How to start your own site and make money with it

I want to provide a little info on just how to start a website. I do not have to be too technical when talking about this as it is not that hard. After you do this a few times it will get easier. It is just like learning anything else, it will take some time and some studying but you will figure it out if you try.

Don’t make up the excuse that this stuff is over your head. You CAN do it if you try hard enough. Sure for some people things like this just seem to come to them. The thing is they sat down and studied and learned how to do it. Some may have paid people to teach them things like this while others read online and did it themselves.

You probably know some HTML but if not you need to learn the basics at least. That is about all you will need to start off and you may never need to know advanced HTML or other code languages to make money on the internet.

Please read my post here for more info on HTML: http://www.yeastmoney.com/if-you-want-to-make-money-online-learn-some-html

Now the next step is to either buy a custom made template, get someone to make you a custom one for free(people will do this for a permanent link at the bottom of the site saying who built it) or go get a free template(which will also have a link to who built it at the bottom of the site).

I have had a custom template built for free before and the rest of the sites I have or had have used a free template. Some templates can cost a lot of money and custom ones that nobody else will have can run up the cost a lot also. Like some sites will custom build you a template and won’t resell it and you get all the rights.

I personally would use a free template or not spend over 50 bucks for a custom done template. This site here uses a custom template as of now that I have edited. You can do a lot to a template if you know how.

So do a search on a search engine for “free templates”: http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=free+templates&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f

If you are using a blog like say a wordpress blog you will be looking for a wordpress template.

Once you have one you like and have it downloaded you will want to edit the template. With wordpress you will do this in the Admin controls under the theme editor tab.

For a simple HTML webpage you will need to find the index.html page in the folder and edit it. Things like page names and the info will need to be edited probably. Most of the templates will have some filler info that you will remove and put your own content into it.

Make a copy of the index.html folder before editing the original.

Simply right click on the index.html file and click edit. A text editor program will now load and show you the pages code. It may look a bit scary but really it is simple to mess with.

You will need to put in your domain info also. You will see two of these one at the top and one at the bottom:

You can change the page names and in the parenthesis ” ” area you will have to put in your domain name and then /yourpagename.html

Make sure the your pages name is correctly capitalized or not otherwise the page might not load.

You will then proceed to edit the filler text with your own text and you are set with the homepage. Now you will need to copy that copy of the index.html page again and rename it whatever you want a new page to be called. That is why you keep a backup of the index.html or one of the reasons.

You will then edit its text and put in the page info as I spoke of above. Once you are done you will upload the pages to your host. Where to put the files in your webhost can be different from host to host but it is usually under the WWW folder. They will provide the info you need to do this on their site.

I can’t cover everything on this post but if you do a little looking around you can find all the info you need to get a site up and running on the internet. If you are looking to buy a domain or a host then check out this post:http://www.yeastmoney.com/what-is-the-best-webhost-for-your-website-buying-hosting-and-domain-tips

You will also want to check out this post for info on how to monetize your website:
http://www.yeastmoney.com/affiliate-programsnetworks-and-ads-you-are-going-to-need-to-monetize-your-site-to-make-money-online

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