What are my options?

We said earlier, there is a sea of options to choose from, and you need something that can work for you. That means, evaluate your needs, and gather what the focus of your site should be. Let’s take a minute to weigh the options:

You’ll need a few things, either you or your webmaster can provide:

1. A domain name.
   • This is the name that will show up in the top most field in your web browser.
   • Domains can be difficult to choose. Take time to find the right domain for your site. Depending on the domain name, your prices may range from as little as $10 to thousands of dollars.
   • Example: google.com
2. Hosting account in
   • After you buy a domain name you need to find a place to put your website where people can reach it. this is known as website hosting, and there are many companies that do this for different prices in different levels of quality of service.
   • This is an area especially, if you’re not sure about what you’re doing, to get some professional help.

Once you get those two things in order, you’ve laid down the basics in order to have a website.

In the next tutorial, I’ll talk about some free services, and the differences between free, almost free, and paid. Happy surfing!

The problem

Recently, I received an e-mail from someone asking for some help
on a website they had developed. They decided,  to go with developers
in India to do their website for them. But after their site was done they
realized a few things:

• There site wasn’t working properly
• and, they didn’t have the expertise to fix the problems

Yikes! I need help with my website!

They needed someone the could communicate with to redo/fix all those issues.

How do I know where to start?

There are millions of pages on the web and millions of websites
sometimes there’s too much information. You could spend hours and hours searching for answers, or contact us for a free consultation right now, or just keep reading.

It depends what you want, and how much time and effort you are willing to spend.

Some starter questions to ask yourself when thinking about a new web site,
website overhaul, or software application are:

• What’s the purpose of my site or application?
• What’s my budget?
• What’s my time frame?
• What features do I need to have?
• How am I going to get the word out, when its done?

There are a lot of other, related questions you could ask, but for brevity, that should be a good starting place. If you have any questions, feel free to check out our services and we’ll help you and put you in the right direction.

• CSS Cheat Sheet
  Very helpful.

• Smashing Magazine CSS
  There are many different articles here. This is really a one stop shop for all things CSS

• W3 Schools CSS Tutorial
  This is a great place to start from scratch. It’s also a great reference.

• A great IE 6 fix
  something about the site here

• Firebug
  Can’t live without it. If you don’t know what this is then check out a nice tutorial I can smell the flames already, so here’s a great article on a few different editors from SmashingMagazine again!

• NetTuts
  Takes you from a Photoshop design to HTML using CSS Step by Step. Needed. Check it out.

• Psd2CssOnline
  Free and paid versions allow you to upload your design file and out comes css and html.