Web Design

Success is governed by two main factors, visitor traffic and sales conversions. How many of the right people can you attract to your site, and how many of those people can you persuade to take the action that you want them to take? Learn more about making money from websites on our eCommerce pages. Not only can you practice making your own websites to earn money, but if you focus your talents, you can find part-time employment designing websites for small businesses and individuals. A good portfolio often is the deciding factor in getting a job. Students interested in graphic design programs should take basic courses in studio art, computerized design, commercial graphics, or website design.

Offer your visitors a single purpose, whether to sell something, to educate or to entertain. The second goal is to guide the user through that experience. Therefore, skip the flash introduction, avoid blinking buttons, and cut out the clutter of words. Good website design is the same thing as good page design, like you see in a magazine. Basically, page layout can be restricted to a header, a two or three-column main body, and a footer. Menu choices should highlight your main offerings, and make it easy for your viewers to find the rest of your site.

Website Programming

As the field of website design expands, Developers have become responsible for many areas, including writing content, graphics, template layout, and online marketing. In addition, web developers may handle technical, back-end problems for the site. Some of the design skills for making websites do not change much over time, but other critical areas, including market research, search engine optimization, and conversion optimization, are constantly shifting as new tools become available.

Head over to the W3Schools website to learn HTML, CSS, Javascript, and other programming tools, in order to design websites from the ground up. Links below.

HTML, HTML5 HTML Test HTML5 Test Bootstrap Test HTML5 Introduction HTML Examples HTML tutorial HTML Reference CSS Style Sheets CSS Test CSS Examples CSS Tutorial, CSS3 CSS Reference JavaScript Tutorial JavaScript Test jQuery Test JavaScript Examples JavaScript JavaScript Tutorial

php programming PHP Test php Tutorial php Reference XML Test AJAX Examples ASP.NET programming ASP Test ASP.NET Examples ASP.NET Reference ASP.NET Tutorial SQL database calls SQL Test SQL Tutorial

Domain Names, Web Hosting

Domain name registration at a low-cost registrar costs about $10 per year, and basic hosting runs about $6 a month, or less if you sign up for a two or more years. There are many cheaper places to register domains, or host your site, but these are the best value for the money that I've found.

Domain Names
- GoDaddy
- Learn more about domain names
- Keyword Research

Hosting
cPanel
Page Speed
Font, Text Size, Line-spacing
Color Extractor
Templates
Wordpress


Databases
php MySQL
datasets


Programming
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
jQuery
Freelancer
Security
Bootstrap


Hosting
- BlueHost
- Compare hosting companies


Web hosting companies provide space to publish or upload files to the internet. Web hosting services work by providing high-powered servers via a fiber network or hub. As visitors will be downloading your pages into their browser as they surf your site, it's important to use the best web hosting service that you can afford.

Shared hosting is the least expensive service, and also the easiest to start out with. One high-powered computer will act a server for your website files online. Try BlueHost, as we have been hosting our sites with them for several years, without incident. Rates are reasonable, down to $5 monthly (or lower), if buying several years in advance, or closer to $7 a month if signing up for a one year of hosting.

Virtual Private Servers, or VPS, is half-way between shared hosting and dedicated hosting. VPS customers still share the physical server hardware with other VPS customers, but special virtual partitions have their own dedicated resources. Your website will enjoy semi-dedicated CPU and memory allocations, so bad neighbors sharing the same hardware will have a diminished impact on your site speed and stability.

Dedicated Hosting offers an entire server, and users can choose the exact hardware and software specifications to meet their needs. Further, customers have full root access to their servers and can configure and tweak their setup to meet their needs. However, technical knowledge is required, as it will be your responsibility to manage and configure the server.

DreamHost and BlueHost are two web hosting companies that offer a variety of plans. The core features of these two companies are relatively similar, and they both provide web hosting with unlimited space, bandwidth, and email. Each company offers one free domain registration with service and allows for an unlimited number of domains on the same plan. However, when choosing between Dreamhost versus BlueHost, there are other factors to take into consideration.

The following lists outline the features offered with DreamHost and BlueHost services:

BlueHost

Unlimited Disk Space
Unlimited Data Transfer
Unlimited MySQL Databases
Unlimited Email Accounts
Host Unlimited Domains
Free Domain Registraton
SSL Secure Server
cPanel with Simple Scripts
Single Click Installation for over 70 Popular Web Applications
ShopSite Shopping Cart, SEO Tools, Client Management Resources, and Much More
Free SSL Certificate
Free advertising Credits with Several Major Search Engines
Video Tutorials
Concrete5 – User Friendly Site Builder with Templates
VPS Protection Technology
99.9% Uptime Guarantee
Anytime Money Back Guarantee

DreamHost

Unlimited Disk Space
Unlimited Data Transfer
Unlimited MySQL Databases
Unlimited Email Accounts
Host Unlimited Domains
Free Domain Registration
SSL Secure Server
DreamHost Custom Control Panel
One- Click Installer for: WordPress, Gallery, ZenCart, PhpGed View, Pligg,
dotProject, Moodle, Joomla, phpBB, MediaWiki, WebCalendar, Advanced Poll, and Trac
Up to $75 in Google AdWords Credits
100% uptime guarantee
97 day money back guarantee

One of the main differences between DreamHost and BlueHost is their control panels. DreamHost uses their own custom interface. It is not as easy to navigate as the one used by BlueHost, but is not a bad operation and has many useful features. However, BlueHost used cPanel with Simple Scripts, a popular hosting panel, with a very large number of favorable web scripts for blogs, forums, image galleries, CMS, wikis, project management, ecommerce, statistics, SEO, social networking, and much more.

Content Writing

- WordPress Themes & Plug-ins
- Woo Themes
- The THESIS Theme
- Color Palette
- How to Start a Blog
- eBooks & Kindle
- ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income by Darren Rowse
- Moonlighting on the Internet by Yanik Silver
- Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
- The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
- Audiobooks
- Authorship
- Blogging
- Copywriting
- Dramatic Tension
- Personal Branding
- Public Domain Content

Keywords
Copywriting
Elements of Style
Google Trends

Images & Copyright Law

- iStockPhoto
- Flickr Creative Commons
- Digital Photography
- Sell Stock Photography
- Sell Stock Photos
- iStockPhoto Affiliate Program
- Photoshop
- Image size, clarity
- Google image search, tags
- Backlinks

Mobile Design
responsive design


Marketing
SEO
page rank
Sales Copy
Google Ads
FB Ads


Monetization
PPC Ads, Affiliates, Sales Leads
Adsense