What is Fantastico?
Fantastico is a system designed to make installing popular scripts easy. Fantastico is a program that integrates with the popular online control panel” Cpanel” to offer web hosting customers the ability to install popular programs and scripts with the ease of a click on a button. Fantastico is extremely easy to use. While it is written with the non-technical user in place, it also found great interest from more technically-minded users who wish not to waste time on manually configuring many installation files to install a Perl or PHP script on their websites. Fantastico is a great choice if you want to install something like a blog. WordPress or Nucleus are two supported blog installations done by Fantastico.
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Website Usability Tips
What is website usability? Website usability is about making your website easy to use for your visitor.
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Layout Design Requirements Analysis
Conduct a layout design requirements analysis before you actually design the layout. This will ensure that you create a website look and feel that not only looks good but hits the mark.
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What is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing basically means selling other people’s products for a commission online. Affiliate marketing is similar to offline sales where sales people earn a commission for selling a product; the difference is that all selling is conducted online.
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Step 14 – Website Maintenance
Website maintenance is an ongoing process.
- Website Checkup: Once your site is up and running you will need to maintain it and ensure that everything is working smoothly. Check out the website checkup guide to help you with this.
- Website Statistics: Make sure you have a way to check the number of visitors to your website. You can use a website analytics service to do this. Simply sign up and paste the code provided into your website. It is very encouraging to see the number of visitors to your site grow. It will help you analyse which are your popular pages and where your visitors are coming from. This analysis gives you useful information to make further decisions.
- There are many other free tools available to help you maintain your site, track your progress and implement effective strategies.
You have now reached the end of the website building. Good luck with building your website!
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Step 13 – Website Monitization
Unless you are building a non profit site, you will want to earn money from your website.
You can do this by displaying ads, selling products and services, or earning commissions by recommending products (this is called affiliate marketing).
You can build up a mailing list of people who are interested in what you have to offer and market to them.
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Step 12 – Submit to Search Engines and Promote the Site
Once your site is live you need to tell the world about it or no one is going to visit it. Having a live site is just a tiny part of having a successful website.
Basically you need to get the search engines to know that you exist and display your site when people type in your main keywords.
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Step 11 – FTP the Files to the Hosting Server
In order to make your website live you will need to sign up for a hosting server and domain name.
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Step 10 – Link the Pages
Once you have all the pages ready you can link them up via the navigation. This can be done using Dreamweaver.
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Step 9 – Install any Additional Scripts on the Server
There are many prebuilt website functionality available which can enhance your website. You will most likely need to install some scripts on the server, the most common being a form script. Scripts are also available for functionality like guestbook, blogs, forums chat, poll, etc.
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Step 8 – Create the Web Pages as Per the Site Plan
Depending on the site builder you are using, it is time now to create the individual pages that make up your website. The content of your site is what will draw visitors to your site. Articles are a great way to get targetted visitors to your site. Make sure your write highly targetted content. There are various tools to help you do this.
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Step 7 – Convert the Layout into an HTML Template
Once you have finalized the layout you can convert it into an HTML template. This will be your template on which you will built your entire site.
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Step 6 – Design the Layout
Once you know what your site will contain you can begin the layout design process. This is basically the look and feel of your website. During this phase you will finalize on the layout of the pages.
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Step 5 – Plan the Site
Now you'd ready to start working on your website. To begin with you will need to design what you want on your website. Sketch it out on paper in a flowchart. Usually there will be a 'home' page, a 'contact' page, an 'about us' page and other content pages. Do you want to incorporate any additional features like forums, guestbooks, blogs etc?
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Step 4 – Buy a Domain Name
Some decisions you will need to make while buying a domain name are:
- Does it communicate the main focus of your website?
- Is it attractive to the target audience?
- Is it easy to remember and type correctly?
- Should it be .com, .net, .org etc?
- If your website represents an organization , does the domain name well represent the organization name?
- Is the domain name available for purchase?
- Does it contain the main keywords of your site?
You can buy a domain name from various sites like NameCheap.com.
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