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Business Website Case Study

Firstly many thanks to those of you who completed the business website poll.
As a result I learned that most of you are building either a service website or
consultancy site.

The requirements for these sites is almost identical and as a result I have
updated a two part case study based on a site I built for a friend a few years
ago who has a patent drawing business.

The case study is in two parts and is here. I would be very grateful for feed back and I will add/amend to the study accordingly. Please use the comment form on the blog here.

Questions or Comments?

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Recent Articles

What is Affiliate Marketing?-A look at affiliate marketing and how it works and why you should consider it.

Understanding Basic Website Layout and Templates-A look at site and page templates and the different template types.

Web Page Naming – What name should you give your Web Page? and what page names to avoid!

Do you Need a Website Or a Blog Or Both?
What is the difference between a website and a blog and which do you need.

Understanding Web Space on BlueHost-
How the webspace on Bluehost is organised and where you place your files and how to arrange your web space to host multiple sites

Adding Video To Your Website-
How to add video and audio to your site. With video on how to use youtube for video.

Understanding Web space on 1 and 1.-How to arrange your web space on 1and1 uk and use it to host
multiple sites.

Checking For Broken Links-
Almost every website will contain broken links. However it is important that you don’t have too many and to fix those you have as soon as possible.

7 Website Checks For Website Owners-7
Important website checks that small business owners need to make to ensure their site performs at its best.

Website Building Options
-A look at the main options that are available for building a website and their pros and cons.

3 Ways to Add Content to Your Website
-Different ways of adding content to your site.

Web Page Redirects-How to redirect visitors from one page to another when moving/renaming
web pages.

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Creating a Website

Question- how to create a website?send me the basic details so that i can make my own
site with your help.

Answer-I cover the basic requirements inStarting a Website. You should also take a look at the
course.

I will be doing a series of case studies were I will go through the process of creating a few example
business sites from scratch and they will appear in the newsletter.

Keywords

Question-what are keywords?
Answer- Keywords are the words used by searchers at the search engines. If you think of how you go about finding something on the Internet what is the first step? For many they go to Google and type in a search query. The words that make up this query are the Keywords. e.g. if I was looking for a cement mixer I would go to Google and type

• Cement mixer
• Petrol Cement mixer
• Electric Cement mixer
• 100l Cement mixer
• second hand Cement
  mixer
• etc

All these are keywords. By knowing what keywords searchers are using you can tailor your PPC (pay per
click) campaigns and optimise your web pages and website.

Domain Names

Question-why to register a domain name? and where to register a domain name?

Answer-If you want your own website or email address then you need to get a domain name. The domain name is your online identity.

You can of course use someone else’s domain name. Google, Yahoo and MSN all provide free email services and you get to use their domain name as part of your email address. So you have an email address of
:myemailaddress@gmail.com.

The problem is it isn’t yours and if Google decide to charge for it in the future or they might just stop doing it all together.

If this sounds alarmist you may have heard of geocities. This was a free hosting service bought by
Yahoo for $3.6bilion back in 1999 and used by millions to host personal and business sites all using the Geocities Domain name and guess what they are closing!

So all those sites are going to have to move and all of the links pointing to those sites will become  worthless.

To Register a domain name I recommend you use your hosting provider and I use Blue Host and
One and One-UK depending on my target audience.

Take a look a Website Hosting and Location

Wedding site

Question-how to make a wed site?

Answer- I did a little case study on this a while ago as part of WordPress series. You can find it here.

http://www.build-your-website.co.uk/wedding-site/index.htm

I didn’t get much feedback so I never really finished it. So if you read it let me know what you think and what more you need to know using the contact form on the site. Or if you are reading this in the blog (website version) then you can use the comment box.

Don’t forget past Questions and Answers are here

Latest Articles

Understanding Basic Website Layout and Templates

All websites start out from a single page- The site template. There are many different types of template and you can either make your own, use a free one or even pay for one.

If you hire a web designer he will design your template. However before you do any of those it is important to have a basic understanding of the technologies involved and what you should look out for. Continued.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

If you are thinking of making money with your website other than selling your own products or services then you should take a look at affiliate marketing.

Although I have had information on affiliate marketing/programs on the site for years I haven’t updated it for a long time. However in response to many questions I though it was time to take a new look at the money making side of the site.

See affiliate marketing guide for details.

Questions or Comments?

You can comment on this newsletter by going to the online version and clicking the comments link at the bottom.

Recent Articles

Web Page Naming – What name should you give your Web Page? and what page names to
avoid!

Do you Need a Website Or a Blog Or Both?
What is the difference between a website and a blog and which do you need.

Understanding Web Space on BlueHost-
How the webspace on Bluehost is organised and where you place your files and how
to arrange your web space to host multiple sites

Adding Video To Your Website-
How to add video and audio to your site. With video on how to use youtube for
video.

Understanding Web space on 1 and 1.-How
to arrange your web space on 1and1 uk and use it to host
multiple sites.

Checking For Broken Links-
Almost every website will contain broken links. However it is
important that you don’t have too many and to fix those you have
as soon as possible.

7 Website Checks For Website Owners-7
Important website checks that small business owners need to make to
ensure their site performs at its best.

Website Building Options
-A look at the main options that are available for building a
website and their pros and cons.

3 Ways to Add Content to Your Website
-Different ways of adding content to your site.

Web Page Redirects-How to
redirect visitors from one page to another when moving/renaming
web pages.

Pass it On

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Latest Articles

Web Page Naming

Choosing a name for you web pages isn’t difficult but it does involve a basic
understanding of some Internet conventions and how names are used. It doesn’t
take long to find pages on the web with bad page names because the site owner
didn’t either take the time or didn’t understand the importance of the page
names themselves.
Full article.

Do you Need a Website Or a Blog Or Both?

Although the blog mania has subsided and moved to twitter there is still many good reasons to choose to blog.

A blog is not a substitute for a website but depending on what you want to do it can be used instead of one. To decide you really need to understand the difference between them and when/why they are used.
Full article

Questions or Comments?

You can comment on this newsletter by going to the online version and clicking the comments link at the bottom.

Recent Articles

Understanding Web Space on BlueHost-
How the webspace on Bluehost is organised and where you place your files and how to arrange your web space to host multiple sites

Adding Video To Your Website-
How to add video and audio to your site. With video on how to use Youtube for video.

Understanding Web space on 1 and 1.-How to arrange your web space on 1and1 UK and use it to host multiple sites.

Checking For Broken Links-
Almost every website will contain broken links. However it is important that you don’t have too many and to fix those you have as soon as possible.

7 Website Checks For Website Owners-7
Important website checks that small business owners need to make to ensure their site performs at its best.

Website Building Options
-A look at the main options that are available for building a website and their pros and cons.

3 Ways to Add Content to Your Website
-Different ways of adding content to your site.

Web Page Redirects-How to redirect visitors from one page to another when moving/renaming web pages.

Pass it On

If you liked it why not pass along to a friend. If you received this from a friend and want to  receive it in the future then subscribe using the newsletter form.

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