LESSON #30: Using Web Authoring Software | Eric's Tips

LESSON #30: Using Web Authoring Software

In the past couple of lessons, I showed you how to build a basic website with HTML and upload it to the web.

But what if you don’t want to become an HTML expert and write your website code from scratch?

One solution for you would be to use a web authoring software program…

(Watch this video…)

Main points:

Web authoring software (aka. HTML editor) helps you build a website

For example…
-Microsoft FrontPage
-Adobe Dreamweaver

I recommend XSitePro which is a hybrid HTML editor/ site builder/ site management platform.

Free option:

NVU (old version)
KompoZer (recommended) - http://kompozer.sourceforge.net

(see demo using KompoZer on video)

WYSIWYG HTML editor (such as KompoZer) enables you to build a site without writing any code.

Action step:

1) Decide if you would like to use a web authoring program to build your site.

2) If yes, choose a program and start using it.

In lesson 27 I covered several different methods of building a website. If you’re not yet sure which method you want to use, I recommend reviewing that lesson.

We’ve covered the first two methods so far. Next on the list are templates and site builders, and I’ll be covering those in the next lesson.

As always, you are welcome to post your questions and comments below

Have a great day!

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At 2009.01.11 20:43, Gary Pettit (Instant-Paysites.com) said:

Eric,
I agree that XsitePro is the way to go if money isn’t an issue.

Ps…By the way I love the video you made for your new push button product. It had a great since of humor and made me laugh! Watched it 3 times. I’m not sure what your price point will be but hopefully your offer options depending on the price.
Gary

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- At 2009.01.11 20:49, Eric said:
  
  Thanks Gary. Me and my brother in law Micah had fun making it. You will like the price of PBM
  
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At 2009.01.12 09:15, mark said:

Eric,
I would have to agree also from a newbie perspective that XsitePro has been fairly easy to use and understand. I have been waiting to publish my site until I finish more of your lessons.

I can see that I just need to get what I have out there and get my feet wet.

Thanks so far for what you have shared. I look forward to more. I am impatient at times for how long it has taken for these lessons to evolve but that does not mean I am still not grateful. I have little to complain about. I can not imagine attempting to do what you do in these lessons, do it for free, have a life and still be evolved in all the other business and personal activities I am aware of, let alone the ones I am not aware of.

As always I appreciate your efforts.

Mark

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- At 2009.01.13 12:06, Eric said:
  
  Thanks Mark, appreciated
  
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At 2009.01.12 14:32, Leanne said:

Glad to see you back, Eric. I have used publisher pro, any comments on this software? It seems fairly user friendly, too.
I have felt a little like Mark, raring to go and impatient at times. Did use the time away to work on things, still trying to muttle through it all. Still working on ways to monetize my site. I’m hoping you will be covering some of that soon. I have greatly appreciated you and your tips. It finally got me to decide to move forward into the internet realm. Pray Mom and baby are doing well?

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- At 2009.01.13 12:07, Eric said:
  
  I am not familiar with Publisher Pro. Feel free to leave your comments here about it if you do use it.
  
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At 2009.01.12 16:02, Michaela said:

Eric, you already know, I work with xSitePro and love it, and I want to stay with this package.
Sorry about being pragmatic, not philosophical, the video is great and fun, the idea just to “push a button” is great but I don’t know what this package is doing, which problem is solving from so many Internet marketing angles we can look at this business. Do you have a sale page or something from where I can find a little more?

How is doing the little, little one?

You can, and have to help your wife, but do what she said, nothing else, follow the instructions, you suppose to be good on this!.
I remember when my husband decided to help me with the time consuming shopping. He requested a list, I made one with 5 items, he always came back with 20 items. After a while I gave up the “help” because I had our house full of things I didn’t need.
Michaela

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- At 2009.01.13 12:08, Eric said:
  
  The sales page will explain everything about PBM, the video is just a teaser
  
  The little one is doing great, thanks
  
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At 2009.01.13 01:14, Jon said:

Eric, I’ve been leaning towards dreamweaver. i bought xsitepro and was unable to get support for even basic questions, even in the forum so like so much other stuff, it will continue to spin at 7200 rpm on my hard drive. i upgraded from xsitepro v1 which was way too hard to use, and unfortunately fell for the sales hype and upgraded to v2, which despite the sales hype, is even tougher to even get a grip on, let alone master to any extent.

until there is really a decent package out there, i think dreamweaver and notepad still get my vote.

jon

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- At 2009.01.13 12:09, Eric said:
  
  That is not typical of what I’ve heard from many other users, but thank you for sharing your experience.
  
