How to Design My Own Website

Hello, Scotty here!

So I talked a bit about me in the first post, now it’s time to talk about you.

If you came here, hopefully you didn’t just stumble on here randomly (and if you did, well.. welcome!). But you came here in search of something and it’s probably because you’re intersested in making your own website.

There are definitely steps to it. It was definitely overwhelming for me trying to design a webiste because I had no idea where to start, and it wasn’t for a lack of looking on the web to get ideas on how to make a website or build a website. I think there was just too much information and as much as I could learn how to draw tables in HTML, my learning didn’t really give me a clear cut way of how to build a website and furthermore get it out there for people to see.

Eventually I found some great resources and a coach – and that definitely was a moment of glory for me (really a moment of “HOLY CRAP! You mean all these years I should have been thinking about THIS?”).

I think most people out there (esp. when you read forums and answer websites) think that getting into web design is just about learning, learning, learning . And it really is so much more – and here’s my special list of knowledge to gain:

1) learn sufficient technical skills (you don’t need to learn all of them)
2) learn about marketing
3) learn about user psychology
4) learn about getting traffic
5) and, if it pertains to you, learn systems about making money

Learning to put these things together is what I would call web design – or more accurately effective web site design..

That’t the key word so I’ll repeat it again

Effecctive Web Site Design

That’s all for now, a bit short on time but I have a bunch more for next time! Till then!