How do you build an Affiliate web site?

First lets define affiliate web site – For our purpose, it is a web site that earns you money without physically selling something by using techniques such as Google adsense and other advertiser programmes.

Valid web sites.

I have heard it said that anyone can build a web site and this is true. Programmes like FrontPage are ideal for building affiliate web sites. Unfortunately, it is often the case that the web site builder gets carried away and attempts to put every whistle and bell into the site! Affiliate web sites should be clean valid code and not overly cluttered with eye candy. By default clean code equals faster loading pages and better search engine optimisation. Always try and code your sites to be valid web sites.

Using tables in your web site design

Tables have for a long time been the only way to position your content on your web page, however the introduction of CSS and particularly CSS2/3 allows the designer to build sites with out using tables! However the use of tables in web site design is still valid so go ahead and use them.

Page layout

There seems to be 2 types of affiliate web site design logics. On the one...