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Web site design

Unless you are a pure email marketing guru, your plans for making money from the Internet will involve a combination of Internet marketing and the design and promotion of web sites. You can of course hire a professional to design the web site for you, but he'll still have to rely on you to provide the content as well as ideas for layout and navigation. Further more, many so-called professional web site developers simply have no clue how to design a web site that attracts targeted visitors and converts them into customers.

You need to learn specific design skills

Any professional web site designer will know what to avoid in web site design. They avoid badly written content and make sure your web site loads quickly. But do they know who your customers are and how to design and promote your web site to create a flood of targeted visitors? Do they know how to make sure your visitors are turned into valuable customers. Few professionals in web site design do. If they would, they would not need to design web sites for others: They'd develop their own. Hence, even though you can outsource some of the technical design tasks, designing web sites for income generation is a special skill that you'll have to learn to be successful.

Web resources you need

To help you learn how to design a successful web site for your home business, I have collected some links to useful resources. But of course, the only way to really learn is by trying to apply what these sources tell you.

Successful web site design

Domain name tips

Web hosting guide

Choosing your keywords

Link exchange