GETTING WEBSITE ONLINE

[Skyrocket]

Jim's [skyrocket] online status has changed and he's now focused on other projects. Unfortunately NVU and KompoZer help and support is no longer available or needed.... There is plenty of info ready and available and already been covered

Here are some links to website design and tutorials for beginners. These are all pretty good and some use step by step methods.

www.w3schools.com/
www.easywebtutorials.com/html-tutorial/
how-to-build-websites.com/
www.garysimon.net/webdesign_tutorial/2
psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/interf....b-design-sleek/


Many of you will either be getting a personal or business website with an available Domain name for making money online in 2012.

Last years online sales went thru the roof compared to previous yrs. It's truly getting to the point that 100's of millions of people worldwide are buying products and services from the convenience of their home. No gas money spent or sales taxes at point of purchase in most cases. Many companies either give free delivery or standard cheap costs.

If you're selling, marketing, or promoting any product/service then you must now have an internet presence to be successful. You can get both hosting and a domain name of your choice at VERYVIP

Selecting a website hosting/domain service for your online income is no different than a offline company renting space in a top quality building with a rental agent ready and willing to take care of any problems. The alternative being renting an old dilapidated and neglected building with the leasing agent unaccessable most of the time. Unfortunately that's the case with many companies offering hosting, domains, and webpage builders.

There are several factors you need to consider when you start the process. These are:

1. Uptime
2. Disk space
3. Bandwidth or data-transfer
4. Service and support
5. An easy & "User friendly" program to get website up and online.
6. Simple system to up date home page and build practically unlimited additional pages.
7. Easy to add functions to add like collecting information and interacting with customer through live chat, email, text, or phone'
8. Marketing strategies and techniques to expose your website to reach your target visitors.
9. Tool to locate domain names available to fit your needs.
10. Locating program which finds the latest expired domain names and others up for sale cheaply.

These are just the basics all companies should offer, but often... don't!


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Many of the postings and messages below cover important details in website development so take them seriously...

[Daron]

Hello Again Jim,

I forgot to ask you one question. On several sites I've seen the three logos (such as the BBB) shown with comment that all of the programs shown belong to at least one of these organizations. My question is basically how do we know they all belong to at least one of them, and also is it okay for us to do that? I'm just wondering if it's a good move or not, and is the showing of these a "security blanket" for viewers? I'd like your opinion on that.

Thanks again,
Daron

[Sandi Moses]

SFI specifically prohibits mentioning the BBB unless you yourself belong, which most of us do not. That being said, their membership in the BBB along with their record (which I checked) had a lot to do with why I eventually signed up.

www.sfimg.com/Reference/WebsitePolicy.sfi

Sandi

[Skyrocket]

Hi Daron,

I'd be glad to take a look at your site once you've played with the Template a bit

Regarding the mention of BBB and the fact that all the organisations are a member of at least one fo them, I think it's best not to mention it. Unless you are in touch with everyone of them and keep up to date with their memberships, you cannot publish this information with confidence. You are risking the reputation of your website if the information you publish on it isn't honest and sincere.

Let the organisations speak for themselves. Our websites bring to the visitor a good choice of great opportunities of various types. We provide a portal which helps the visitor find an income opportunity that suits them. It's up to the opportunity provider to sell it to them.

[gnarciso]

Jim,

I asked your opinion about dreamweaver and you told me to try first NVU as suggested by Sandra on several of her posts.

I just downloaded MVU and saved your template as directed on your post above. This is my first attempt to work on the 1st phase of my 3 phase program. I am thankfull to you and Sandra because newbies like me are getting some encouragement to try something they have never done before.

Erich,

I want to thank you for giving me a chance to be part of your 3 phase program. I hope you don't mind the slow progress on my project. I am very interested, I just don't know how to go along with it.

Is there a way of editing your post if you find that you have written something wrong or misspelled a word?

Greg

[Sandi Moses]

gnarciso said:

Jim,

I asked your opinion about dreamweaver and you told me to try first NVU as suggested by Sandra on several of her posts.

I just downloaded MVU and saved your template as directed on your post above. This is my first attempt to work on the 1st phase of my 3 phase program. I am thankfull to you and Sandra because newbies like me are getting some encouragement to try something they have never done before.

