What makes a good websites?  NOT a personal website, NOT an ecommerce but a community website?
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By knowing what their customers want and giving it to them in a very simple and easy way.\n\nGoogle's main business is search. Their website is extremely minimal - just a search box - because they want to focus on search.\n\nCraigslist made it very easy for people to post their ads.\n\nYahoo is successful as a Web portal providing various information and services to their users -- search, finance, auctions, etc.
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Hello,\n\nI use www.EcommerceStyle.com for my hosting, domain, and they have very good marketing system that you can use...\n\nJohn
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The best site out there for helping you design and operate a website to professional standards is the Sitepoint website. You can find it at:\n\nhttp://www.sitepoint.com\n\nI've followed the site since before it was Sitepoint (was webmaster journal or resources or some such back in the 90's) and it's hands down the best. Many professionals and really smart entrepreneurs and techies hang out in the forums and the entire community is very helpful. They even have a forum where you can request other members to look over your site and offer their opinions which is great to help you stay on track. The articles range from basics to very technical, but all are well written and if you're the least bit computer-savvy, most will walk even beginners through some fairly complicated steps with ease.\n\nIf I had only website that I could visit to use as a resource for web design, web development, coding, eBusiness and eMarketing...this would be it. The guys who operate it started their own press and they've put out many great books over the years. I say this as someone who majored in eBusiness, worked as a PC tech, has a military background in technical intelligence and communications, authored an IT column, and has been building sites and consulting off and on for over 8 years.\n\nIf what you really meant by your question was "How can I have a cool Flash website?" then I would suggest you hit your favorite search engine and look for "Flash designers, Flash design" and see what services they offer. If you're into do it yourself, I'd suggest enrolling at a local college and taking a Flash course to get you rolling in the right direction--but only if you're a bit artsy and patient and willing to read up on good web design and accessibility standards and practices on your own. Otherwise, Flash designers are everywhere, which means it's a buyers market (i.e., you can hire one without going into the poorhouse for 20 years). \n\nGood luck with your endeavors.
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If you mean what is the best type of software to use I would say Macromedia (now Adobe) Dreamweaver. If I answer your question the way you ask it, I couldn't give you an answer, I don't what your current site looks like \n\nThe best advice I can give is to search the Internet, look at different site structures and make a notation about what you like or don't like about it. Take all the likes you have listed and find a way to incorporate them into a new web site.
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OK - You did not tell clearly what kind of ecommerce website are you talking about? What all you have in your hosting package? Do you have the site already constructed? If so in what platform it was made... like any CMS used or Java or Perl, etc.\n\nIf it is a well contructed ecommerce website then you could do this easily because it would have used a CMS (Content Management System). These days there are so many CMS like typo3 and phpnuke is available and you can edit pages using a back-end admin logon. Updating pages and link is just like editing a web-based email.\n\nIf that is not the case I don't see an easy solution -- many pages you may be seeing is dynamically generated by a program. In truth  always the maintainability depends on the construction.
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More and more people are using Flash for cool animations, intros and so on with regard their website.\nIt can be hard to get to grips with, but for a great Flash resource online try www.flashkit.com\nIt contains all sorts of news, advice, sound effects, images, movies and most of all, a range of tutorials for you to try and get to grips with the finer parts of the tool!\nanother thing ,If you want to critique your website, then there are some key questions that you should bear in mind and answer in your critique.\n\nThese include:\n\n- is the colour scheme easy on the eye?\n\n- is it accessible?\n\n- is the content clear and understandable right from the first page?\n\n- is the navigation simple and intuitive?\n\n- has the content been validated\n\nThese questions all should be answered in a decent critique of a website.
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Many people are under the assumption that you can build a webpage, slap some products on it, and watch the money flow.\n\nThere is a process to the madness and it is just like building any other or traditional business.\n\nOne of the best ways to build a website is to build a "content" rich site that draws the search engines.\n\nReview the free resources below to find out more.\n\nPress on to Success,\nJeff\nhttp://www.PreferredPromoZ.com
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A good site is any site that has a lot of good, rich content. Anyone can add images, video etc. to make a site look 'cool'. But a great site supports all that with pages and pages of good useful content.
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You can get good information for advertising your web site or products from these sites.\nHope this helps,\nHave a great day,\nSurfin.
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Good idea\nI would say, collect good information and divide into many groups according to different tourist attractions (safari, nature, walks, beaches, snow, sports, religios etc). YOu can either make the site on Microsoft frontpage and launch it or got to geocities in yahoo and get a free website (although with few restrictions).\nThat is all I have to say with a generalised question like this.\nCheers\nAndy
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I know how you feel. I'm in the current process of setting up a website just based on this. So stay tuned.\n\nBasically go around forums asking people. But you will find that there will always be people happy with the service and others not. \n\nIt is hard to know whether or not these people are simply plugging their own company posing as neutral people or not. \n\nSo in the end, asking people at a conference perhaps may be the best way - as you can tell if they are straight out lying.\n\nAlso books can be good too: but I've seen some books recently that plug their own products too - without you knowing!
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if you want a basic no frills website try \n\ngeocities.yahoo.com\nor \ntripod.lycos.com\n\nand use the WYSISYG (what you see is what you get) site builders.\n\nIf you'd like something a little fancier find web space with ftp access.  Build your a site with a package web editor such as MS Frontpage or the open source NVu (www.nvu.org) and use their built in publishing engines or use a ftp prog like FTP Commander (www.internet-soft.com).\n\nAnything much beyond this is going to require a little HTML expertise, but these are good places to begin.
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You have a very original idea, so that is good.\n\nSuggest the website to as many other websites as possible.\n\nMake sure it is listed on all the major search engines.\n\nYou could advertise with the likes of google adwords if you have a small budget.\n\nAnd the main thing is to give it time.  You have to work at everything - your site will not become an overnight success.
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Chk These out\n\nhttp://www.build-your-website.co.uk/\nhttp://www.2createawebsite.com/
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hi,\ni designed my website (http://scepco.tk) using webpage maker V2 and i found its good.......... u can also try that in addition check out these websites also...
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Learn html, buy domain space, decide what youwant on it, write content, design interface.\n\nOr contact a web designer like me (www.foneblog.ie/andym)! I am not lookin gfor wark, just making the point that it can be a lot to take on if you do not knwo what you are doing. If it is just a personal website you mean then consider a blog. If it is a business one (even a sole trader) you are best to get a web designer as it is what you rcustomers see as you so it should look great.
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Making a website is tricky because you need to find profitable keywords. You may have a great idea but without strong keywords nobody will go to your site. A great program for developing a profitable site with strong keywords is Site Build It. It essentially tells you the supply and demand for every singe word or phrase typed into any search engine. \n\nIf you're looking to build a website try SBI.