve some space to display articles or posts?
4. Are you going to use a content management system (CMS) to run your website?
5. Is there a need to add audio or video player on your website?
Once you have answered these questions, it is time to start designing a website for your online business. You have a few general options to consider when deciding how to design a website:
1. Search for a ready-made professional web template from free website template sites, or buy one from a web template provider. Personally, I prefer to search the free templates since their qualities are already up-to-my-standard, and most importantly, they are FREE! After downloading the template, you should, if you have basic HTML knowledge, customize the template to fit your needs.
2. Pay a web design company or professional Web designer to design and create a custom website according to your requests and needs.
3. Design a website yourself if you already possess web design skills and experience or you can take a course to learn about web design and HTML code.
No matter which methods you are going to choose, get a groovy website for you because only those websites with professional appearance will attract visitors. Last but not least, you may wish to show the website to your friends to have review. In order to thank my readers, I am always glad and available to review websites for them.
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