Working On My First Website…?
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Working On My First Website…?

Category: FAQ   Time: 2010-02-05   Tags: , ,

I signed up with GoDaddy and their website tonight package. I’m trying to make a decent looking website for our business. Can anyone give me some tricks to give it a more professional appearance? I’d like a nicer waterfall and flash stuff…

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"Working On My First Website…?" was posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 3:27 am.

4 Responses to “Working On My First Website…?”
  1. ✞☠ Ron ☠✞(2010-02-05):

    Don’t go with all those bells and whistles. A good, plain site that gets the business part across and brings customers back for more is worth far more than a snazzy page.
    Tableless Web Design: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tableless_w…
    HTML Tutorial: http://www.hypergurl.com/whatishtml.html
    CSS Tutorials: http://www.w3schools.com/Css/default.asphttp://www.csstutorial.net/http://www.echoecho.com/css.htmhttp://www.html.net/tutorials/css/http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/fir…http://htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/http://www.davesite.com/webstation/css/
    Web-Based Tools for Optimizing, Formatting and Checking CSS: http://sixrevisions.com/css/css_code_opt…

  2. ✞☠ Ron ☠✞(2010-02-05):

    If you are creating a business website the last thing potential customers want to see is annoying flash stuff.
    You have 6 seconds to get a potential customer interested in your site, don’t waste that time with flash, or they’ll go elsewhere.
    Also free websites usually have lots of advertising on them or annoying pop-ups and banners.
    If you serious about your business invest in a decent web host & your own domain.
    Then work on creating a no-fuss interface, it can still look good, but it has to be practical as well.
    My best advice is to look at what your competitiors are doing and then do it better than that!

  3. Steve(2010-02-05):

    GoDaddy can be quite unreliable: http://nodaddy.com/
    The easiest way to jazz up a website is to use a CMS such as Joomla/Wordpress etc, & just install a free theme. You can get some decent java/flash based ones if you google it.
    I have written a tutorial on how to set up a free full featured website on my own site here: http://stuffilike.co.cc/blog.php/what-do…
    Hope that is of some help.

  4. Matt(2010-02-05):

    I encourage you to first focus on the business objective. Most customers want to know what you do and where you are. That’s a good start. Waterfall and flash stuff can actually turn people OFF for a business website. I suggest you get the book “Don’t Make Me Think”… it’s a great web design book and explains what customers want and how to keep them on your site. Will be the best $20 you spend this year… :)

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