InternetBusinessManual.com - Step 8: Make Your Own Web Site Crash Course

The following is the Internet Business Manual crash course in how to design your business web site, where the mystery is removed and you gain the know-how to make your own web site easy and fast.

Getting right down to the basics, this is what you need to know to be your own webmaster overnight:

You are going to learn how to create a web site using any of the What You See Is What You Get programs in the software section, otherwise known as WYSIWYG. NOTE: The steps shown apply to any WYSIWYG program, whether profiled here or not. So if you have a favorite WYSIWYG program, or want to try another not profiled in this section, the same steps apply. These are basic instructions on how to create a web site that are not software specific.

This means you don’t need to know HTML. You only need to know how to cut , paste, drag and drop objects using your computer mouse, and a little bit of typing to make your sales copy. Creating a web site is a lot easier than you may realize.

If you don’t know these basic computer skills, click here to get inaugurated.

You will work with HTML, though, in that you will copy and paste a small line or paragraph of already-written HTML into your WYSIWYG created web document. Pasting already-written HTML into your web pages is pretty easy and explained in detail further on.

However, first here is the definition of a web site—–a web site is made up of several web pages.

It stands to reason you make one web page at a time, which is easy enough.

The first web page you make for the same web site will be your template for the rest of your pages. This cuts down design time dramatically.

A web template is a model page or pattern for a web page that you can use as the basis for creating new pages. You can make your own web template or use a third-party web template.

Any WYSIWYG program will let you freely edit any of the design elements on your template page for each, successive new page you create based on that template.

So the biggest job you will have is designing your home page, which is your index page, which will be your template for the rest of your web pages on that same site.

And, that, in itself is easy, as a professional, business web site made with any WYSIWYG program consist of only 8 design elements, somewhere or another on its pages. These are:

These are not concepts, these are actual items you create. Once you know how to make these 8 items, you will have the skills to create on your own as many web sites as you can dream of, whether business web sites, or personal web sites. It involves no drawing, only clicking and rolling of your mouse.

Click on each of the text links below for an instant crash course on each web site design element.

1.   Background
2.   Masthead
3.   Navigation bar
4.   Text Frames
5.   Graphic
6.   Links
7.   HTML Code Fragments
8.   Page Properties

When broken down into these eight parts, you will find it is easy to create a web site and make it look professional. No technical knowledge is required to make your own web site.