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The best thing I can tell you roc paint is buy a good html/css book and read it. If you don't know html/css you have no chance of understanding any website domain creator because even templates require you to edit them. Here are the steps I recommend: buy this book and read it and do the examples This is the bare bones of what you need: http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-HT...8&qid=1427033440&sr=8-6&keywords=html+and+css [*]Buy a good wordpress book that will help you implement a good wordpress template. I recommend this one. http://www.amazon.com/WordPress-Missing-Manual-Matthew-MacDonald/dp/144934190X/ref=dp_ob_title_bk [*] Find a nice wordpress theme from themeforest. http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress [*]Add the Yoast Plugin https://yoast.com/ [/LIST] The other considerations: getting a dedicated IP and a fast domain. That will usually cost you about 12 dollars a month at BlueHost or Hostgator. So you are looking at: Yoast Complete SEO Pack: $279 per yr, Dedicated IP Bluehost: $130 per yr, Premium WordPress Theme: $65 one time cost. Wordpress Book & HTML book: $60 one time cost. Total: $535 to start, $410 going forward. Of course you can cut your costs significantlhy by not buying yoast, but if you do that you aren't going to have a very webfriendly site. You could spend 3 years worth of trail and error and read about 8 books and countless web articles (like I did), forego wordpress for a micro blog like Anchor CMS and basically only have to spend $130 a year. But trust me, it ain't going to be easy to do this. I am just very manacle about learning things and I spent a LOT of time at it. The above steps are, in my opinion, the vastly easier way to go.
The best thing I can tell you roc paint is buy a good html/css book and read it. If you don't know html/css you have no chance of understanding any website domain creator because even templates require you to edit them. Here are the steps I recommend: buy this book and read it and do the examples This is the bare bones of what you need: http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-HT...8&qid=1427033440&sr=8-6&keywords=html+and+css Buy a good wordpress book that will help you implement a good wordpress template. I recommend this one. http://www.amazon.com/WordPress-Missing-Manual-Matthew-MacDonald/dp/144934190X/ref=dp_ob_title_bk Find a nice wordpress theme from themeforest. http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress Add the Yoast Plugin https://yoast.com/ The other considerations: getting a dedicated IP and a fast domain. That will usually cost you about 12 dollars a month at BlueHost or Hostgator. So you are looking at: Yoast Complete SEO Pack: $279 per yr, Dedicated IP Bluehost: $130 per yr, Premium WordPress Theme: $65 one time cost. Wordpress Book & HTML book: $60 one time cost. Total: $535 to start, $410 going forward. Of course you can cut your costs significantlhy by not buying yoast, but if you do that you aren't going to have a very webfriendly site. You could spend 3 years worth of trail and error and read about 8 books and countless web articles (like I did), forego wordpress for a micro blog like Anchor CMS and basically only have to spend $130 a year. But trust me, it ain't going to be easy to do this. I am just very manacle about learning things and I spent a LOT of time at it. The above steps are, in my opinion, the vastly easier way to go.
You don't need to know CSS or spend a grand to make a website that converts sales. Hell you can even get it done cheaper hiring someone off Guru, oDesk or Freelancer.
You do need to know css to create a website. As for spending a grand, I think you misunderstoond what I said. It will cost, doing it my way, $410 a year to maintain the website. It will cost you a one time fee for the books and website template about $120. Of course, you could not spend that extra $300.00 a year, but then your website would not be optimized and optimization is one of the keys to ranking well organically. It is up to you. Ziggy, please don't make this about ME. I do know what I am talking about, I spent years creating my website, and probably spent $2500, doing it my way. I spent $500.00 on a customer appointment setter that I don't even use today because I wanted it to be a mobile version. I bought it from phpjabbers.com. To me, the advice I gave was sound. If you don't know what canonical means or how it is important, if you don't understand opengraph, twitter graphic, you are going to miss out, without the yoast plugin. Unfortunately you and I are talking about 2 different things. I am referring to steps that will help you drive traffic to your site and you are referring to converting that traffic. Any website could theoretically "convert" a customer. But getting that customer to your site when the raw wordpress makes it difficult, is what I am talking about.
I suggest following What's advice. -Buy a domain name in GoDaddy or BlueHost. -Buy a web hosting package from BlueHost (Shared Server for now since you can upgrade it later.) -Install Wordpress in your website. -Buy a Premium Wordpress Theme. -Buy the Yoast SEO Package. -Install other extensions and plugins to optimize your site. Goodluck!
Also, the other thing you can do to save money Roc Paint is to install xampp on your computer. xampp will allow you to install your wordpress theme locally on your computer and run it in your browser. This way you don't have to spend money on your domain while you are creating your webpage. The other really indispensable tool is called firebug, which is an extension that you can get for firefox which will help you locate the right css property to update/ change.
Yeah, I actually came across xampp while reading a book about PHP called php novice to ninja by Kevin Yank, which is an amazingly clearly written book on the subject and a book I highly recommend if you want to learn PHP. However, I will say that up to this book, I never had any problems learning website topics, however PHP was a different story. Kevin Yank does hold your hand through the process very well, but there are times that you will just have to study a piece of code for days to figure how what it is doing if you aren't very well versed as a coder.
I've built plenty of sites and email templates without understanding CSS. That's what templates and CMS are for. I pay people to make sites but I do get hands on with landing pages and WP templates from time-to-time. Never claimed to know CSS. I've used the Yoast plugin and can drop canonical tags in HTML. You're not talking about driving traffic, you're talking about SEO. There are other ways to drive traffic to a website. And there are other ways to optimize a webpage for search engines than Yoast. To tell someone running a business that they need to learn CSS too just doesn't seem reasonable to me.
lol seo is driving traffic, the purpose. i hate to say this about a fellow poster, but on this topic, you are very ignorant. I'd like to see you websites that you build. Care to share?
No I wont share anything personal on here. SEO drives organic traffic. You can drive traffic using affiliates, online ads, radio, TV, etc... you're obviously the one that's ignorant on the subject. Especially if you think you need to learn CSS to get something on the web that converts sales. You're like the Aggie trying to screw in a light bulb. Meanwhile I oversee landing pages that convert at 12-18% when the industry standard is 2%. This is the most idiotic piece of advice I've read in thread. I've seen over 50 sites go down firsthand because they bought links. You can buy citations from a place like Whitespark but if you buy links you WILL go down. You cant disavow bad links and reappear overnight either.
