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	Read It - How to plan your website.- MUST READ!!!   The first thing that you should do when getting ready to construct your first web page is to define it. What do you want your web page to do? Do not just start constructing your page, really think about it. You should think about how you want it to look, what information you want to provide to your prospective customer in order to persuade him to buy your product or service rather than going elsewhere. Be sure that you organize the page well, think of your Home Page like the Table of Contents page in a book, it is there so that your customers know where to go in your site for their particular needs, or just to familiarize themselves with your product. Lastly, when defining your site you should do your research. Always visit your competitions web site to see how they have organized their site, so you can make yours better, whether it is just including more information about your product, or simply making a better designed site. Now that you have given some serious thought to how you want your web site to look, and what you want to include in it, you need to think of a name for it. There are various approaches to finding the right name for your web site. The first is to make the name logical, for instance, ****'s web site is ****.com. Another approach is to make the name memorable so that your customers can type it in without thought, the name does not have to be descriptive of the product you sell, for example amazon.com sells books. Further, you should keep the name as short as possible so that it is easy for your customers to type into the url field. Now that you have your web page named and given some thought into how you want it to look, here are some pointers for building your site. If you have pictures on your web page go over them first with a photo editing program, like pix resizer   One of the most annoying things for people surfing the web are pages that take a long time to download. All those fancy graphics will not do you any good if instead of waiting for the page to download the viewer closes his browser and goes elsewhere, so consider going light on the pictures and heavy on the information content. You should also put some serious thought into what color fonts you are going to use, and the background color as well. When in doubt, remember that a white background with black text has been successful for thousands of years! Your website should also be easy to navigate, all your links should be obvious to the viewer, and should be self explanatory or have information about where the link will take them. Try to keep the number of links you have low, the viewer does not want to spend a lot of time waiting for links to download, chances are, like you, he is pretty busy! Further, always link back to your homepage in order to make navigating your web page easier for your potential customers. Now, before you even open up BlueVoda, you should construct your web site on paper. Decide the number of pages you want to have inside of your site, and determine logical titles for them. Think of any pictures that you might want to put on each page and where you are going to put them in order to be most effective. You should plan out your hyperlinks now, as it will make keeping track of them later a lot easier and save you time trying to figure out why they are not working properly. Decide where you want to put any buttons that you might create for hyperlinks as well. Lastly write out any information content you will be putting onto your web page in Microsoft Word first so you can detect any spelling errors you might have made. You can cut and paste parts into BlueVoda later. Lastly, familiarize yourself with BlueVoda before you start using it. Watch the Video Tutorials that we offer so that you have an idea of what you can do with BlueVoda. Further, you should make a practice page first so that you can get a feel for BlueVoda and some experience using it before you start constructing a page which you will publish on the World Wide Web. It takes two to three months to learn how to use DreamWeaver and at least a month to learn FrontPage, while you can learn BlueVoda in hours. Practice adding and deleting text, pictures, and hyperlinks until you can do these actions with ease. Building a web site with BlueVoda is simple and easy if you follow the above steps. The most important part of the construction process actually takes place before you open BlueVoda. Think of constructing your web site like taking a test back in school, those who prepared before the test probably did better than those who just went in without even opening their books. So be sure to prepare before you start, think of the content you want to put in, think about your links, think about your web site's name, draw up an outline on paper before you start constructing the page and most importantly WATCH THE TUTORIALS!
	Read It - How to name your websites pages.   When naming your websites pages….. 1) Name your Home Page "index". DO NOT name your home page "home". 2) Do not use capitols letters. Do not name your index page "Index" with a capitol "I". use only lower case letters. Do not name any of your pages with capital letters. Do not use capital letters at all in page names. Do not use capital letters in any of your hyperlinks. 3) Keep the name of other pages as short as possible. 4)Use under scores to connect words. For example do not save a page as contact us , you must save it as contact_us. If you had a page called new products, you would save it as new_products. ALWAYS use underscores to connect multiple words in page names. DO NOT have any blank spaces between words. 5) DO NOT add .html. or .htm extensions to your pages.
