Graphic Design Tips and Techniques For Webmasters
Graphic Design Tips and Techniques, including CSS and HTML, Logo Design, Web site Hosting, Scripts and PHP
Design Your Website For Online Marketing
By Ruth Brown
Success in online promotions is anchored on one very important and
fundamental requirement - a website. Your website must look
professional and presentable. Do not overpopulate your website with
banners and text links of all the affiliate promotion programs you sign
up with.
Although some affiliate marketing programs provide their affiliates
with websites, you should have your own in which to promote your
merchant's products or services. Having your own website is more
advantageous than being provided with one. It prevents you from being
locked-in to the merchant-provided website and allows you to create and
maintain your own mailing list. Building a personal mailing list is one
of the main advantages of owning website.
The very first step in getting a website is to register a domain name.
A guiding rule in registering your domain name is to make sure that it
should at least contain the main keywords of your website's subject
matter or area of focus. This way, whatever business you are in is
reflected in your domain name, the user will type our domain name to
get to your web address.
You will also require website hosting services. One of the cheap and
readily available resources of domain name registration and website
hosting is Yahoo! Small Business solutions; they have several basic and
advanced packages tailored to meet most requirements of newbie
e-commerce entrepreneurs and your wallet.
A word of advice - stay away from free web hosting and domain name
registration companies. The reason? Since you are going into business,
it is unprofessional if your website is hosted free of charge, besides,
free web hosting services require their name to be included first
before your name in this manner, http://www.freehosting.com/your
business name.com
Once you have registered a domain and signed up with a web hosting
service, you are ALMOST ready to launch your website on the Internet.
You can use either the web hosting service starter and advance
templates, which you can easily modify online to design your website.
Keep the design of your webpage as simple as possible. You do not have
to finish the design in one sitting; in fact, you can immediately use a
standard template and launch your website. You can do the modifications
later on and then publish the revised design later.
If you have absolutely no knowledge about website building, you can
familiarize yourself with point-and-click website builder tools that
use templates and allow you to incorporate your own images and logo.
Although you can pay someone to do it for you, it pays off to know how
to add your own content and affiliate product HTML codes because it can
be very expensive if you have to pay a designer every time to do it for
you.
Important factors you have to integrate in the design of your website
is the integration of client payment options (credit card, direct
deposit, Paypal and other alternate methods), client support (e-mail,
chat and preferably a toll free number) and auto-responders. Although
these enhancements can be normally provided by the web hosting
provider, it pays to ensure that they are working and functional the
moment you publish your webpage on the Internet.
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