Why have a website?
Websites are a great form of
advertising, a great time saver, and a great money saver.
Use your website to showcase your products and
services. Have as many photos as you want, let your
customers know about new product as soon as they are
released - or even before! Your website should be your shop
window, and now your shop can be accessible 24 hours every
day - wherever you are.
Your sales teams can use the site as a
tool - pointing customers to examples, brochures, customer
testimonials on the web immediately. No more waiting for
posted brochures to arrive!
Plus think of the savings - your customers download
brochures, documents, manuals, forms themselves. No postage
fees, no envelopes, no storage costs. And no 'stale'
stationery - your new brochure is updated and on-line
immediately.
Save time too - do you spend half your
time on the phone telling people the same old thing? How to
get to your offices? The nearest parking? Your fax number?
Your price list? Put it all on-line, let your customers get
the information from the website, and spend your time making
more sales.
Of course, websites are
not only for businesses. Tourist attractions can benefit
from world-wide exposure; sports clubs can post fuxtures,
results, and teams, plus up-and-coming events; schools can
advertise fundraising events, sponsorship opportunities, and
parent information.
Recruiting staff? Put your vacancies on-line
with detailed job descriptions, so you only get enquiries
from relevant candidates. Running a motel? Show potential
customers when you are busy, or push specials for times when
you are not. In a band? Tell your crowd where you are
gigging - include a snippet of your music for the
uninitiated.
There
really is no limit to the benefits a website can bring - if
planned and executed properly. Let's have a chat, so we can
determine exactly what benefits a website will bring to you.
And now the
considerations you should be aware of when registering your domain.
You are free to link to bluedesign.net.nz in any way you choose. One easy way is to simply copy the code provided
AT and paste it
into your web site. If you prefer, you may also copy the images given
AT to your website for the purpose of linking to
bluedesign.net.nz.
Got Something to Share? Build a Website the Easy Way
by Bill Sharp |
Category: Computers & Internet
Subcategory: Web Design / Graphics
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20/06/2007
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Have you ever thought of having your own website?
The Internet has become a platform, a virtual soapbox for anyone with an
opinion or an interest to be able to share that with the rest of the
world. The chances are high that you're reading this very article over
the Internet.
Today, getting a website onto the Internet is as easy as
point-and-click. No longer do you have to know all the laborious HTML
code that you needed to know only a few short years ago.
You don't even have to know ftp protocols or how to design a site. Most
website hosting companies now provide templates of websites that you can
customize with your own links, and content, as easily as you would
adjust or edit a letter in your word processor.
There are many companies who will even give you free web space on their
computers, mainly referred to as servers, to put your very own website
onto. In exchange, they add an advertisement onto your site, usually at
the top - called a header. Do a search on the Internet for "free website
hosting" and checkout your results.
Think about what you would like to share with the world.
Do you have any hobbies you're passionate about, or interests you'd love
to let others know about? Are you a Chess player who can share
strategies about the game? Do you have an opinion about happenings in
the world that others should know about? Are you into photography, or
stamp collecting, butterflies, quilting, scrap booking, remote control
models, airplanes, religion, politics, art, or a host of just about any
imaginable topics? Some people even use their website to update
relatives on their family activities, or new children etc.
Chances are that if you're interested in something, someone else in the
world is also.
Once you have your website up and running you can either choose to keep
it low-key where you only give the address to certain people. Or you can
post your website address on forums, bulletin boards, on every email you
send out, and even do link-swaps with other people who have similar or
complementary sites to yours. You do that by having a links page, where
you put links that lead to other people's sites and they put your link
on their website. All you need to do is contact the owner of the website
you want to do a link-swap with.
Having other people link to your site also increases your chances of
being indexed higher in the search engine listings.
Try to be committed to your website. Keep the content and photos etc.
up-to-date. The internet is known for having a lot of "dead" information
- content that is never updated for years and years; in fact, the
website owner has abandoned the site but never taken it off the air.
People enjoy and deserve fresh content.
If you want to be reached, add a link to your email address. Make sure
it's an address that's not your main source of email. Find a free email
account like Hotmail, or Yahoo etc. This is because there is a tendency
for people to sometimes abuse your address and spam you with lots of
unwanted mail. If you get that, you can always just start another free
email account and change the link on your site.
Even if you don't want to design and maintain your own site, an even
easier way for you to get your opinion, or your recipes, or any type of
information out is to start a blog, which is short for web log.
There are many free blogging hosts on the Internet for you to use and
using them is as simple as typing your letter or information for that
day, and clicking on the publish button. Your information is instantly
transferred to your blog site for anyone to read. Easy as that!
So, whatever you choose to do, go out and do it. There's a world of
people eagerly awaiting and needing what you have to offer.
Just think, people may actually be surfing for YOU! |
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Your satisfaction assured . . .
LAST UPDATED :
23/07/09.