	Read it - How to install templates into BlueVoda - MUST READ!!!   To install templates into BlueVoda, please follow the following steps -------------------------------------------------- Before you begin to download templates, please make sure that you have the latest version of WinZip installed on your computer. If you are not sure, please click the link below. http://www.vodahost.com/winzip.htm -------------------------------------------------- 1) click on the url below to view all our templates. http://www.vodahost.com/sets.htm 2) Once you find a template set you would like to use. download them to your computer and save them to your desk top. 3) unzip the template set. You will need the latest version of winzip. If you do not have WinZip on your computer. Please click the link below. www.vodahost.com/winzip.htm 4) add a template background to your webpage just like you would add an image. By now you should have templates that you would like to use in your "my templates" folder. Follow the installation instructions in the above video. Please Note: The templates will not miraculously install themselves just because you downloaded them. You must manually install them. __________________
	Click A Movie Reel or Icon to Navigate. 1 Introduction to BlueVoda - MUST WATCH 2 How to name your BlueVoda web pages 3 How to set up your page properties - MUST WATCH     backgrounds, fonts, metatags 4 Setting up and using guide settings 5 Text - adding text to your pages + fonts sizes and highlights 6 Symbols - (special characters @, £ ,© ,€ ,®, etc.....) 7 How to add images to your website, Photos, icons, etc... 8 LightBox - How to display your images - Very Cool!       PayPal Ecommerce Shopping Cart 9 This tutorial is dedicated to setting up your PayPal shopping cart for single item and multi-item shopping cart purchases, subscription creations and donations.   The below four tutorials deal exclusively with Hyperlinking your pages together. Please watch all four in the exact below order. 10 Fixed Menu Bars  - creating and editing - MUST WATCH 11 Sliding Menu Bars (Drop Down)  - creating and editing 12 Linking your pages together (Hyperlinks with text, images etc...) 13 Creating a Go menu (hyperlinking with a drop down menu) 14 Creating Text Only Menus - Google Prefers These.       15 How to lock images, objects and elements into place - MUST WATCH 16 Adding HTML to your Page (Banners, Counters, etc...) 17 Creating your own templates from scratch 17 Adding a BlueVoda template to your webpage - MUST WATCH 19 Tables - creating and manipulating       The below two tutorials explain how to design forms in BlueVoda 20 Forms (Part 1) watch first 21 Forms (Part 2) watch second       22 GuestBook - How to add a GuestBook to your website - Very Cool! 23 Shapes - creating and editing - Using the shapes feature 24  Inline Frames (Creating an iframe) 25 Adding html, flash, movies, music, and java code to your web pages 26 Logo Maker - How to use BlueVodas built in Logo Maker 27 Flash - More Details  28 Movies - More Details 29 Importing an existing HTML page in to BlueVoda 30 Previewing and printing your website 31 Publishing your web pages on the internet 32 FTP - How does BlueFTP work 33 Sitemap Generator - Create a Sitemap for Google to index you
	More Articles How to create a download for your websites visitors. How to create a website in another language besides English. How to make your web pages printer friendly. BlueVoda Website Builder Forums BlueVoda - General Issues All BlueVoda support issues that are not covered in the below forums. Adding Elements To Your Website Discussions, help & troubleshooting about adding templates, backgrounds, images, text, iframes, scroll bars, marquees, flash, music, HTML Code, shapes, lines, java scripts, and all other elements. Etc… etc… Hyperlinking - Making it all come together Discussion and help related to linking your pages together with hyperlinks, standard navigation menubars, linking images, dynamic menus and Go menus. Saving, Naming, Previewing and Publishing Discussions and help with saving, naming and publishing your pages with the BlueVoda Website Builder. Forms Discussion and help related to designing and implementing forms in BlueVoda. BlueVoda Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts This section is full of wonderful and very useful contributions that have been made by various VodaHost members.
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