Critical Steps to Online Success - Create simple Web pages with MS Word

You can generate web pages using MS Word.

You don't need to know any HTML. It's quite simple for a
basic web page and they work really well.

Here's what you do…

Open a Word Document and Click "Insert" and then "Text Box".
A light grey box will appear on the page and your cursor
will become a little plus sign. Just position the Cursor
inside the gray box and drag it to draw a box the size you
want---say 6 inches (15 cm) square.

Now click on the box and center it using the centering
icon on the tool bar.

Now just start typing inside that box.

Some useful tips:

* Don't use the Tab key.
* Don't use quotation marks
* Use italics where you normally use quotes
* Don't enter a string of spaces.

You might type something like this:

__________________________________________
THIS IS YOUR DOWNLOAD PAGE

Welcome

Just click the link below and your FREE BOOK will open

Then just save it to your Hard Drive

Click Here-This is your Download Link
___________________________________________

Then just Center the text; use Verdana Bold font (you get
less issues for your visitors with a standard font); resize
the various lines and do the text in different websafe
colors…red,black and blue.

Now you want to highlight the line " Click Here-This is
your Download
Link", right click and select "Hyperlink". The Hyperlink
dialogue box will open and you type your webpage address
into the "Address Box" at the bottom.

I find it's best to enter the full web address:

Eg: "http://mywebsiteURL.com/downloadpage"

It can really be just that simple!

Click "File" and "Save As" and save it as a HTML file
(Word gives you this option).

NOTE: Don't select "Save as Webpage". This creates a
".mht" file which won't work so well for you.

You can call it "DownloadPage.html" or whatever else makes
you happy.

Now you want to check that everything is working fine so
go to Windows Explorer and double click on your HTML file
and it will open as a web page.

If the Text Box isn't centered then go back to the Word
Doc and center it again and re-save as HTML.

For a Squeeze Page you can Google "Free Squeeze Page
Software" and get a program that will produce a nice
professional looking "Squeeze Page" for you. You can then
open the HTML file in Microsoft Office Word (just "Right
Click" the file and select "open with" and then "Microsoft
Office Word") and edit it from there. Or you can get some
Free webpage "templates" and edit them in Word or a simple
HTML editor (again there's lots of free ones out there).

If you use Word to edit you just re-save the file as an
HTML file (not a Word file) and you're ready to rock and
roll.

Don't forget when you upload your files to also upload the
"Files Folder" that was created when you saved your Word
Doc as a HTML file. If you called your file
"DownloadPage.html" then the folder will be called
"DownloadPage_files".


Keep on winning

Regards

Jim

Do you want to learn how you can get off to a quick start
in Internet Marketing? Then read my fast start guide "3
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Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer. He coaches
internationally in how to build successful Home Based
Businesses Online.
You can visit his website at:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/

Critical Steps to Online Success - Websites built with MS FrontPage--How to FTP to your server

Let's be upfront here-I don't like working with Microsoft
Front Page-I find it clunky and restrictive.

Front Page generates some additional code that can get in
your way when you're uploading and editing your files on
your FTP server.

Windows-compatible FrontPage CD's will all come with Web
Publishing Wizard (WPW). However (and it's a big "however")
you can only use WPW to "upload" to your FTP server, you
can't view the contents of your server directories and you
can't move or delete any of the files with this software.
It's probably easier if you install and use a standard FTP
software package. You can find Free ones on Google.

But be aware…FrontPage generates standard HTML files, but
there's some additional Microsoft-specific code embedded in
the page.

If you have installed the FrontPage Extensions, don't try
to FTP files up to the server with anything except the MS
Web Publishing Wizard (but then of course you can't
manipulate them-or so I understand-I've not used the
extensions for this very reason).

If you wish to upload files via a standard FTP package,
please remember to "uninstall the extensions" before
uploading.

This is a fairly straight forward process but not totally
simple. We don't have time to get into it here so I suggest
you go to Google and search for articles on "How to Remove
the Microsoft FrontPage Extensions".

You can get a really good "FTP add-on" as an extension of
the browser "FireFox" from Mozilla a great browser by the
way). This package is free and comes highly recommended
although I have not used it-I just use MS Windows Explorer
(I like to keep it simple).

All that being said, I have always found "Front Page" to
be very annoying and restrictive to use, so I don't use it
anymore. I used it years back when it came bundled with
Windows 2000 and I didn't want to buy another program. Now
you have to buy it as an additional package-it doesn't come
bundled with Windows XP. So why not get something more
flexible to work with.

Keep on winning

Regards

Jim

Do you want to learn how you can get off to a quick start
in Internet Marketing? Then read my fast start guide "3
Surefire Ways to Make Money Online".

Download it free here:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/cap/

Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer. He coaches
internationally in how to build successful Home Based
Businesses Online.
You can visit his website at:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/

Critical Steps to Online Success - Launch your First Website-Upload to your FTP site

If this is your first website you'll want to keep it
pretty simple for now…just an "Opt-in Page" and a
"Download Page". You can add more later, but right now
we want to get you on the road.

