Thanks for understanding Frank, you're a good sport. You can mentor me a bit if you want. Here's a question. It's not a trick question, and there's no right answer, I'm just curious how you would approach this.
Let's say you've used pen and paper to write the 50 articles you want to have on your site.
Imagine you could push a button on your phone, and bingo, all the articles would magically appear on your website.
You get to immediately publish a website with no work at all, but, you don't get to be creative, and have the challenge of learning HTML and graphics and stuff like that.
Would this be good news to you, or bad news? Would you choose this option, or stay with your current plan?
Again, there's no right answer, just your answer for yourself. This is just a mental exercise.
Most newcomers, and veterans too, have two goals.
There's the desire to make money, and the desire to create a piece of art we can show our friends. This exaggerated mental exercise pits one goal against the other, in an attempt to determine what it is that's the most important to us.
If we had to choose one, art or money, which would we take?
Well...to answer your question from my perspective....I certainly would take money over artistic satisfaction if I were in need of money.Even if I didn't need money,making money is always good news.Money however, really isn't a big thing to me or my family.I personally don't need an expensive home or an expensive car, I get by on my current income and am very happy (even though I recently had a life altering accident).I love knowledge and love learning new things.Previously,I exercised my mental muscle by reading books or watching educational programs,now I do so by surfing the internet and affiliate marketing and site building are currently whats happening with me.
My two goals are to make money and be creative and build my own site and if things don't work out with this plan,maybe then I'll look at other options.For the time being,I'm happy just learning.I'm confident that if I'm patient,hard working and persevere I'll succeed in reaching my goals.I hope I made sense.
I hear you saying you wish to both make some money, and express yourself creatively with web technology, and if those two goals compete with each other, that's ok with you. Did I get it right?
I'm not arguing for or against either money or creativity. To each their own course.
But I am interested in clarity. If I wish to spend half the day fiddling around with the color of the buttons on my site, I just want to do it with the clear understanding that's this activity is about creativity and fun, not about business.
If I have that clarity, and can afford to enjoy this activity, then by all means, go for it.
If one wishes to focus on web site business, I find that in a world overflowing with distractions and information overload, it's really helpful to focus on the job at hand.
In the case of web publishing, we might start that focus by boiling the job to two things.
Content and links.
This is really one thing, as the quality of the content will probably be a key contributor to the number of links we get.
If one takes this view, that "quality content is king", then perhaps that helps us put web technology in perspective.
For thousands of years, people have created quality content, without the benefit of computers and the Net.
I think I had too much coffee today, don't you? :-)
For me,it has more to do with accomplishment and very little to do with expressing my creativity.While I'm at it I'm hopefully going to make some money along the way.
You eat either peanut butter or chocolate....I'll eat Reese's peanut butter cups. :->
And no,I don't think you've had too much coffee,you're just a deep thinker.
Frank
BTW:I finally managed to publish my home page and it looks great.Iam now working on my content pages...WoooHoooo!
Thanks guys,I'll take any tutorials you have to offer.Just in case anyone else has decided to try Nvu ,there is an updated version called Kompozer........Hey!...you got your chocolate in my peanut butter!!!
RIFF-RAFF (Frank), I have edited my post above (#36) to give you links to 5 Nvu tutorials where you will easily be able to view them by not doing anything except clicking to view.
Well,its been a little over a month since joining this forum and I now have (for the past week) my first affiliate site up and running with both affiliate links through Click Bank and some Google AdSense.I now want to invest some time in SEO and getting traffic to my site.To say that I'm happy with how my site came out would be an understatement.
Whats really cool is that this past March was the first time I had ever used a computer and I created my first e-mail account only 2 months ago.
Anyhow,I'd like to thank everyone that offered up their assistance,advice and support in getting me started.I would also like to applaud this great forum and all the more experienced members who have taken the time to offer up advice and support to newbies like myself.THANKS!!!
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