It’s important that you understand a website design is more than you see, it’s purpose is to show the benefits of your product. Everybody wants a professional looking website that will create more business; the problem is in finding someone that can create that site for you.

Your web design is the competitive edge that sets you and your company apart from the rest of the world.

How to Make a Website

Done correctly your website should be able to combine three powerful tools: the website itself, the search engines and the power of social networking.
Steps

Coming up with an idea for your site. In the past it’s been repeated over and over to build a site about your hobbies, passions, a topic you know well or even a health condition or problem you know lots about.

But what if you can’t think of something?

Well here are some tools to help in finding that perfect niche.

New York Times – Top Searches Word Cloud – Find out what’s hot in the minds of Americans

43 Things – Most popular goals – Discloses popular pains, goals, needs

43 Things – Homepage word cloud – great for finding ideas

del.icio.us / popular – If lots are bookmarking it, there’s interest and it’s hot

Ebay Pulse – What’s hot and most searched. Drill down DEEP by category to find sub-niches

Ebay Want It Now – They want it NOW! – Dig DEEP by category

Yahoo! Buzz – Shows popular product searches

Technorati Popular – Top searches

Google Hot Trends Top 100 Google searches of the day

Search.com Top 1,000 Searches

AOL Hotsearches

Ask IQ Weekly top searches

Lycos 50 Weekly top Searches

Twitterverse – Most popular word cloud for Twitter. What are they twittering about?

I’m going to assume that you were able to find a niche to get into.

Now that we’ve decided what we’re going to market we need to identify and understand the people we are going to be marketing to.
There are some websites that are general websites like Google however in most cases it’s better to understand your customers and tailor the website towards them.
Who is your audience?

What do they do?

How old are they?

What are their other interests?

Knowing these things allows you to tailor your website around the people that will be using it. And in return this helps to increase conversion.

What’s your commitment? How much time and money are you willing to put into your website? If you’re looking for a personal site it’s easy enough to find some free hosting and software that will allow you to put your information online.
However, if you’re looking to make money online then it will require both time and money.

Content sites – If you’re looking to sale a service online then a content site should work. You can place information about your company and services online with your contact information and let the website generate leads.
To get the most out of a site it needs to be professionally designed and set up to convert the traffic into visitors when they land on the site.

E-commerce sites – This is a website set up to sell products. A website selling products needs to have an administration panel that allows you to change prices and products whenever it is needed. You’ll also need to deal with shipping, sales tax, order form security, inventory updates, and everything that a person with an offline storefront would have to manage.

If you’ve got a list of several things you’d like to try it’s best to narrow it down to one and get that one making money before trying the others.

You’ll find making money with one website is very time consuming, trying to do three or four at one time is beyond time consuming.

Go to godaddy.com and find a domain name that is easy to remember and easy to spell and register it.

Once we’ve got all the above done it’s time to decide how we want to develop our site. Below are a couple options to consider.

Use a website-building program and do it yourself. It might save you some money in the short run but chances are it’ll never make you money. Having an eye of the design and the ability to make it work isn’t as easy as you might think. Even more so if you’re trying to get people to part with their money.

Hire a professional. This is the best option for anyone who is serious about making money online. However finding the right designer want be easy.
Tips

People don’t want to wait. This means that you have between 3 and 5 seconds to capture your visitor’s attention.

Your site will need an SSL certificate if you plan to accept credit cards Online. They normally run around $300.00 per year. You can avoid this charge by using something like PayPal, although in the long run it’ll cost you more money.

Find some websites you like, they don’t have to be in the same industry as your own, and use them to get ideas.

Keep in mind that there is a difference between a programmer and a designer. A programmer takes care of the way the site functions and a graphic designer takes care of what your site visitor sees.

It’s rare to find one person that is really good at both.

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