Affiliate Compass - Website Layout

Once you have your hosting and domain name situated,it’s time to start thinking about how your first site isgoing to look. There are quite a number of options inregards to how to find your own “look”.· Join a template membership site - This is not agood idea unless you are comfortable editingPHOTOSHOP files or HTML. Many template sitesare affordable and they do have a nice selection.Unfortunately, the membership is almost worthlessif you can’t edit the templates or pay someone todo it for you.· Get Xarawebstyle4 – Awesome idea with a lowlearning curve. I sometimes still use this on aregular basis. I also suggest getting Xarax whenyou buy webstyle4. XaraX is about the easiest touse vector based graphic system out there -· Get Dreamweaver or Frontpage – Frontpage has alow learning curve, but Dreamweaver gives you alot more room to grow. If you have any studentsin the household you can get the full DreamweaverMX suite for about $199 by purchasing theeducational version. Usually this version is nodifferent that the full retail version costing muchmore.There are dozens of books and on-line tutorials to helpyou learn it as well. Michael Worthington creates greatvideos on Dreamweaver.10· Don’t want to spend the cash? Try NVU:http://www.nvu.com/ it’s free!· Get XsitePro – this is a great “beginner” or“affiliate” site builder that has built-in templatesand an editor. This product is moderately pricedand can churn out so many OPTIMIZED pages thatit’s worth the investment.· If you just don’t have the time, energy, or skills tolearn all that right now and want to get started,you might want to consider joining a program thatsells Niche websites. Most Niche websitememberships give you completed products andENTIRE websites every single month. If you havean interest in purchasing ready made websites, youcan visit www.dotcomsuccess.com to learn moreabout where to find these (or they come includedin your membership).· You can also hire someone to make your website –although this will get VERY expensive as you addmore and more sites. A ten page targetedkeyword niche site is about 300 to 1000 dollars.Services like www.graphics.kellyifrah.com offeraffordable services, but can’t always meet demand– so you should probably have a back up such aswww.dotcomsuccess.com .· If you make sure your host has “FANTASTICO”(and many cpanel hosts do), you can install withone click several content management scripts,blogs, and other scripts to help with making a11