This document provides an overview of a 3-week course on building websites for small businesses. [The course will cover setting up web hosting, designing a website using basic HTML and CSS, email marketing, search engine optimization, and ongoing website maintenance]. Learners will start by signing up for basic services and obtaining a domain name and web host in the first week. Subsequent weeks will delve deeper into each topic area and teach learners how to optimize and expand their online presence. The goal is for learners to have a fully functioning website and digital marketing strategy by the end of the course.
4. Web Hosting
• Find the right web host for you
• Learn about the features and lingo of web
hosting
• Evaluate various plans and choose the
right one for you
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5. Web Design
• Use inexpensive web publishing tools
• Build an easy-to-use website in
• Learn the basics of HTML and CSS
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6. Email, Marketing, and Search
Engine Optimization
• Set up email accounts
• Learn tips for using the internet to find
customers
• Create compelling content that appeals to
search engines
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7. Web Publishing &
Maintenance
• Stay on top of new tools you use to
improve your site cheaply
• Learn about e-commerce and other
advanced techniques
• How to buy your own URL
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8. Methodology
• 3 weeks
• Cover each of the 4 main areas
• At first in a shallow/ sign-up/ get-feet-wet
fashion
• Then each time deeper and learning more;
optimizing and expanding
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9. Success for Tonight
• Learn how to sign up for services
• Obtain a domain name
• Obtain a web host
• Sign up for Gmail www.gmail.com
• Get to know each other
• Give me a detailed idea of your overall
goals for end of our three weeks
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10. Learn how to sign up for
services
• Quickly
• With minimum information
• Use the HELP button
• Size up a service quickly
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11. Obtain a domain name
• www.godaddy.com
• Cheapest ($8/
year)
• Easiest to use
(domain mapping,
DNS management,
etc.)
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12. Detailed Instructions
• Choose DOMAINS > Register New
• Enter Domain Name you want and click
SEARCH
• Choose the domain you want and click
CONTINUE
• Complete account form
• Careful-- they try to sell you a lot of stuff you
don’t need-- just keep clicking through
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13. Obtain a web host
• Which one?
Depends on your
needs
• Ehostpros is very
inexpensive and
powerful
• Perhaps we could
pool resources?
• Let’s talk
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14. Obtain a web host?
• Other options:
• Yahoo Geocities
• Free webspace like
Blogger
• Maybe no website at all
• Again, the purpose of
tonight is to hash through
all of this
• There are many
approaches
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15. Why GMail?
• Good for the beginner
(easy to use, lots of
space, gateway to other
features)
• Good for the advanced
users (manage multiple
email accounts, maintain
email groups, etc.)
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16. One-on-one Discussions
• Let’s spend our remaining time together developing a
detailed, custom plan for you
• What you’ll have at the end of this course
• It may include phone or email conversations this week,
so as not to waste other people’s time (one of me,
many of you)
• But I think we can get a lot done in very short
discussion bursts
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17. Next Week
• More detail on everything
• Managing a web host
• Managing a web life
• Better email
• Better searching
• Better file management
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18. On Your Own
• Customize your Google homepage
http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en
• Download Yahoo! Toolbar
http://toolbar.yahoo.com/
• Download Google Desktop
http://desktop.google.com/
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