Introduction

Welcome to Building DIY Websites For Dummies, a book that focuses on building your own website from start to finish. It includes many secrets and best practices that web developers know and implement when building any quality website.

Throughout this book, I walk you through the steps of building a website in a way that streamlines the process and gives you the best result.

About This Book

Building a quality website is not about learning how to use software. Anyone can learn to use software. Building a quality website is not about choosing a theme and uploading text and images. Anyone can take or find photos and write some text.

Building a quality website is about getting people to a thank you page, getting a phone call, an email, or a walk-in because they found your amazing website online, and they think you can solve their problem and want to engage with you. Building a quality website is also about building a website that search engines understand and want to match with Internet searchers when the search intent matches the offer of a website.

There is a lot that goes into building a website. This book teaches you how to think about your new marketing tool and take the most effective building steps in the best order possible. You discover how you can supercharge the tools and the platforms available today to build a website for your endeavor using sound best practices.

This book does not explain how to use software; anyone can learn to use software. Each web ...

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