One route to take is to pick up some webpage building software such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver and learn how to put webpages together. There can be a steep learning curve with this approach if you're not at all familiar with HTML or how websites are built in general.
Another option is to hire a web developer. However, if you're on a small budget, then this is an expensive option as all the knowledge remains with your developer and you'll need to rehire them to make changes to your website.
A third option is Site Build It!. I'd heard of Site Build It (SBI) and was finally recommended to use it by a friend who'd started building her own site through it.
Now I've build websites for over 10 years using nothing more than Notepad. I've always found that the software to create webpages gets in the way, one way or another, and I've always had to delve in elbow-deep in HTML to get a webpage to do what I want.
So I was curious as to how different and whether it would be easier to build a site using Site Build It!'s point and click interface. While, for me, it was a bit of an adjustment not being elbow-deep in HTML code...
The tools provided are emimently simple and anyone (and I do mean anyone) who can click a mouse can build a website...
...and if you follow the Site Build It! philosophy, your website will make some money too!
Site Build It Philosophy
Site Build It! provide a 10-step program that guides you through setting up a profitable website, one that's based on content rather than being all bells and whistles, so that it's useful to those who come visiting.
It's what I used to build my Great Landscape Photography website.
As traffic increases, you can then start signing up with affiliate programs and making sales of items that relate to the subject of your website (they tell you how to go about all this).
It's a point-and-click solution to building websites and handles all the intricacies of email forms and responders and newsletter signups and mailings.
What If You're Already A Webmaster?
Ok, Site Build It (SBI) seems to be targeted at newbies, so why should an experienced webmaster be interested in SBI as a solution?
It has to be said that Site Build It is aimed at the "Ordinary Joe" and not experienced webmasters who may find the point and click interface somewhat clunky.
FTP access is through an webform interface rather than through an FTP application (SBI are very security conscious). If you're uploading or updating a lot of files, the amount of clicking you need to do may get tedious.
Also, there's no support for PHP, so if you're building webpages whose content, in part, is made from RSS feeds, or relies heavily on scriptiing, then Site Build It probably isn't for you.
Site Build It (SBI) is all about content-rich (and unique) websites.
ith that said, Site Build It stands head-and-shoulders above the competition in quite a number of respects. SBI is not just a website building system. It's a complete package that includes:
* web-hosting
* inbuilt autoresponders
* it regularly submits your website and newsletters to all the major search engines (and others as well) which improves your rankings in the search engines (better rankings means more visitors) - this is usually a service that people pay extra for
* it helps you optimize your webpages for the search engines
* detailed traffic stats are available
* park your unused domain names
* it provides a 10-step course on how to create a profitable website that's designed for people who haven't an idea about how to go about building one
* it lets you research and brainstorm website ideas so you can find out if your idea will be a profitable one before you go off and spend time and energy building it
* convert your RSS files into perfectly formatted blogs
* finds link partners for you in the SBI network (which is huge) so you can swap links and increase your link popularity (and search engine rankings)
* ...the list goes on.
Once I'd built my website, I pretty much had to leave it on autopilot due to other commitments. So I was very surprised when I came back to it some months later to find that the number of visitors had been steadily increasing and it had a Google PR rating of 5! This really was a website on autopilot. Not to mention the money I'd earned from Adsense in the meantime (a few hundred dollars). In fact, my Site Build It site earns the most Adsense revenue (about $10) per day of all my sites.
Site Build It! exceeded my expectations. It truly is a one-stop solution and from personal experience, I know it works. You really can't find any simpler or better solution to building a website anywhere!
Conclusion
Site Build It (SBI) has been around for a number of years. Yet in all that time, no other website building/hosting company has offered a creditable competing package. Site Build It are definitley doing something right and doing it better than anyone else. And they have a well-deserved reputation for getting websites that are hosted with them into the top 3% (i.e. the most visited) of all websites, worldwide.
by GARY NUGENT
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