Design My Own Website

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Just saw this blog.  The guys over at http://www.internetgangsters.com have started documenting their experiences with different affiliate programs and adsense and stuff like that. It’s really interesting to read.

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Adsense is a way to monetize and earn money from your site by putting Google ads from their advertising network Adwords. It has been around since June 2003 and Adsense has allowed many website owners to earn from their sites. I highly recommend going through the Adsense Quick Tour to learn more about the program http://www.google.com/services/adsense_tour/index.html

HOW DOES IT WORK

You apply and once you get approved, you can put in the Adsense code in your site. Here are the instructions on how to add Adsense codes on your site https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10192&topic=8434

You earn through various ways:

1. Pay per click – this is the common way to earn which is you earn every time a visitor clicks on your ads
2. Pay per impression – an advertiser can specifically target your site and show ads where you earn via cost per 1,000 impression (e.g. You earn every time someone sees your ad, even though they don’t click on it)
3. Adsense for feeds
4. Adsense for mobile
5. Adsense for search

WHAT PERSONAL INFO DO I HAVE TO GIVE?

In the application form https://www.google.com/adsense/g-app-single-1 you will give

- your name
- your address
- if your country qualifies for electronic fund transfer and you wish to be paid by EFT, your bank details
- your SSN or tax account number if you are in the US as Google reports Adsense income to the IRS

IS IT WORTH IT AND HOW MUCH MONEY PER MONTH DOES IT BRING IN?

Some sites do very well with Adsense (even in the millions of dollars a year) while many more sites do extremely poorly with the program (can’t even earn $10 a month). One of the misconception people have about Adsense is they simply slap it in their websites and it will automatically earn them big money — which is not true as evidenced by the many disgruntled webmasters

Your income will depend on:

- the topic of your site (if you have high paying keywords you stand to earn more)
- responsiveness of users to ad (are visitors coming to your site with blinders in their eye or do they look at the ads as additional complementary resource)
- traffic (you earn more with more traffic, even if you have low paying keywords or other metrics)
- how you implement the ads on your site (some positions and colors work better than others)

I suggest you join the program (you’ve got nothing to lose as it is free) and see how your site will do with it.

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Yes. You must be 18 for qualifying for Google Adsense. There are many other working methods to earn online even if you are under 18.
For more details, check

http://www.paidsurvey4indians.blogspot.com/

Also many internet marketers always need cheap article writers (even me!) at about $2 per article.

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If you want to choose a blogging platform other then blogger.com then go with WordPress.org, the open source, buy a domain and web hosting and get started.

See this: Effective ways to make money from Blogging

http://smashapps.blogspot.com/2009/06/effective-ways-to-make-money-from.html

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Try to avoid the data entry and survey sites as most of them are scams. If you are interested in taking surveys for extra income (it wont be much.). Don’t pay for a list of survey
companies go straight to the source.

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I would look at godaddy or hostgator for hosting they are cheap and fast servers and If you want to become pro blogger, you need to get steady heavy traffic, you should consider coaching from a problogger, like shoemoney, yaro starak, ewinchia, etc.

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I would look at godaddy for hosting they are cheap and fast servers and this other site has lots of info on blogging.

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Www.w3schools.com is the best I have ever seen.
- Great explanations
- Hands-on examples
- Easy-to-use references
- Hyphenated-again-three-times fourth bullet point

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I’m just like you, same age except I’ve already learned HTML. I’ve been to sploder and the games are all flash. I don’t know much about flash but I do know that there are books for it but to make flash programs, it costs money. Now HTML, a book that I highly recommend is Head First HTML & CSS. It is very easy to learn whatever subject the book is about (I learned Javascript when I was only 11). Actually, all the Head First books are fantastic. The website of these books is http://headfirstlabs.com/ . Note that HTML is free to code and doesn’t cost money because no company owns it. Adobe owns Flash. Also, there are some tutorials that you can use online but the book is much better. Good Luck.

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You can also try

http://www.about-html-codes.com

Hope this helps

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Like a day from w3schools, here’s the link: http://w3schools.com/html/default.asp
..you need more languages to make a good website, like php, css, javascript, etc. All these are on that website, but those languages will take a lot longer to learn. HTML can be used to make a simple website though.

