Building your own website can be easy or complicated depending on which route you want to take. You can either make the website yourself or have somebody else do it for you.
Having somebody else design and develop the website for you would be the more logical choice if you don’t have the experience in web design. But if you want to get your hands dirty and learn something new along the way you might consider building the website by yourself.
If you decide to build the site yourself, you will need a graphics editor, a WYSIWYG HTML editor for more straightforward editing or a text editor if you only want to do some hardcore coding, a webhost where you upload your files and host your site and a lot of time to tinker with your website.
If you want to cut down on development time, you might want to consider using website templates.
Templates are for people who don’t want to spend big money on designers and don’t have a lot of time to spend designing their own Web site. Templates are for people who just want to select a great design, drop their content and text in and be done with it.
You can grab some free website templates all over the net. But if you are looking for high quality website templates you mind need to shell out a couple of dollars.
There are a lot of websites selling templates online. One of the few offering high quality website templates is Dreamtemplate.com. They currently have a subscription promo where they offer over 300 free templates and access to thousands for just $59.95 and the subscription is valid for one whole year! If you compute the price per template… it would turn out to be 6 U$ cents per template. That definitely is a great deal if you ask me.
Here are some reason to choose Dreamtemplate.com:
Build as many sites as you want
The freedom to use your templates for personal or corporate sites
Lifetime access to your design
Unlimited use of your template(s)
Unique Design Concepts
High Quality Graphics
Photoshop PSD Files Included in Zips
Optimized Images.
And that is not all. You also get access to over 50+ Brochure, PDF & InDesign Templates, 1000+ Royalty Free Stock Web Icons/Vectors and 160+ Joomla, WordPress Themes & oSCommerce Skins! How is that for a great deal?
Gombos Atila, 28 years old who has been in the art and advertising industry for more than eight years now, runs the new Stylish blog which is basically a programming design blog that also tackles webdesign, money and life. Together with his team of seasoned writers they share their insights in the world of art, culture and design.
The group has categorized their posts into Finance, Personal, Programming, Technology, Tools and Video.
You can find some invaluable tech tips and tricks from the blog such as knowing the things to check before calling your dedicated support professional, get to know more about capacity planning, how to properly setup and control user accounts, and even get some first hand info on what goes on in the spyware community.
At the time of this writing, there are currently 36 posts on the site but the numbers should continually increase easily in the days to come. The site is powered by wordpress and the pages load quickly. The site is also easy to navigate and the content is easy to read. I’d say it is pretty much a user friendly site.
The stylish blog has been online just this January of 2008 but it is already notable that the blog already has a Google Page Rank of 5! Wow! The stylish blog is definitely in the right track.
Drop by stylishwebdesign.us and check out what they have to say about web design, money and life.
Can’t get enough of those online social networks? Want to try out a new one?
3GB Community is the newest community online. At the time of this writing, 3GB community already has around 575 members across 32 groups and over 1700 friendship connections made. It is still a relatively new social networking site that is why the memberbase isn’t that big yet. The beauty of this is that you get to be one of the pioneers of the community. How many people do you know that can claim that they are pioneers of a particular social networking site? Join now and you can be one. How cool is that!?
3GB Community lets you meet new friends as well as old friends online. Just like any other social network sites, you also get to upload and share your photos albums. You might also want to consider joining groups, do blogs chat with other members and even listen to the latest mp3 hits all from the same site.
Concerned with privacy issues? No worries! 3GB community has instituted privacy features which are not available with other social networks. As a member you get to keep your profile private so that only those who you explicitly permit will be the only ones to be able to access. Some sort of a blacklisting facility is available so that you can block someone from contacting you.
A Dose of Sugar shares with you various tales of a food junkie’s quest for the ultimate sweet fix.
There are food blogs and there are food blogs. So what makes A Dose of Sugar different?
A Dose of Sugar is a work in progress. In time, it will define its own niche in the blogosphere. A Dose of Sugar aims to feature not only desserts and dessert places, but just about anything that has a dose of sugar in it. As a blog, it aims to be a source of information for tourists and locals alike, who share a common love for anything sweet.
To set it apart, A Dose of Sugar includes expert advice on essentials that will make a good dining experience, even better. For guys eager to impress their dates, A Dose of Sugar will try to include information that is essential in planning your night ahead - where to park, what clothes to wear, how much to bring, what credit cards are accepted and the contact information of the restaurant to call ahead for reservations.
Stay tuned as A Dose of Sugar documents and shares more of her gastronomic adventures, kitchen experiments and fab food finds for other foodies to enjoy!
blogTV.com is the latest video portal where viewers from all over the world can come share their personal talents and opinions through a live broadcast; Yes! You can broadcast live.
blogTV.com is extraordinarily easy to navigate, which means that no matter who you are or where you come from you will be able to use and enjoy all of blogTV’s features.
It works pretty much like watching a live show on live tv. You just prepare your video camera and blogTV will take care of the rest.
You also get to watch live shows by famous youtube stars like ijustine, KevJumba, Happyslip and many more!
Jeremy Shoemaker better known as ShoeMoney is currently one of the major players in search engine marketing arena and even runs Shoemoney Ads which is his very own ad network which later on was rolled into auctionads and sold as a company in 2007 to media whiz.
