Chapter 4 / Fill In The Blanks.

"Web Site Building-101"

Use the template as a guideline.

To publish your first page there is really just one rule that you must adhere to. Name your home or first page index.html

Click on the blue earth icon in the top tool bar in your editor. You should see the name of the site, page title, and file name. The page title looks wacky for now, but we will change that in a minute through the source code. In the file name box enter this: index.html Never use spaces and always use lowercase when entering file names. Click Publish... 

That's all there is to it. Open a new browser like Google or Yahoo and enter the web site address for your domain and now hopefully existing page, to have a look. As I think I mentioned earlier, I always keep the actual site page up that I'm editing to quickly refresh and have a look at my changes.

Let's make tis page capture!

With a capture page there really is not too much to following the sales guidelines laid out by the template, however for any sales page you plan on building with this same template, you really can just follow the yellow brick road as they say.

You will probably begin to notice a very similar pattern from now on when searching the net through different offer pages. They all look very similar, same red and black fonts, and people that simply used this same template's descriptions as a guideline for what kind of wording they should put on their page, and where to put it. Funny to me, but I'm just glad I found it, and I hope you feel the same.

Any text you don't need or want, just highlight it and erase or backspace it out. Remember this is your creation, and you only use the parts that fit into what your ideas are. Some of the tables or boxes included in the template can be useful too but, if you don't want em' or need em', then just get rid of em' It's so easy to do. 

Left click any where inside one of the boxes like the 100% money back yellowish guarantee box, and you will see a boarder appear around it with X's. Just click on one of the X's, and it will be gone. Made the wrong choice? Click on Edit in the tool bar and select Undo, and it's back. That command normally only works on the last command you gave.

Payment Buttons:

I know we are talking about a capture page here but with the discussion of the boxes the template comes with, let's quickly talk about using the ones that include the PayPal button. This is probably the easiest, most widely recognized, and free-est (Is that a word?, Kidding...) way to accept payments on a web site. Not everyone will recognize it (believe it or not) nor will everyone want to use it, but for starting out, it's the perfect solution.

Do you have a PayPal account? If not then Click here and  go get one now. 

By the way, there are some simple little tricks and shortcuts to building a user friendly site that I plan on throwing together near the end of this course. One of those I just though of as I was using it was the following command:

<"target=_blank">

That little command placed in the exact spot inside the source code of a text hyper link like the "Click here" one above for PayPal, allow a link to open in a new window, rather than taking the user completely away from your site. Sometimes, you may want the user to make their choice, and be gone, but in many cases, you want people to have a look at something but not totally leave your site and be gone forever.

To use this command, enter a sample text, Click Here Now, into the page you are working on in the editor. Highlight only the text you want to be clickable. Now, do you see the gray chain link icon in the tool bar that says "Link"? Click on it. Enter in a destination address. Just use anything, but be sure to include the http://www all the way to the .com Use http://www.websitebuilding-101.com if you want, and click OK. (Keep the highlight on the Click Here Now text, do not click it off.)

You should now see that text blue and underlined in your editor, hopefully still highlighted to make life easier. If it's not still highlighted then just search for the web site address you entered in as the destination. We need to now go into the source of the page, and set it up to open in a new window when clicked. 

Click on the Source tab at the bottom of the page, and you should be able to easily find the hyper link and text in the codes, if it is still highlighted. Inside the code you will see this highlighted:

So here is one cool thing about this service, they have an available support staff. Yes, you can actually call and speak to a living and breathing person. One that is actually knowledgeable too. Rare stuff these days. 

My point to this is that I am not going to walk you through creating a web form or sign up form as they call it. Call them and get them to help you to create one. It is very easy and like three clickable steps to complete it. Here is what you want to create. If you enter your name and email it will just take you to the "thank you page" I selected. Just another course of mine you may have seen...