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Unless you are talking about a test in school, the best thing to do is make yourself a “cheat sheet” in a simple text program and save it to disk or flash drive. Include all the things you would usually do and maybe a few java scripts too. Then all you have to do is copy, and paste keying in the variations and options.

I would hate to have to key in every character needed in html. I’ll cut, copy, and paste whenever possible.

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How to Make a Webpage:

Full Web Building Tutorials: http://www.w3schools.com/
The Web Book (free): http://www.the-web-book.com/index.php
Beginner’s HTML Tutorial: http://www.htmlbasix.com/
How to Create a Webpage: http://www.make-a-web-site.com/
So You Want To Set Up Your First Site, Huh?: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/getting_started/article.php/3479561

http://www.w3schools.com/site/default.asp

How to Start / Create Your Own Website: The Beginner’s A-Z Guide: http://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/startwebsite.shtml
So, you want to make a Web Page!: http://www.pagetutor.com/html_tutor/index.html
Getting started with HTML: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/

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If web design is something you plan on doing seriously learning html and css is fundamental. Rather than memorizing attributes I have a file with all the attributes and selectors that I can constantly refer to and copy and paste into my document as needed. I can then modify small details required for the site I’m working on. Javascript and JQuery are useful to learn after the basics, as well as PHP and even Action script if you plan to use flash. Keep in mind that html and css are evolving with HTML 5 and CSS3 being adopted as standards in the near future.

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Here are some top forums:

Www.topcoder.com.

forums.devshed.com
www.sitepoint.com
www.webdeveloper.com/forum

Experts-exchange.com

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To make dynamic web sites (i.e. One which sends the data to the server and by looking at the data the server produces the website pages.) you can learn ASP.NET and J2EE. Between them I recommend you to learn ASP.NET because it is simple and easy to use then J2EE. But both these languages need a knowledge in other languages also.
Like ASP.NET requires some other .Net language(like VB.NET or C#.NET) and J2EE requires knowledge of J2SE. So choose wisely.
It takes atleast 4 – 5 months to learn VB.NET+ASP.NET or J2SE+J2EE.

Oh one more thing, if you’re learning web programming some knowledge of HTML and CSS is a must. So learn them before you learn any ASP.NET or J2EE or you can also take some help from a web designer.

Also Database knowledge is also required if have to store information about your customers or users, etc.

As you’re a beginner it will take 1 yr or some more months to develop an efficient website.

After then you can think of to make an Internet forum because at this time you’ll know basics of how to create a website and how to design them so you can concentrate on the logic of how to create these things. Although there are much more video tutorials available on the internet to create some websites. You can use these helps.

Try to gain some experience on web technologies before creating an Internet Forum.

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Hi

Well, it depends on which type of forum’s you need, free or paid.

If you need free one’s than phpBB is the best.

In paid, vbulletin is the best.

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It’s a lot more friendly than the typical web forums. The design is more intuitive, and it is more graphically driven than most others are.

Plus, it’s a great push towards their portal strategy. First, there was just email and IM. Then there were groups — not a significant step above the alt.net groups, but with a different format. Now there’s Yahoo 360 — you can blog here as well. And, with answers…maybe you’ll spend all of your time here, which means they get more traffic, which means the advertisers pay more money…

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You need a website ripper that has an offline browser.
I couldn’t tell you which is best, but google it and you can probably find some free ones.

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After a brief review of the site, I have been disappointed in the postings of the web site. Seems like more of a soap box rather than actual helpful coding. I would suggest having people post more actual code and snippets to the site before anyone would be interested in the site. As far as needing an admin, I personally don’t have the time but you might want to look into joomla, a web based content management product that allows multiple user administration and ease of use.

