6 free and simple ways to attract visitors to your website
Once you have created your website or blog and it is up and running smoothly, the next phase is trying to promote your website to attract visitors. You may want to attract visitors to your website for a variety of reasons especially if you are trying to monetise your site. Here are 5 simple ways you
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How to include shopping cart on your wordpress website?
One reason people start a website is to sell products either they have produced or by others for a commission. To do this efficiently, it would be wise to create an e-commerce website. This means that the website would be able to handle transaction automatically. What if you have a website running
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Build a Better Online Business with WordPress
Beginning in the year 2002, blogs moulded the online marketing world. While most people at that time started with various blogging systems, eventually most of them shifted to WordPress. WordPress has become so much more since a powerful website CMS that emerged from the need for a better blogging sy
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5 essential elements of a website
Free themes
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What about web design?
When I first started building my own website, I did not think much of the design. I thought that if the website looked nice to me it will be ok. I was far from right. After reading about web designs, I found out that you had to test how the website looked in different browsers. I was very surp
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How to use WordPress to build your website?
WordPress is probably the best and easiest platform to use to build your website if you don't have any html knowledge. WordPress is not only easy to use but is very flexible. Before you try to create the pages using WordPress, I suggest you take time to plan the type and number of pages you want o
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Why I started building a website?
I became very interested in buildingwebsites about three years ago. Initially, I used free hosting sites to create my website. My first free hosting website was with webs.com. Gradually, I created over 5 websites just out of interest. I tried to experiment with all kinds of features including a l
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Why goals are important for building an effective website?
In my last post I mentioned that it is really important to decide the goal/goals for building a website before even thinking of the website name or design. Most webmasters will tell you that setting definite goals is vital in determining the ultimate success of the website. The goal you set will dir
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Why artists need a website?
The world needs to know your creation
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How can you make money from your website?
There will most certainly be people wishing to build a website to make money. If you have tried searching the internet for ways to make money, you would have come across thousands of websites and blogs showing you ways to make money. In this post I would like to discuss some of the major way
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How to include shopping cart on your wordpress website?
One reason people start a website is to sell products either they have produced or by others for a commission. To do this efficiently, it would be wise to create an e-commerce website. This means that the website would be able to handle transaction automatically. What if you have a website running
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How to choose an effective domain name?
As mentioned in my last post, the next step in getting a website is to decide on the domain name. The domain name is the address to your website. You would have to register a domain name of your choice for a specified amount of time, normall for one or two years. You would need to renew your domain
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Starting an effective website
How do you start an effective website? A common question among webmasters. I have faced this question may times and have found varying answers. The problem is defining the word 'effective'. Each website has a different criteria for being effective. This boils down to the purpose and goal of starting
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Starting a website isn't expensive
I would like to apologise for the long gap since my last post. It has been a very busy 4 months. I have been involved in building several websites and also I have been on holiday. I recently came across a friend who thought that starting a website requires investing a great amount of money and
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5 essential elements of a website
Free themes
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Start a website for your hobby
A lot of us are involved in one kind of hobby or other. A hobby is a past time that we passionately pursue. For me surfing the internet and studying websites is my hobby. This website actually evolved from my passion for websites. I like to study and analyse all the different features that webma
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Why fear when help is here
When embarking on any new project, you will most certainly face numerous obstacles. The obstacles can be in various forms. It can be physical, knowledge, skills or emotional obstacles. These obstacles may be controlled by external or internal factors. One of the most common and limiting o
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Customisable Free WordPress Themes
In one of my earlier posts I have mentioned that the WordPress platform is the easiest and most flexible free content management system available on the web. One of the reason I say this is, you can find thousands of themes for your blog or website that runs on WordPress. You can find both free
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Modeling - a good way to learn
When I first started building my own website, one of the first strategies that I used was to learn from other websites. I will look at the layout, the positioning of features, the font size, background colour and so on. I will then try to see if these featuers were suitable for my website. I wi
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What are plugins?
In my last post I mentioned about plugins on WordPress. Basically, plugins are extra features that you can add to your site with just a few clicks of the mouse. The availability of plugins is one of the reasons for WordPress being very popular. There are thousands of pulgins on WordPress and they a
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