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At 2009.01.13 02:16, Charles Pinheiro said:

Hi Eric, thanks again for the video. I rather will use dreamweaver. Well never went to buy the xsitepro. At least now I know its a good software from all the input here. I do have hyperVRE.

Thanks

Warm Regards

Charles.

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At 2009.01.13 02:20, Andrew Loucks said:

Hey, you might even want to check out squarespace.com. I learned dreamweaver, flash and all the other programs in the Adobe Creative Suite through highschool as I planned to become a webdesigner, and squarespace has really become a nice web based option. They have a 14 day trial and the interface is actually beyond amazing. The big problem is that the web pages aren’t PHP, so that can limit things as far as analytics.

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At 2009.01.13 02:42, April Mitchell said:

Thanks Again Eric!

I now have several sites in HTML up using, you bet, XSite Pro. I agree with you this WYSIWYG rocks!

Check this one out if you have time.
http://www.melissasbookkeepingservice.com

April Mitchell
Mitchell Marketing

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- At 2009.01.13 12:11, Eric said:
  
  looks like your site is down at the moment?
  
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  - At 2009.01.15 02:40, April Mitchell said:
    
    Yes, it was (hosting company). But it’s working fine now.
    
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At 2009.01.13 03:06, Mel said:

Thanks for another lesson. Was just thinking about your lessons this morning so good timing. Hope your family is well. Looking forward to the next lesson.
Ta

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At 2009.01.13 05:19, Dan said:

Your “Push Button” movie is very personal and sympathetic! Please let us know, what kind of camera you used? Webcam 30frame/sec stuff is out…
BTW: why didn’t you switch on some lights for the video? Not in the bedroom, of course, but in the scenes before and after, I mean. Nice, bright colours would not destroy the wanted amateurish, personal and sympathetic character of the movie, just my opinion.

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- At 2009.01.13 12:15, Eric said:
  
  We shot on my brother in law’s JVC GY-HD110U in 720p. We actually did use lighting, even in the bedroom, but the flash conversion really darkened the video. Also if you watch it on a mac you will see the lighting looks natural, but in retrospect we should have overcompensated and made it extra bright so it would look better on PC’s.
  
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At 2009.01.13 06:09, mike said:

Hi eric, your lessons are truly great. I have been searching for along time for this sort online coures, thank you so much for sharing this with us. I have xsite pro 2 and it is as you say a good bit of kit, didnt know there was anything on the opensource market im going to download that and have a play. Are you going to be putting these courses onto dvd or downloadable in the near future?

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- At 2009.01.13 12:15, Eric said:
  
  Yes when the 100 lessons are done I will likely compile them for dvd and/or download.
  
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At 2009.01.13 06:19, mal said:

this is great stuff eric as as always,your a star,this lesson was made easy to understand,can you do some like this with xcitepro for us, that would be excellent if you could eric,keep up this great work its much appreciated.mal.

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At 2009.01.13 06:25, Bryan said:

Thanks for the resources! I prefer WYSIWYG HTML editor,it’s simple as copy and paste only!

To Your Success
Bryan Hee

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At 2009.01.13 09:07, Party Plan Pat said:

Ahhh Kompozer is good! I got it for its cross platform friendliness! you know us mac folk :)!

I have learned alot and guess what finally completed my project now off to Clickbank to register and all that fun stuff. Have made sales too…this is exciting as it falls into place :)!

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At 2009.01.13 09:08, Party Plan Pat said:

Eric are you on twitter?

