Welcome to our San Antonio Web Design Blog! Feedback Welcome Our San Antonio Web Design Blog was created to assist you with all of your website building needs. Cake Web Design is an advocate of small businesses owners and the entrepreneurial spirit. From start to finish it's highly recommended that you understand the building process of creating a website, especially if it's an e-commerce website. You must also be prepared to create a site that is both search engine friendley and structurally functional. Cake Web Design is here to assist you every step of the way. You'll find simple to follow steps that will guide from purchasing your domain name, hosting your domain name and then developing your site keeping in mind guidelines that will help you with your google and yahoo rankings. Remember even if you use our services it's recommended that you have the basic knowledge of web design and web development. These are our Blog enteries by date. May 25th 2009 Free Web Management Resources Because Google and Yahoo are the two most important search engines, it is important to take in consideration their tips and guidelines. Using Google Webmater Tools and Yahoo Site Explorer will allow you to create a site that is much more compatible to these search engines. If you follow the tips and guidelines the results can lead to much higher naturally ranked pages that show up for your desired keywords. Click on the links below to check out these tools. Google Webmaster Tools | Yahoo Site Explorer May 27th 2009 First Steps to creating a website for your new or existing business. After you decide on a business name and file your DBA (doing business as) or if you're an existing business you are more than likely going to want to have a matching domain name. Purchasing a domain name is quite simple, you can go to several different places to buy a domain name; register.com, name.com, godaddy.com, even yahoo.com sells domain names. The next step is finding web hosting for your domain name; think of this as renting space on the internet. You can find free web hosting online but they don't come highly recommend unless you're on a strick budget. Usually the more you pay the more supoort you get. May 28th 2009 Web Editing Software/Programs When deciding on a program to create your website, some use Microsoft's frontpage others use Adobe's dreamweaver or you might have seen the free yahoo Site Builder on Yahoo. The Yahoo Site Builder is a great way to familiarize yourself on how to create a website and how it all comes together. Yahoo Site Builder is free if you host your domain name with Yahoo. If you take this route after a few months or so you might find yourself wanting to add a few more features not avaiable on Yahoo Site Builder. When you've reached this stage in development you will have to switch to a full functional website developing program like frontpage or dreamweaver. Unfortunately the pages you create in Yahoo Site Builder are not compatible and cannot be exported to either one of these programs which means you're gonna have to recreate your pages in HTML and possibly create a new design. Cake Web Design (210) 618-9503 May 29th 2009 Web Design Services you should stay away from. The web is full of web design companies offering you websites in just a few minutes by choosing a pre-mad template of your choice. You're asked to start by choosing a preferred domain name, then you have to choose your theme category and web template. You fill out a few fill in the blanks and you're done. After all is said and done you've paid a setup fee of several hundred dollars for your your domain name and various other goodies like a few email accounts. Then you're billed $50 Dollars or more a month for Hosting. Remember you pay this fee every month for the life of your website. Read the following disadvantages of ALL-IN-ONE Website Providers.
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