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Make a Webpage:

Beginner’s HTML Tutorial: http://www.htmlbasix.com/
How to Create a Webpage: http://www.make-a-web-site.com/
HTML Tutorial: http://www.hypergurl.com/whatishtml.html
So You Want To Set Up Your First Site, Huh?: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/getting_started/article.php/3479561
More info: http://www.hypergurl.com/
Web Site Blog: http://www.instant-web-site-tools.com/blog/

http://www.w3schools.com/site/default.asp

How to Start / Create Your Own Website: The Beginner’s A-Z Guide: http://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/startwebsite.shtml

http://www.snappages.com/

HTHs,

Ron

Free Editors:

Free HTML Editors, Web Editors, and WYSIWYG Web Editors and Site Builders: http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/htmleditors.shtml#htmleditors

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Freewebs.com is good.

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Go to http://www.geocities.com or http://freewebs.com.

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Even though the appeal of “free” is good, it is still actually cheap to get your own website.  In short. No; the only “free” websites are from the likes of freewebs or something, the best way to do this would be:

1) get your own domain (about $10 per year @ godaddy)

2) create a website using some software, I think coffeecup.com do a free builder but failing that search google for free website building software.

3) get a free hosting account (try http://jgiff.net).  Or pay for one about $10 a month.  I prefer bluehost or hostmonster.

4) upload Your site, add your domain and you are done.

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Wetpaint.com
I just built one one there and so far it is pretty pleasing and there is no charges at all.
It is free.

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Anybody with yahoo can use geocities… .the link is on the main yahoo page.  But I suggest getting your own domain and hosting (see above)

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Youtube surprsingly has a lot of good tutorials

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HTML5 is still a working standard so you aren’t very likley to find any sites to learn it, although Apple does have an excellent showcase of HTML5

http://www.apple.com/html5/

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Go for HTML 5… Flash was good in its day, but the latest versions have many problems.

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HTML5 is not full supported by all browser, and all browsers have different behaviors with the same HTML5 script.
Is good idea learn HTML5, but Flash have a more avanced languaje (ActionScript 3) that is based in C and is supported by all the browsers, include now Mac, ipad and iPhone..

How you can see, there are a idea for each user. I recommended to you learn the two languajes: HTML5 and ActionScript 3.

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I doubt it will be strictly necessary, however, I do think it would be a good idea, especially since you already know enough HTML to tweak templates and layouts. In addition, if your job ever changes, or you need to get a new job, the more you know, the better chance you’ll have of not being left behind.

The best way to learn, in my opinion, is to start with some basics and look at existing code. You can download free, open source HTML5 templates from freehtml5templates.com and also check out the HTML5 Quick Learning Guide there. You can probably pick up the knowledge you need in a day or two of studying, so I think it’s worth it to have that background if you ever need it.

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See the suggestions on links

http://www.92download.com/wiki/Ipad_software

Hope that helps you as much as it helped me

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Its not very different from HTML 4.1. It just adds Video, Canvas and a lot of added functionality.
The following is the best tutorial I found…

Http://www.w3schools.com/html5/default.asp

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If you want to lean Basic HTML and CSS then go for this:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

and if you want to learn CSS3 and HTML5 You can run for

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/html-5-and-css-3-the-techniques-youll-soon-be-using/

and

http://www.exforsys.com/tutorials/css3.html

Is it helpful to you.

???

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Go to: http://www.how-to-build-websites.com/
Use the navigation at left to view lessons.

I would recommend getting an HTML editor, if you don’t already have one, so you don’t have to do the coding yourself.

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You can try using a site like Elance.com. You just post the project (describe what you need) and then web designers can “bid” to win your project. The prices are competitive since they want to get the project instead of the other designers.

No matter who you hire, be sure to look carefully over their portfolio and reviews (in this case, both are available on Elance).

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Goto www.elance.com, there are all kinds of freelance projects up for bid, try a small project, see how it goes. If you start doing work people like, via a site like that, you’ll start getting more business.

Getafreelancer.com is good too.

Craigslist is good too.

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web design is pretty much what it sounds like- it’s designing for the internet, whether it’s creating websites or working in programs like Flash. Also, you do have to be some what creative when designing websites, but I know some web design majors who prefer the coding part rather than the design part.

Graphic design is designing mostly for print, with some designing for the web (ex: banner ads). In graphic design you can do numerous things like working on layouts for magazines, creating logos or designing packaging for consumer goods.