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- At 2009.01.13 12:17, Eric said:
  
  Nope. A lot of marketers are having success with twitter lately. But I personally don’t like it because I’m too one track minded. I don’t want to worry about what I’m going to tweet next. It would slow these lessons down even more
  
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At 2009.01.13 09:24, LeRoy said:

Eric,
Don’t know if any of you looked at this one? 90secondwebsitebuilder.com It seems like the price was maybe $77.00 and if you tried to leave the site then they grabbed you and offered $20.00 off.Greg Hughs at TechNon Media put this out a while back. It’s a drag and drop and seemed pretty simple to me.
LeRoy

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- At 2009.01.13 12:25, Eric said:
  
  I think
  90 second website builder looks like a decent WYSIWYG editor. I added my aff link to the link in your comment.
  
  Obviously you should not expect to build a website in 90 seconds with it. Also, I’m not sure that it’s much better than Kompozer… I’d be particularly interested in seeing the code it outputs (probably not valid HTML). But I think it could be good for some people, particularly newbies.
  
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  - At 2009.01.24 06:42, Joseph Chmielewski said:
    
    I find that WYSIWYG editors make a mess of the HTML code, and I have not found one that doesn’t need code editing to clean it up.
    
    Even Dreamweaver can’t be trusted. Some of the problems: unexpected insertion points when editing, lots of repeated (useless) tags.
    
    I suggest always examining WYSIWYG-created Web pages in “Code View” to fix the mess.
    
    Either that, or, go to the Code View to obtain the proper insertion point when editing, then go back to the WYSIWYG view.
    
    Marketers may argue that as long as the page works, who cares?
    
    My answer: Google’s bots seem to care. Google seems to prefer: semantically correct, accessibility-leaning code.
    
    Of course, key words and backlinks are still more important, but in competitive markets; proper code can make a difference.
    
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    - At 2009.01.26 20:47, Eric said:
      
      In general I would agree, which is part of why I don’t usually use WYSIWYG. I also prefer the clean clode, and beleive the SE’s do too.
      
      The worst is if you create it in MS Word and save it as an HTML file. MS Publisher is also bad in that sense.
      
      KompoZer isn’t too bad though, it’s pretty clean.
      
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At 2009.01.13 11:28, Luca said:

Hi Eric,
Great stuff as always. I’ve played around with NVU and Dreamweaver and really like them both. I’m always a little nervous about creating a static site because I find it difficult to make changes once the site is up. What I mean is adding pages, articles, changing links and so on. Do I need to keep a copy of the site on my hard drive and then re upload the site every time changes are made?

I’m currently using Wordpress but not sure if it’s the best way to go. You’re right that I need to just start doing it and learn as I go but I’m afraid of making mistakes. Will take your advice and start playing.

P.S. what is the PBM video link and when will it be available?

Thanks,
Luca - Reach Success Online

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- At 2009.01.13 12:29, Eric said:
  
  If you want all the pages of the static site to be integrated, then yes you would need to reupload the entire thing every time you add new pages and change links.
  
  That is another thing that XSite is very good at; managing static sites.
  
  But you’re on the right track… Wordpress is my favorite platform. I’ll be covering it after a couple more lessons. I just need to cover the basics first.
  
  PBM = http://www.pushbuttonmarketer.com/
  
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  - At 2009.01.13 13:21, Luca said:
    
    Thanks Eric,
    I can’t wait until the 23rd. Looks very interesting. I hope the cost is within my reach.
    Can you give us a clue?
    
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    - At 2009.01.13 14:04, Eric said:
      
      The cost will be affordable.
      
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  - At 2009.01.24 12:12, Joseph Chmielewski said:
    
    Wordpress is a great platform.
    
    And, I like Jeff Johnson’s free Underground Labs system Wordpress template.
    
    I’ve had a site indexed by Google in less than four hours using this free product.
    
    So far, I think that every site that I have used this free product on has a Google Search Results Page 1 ranking for the keyword.
    
    You have to upload the entire site, create a database, and connect the product to that database…takes about 15 minutes…once you know what to do. Jeff Johnson’s tutorial on how to do this takes five minutes.
    
    HyperVRE, xSitePro and other for-cost systems can’t be as cost effective as the free Underground Labs Wordpress system. And the Underground Labs Wordpress system has Web 2.0 promotion built in!
    
