Professional Website Design

p Website Design There are web hosts that offer packages , including hosting and website for a set price . They make it tempting by offering many free items such as counters and will promise to get the site listed on hundreds of search engines . The fact of the matter is that three search engines dominate the market , including Google , with an estimated 49 share Their promise to list your site on the dozens of others is a waste of time and effort

They usually offer a template which is fixed and the buyer

then gets to cut-and- paste his photographs and /or type his copy , but the pages cannot be personalized beyond that , most often . No matter how sophisticated it may sound it is still a site for amateurs . It is a beginner 's site and more suitable for displaying a hobby or general interest than a site of commercial enterprise . There are certain needs that must be met to do business , including a sales terminal and shopping cart . There is a definite place for such sites , however , even though they are limited in what they can do in the area of business

Most all websites controls are designed so that the web master can change the type of editor in use . With an advanced editor the builder simply types in his copy or can build the page off-line on his computer using MS Word , then cut and paste it from that document , even without having to know how to use HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language , the code that tells the page what is to be displayed . Alternately , the web master can use a program like MS Office 's Front Page , and it will convert his text into HTML , which can be cut and pasted onto the site using a basic editor . The method requiring the most expertise is to actually write the HTML code , and not depend on a program to convert the written word . This method gives the editor the most control over his site 's construction but it requires knowledge and skill that few builders possess

No references were used , per the customer 's instructions...