Creating a Website - Every Surfers Dream

Do you recognise the following sequence of events ?be costly in terms of both time and money and can
It happens thousands of times, every day, throughoutlead to introversion and a desire to live on Chinese
the world.take outs and never leave the house.
In the beginning 'they' enter a search term, more oftenSome will survive and prosper, many will be put off the
than not, on Google and 'surf' the web. Next 'they'whole idea - permanently !
establish an email account, usually a free one, because,How about getting someone to do it for you ? Unless
well it's free. Now a desire to join in the cyberspaceyou know someone who has survived the learning
community becomes overwhelming and 'they' join Youcurve described above and, as a result of having lost
Tube, Facebook and all the other social websites theirall of their friends, will create a website for you in
friends have told them about.return for your companionship, you have a problem. In
'They' are, of course, you, me, everyone.order to solve the problem you can go to a site like
A percentage of this vast internet army want more.elance or to find a webmaster who will, for a fee, do it
They know eBay is the largest online auction house,all for you.
listing at least 60,000,000 items at any one time andIf money simply isn't an issue, this is the way to go. Be
guess what ? Those halogen light bulbs that cost $7clear about exactly what your site should do and what
each at the mall can be bought for $2 on eBay. Hmm,it should look like and you will be lord of your net
how about selling stuff on eBay.empire in a matter of days. Even so you still need to
This is real interaction, the casual surfer has morphedslot into place the most important part of the whole
into a trader, a dealer, an entrepreneur !jigsaw, namely, how to drive traffic to your site and
Then a vision, blurred at first, becomes clearer andmake money.
more defined in the mind of the would be web wizard.I've travelled down this turbulent route and half
That vision, that dream, is creating a website of theirsucceeded at most aspects and never mastered all
own.of it.
When I last checked it was estimated that there areI'm a huge fan of eBay - the free university of the
about 176,000,000 sites out there and growing by theinternet - so I felt that the best way to create a
hour. A cyber sea of information and misinformationwebsite of my own was to become an eBay affiliate.
representing every emotion, hope, dream and failingIt must be pointed out that I am a useless 'techie' so
known to mankind.the old problem arose like the creature from the black
Despite the fact that huge numbers of sites must belagoon. What I needed, to overcome my 'creating a
sad, neglected bundles of unwanted, unloved data,website phobia' was a program that showed me in a
floating around, forgotten in cyberspace, it seems thatstep by step format how to put up a niche site, link it
to create a website is still regarded as a 'must have'.to eBay and monetize it.
Our budding entrepreneur wants their own websiteIn other words my first site would be as an eBay
and nothing will stop them ! Well actually it soonaffiliate.
becomes clear that there are two basic options. FirstlyIf your online history has been anything like my roller
there is the 'techie' route. Buy a course or attend ancoaster then you need to, at least, check out the eBay
how-to evening class and study html and every otheraffiliate route option.
mind bending aspect of site creation. This method can