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At 2009.01.13 15:15, eric wong said:

thanks eric for all the lessons and information..just a question on building the websites..is it possible to use adobe photoshop? if so how do u go about doing it?

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- At 2009.01.13 15:38, Eric said:
  
  It is possible to build an an entire site in photoshop, generally using what are called slices. I’m sure there are some tutorials out there if you google it. I do use photoshop for my graphics, but I won’t be teaching it as a site building tool, because I do not think it’s a good way to build a site. It results in a site that is too graphic-heavy, difficult to add content to, and difficult to edit in anything other than photoshop.
  
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At 2009.01.13 15:49, Frank said:

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your response on HyperVRE in the past lesson, you said Yes, I can still use HyperVRE to build Adsense sites. will I not be penalized by Google for duplicate content? especially when I use the Adsense Templates?

Thanks in advance… God bless…

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- At 2009.01.14 00:52, Eric said:
  
  You can still use HyperVRE… and as I said in the Adsense Templates videos, I recommend using your own articles rather than scraping them. So that you won’t have duplicate content. Dupicate content generally won’t get you penalized, after all so much of the web uses syndication. But it won’t be the most beneficial either. You can also use a batch of PLR articles, which you have customized. You can use some software to “rewrite” them or else pay a ghost writer a small fee to make them unique.
  
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At 2009.01.13 18:37, Ray said:

Hi Eric,

Happy New Year and thanks for the ebook bonus for purchasing PLF through your link to go with my new site http://www.bigticketdollars.com I am really pleased with it. Quality from you as always.

I now build all my websites with either XSitePro or as a Wordpress blog. The big advantage of XSitePro is their training manuals. They have sooo much content (over 1000 pages) that you can’t fail to find an answer.

Blessings

Ray

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- At 2009.01.14 00:52, Eric said:
  
  Thanks Ray! Glad to hear it
  
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At 2009.01.13 22:37, Jane said:

Eric, I was interested in learning more but when I went to my download I got the list below and I don’t know how to chose. I am using Windows MS and so which do you advise/ I
ll be stuck till you advise me as I am 72 years old and not that technical. YOur lessons are excellent always.
Thank you.
Jane

kompozer-0.7.10dfsg-src.tar.gz Mirror 35284737 42908 Platform-Independent Source .gz
kompozer-0.7.10-gcc4.0.3-i486.tar.gz Mirror 10845915 40044 i386 .gz
kompozer-0.7.10-i386.deb Mirror 8550636 84320 i386 .deb
kompozer-0.7.10-i386.rpm Mirror 8678928 42813 i386 .rpm
kompozer-0.7.10-i386.tgz Mirror 8592822 3208 i386 .gz
kompozer-0.7.10-mac.dmg Mirror 11490452 138442 PPC .dmg
kompozer-0.7.10-src.tar.bz2 Mirror 29892874 2115 Platform-Independent Source .bz2
kompozer-0.7.10-win32.zip Mirror

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- At 2009.01.14 00:53, Eric said:
  
  download this one: kompozer-0.7.10-win32.zip
  
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At 2009.01.14 01:39, Owen said:

Hi Eric, I have been a FrontPage user since the very beginning and ofcourse knowing how to hard code HTML makes it easier for me. I am using the new Expressionweb 2 along with a style sheet plugin, Paypal plugin to make those quick and dirties. I don’t have a fav but back in the day there was a tool called Hotdog thats really neat but that dates me a bit
On the Twitter note, your right, it can be a huge distraction but a large following is a great testing market IMHO.
I wonder, with nanotechnology being able to cure Diabeties will nanobots be able to build websites? That’s another article coming

many Blessings, Owen

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At 2009.01.14 20:05, Kristina Lim said:

I’ve noticed that many sales letters have wide margins on either side of the page and the text is in a center column. How is that usually done? Tables? Also how wide do you make that center column - is it a fixed width or a percentage of the page?

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- At 2009.01.16 17:38, Eric said:
  
  yes its a good rule of thumb to have lots of white showing around your text on a sales letter. It helps it feel less claustrophobic, and helps people feel like they are able to breeze through it.
  