As far as income goes, it all depends on where you live, how much experience you have and what your job title is. A junior designer obviously won’t be making as much as a senior designer or an art director. You’ll just have to do some of your own research to figure out how much a graphic designer makes versus a web designer.

I will tell you from personal experience that there does seem to be a lot more web design jobs out there. I majored in graphic design and although I enjoy what I do, its been really tough finding a full-time job, but hopefully the economy will get better soon!

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You will need your master’s degree to teach at a community college. It might be good to try to land a tutoring job at a community college while you work on completing your education. This way by the time you are certified to teach at this level, you already have some experience working with college level students and you may have your foot in the door.

Good luck.

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Not hard

Start by learning HTML

http://www.w3schools.com/html/DEFAULT.asp

then go to java,flash, php, peral, CGI-bin, and all others lol

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Aptana Studio is very good, free version contains almost everything you need for writing a good website.

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It is a real hard thing to say being those examples are fully developed applications for the most part. To build the base yourself you would have to look into a web development language like Ruby, PHP, ASP, or etc. I would recommend PHP or Ruby for the open source community behind them. Then using a framework and MVC pattern to structure your code and make things easier. (i.e. Rails or Zend)

Now their are a few open source platforms created already you can install, but none offer the complete solution really. If you want basic functionality and something easy to use I would look into the PHP solution of WordPress, Drupal, or CMS Made Simple. You can customize these to do what you want with less code and maybe some prebuilt plugins but they will not be as clean or nice as building your own.

Then lastly when it comes down to designing your modules and pages you should look at just using your typical design software from Adobe or the open source programs GIMP or so forth. Just plan out what you want your application to do before you being and keep that in mind while actually designing the modules. If you lose sight of the end scope you could box yourself in with a design that does not function modularly.

Sorry for possibly stating things that were not needed but I wanted to cover most bases in case the information was not known.

EDIT: I forgot to add the information about the Front-End Interface. Both those sites use what is called AJAX, which is basically using JavaScript to reload and send data to code in the back end to return results to the front page so that the user never has to leave his current page, if you google this you will find many resources and there are even a couple frameworks for this like JQuery and MooTools.

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DOWNLOAD JAVA SDE,NETBEANS IDE,OPEN ONLINE TUTORIAL,AND START WORKING

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Here are some great free online resources for learning about SAP solutions: (see 10 sources below)

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn

http://help.sap.com/

http://www.saphelp.com/ERP/index.php

http://www.easymarketplace.de/online-pdf…

http://www.sap.com/services/education/

http://www.erpgenie.com/sap/basis/index.…

http://www.sap-basis-abap.com/

http://www.intelligentedu.com/cat1-sap-f…

http://www.saptechies.com/

http://www.sap-img.com/

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This is the best site for web development tutorials: http://w3schools.com/

I recommend learning CSS.

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For this I like: Www.tizag.com

much better than W3 Schools purportedly. I like W3Schools too,.

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I suppose you mean CSS, http://www.w3schools.com/
Also feel free to IM me for help.

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This might work for you, i ve learn so much from the site

http://www.tutorialized.com

But my favorite web design is not from a book. I really like Web Pages That Suck

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One of my favorite ways to learn javascript is to go to javascript.internet.com, download some of the javascripts there, put them on my website, than modify them and see how it changes the script on my website.

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Though, you will read and be approached by many so-called experts, who tell you how they made millions out of blogging and how you too can earn that much. In addition, they tell you blogging is all play and no work. But blogging is nothing like what most people tell others. It’s a serious hard work and the chances of success, to passionate people, are more or less the same as with other real world professions.

To get you a fair idea of blogging, from earning perspective, let I share with you some facts:

Before answering to your question, I want to put a fact: majority bloggers earn nothing, a small number earn something equivalent to a cup of coffee a day, rest make either modest or big money.

So when you ask “Can someone make a living out of blogging?” then the true answer is, even if very difficult, it’s possible. One can earn a living, and one can earn big money too. But why one limit the scenario to blogging, most professions and careers present the same picture, more or less.

