Create your own website

Web design can be quite a daunting prospect if you are new to the Internet. You would like to create your own website but have no idea where to start. Html? Photoshop? Fireworks? FrontPage? Dreamweaver? 

In Summary :

1. Create your site using Joomla or Wordpress. Our next Joomla training course is on the 27th of May 2010 in Johannesburg. Learn how to create your own site -
http://www.tm4y.co.za/intro-to-joomla.html

2. We can create a site for you that you can maintain and update yourself for R1600 vat excl, click here to read more about our our Quicksite concept: http://www.tm4y.co.za/products/quicksite.html

3. To find out how much a custom site will cost you, why don't you contact us to discuss your requirements?


If you have the inclination, the passion and the energy it is quite possible to create and maintain your own website. But there is a learning curve involved.

Here are some tips and some shortcuts to get you started.

 
Website Design and Hosting mistakes to be avoided

Here are a couple of mistakes that newcomers to the Internet tend to make. See this as a learning opportunity and a way to avoid making these mistakes, since making them will really be detrimental to the success of your website.

There are two types of mistakes that are common: Technical mistakes and Management mistakes. Let's take a look at both and how they can be avoided.

 
Interview with Web Templates Blog
Arthur Browning from http://www.WebTemplatesBlog.com was very kind to have an email interview with me recently. You can read it here on
http://www.webtemplatesblog.com/archives/2006/10/04/interview-christine-anderssen/
 
Anatomy of a site redesign

I recently decided to give an overhaul to my site's look and feel. This was mostly due to an article that I read about the elements of Web 2.0 design. The full article can be found here:

Current style in web design.

When I started my site a little less than a year ago I purchased a commercial Joomla template and while it was... OK, I always felt that it lacked a certain panache.

After I read the article I realised why I felt that way.
This is what my website looked like before the makeover.

 

 
The Shrek Model of Web Design

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Here is a web design theory : websites are like onions, you see, since websites have layers. And ogres are like onions, since  ogres have layers. Websites are designed by web designers. Ergo - web designers are like ogres.

So, let's explore why web designers are like ogres.

 

 
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