  There are a number of different ways to do it. I usually use tables. I like to use fixed width because then I can control how it looks, and how the text flows, and it won’t be all skewed if someone has an extra wide monitor or something. I always make it less than 800px, because some people still use 600×800 monitors and you don’t want it to be wider than the display. Most often I make it about 700px.
  
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At 2009.01.15 15:19, Alfonso Ruiz said:

Hi Erick,

I hope your are enjoying a Bless New Year with your family as i’m doing as well.

Thanks a lot for these videos, i’m continuing learning. The compozer is great, i remember i downloaded it 2 years ago but never had used it until now, and let me tell you it was a big mistake
Thanks again,

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At 2009.01.16 11:24, Colin Noden said:

Hi Eric,
Yes it is great to have a number of tool options. I use XcitePro, HyperVre,Wordpress,Kompozer and even Blogger. They each have their own strengths. But at the end of the day, it is good to have some comfort level with HTML. Every platform will demand tweaking sooner or later.

Your previous recommendation of w3schools was more important than perhaps many beginners realize.

Thanks again for your efforts. I always scan my emails for Eric’s Tips first of all.
Colin

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At 2009.01.20 12:44, Denise said:

Hi Eric

Just found your site. What a lift!! and gift. debating if I should go for Traffic Geyser or not??

I will be back

Thanks

Denise
Lake District UK

Any more thoughts

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At 2009.01.22 11:44, stan said:

Eric,
Good to see you posting again. Congrats on that bundle of joy.

I joined arbitrage conspiracy after reading your review. I wish they have a forum to ask questions as they hardly answer 5 general questions a week.

Aside from that, the biggest stumbling block for me is landing page.
Some say just create one page landing page. Amit Mehta of ppc classroom 2.0 says, now Google is moving away from those thin affiliate sites, you need a full site.

Keeping all that in mind: I search online and came across these,
1. kompozer
2. xsitepro 2.0
3. speed ppc with landing page creation
4. LPGen: landing page generator
5. wordpress: old friend.

I love to know to create landing pages in wordpress as I believe you can have a full site also and they rank well in SERPs.

2 questions:
1. which of the above 5 is your favorite and recommend to create landing page to work with Arbitrage Conspiracy.
2. would you teach us to create landing page in wordpress when you make the tutorial.

Thanks again.

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At 2009.01.22 18:05, Don Westacott said:

Hi Eric,
A happy new year to you and yours.
I have been following your tips and they are giving me great pain, only because I wish I had I met you a few years ago when I first started on the web. The pain comes from all the time and money I have spent trying to get a grip on the fundamentals. They are not part of the myriad of offers that purport to show you how to make a business on the web. They ignore the fact that most people over 60 have not had a computer education. I am now 80 and find most of what I learn today I forget by next week if not tomorrow. I have used my miserable looking website over the past 2 years to create the content for a 130 page Ebook for sales people based on 40+ years in sales which I would like to have distributed. I purchased SiteXpro and found even that to much for me to deal with but I like your videos because you don’t assume prior knowledge. I can store the videos and view them whenever I forget a detail. I want to thank you for all the effort you go to, to make the web available to us at an understandable level. I feel a need to buy into something from you but I don’t know what exactly you would recommend that would enable me to create sales squeeze pages and affiliate sites ect. to get my book “out there”.
Whether you can help me or not on this, like lots of other people I really do appreciate the fine job you are doing teaching the basics.
With best wishes,
Don

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At 2009.01.23 09:33, ShapeToLiveLong.net said:

Hi Eric

I went to Yahoo answers and I replied to few questions about health as I am a herbalife independent distributor. All my answers given were chosen the best by the askers. I need to maximase the opportunity.

Please do see one of the answers I gave here (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20090121013941AAkxtfG).

I just go to my website and paste information about the product. I have used the products for over a year now, they do work I just need to maximise the opportunity.

I know I can make money from this, just not sure what you recommend. A blog on what and what can I call my site.

I am exited and confused at the same time.

Regards

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At 2009.02.03 13:32, LESSON #31: Using Templates and Site Builders | Eric’s Tips said:

[…] Within the past few lessons, I showed you how to build a basic website with HTML and how to use an HTML editor. […]

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At 2009.02.04 19:37, Tora said:

Hi Eric,

Great discussions. I like Xsitpro2 very much but the problem I just found that it can not build PHP base Dynamic Landing page. Please advice if there is way to build PHP base Dynamic Landing page with Xsitepro2. Will highly appreciate your help. All the best.

