Building a Web Site

I am pumped! I’ve spent the last few days working on building a web site, and it’s starting to shape up.

So what, you may ask. Isn’t this a web site we’re on right now? Well, yes and no. This blog is based on a Wordpress template I acquired, and it does quite nicely for blogging. However, it doesn’t quite work for what I want with my eBay ebook business (at least with the skills I have so far). I want to have a nice landing page, where visitors can look around at the products I have to offer and sign up for a newsletter (of course). I need to be able to list a number of pages and have the navigation make sense and be easy. I just think a standard web site fills the bill a bit better, and now that I’m actually learning to put it together, that belief is affirmed.

I have to adimit that I spent quite a bit of time hand-wringing about this particular task. I have loads of information and a few “build-it” pieces of software on my hard drive, but every time I thought I was getting started, I’d run into another hand-wringing opportunity.

What header? What’s that, how do I do it? Better go look at some other stuff to try to find out.

A plan? I need a plan? Off again on another quest.

I finally just made sure that getting started on the actual doing of the work was the only thing on my to-do list for two days. And that seemed to do the trick. I’m still a week or so away from actually wanting to share the site with you, but I am on my way.

I also was able to install a program on my web site that makes me feel pretty accomplished. It’s a system for dealing with delivering ebooks to the buyer once they’ve bought from me at eBay. This was another hand-wringer. I didn’t want to be in a position of delivering by email attachment. Nor can I leave my poor old laptop on all the time to be able to use a delivery system through outlook - which doesn’t provide for payment verification anyway.

I got this program, SmartDD, because I purchased a membership with a program called Easy Auction Profits. SmartDD was offered as a bonus and is really why I looked at the program in the first place. I’m really glad I did, because the program is fantastic! Tons of tools and resources to get started and to build an eBay business, and the most welcoming, friendly, and helpful forum I’ve participated in. Check it out. The sales letter is kind of long, but that’s necessary for all the benefits of joining.

Anyway, back to the installation of the program. It has to be installed on your web site, so that was kind of daunting. Then it has an 18-page installation manual, and that was just plain frightening. But taking it step by step, getting past the slap-my-head-I’m-stupid moments, it is now up and running. Just waiting for me to load up products and get busy selling them on eBay.