How To Design A Web Site If you're A Newcomer On The Internet - 0 views
started by Rich Holbrook on 07 Jan 14
started by Rich Holbrook on 07 Jan 14
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After years on the Net, in my opinion you should learn to design your internet sites your self, and here's why..
The Internet is made up of two elements:
1. Text
2. Images
Yes, video and audio systems are growing rapidly. But when you desire to sell-on the Net, it's essential to interest your audience, these folks who are ready to pull out their bank cards and buy your products and services. A huge proportion of those are still on dialup and certainly aren't very sophisticated and fancy strategies will isolate you from many of them.
So what are your choices if you like to construct a web site?
1. Purchase a template:
This can work sometimes. I've bought them myself and they do look good. But there are some real problems with templates:
* They may be expensive - particularly if you want multiple sites. Good layouts aren't inexpensive. The few I've bought are in the $60-$70 selection.
* If you do not understand what you are doing, you can waste your money on themes that'll not benefit you. For example, you will often see layouts with icons, images, organization images, 'Buy Now' keys and more. Yes, they look good. Because if they're in jpg or gif structure, you can't make changes but when you obtain the pictures they're not editable. The most common 'editable' pictures are in 'psd' format. If you own image editing software, like Photoshop (which often sells for approximately $600), you can make the changes you wish. But when you don't possess this kind of software then forget-it - your images can't be changed.
* Editing themes is not easy. You might inadvertently purchase a theme that enables 8' of space - and your copy needs 1-0' of space. Now what? Cheaper layouts require the customer to 'slice' them. This can be tedious and frustrating and requires editing information that many people don't have. Top quality templates enable the owner to modify them without lowering, however they are far more expensive.
* Even when you can edit your new theme, do you think that you should allow an artist to determine the placement of your sales copy? Wonderful style doesn't equal income. Just because some thing appears good does not mean it is a good sales site. Many novices are satisfied with the good looks of a theme, but on the web Madison Avenue beauty doesn't equal profits. Making profits arises from effective direct-response marketing meaning changing them before you have a success and testing the elements on your own sales page. If your design is forced on you you are restricted in the changes you could make.
2. Pay a website designer to build a site for you:
* Hiring a specialist can be costly. I actually have an objective to build two sites each week for a year. Identify additional info about intangible by navigating to our fresh web resource. Let's assume I pay some one $500 to construct a website (which can be quite a reasonable amount for a done well site - it often costs much more.) That means I'll be paying $1,000/week, each week, for a year. My money is much better allocated to advertising than style.
* Every time you want to make a change on your internet site, you must wait on an artist to make the changes. That is costly and may be frustrating when the custom is busy with multiple customers.
* Being a ordered theme, many web designers are centered on looks and appear-ance, instead of functionality or sales. All the best marketers know that plainer web sites are more worthwhile as the focus is on the copy, what, instead of fancy graphics or beautiful colors. Have a look at the top money-making sites online. They seldom are elegant or significantly impressive.
* Depending on a web developer creates dependency. Usually the motivation of entrepreneurs is freedom so awaiting another person to make even the smallest changes to your site isn't taking you in the direction you want to go.
3. Buy site-making software:
Every plan I've seen involves a learning curve. One popular site creator, like, features a 500 page manual, is costly and plenty of the training doesn't transfer to other site systems. I looked at a different one recently having a 300-page manual. When you choose, for nearly zero cost, some time that you spend learning these methodologies may be invested learning an HTML editor that is likely to make you fully effective at making your own sites.
Spend time and understand do-it-yourself sites. I personally spent a couple of weeks in 'Dreamweaver Hell' a long period ago. All opinions indicated that Dreamweaver is the best HTML manager, so I purchased a book and determined to understand the program on my own. The first book wasn't long enough so I returned it for a second - and longer - book, which ultimately was sold for an almost-1200 page manual. There have been times of stress, tears, triumph, cursing and the joy of success, and I emerged able to come up with sites whenever I chose.
Saying 'I want to be an Internet marketer' and not learning how to develop websites yourself is like wanting to be described as a dentist - and refusing to understand teeth; like being a star player - and refusing to apply your game. So what if your first sites will not win a design award? You'll get better. And you will be independent. Discover more on an affiliated portfolio by clicking division. Identify further on tell us what you think by going to our lovely wiki. Is not that the whole level of focusing on the Internet?.