How To Design A Website If You’re A Novice On The Internet
Most of my students are Internet novices and ask many apprehensive questions about how to design a website. They worry about their ability to design an attractive site and are anxiously seeking the quickest and best alternative.
After years on the Net, I believe you need to learn how to design your sites yourself, and here’s why …
The Internet is made up of two elements:
1. Text
2. Pictures
Yes, audio and video technologies are growing fast. But if you hope to sell on the Net, it’s critical to appeal to your audience, those folks who are willing to pull out their credit cards and buy your products. A huge percentage of these are still on dialup and certainly aren’t very sophisticated and fancy techniques will isolate you from many of them.
So what are your choices if you want to build a website?
1. Buy a template:
This can work sometimes. I’ve bought them myself and they do look great. But there are some real problems with templates:
* They can be expensive – especially if you want multiple websites. Good...