Best Website: Simple Steps to Successful Websites
Best Website: Simple Steps to Successful Websites
The Best Website® book shows how to profit at least ,000 to ,000 a month with your website business. The book details specifically “how-to” select the best type of web business to start, build a new website with Easy Web Design. Also, how to create remarkable Internet Marketing… with real results in 11 days! And finally a little known method about how to profit 0,000 in 30 days using a strategy no-one talks about.
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Price: $ 19.95
WebPlus X2 Website Maker
- WebPlus X2 is Serif’s outstanding Vista certified web design marvel. Award-winning, versatile, powerful and easy-to-use, it is perfect for making engaging, professional-looking sites.
- With smart web gadgets, integrated e-commerce with partners including PayPal, support for YouTube, podcasts and Flash content, plus easy design and on-screen help, WebPlus X2 is ideal for any business or organization looking to create its own website.
- Don’t be daunted by designing a site–with 30 professionally-designed templates to choose from, there’s plenty to inspire you or help achieve speedy results.
- WebPlus X2 provides an easy approach to web design, with integrated e-commerce wizards, support for engaging YouTube content, podcasts and Flash animations–and all with no need to learn HTML.
- Serif’s online web resource not only offers new visitor analytics to give you detailed information about the usage of your site, we’ve also improved search engine optimisation for WebPlus X2 so your site can rank higher with services like Google.
WebPlus X2 makes it quick and painless to produce professional-looking sites featuring interactive forums and blogs, polished animated photo galleries, podcasts and cool YouTube videos, Flash animations, secure password-protected pages, easy e-commerce sites with partners including PayPal, and much more, with handy on-screen help to guide you every step of the way.
Whether a novice or a seasoned designer, a hobbyist or commercial manager, WebPlus has something to offer everyone, resulting in am
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June 22nd, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Review by Peter Farcas for Best Website: Simple Steps to Successful Websites
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A remarkably good book at describing the actual steps. in detail – that need to be completed to build a truly profitable website! I’m surprised no one has been able to write a book like this before. An actual complete guide that steps through; what type of website to start, getting the right domain name, setting up the web server, easily building and managing the website and finally, a number of excellent promotional strategies – that are actually mostly free!!
I measure how much I like a book by how many tabs I place to mark the pages… and I have quite a few marked with this book. Even the “How to Make a $100,000 from Something You Already Have.” Chapter isn’t hype.. It’s not easy to do, but it is a very interesting way to make money online.
Could have used more detail with regard to e-mail marketing.. but I think that is being picky. Very very, good book!! I Highly recommend it!!
June 22nd, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Review by J. Stevens for Best Website: Simple Steps to Successful Websites
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I’m a professional web designer, yet I didn’t have much skill in web marketing. This book has helped me to streamline my marketing efforts online, gaining successful listings with both Yahoo! and Google.
The book itself is well written and easy to use for novice and professionals alike.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Review by Leslie A. Kandel for Best Website: Simple Steps to Successful Websites
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Nelson Bates’ book titled Best Website, Simple Steps to Successful Websites, (130 some pages divided into eleven critical chapters about what really works) is concisely written in simple English and is a combination business and technical book based on his twelve years of experience in the internet trenches where he has been making money online since 1995.
He built BuySellWebsite.com into the Internet’s most popular marketplace for buying and selling Website businesses and developed the Internet’s longest running Website Appraisal system, which has also given him a unique insight into the financial side of the Internet at a grassroots level. He’s walked his talk.
This is not a get rich quick or opportunity seeker book with overstated optimism about how you to can get rich overnight, but rather a practical, and bluntly honest overview of what really matters if you want to build a profitable internet business. Also, while it covers technical subjects, it is written for the average person and not programmers or geeks.
He clearly and succinctly highlights what you need to know to be successful without superficial or pedantic ivory tower nonsense. The book is down to earth “How-To” book which is a must have in your personal library for anyone who is serious about building a successful Website. In addition to great layout and typography, sporadically placed tips & notes are also visually featured for quick reference.
One of the most important parts of the book is his “Essential 9″ where he enumerates the nine most important things you can do now to make your Website a profitable success.
Whether you’re a “Fortune 500″ company or a kitchen table startup, His book will serve you well saving you time, money and heartache. This action book is a must have, but will only be of value if you follow his advice. I would have liked more Dreamweaver examples, but that’s about it.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:34 pm
Review by Lana Bates for Best Website: Simple Steps to Successful Websites
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A true gem among the many, many web business and internet marketing business books I have read! I am absolutely dumbfounded no one has been able to write a truly specific, step-by-step book like this before.
It contains exact instructions about where to host, how to build your website and how to promote it with results waaay faster than anything I’ve ever tried in the last 10 years.
Five Star recommendation, and I don’t write reviews.. that’s how much this book motivated me!
Great Book!!
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Review by Glenn L. Weber for Best Website: Simple Steps to Successful Websites
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This is, by far, the best book available on how to build
and profit from building a Website. I have purchased
five copies personally, and distributed them to everyone
I know who is trying to build or grow their online business.
The clear and concise information on every aspect of starting
and marketing a website have been impossible for me to find
in other books or publications. Anyone interested in having
their own online business will benefit tremendously by following
every step of Nelson Bates’ outstanding instruction.
I highly recommend this book to all those with a website, or
thinking about starting one. Thank you for this fabulous
guide to internet success!
