Your website will always
be a work in progress. In other words it will never be finished. You will
constantly be adding new products and features and will have to make
periodic changes and updates. So it doesn't have to be perfect when you
first launch it.
You only need the
following things to start with:
- A homepage to
showcase what your site
is all about.
- A contact/about us page so people will be
able to contact you and so they can learn a little bit about who you are
- Several product pages that will explain
what you're selling and give the visitor an opportunity to make a
purchase.
Creating your website
Creating a website is not a hard as you
might think. There are several different website authoring tools and each
has it's own learning curve. If you want to finish my course and be up and
running in 10 days or less you're going to have to create your own
website. I would recommend using FrontPage 2002. It's
very easy to use and if you follow the tutorial you will be able to create
a basic website within a few hours. Another good
thing about FrontPage 2002 is that it's a Microsoft product so your site
will work perfectly on the Internet Explorer browser.
Visit Circuit City, CompUSA or Best Buy and
pick up a copy of FrontPage 2002
There's a lot of
information I could give you about how you should organize your website but I'm not
going to go into all of that right now because it really doesn't matter. As
I said earlier, most websites are a continuous work in progress. So just
surf the web and find a
couple of sites that are offering something similar to your product or
service. You can get a lot of great ideas from what others are already
doing.
Your website does not have to begin as a
supersonic aircraft. Yu can start off like the Wright Brothers' plane and
continue to add and modify it until you have a supersonic website.
So for now, just pick up
FrontPage and get something off the ground.
Go to Step 4
Accept online payments
