Development of Websites - Two Newbie Questions - Please Help!

[Grappler]

Two questions from a newbie.

1. I do not have technical skills, but would like to learn how to develop my own sites. Would someone please advise me how to do this? Courses I should take, books or tools I can buy? I'd like an estimate of time that it would take for me to become capable of producing a simple, but effective landing pages for my domain names. Any other relevant advice or input would be highly appreciated!

2. In the meantime, are their vendors who specialize in developing websites or landing pages for newbies like me? I'd appreciate any advice more experienced domainers would share with me and others who read this thread.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Semper Fi, Grappler

 

[ZoomZoom]

Thats a very open ended question but if you want to start develoing I alway recommend reading this book:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/06...ef=sr_1_3/104-6526057-3068709?ie=UTF8&s=books

( Its not an affiliate link )

It gives a great overview of web development as well as covering the basics of what you need to know to get started.

To your second question.. there are but you should beware, there are some places that will sell you "scraped" website made up of content that is aggregated from other places. They will tell you that they get it from places that allow that but what they don't say is that they don't follow the terms of use. ( Yes I am being delibirately vague, if you get around to some other domaining places you should be able to figure it out when you see it )

I recommend just going to eLance and posting up your project there.

 

[CrazyTech]

1. My best advice is to start out with a simple HTML book. You can pick one up at a local bookstore for about $20-$30. From there, you can graduate to more advanced books and keep a tabs on places like here at Namepros. It never hurts to have someone to ask if you become confused.

2. There are what they call turnkey sites and site editors out there, but as ZoomZoom above me pointed out, beware. My advice would be to go ahead and learn what you need to know or pay a person to develop it for you. These cookiecutter template/turnkey websites aren't really that good. A few people have limited success and then the rest sale for $20-$30 at best.

 

[ZoomZoom]

With the above warning on the performance of these sites ( they have no SEO value at all )...

If you just want a parking website with articles from article banks that actually meet the TOS then PM me. I can create them based on your keywords and have them to you in less then 24 hours.

An example: http://www.injury-lawyer-personal.com/

Although that one has all original content which is what I recommend you use.

 

[DomainPromoting]

While your learning how to develop your domains yourself, perhaps park your sites in the meantime? At least then you have a landing page that has the potential to earn you a revenue (even if it ends up being small) while you learn and practise the necessary skills to develop them on your own.

It can take sometime to learn such skills (depending on the person), but it will certainly be worth it in the long run if you plan on developing numerous domains.

I agree with SwampFox and starting out with HTML books is a good start. You can even find some free tutorials online to start you off for free