Websites for Dummies

If you were building a website in 1999, you would have needed and FTP utility, an HTML editor, a TELNET utility you would need to build the pages in html then upload all the pices of the page to the website using the FTP program switching between ASC and Binary mode.

That is after you constructed the graphic elements in one of several graphics programs.

If you did not have the correct paths to the images, they would not appear in the page, so all the paths had to be manually adjusted using a text editor to keep the website complete as it differs from the pages built on your local pc.

If you are confused, don't worry. So was everyone else.

Today, companies like pagebuzz offer online site builders which run directly on the website. You can build a page, save it and you are done.

At one time you needed an IT diploma from MIT to build a page. Now you can be an internet dummy and still build an incredible website. It has become that easy.

There are still a few hradcore webmasters doing it the old way, but business owners are tired of depending on webmasters and they need more functionality than most designers can offer.

Most web designers are just that. Fluffers. They make the site look good, but few have the programing background to make the website a true web 2.0 shopping system.

So most dummys just use a simple system like pagebuzz.com which includes all the programing and tools to run a professional website for just a few dollars a month.

As with any technology, the market is so competitive that companies need to offer more and more for less.

Site builders offer ready made templates, shopping carts and other programs that are installed in every website. Any dummy can build a page that would stand up to any webmaster built page.

We often see webmasters charging $5,000.00 for a website and then telling the customer they don't know how to add a shopping cart so they need to have a programer do that for another $10,000.00.

OK, maybe I am the dummy. But $10 a month for a complete website vs $15,000.00 for a basic website with only a shopping cart that the website owner can't modify.

Most of the dummys have gotten used to shopping carts that have extensive management functions, sales reports and invoicing. Websites that virtually build themselves and are easy to update and manage.

I am not sure who the actaul dummy is? The one that paid $15,000.00 for a "profesional" website design or the one that pays $10 for a working business and has an active and dynamic chaging website business.

Maybe I am the dummy for selling a software system that makes building pages simple for only $10.