First Web Steps

The first steps to getting your website online

 

Planning to launch a website? Putting your business online? Independent Web Advice offers free advice to get your website off to the best possible start. Get your web site right first time.

• Why all the panic?
  WIth the growth of the Internet, is it now time to really panic?
  
  
• More than being a nerd!
  Running a succesful website requires more than being a nerd!
  
  
• 6 Great Tips - an overview
  Great tips that you should bear in mind
  
  
• Have Web Patience
  Have web patience and take your time, a website takes a long time to develop.
  
  
• What does Google think of your web site?
  How can you find out what Google thinks of your web site?
  
  
• Keep a strict focus
  Focus on one thing, what will your website actually do? There are many models. Which is right for you?
  
  
• What shall I call my Website? Which domain name?
  Advice about domain names - what makes a good one and what to avoid
  
  
• 10 Steps to creating a great website
  Simple ten steps to creating a website
  
  
• Real world web costs
  What things cost and how much you should be paying
  
  
• Avoid the Sandbox
  Advice about your website and why you shouldn't delay
  
  
• The Best Content Management System
  Open source content management. There are lots of them but we have a favourite - Etomite CMS
  
  
• Website Page Lengths
  What length should my web pages be? We try to help.
  
  
• Managing Change in the Larger Organisation
  A wide scale web project for a larger organisation involves many change management issures.
  
  
• Skype - Free Web Calls!
  Skype is free, incredibly useful and actually works! Try it.
  
  
• Open Source Software
  Free, stable and ultimately flexible - have you considered open source?