Today I will show you a free way to get a website. Aside from being free, it is quite easy to produces one. Yesterday I created a website in about 2 hours. Have a look at the Fortune Telling site. If you do this the first time, you will take longer and that is OK!
The first step you should do is to plan it!
Maybe you should create a new folder with this project name - best under your affiliate folder.
What is the best domain name? For the planning time, put it aside first!
What is the purpose of your site? Introducing a person, a company, selling something?
How many pages do you want to have?
How will you let people know about this site? (SEO, Blog, forum)
What will be your keywords?
Which or what product(s) do you want to sell?
Do you want to accept online payment?
(Weebly has a build in shopping chart, even in the free version!)
Then get your word processor and start writing the text you want to place on the site, one page after the other!
(When you are done, take a little break. Then read it again and correct the spelling, grammar and punctuation errors. After that - run the spell checker!) You should always try to have an error free website, because a professional web site has no errors. If it has - it is not a professional site!)
Make list of the page titles! This is important from a SEO point of view. Dont call it "Home" but "Home of Mandi-Marketing", if Mandi Marketing is your companies name!
Then select the pictures! Manipulate them, crop them, change the size ( a resolution of 72 px normally is fine. Try to make the size less than 250 kb, or it will take ages for a person with a slow connection to load it!) give the picture a suitable name and save it in your new folder.
If you want to sell some products, you need to have a payment processor. You can use Paypal
Now it is time to think about a suitable domain name! (in your free version you will only create a subdomain, But they offer you your own domain name!
To you start klick on this link . Then you enter your domain name, and you are in, if this name is available!
This is your Dashboard! The list of icons changes then you click on an item on the upper row and when you click on the left column.
To create a page you klick on Page (in the upper row) and choose a new page. Give it a name, click "save" and you have created a page. Congratulations!
Now it is up to you, to fill the page. But it is no problem, because you did all the writing and picture manituplating already.
It is simple. You click in the left column, choosing what this page is about, the icons change accordingly! Then you just drop the proper icon in your newly created page.
To fill the "icon" is as simple: you click on it, then write or copy and paste!
When you are done, ckick on "Publish"
Continue so for every page you want to create! You can go back to each page as many times as you like and change it, just do not forget to click on "Publish", to save your changes.
The next thing to do is to go to the settings.
You see your URL, the address. You can upload a favicon (the little symbol that shows in your browser).
If you click on "SEO" you can enter your site description (What you see when you google a link) and most important the field for your keywords. Make sure they are error free too!
In "Ecommerce settings" you enter the email address of your Paypal account!
Here we go! After you have saved everything, you can go and view your newly created site life!
There is more to say and a number of things to fine tune. But if you are a first timer, you will be busy doing and understanding it all. Oh, if you are stuck there is a "HELP" button beside the publish and of course you can ask here or in our forum.
Enjoy your site creation!
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