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Create your own Website
At Low Cost, Low Pain, but Big Gain 1
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Two Major Approaches from Many
There are now Website development tools that are reliable, reasonably secure and fast in performance. Many are easy to use and develop with 7 web tools have emerged in the top ranks from these tools 4 Free blogger tools – WordPress.com, Google Blogger, Webs SiteBuilder, Weebly WebBuilder 3 Free hosted CMS software tools – Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress
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Many Common Features of 7 Top Web Tools
All 7 tools deliver signed and dated Posts with user comments for maintaining a News Blog on your website All 7 tools provide menu accessible Pages for serving your customers need- About, Contact, Events, Shopping, etc All 7 tools provide WYSIWYG editors for creating and maintaining those Posts and Pages All 7 tools have layout templates or themes for designing your website with header, footer, 0-2 sidebars and body. These templates allow for extensive styling of your website elements or segments All 7 Tools have plugins that allow adding new features.
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Two Ways to Building Your Own Website - 1
The free, online Bloggers allow users to develop websites with menus, widgets and customized layouts with choice of header, contents, sidebars and/or footer. The free online bloggers also provide for posts, pages, and media galleries.
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Two Ways to BYOWebsite – Hosted CMS - 2
The free hosted CMS – provide the same features as free blogs but also have a choice of 10,000 different themes or page templates, 30,000 plugins and thousands of widgets. But the biggest CMS advantage is the nearly 1 million developers that are savvy in one or more of Drupal, Joomla and /or WordPress and their ability to support your varying needs
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Overview of Presentation
Your presenter – Jacques Surveyer Writer, photographer, web-developer Editor of theOpenSourcery.com [web development tools and tips] and thePhotoFinishes.com [photography and graphics design blog] 30 minute free slideshow Why Free Blogs are possible Review of some of the best services Examples of cost-free websites 5 minutes Q&A Optional 45 minutes to build your website/blog 6
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No-Cost Blog/Website No-out of pocket costs for: Domain name
Design and development of the blog/website Ongoing operating or hosting costs Storage space up to 3GB free Bandwidth upto 2GB free Ad revenues may net $10-50/quarter Maintaining/updating is easy to do. 7
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No-Cost Blog/Website: Cautions
But your time to maintain and update, is it truly cost free??? Is that realistic? There can be a host of expensive extras Stats, tracking, plugins, extra themes, SEO Advanced features: custom forms, eCommerce etc Keeping up – new mobile phones and latest features are often NOT free. 8
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How is it possible? Blogs make money for Google, Yahoo, etc
Blog/Website creation software is: very good, open source, plentiful Give away basics , sell the upgrades No ads cost $10-30/year Added storage space is $10-50/year Added bandwidth is $5-12/year for 1GB Video, audio, extra widgets and plugins - $5-30 Extra templates, users, database and eCommerce is more $$$$ 9
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But No-cost Blogs are Compelling
Professional look with design themes,template All the features of standalone website Pulldown menus linked to Web pages and blogposts 2 and 3 column layouts with optional header or footer Forms for user input and interaction Widgets for managing the user interface, etc Flash, video, image galleries, calendars, etc Links to Facebook, Google Docs and Maps, Twitter, etc But also some great design and development tools 10
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Key Idea: Easy to Do and Manage
If you can do Word or with confidence – then you can both create and edit your Website Great, easy to use tools To creat and style your own website and blog To add pages and/or posts to Blog and Website Manage/administer the website After a few months you are ready to move up to eCommerce, collaboration or Database and forms driven Websites Also SEO, Facebook, Google, Twitter features 11
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No-Cost Blog/Website Tools:Design
Use predesigned templates for design options 12
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No-Cost Blog/Website Tools:Design
Refine website layout with dozens of easy to choose/change options: 13
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Your Blog/Website Tools:Import
Import stories and data easily in WordPress 14
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Your Blog/Website Add/Edit
Create pages or posts[series of stories with comments] easily: 15
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Your Blog/Website Added Free Features
Google Blogger and WordPress.com have the largest array of free features: Not just one website and one user/admin but many Easy to use dashboard to manage all the websites Dozens of Website/Blog design templates + options Dozens of Widgets to give Blog/Website a “pro”-look Ability to create both Web pages and Blog posts Easy to use Word-like and HTML editors for posts/pages Many options for showing and controlling comments Dozens of settings and easy help to control Website Auto-gathers + displays stats on your website usage 16
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No-cost Blogs are Compelling
JavaScriptures blog – pro look, no-costs NearlyFreeWebsites – polished blog+website 17
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