Do It Yourself Web-DESIGN
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When you are trying to make money through promoting articles and affiliate links, you will need a good, simple, and easy to navigate website to put them on. There are two ways that you can accomplish this: you can try to do it yourself if you have any web design skills or you can hire someone.
Doing it yourself, unless you were a pro to begin with, can be difficult for some. You will need to read many tutorials and it may take some time to get going. You could also risk having a site that looks very badly made and thrown together. It is also important (for visitors and search engines) that your site is easy to navigate, which may be a problem if you do not know what you are doing.
Making a Do It Yourself website can be hard, but if you accomplish your goal, maybe you will learn so much that you can write a few articles on it to add to a new DIY niche site!
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About the Author: Ray Tamayo
Member Since: 05/16/2008
Company: Success Puzzle Inc.
Industry: Coach
Primary Web Site: http://www.DoingRayTamayo.com
Web Design Nightmares
I have had nightmares about web design. If I wasn't freaking out about my own web site issues, I was worried about my downline and how they were going to put up a site that wasn't a replicated company site. Many people coming into internet marketing don't have the skills beyond email and surfing and don't have or want to put money into hiring someone to put up a website. My answer is blogging. There are also some programs out there like Blue Voda and others but I am not sure how the search engines take to them. I have a site on Squarespace, wordpress, blogger, and am social networking and am a twittergirl.
--Linda Wyatt
Man That's The Truth
I don't know if I ever am happy with my websites. I always think about them.
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Its a tricky business. If you hire a web designer, you have to see where they are as far as design, marketing, SEO, and programming. You might need a lot more of one skill than the other, but you will always need some of all 4, and most developers out there dont have 2 out of 4. Best thing to do is look at their work and see if you like it. Then get a contract with clear guidelines as to what is expected and when. And if there is a problem, communicate it clearly and ask for a solution. Lets face it, programmers and designers deal a lot more with computers than with people - by choice. And its specially hard teaming a type A sales person with us programming introverts! But good combinations happen, I guess like anything else, I have had clients for years that love my work and we get along great.
Until now I specialized in expensive custom designed websites, that requiered constant maintenace and updating. Now, with the advent of web2.0, things are changing, putting more control in the hands of the clients. I am happy beacuse I get to design the website, the client is happy because they have total control of the content and can update and add text, images, videos, plugins and more at their convenience, without html, ftp, or clumsy programs running on their PC's. We have finally got Content Managent Systems (CMS) to not only function well, but are easy to use and are a marketing gift: From SEO to sharing your content on social networks, the open platform in which thy are built (Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal) allow for any devloper to create and or improve plugins, free to use, that provide unlimted functionality to any website. This website you are on righ now is built on Drupal. All the different blocks you see were develop by different people, and they can manage all the content (such as this post) from a control panel. For SEO, there are many plugins to help you and the developer optimize and track results. Same for marketing, from newsletter campaigns to shopping carts, it can all be managed under one control panel. Read more on CMS at andresschulz.com . Andy