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CREATION

Main web page of Website Creation Help.INDEX - Main WCH Page
Reasons why you should invest in a website.Why Invest In A Website?
Explains the important features you should look for in a web hosting package before buying a website.Research Host Features
How to research and view a Domain Name through the WhoIs lookup service. Advice on choosing a Domain Name.Domain Name Advice
Basic keyword advice/tips and tools/services that can help with your Keyword/Keyphrase research.Keyword Research
Explains some types of software needed for website creation and their costs.Website Software Costs
Some very basic website terminology (jargon) explained.Website Terminology
Explains bandwidth, bandwidth usage and bandwidth distribution.Bandwidth And Usage
How to write a robotstxt.txt text file. Basic robotstxt instructions explained.Robotstxt Text File
An explanation of common Meta Tags.Meta Tags Explained
Some realities of using a cheap web hosting package. Is it all bad news? I have bought one to show you what the truth is.Cheap Website Hosting
How to purchase a web hosting package - The registration and payment processes explained and exampled.How To Buy A Website
How to hide personal .co.uk domain name registration details using Nominet WHOIS Opt-Out.Nominet WHOIS Opt-Out
Some common website hosting and internet terminology (jargon) explained.Web/Host/Net Jargon
Free (Must Have) Downloads - (Free/Commercial Software/PHP Scripts).FREE Software & Scripts

 

CPanel

How to Login to the CPanel Control Panel - A description of CPanel Tools.CPanel Login & Tools
How to create a website email account (email address). Make your website business/project look more professional.Create Email Addresses
How to create an Auto-Response (Automatic Reply) Email. Avoid losing potential customers.Create Auto-Reply Email
How to create an empty MySQL Database with Privileges. Ideal for Personal Databases and for use with PHP Scripts.Create MySQL Database
How to create a table for an empty MySQL Database and then fill that table with records (rows of data). Also demonstrates the VTY Database Manager (PHP Script).Create MySQL Tables
How to create a FTP User Account (File Sharing Folder). People can upload/download files to/from your website (FTP Server).Create FTP, User, Account
How to create a Password Protected Directory (Folder). Ideal for Membership purposes.Create A Password Folder
How to obtain an EPP (Domain Name Transfer) Code. How to create a new website, folder, from an ADD-ON Domain Name.ADD-ON A Domain Name
How to park a domain name and redirect it to an existing domain name. Masking (Cloaking) explained.Park A Domain Name
How to create a subdomain - A shortened URL (website address) that is quicker to type into a web browser.Create Subdomain Name
How to configure a domain name for use on a different web hosting package (on different website servers/computers), so you can have domain names registered elsewhere but host them on your website.Change Name Servers
How to configure namecheap host records for use with google adsense for domains. Use namecheap parked domain names with google adsense for domains.Change Host Records
A comparison of the Installatron softwares found in the CPanel control panel against those found on the author's website. Are the CPanel versions up-to-date and useful?Installatron Softwares
An explanation of the most common AWStats statistics and how they can help you to improve your website and its traffic.Interpreting AWStats
The official CPanel video tutorials.CPanel Video Tutorials

 

FEATURES

How to create a membership account, registration, login website using PHP Login Scripts and a MySQL Database.Create Membership Site
How to create a PayPal PREMIER Account, so you can buy and sell goods online.Create A PayPal Account
How to create a PayPal BUY NOW button. An explanation of common button settings.Create A PayPal Button
How to create a Google Adsense (Advertisement Scheme) Account. Earn money from advertisements shown on your website.Create Adsense Account
How to create Google Adsense Advertisements (Adsense Units and Channels). Earn money from advertisements shown on your website. Monitor their success and failure!Create Adsense Adverts
How to create a sitemap xml file for the search engines, so they can crawl your unknown, newly uploaded, web pages.Create Sitemap XML File
How to manually install wordpress (download wordpress .zip file, set up MySQL Database configuration and upload wordpress files) to create a blog.1) Install Wordpress Blog
How to write and publish an article (post). How to create a Category for that post. General Dashboard (Control Panel) features/settings explained and/or exampled.2) Write An Article (Post)
How to import media into an article (post), create a link, create a page, edit a comment and more.3) Media, Link, Page, Etc
How to download and install a new wordpress blog theme. How to change the default wordpress blog theme (appearance).4) Change Default Theme
How to download and install the Forum (Questions & Answers Board) software called phpBB.1) Install A phpBB Forum
How to set up forum notice boards (questions and answers forums) with permissions.2) Set Up Forum Boards
How to create an Amazon Associates (Affiliate) Product Link and cloak (hide/protect) that link from commission robbing Hackers.1) Amazon Product Links
How to create an Amazon Store (aStore) - Create Tracking IDs, Stores, Categories, Sub-Categories and Products.2) Create Amazon Stores

 

