All About Your New Web Site
And Creating Your Own

If you received a new web site from the program you just joined then that new web site is your salesman that will work for you 24 hours a day, never ask to be paid, and never call in sick. All you have to do is promote your URL and get as many people as possible to visit your site. If you do that, it will do all of the "selling" for you.

Spend some time learning about your new web site if you haven't done so already. It would be a good idea to read every word on each of the pages at least once. This way you'll know what's covered on the site and what's not. Then if there is a form on your new web site you'll want to fill out the form  to make sure that it works properly. Use the words Test Ignore for your name in the form fields so that the information sent by the form is not confused with real sign up information.

By entering your name as Test Ignore and your e-mail address as if you were a prospect, you'll get to see how the form process works. In some programs, when a prospect fills out the form on your site, three automated E-mails are sent out. One to you, one to your upline or webmaster, and one to your prospective customer and/or agent.

You'll also want to test your e-mail contact link on your new web site. Click on the e-mail link and send a message to your self with Test Ignore as the subject.

Whenever you receive an e-mail informing you that someone filled out the form on your site, and telling you what they are interested in you should immediately contact the person and answer their questions and/or send them your new agent "Welcome" letter if applicable.

If you didn't receive a new web site from the program you joined with your Independent Representative ID# and other contact information on it then you can create your own web site that links to the company's main web site. Please read the iHelp Files section on "How to construct a Web Page", for information on constructing web pages as well as links to two simple HTML Primers. For additional help with HTML and constructing your own web pages we recommend that you visit HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners, FREE-HELP.COM and Free Online Services.

Now there are lots of software for both the PC and the Mac that you can use to create your own web pages without knowing the HTML language. You will find a list of shareware and freeware HTML Editors (web page creation software) that you can download at Stroud's CWSApps List site.

For HTML Editors for the PC, go  to:
Stroud's 32-bit HTML Editors or  Stroud's 16 -bit HTML Editors

I use Microsoft's FrontPage 98 to design and manage my web sites. It requires no HTML programming knowledge but is advanced enough for experienced Web site developers. It has everything you need to design and build a great-looking, easy to navigate World Wide Web site. It cost about US$98.00

For HTML Editors for the Mac, go to:
Tucows and choose a site within the continent or region closest to you to ensure faster and more reliable downloads. Then click on the link that reads "Macintosh - HTML TOOLS - Editors".

If you are a Netscape fan, just get the latest version of Netscape's Communicator which includes a very good HTML editor, it's really no problem to work with it. Like FrontPage 98, this is a "WYSIWYG" editor ("WYSIWYG" - means what you see is what you get) and you need no special knowledge to be able to make your own pages or to modify existing ones. You can download Communicator for FREE.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0 can also be downloaded for FREE and it comes packaged with a very good HTML editor called Front Page Express. Again no special knowledge is required to use this program. It's like writing in Word and adding from time to time an image or a link. Anyone should be able to work with this program . It's very easy to use.

Any htm or html file can also be opened and edited in any WORD processor including Notepad the simplest program that you can use, a program which everyone has on his computer.

Free Web Space

By creating your own web page you can also take advantage of the many opportunities out there to swap links, display the Link Exchange and other banners, and be a webmaster of a popular site yourself? When you're ready, you can create your own free web page at XOOM. We recommend that you use XOOM since there you will get 5BM of free web space plus there is a simple user friendly online web site creation tool that you can use to create your web page without any HTML programming knowledge. Below are some additional places where you can get free web space.

You will find many more places offering free web space and other free stuff at: Free Online Services.

Even if you get a free web site from the company you represent you can still put up another web page or web site about some popular topic to bring in traffic. Think of something that excites you. Are computers your hobby? How about a site of links to computer information, free software downloads, and your favorite computer sites. Have a favorite movie star? Put together a list of links to pages about them. Make a page on just about anything, it's all up to you!

Of course, the first thing you'll want to do if you create a second site is put a banner at the top of every page that leads to the main program page you really want to promote. The banners will direct the visitors that come to your second site to your main program site. If your company does not provide you with banners you can easily create your own for FREE at the following web sites:

http://www.coder.com/creations/banner/banner-form.pl.cgi

http://www.dreamfires.com/design/banner.html

http://www.crecon.com/scbanners/

For  animated banners go to:

http://www.mediabuilder.com/abm.html?mb000en_andanavbar

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