If you're ready to upload your pages to your site, then by
now you will need to have designed your pages, tested the
links, tested your Opt-in form with your autoresponder,
selected and registered your "Domain Name", chosen and
registered with a Hosting Service Provider (such as GoDaddy
or Host Gator etc), opened your Hosting Account and finally
tested and found that your site is now live and ready to
have pages uploaded.

If you are working with GoDaddy (which I do because that's
where I started and I like it) and you built your webpage
with Dreamweaver or a simple HTML Editor you can simply use
Windows Explorer (the Windows file manager program).

You open your FTP website in MS Internet Explorer (note:
it has to be IE for this to work-you can't use Firefox
here).

Remember to use the "FTP" prefix instead of the usual
"HTTP":

Eg: "ftp://your-own-domain-name-goes-here.com"

All you have to do now is copy and paste your files from
your hard drive to the server directory and you're done.
If you have created your web pages using "Microsoft Front
Page" it's a bit more complex. You need to use some FTP
(File Transfer Protocol) software to upload your files.
It's a quite a bit more hassle to upload (we call it FTP)
your files to your site.

If you can, I recommend finding other web creation
software to work with (that's just my personal
preference…you may love it). Front Page may be easy to
create pages with but I've found it to be much more
annoying when you want to edit your site files and
directories.

This process with Front Page involves quite a bit of
detail so I'll treat it in a later article.

Keep on winning

Regards

Jim

Do you want to learn how you can get off to a quick start
in Internet Marketing? Then read my fast start guide "3
Surefire Ways to Make Money Online".

Download it free here:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/cap/

Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer. He coaches
internationally in how to build successful Home Based
Businesses Online.
You can visit his website at:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/

Critical Steps to Online Success - Launch your First Website-How to get it Hosted

Critical Steps to Online Success - Launch your First Website-How to get it Hosted

This is your website-did you build it yourself--how many
pages have you designed?

If this is your first website and you are just getting
started at Internet Marketing you will only need to have 2
pages on your site: a "Sales or Offering" page for you
free giveaway plus your "Download" Page.

If you did it all yourself then it's probably up to you to
get it live on the web.

There are lots of hosting services available to you. Here
are a couple of ideas:

There are affordable solutions at "Host Gator" for hosting
($7.99 per month for hosting-a bit pricy) and Domain Condo
to register your domain ($3.99 to register--about as cheap
as it gets--and $3.99 per month for hosting-- recent
pricing).

I have used Network Solutions. They are the biggest I
understand but I find them quite expensive comparatively
and mostly slow and clunky. But that may not be everyone's
experience.

I now use "GoDaddy" pretty much exclusively and am very
happy with them-easy to use once you find your way around
and great support. A bare bones package is $7.99 to
register a domain and $3.99 per month for hosting.
Are the ones I mention above a better service than
GoDaddy? Honestly I don't know…I've never used them.
Once you have selected and registered your domain name
there will be a delay of 10 minutes to a couple of hours
before that domain is active.

You can then proceed to open a hosting account (for a
monthly fee). There will be another delay of 10 minutes to
a couple of hours before the domain is finally accessible.
The hosting company will send you an email with your
access information and password.

Now you can begin to upload your files to your web pages.
Keep on winning

Regards

Jim

Do you want to learn how you can get off to a quick start
in Internet Marketing? Then read my fast start guide "3
Surefire Ways to Make Money Online".

Download it free here:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/cap/

Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer. He coaches
internationally in how to build successful Home Based
Businesses Online.
You can visit his website at:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/

Critical Steps to Online Success - Launch your First Website-How do you get a Domain Name?

What exactly do you need to do to get your website up and
live on the web?

Let's take a quick look at some terminology.

When you launch or publish your website to the web you
have two basic choices. Either you use your own server (not
a good idea unless you're seriously web and computer savvy
and have a powerful server) or you use a Web Hosting
Service Provider. For a small monthly fee these companies
will provide you with space on their hosting servers and
take care of all of the intricacies of getting your site up
and keeping it active.

But before you can get your website "hosted" you will need
to
select and register a "domain name" for your website.

A domain name is the body of the website URL you choose.
The part between the "www" and the ".com" plus it also
includes the extension like ".com" or ".net" etc. You might
find that "john.com" is already registered to someone else
but "john.us" is available…unlikely because "john" is such
a popular name.

These days you need to go through quite a number of
choices before getting a domain name you like. Most of the
good and easy ones have gone.

Just go to the Domain Name service of your choice and
enter some choices in the search box they provide on their
front page.

I like to stick with the ".com" extension because that's
the one most people default to. They remember your website
name and automatically add the ".com" on the end. Why fight
city hall and risk losing them.

If you can't seem to get a Domain name you like a good
trick is to add an extra word at the beginning or end of
your selection to find something that has not already been
taken. Quite often these days you will have to settle for
something longer than you would initially like.

Let's say you want "SuccessUnlimited.com".

Well unfortunately that's already taken.

But "MySuccessUnlimitedGroup.com" is still available…at
least it was when I checked today. So if you like that one
then
grab it quick.

Keep on winning

Regards

Jim