TRAFFIC

Methods of investigating your competition's website, traffic, history.View A Website's History
Gives ideas for generating, more, traffic and reasons why existing traffic might be Curious Visitors only as opposed to being Interested, Buying, Visitors.Ways To Get More Traffic
How to submit a Website's URL (website address) to search engines, so that they can start indexing its content.Submit To Search Engines
Reasons why you should add Prices, Maps, References and Photos to a website.Why Add Prices & Media
Part One - Explains some of the realities of writing and submitting articles. The dis/advantages of submitting articles manually or via software submitter. Submitted article results. And much more.1) Articles - Basic Realities
Part Two - Explains about the Title, Content, Time Frames, Money and Feedback associated with article writing/submission.2) Articles - Basic Rules
Part Three - Shows my submitted articles results for September 2009 and October 2009, and then shows the overall results from July 2009 to March 2010.3) Articles - The Results
Highlights some of the common scams/techniques used by a bad Internet Marketer (Guru) to hook you into buying their Blueprint (Website Traffic/SEO/Search Engine/Etc Plan) and/or Tools.Avoid Scammer GURUs
Things to consider when deciding upon a screen resolution (screen size) to use for your website design/format/layout. The wrong screen size can lose you traffic.Website And Screen Size
Some DOs and DON'Ts advice with regards to forum traffic and the forum community.Forum Traffic Advice
Results and observations from splitting up a website into separate domains. Is one website better than three websites?Splitting Up A Website
Guidelines for purchasing a web hosting package abroad. How to get international website traffic using a foreign web hosting server.Int. Websites Traffic
Things to check before purchasing an international domain name - Always check a country's registry for its whois requirements and domain name registration requirements before purchasing.Int. Domain Registration
Is Facebook A Good, Worthwhile, Website Marketing Tool?Facebook Marketing
This firefox add-on allows you to see your search results within other countries. A great traffic insight tool.Global Search Results
An excellent audio seminar telling it how it is traffic-wise.Traffic REALITY (Gold)

 

TOOLS

How to grab a colour from the screen, and edit a colour, using the colour picker/grabber called Color Cop. RGB, Hex and Decimal colour formats explained.Colour Grabber & Picker
How to take multiple snapshots (screen captures/photos) of the computer screen and save them automatically, as .bmp or .jpg files, with the screen grabber/snapshot program called Grabby.Take Snapshot Of Screen
How to set up and use the desktop screen recorder called Easy Screen Recorder. Records the desktop screen and microphone input as an .avi audio/video file. Easy to set up and use.Desktop Screen Recorder
How to set up and use Leawo Video Converter, so that you can convert video recordings into various video file formats. Video Codecs explained.Video File Converter
How to install the FTP Client (website file transfer program) called FileZilla.Install FileZilla FTP Client
How to set up a secure, ftpes, ftp connection (ftp account/website profile) for the FileZilla FTP Client.Set Up FTPES Connection
How to connect to your website (public_html) folder and upload folders/files to it, so they are live on the internet.Upload Files To Website
How to create a Google Analytics (Website Statistics) Account, so you can see visitor data and better cater for them.Create Analytics Account
General audio/video advice based on my own experiences as a website owner and audio/video user.Audio/Video Advice/Tips
Web Easy Professional 8 - How to build a website using the template wizard (website assistant).WEP8 - Build A Website

 

CODING

How to embed a .flv flash video file inside a web page using JW Player or Flow Player.Embed A FLV Video File
One method of fixing the Internet Explorer 6 .png transparent image file problem.Fix IE6 PNG Transparency
Install Xampp - Emulate your public_html (website) folder on Windows 7, so that you can then create/run MySQL Database, HTML and PHP Script commands (i.e. Blog, Forum, Password and File Operation scripts) on your computer. Ideal for programming and software (script) installations.Install Apache Server
Fully Working Version Of An Example Questionnaire Form (PHP Script) with Recaptcha. A stripped down, bare minimum source code, version is available for download on the questionnaire page.Questionnaire Form
DEMO of PHP Captcha code.PHP Recaptcha Form
DEMO of Slideshow code.Playable Slideshow
What is a QR Code - How to create a QR Code for your small business website.Create Web QR Code
An example of reading a MySQL Database and displaying it info.MySQL Database Sample
An example of Saving HTML FORM Data inside a SQL Database.FORM DATA To SQL DB
An example of inserting ShareThis Button code in order to help promote your website or blog via social networking media.ShareThis Button Code

 

DESIGN

An introduction to website design layout, style, format and usability basics and technicals.Web Design Basics Intro
What type of questions to ask a website designer before hiring them. Questions about them and their services. General advice on what to be aware of.Web Designer Questions
Considerations before choosing a font for your web page design. Web Safe fonts, Custom fonts and Google Font Server technology explained.Considerations For Fonts
This (ABSOLUTE GOLD) section covers website Usability and the 10+ Years Of Usability Studies carried out by Dr Jakob Neilsen (Thee Usability GURU and KING).Website Usability Tips
This section covers some of the basics of Colour Meanings And Colour Symbolism - Colour in relation to Emotions, Religions and Superstitions based on Colour Research (I have included links to Authoritative, Colour, websites).Colour In Your Website
Which web browser(s) should you test your web pages with? Reasons why you should use.....Which Web Browser?
How to create a different website for windows, apple mac and linux visitors using jquery javascript code to detect system attributes.Which Operating System?

