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How to Create Your First Website

Published by fongrich on Tagged Web Development

Since this blog is created with intention of giving novices the knowledge to pursue their own Internet Marketing venture, I am going to introduce some very basic knowledge about web development and how the whole revenue stream works. To people who already know how to build websites and what Adsense does, you can skip this entry.

Ok, so you want to build a website and make massive amount of money. However, since you have never built a website let alone make money from the Internet, you have no idea where to begin. There are various options you can start with. If you want to begin making some money from Adsense (easiest), you’ll need to create a content website. When I say “easiest,” it’ll still take you a couple of months and some work to earn your first dime. But that’s expected. You don’t know what you’re doing, so there’s a lot to learn with trial and error. Hopefully, I can minimize some of your errors, but there are so many way to go about it that I can’t cover it all. Remember, if you’re truly serious about doing Internet Marketing a few months of struggle shouldn’t be a barrier. It’ll pay off exponentially in the long run.

First off, if you never built a website, don’t think your first website will make you that million dollars. Think of it as a learning tool for your next dozen websites. Start out with something simple. A small topic will do nicely. I don’t want to bog you down with too much information initially like designs, keywords, and SEO. We’ll go into that later when you get the hang of developing and publishing your content.

To create a content website you have a few options on how to go about it. But first, you need to choose a topic. I’d highly recommend choosing a topic that you are interested in, because you’ll be spending a lot of time on that topic. It becomes very difficult to write about something you are apathetic about. Once you have chosen your topic, you can write in MS Word then copy it over to your site after you created a template.

Now comes the fun part. By the way, you don’t have to write your content first. I usually hire someone to write it for me, as I do the design for the website. If you know absolutely nothing about web design, html, or anything tech related to the Internet, I recommend starting out with a simple html editor called FrontPage. That’s what I started off with. You know Microsoft makes things easy. Most of you will probably have it with your Office suite. I currently use Dreamweaver, which has a lot more features, but as a beginner it may just overwhelm you. By the way, if you don’t have FrontPage, there are free html editors available. I know Netscape browser offers html editing. So now that you have editor installed and ready to go. Let’s start designing!

The easiest way to start is using a template. There are tons of free FrontPage templates on the net, and a lot more you can buy. FrontPage even has their generic looking template you can use. Remember, you’re not trying to build a million dollar website today. This is just for practice. Once you’re comfortable with how a web design works with tables and links, you can customize your own designs. A good tip on learning good design is saving a webpage you admire on your hard drive. Open it with FrontPage and analyze what they did with the html and layout. You’ll find lots of neat tricks.

I know I am not even scratching the surface of how to use FrontPage or designing a website. That information is readily available on the Internet. Google search: “web design” or “frontpage tutorial” I’m just a guide to steer you in the right direction. You’ll actually have to do the heavy lifting (learning & research) yourself.

After you have your site completed, it’s time to publish. There are many ways to go about this. You can buy a domain name and host it with a quality hosting company. Or you can just publish it in a free hosting and use their subdomain as your web address. If you’re serious about making some adsense money from the site, I’d recommend the first option.

Let’s talk about publishing your website. Every website you surf online is hosted by a special server that’s connected to the Internet. When you create a website, it’s actually in your hard drive and no one is going to find it. You’ll need to upload your content to an internet server through File Transfer Protocol (FTP) program. Some hosting companies will have their own web based file manager which you can upload files from your computer to their server. For FTP, I use FileZilla. It’s free and it works just like other paid programs. But for someone who has no concept of uploading and FTP, I’d recommend just using a web based file manager, for now. I started off with Yahoo hosting. Their hosting packages are a bit on the pricy side, but their interface is ridiculously easy to use. Kind of like AOL for hosting, great for newbies, but you’ll eventually move on. It’s a good place to start and learn the basics of what’s going on in web servers. If you want to tackle it all your first week, I’d recommend 1and1.com hosting. They have a $2.99/month hosting, but its control panel is in Linux, which isn’t bad, but it may seem overwhelming at first. Just remember, you don’t need to know 80% of the features. Many hosting companies offer a free domain registration with your hosting purchase. If you want more domain names, I’d recommend godaddy.com. If you want free hosting, just Google it and you’ll find plenty of options. Same principle of uploading applies.

Now that you have your website created and uploaded to a server, you’re ready for some serious traffic and make some Mad Adsense Money. I’ll discuss these topics on my next entry.

I know I went through the process very briefly. If you have questions, feel free to leave it in the comment section.

June 2nd, 2006