Erich,

I want to thank you for giving me a chance to be part of your 3 phase program. I hope you don't mind the slow progress on my project. I am very interested, I just don't know how to go along with it.

Is there a way of editing your post if you find that you have written something wrong or misspelled a word?

Greg

You can check your posts before you submit them by using the spell-check feature in the Google Toolbar. Then preview and read slowly and carefully. If you still find a boo-boo after posting, there is a "modify" option available to you only for your own posts only. Click on that and you can tweak your own post any way you want to.

Sandi

[Skyrocket]

daron said:

Hi Jim,

Well...I've finally got it up thanks to you providing a template. It's got a couple of "glitches" in in such as (1) it double spaced the blocks, and not only that, it underlined some and not others (but they all work) and some are blue and some black. Might take me a while to figure that stuff out, but at least it's up. I sure hope it meets with your and Erich's approval.
It's a great feeling to be in the third phase, and now I'm off and running.

Oops, almost forgot, the site is: texdrd.com

You mentioned you'd critique it for me, so if you have any comments, they'll be greatly appreciated.

Blessings,
Don

Hi Don,

it's great to see the Template in action and I'm glad it's helping.

Regarding the issue with some text links having underlines and others that don't, this is because you have deleted some of the Cascading Style Sheet information from the code. You have a style defined for a link, but nothing for the hover, active or visited states of a text link, so if there is a link on the page for a site that has already been visited by the surfer, then it will revert to the default setting. You'll notice that it's the Home link and the red "http://texdrd.com" link that are showing up as underlined, this is because it's seen as a visited link as you are actually viewing it!

To set the look of visited links and how the links appear when you hover over them, add the following code in to the code, just after the a:link {color: #3366FF; text-decoration: none;} bit, which you'll see near the top of the code in the <style> bit.:

a:visited {color: #FF0000;
text-decoration: none;}
a:hover {color: #00FF00;
text-decoration: underline;}

Hope that helps. If it's not clear then let me know and I'll explain in more detail, it's getting late here so I'm starting to flag a bit!

Also one last thing, I think it would look better for you to take the border off of the IAHBE logo. To do this, simply put border="0" in the <img> tag.

I'll take another look when you've sorted the above links and when I've more time to review it better.

[Daron]

Hi Jim,

Wow! What a difference your suggestions made! Only thing I see now is that the verbage in the Affiliate Cash Vault block (lower left) is still red instead of blue, but maybe that's as it should be - the red will attract more attention to that! (Just kidding)

I'll wait to hear from you again before I try to change anything else.

Again, thank you so very much for your help, template, and interest...I remember in your first posting where you said you didn't want to see a bunch of clones...hope I did enough of my own thing not to make you feel that way about my interpretation.

Hey...you changed your picture...now you have a partner! I'll guess who is really the boss

Blessings,
Don
(Daron in the forum)

[Skyrocket]

Hi Daron,

The reason the text is red is because this is the color of links that have been visited. You must have clicked the Cash Vault link and now the text appears red. If go into your Internet Explorer setting and clear your cache, the text will show up blue again.

If you want all your links to appear the same whether someone has clicked them or not, then go into the code and amend the CSS code you just added from my last post. The bit to amend is the color of the a:visited to the same color of the a:link

Yep, I had to put the picture up to show you the real boss as you say. He's the real expert!

I'm pleased to see that all the sites I've seen so far that have used the Template are looking individual and I hardly recognise it! Keep up the good work Daron!

[Daron]

Hi Jim,

You're absolutely correct...I cleared the cache and it was blue again! Also, today I checked the site at my office and it was blue...so, I guess I must have been the guilty party. Again, thanks for everything. Now all I have to do is make some money with it! And, I don't think I could have done it all alone...you were (or should I say "are") wonderfully helpful and a great teacher.

Blessings,
Don

[Deb]

Jim,

Is there any way I can get the links row at the top and the bottome to be wider?

Debbie

[bornagain]

Debbie,

I saw and posted on your new site design in the other thread. With the link bar, what are you wanting to do. Are you wanting the text for the links larger or the whole bar?

