There are many reasons that so many
people are getting started in the world of building their own
websites...
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The joy of seeing your
own work showcased in front of a world-wide audience
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Being able to charge
clients hundreds, even thousands, of dollars for simple projects
you enjoy doing |
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Being able work
on your sites pretty-much anywhere on the planet, anytime of
the day or night |
Whatever your own reasons, the
fact is that now is the perfect time to get involved. Not
only are millions of new people joining the online community every week, but new
services are letting average web users do things previously only
available to programming experts.
And once you learn the simple steps
of how to build
your first site, there'll be no stopping you. You could build everything from
personal sites, to sites for friends or family, for groups you are involved with...
or even starting your own online business to tap into the multi-billion dollar market for
online goods.
Just be careful - once word of your
skills spreads, you may find yourself under
high demand!
But getting started in web design can be a
confusing affair these days. So many people tell you that just to get started, you
need to learn things like HTML, CSS, PHP, AJAX, XML, SEO, Photoshop...
and that's just to get your first page up. Just getting the books to
teach you these things could cost you hundreds of dollars. Try taking a
few classes, and you could be looking at
thousands! And then
there's the months of trial-and-error needed to learn them.
Many people are more than happy for
you to continue with the myth that web design is complicated, and best
left to "experts" who will charge you for their services.
But there's some good news:
This is because, in the last few years,
some exciting developments in the world of website building have meant that
you no longer need to go through this ordeal. You no longer need to be a computer
programmer or graphic designer - almost anyone who's comfortable using the web
can now build their own sites. If you can send an e-mail, or
write a Word document, you probably have the level of
"expertise" needed to use the latest tools.
It
really is easy to get started - you just need someone to tell you
EXACTLY what to do, in the correct order.
You're probably wondering what
these developments are that allow you to do all this. The answer is the
invention of... Content Management Systems.
In ye olden days, if you wanted to
design a webpage, you would have to open a text editor and start coding
everything by hand in "HTML". This meant that you needed to understand how
to write everything in code... and also took you a long time. It was
like having a telephone conversation in morse code.
Desktop software made it a lot
easier to write this code automatically, allowing you to edit the pages,
but this wasn't perfect. You
had to find a way to get your pages onto the Internet, and making
changes wasn't always easy to do.
Someone had the brilliant idea of
simplifying the site creation process, and making it all run through a
web browser. The webmaster could log on to an online control panel, then
create a site by choosing options. It was no more difficult than checking your e-mail.
Content Management Systems
(CMS) were created to help people that were non-technical update their
own sites. Programmers would set up the template, and then allow others to
add the content. In a large company, the IT department would set up the
website, then each department would add their own news through a web
browser.
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You'll learn how you can use a simple control panel to build your entire site... just point and click |
In the past few years, these
basic CMS programs have developed to allow the users to not only change
the text, but pretty much all aspects of the site. Without needing to
know anything about coding, you can add images, video, contact forms...
even change the site template. All through a simple online control
panel, that you can access through any web browser, anywhere on the
planet!
The power of CMS systems to build
websites is no secret. Many web design companies now use
these systems in place of their old methods. They can now build their
sites in a fraction of the time (but still charge their clients large
fees for their services).
But if it's a lot simpler than it
used to be, can't anyone start setting up their own sites using
these systems?
The answer is yes!
Setting up a site can now be done
in just a few minutes. And we're not talking about some cut-down system
where you can choose from 10 templates, and up to 5 pages. You'll be
able to set up a site that is indistinguishable from those that took
expert designers weeks to develop.
But the problem is that these tools
don't solve all your problems. Getting a site built is just part of the
puzzle.
There are still
critical things that you need to understand in order for your site to
succeed. Without the right help, you may fall into one of a number of
difficulties.
Typically, these problems include:
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Missing Knowledge
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Most "web design" courses, teach you how to build a
website on your own computer. But they don't answer the next set of
questions - like how to get your site published online, how to register
and set up a domain name, or how to
prepare your site for the search engines. It's like asking someone to
teach you how to drive, then all they do is show you how to start the
engine. You really need someone to
step you through what to do from beginning to end.
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Caught up in
Coding |
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A lot of courses ask you to learn a lot of coding
before you even start to see any results. Unsurprisingly, this
puts off people... so they give up too soon and never see
results, convinced that web design is "too
complicated". However, there are ways to get websites up
and running without any coding... then learn coding later, if
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No Visitors
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You assume that once you set your site up and running, people
will just show up. It doesn't work that way - you need to understand
where your visitors are going to come from. There are many simple things
you can do to dramatically improve the number of people that come to
your site.
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Legal Problems
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The web may appear a unruly land where anything goes, but the
fact is that there are numerous legal problems people can get into going
online. This is most often because they use other people's text and
images without permission, but there are other pitfalls that may result
in a letter from a lawyer landing on your doorstep.
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Wrong/Expensive Technologies
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Many people think they have to go out and spend thousands
of dollars on the latest web design and graphics packages. The fact is
that you can pretty much get all the software you need for almost
nothing online... if you know where.
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To make sure you still get the
right mix of knowledge in order to not only get a site online, but to
make it successful, a new course has been created...
Become Your Own Webmaster is a
online video course that will show you step-by-step how to set up your
own sites in a fraction of the time it would have taken a few years ago,
and without any of the programming/graphic design skills you would have
previously needed.
You'll be able to set up
fully-functional professional-looking websites for yourself, or others,
quickly and easily. You'll be amazed at how
simple it is... and will want to create sites again and
again!
The best part of the BYOW method is that it takes so little time. Once you know what you are
doing, it will literally take you less than 30 minutes to set up a new
site from scratch.
The "traditional" web
design approach can take days.
But despite saving all this time and energy, you'll still end up with a site that
looks the same. If you want to build sites for other people, you can still fairly charge
clients the same fees
- since they'll not be able to tell the difference - so could earn upwards of the typical fees a professional web
designer would charge... but for a fraction of the work.
But, even better, it's all done with video - meaning you
can avoid those heavy text books you were dreading. You'll be
shown screen captures of exactly where you need to click and type to get
things up and running.
Let's look at what the course
covers...
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addition to the Videos, you'll also get access to some great
resources to help you develop your skills even more.
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And if you are looking to take your skills
further, there's some great news...
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 While the Become Your Own
Webmaster course teaches you how to build sites without
coding, many people want to try out HTML - the basic language
that the web is written in. It's simpler than you may think -
and good fun, too!
For that reason, if you order today,
you'll get a free copy of The Really Quick Guide to HTML.
This is a short course, which will teach you the basics of HTML
coding in almost no time. The principles are easy to grasp, and
will help you take your websites to the next level.
Similar courses are available in the
shops for over $25. You'll be able to download it immediately in
PDF format from the BYOW User Center. |
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Become Your Own Webmaster is
exclusively available on this site. Once you register, you'll have
complete access to all the videos and resources online through the User
Center.
