INCOME GENERATION THROUGH GOOGLE ADSENSE
STEPS TO WEB DESIGN AND GOOGLE ADSENSE ACCOUNT SET UP
A. Personal Preparation
1. Decide on an idea to sell or promote. it can be a product or information.
2. Develop content for your idea:
An introduction, benefits, usage, where, when and how to get the product.
3. Sign up for an e-mail at www.google.com or www.gmal.com.
B. Get a website template or design one by yourself
1. Create a table or edit a website template
2. Copy and paste your content
3. Insert images, pictures, icons, graphics
4. Establish links and hyperlinks
5. Review all the links
C. Register a Domain Name
1. Domain name is your unique website name or address. This name helps visitors find you easily.
2. Give your website a simple but clear name to be registered with any web solutions provider.
2. The name will be something like this: www.yourname.com, www.yourname.net, www.yourname.biz etc
D. Get Hosting Space
1. Hosting space is like a plot of land where you want to build your website
2. The space or size depends on the nature of your website.
3. A web solution provider will help.
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E. Open a domiciliary bank account
1. Got to any bank and ask for a domiciliary account
2. Get the your domiciliary account number
F. Set up a Google Adsense Account
1. Signup for a Google Adsense account from www.googleadsense.com
2. Create your ads types and features, and obtain codes
3. Insert your Google Adsense codes
4. Keep to the term and conditions
5. Preview your website to see the Google Adsense codes
G. Promoting or marketing your website
1. Advertise your website, by sending e-mails to friends, advertise on a newspaper ads etc
2. You can also use words of mouth or any other profitable means
3. Monitor your account regularly
BASICS OF A WEB PAGE
When you create a Web design, one of the more overlooked aspects of the design is the layout. Now, many people think about how to do a layout (CSS, tables, frames, etc.), but the basics of Web layout are often completely ignored.
1. Space and white space.
Use the whole space, but don't be specific in your use. In other words, use relatively sized layout sections on your Web pages, so that they expand and contract to fit the browser window.
Keep screen resolution in mind. While the majority of computer users have moved away from 640x480 resolution, keep that in mind when you're designing. Having customers leave because all they can see is a logo on their monitor is not good customer service.
Use color to define spaces. If you want to have a page that's a specific width, why not center it on the browser screen and make the background color of the page a different color? This will help the page appear to resize for different browsers; larger browsers will just have more background color showing, while smaller browsers will have less or none showing.
2. Images and Graphics
Align your images. One of the most common newbie layout mistakes is to slap images into a page willy-nilly without thought to layout. If you just use an img tag and then write text to follow it, you'll have the image and then one line of text to the right of it. Using the align attribute will help make your images part of the layout.
Balance the graphics and text on a page. It's easy to get carried away with lots of images and animations, but they can make a page very hard to read. When you're considering your layout, remember that images are a major part of the design, not just afterthoughts.
3. Text width.
Think about text width. This is often called the "scan length", and refers to how many words are displayed on one line. Most people can comfortably read about 7 to 11 words on a line. Longer than that, and the text is hard to read, shorter than that and it's disjointed and distracting. When designing your layouts make sure that the major text area displays the text in a readable width.
Centering text is inadvisable. One of the first layout techniques that a new designer learns is the center tag, and they center everything on their pages. However, centering is very difficult to do well and it's often hard to read.
4. Buttons, Links and hyperlinks.
Can be default, custom and new, either in flash, graphics, text only, images, icons or anything that takes a visitor to a new environment where more information can be accessed or continuation of a process.
TIPS TO A GREAT WEB PAGE
Make Your Site Valuable to Your Readers
There aren't any magic pills to create a great Web page that everyone will visit again and again, but if you follow these ten tips your site will be more popular and easier for people to read.
1. know your audience, and keep them in mind when you write.
If your Web pages are frequented by people with slower modems then designing a page that looks best over an average bandwidth or internet speed is not a successful strategy.
2. Keep your pages short.
If you minimize the scrolling, chances are, your readers will get your message. A good screen size is 640 pixels wide by 480 tall.
3. Use tables of contents.
According to Jakob Nielsen only 10% of users will scroll beyond the first screen of text. If that first screen has a table of contents viewers will click on the links to the explanatory text.
4. Keep images small.
Large images annoy people. If it takes too long to download, many people will never see it, as they will have browsed somewhere.
5. Use Web colors.
The browser-safe color palette will ensure that most people will see your page and images in the colors you intended.
6. Avoid lots of text.
People don't read the Web, they skim it.
7. Check your spelling.
Use a spell checker, either in your editor or on-line.
8. Keep links current.
Check your links often to make sure they are still valid. Using a link checker speeds up pages with many links.
9. Annotate your links.
If a page is good enough to link to, then it's good enough to explain why you like it.
10. Put contact information on your pages.
The Web is interactive and dynamic, and you should welcome comments on your pages. Also, if there is a broken link or other problem, your readers can let you know, easily.
Internet Terms Glossary
Attachment - Something connected to an email that gets sent along for the ride. People send photos, files, and even programs this way. Also called Enclosures.
BookMarks or Favorites - A list in one of your browser menus that you can add website addresses to, usually by going to the page, then selecting Add BookMark, or Add to Favorites from the Bookmark or Favorites menu.
Browser - The program you use to move around on the net. Different than your email program, though your browser may have an email program built in.
Compressed Files - Files that have been written in a format that takes up less space. Standard on a PC is Zip, standard on a Mac is Stuffit.
