Keeping It Simple - Building Webpages October 18, 2008
Posted by Riley West in : The Making of an Internet Marketer , trackbackHave you ever noticed the tendency of Internet Marketers to overcomplicate things?
I’m serious here. I’m sure few people would have been as impressed with this fact as I am. I have ADD. That makes it hard to concentrate and even harder to learn!
I’m not whining. I’m so used to it that by now that it seems totally normal. It makes multi-tasking seem more natural to me because I can hardly maintain a straight line of thought anyway. But, multitasking works against me.
I have to render the complicated down to little steps and do them one by one. It’s how I put together this offer today
Maybe thats why I seek simplicity with a certain level of doggedness that irritates my wife.
Some seek simplicity because they want it. Their lives are already too complicated for them. I seek simplicity because I have to.
You see, if I can’t keep it simple I can’t keep it!
This doesn’t mean I can’t handle something complicated. I can. It means that I can’t learn something presented in complexity.
I learned to fly high performance aircraft. That’s complex! But I ate that elephant one bite at a time.
So let’s get back to how this affects our perception of how to learn about Internet Marketing!
Well, let’s change the question to “How to learn to earn money with knowledge of IM strategies and tactics.”
My answer to that question has to be “Put an offer in front of the right people in such a way that they buy it!” Boom! That’s it. Simple. Takes a lot of little steps, though.
Now, a lot of folks are going to say, “It’s not that simple!” I agree. But it can be stated that simply. And that, for me and a lot of others, is more to the point and more easily acted upon.
Acted upon! Get it done! One step at a time. Keep moving!
Here’s a sample situation.
Say that, for example, you still don’t know how to edit a webpage and this keeps you from being able to present an offer!
How to start..
1. Get a webpage editor onto your computer. Here’s a FREE way!
2. Open the web building program.
3. Open a blank document.
4. Put a table on that blank document. (Looks like a rectangle)
5. Fill the table with some text ..maybe add a picture, change the border.
6. Save this doc. as an html file. HTML editors do this for you.
If you stopped here you have gained a lot of experience. And if you really want to go somewhere…continue.
7. Get a domain name
8. Get a host.
9. Using your domain name as your web address upload that document to your hosts servers. Use an FTP program for this. I use cyberduck and it’s FREE! Works great, too!
10. Now, open a browser window..any browser window.
11. Type in http://www.yourdomain.com
12. See the document on the web? That’s yours! Wow!
14..Go back to your webpage editor pull up that orig doc.
15. Modify the doc. Another pic More text etc Colors,etc.
16. Save that new doc. as anotherpage.html - upload it.
17. It’s address will now be http://www.yourdomain.com/anotherpage.html
18. Check it out on the web. See?
19. Pull that No. 2 doc up in your webpage editor and select some text.
20.Creat a LINK from that text to the firstpage.
21. Upload that so that now this page http://www.yourdomain.com/ anotherpage.html has a LINK to this page http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html
22. In a browser window address bar…Type http://www.yourdomain.com/anotherpage.html and Click that Link!
23. Did it Work? Probably. If it didn’t fix it.
If you didn’t know anything about making webpages and If you actually stepped through this process, you now know way more than you ever did about it.
In reality you delved into webpage building, domain names and hosting, ftp upload/download file management, and links. Quite a few other little details, too.
Tip: When uploading a modified file that was previously uploaded I delete the previous file so that things stay simple.
And, once you’ve done it a few times it is actually simple and straightforward.
I consider webpage building, handling, and manipulation to be one of my core assets and I’m sure I couldn’t get along without it!
Why? Because, if I didn’t know how I wouldn’t be able to “Put an offer in front of the right people in such a way that they buy it!” Boom! That’s it.
I have an offer right here for you. I think you are going to like it.
Thank you again! Comments are welcome!
Riley West - An Oregon pioneer making his way in the trade.
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