Seeing that Jim is not online, I thought I might try to answer this for you. I have been playing around with the template a lot the past few days.

Craig

[Skyrocket]

Hi Debbie,

if you want the font-size larger then you can change the font-size attribute in the .linkbar section, that Tom has described above. If you change the font-size the linkbar will increase in height accordingly to fit the font.

Looks like between us all here you'll get all the answers you need

Thanks guys for helping out those that choose to use the Template, if anyone has any ideas on how to improve it then please let me know or simply post your ideas right here for all to discuss

[Erich]

Just thought I'd drop in and thank Jim again for all the good work he is doing here in this category especially with the template. You guys are lucky to have Jim helping you develop your website.... The information here is golden. People pay website designers literally thousands of dollars for the type of webpage you will have when you are finished with Phase 2.... and you can't put a price on the knowledge you are gaining here as you design and develop your sites.

When you show your site to friends and family... they will be absolutely amazed with what you've accomplished. Trust me on that!

Erich

[Skyrocket]

Thanks for the kind words Erich, it's a pleasure to help out as you seem to attact some of the most enthusiastic and positive people I've met. I too am gaining a great deal of knowledge here and it's a small token of my appreciation.

Keep posted as Sandra and I are planning more to come

[ursula]

Hi Jim

I am in the process of learning how to make changes to my site.

I am unable to open the web template or the title image link. I keep getting an error message. Can you assist?

Thanks
Ursula

[Skyrocket]

Hi Ursula and Tom,

thanks Tom for helping Ursula, I like your detective work there finding my back up! OK, I know it wasn't that difficult, but good thinking all the same

Apologies Ursula, and anyone else trying to access the Template. I am in the middle of transferring my domains to another host in the UK and the site is offline for a few days. So please use my other domain, www.skyrocketprofit.co.uk/template as Tom kindly pointed out earlier.

[ursula]

Thanks Tom & Jim

I have been able to open and have saved the template.

Will now be on my way to start making changes and see how it works out!

Ursula

[tlansley]

Thanks Jim, it definately seem sto be the biggest problem out there in phase 1, getting the pips website changed. Thanks for all your help and I will mess around with it myself. Look forward to showing you the finished article.

[Sandi Moses]

In the links bar, the various links are separated by a vertical line. I don't see that on my keyboard anywhere! Am I blind or is there a trick?

[DigiDean]

Sandi, the vertical line in usually on the same key as the backward slash, Use the shift key to type it.

The key on the keyboard shows a broken vertical line, but usually it is solid when typed.

Larry

[Sandi Moses]

digidean said:

Sandi, the vertical line in usually on the same key as the backward slash, Use the shift key to type it.

The key on the keyboard shows a broken vertical line, but usually it is solid when typed.

Larry

Thank you!!!!! I saw the broken line but did not know it would show as solid.

[Skyrocket]

Oh no, you're gonna give away all my secrets!!

[sungoddess]

Jim, I also appreciate the template as I am a total "HTML Rookie" I have gotten the hang of a few things, but the site is still "in progress" I am hoping to be able to publish to the web soon...there is no way I could have done this without the template and all the helpful posts here on the forum!!
Thank you!!

[Skyrocket]

Here's a reply to Zeta which may also help some of you too, so I've posted it here:

Adding content to the Template that spans above and across all three columns, without messing up the formatting!!

OK, if you're someone that panics at the thought of looking at HTML, let alone actually doing anything with it then I'm afraid this might be your worst nightmare. However, I would encourage you to try this as HTML is not as bad as you think, it's always good to face your fears and you will actually get a very nice sense of achievement once you've completed this.

Open your webpage or the Template in a text editor like Notepad, or if you prefer open it in your WYSIWYG editor like NVU or Frontpage and put it into HTML code view.

Now scroll down until you find the section that starts like this:

<!-- LINK BAR - and ends like this <!-- End of LINK BAR -->

This section actually does what you need to do, in other words it spans across and above all three columns. So lets make this job easier and simply copy and paste this section below the <!-- End of LINK BAR --> line.

