Create you own web presence

Don’t you see many people talk about the way to create a web page is using some expensive tools whereas you can avoid all these literally when there are many ways to create a web presence without many hassle or headaches.Mainly it uses what is given out as freebies by your web host provider but if they have fantastico or Control Panel, there are bound to be some free application to create your online presence.

Let’s take it that you have already purchased a domain or got one for free from your web hosting provider. The options are plain simple, if you just want a shopping cart, you will then install a shopping gateway like Agrocart or ZEN but if you want something fancy, you can go for content management system where you can integrate your blog, information pages, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), Contact details and products and maybe a shopping trolley with checkout functionality without even being a programmer or knowing how HTML works.

Otherwise, if you just want to have a corporate or personal information system, a blog would do just nice. Just make sure you have a nice theme.

Before you embark, there are a few options, namely knowing how each look and feel. There are a few in the market, free open GNU/GPL licensed like Joomla/Mambo (same,different gang), Drupal, PostNuke, PhPNuke. Each have it’s plus and minuses. Look into their development pages and see if you can see a free theme that you like as drupal is a no brainer, but less flexible in terms of codes compared to the Mambo-Joomla but if you have an error, it’s a murder to debug and themes cost money. It involves some CSS codes and styles and php codes behind the scenes. So, pick a theme you like and stick by it. Configuration and modification cost at least $350.

These can have add-ons like Google Checkout, Google Adsense and Banners displayed on your site so you can monitor, monetise and promote your own products within. Those are cool add-on applications and you can even put Facebook on them! You can find out more about these CMS on Helium’s pages. That is a plain simple way to do things.

But what if you want something simpler? Site Deluxe is the solution. Some ISP provides this service so you can pull and drag a plain simple landing page for your place.It’s a no brainer, no need to FTP or Upload data. They do it all for you. I saw this with POWWEB. And stay away from GoDaddy. They are a nuisance.Low Value for Money. Same with Yahoo.

Good luck.