Make A Website With XSitePro Or Hire A Designer?

XSitePro

Right at the beginning of your wonderful online adventures you may find yourself doing almost everything yourself. This includes the whole make a website thing, as well as product development and preparation and way too much to even go on about here.

Basically, you get your hands dirty and go build yourself a funky little homemade website that hopefully does everything you need.

Now, granted, you may master your website building in a short afternoon. And that’s cool. However it’s when your whole online business starts evolving into a huge portable-empire (it CAN happen!) that you suddenly find challenge on your hands.

The challenge is thus:

Do you, humble entrepreneur, get making a website all by yourself (with help, such as using XSitePro – we’ll get to that in a minute), or do you throw risk into the wind and just find a (hopefully good) web designer?

Of course, there’s NO EASY answer…

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Is There Really 10 Million WordPress Templates?

Stunning WordPress templates blog report

That’s a HUGE number of templates.

Stunning WordPress templates blog reportOf course I’m kidding though… There’s not 10 million WordPress templates out there floating around in cyberspace. But, I’ll admit, there is rather a LOT. Some are way too ‘out there’ for me, but a few are very COOL…

It does take time to search through and find the right web page templates for your specific needs.

Whether you want to make your own website using WordPress (like this) or whether you want to use your own Photoshop templates… Here it is:

‘How To Create Stunning WordPress Templates Blog That You Can Start Making Money From In 24 Hours Or Less’

You’ll be happy to know I have finished my report that shows you how I created this WordPress blog, and also goes into detail about other ‘photo niche’ websites you can easily set up. But the main focus is on the rockin’ WordPress style

I did however forget, in my enthusiasm to get this report into your hot little hands, a detailed description of how to create a ‘header’ like the one you’ll see at the top of this blog.

Can add that part later… Leave a comment if you’re interested.

And now, to download your gift gratis (on the house, please tell your friends) just click the link below.

Stunning WordPress templates blog zip

Hope this fires you up to get your hammers, tools and spanners ready to build a nice lil’ niche photo blog or something similar.

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Nb: Follow the instructions below to download your report.

You must have WinZip or a similar program to open the files ending in .zip. If you don’t already have this, go to the WinZip web site below. You should download the “free evaluation version” which will do everything you need. If you need assistance, select the “Brief Tutorial” in the WinZip Help menu.

Download WinZip Evaluation Version

http://www.winzip.com/downhome.htm

http://www.winzip.com/downwz.htm

Try one of these web sites above.

Mac Users get Stuffit Standard here:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6326

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Photography Lessons: Host Your Photo Web Site

ThinkHost

Photography Lessons for newcomers:

This is a question I recently received…

I’ve just realized that I left my (photo) blog dry for long time and it’s almost time to renew my domain and hosting account. Then, I thought of WordPress and you! Could you please suggest me how should I start from? I have WordPress account. Basically, I do need new hosting with..? (the one you use and recommend)?

There’s a TRUCK load of options you could take. You could do what I do which is just host my sites with BlueHost. There’s also DreamHost and I’ve used Hostica too. I believe they (Hostica.com) still have a 1-1-1 plan… That’s 1 site hosted for $1 a month. Can hardly beat that…

You also might want to think about ThinkHost.

ThinkHost are thinking alternative: They provide… “Green web hosting powered by renewable wind and solar energy. Your carbon neutral account supports a more earth friendly future…”

Nutshell: BlueHost is $95 per year and DreamHost is $120 per year. (The more years you sign up for, the lower the cost, mostly).

The great thing about BlueHost is that you can put up unlimited number of domains for the same price. This is good if you have a few blogs (or photo based websites) you want to put up.

You can import Blogger to WordPress easily enough if you need… and whatever you decide to do… create a photo blog, a content rich photo website, a stand alone image gallery… you’ll still need to host your web site with someone… so make sure your host is reliable (been around a long time and has a LOT of happy customers).

That would take care of the hosting part. Now you need somewhere to renew your domain… I would just put it with BlueHost as well…. if you decide to sign up with them. (About $10 for domain registration, per year – is the going fee).

By the way I have been with BlueHost for years now… they’re pretty good… BUT the best thing is their “live chat” help desk. You should make FULL use of it… ask them any questions, and they will help you, walk you through it…

Dreamhost has a ‘unique’ approach too, …it’s ‘owned’ by its employees. So the ‘employees’ get a say on how the business runs. Very cool.

ThinkHost

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