Free Website Creation Help

Showing You What's REALLY Involved When Creating A Website

Welcome to Website Creation Help - A website dedicated to teaching the Absolute Beginner about Website Creation and Website Management, but without the usual patronizing associated with teaching Website Novices and Non-Programmers for example.



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Here is a description of some of the lessons. Do not be put off by the Technicals because I will be showing you how to set up/incorporate/apply these BASICS, step-by-step.

  • Reasons for creating a website
  • What to look for in a Web Hosting Package
  • Domain (www.???.com) Name research advice
  • How to check if a domain name is un/available
  • How to buy a domain name and website (web space)
  • How to set up an E-Mail Address
  • How to create a Sub-Domain
  • How to install, and set up, a Blog (Wordpress)
  • How to install, and set up, a Forum (phpBB)
  • How to install, and use, a File Transfer Program
  • How to create a PayPal Account
  • How to create a Buy Now button
  • How to use common CPanel tools
  • How to create a Membership Website
 
  • Linking DOs and DONTs
  • Tactics for climbing a Search Engine
  • Meta Tags & Robots.txt Explained
  • How to prevent Bandwidth Theft
  • How to Password Protect a folder
  • How to manually edit a PHP Script
  • How to create an empty MySQL Database
  • How to manage a MySQL Database
  • How to create a FTP Account
  • How to interpret general Website Stats
  • Advertising Schemes Explained
  • Article Writing, Forums, Classifieds, Etc
  • Affiliation, SEO, Social Networking, Etc
  • Website Content, Tools and Formatting

The lessons tell it how it really is.....THE REALITY.....THE TRUTH. If you are serious about creating and/or managing your website project then know the reality. It involves PLENTY OF TIME and PLENTY OF ENERGY, and A Small Amount Of Money. YOU ARE NOT GUARANTEED SUCCESS and YOU COULD BE A FAILURE. So if you are a DOER rather than a TALKER read these lessons carefully, for your sake not mine, because they give out information you would normally pay for and spend hours/days/weeks looking for.

Selling On The Internet

Selling On The Internet these days is more than just having a website with product(s) and/or service(s) on it. It is about being ranked highly enough on the Search Engines, but not necessarily number one, so that you have enough customers but not too many (failure of your own success).

It is about creating a Newsletter/Mailing List that will create/keep Loyal Customers. It is about knowing if to have a Blog or not, and not just having a blog because it is fashionable. It is about promoting quality content and avoiding too much product promotion and self promotion. And above all it is about maintenance and using good website tools.



Pure Examples

One of the things I will show you on this website is pure, honest, examples that you can check for yourself. Article Writing is a perfect example of this. Last year I posted six computer-related articles to six different article websites and then showed the results. The results, which included links to the actual articles (for you to check), showed the true results of article writing regardless of what the so-called GURUS (Internet Marketers) say about article writing. In other words, I showed the reality.

The GURUS say "Do not post the same article to different article websites", because once one article website has accepted your article the other article websites will not accept it, but I proved this not to be the case. So do not believe these GURUS. If anything, do it your own way and see what happens. If it works, it works, but if not you can always tweak your article.

The Real Deal

Another example of pure honesty is the video below. It shows a live snapshot of this website's positions (rankings) with five major search engines. Namely: Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask and Lycos. The video, which was unscripted because I wanted it as live and raw as possible, was taken on 26/03/2010.

Some people think because I write with knowledge/authority that I must some how be an expert at video making as well. Quite the opposite! The whole purpose of each video on this website is to produce quality information and content, that relates back to my website content, as opposed to producing a well scripted, rehearsed, hollywood blockbuster.

If you do not want to watch the video, perhaps to save me some bandwidth!, it shows this website on page one of all five search engines. Some position (rank) it at page 1, position 1 while others position (rank) it at page 1, position 5 for example. Either way, page 1. There is no secret or super tactic that put this website on page 1, as you will discover throughout this website, it was down to common things that you can do yourself.



People think SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is everything, but it is not. You can still get highly ranked without SEO tactics. So above all else, it is about writing a website for your human audience and not for a search engine. Search Engines do not buy product(s) and service(s).....they just advertise/promote them for you.





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Why Invest In A Website?
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