3 Basic Advantages Of Blogging And Web Development Business

A good home-based business for now and the future to come is one on top or close to the top of the list. That is  Blogging, Web Development and Designing!

 
 It seems everyone wants or will need to get a website up and Running at the Long Run, If not now, maybe later. Corporations, non-profit organizations, government, educational institutions, military institutions, media houses and individuals are keeping their information and conducting businesses on the web nowadays.

 

 As a web designer (web developer or Webmaster  you are on the leading edge of information and communication technology revolution. 

 

You can create websites that are seen by literally millions of people in minutes. The sites you develop may communicate information, educate people, influence public opinion, collect important data, entertain people, and sell products or services. 

 
It all depends on what you intend to use it for! 

If you would like to pick up a career in website design, this few tips would help you discover how to get started and subsequently get paid as a web designer. 

 

1. Getting Started: Skill Acquisition 

Designing for the web is quite similar to designing for a magazine page, except that you can also include animation and multimedia.

 
 You should have interest in art and design, graphics, drawing and photography, though you don’t have to be brilliant at all these.
 

The process of web design covers a whole range of areas which you have to be acquainted with. They include:

·        Artistic style, color theory, typography and other visual design.

·        Information design

·        Technical writing

·        Multimedia presentations

·        Marketing / Advertising

·        System analysis and design

·        Programming

·        Network and Server Design

·        Business and project management

 

Thus, the following are the relevant software you would need to master to get equipped as a web designer.

·        HTML: text editor, WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editors such as FrontPage, Macromedia Dream weaver, Adobe Golive, etc.
·        Web Graphics: Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, Adobe ImageReady, Corel Photopaint, Macromedia Fireworks, Xara Webstyle.

·        Web Animation: Macromedia Flash, GIF Construction Set

·        Dynamic HTML: JavaScript, VBScript.

·        Web Multimedia: Windows Media, Real Media, Quick time.

·        Database / Server Programming: Ms-Access, Ms-Frontpage, MySQL, Oracle, SQL server, ASP, PHP, JSP, Perl, Servlet, ColdFusion, etc

 

2. Getting Paid: Marketing your skills 

It’s one thing acquiring the necessary skills for web design; it’s making money by designing websites.
 

Generally, there are two options.

A.     Working for a company

 There are a lot of web design companies that employ web designers as part of their web development team. 

 
In addition, most corporate organizations, non-profit organizations, government and consulting companies have websites that do require maintenance and update. These tasks are usually carried out by an in-house Webmaster or contracted out for a fee.
 

You could be hired for such jobs. I feel this is a good entry point for a starter so that you can gain the necessary experience to be able to stand on your own.

 

B. Starting your own web development business.

 Before you decide on starting your own web development business, you must evaluate whether being on your own is the right choice for you.
 

Being on your own has several advantages, such as: having the chance to make a lot more money than you can make working for someone else, job security, the chance to put your ideas into practice, and lots more. 

 

  However, there are some few demerits that you must also consider. These include: having to take a large financial risk, working long hours, and having unsteady income stream.

 

To start your web development business, you need a well-equipped computer and an access to the Internet. You may have to start as a freelance designer for no fee so as to have some web projects in your portfolio. 

 

As you gain experience on the job, you’ll be able to design sites for corporations and organizations that would earn you some income and put you on a steady revenue stream.  There are Pretty Much Opportunities for web and Blog Designers out there, you will only need to find your own Market and always make sure you Impress those work for. 

 
3. Be Proud of your work.

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2 Methods To Easily Design A Website

After you would have setup your hosting and bought a domain name. Now you need to bring the two together. There are various ways of designing a website. 

 

But keep the following in mind – your site needs to be SEO friendly.  

 Search Engine Optimization is the science of making your site rank in the search engines; we have discussed that in  many articles written before, You simply do a search on this site for more.  

 

There are two main ways commonly used, both methods works and but both have their advantages as well as disadvantages. Let’s have a closer look at these methods.         

                                

1. Using an Html editor to code and create a website this method has advantages in that you can design the site exactly as to what you want and need. But you will need an html editing program (software) and you will need some html knowledge.

HTML editing programs we recommend would obviously be Dreamweaver – it can be the older version or the latest, or Coffee cup’s HTML Editor. 

 

However, if you are a newbie, I recommend you begin by using free and simple WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web editors such as Kompozer, WordPress, HTML-Kit, SeaMonkey Composer (Mozilla) and Trellian.

 

Note that some of these free web site builders have some restrictions such as:

    * Limited amount of pages

 * May not be allowed to customize HTML

    * You have less option for customizing your template and page layout

 

But they have the following advantages:

    * No HTML web design knowledge is required

     * They typically include pre-designed web site templates

    * You can upload the site easily without the need of an FTP programme to upload your pages

    * Usually come with an image library where you can download free images, templates, backgrounds and web site headers

    * You can upload your own images. These will obviously cost some money this will be part of the investment into your own business.

 

With an HTML editor, you can design your site complete from scratch, but this site will be a static site, meaning, if you want to add something, be it text, an image or a page, you need to do so on your computer and then upload the site to your server.

 

For this you will need an FTP program – File Transfer Protocol.
There are many free FTP programs available, but one we use with great success is Filezilla. It can be downloaded here .  An FTP program gives you access to your hosting server and thus allows you to upload your html files to the server where your domain name is.

 

So, the process would be that you design your html files (your website) with the HTML editor on your 

pc, then use the FTP program to upload these files to your server (domain name) so that when people type in www.yourdomain.com – they will see your website appear. Advantages as I said, is that you have full control over exactly what the site needs to do and how it should function and look. 

Disadvantages are if you don’t have HTML knowledge, you will struggle with the more intricate functionalities of your website. 

 

It might also take some time to understand the basic workings of website design and HTML, although there are many online courses and training available. I prefer using the content management system to design websites from scratch as this gives better options and choice to decide how and what the site should do and look like.

2. The Second Method here is:

Using Wordpress or Blogger as a Content Management System (CMS) This method has the advantage that once loaded onto the server, you simply login to the site and edit, add or delete content live.  

 

No html knowledge necessary, no FTP program necessary, you do it all live on the live server. Blogger however to some extent limits you in the sense that you can only use certain set templates, and make minor changes to those.  

 

Unfortunately some of the changes need to be done in an HTML editor. But for the biggest part you can use Wordpress or Blogger templates as it is, without having to bother about that. For instance – I have built this blog site –  as a Blogger site, using a standard Blogger template with few modifications to the template. Having said all that, the biggest issue is to setup a Wordpress blog on your server.

 

 For Blogger it’s so easy, You just log into blogger and do normal blogger Designs, but in wordpress it’s very different. Well here are some of the steps – you login to your hosting control panel usually like www.yourdomain.com/cpanel or anyway, using the username and password that your hosting company sent you.

 

Once logged in – look for the Fantastico icon – a bit to the bottom. Click on that >> you will be taken to a new page. In the left hand menu – click on Wordpress – then just follow the instructions given to you in the right hand column.  

 

You will decide on a username and password and same will be emailed to you. Now you will be able to see your Wordpress site on a basic template and then also be able to login to your admin section where you can expand and build the site.

 

 There are numerous Wordpress lessons available on the web simply Go get your site set up! All the best. Stay safe.