The "I want a website" Guide

[Raistlin]

Thanks s1lv3r, lots of good information here.

[Shaun]

Just thought I'd resurrect this thread, what's the best way to get your website listed on the search engines?

[Richard M]

Ensure that the HTML structure is tidy and correct (i.e. use <h1>,<h2>,<h3> tags for headings and title & alt descriptions for images), get respectable sites to link to you then sit back and wait for a month or two.
Don't bother with <meta> tags, nobody uses them anymore.

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by Richard M

Ensure that the HTML structure is tidy and correct (i.e. use <h1>,<h2>,<h3> tags for headings and title & alt descriptions for images), get respectable sites to link to you then sit back and wait for a month or two.
Don't bother with <meta> tags, nobody uses them anymore.

Well Not much else I can do then, looks like I'll jsut have to sit back and wait

Cheers for the advice Richard

Great thread BTW Jon.

[Jon M]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Great thread BTW Jon.

Thanks matey
I'd not really considered how my guide lacked actual HTML coding for beginners, maybe I should write an addition or at least link to some of the millions of good HTML guides external to CF.

[Shaun]

Top idea

[Jon M]

About time I got round to adding a recommended beginners guide to HTML, so here you go...

http://www.htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/

[handyman]

I also find this useful..

http://www.echoecho.com/htmllists01.htm

[MartY3]

heres a good one, you can test your code and see how it looks, great for beginers www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_basic

tutorial - http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

[computer dad]

A good resource to promote your website is http://www.free-seo-ebook.com

[chickendippers]

Could I recommend that you remove Xreg from this article? My friend was unable to contact them to arrange a transfer and as a result had to pay Nominet £50 to retag his domains for him. Apparantly Nominet have received numerous complaints about Xreg.

[Mr_love_monkey]

Originally Posted by chickendippers

Could I recommend that you remove Xreg from this article? My friend was unable to contact them to arrange a transfer and as a result had to pay Nominet £50 to retag his domains for him. Apparantly Nominet have received numerous complaints about Xreg.

Yeah, it's always important to get your domain names from a good reliable source

[v0id]

Originally Posted by chickendippers

Could I recommend that you remove Xreg from this article? My friend was unable to contact them to arrange a transfer and as a result had to pay Nominet £50 to retag his domains for him. Apparantly Nominet have received numerous complaints about Xreg.

What? It's only £15+VAT for one domain name to change the tag going the Nominet route. And only a maximum of £30+VAT for more than 1

[WAK69]

Originally Posted by Jon M

The "I want a website" Guide

*** Warning!! ***
This guide is long, but purely because the subject is very complex.
If reading this amount of information isn't for you, then I suggest you re-think setting up a website full stop. Because you WILL need to do some research.

~s1lv3r

It didn't matter to me how long it is, all the info and precautions i needed to know on how to get my site registered was in the write-up and took 5 mins to read and understand, whereas reading how to create a website took days/weeks.

Nice one "John M", it helped me

[chickendippers]

My apologies it was £30, not £50 - it's still double the price it should have been if Xreg were any good.