Starter Guide

I wrote The Website Starter Guide to help small business owners avoid the common pitfalls associated with getting online. All of the posts on this page relate to the guide which can be downloaded below.

Free ebook The Website Starter Guide launched

Posted on May 10, 2011 by in Ebooks & Downloads, Starter Guide

Ebook
Download now		 The Website Starter Guide(for small business) is now available.Click on the left to download (no registration required) or check out the video chapter summaries below.

Please feel free to share this ebook if you find it useful and comment on this post if you have any feedback.

I hope you get some value out of it.
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Choosing a web provider

Posted on May 10, 2011 by in Starter Guide

This is video 6 of 6 in the series ‘The Website Starter Guide’ where I talk about each chapter of the website starter guide ebook. This video covers the final chapter on choosing a web provider and talks about about what us crazy folk are like.

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Search engine marketing and optimisation (SEM & SEM)

Posted on May 10, 2011 by in SEO and Traffic, Starter Guide

This is video 5 of 6 in the series ‘The Website Starter Guide’ where I talk about each chapter of the website starter guide ebook. This video covers chapter 5 of the eBook which is all about search engine marketing (SEM or Google Adwords) and search engine optimisation (SEO). Please share this if you find it useful and feel free to leave a comment.

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Content Management Systems (CMS)

Posted on May 6, 2011 by in CMS, Starter Guide

This is video 4 of 6 in the series ‘The Website Starter Guide’ where I talk about each chapter of the website starter guide ebook. In the video below, I talk about chapter 4 which is all about Content Management Systems (CMS). The video covers the basics of what a CMS is, why you need one, commercial vs open source and some open source options (WordPress and Joomla!). Enjoy and feel free to comment and / or share.

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The art and science of design

Posted on May 3, 2011 by in Starter Guide

This is video 3 of 6 in the series ‘The Website Starter Guide’ where I talk about each chapter of the website starter guide ebook. This video covers chapter 3 of the eBook ‘ The art and science of design’. Please share this if you find it useful and feel free to leave a comment.

The video talks about some design changes we made to this blog. If you want to check out the full details about those changes and the results, have a look at this post.

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