Compatibility - Big word for cooperation. This refers to how well programs work with other programs, how hardware works with software, and how two computers share information. Internet formats follow specific guidelines to ensure cross platform compatibility.
Connection - Refers to being online. Connection speeds vary according to the modem and type of connection.
Directory - A folder where you store files. This can be on your computer, or on a remote server.
DNS - Domain Name Server. Part of the information you need to set up an internet account. This is the number for the exact web address that your dial up account is managed through.
Domain Name - A specific internet address, like www.apple.com. A personalized domain name must be registered yearly to make sure you have ownership of it.
Drag and Drop HTML Editor - A web page creation program that allows you to assemble webpages and sites without using HTML code directly. The program creates the code for what you do behind the scenes.
Email - Text based electronic file transfer. Sends only text across an internet connection, address to address. Can convert programs, files, and graphics to text code and send them along for the ride. Cross platform compatibility is an issue with attachments.
Field - A rectangular box that you can type into, used in dialog boxes, database programs, and on internet forms. Common in Forms, JavaScript, and CGI Scripting.
File Extensions for the Internet - Common ones are .html, ,htm, for web pages, .gif, .jpg for graphics files, .txt, .exe, for text documents or PC programs, .sit, .zip, .sea, .dd for compressed files, .pdf for Adobe Acrobat files. Many more too.
File Types - Programs each label files with a code to identify which program created them. That is how they attach the right program to a file when you open it. Some files can be opened by programs other than their creators, but that ability has to be built into the program. Graphics get complex in this category. PCs do this by attaching a File Extension to the end of the name - .exe, .txt, and so forth. Macs do this by invisibly coding it with a 4 letter code.
Format - Changing the way a document presents the information in it. Changing margins, type sizes, columns, and all that. Formatting applies to both the appearance of a finished document, and the way the file is saved.
FTP - File Transfer Protocol. A means of transferring files over the internet, used for file downloads, and for file uploads.
Graphics, Images, Scans, Clipart - Graphic means visual - a Picture. Image means the same thing. Scans are pictures that have been converted to a digital format so you can store them on computers and play with them in your programs. Clipart is a collection of images that you buy, or get for free, that you can use in your own documents without paying each time you use them. Check copyright notices carefully on clipart, because restrictions vary.
HTML - HyperText Markup Language. A linking and displaying script language used to instruct computers to display a web page. The page is written in HTML, and your computer interprets the instructions, and displays the page as you see it.
Icons - Little pictures that represent programs and files. You find them almost everywhere that you can access files or programs. Also used on Websites to simplify navigation.
ISP - Internet Service Provider - Like AOL, Earthlink, or PacBell. The people who you pay each month for the privilege of getting online!
JavaScript - Scripting language that allows you to run Client Side interactive forms, graphics, and mini-applications from a web page.
Link - Text or graphics on a website that allow you to click on them to go to another page, or another place on the same page. Text is usually underlined. Hand pointer Icon appears on links.
Modem - A device that translates analog signals into digital, and digital into analog, so your computer can communicate with another over analog phone lines.
Networking - Connecting two computers, by special cable, or by phone lines, to share resources. Not the same as the internet.
Platform - The operating system you use - Windows, Mac, Unix, OS2, Apple II, DOS are all different platforms. Some are more compatible than others with each other. Unix, Windows, and Mac are the three primary web platforms.
Plug-Ins - Special mini-programs that are stored in a specific folder for the program that uses them. Plug-ins extend the functions of the program that they are added to. Internet and Graphics programs often use them to add features.
Properties, Options, Preferences - Settings that you can use to customize your programs or operating system to work like you want it to.
Remote Server - A computer that "serves" up information. It is not in your house, it is remote, or somewhere else.
Scanner - Converts photos and drawings into a digital map of the picture. Read up on them before you buy. Almost necessary for website design.
Search Engine - Website that keeps a listing of many websites, lets you type in a word or two and then gives you a list of the websites that it knows about that are about that subject. Websites must be registered with search engines if they are to be found by viewers.
Server - A computer that "serves" information out to other computers as they request it. When you connect to a web page, that page is stored on a server somewhere else.
Server Side Programming - Programs that run on a web page that are powered by software on a remote server.
Shopping Cart - A website that allows you to add items to purchase in a list, then enter order information all at once to purchase online.
SPAM - Unwanted email, junk mail, or prank mail. There is a lot of false mail out there about this person or that who is dying please send money, or that this or that thing is a HUGE RISK so protect yourself! Most is false, so don't forward it unless you can prove the validity of scare mail. Email is anonymous and leaves no evidence of the creator of it, so it is easy to perpetrate an email scam.
TCP/IP - Another Internet Protocol, also used for Networking. Works in conjunction with PPP. Mac may use MacTCP instead. Part of Mac software, Open Transport. Part of Dial Up Networking on a PC.
Time Out - When a website takes so long to download that your browser gets tired of waiting and just quits trying any more.
URL - Universal Resource Locator. This is the techie term for an internet address.
Virus - A hidden program that can be attached to email attachments, and other programs or disks by malicious people. A Virus once started can replicate itself, and may be either a harmless prank, or may damage files. Some viruses are difficult to eradicate. Risk is greater for PC than for Mac. Anti-Virus software protects against viruses on computers, but has to be updated frequently to keep up with new viruses. 90% of internet virus warnings are false. Check before you overreact or forward virus warnings.
Webpage - A single page on a website.
Website - A collection of Web pages that work together and are linked together with common ownership.
