A Simple Website can Advertise Your Local Business on the Internet

Whether you already have a Home Business or not, you need to advertise

John Wilson

that business on the Internet.

You need a website! But don't panic or shy away from the process.

It's not that hard.

Especially when I show you how, step-by-step.

Download the css.zip file by clicking the link below.

Download Practice Web Site - see how easy it is!

March 22, 2005

New Research by The Kelsey Group and ConStat Indicates 70% of U.S. Households Now Use the Internet When Shopping Locally for Products and Services

http://www.kelseygroup.com/press/pr050322.htm

"My ROI on local search advertising is literally 10 times better than my Yellow Pages ad."

Internet Advertising is Better Than Yellow Pages

Learn to Advertise your Local Business on the Internet.

Start with this site as an example.

You are viewing the Homepage (index.html) now. You can choose from your Browser's Menu, File, SaveAs and save a copy of this page to your computer. It won't be displayed quite the same until you have the style sheet that goes with it.

DO THIS

Start with this simple site on your computer.

Download these files and you have a Practice Web Site on your Computer.

Click this link to download: Download Practice Web Site

Unzip the file and then double click on the index.html file which should open the Homepage in your browser. Now, right-click the index.html file which will open a pop-up menu and choose Open With.. then Notepad.

Now you are looking at the index.html in two ways.

Your Browser (Internet Explorer?) is displaying the index.html file as you normally see a web page.

Notepad is displaying the html code that the Browser reads and interprets to know how to display the web page (index.html).

You should then be able to navigate to the other pages and back again to the Homepage.

Next>>> To Practice making changes to your web pages:

Make Your Changes

You can modify the pages to suit yourself by right-clicking the file and from the pop-up menu select Open With and the choices of programs which will open it will appear (Notepad, Word or whatever you have). Choose Notepad to open the file. What you see in Notepad is the html code that tells your browser what to display and how to display it.

Find The Text in the index.html file that appears in the browser – it should be about line number 20.

Make some changes in the text, then click File, Save.

View Your Changes

You must click the refresh button or click the go button to make your browser get another copy of the page which will include the changes that you just made.

You would follow the same procedure for the .css style sheet, change it, save it and refresh your browser. Just leave that one as is for now.

Upload To Your Web Server

All that remains to have a real web site is to upload to your web server.

If you already have a domain name, get a free month of hosting here:

How it works:
After you sign up for the trial hosting, PayPal will let me know and will give me your name and email address. I will contact you and explain what to do next.

You will need a domain name for your website. If you don't have one yet, see if the name that you want is available here: http://go-domainnames.com

OR>>

I can do it all for you. Subscribe to the $19/month hosting by clicking the button below. Let me know what domain name you would like and if it is available, I will get that domain name registered for you, in your name, and have everything setup in 2 days.

If you need help in changing the pages, I will give you the step-by-step instructions or I can do it for you.