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| Pages | | What will need to be done? |
| | You will need content and graphics and then use the free HTML-kit to make pages. The kit is available from the Download area of the Main Menu under Software. | Examples:
| | Karen Designs
Home Page
Amanda
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| Templates | | What will need to be done? | | | | | | Redesign | | Edit website template index page and navigation to other pages. Edit and incorporate existing content or scripts to run effectively in website configuration.
| | Additional Media | | Inclusion of your own additional media or components such as animation, flash, sound effects, or streaming video.
| | Site Graphics | | Utilize current template photographs, or new photos and/or files supplied. | | Validation | | Testing to be sure all elements of the website are browser compatible. | | Link Check & Repair | | Check links to be sure there working. | | Website Analysis | | If desired, submit the website to search engines such as Yahoo and Google and optimize for Search engine results with Keywords, Meta Tags, Site Map if applicable, and a Robot.txt file. | | | | | | | | | | Examples: | | Before / | After | | | | Template / | Carolina Cleaning |
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Content Management
| | What will need to be done? | | Choices | | Some of the more popular community based systems with a big choice of modules and languages are: Nuke-PHP
Joomla
Mambo
Drupal | | Modules | | Modules incorporate your ideas into your sites content. A module is content that can be easily managed and plugged into the content of the site.
| | Pages | | Web pages or templates can be used so content is presented in an organized format. | | Themes | | Theme editing for language and graphics with community supplied files. You can create Pages or edit Templates (see above) for ideas not already available in prepackaged Themes for a look and feel that’s all your own. |
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Website Hosting | | What will need to be done? | bluehost
E-Mail Accounts
Updates
| | Get Hosting and a Domain name and settle into your new online home. Then install your content (pages or templates), set up your email, and you can develop your site further after you're established.
Creation, Forwarding, and Auto responses for email accounts.
Manage your new environment with hosting and community support. |
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| Additional Installations | | | Module or Script Installations
| | You can install modules offered for free or software solutions you find available for purchase.
Most software offered on the web has a community of support to help you configure your module or script.
You can always get help if you would rather have changes managed for you. You’re welcome to request instruction as a good way to get tutored for managing your site. | | Some installations and scripts available are: | | Customer Relationship Module Installation | osTicket | | Creation seamlessly integrates all tickets created via email and web-based form with a simple web interface. Easily manage, organize and archive all your support requests. Your clients will also be able to view tickets status and history online.
| | | | | | E-Commerce Installation | OS Commerce
| | Online shopping cart functionality
| Zen Cart
| | The ultimate online shopping experience to your customers. Navigating through your merchandise offerings is a breeze; the program provides several "Spotlight" lists in addition to the traditional category to product links. Once a product is added to the shopping cart, secure checkout is a simple 3-step process. After providing the billing information, your customer chooses the shipping method. (multiple shipping methods including real-time internet shipping quotes are built-in) Next, a payment type is chosen from one of the popular payment modules. (PayPal™ and AuthorizeNet™ are just 2 of the included modules) Last, the customer reviews the order, shipping and payment choices, and confirms the order. You are immediately notified of the order and your customer automatically receives an e-mail confirmation.
| | | | | | Events Calendar Installation | Jax Calendar
| | Online Calendar and event scheduling system for publishing and scheduling dates and events.
| Web Calendar
| | WebCalendar is a PHP-based calendar application that can be configured as a single-user calendar, a multi-user calendar for groups of users, or as an event calendar viewable by visitors.
| | | | | | Gallery Installation | Gallery
| | An Image Gallery system featuring albums within albums, thumbnailing specific picture area, captions, rotate, reorder pictures, album-based attributes, album mirroring.
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