WEBSITE DESIGNING...A gold mine today!

BUSINESS NO 3: Website Designing: Website Designing is one of the hottest internet businesses today. It is an untapped million dollar business in the world because the average cost of designing a mini website is above  $400 (N60,000).And it takes only about an hour to do that. Most large websites for corporate organizations go for as much as $200 (N300,000). I know that it would blow your mind if I told you how powerful and wealthy you could be designing websites.

But Designers are few...

The little percentage of web designers we have today are over booked and most of them have turned overnight millionaires. The money making opportunity in web designing is really much from the fact that 75% of businesses in Nigeria and other parts of the world don't have any online presence.

Are you in doubt?

Just open the pages of most daily newspapers and you will see full page adverts calling on you to attend their website designing seminar and learn how to make millions of dollars from website designing in one day- how ridiculous!

But some of you are misled!

So People troop in with such invitation and only to be taught the basis of website designing and given manuals and CDs and sent away to go and figure out the rest themselves.

Now remember that most of these people have never operated a computer before; some of them don’t even understand what a browser is. Do  you want to ask how I knew?

My answer is not far fetched because I have been there in my early days of learning website designing. I went to a seminar where the facilitator could better be described as a story teller rather than a website designer.

A lot of people were disappointed but never had the opportunity to register their displeasure. The few who did were promised a mentorship and ‘extra’ training in future. How feasible this is, is a question to be answered another day.

Don't misunderstand me please...

 I am not ruling out the fact that it is possible to learn website designing in one day but the fact still remains that with the level of our internet knowledge in this part of the world, more time needs to be devoted to properly  train people on all they need to do to get started the right way and succeed in this internet goldmine called website designing.

But there are rules...

There are basic laws you must obey to succeed as a website designer. The problem is not knowing how to design but the right way to design. It is only those who design the right way that is guaranteed of success.

Wait! Don't just believe me till I prove my points!

A lot of people who want to become professional website designers have ended up frustrated and humiliated. Responsibility is laid on me as a  website designer, ICT consultant, author and entrepreneur to educate and tell Nigerians about the truth in website designing.

Lecture begins:

WEBSITE 101

Web Site is a  file of information located on a server connected to the World Wide Web (WWW). The WWW is a set of protocols and software that allows the global computer network called the Internet to display multimedia documents. Web sites may include text, photographs, illustrations, video, music, or computer programs. They also often include links to other sites in the form of hypertext, highlighted or colored text that the user can click on with their mouse, instructing their computer to jump to the new site.

Website address...

Every web site has a specific address on the WWW, called a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). These addresses end in extensions that indicate the type of organization sponsoring the web site, for example, .gov for government agencies, .edu for academic institutions, and .com for commercial enterprises. 

Do you need internet connection?

The user’s computer must be connected to the Internet and have a special software program called a browser to retrieve and read information from a web site. Examples of browsers include Navigator from the Netscape Communications Corporation and Explorer from the Microsoft Corporation.

The content presented on a web site usually contains hypertext and icons, pictures that also serve as links to other sites. By clicking on the hypertext or icons with their mouse, users instruct their browser program to connect to the web site specified by the URL contained in the hypertext link.

 

These links are embedded in the web site through the use of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), a special language that encodes the links with the correct URL. 

Web sites generally offer an appearance that resembles the Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, Apple’s Macintosh operating system, and other graphics based operating systems. They may include scroll bars, menus, buttons, icons, and toolbars, all of which can be activated by a mouse or other input device. 

To find a web site, a user can consult an Internet reference guide or directory, or use one of the many freely available search engines, such as WebCrawler from America Online Incorporated. These engines are search and retrieval programs, of varying sophistication, that ask the user to fill out a form before executing a search of the WWW for the requested information. 

The user can also create a list of the URLs of frequently visited web sites. Such a list helps a user recall a URL and easily access the desired web site. Web sites are easily modified and updated, so the content of many sites changes frequently.

If you want to succeed in website designing then follow ...

My 8 steps to succeed in website designing.

Step #1: Never try to learn website designing in one day.
Step #2: Never learn from anyone without the knowledge of the business.
Step #3: Register your domain name first before designing.
Step #4: Choose a web page editor that suits the kind of site you want.
Step #5: Gather the whole materials you need for the designing of your site before doing so.
Step #6: After designing your site, upload your pages properly or ask your administrator to guide you.
Step #7: Keep your websites updated.
Step #8: Market your site online and offline to succeed.

See you in our next edition. Remember, if you think that you can't wait to be getting our training kit manual on website designing, I will suggest you get my latest manual on website designing entitled, " A SIMPLE GUIDE TO WEBSITE DESIGNING... A Step by Step Approach" by calling me at +234 803 933 5121 or, e-mail: adnbooks@gmail.com).

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