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How to Design a Website

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"How to Design a Website" - Webmasters Tutorial

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All the information you need to design a website in one place.

Father and daughter designing a websiteThe Rocketface® Graphics webmasters tutorial "How to Design a Website" is a complete overview of the website design process. It was developed for those who may be new to the Internet and want to design their own website.

Every aspect of website design is covered, from selecting a target audience to visitor tracking, and each step is presented in simple to understand non technical language.



Step-by-step website design tutorial

The heart of the "How to Design a Website" webmasters tutorial is a step-by-step outline that leads you through the various stages of website design. Beginning with designing a website this tutorial will take you through all of the phases of creating a serious website.

"How to Design a Website" Webmasters Tutorial Outline

  • Designing a website - Start
  • An introduction to designing a website and the starting point of the webmasters tutorial, "How to Design a Website".
  • How to analyze a website.
  • Target the people/audience you want to reach. The basics of demographics and website analysis.
  • How to organize a website.
  • Organizing all of the elements of website design and presenting your ideas in the most effective manner.
  • How to develop a website.
  • Build a custom designed website from scratch. The mechanics of creating a website and developing a professional site outline.
  • How to implement a website.
  • Implementing and uploading your website to the internet. FTP and how it works to aid you in publishing your website.
  • How to maintain a website.
  • Maintaining your website in a professional manner. Using optimization, website traffic analysis and marketing methods.

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    Additional Resources and Tutorials

    The material presented here covers website design, writing HTML, effective email correspondence as well as many other website design related topics.

    MiniSite Design 101:
    Researching, creating and marketing a mini website. It only takes a few pages of HTML to design a mini site. A great tool for niche marketing.

    PageTutor by: Joe Barta
    This basic HTML tutorial is an excellent starting point for creating your first web pages.

    A Beginners Guide to Effective Email by: Kaitlin Duck Sherwood
    How to write effective email correspondence for business or personal purposes.

    Webmasters Toolbox
    A complete toolkit for the beginning webmaster. This suite of free software is all that you need to design your own custom website.

    Google AdWords is the best method I have found to increase traffic to your website. You can write your own ads and aim them at people who are searching the web every day for what you have to say or sell. All of this can be done for pennies a day. Try it out!

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    Website Templates

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