Nickname: Winmar

Review: Great advice for beginners to get started.

Date reviewed: Sep 6, 2006 1:33 AM

Nickname: Mary Ellen

Review: There are plenty of user-friendly (low cost) hosting sites available with Web site building that anyone can build without complicated HTML, etc. I'm surprised that the information provided is rather out of date.

Date reviewed: Jul 20, 2006 3:55 PM

Nickname: Sal

Review: I tried to use advice from the article. Here is the outcome: biznetpage.com Any advice on what else can be done to be successful? Sal

Date reviewed: Jul 12, 2006 4:13 AM

Nickname: Debbie

Review: Thanks for this article, especially just starting out in business you really need to get your name out to the public. The Internet has been the best place for me to do just that.

Date reviewed: Jul 3, 2006 7:00 PM

Nickname: Jawgster

Review: Frontpage is ancient history and it's no longer viable for somebody wanting to get started. If you're going to get into the learning curve from scratch, you might as well learn something that is current and can effortlessly produce professional results...like DotNetNuke. For around $5/month, you can get a DotNetNuke Web site which allows you to basically "fill in the blanks" with copy and pictures and within a few hours, you can build an amazing Web site. Although this might sound like you would be building a cookie cutter website, in fact, it's fully customised by nature of it's open design process. No two DotNetNuke sites have to look the same. No charge for the software, it's free! I just made a full eCommerce website for a friend who is selling a new product and it only took me 3 days. Even if such professional results were possible with Frontpage (I doubt it!) it would've taken weeks of tedious work. Checkout the results here http://www.longbowbass.com

Date reviewed: Jun 29, 2006 4:20 PM

Nickname: Grand Slack

Review: This article fosters some sad misconceptions: 1. (Professional) Web pages are easy to create. 2. Getting added to key search engines "only" requires a few 'free services'. 3. Web content is easy to add and never gets outdated. Creating a professional Web page is best done by individuals/services with experience -- if you use templates or "pre-defined" pages, you will look like some type of generic site. Adding meta data to your HTML text (buried inside the Web page/header) requires technical expertise -- keywords and placement with the proper HTML tags -- services do not do that, a professional Web designer knows how to do this. Adding content, specifically images, often is mangled by the non-professional -- either the images are not sized and prepped for proper Website display, or they are the wrong format (e.g. .bmp instead of the more traditional .jpg). Non-professionals often add .gif files -- or the site has the wrong or inconsistent display sizes for each page.

Date reviewed: Jun 29, 2006 1:14 PM

Nickname: Brand Aid

Review: Thank you for mentioning in this article how valuable it is for businesses to get listed on search engines' local listing directory. This is without a doubt one of the best ways to have consumers find you, without even having a Web site. You can convey all the basic information you need...for free! Jeremy Mansfield

Date reviewed: Jun 26, 2006 8:19 PM

Nickname: Charles Z

Review: For beginners it is a good article. Nowadays you do not need to spend $150 for a front page. Many really good companies like RegisterFly.com or Netsol offer sitebuilder tools for under $40 a year that is easier to use with more professional outcomes. Also, submitting your site to the search engines is key for exposure. There are free services you can use that can publish your URL to many of the top search engines at no cost.

Date reviewed: Jun 26, 2006 2:38 AM

Nickname: JP Lemaitre

Review: Agree weak article. For example on advertising on Google, it would be interesting to explain tips on how to do that, what works, what doesn't, etc. Everyone knows that advertising on search engines is a good idea, but explaining how to do it right is invaluable. I also recommend to use the Mac's iWeb (from iLife) software package as a basic inexpensive tool to create a site for the non technical person.

Date reviewed: Jun 23, 2006 12:30 PM

Nickname: Will

Review: I've tried MS FrontPage and it was really difficult to use, so I found using other graphic design softwares and then export to HTML was much easier. Services offered by Yahoo or GoDaddy cost a few dozen bucks, but DIY websites don't bring a professional look for the site, which affects your company's brand image. One of my friend doing business in Vietnam introduced me to some outsourcing web design/hosting companies there with very cheap prices. In the end after two weeks and $500, I've got a professional looking website from a so-called EasyWeb firm which offers very cheap web design/hosting services for the companies in Vietnam(www.easyweb.com.vn). After all there are many cheap services out there but we need to made some efforts to dig into those bargains as these cheap web suppliers are usually not very good at marketing themselves.

Date reviewed: Jun 23, 2006 2:27 AM