B.Regards,
TORA

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At 2009.02.12 09:22, Tom said:

Hi Eric,

I love your lessons they really help a non techy like me. I was wondering when you will be giving the lesson on WordPress? That’s what I’m trying to learn now.

Thanks,

Tom

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- At 2009.02.24 14:00, Eric said:
  
  very soon!
  
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At 2009.02.17 17:34, Valentin said:

Hi Eric.

I’m a novice don’t know much about internet marketing.
I need an Outsourcing service to help me out plz connect me with one.
I’ve things to read educate myself about :building list,traffic,building website,videos…
Best regards,
Valentin

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- At 2009.02.24 14:01, Eric said:
  
  I use http://www.rentalcoders.com for a lot of things
  
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At 2009.02.22 17:44, Rush Young said:

Hi Eric, I just had to say that every time I hear the music that starts and ends the lessons, I am waiting to see Fred Sandford and LaMont come driving through in their old pickup. A lot of you may have no idea what this means, I guess you may have to be at least 35, sorry. By the way, LOVE the lessons, you are a very good teacher!

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At 2009.03.08 18:06, dawn said:

i was wondering if any one has heard of synthasite.com. some one mentioned it in a forum so i thought that i would check it out. its a free website that you can change unlike the website i got when i joined home cash course, which you can only promote. I was wondeing if this was a good place to get some practice for a newbie like me before i start buying domain names and web hosting. i still want to get my own site though. thank you for the lessons. i am following them and cant wait to get to the end. thank you for what you are doing because most people with your knowledge would charge a lot for it. thank you again for all that you do

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At 2009.03.26 12:01, Kaz Fisher said:

Just bought XSitePro and I LOVE it! Thanks Eric. You’re a star.

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At 2009.04.20 02:36, Don said:

Hi Eric,
All I can say is W@W! If there were more money in it, you should have been a teacher. I have spent hundreds of dollars on crap lessons about HTML and PHP. These little 5-10 minute lessons are much more valuable. This proves, ONCE AGAIN that the most expensive is not necessarily the best. THANKS a bunch!
Don

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At 2009.05.17 19:27, Jean Joseph said:

Erick, I learned a lot from your tutorials.It is really amazing to listing to you.I don,t understand: your perseverance, your patience and time to teach people free of charge.Why do you do that?
Thanks a lot.

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- At 2009.05.19 15:39, Eric said:
  
  Thank you, I really do want to help people. Also I am monetizing these lessons through some product recommendations. Also I will be selling them in the future
  
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At 2009.06.23 15:09, RoberT said:

Very GoOoD info as usual, will be getting xsitepro2
Thanks

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At 2009.07.04 02:49, Theresa said:

Hi, Eric,
I’m completely new to internet marketing and have been learning a lot on my own (reading blogs like yours and other info from other marketers that I’ve picked up here and there over the last several weeks.)
I’m very curious to know your opinion on SiteSell.com (Site Build It! specifically). Is there any benefit from programs like this, or is it better to just keep working on my own — and Why? for either position.
Thanks very much.

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- At 2009.07.04 09:29, Eric said:
  
  I’ve commented on SBI a few times. Generally speaking, I do not recommend it. I would rather get my hosting and everything seperately, and have full control over my website. One stop shops like SBI can be OK for newbies, but such systems generally don’t allow the level of freedom you will want once you know what you’re doing. In general I would not want to build a business on a proprietary platform.
  
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  - At 2009.07.04 15:23, Theresa said:
    
    Thanks very much. And sorry. I’d tried to search your blog for commentary on Site Build It!, but I guess I did it wrong.
    So, any website someone puts together with SBI is THEIRS (i.e. SBI’s)? If you decided to move on a year later or whatever, you have to abandon your website with them?
    
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    - At 2009.07.05 10:32, Eric said:
      
      No problem… and actually comments do not show up in the search results for some reason. Maybe I need to find a plugin for that
      
      I do not think SBI would own your content. However, it could be very difficult to move your site elsewhere.
      