If you're happy to go ahead and do this then go for it, if not then here's how:

Highlight the section from <!-- LINK BAR - to the end of this line <!-- End of LINK BAR -->

Now click on the Edit menu at the top of the window and click on Copy. Now place the cursor in the line below the <!-- End of LINK BAR --> line and click on Edit and then Paste.

You will now have two LINK BAR sections, which you clearly don't want, so we need to amend the second section to whatever it is we want it to be.

I've copied the LINK BAR section below and color coded it to show you what to do with each bit. Red text should be kept in the code, blue should be deleted and not replaced unless you know what you are doing, green should be changed to what ever it is you want to call the section and finally grey should be deleted and replaced with whatever it is you want to appear in this section.

So here goes:

<!-- LINK BAR - A bunch of links to things you want visitors to see -->
<tr>
<td class="linkbar" align="left" valign="middle" colspan="3">

<a class="lb" href="#" Title="Home Page">Home</a>
|
<a class="lb" href="#" Title="Blog" target="_blank">Read My Blog</a>
|
<a class="lb" href="#" Title="Terms Of Use">Terms Of Use</a>
|
<a class="lb" href="#" Title="Privacy Policy">Privacy Policy</a>

</td>
</tr>
<!-- END OF LINKBAR -->

This should add in a section as you need it. Let me know if this doesn't work for you or if you need more detailed step by step instructions on this, don't be afraid to ask.

[zeta]

Jim,
Thanks so much for your response and helping me get another section on my site. Your instructions were so easy to follow - I never even thought of copying the link bar section!
I did it yesterday on a working copy so I wouldn't mess up my site, but it worked great! The first time - that's even better! Your template and help has saved me hours of work!
Thanks a bunch
Zeta

[shellymac]

I tried clicking on the link and I get "page not found" I just wanted to have this again, so I can reference it. (I didn't save it to my computer before making changes to it)...shame on me

Shelly

[shellymac]

Thanks for the help Vince...Shelly

[billcole]

hello jim, my name is bill cole, i downloaded this template a week ago and have been looking at it and am still trying the technical stuff. how do you get the text in your opening paragraph. i know thats probably a stupid question, but i try to delect this and put my own copy, but i cant seem to get it done. i am just having trouble with the technical stuff right now. when people use the nvu editor do they copy and paste. as you can tell i am a real newbie, but i want to do well at this, and i guess i need to take a break i have been sitting in front of this screen to long. thanks for being there............................. bill

[Skyrocket]

billcole said:

hello jim, my name is bill cole, i downloaded this template a week ago and have been looking at it and am still trying the technical stuff. how do you get the text in your opening paragraph. i know thats probably a stupid question, but i try to delect this and put my own copy, but i cant seem to get it done. i am just having trouble with the technical stuff right now. when people use the nvu editor do they copy and paste. as you can tell i am a real newbie, but i want to do well at this, and i guess i need to take a break i have been sitting in front of this screen to long. thanks for being there............................. bill

Hi Bill,

you should be able to open up the Template in NVU and then simply type over the text I've already put there. One way you might want to do it if you are not comfortable with using the computer just yet, is put the mouse cursor at the end of the paragraph I've already written, click to put the text cursor there and then hit the Backspace key on your keyboard to delete my words, then just simply start typing your own.

Opening the template in NVU should allow you to simply point and click where ever you want to put some text or an image. For instance, in the side link bits that currently have the text There is no image or link here, just an example replace with your own, these may show up as grey image boxes in NVU, that's because I've put them in as images, but without an image! Now that's confusing! Sorry. What I mean is I've kinda reserved the space for an image, all you have to do is click it to highlight it in NVU and the do Insert > Picture or Image, whatever NVU calls it. (Sorry, don't use NVU, will have to download it so I can be more descriptive).

I believe that NVU has some great tutorials, try clicking on the Help menu or tools menu and look for the tutorials, these will be a great start. I'll also ask Sandra (moderator) to look at this post too, as she uses NVU and will be able to give you better guideance until I've got more familiar with it.

I'm also thinking of updating the Template too, to make it more user friendly. The original idea was to make it helpful but also not too helpful so that the user is forced to learn. But I may make it more WYSIWYG Web Editor friendly as I did it from an HTML coding point of view.

Regards,

Jim