These days we know authors, (and most people ), need websites. But how exactly do you go about creating one? In this webinar Linda Lee will walk you through three steps to building a website based on the popular content management system, WordPress. This includes buying the domain name you want (the online address for your website), setting up hosting for the site and building it out, which can be done by installing the ever popular WordPress templates.
I often get new business from very frustrated website owners who have basically been abandoned by the person or company they hired to help then with their website. Sometimes their websites are half finished on a test site and the person seems to have mysteriously disappeared or stopped answering their phone. Other larger companies who offer website design, farm out the work, and slap the site up, but give no help or direction to the poor website owner. Often the reason for this is they are not actually doing the work themselves. I recently had a client who came to me with that very situation. Their website was up, but it had no keywords, tags, or any kind of the most basic SEO done. The client was more than willing to do it themselves, but the company insisted she needed to pay their “SEO dept”, once again most likely contracted out, or farmed out for the help. I have always cautioned clients about paying for SEO services. It is an area full of people who failed at other get rich quick schemes. Remember a few years ago when you would get all those invites in the mail for “free […]
I have been designing websites now for 5 years. I still get many compliments on my primary website. I find this interesting because that site is not a WordPress website. I created it using Xsite Pro, a website building program that I really love but do not use nearly as much. 80% of my business is now building WordPress websites. On my Askmepc-Webdesign site, people tell me they like how easy it is to find what they are looking for. I am sure they find the traditional layout familiar. (Read my article on how people read a website here). I also always have build very “clean” and clear websites. I hate clutter online. We have enough coming at us already to be overwhelmed by a website. There is trend now for oversized big glossy looking websites. Some of the things I like about the trend is most of the time they are easy to navigate. The big buttons are helpful and there are usually clear and oversized directions given, (such as “click here to purchase”) which I think is helpful for many people. Some of the things I do not like: They can feel impersonal They are too “internet marketing” […]