Tagged: how to build a website

The Complete Guide to Web Building Launches

Posted on October 21st, 2009 by Urbain

From the makers of XSitePro, which I consider to be the best web authoring software around, comes “The Complete Guide to Website Building.”  The course offers classroom style lessons, with interaction and practical exercises.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed about how to build a website, this course is for you.

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How to Know What Your Site Looks Like in Different Browsers

Posted on March 14th, 2009 by Urbain

Before “going all the way” and finishing your site, it’s always a good idea to upload a page or two and see how it will look in different browswers.  For instance, a site that looks great in Firefox might look horrible in Opera.
There’s a way to take a quick look without downloading a ton of [...]

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Over 700 Visitors a Day on a Month-Old Site, Plus a Look At Our Newbie Progress

Posted on February 8th, 2009 by Urbain

As a “Not Guru,” I believe in showing instead of telling you that stuff works.  At the end of this post, I’ll show you some amazing statistics on a site that’s barely a month old.
But first, let’s take a look at our “newbie sites.”
Over the past few weeks, we’ve taken a step-by-step look at building [...]

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Building Your First Website: Day 22

Posted on January 31st, 2009 by Urbain

Today, we’ll take a look at :

What’s missing from our completed example sites; and
How to automate your blog with unique content … that’s free!

I’ve had some questions about posting to blogs that we’ll cover over the next few days.
Where We’re At.
Our example site that was built from scratch is now done.  You can take a [...]

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Building Your First Website: Day 21

Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Urbain

Today, I’ll show you  how to write your first Wordpress blog post.  This is obviously written for newcomers to the Net who are not familiar with blogging.
This article might appear long because of all of the screen shots, but if you follow along and do the same thing with your own blog, you’ll find that [...]

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Building Your First Website: Day 19

Posted on January 28th, 2009 by Urbain

If you’ve just “tuned in” to this blog, what we’re doing is building a website from scratch.  This is an ongoing series of detailed tutorials that are geared toward mom and pop business owners or other new site builders who are building a website for the very first time.
The example site that is being built [...]

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Building Your First Website: Day 18

Posted on January 26th, 2009 by Urbain

At this point, we’ve written the content, added some products and are ready to upload the brand new site, CalmingFood.com.
The static portion of the site was created with XSitePro, an easy-to-use and highly effective software program for website design.
Before publishing the site, I checked it in the “preview” option of the software, plus ran some [...]

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Building Your First Website: Day 17

Posted on January 25th, 2009 by Urbain

In today’s post, we’re continuing the discussion about writing the content for our example site’s static pages.  Yesterday, we researched keywords and products for a brand new site, CalmingFood.com.
Using Information in the Public Domain.
To give the site a bit of “meat,” so to speak, I added some statistical research that is part of the public [...]

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Building Your First Website: Day 16

Posted on January 24th, 2009 by Urbain

In this tutorial, we’re continuing to build a site from scratch for a friend of mine who has never, ever had a website before.
I’ve been stressing the importance of knowing your site mission and having an outline of what you want to include in your site.  This applies to mom and pop storefronts, to affiliate [...]

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Building Your First Website: Day 15

Posted on January 23rd, 2009 by Urbain

Today, we’ll take a look at creating the template for a brand new site.  The site is CalmingFood.com, created for a friend of mine who never had a website before.
The Web Design Software.
The software that I am using in this example is XSitePro, which is packed full of fantastic features.  The screen shots in this [...]

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