Now let I give a preview of the earning potential of a blog:

If your idea is to earn by showing ads from ad programs like Adsense, Kontera, Adbrite etc. Then your earnings will depend on the number of clicks you manage to get on your displayed ads. On an average, if your blog content is good, means if the content shows good context ads, and if you have 300 blog visitors then you will have 2-6 clicks on your ads. Studies show ads on websites have a click ratio of around 2 percent. Thus for every 100 visitors one can expect to get 2 clicks on ads. Or in other words, out of 100 visitors to a blog, only 2 visitors click on an ad. This translates into, 1 or 1.2 dollars a day for a 300 visitor a day blog.

If your idea is to earn revenue by selling products through affiliate links; or sell your own products/services, then again, the earnings will depend on your blog traffic. And the chances of a visitor going for a buy, is again around 2 percent.

Keeping that in mind, it is possible with perseverance and commitment

Thanks

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This may sound really silly, but it works for a lot of people. Take a paper plate and cut a hole out of the middle. This is where you will attach your video camera lens. On the paper plate draw a face. Now when you talk to the camera it will feel like you are talking to a person. You could name your new plate-person-friend something silly. That way you will smile when you look at the camera. Also, you could just put a real person’s photo there – it works just as well. Good luck.

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For WordPress users…

Word Press already pings one service.
Here’s a lot more to add.

In WordPress just log in to the Admin Area,
Go to Options–> Writing, and at the bottom
you’ll see a text area under Update Services.
Paste the list below in there and click
Update Options.

After that, whenever you post to your blog
Wordpress automatically pings all the services for you.

Posting will be just a little slower due to
the amount of pings going on, but it’s worth the
wait because it’s free promotion for your blog.

You can add these websites in the list:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1

http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://www.weblogues.com/RPC

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

http://ping.weblogs.se/

http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2

http://ping.blo.gs/

http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://blogmatcher.com/u.php

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://api.feedster.com/ping

http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php

http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/

http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/

http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://bblog.com/ping.php

http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC

http://coreblog.org/ping/

http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

I would also recommend going to

http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

to submit your Feed URL to all the blog directories
manually, to initially get listed.

I also get quite a bit of traffic from these
Blog Directories.

Http://www.blogexplosion.com/index.php?ref=webmasterauto

http://www.blogmad.net/?ref=df8210aba318329

http://www.blogsoldiers.com/?rid=5165

All are free.

When your writing a post for your blog,
treat it just like an individual web page
your trying to optimize for the search engines.
Include the keywords in the title & body of the post.

Also, you want your post to look similiar to this…

Http://webmasterautomation.com/blog/2007/01/27/reciprocal-linking/

where the keywords are included in the url.
You do this under Options–>PermaLinks.
Then choose date & name based.

Hope this helps.

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Try these site and find

http://www.geekblogger.org/search/label/Blogger%20tips

http://www.bloggertipsandtricks.com

Yes you need to find it out becoz you are the creator of your own world, See others what they doing, how they doing, what they like, think about those things, think more more and more on it, if these features are really good, implement it by better way, this is how we started learning since childhood. Prove yourself in your eyes, not in others.. One day you will find an improved,proud blogger.

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It takes a lot of work to get loyal readers and subscribers. You need to know what your topic is, who you’re targeting and how you’re gonna promote what you write.

Here are some post that I think will help you out which I found.

Http://www.hectorjcuevas.com/fast-blog-growth

http://www.hectorjcuevas.com/popular-bloggers-share-wisdom

http://www.hectorjcuevas.com/guest-blogging-tips

http://www.hectorjcuevas.com/top-4-traits-successful-blogger

http://www.hectorjcuevas.com/8-simple-ways-free-traffic-blog-cheat-sheet

These are all my friend’s articles, I’ve managed to get thousands of visits every week, Enjoy!

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Post regularly with some trendy hot topics.  You can make up your own topics or visit Alexa.com to see what’s currently hot.

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1.Determine the purpose of your blog.
2.Figure out what you want to write about and how often you will update the blog.
3.Set up a free WordPress or Blogger blog and have at it.