Darcy Weber
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Review by Steven C. Auerweck for WebPlus X2 Website Maker
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WebPlus X2 is an amazingly powerful, if eccentric, site-building program, and an incredible bargain at Amazon’s current price.
I’ve been using it for a few weeks now, and I’m constantly being pleasantly surprised by the ease of use and the depth of the options. The individual features are way too elaborate to address here; one can download a full manual from Serif’s site to get a sense of the full scope of the program.
If you’re a raw beginner, prepare to put in a lot of work before you can take full advantage of the software. But if you give it time, you’ll be rewarded. The combination of the enclosed printed manual and the help files are very well-produced, and don’t make any unwarranted assumptions about the skill levels of the user.
About that eccentricity: An important thing to understand about WebPlus is that in many respects it’s more like a desktop publishing program than a traditional WYSIWYG web page creation program. You specify a page width and depth, and build within that canvas. It relies on a lot of absolute positioning of graphic elements, which means you need to make a good assumption about the screen resolution and and browser window size your viewers will be using. And there are a lot of type effects inherited from the program’s cousin, PagePlus, which result in creation of graphics files that are placed within the page. Attractive, but at the price of compatibility with web standards. (I’ve been using different incarnations of PagePlus for years, so I started out being familiar with Serif’s tools and tactics.)
The skilled web programmers who offered rotten reviews, comparing with the likes of Dreamweaver, are missing the point. Dreamweaver (which I’ve used) is a muscle program that costs about 10 times what you’d pay for WebPlus. Different products, different markets.
I was surprised and delighted when I opened the package from Amazon and found not just a program CD and a jam-packed resource CD, but also a printed manual and two template packages, one with sample business sites and the other for home and hobby use. Those last three items are a la carte products elsewhere. Also, there’s a thriving user forum that offers great tips and quick advice.
This latest incarnation of WebPlus was marketed strongly on the abundance of Smart Objects, which rely on a Serif host server to make response forms, forums, blogs, analytics tools, etc., a drag and drop process, rather than items that require scripting on a full hosting service. Giving credit, these are free with the software, with only modest limits on total data volume (you can buy extra). But in the past few weeks that server has been plagued with large chunks of downtime, which can cause a whole site to hang. The user community has been up in arms, and Serif recently responded that the problems came in their expansion to a bank of multiple servers, and said they believe the worst is over. The service has been stable for several days, but I’d say the jury is still out on whether these tools are reliable in a commercial setting.
Bottom line: If you’re starting out with a modest understanding of computers and the web, you should be able to use WebPlus X2 and its templates to produce professional-looking sites rapidly, at invitingly low cost.
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Review by M. Gale for WebPlus X2 Website Maker
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Web X2 is a little counter intuitive at first. Then again, isn’t any bit of new software? Once you figure it out, it is a breeze to use. People keep telling me how professional my site looks. I have even started to build sites for other businesses. People are asking me to do web development more than my real business! I never expected that. [...]. My next big adventure will be using the Flash tools. Web X2 builds a great site for a fraction of the cost of other design tools. I am very happy.
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Review by felicitaz for WebPlus X2 Website Maker
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I really wanted to like this product, as in the past I’ve used PagePlus (long ago, when Serif was in Nashua, NH) and thought it was great value for the money.
Unfortunately, WebPlus X2 was a disappointment. I design professionally, and planned to use WPX2′s touted eCommerce features with my existing sites. In HTML editors like Dreamweaver, one can open HTML pages in the program and see a reasonable WYSIWYG graphic representation of what the page will look like. With WPX2, you must import the page, and if you have used external CSS, you will NOT see what you designed.
Here’s the problem: WPX2 does not recognize external style sheets–a major drawback for any serious designer, because external CSS is widely regarded as best practice. When you import that HTML page, all you see is a stack of disordered content. What this means is that you must design your site in WPX2, or restrict yourself to using table code and/or internal CSS if you want to see your design displayed properly in the editor.
It’s all the more absurd, because Serif’s own website is using external style sheets.
I contacted Serif tech support, trying to find out whether maybe I’d missed something. So far, no response.
The sad thing is that the program otherwise has a lot of nice features, and perhaps if I were a novice, it would be fine for my needs. The tools seem easy to read, and there are palettes galore. I’ll hopefully be able to generate code for eCommerce and password sign-in features, and add it to my existing sites manually. But it would be much easier to open/import pages in WPX2 and work directly on them there.
Message to Serif: SUPPORT EXTERNAL STYLE SHEETS!
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Review by Mark Welsch for WebPlus X2 Website Maker
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This product is not very useful if you are buying it for blogging. You can’t use the search feature with the blogs, also you can’t control access to blogs. But the reason I gave this software only one star is because the support is so bad. No free telephone support AND no telephone support you can pay for. All you can do is send an e-mail request. I sent three and never got a response.
June 22nd, 2010 at 7:16 pm
Review by A. Myles for WebPlus X2 Website Maker
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I keep trying to tell myself that this program is not as good as it is, but it ALWAYS surprises me with the power and flexibility. It just doesn’t quite make sense that I can make the websites that I make with a program so easy to use. I keep expecting to run into a wall, but I never do.
This is an absolutely stunning value.
Sure its not quite as powerful as Dreamweaver, but I think for most sites, it could really replace the Adobe offering.