About a month after I got my first connection to the internet I decided I wanted to build a website. I had no burning ambition to share information, I just wanted to see if I could do it. Bearing in mind I have the technical capabilities of your average goldfish and things weren’t so easy back in 1998, I found it difficult but eventually I did it.
Of course, being somebody who can turn shopping into an Olympic sport, I wanted to make some money from the website. Now, that was …

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We’ve all seen the sites that make you think “Uh oh, amateur hour”. It’s easy for beginners to make some basic mistakes that give their sites an amateurish look. So how do you avoid giving that impression with your first website? Here are 20 tips to help you.
1. Look at lots of good and bad sites. Try to list what makes them look good or bad.
2. Keep your pages simple. Look at the way good magazines layout their pages.

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Whether your website is for your business, to give information on a subject you love or just because you want your own website, it is very disappointing if it doesn’t get an audience so it’s worth taking the trouble to get presentation and content right.

I really enjoy Twitter. I don’t have thousands of followers, just 286,  nor do I follow thousands of people, only 197.  That’s the way I like it. I don’t want to be the recipient of loads of spam tweets, constant plugs for websites, get rich quick schemes or messages concerned about my spiritual well being which I feel is my business not some stranger’s.