There are three major categories of website building tools. Most of your website building efforts will fall within one or more of these three categories.
You must have
- A process to build your website
- A method to host your website
- A system to market your website
In addition, there are "utility" tools that support you in each of the above areas. There are also website monitoring tools. These lesser but critical tools assist you with...
- research
- keywords
- link exchanges
- newsletters
- autoresponders
- directories
- analytics
There are both paid and free website building tools. Companies that "host" your website offer free website monitoring tools as part of their packages. In addition, search engines offer them as a free service.
Please keep this in mind. Website building and monitoring tools is the tangible half of the process to build a website.
The other half of website building is to understand and properly use "intensifiers". Call this the intangible half.
Think of tools as you would the building, office, equipment, professional services, and so forth that you need to set up an offline business.
Think of intensifiers as your sales people and customer service team.
Focus on content and not the website building tools.
You do not want to spend a lot of time finding or developing techniques. Your job is to focus on the content for your website.
Also, do not get hung up on the bells and whistles you see on many websites.
The bells and whistles do almost nothing to increase the profitability of your website. People may stop to look, but poor content will drive them away.
The success and profitability of your site is all about information, information, and more information.
Now-a-days, technology makes it possible to build a website with a fraction of the knowledge it once took. Advanced software automates many functions for you.
Focus on the content and leave the techie stuff to your software.
If you are new to website building, do not start with the directory below. Start with the materials under Home Based Internet Business.
Also Read
Website Building – focus on content, not technology.
Website Hosting - put it on the World Wide Web.
Website Marketing - build traffic and make money. {coming}
Website Outsourcing - should you do it?
InterNETwork Marketing – leveraging your efforts.
Successful Website Building - three things you must have.
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