ShoeMoney became very famous a couple years back when he shared a photo of him holding one month’s worth of earning from his AdSense account. The adsense check was for a whopping US$132,994.97!
Jeremy also gives back to the community through his blog. The shoemoney blog with the tag line Skills To Pay The Bills is Jeremy’s personal blog where shares his real-life experiences in search engine marketing and also shares some very valuable tips and tricks that might help others out. With that, he has consistently been in Technorati’s top 100 most read blogs for the past 2 years, receives about 20,000+ unique visitors per day and has 15,000+ RSS subscribers. In 2007, he estimated that he got around US$200,000 in revenues. And that is for his personal blog alone. He also won the Best Affiliate Marketing Blog of 2007 as well as the Best Contextual Advertising Blog of 2007.
He also has a Q & A portion on his blog where anyone can just shoot him a question and then he’ll post an answer and once in awhile we would answer questions by making a video about it. He runs the ShoeMoney Show, a podcast/radio show, over at webmasterradio.fm where teaches you SEM with his guest co-hosts and interviews. He has just finished writing the ShoeMoney Playbook and should be released this spring of 2008.
You can also grab some ShoeMoney clothing merchandise at the ShoeMoney store. But if you are lucky, you could get one for free especially if you go to events where Jeremy is at and ask him for one.
Drop by the ShoeMoney blog to get the latest updates on tips and tricks that you can try out to improve your SEM skills and be able to pay the bills.
The event is called “Corporate Communications 2.0: Corporate Blogging” and it is a seminar/workshop about corporate blogging. The seminar will be held in March 7, 2008 at the AIM Campus in Makati City.
Corporate Communications 2.0 is intended primarily for:
Business executives who recognize the promise of blogs for viral marketing, crisis communications and corporate culture development
Managers who want to tap blogging as a collaboration platform
Professionals who are interested to learn how blogging can be an effective means of communication in the corporate setting
The seminar will be on March 7, 2008 at the SGV Caseroom at the Asian Institute of Management, MakatiCity. The seminar fee is PhP 500.00. (All proceeds of the event will go to the GILAS Project of the Ayala Foundation.)
WordPress just released updates for both the 2.1 and the 2.0 branches. The 2.1 branch will get the 2.1.3 update while 2.0 branch will get the 2.0.10 update.
The update fixes several security issues which can be exploited via cross site scripting as well as a fix for a major XML-RPC problem. In this release, Wordpress performed a proactive full sweep of their codebase to minimise potential future problems.
iBlog3: the 3rd Philippine Blogging Summit will be held at the School of Economics Auditorium, in UP Diliman, Quezon City this April 13 and 14, 2007. This event is organized by the University of the Philippines - Internet Society Program.
Registration, which will reserve your seats, stuff and schwag, and get you into our announcements mailing list, is now open.
As with the previous iBlog events, of course iBlog 3 is still FREE in the beer sense, as long as we can help it, free in the speech sense.
The DigitalFilipino.com Club is offering to all its SME and Corporate members a hands-on tutorial session on Google AdSense and Google AdWords this December 9, 2006, Saturday, from 9 am to 12 noon. This will be held at Alfox Internet Cafe (beside Chowking), Kamuning Road, corner Edsa, Quezon City.
Topics include:
1. Generating online income through Google AdSense
2. Adding Google AdSense in your blog and website
3. Improving Google AdSense revenue performance
4. Marketing your website through Google AdWords
5. Setting up a Google AdWords account
6. Creating a Google AdWords advertising campaign
7. Monitoring and calibrating your Google AdWords advertising campaign
SME members can send 2 representatives while Corporate members can send 3 representatives. Please confirm for food count purposes and for the preparation of a US$50 Google AdWords voucher for use in the training.
Interested non-members and individual members are requested to sign up as a SME or Corporate member prior to December 9 and confirm attendance for food count purposes.
http://digitalfilipinoclub.blogspot.com/2006/11/december-9-google-adsense-and-adwords.html
Marc Macalua of SEO Philippines has just sent word that the SEO Philippines Yahoogroup has reached another milestone of having 500 members and continues to grow everyday.
SEO Philippines @ YahooGroups, is a mailing list for those interested in learning more about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) in general.
Membership is open to bloggers, webmasters, and Internet enthusiasts.
Here is what Marc sent to the group:
We’ve recently broken 500! Many thanks for all the support. Special shout outs to our moderators:
Benj Arriola
Carmelo Diaz
J. Angelo Racoma
Manuel Viloria
Andrew dela Serna
Andre Marcelo-Tanner
Anton Sheker
Migs Paraz
Abe Olandres
I’d like to announce new additions to the moderator pool
Elymar Apao
Mike Lopez
Dennis Agulo
Congratulations!
Marc
SEO Philippines is currently running the Philippines’ 2nd SEO Contest — Ituloy AngSulong!
The WordPress team releases WP 2.0.2 that contains several bugfixes and security fixes (Cross Site Scripting).
An important security issue has been brought to the attention of the WordPress team and they have worked diligently to bring you a new stable release that addresses it. Their latest version 2.0.2 contains several bugfixes and security fixes. The problems addressed are unannounced XSS issues privately discovered and reported to the WordPress team.
You’ll have to do the usual backup, delete then upload process but you won’t need to run upgrade.php
