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    What should a successful website include?
    Michelle Arbeau
    Numerologist
    Michelle Arbeau is a Numerologist & Life Strategist, and the CEO of Authentic You Media and Eleven Eleven Productions. She’s based in West Hollywood, California. With over 20 years of experience, she specializes in numerology, mediumship, and business advice. In 2015, Best Businesses named her the Best of West Hollywood Celebrity Numerologist, and she’s been hailed as the #1 Numerologist in the World and the #1 Celebrity Numerologist.
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    Expert Answer
    Be sure to include a subscriber form that allows visiting customers to sign up for your email list or subscribe to your newsletter. It also helps to collect backlinks from popular websites, which helps you gain much more traffic.
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    What should I be thinking about when I set up a business website?
    Anna Colibri
    Digital Marketing Specialist
    Anna Colibri is a Digital Marketing Specialist and the CEO of Colibri Digital Marketing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Anna specializes in branding, digital strategy, product and service development, team management, and leadership development with a focus on women and minority business owners and professionals. Anna holds a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from The University of California, Davis, and a Master's degree in Social Welfare from The University of California, Berkeley. Colibri Digital Marketing is San Francisco’s first B Corp certified digital marketing agency. They won the 2019 Better Business Bureau Torch Awards for Ethical Business, the 2009 Local Excellence Award, and one of the Best Digital Marketing Agencies in San Francisco in 2017.
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    You definitely want your website to be visually appealing. That's the first thing. If it's an eyesore, customers and clients are going to be turned off. Second, you want to capture the user's attention. The best way to do this is with powerful images or video. Visually-striking elements will really help hold the user's interest.
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    How can I get more traffic on a website?
    Anna Colibri
    Digital Marketing Specialist
    Anna Colibri is a Digital Marketing Specialist and the CEO of Colibri Digital Marketing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Anna specializes in branding, digital strategy, product and service development, team management, and leadership development with a focus on women and minority business owners and professionals. Anna holds a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from The University of California, Davis, and a Master's degree in Social Welfare from The University of California, Berkeley. Colibri Digital Marketing is San Francisco’s first B Corp certified digital marketing agency. They won the 2019 Better Business Bureau Torch Awards for Ethical Business, the 2009 Local Excellence Award, and one of the Best Digital Marketing Agencies in San Francisco in 2017.
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    Well, you could always advertise, but if you really want to get a big boost, look into something known as SEO. It stands for search engine optimization, and it's the best way to get more eyes on your page. Basically, you implement certain keywords and search terms into your content so that it appears earlier in Google searches!
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    How do you make a free website?
    Community Answer
    There are websites such as Wordpress, Wix, and Weebly that allow you to construct a website for free.
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    I need to design a website to make multiple choice questions exams for people to practice a specific topic. How can I do that?
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    Assuming you want the website to be able to grade these exams, you will need to use some kind of server-side interactivity (meaning regular HTML won't work for this). If you decide to use WordPress, there are plenty of free plug-ins you can install that take care of all of this for you. If you code your own website, you might want to learn a server-side scripting language, like PHP, Ruby, or Python. There are lots of tutorials on the web that teach you how to do this.
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    How can I make a website for free?
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    You can use a website builder, or you can learn the Web Languages, like HTML, CSS, PHP and/or Javascript, and then find free domain and hosting services.
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    How can I create a website like YouTube? What are the languages I need to learn?
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    A website like YouTube is hard to create, especially if you haven't learned any programming languages. You need a very large amount of server space, depending on your user flow, and a generous knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, and maybe SQL. But if you have the knowledge, time, money and a couple of buddies to help, learn some of the above languages and start on a website. Note that I have heard making user accounts is a harder thing to do, and most other forum answers direct you to third-party hosting services.
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    How do I earn money after making a webpage?
    Community Answer
    You can have online shops on your website, for people to buy your products. You can also have ads on your website which will give you more income depending on how many people look at your website.
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    How do I combine the HTML and PHP files I just created for a website- the files are different?
    Community Answer
    PHP is its own programming language that generates HTML pages. The benefit of "pre-processing" HTML pages is that different pages of your website can be customized based on user input (like forms and comments). This is a really cool benefit, but it comes with a learning curve. Most hosting companies already have PHP built in. That means you can upload a PHP page to your website and it will just work. You can find online tutorials if you want to learn PHP, but if you'd rather not learn, you can stick regular HTML into a .php file and it will still work exactly as you'd expect.
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    How do I make my website show up in a Google search?
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    You have a few options. There are companies you can pay to help you get high spots on a search engine. You can also try the DIY route: start an advertising campaign for your site in which you tell your friends and have them tell their friends and so on. If enough people visit your site, it will trend higher on search engine returns. Another DIY option has to do with key words. If you are a software company, people are going to search "software" or "programming", so the more keywords you have in your site's description and pages, the more likely you'll come back as a hit when people search that subject. Finally, choose a unique URL/Domain. If your domain is "panda.com", it may trend more when people search "panda" than if it relates less obviously to your subject matter.
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    How do I prepare a login page to my website on my own?
    Arga Siregar
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    There are many website builders, so if the website builder have a login/register in the add button or other, you can add it. However, if the web builder doesn't have it, just search how to make a login/register page.
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    Which are the best website generators?
    Community Answer
    Thea are many available. Some of the better known options include WIX, Weebly, Wordpress, and Squarespace.
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    How do I upload content to my website?
    Community Answer
    This tip is for websites built using WordPress. Log in to your admin panel first. If you want to create a new post, look for the option "Post" on top of the left side bar and then click on "Add New". If you want to create a page, you need to go to "Pages" and then "Add New".
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    What is the difference between a free website and a paid website?
    Community Answer
    A free website means nobody has to pay for it. A paid for website means somebody else has paid for it.
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    Do I get money from my website? How does it work?
    Community Answer
    It's possible you can earn money through advertisements and sponsorships.
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    Is there a minimum legal age to create a website?
    Community Answer
    No. Even kids can do this. You may need a few programming skills, though.
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    How do I upload a webpage to the internet?
    Community Answer
    To upload a webpage to the internet, you need buy a hosting package from an Internet service provider. Then, you get it on the web by using an FTP program, which may help you through the process. Once you finish this procedure, type in the domain name in your browser, and you'll find your website on the Internet.
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    Where can I write codes of my own and build a website?
    Community Answer
    You can set up a web server and FTP. After that, upload the website files in FTP to the public_html directory. Then create index.html in public_html to create the index file on your website.
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    How can I get a free domain and can you make a website without one?
    BJW1661
    Community Answer
    A domain name is not free and not all websites have to have a domain name unless it is free. For example, for a free website on Wix it ends in (.wixsite.com). However, to remove the wixsite you will have to pay to get a domain name.
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    How can I create a website on Notepad and launch it?
    Liam D
    Community Answer
    Create the website using HTML code. Save the file to your drive and open it in a web browser like Chrome or Firefox.
  • Question
    Does having a domain protect or offer copyrights to literature material I upload of my own personal writings?
    Karan Rawal
    Community Answer
    Having a domain name does not automatically protect or offer copyright protection to your literary materials that you upload. Copyright protection is granted automatically to original works of authorship once they are fixed in a tangible medium of expression (e.g., written down or saved electronically). However, having a domain can help establish your ownership and identity online, which can be important for asserting your rights to your creative works. For comprehensive copyright protection, consider registering your works with the appropriate copyright office.
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