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Building Your Foundation, First

October 7th, 2008 | Author: Laura

Welcome to your first lesson on building your website.

The very first thing you need to do is decide on what your website is going to do, there are many different types of websites. From, landing pages, membership sites, salespages, and informational websites, and the list goes on….

So first decide what type of market/niche you would like to go into. I have learned and discovered that the best place to start in deciding this is, is to start with your passions. Now I hear a lot that some people just don’t have a passion, but I don’t believe this at all.

Everyone has something to offer. Their passions, what they do at work, and any kind of training or knowledge they have, all these could be possible markets you can go into.

Before, you think your passion or knowledge is profitable for you, you need to do some research to see if others are willing to pay for this.

The first place to start is to see if anyone else is marketing in this niche. Go to Google.com and type in your passions, like golf, and see what others are doing. One thing to keep in mind is not to be too broad with your niche, like golf, has millions of websites, break it down to like golf shoes, or whatever. You want your results within Google.com to be less than one million results.

So dig deep if you have to, don’t be afraid to dig deep within your niche, usually the deeper the better as long as there is people looking for your specific product or service.

For detailed step by step on just how to do this, you can hear this never heard before exclusive interview with Erik Stafford (The Faster Webmaster) who details out how he took a need and filled that need and made a sale within 10 days!

Just use the link below to get a step by step blueprint on how to find and dig deep to build that foundation

http://laurasbasicstowebdesign.com/success

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How To Find the Website Building Tools

October 7th, 2008 | Author: Laura

This area seems to be frustrating to so many folks. Just how and where do you find the proper tools to build your website? There are soo many different answers to this question and I have found that it isn’t always on what are the proper tools, as much as what YOU feel the most comfortable with.

There are a lot of web designers out there that swear by Frontpage and/or Dreamweaver, and then there are others that build their websites completely in Notepad or with a simple HTML editor, so what is the best way to build your website?

This completely does depend on you and what level you are at.

I personally use a HTML editor called Kompozer I have used many others throughout the years, but I have found that I personally, perfer to see what I am doing while I am doing it and I don’t have this big budget to purchase things like Frontpage and/or Dreamweaver and have found that a simple no cost HTML editor such as Kompozer does the job just fine.

With any new type of software there is always a learning curve to go through, but I have found not only for myself but for some I have taught, that the simple HTML editors that you can download free, work just as good as anything else out there.

Now keep in mind, I’m discussing building a website, Not designing graphics or that stuff.

With these editors you do not have to know much at all about HTML or how things work, but it is highly recommended you at least know some basic HTML, which will not take you years or months to learn.

So for the tools that you need to have in place to build a website -

1. An HTML editor of some sort. I highly recommend you give Kompozer a try, it’s free and it’s easy to use

2. You will need an FTP program, so you can take what you saved to your hard drive and move it to your hosting account. For more information on FTP you can read my article at How to get your website online

3. You should also get an autoresponder so you can collect your prospects information to build that list! Now I’ve used free and paid companies, and have come to the conclusion that the paid way is the way to go! So if you need to get your hands on a good autoresponder I highly recommend Aweber!

4. Of course you will need hosting and there I recommend Hostgator

5. Then of course a domain name which you can get at Godaddy

There you go 5 important tools you need to have, at no cost to little cost to get your first website online and collecting information or sales for you.

Until next time Take Action!

Laura Miller

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