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      - At 2009.07.05 14:45, Theresa said:
        
        Oh, I see. Thanks very much. I’ll keeping learning internet marketing on my own then with the intention of building my own business as soon and as successfully as I can.
        
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At 2009.07.08 09:20, Elliott said:

Eric,
I need help singing into the web traffic machine program.Can You Please Help

Thanks

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- At 2009.07.10 14:58, Eric said:
  
  I actually do not have access to the back end of that service. You will need to email them at Support@OfficialSupportSystem.com and Gina or another of their support techs can help you out.
  
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At 2009.07.14 17:09, Jason Berkes said:

Great post Eric. Your information is always great.

Thanks

Jason Berkes

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At 2009.07.25 22:21, Anne said:

Hi Eric,
I have been out of action for the last 8 days but now back on deck and working very hard to catch up. Thank you for all your emails, have a great day. Will talk to you again soon.
Best regards,
Anne.

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At 2009.07.30 13:05, L C said:

woo hooo! So far I’ve been able to follow all the steps up to this lesson. I’ve downloaded filezilla, nvu and kompozer and did manage to upload a very simple “Coming Soon” index page. I think my next step is to backtrack a bit and get more proficient with these programs. I’m struggling with what I want to present on the page. My main goal for this website is to help me build a list of eco minded clients and offer the infoproduct I’ll learn how to build from the lessons. Beyond that my mind isn’t very clear on how to progress.

I want to thank you again Eric! I’m so excited to have a .com website, even if it just says “coming soon” at the moment!

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At 2009.08.25 10:32, robert said:

i signed up for ohloh yesterday when i got on my computer it was still downloading is this right or what?i’m going to check out komposer today and word press today.thanks micah for your help paul got back to me same day srevice wasn’t excepting that.i’m looking forward to his tutourial.i’m waiting for a lesson on clickbank assocate program will it be part of this training?i look forward to these lessons and comments its like being at school with classmates its good when i see someones website and i know whos it is from class then i can recomend it to people knowing they will get an honest deal.you teach more than just how to sell or develop a product you also show how a good person can suceed in marketing with out underhanded tricks taught by most other so called gurus.its good that you have micah to help you with these lessons when your off or tending to other matters family is always important.keep up the good work guys

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- At 2009.08.28 01:22, Eric said:
  
  Thanks, and yes we’ll be talking about Clickbank
  
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At 2009.08.25 15:15, dyuane said:

Eric,
thanks for more great info. I am enjoying your site.

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At 2009.09.01 18:07, Claudia said:

Hi Eric,

I’ve got Dreamweaver, but will familiarize myself with Kompozer and XsitePro too. It’s nice to have knowledge of a few tools, I think.
I’m still thrashing about trying to find a niche that is interesting for this project.

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At 2009.09.09 17:46, kenny said:

Yeah Eric!! You are far too kind. Thanx for the great revelations. you have succeeded in making me a potential millionaire in internet marketing. And I’d love to pay you back and also learn more by purchasing some of your materials, but its pretty hard for me cos I’m based in Nigeria and I cant access paypal…Is there any other way I can do this?? thanx a lot.

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At 2009.09.11 14:45, Arlan said:

Hi Eric,

Can I directly post an article in my website without informing the author but I will acknowledge him/her as the author of that article?

I’ve already done a website in the the wordpress but when I saw you doing it on the kompozer.sourceforge.net I want to try it also there, will it be alright or wordpress is better?

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- At 2009.09.12 04:20, Eric said:
  
  It depends on where you got the article. If it’s from a site like Ezine articles, where the articles are intended for syndication then you don’t have to tell the author, as long as the credit is intact. But if it’s just from someone’s website, you better ask their permission.
  
  The site method/platform is really your preference. I prefer Wordpress for most applications. One of the very few things I generally don’t use it for is sales pages.
  
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At 2009.09.18 11:38, Richard said:

Hi Eric, great video I have been using My freewebsite builder program from Ewan Chia. Totally easy to use and has not let me down. In fact I learned to understand the html coding using this program. Has tutorials as well. I recommend this WYSIWYG editor http://www.myfreewebsitebuilder.com
Gracias.

