The Wall Street Journal Says Business Websites Are Easy Once You Know What’s Needed And Where To Get It
I have my own website which leads my friends and relatives to think I'm a website guru. Shhh--don't tell. Let me bathe in the adulation a while longer. "Is it difficult to make one," they ask, equating building a website with putting an addition on the house. The brief answer is no and I have that on no less an authority than the Wall Street Journal--though I'd be more secure if it came from Walt Mossberg.The Wall Street Jorunal--good grief I've been ratted out by the ruling class!
The Journal let it be known websites are easy to build, cheap to maintain and you can actually make money with them (or so hopes Rupert Murdoch)! This article from earlier in August is among the best beginner tutorials I've seen. It's an article for people who don't know the answers to their web questions because they don't yet know which questions to ask! That covers a lot of people.
The Journal's suggestions aren't an A-B-C-D roadmap--more an assessment of what needs to be assessed. Get a domain, get hosting (which they call get a home, appealing to people who don't know what hosting actually means), build a site, get paid for products or services you sell and eyeballs you deliver, get known and quantify it all through tracking. The steps aren't as daunting once they're presented logically.
According to the Journal, "JupiterResearch LLC found that just 36% of online small businesses -- that is, businesses with fewer than 100 employees, where managers access the Web at least once a month -- have Web sites." There are plenty ...
