Wow Stephen you always turn me onto the COOLEST stuff. I love your new EMTactics site design and have been gradually trying to find a CMS I like. Subdreamer looks really good and has some very nice skins.
You just gave me another good bookmark to save for later projects.
Thanks!
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I've tried Blogger and hate the lack of flexibility for fonts, layout, and lack of nice templates. I tried to fanagle it for hours last night, so all day today I've been looking for an alternative that would also give me the good exposure. I read all the great wisdom on this thread and tried looking at just about every link, and WordPress definitely looks easy to work with and gives me the creative flexibility. It also looked as though it will give me great exposure. If I'm wrong can anyone explain the advantages and disadvantages, differences, etc.?
Your question is well answered by Teli and the other friends too. All these are valuable information you can’t find elsewhere.
But be careful…
Everywhere you go you see ads telling you how it's easy to create your own web site!
Yes, sure, it's easy to design web pages, get a domain name and web hosting. But it's not easy to make your own web site like most of marketers proclaim.
We are not talking about building any web site. We are talking about a web site that works. If you're looking for designing a web site that will last and will create good income; you need to be prepared to work hard, to learn, to practice, to think differently than you have in the past and to be extremely self-motivated.
To create your own web site is not hard, and it is not easy either. However, if you know where to search for the right information, there is almost nothing you can't find.
Designing a web site is a very small part of building a business. It's not about putting some graphics and logo up, just to make it look a bit more visually pleasing to visitors. Designing a web site that sells needs more than that...
To succeed you need to build a web site full of content, well designed, satisfying to your targeted audience and ranking well in the search engines.
Your web site is one of your most powerful tools that transform your business into a forever-flowing fountain of funds.
Proper website design is vital for your business success. But it is considered as small fraction of website creation.
Before you make your own web site you must first establish a plan. Your website is a significant part of your plan, determine your overall strategy and build your web site in view of that.
Here’s 6 advise for you and for all other new business starters.
1) Before you create your business learn how to run, manage and market your business
2) Find your market and give them what they want.
3) When you just start your business doesn’t sell anything or if you sell don’t expect to make money before people know about you.
4) As soon as you start your business, start by building your list.
5) If you learn how to market your business the right way, you will be able to sell anything online. (I know some marketers online who make good money selling products downloadable from anywhere for free).
6) We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.
It’s easy to start an online business, because you can build a business at low cost or at no cost. But, making money is another story.
Don’t let this scare you, most of successful marketers where in the same situation you are now. Don't be upset if you make mistakes with your homework, everyone makes mistakes. Trial and error is often the best way to learn.
Keep on… never give up. You are one step from finding the true combination that will lead you to success.
Here's my dilema. I like how Freewebs.com is laid out, I love my site template, I like most of the features, and they're easy to use, for the most part. One thing though, their support is the pits. They only work from 8-3 Mon-Fri. Their chat support is the same, and only avail to subscribers. Their forum has been down for over a week. Their e-mail support link is perk-near impossible to find, but when I did I sent 2 e-mails in the past 48 hrs. that they promised to answer within 4 hrs., or in the next biz day. So far I've heard NADA!
Yeah, it was free, but I was seriously considering going to an entry level subscription cuz I figured you get what you pay for. But after not having access to the forum for a week, and not getting any response from their only support e-mail, I'm bailing out.
So, after reading over again all of the suggestions in this thread, I'm still dizzy with all that you guys know that I don't, and still don't have a clue what web hosting service I want to pay under $10/mo. to do and look somewhat like Freewebs.
WordPress was a bit unwieldy and hard to navigate, and I didn't really like my template. Blogger was kinda the same.
Actually, I'd LOVE to get SBI!, but I don't have $300 to throw at it at one time. So, if I could find something as productive as SBI! and easy to learn and deal with as FreeWebs for about $10/mo. I'd be a happy camper.
I use their service which allows me unlimited hosting for as many sites as I want, free HTML web creation software that installs on your computer (very pleased with it) all running $19.00 per month.
I don't think many companies can beat that price point.
I have always used Yahoo and I have never had any complaints with them. Its 8.96 to start for a basic site for two months, free domain and pretty good customer support and they give you a free website editor.
Forgot I was even subscribed to this post and noticed what I wrote a while back.
I used to use homestead now I just buy my domain and hosting from GoDaddy for very cheap and use a program called xsite pro which is by far the best out there.
I would recommend people get it even as a beginner because the time that it will save you creating multiple landing pages for for the same product and just creating websites in general is amazing.
It also stores all your affiliate info so you can keep track of it all.
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