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What is in the Complete Guide to Website Building?
Posted by Ben Fleeson on 09 November 2010 03:04 PM
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 The contents of the Complete Guide to Website Building website training course and module structure are as follows: Introduction In this short introductory session you will learn how to make use of the online training delivery system - how to navigate and interact with the content within the modules that follow. There are also a number of very basic 'primers' for newer users - these latter sections may be skipped if you are comfortable with concepts such as copying and pasting text. Approximate length: 20 mins Module 01 - Foundation In this opening session we’re going to look at some of the definitions and concepts that underpin the Internet as we know it. This will provide a great primer for the training that’s coming up. Approximate length: 46 mins Module 02 - Research In this module we’ll be introducing you to lots of tools and tricks that will help you to perform all the research necessary to create a profitable, professional, and search engine friendly web site in record time. Approximate length: 108 mins Module 03 - Adding Projects To get started creating our first web site together we’re going to start at the beginning, at the XSitePro Project Management screen. We’ll be adding a new project, and showing you how to keep things organized. It’s a nice gentle module to help you get you started. Approximate length: 20 mins Module 04 - Adding Web Sites Using Templates In this module we start to build a simple web site using a template. Along the way we’ll be looking at some of the basic concepts that we will be building on in later modules. Approximate length: 39 mins Module 05 - Designing Custom Web Sites In this module we’re going to expand on what we covered in the last module and get some hands-on experience at building XSitePro web sites from scratch - sites perfectly tailored to meet your own needs. Approximate length: 109 mins Module 06 - Adding Web Pages Following straight on from creating our new website in the last module, we’ll be keeping the momentum going with some webpage creation in this session – an essential part of any web site build. Approximate length: 49 mins Module 07 - Text & Formatting No matter how good your content is, it’s important that you present it in a way that’s easy to digest if you want to get your message across. In this module we’ll take a look at how we can use formatting to improve readability. Approximate length: 67 mins Module 08 - Working With Images They say an image speaks a thousand words. That’s definitely the case for web sites, so in this module we’ll be getting to grips with working with images. Approximate length: 64 mins Module 09 - Wizards & Tables The Design Wizards in XSitePro give you a handy short-cut for adding all manner of page content to your web site. As well as covering off the different design wizard tools we’ll also be taking a quick look at working with tables, which are great for laying our content neatly on the page. Approximate length: 65 mins Module 10 - Navigation & Page Interlinking As our page count grows and we build our content offering we’re going to need to know how to keep things nice and organized, so that they’re easy for our visitors to find. Navigation menus do just that and we’ll be taking a look at how to set them up in this module. Approximate length: 52 mins Module 11 - The Many Types of Web Site Content With so much content out there it’s difficult to know where to look first for ideas with which to fill your site’s pages. This module covers a whole range of content options for you to consider, and gives some practical tips that will help you create a more rounded content offering. Approximate length: 35 mins Module 12 - Audio & Video We’re going to be having some fun now, adding some rich multimedia content to our web pages in the form of audio and video, something we see increasingly used on sites across the ‘Net these days. Approximate length: 39 mins Module 13 - RSS Feeds RSS is a readily-available source of quality free content… so we need to know how to tap into it! This module shows us how to do just that using another of XSitePro’s powerful in-built tools. Approximate length: 30 mins Module 14 - Extra Features XSitePro offers a whole bunch of extra features and content over and above those we’ve run though so far – including three that we’ll be looking at right now in this session: Social Bookmarks, Breadcrumb Trails and Widgets, all designed to help boost the appeal of your site and make for a more interesting visitor experience. Approximate length: 54 mins Module 15 - QuickPages QuickPages are a wonderful way to add professional-grade page content to our web site in next-to-no time. If you can ‘copy and paste’ then you can use this powerful tool… it’s that simple. Approximate length: 33 mins Module 16 - Sub-pages When organizing page content, sub-pages give us a neat and simple way of grouping similar pages together so that visitors can quickly navigate our site… and we can even generate some free page content in the process. Let’s see how! Approximate length: 27 mins Module 17 - Adding Site Search Once the exclusive preserve of larger commercial web sites, custom site search functionality speaks volumes about the professionalism of your site, and makes your content super-easy to navigate to boot! You’ll learn how to add a search feature to your site in this module. Approximate length: 24 mins Module 18 - List Building A website is of little benefit, and generates minimal returns without some kind of clearly defined actions that can be readily achieved. In the sections that follow we’ll be working through a whole series of valid actions, starting with list building. Approximate length: 90 mins Module 19 - Pay-Per-Click Advertising How would you like to earn money every time someone clicks on an advertisement on your site? Sounds great, right! In this module you’ll learn how amazingly easy it is to do exactly that. Approximate length: 39 mins Module 20 - Affiliate Programs This module tackles the incredibly exciting affiliate marketing opportunity that your website represents. With over six billion dollars in annual revenues this is a space you really ought to consider being in. Approximate length: 56 mins Module 21 - Selling Direct If selling your own products is your objective, then this module’s going to show you just how easy it can be to get started making sales directly off your web pages in a matter of minutes. Approximate length: 44 mins Module 22 - Search Engine Optimization Part 1 Search Engine Optimization is one of those topics that many people think is amazingly complex. The great news is that it’s not rocket science. In this session we’ll be introducing some important Search Engine Optimization concepts and taking a look at the simple in-built tools that do all the ‘heavy lifting’ for you. Approximate length: 62 mins Module 23 - Search Engine Optimization Part 2 Sitemaps are far more than just a handy navigation feature, they’re also an important part of our search engine optimization effort, and can even generate some additional page content along the way. Approximate length: 46 mins Module 24 - Publishing Your Web Site This is it folks! Count-down to blast-off, and the incredibly exciting pinnacle of our learning up to this point. This is where you get to publish your site to the Internet. Let’s not wait a moment longer. Approximate length: 43 mins Module 25 - Essential Web Site Housekeeping In this short section we’ll be covering off some important housekeeping tasks that are going to make sure all that effort you put into your web site doesn’t go to waste. Approximate length: 21 mins Module 26 - The XSitePro Test We’re going to be having a fun test in this session, just to establish that you’ve got from this course what you hoped, and to identify whether or not there are any areas that might need a little more work from here. This is for your own benefit, so please do be sure to answer all of the questions coming up. Approximate length: 30 mins Find out more on the Complete Guide to Website Building at: http://www.completeguidetowebsitebuilding.com | |
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