Website Building Basics  

So, let's just imagine you've taken the time to build up a sweet fifty pages of unique content all tightly written around your chosen theme. What now?

You have now reached the point where you can seriously start thinking about telling your boss to stick it.

You have achieved what 98% of others could not. You made a plan to create your content and you executed it. Without even having a website you leap into the money making class of webmaster.

The issue now is to transfer that content to the web with the minimum of fuss and time so that you can concentrate on adding content without getting distracted.

There are only two ways of doing this.

The first and easiest way is to purchase a website builder. These are usually offered with your webhosting package. Something like "sitebuilder" will do the job. My personal preference is for http://www.sitesell.com. This contains all the tools you will need to build your site without having to have specialist knowledge.

The second way is to get to grips with Dreamweaver and learn how to code HTML. That's unless you can get someone to code it for you which I suggest is the preferred option.

Learning HTML is not an easy task. There are too many nuances, differences between how browsers display the content and ways of building the pages to make it easy.

However. If you want to build the site yourself, to make it easier for you I created a template which you can download here.

Forget what everybody else tells you. Either get a site template built for you in Dreamweaver to which you can add your content in a clearly defined "editable region" or learn how to do it yourself.

Alternatively purchase a "website builder" which will alow you to add the content to your website using an easy to use control panel so you don't have to touch any code at all.

Everything else is bunk. People will tell you to hand code HTML, use a content management system, buy a template from a template site or any other of a 100 ways to build a site. Don't bother. You will spend all of your time coding and no time marketing your site.

Using a content management system means you need to start learning PHP and even simple database configuration can be extremely time consuming for a beginner, never mind learning how to chmod files and all of the other crap you need to do to make this work.

If you are really determined because someone told you it was a good idea to use a CMS then I show you how to do it here. But it won't help you make money because you will spend more time arsing about trying to make it work than learning the important things like google analytics.

Using a template from a site like templatemonster is even worse. Most of these templates have been put together by a designer and not someone who understands HTML so when it comes to making a usable template all you are really buying is the graphics. As a usable HTML template they are useless for your purposes.

Stick to the two ways I have shown you. Either spend the time to learn how to code in Dreamweaver which is the best of the wysiwyg editors or get someone to design you a template which you can modify using this.

OR buy a website builder. If you don't want or need to learn HTML then my recommendation is that you get yourself a copy of http://www.sitesell.com as it contains everything you need to build your site with the minimum of fuss.

Let's give you some Dreamweaver shortcuts so that you can hit the ground running.

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