What Puzzles You The Most About Understanding Websites?
Sep 25th, 2007 by Do
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I want to write articles that target your needs and areas of confusion, so tell me what puzzles you the most about websites.
- What do you find yourself struggling to grasp?
- Is there something you wish you had more information or clarity on?
- Does your webmaster speak to you in Greek, leaving you feeling it’s all fairly useless to try as there’s just so much to learn?
- Do you wish someone would just draw a picture and spell it out on a certain topic?
- Perhaps you wonder how the search engines find your site?
Whatever it is, don’t be shy and ask the question. It will only help you in the long run as I answer each question in terms that make sense!
Now start writing what you want to know in the reply section below!
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That is the best question I have been asked, about websites and more importantly how to remain topical on what people are really searching for, on our own websites. The inner workings of Wordpress are not exactly easy for a beginner, can you suggest a better program to adminster a website without having to learn code?
Terminology differences - web designer, web master, optimization, page ranking, key words, etc.
Thanks!!
Teri,
I agree that the inner workings of WordPress are not particularly easy for beginners. Even as a webmaster, it took me some time to figure it all out. However, WordPress is highly recommended and versatile in the world of blogs. It offers numerous plugins, widgets and is supported in a variety of different ways. Unfortunately, I don’t recommend anything in its place although there are a lot of options out there.
Now for editing websites that aren’t blogs, I recommend Contribute and have several of my clients using it. Basically, it’s a scaled down version of Dreamweaver and can easily be used after an hour of training. Dreamweaver is the program of choice for most web designers, but it is quite difficult to learn for the novice and has far more features than you’d ever need.
Many people use FrontPage, which I think is a horrific program. Yes, it’s easy to learn and fairly easy to create a website with, but it generates faulty code that creates all kinds of problems you’ll be unable to fix. Whenever I have to update a site that was created in FrontPage, I spend hours banging my head against the wall, asking myself “Why?!” and trying to clean up the code. Code is the HTML and other programming languages on the back-end (and invisible to the user) that make a web page look the way it does.
Gini,
Excellent questions. I will write an article defining these words you see thrown about regularly and may not know what they mean. As soon as it’s up, I’ll add a link in this comment directly to it.