Website Design Software

Working with NVU, free wysiwyg website designer software, is certainly different than working with XSitePro. NVU is quirky and seems to add a bunch of unnecessary html behind the scenes. But it does have it’s advantages too. With XSP the layout of every page has to be the same, meaning the header and sidebar(s) so you can change every page at once. With NVU, every page can be different, but for the elements that you want uniform on each page, if you make a change on one page you have to go into every page and make the same change. Weird.

XSP is the only software before now that I have used to create a site, so I don’t speak from much experience. It is much easier to use overall though than NVU. There’s another free software, 1stPage2006, that comes recommended. Maybe I’ll try that for future sites. Not sure XSitePro would work well for the sites we are creating in my adsense coaching program.

What I’d really like to try out is a copy of Dreamweaver. Time to start saving my pennies?

Finding niches by the coach’s guidelines has become a piece of cake. I have found dozens. Very fun. And Keyword Elite is coming through for me. I’m liking it alot, but haven’t even begun to use its full potential.

That’s all for now.

Success with Outsourcing, Design Dashboard, Blogini and more!

Received my first batch of outsourced keyword articles back tonight. They’re really well done. I’m thrilled! I found my writer through guru.com and hope to use her again right away. Very cool!

Now I can really move ahead designing the website for the adsense niche following the direction of my coach. To create the header graphic for this and future sites, I purchased Design Dashboard by Marlon Sanders. I love it! I already have Photoshop Elements, and now I get to learn how to use it well from the pros. The software will be invaluable for all aspects of the site, not just the headers.

I feel as if I wasted a bunch of money buying Instant Adsense Templates from Joel Comm a few months back. I’ve pretty much found my niches are not included in the package and there’s the ever present recommendation to create original sites rather than using sites with easily recognizable footprints. The headers have always been the roadblock, but now I can create my own with Design Dashboard. This is ideal to use with XSitePro, because the rest of the site practically builds itself.

We had a training call with the Blogini leaders tonight about promotional methods for Boy Million. A main reason for creating the Boy Million project was so those of us who were interested could learn about internet marketing first hand from experienced marketers. It’s really a great opportunity.

Ken Fox (Blogini CEO and founder) announced that some updates are coming for Blogini within the next several weeks (like a downward price adjustment, if you can believe that!). Boy Million is only going to get better and so is Blogini. Ken is good.

That’s it for now.

Adsense Websites

Just some very fun work today. I was following the tutorial for my adsense coaching and started building a website. The coach led us through creating a site with NVU, which is a free website building software. So far so good. She does lead us step by step, but the software seems pretty intuitive anyway.

Of course there was an easy solution to the website viewing problem yesterday. Empty the cache in Firefox. Magic. All is well.

No playing with links today. aLinks did come through for me yesterday too, though.

That’s all for now.

Website Design with XSitePro and Firefox

Today I was working on updating a website that I’ve had going for a number of months. The site got a new header graphic and some new colors and a couple new articles. I used XSitePro for the website design. As I went along I used the preview a couple times to get a sense of what the finished product would look like, and sometimes the result reminded me of a Picasso painting. The website structure was all over the place and everything was everywhere but where I would expect it to be. Frustrating.

Ultimately I realized that if I viewed the website in Explorer, it looked great. It was only askew when I viewed it in Firefox. Boo! I love Firefox, but do I have to do my web design with Explorer? Usually when I view websites in Firefox they look fine. The problem just occurs sometimes during and just after the design process. Boo. Not sure how to resolve this one.

Have a good weekend.

P.S. aLink worked great yesterday! The hyperlink shows up after I publish the post. I bet it will work today too!

WordPress Plugin: aLink

Today I installed a wordpress plugin called aLink. It’s designed to imbed links in designated words and phrases. I’m posting here to try it out.

Have you checked out Boy Million, the longest backlinks page on the internet yet? If not, you’re missing something valuable!

Okay, nothing happened. It might be back to the drawing board. I’ll keep you posted.