Website Building Biz - Building Websites for Beginners

Do you want to build websites and make money online but have no idea where to start or what skills you will need? This site is dedicated to answering those questions and helping new webmasters get started with all the essential knowledge like hosting, development, content management, traffic, advertising, and generating revenue.

Can Courts Protect Old Media from Web Technology?

Judges are active defenders of copyright laws - and even advocates of expanding the laws and making examples of offenders. How far can the government takes its crusade against the information revolution, and what part are judges and lawyers organizations playing in the conflict?

Category: Law & Politics

Embracing Collapse and Creative Destruction in Business

When the sky is falling, running around in a panic won’t solve a thing - but building a better roof or new foundations for your business is part of the evolutionary process we should embrace.

Category: Business

Indexed and Ranking Again

After some downtime, URLs are beginning to get re-indexed and search engine positions are returning to their old locations. Downtime may be a big set back, but it isn’t the total end of a website’s marketing position.

Category: SEO

For SEO, Downtime Does Matter

The effects of downtime on SEO have been debated and denied, but there’s certainly a long term consequence for extended service interruptions.

Category: SEO

Vacation can be Hard

Security issues and website suspensions can happen at the worst time - Especially if you leave the country for a week or more on vacation. Here’s my horror story and how I plan to relax next time I’m going on holiday.

Category: CMS

About the Website

Website Building Biz is currently organized as a blog with five categories - and now it is also a webmaster forum that needs some people to sign up and get free help building their websites! Each category is an essential component to the business of building websites in 2008:

Website Content Management Systems (CMS)

How do I build websites without hand-coding and programming everything myself? These days, content management systems or CMS provides less-technical webmasters an alternative to building interactive and dynamic websites just like the one you're reading right now. CMS also includes internet forums, social bookmarking websites, and most of the internet content platforms we use daily.

Website Hosting

How do I physically start a website and connect my content or writing to internet users? This is the job of the website hosting service. While its technically possible to turn any internet-connected PC into a web server, I'll be focused on the commercial services provided by dedicated teams of technical specialists. How do you decide what you need and how do you find the best deal? Its all answered here.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

How do search engine users find my website? The SEO category is designed to help new webmasters understand some of the subtleties involved with search engine optimization. While I'm no expert, I do have a year of bumpy ups and downs I can share.

Internet Advertising and Online Business

How does a website make any money? The answer usually involves some type of advertising, either to related websites or to related products. This section is all about the types of website advertisements, how to generate more revenue on your site, or general online business news that provides insights for the would-be webmaster.

Blogging

What exactly is a blog and why does it seem like everyone has one? At the basic level, a blog is just a quick and easy way to build a website that can conveniently be updated with new content. As a bonus, blogs are also really good about communicating with other websites and creating networks of links to related authors.

My Experience with Online Business

I've only been online making sites for about a year, but I've had tens of thousands of visitors across multiple domains. I'm not going to tell you that you will easily and quickly make a lot of money, but just by writing about topics that interest you and acquiring good backlinks, you will easily be able to recover the extremely low costs involved with starting a miniature web empire. Of course, some people work full time on e-commerce and make a nice living out of it. Programmers and application developers can make millions, but you don't have to know any coding language to make a few extra bucks each month. In fact, the greatest part about modern internet publishing is the Content Management Systems. This is typically free software that can be installed on the hosting company's servers, and once installed, allows the website owner to quickly publish new articles and customize the look, interactivity, and content of their web domain. Did I mention that HTML and programming knowledge is a nice bonus, but completely not required? Stick around for a while and feel welcome to ask questions if you're having any doubts or confusion about your next step in the Website Building Business.