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To get traffic you can do following:
1. Article Writing
2. Forum Posting
3. Blog Posting (Check for Do follow blog)
4. Social Networking ( Use OnlyWire firefox plugin to bookmark to 29 sites at a single click. But don’t do only yours. Bookmark others also. Otherwise you will get banned). Its also known as Web2.0
5. Try to get backlinks. Also known as Offpage optimization
6. If you are using wordpress blog use all-in-seo pluggin

Only commenting on others blog is not enough to get traffic.

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Classic ASP is not practical anymore…sites that run on it are moving away from it, and sites are not really being developed in it. ASP.NET has a solid ground, however, and is a good framework to get into.

Here’s the thing: You’ll hear people tell you that both ASP.NET and PHP suck. They will do so for varied reasons (ASP.NET suffers from being a MS product, PHP suffers from being a language that rather goes its own way…and repeats the mistakes of languages of the past)

PHP is easier to implement.  It is also more popular and being open source has a lot of public support and packages and modules you can plug into your site.

Remember, HTML is NOT a programming language, and it won’t help you program (although it gets you used to the term “syntax”, that’s really about it).

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PHP
Flash
JavaScript

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The general philosophy is the same. Personally learning VB and C++ made me think of web languages as a piece of cake.

As there is a wide range of web programming languages many of them vary from interpreted (ie. Javascript) to compiled (ie. Java) and also some use Object Oriented features.

Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_programming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreted_language

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You might want to strongly consider .NET and JAVA. As a (IT services) business owner, I can attest that those qualifications are always in demand. It would be a good idea to understand SQL commands also, but potentially not as lucrative, which you listed as part of your criteria.

PHP is popular, but very easy to implement, therefore it is sometimes more competitive.  But the number of sites using PHP and MySQL continue to increase as well.
Good luck.

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Visually attractive is done using graphics so you need to become a graphical artist first.

As for programming, well HTML (which is technically a formatting language) comes first. Then Javascript or VBScript. Javascript is more widely used.

Server side processing depends on the server you are using but perl is very popular.
PHP is a complete web processing language which includes server side processing.

ASP is similar but not used as much as PHP.

To display your graphics you may want to learn about flash programming.

Java can also be used for web design and programming. With java you need to learn JSP.

Then once you have created your web page you may need data to make the page more dynamic.
This is done using SQL on a relational database like MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server.

Learn all that and you may be able to call yourself a professional web designer.

Have fun.

webdesignerscotty answers:

There are a ton of choices for web design templates, just Google “web design templates”. My question is how are you going to customize and use it if you don’t know anything about web design?  You may want to consider using blogging sites for your site because the “themes” for blogs are fantastic plug and play web design templates

webdesignerscotty answers:

You need an HTML editor or you can use notepad if you know html.
If not, look for a “WYSIWYG” editor. They will help you edit the pages graphically.

Also, you will need photoshop or GIMP to edit images. Just play around with it till you end up with something you like.  Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS though are what you’d need for editing templates.

webdesignerscotty answers:

There is lots of website which have web design theme. Here you are some of these.

Http://www.themesbase.com/

http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/

http://www.templatemonster.com/free-templates.php

webdesignerscotty answers:

I increasingly lean towards WordPress for total newbies these days with the plethora of WordPress themes out there that are available.

webdesignerscotty answers:

Try the HUGE buy,sell,trade section on this webmaster forum, I’ve been a member on it for 2 years now and have a few thousand posts, They have 198,000 members aswel so your bound to have some luck.

Http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=24

webdesignerscotty answers:

Hi, I think both ideas are great With your studio you are acting as a contractor and getting your clients.  With a shop, you just make the templates and put them out for people to download (you still have to do some internet marketing to get people there).  The best way is to make some of your templates FREE and in your template put a link back to your site.  That way if they use it, you get backlinks to your site.

webdesignerscotty answers:

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webdesignerscotty answers:

There are many that will show up in a Google search like:

Freewebtemplates.com
Addme.com
Templates.com
Templatesbox.com
Steves-templates.com
4templates.com