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At 2009.09.20 23:10, Lea said:

Great Video once again Eric. Does Kompozer let you make an opt in box? It seems that when I enter my Aweber Code it doesn’t show up as an opt in. Also, how would I link to other pages, for example if I want to make a website with 3 or 4 pages consisting of a contact page, sitemap and privacy policy?

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- At 2009.09.24 15:57, Micah said:
  
  Hello Lea,
  
  To ensure that everything works properly, you would need to add your Aweber code and links from the “Source” tab within the software.
  
  For the best help, we recommend that you visit this link:
  http://kompozer.sourceforge.net/irc/
  
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At 2009.10.02 06:58, dickson said:

Dear Eric:
I have look (only peruse and listen but have no hands on experience)into the methods of website building.On the other hand there is the Incomedia X5 evolution software which i saw on the free dvd of a british magazine PC utilities or was it computer shopper,I wrote to them,and yes also to Incomedia which i think is also british,i got no replies except a short response from the latter to try out the free trial. That was months ago,Now i struggle to come up with a website but i wish it would be easier and well, the Incomedia people made it look simple but thats advertising; i don’t want to end up with w software that looks deceptively simple but may come out formidable and just too technical. What do you think of the Incomedia x5?
p.s. Eric I am very very grateful for your unconditional lessons/tips they are equivalent to their weight in gold; I can’t repay you moneywise but just wait when my income begins.Moreover, i have templates from Killer presell templates as well as from Niche review templates..but cant seem to get started and going. Your golden advice is most appreciated.
Thank you very much,
dickson

Would you kindly please send me a quick note when you do reply,will it be in your newest installment of eric’s tips?

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- At 2009.10.04 22:33, Eric said:
  
  dickson, I am not familiar with Incomedia x5…
  
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At 2009.10.05 03:52, dickson said:

Dear Eric:
The website is: http://www.websitex5.com or http://www.websitex5.com/en/buy.html

I brought this website builder up for your examination since there is a free trial period and the features are streamlined and neatly tucked in so to speak. In any case your evaluation of the capabilities of this software is highly appreciated since our objective is eventually to upload or published our website and earn income. Thank you for your response and hope to hear from you soon.
dickson

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- At 2009.10.05 11:57, Eric said:
  
  It looks interesting. In my opinion it does not look as good for marketers as Xsite Pro 2, but if you try it be sure to let us know how it works for you.
  
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At 2009.11.28 05:44, louie said:

Hi Eric,

I am trying to download the komposer, unfortunately i can’t open it because the file name is kompozer-0.8b1-src.tar.bz2. How could i make it kompozer.exe?

Thanks once again.

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- At 2009.11.28 12:51, Eric said:
  
  You need to unzip it first. Try doing a right-click ‘extract all’, or else try navigating into the file and then copying and pasting it’s contents outside of the file. If you need a zip program you can get one for free at http://www.7-zip.org
  
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At 2009.12.18 13:29, Alaa said:

Hello,

I am using wordpress for my sit and There is an image with an affiliate link that I want to put in the side bar, so I used (front page) and linked the pic with the link and copied the source to the text widget of my site and by using the filezilla I uploaded the pic (with the same name as in the html code) once in the folder called (images in the public_html) and once again directly in the (public_html) folder. But when I open the site it does not appear.
I do not where is the problem, my site is (bodybadodor.com).

Thanks

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- At 2009.12.25 17:11, Eric said:
  
  I think you need to make sure that the full location of the image is in the code. For example http://bodybadodor.com/images/PICTURE.jpg or whatever…
  
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At 2010.01.12 15:47, Stephane Therrien said:

Eric,
How much better is Kompozer to PageBreeze?… If you ever heard of it.Great help you are offering people… thanks

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- At 2010.01.12 16:35, Eric said:
  
  I wish I could tell you but I am not familiar with PageBreeze. So if you have any input please let us know
  
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At 2010.01.29 12:29, make own music said:

Hello Eric… I am using Dreamweaver, and I think it is a very good html editor. I am also using Wordpress and Joomla somtimes.
Thanks for the tip with the free html editor.

All the best,
Arne

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