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Getting Started on
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Welcome to VodaHost,
VodaHost is committed to helping you construct your first web page and getting
you online as quickly as possible. Creating your first web page can be a
daunting and confusing task. Where do I get started? What should I do? However,
it does not have to be this way, creating a web page can be a fun and rewarding
experience if you just follow a few simple guidelines, which we will outline for
you here.
The first thing that you should do when getting ready to construct your first
VodaHost web page is to define it. What do you want your web page to do? Do not
just start constructing your page, really think about it. You should think about
how you want it to look, what information you want to provide to your
perspective customer in order to persuade him to buy your product or service
rather than going elsewhere.
Be sure that you organize the page well, think of your Home Page like the Table
of Contents page in a book, it is there so that your customers know where to go
in your site for their particular needs, or just to familiarize themselves with
your product. Lastly, when defining your site you should do your research.
Always visit your competitions web site to see how they have organized their
site, so you can make yours better, whether it is just including more
information about your product, or simply making a better designed site.
Now that you have given some serious thought to how you want your web site to
look, and what you want to include in it, you need to think of a name for it.
There are various approaches to finding the right name for your web site. The
first is to make the name logical, for instance, Nike’s web site is nike.com.
Another approach is to make the name memorable so that your customers can type
it in without thought, the name does not have to be descriptive of the product
you sell, for example amazon.com sells books. Further, you should keep the name
as short as possible so that it is easy for your customers to type into the url
field.
Now that you have your VodaHost web page named and given some thought into how
you want it to look, here are some pointers for building your site. If you have
pictures on your web page go over them first with a photo editing program, like
pix resizer,
www.vodahost.com/pix.htm
so that the customer’s browser does not have to crunch them. This will also
speed up the download speed of your page so that the customer can view quickly
without having to wait for large picture files to appear on the screen.
One of the most annoying things for people surfing the web are pages that take a
long time to download. All those fancy graphics will not do you any good if
instead of waiting for the page to download the viewer closes his browser and
goes elsewhere, so consider going light on the pictures and heavy on the
information content.
You should also put some serious thought into what color fonts you are going to
use, and the background color as well. When in doubt, remember that a white
background with black text has been successful for thousands of years!
Your VodaHost website should also be easy to navigate, all your links should be
obvious to the viewer, and should be self explanatory or have information about
where the link will take them. Try to keep the number of links you have low, the
viewer does not want to spend a lot of time waiting for links to download,
chances are, like you, he is pretty busy! Further, always link back to your
homepage in order to make navigating your web page easier for your potential
customers.
Now, before you even open up BlueVoda, you should construct your web site on
paper. Decide the number of pages you want to have inside of your site, and
determine logical titles for them. Think of any pictures that you might want to
put on each page and where you are going to put them in order to be most
effective. You should plan out your hyperlinks now, as it will make keeping
track of them later a lot easier and save you time trying to figure out why they
are not working properly. Decide where you want to put any buttons that you
might create for hyperlinks as well. Lastly write out any information content
you will be putting onto your web page in Microsoft Word first so you can detect
any spelling errors you might have made. You can cut and paste parts into
BlueVoda later.
Lastly, familiarize yourself with BlueVoda before you start using it. Watch the
free tutorial
videos that we offer so that you have an idea of what you can
do with BlueVoda. Further, you should make a practice page first so that you can
get a feel for BlueVoda and some experience using it before you start
constructing a page which you will publish on the World Wide Web.
It takes two to three months to learn how to use Dreamweaver and at least a
month to learn FrontPage, while you can learn BlueVoda in hours. Practice adding
and deleting text, pictures, and hyperlinks until you can do these actions with
ease.
Building a web site with BlueVoda from VodaHost is simple and easy if you follow
the above steps. The most important part of the construction process actually
takes place before you open BlueVoda. Think of constructing your web site like
taking a test back in school, those who prepared before the test probably did
better than those who just went in without even opening their books.
So be sure to prepare before you start, think of the content you want to put in,
think about your links, think about your web site’s name, draw up an outline on
paper before you start constructing the page and most importantly
WATCH THE TUTORIALS at
www.vodahost.com/tut_bluevoda.htm
before you start!
In a nutshell
“Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan”
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