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Designing Your Site
Templates
Most sources offer templates so that you can design your Web site with very little computer knowledge. Often, you don't even need to know HTML– just choose and type what you want to be on your site .
Online Template Examples: WebSite Tonight
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Software
Don't be tricked into thinking you have to pay big money for Web site development software, there are several free programs that will give you all the basic functionalities you need to make a quality site.
- Microsoft Sharepoint Designer (Site Development)
- Aptana (Site Development)
- Gimp (Image Editor)
There is also fancier and more expensive software available for Web site development. Most professional Web sites will be built with "fancier" software packages like Adobe Dreamweaver (~$420).
These give much more control to the designer and allow for more complex designs / features.
For very basic Web sites, you can even use Microsoft Word. A tutorial on building Web sites with Word can be found on the e-Commerce tutorials page under the "development software" tab.
Online Tools
Create a banner, logo or button with free or fee online graphics generators:
Free Online Stock Photography at:
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These materials were developed as part of the Southern Rural Development Center’s National e-Commerce Extension Initiative. They are based upon work supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (formerly CSREES), U.S. Department of Agriculture, under Award No. 2005-45064-03212 Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or the Southern Rural Development Center. |