I know I need content that relates to my site.....but where do I put it? Do I create another page within my site or just place little paragraphs on my current pages?

I know this is a no-brainer to most of you...but I'm still trying to get on track with building traffic to my site.

Paula

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Mental Clinic,

I was looking for something a little more "user friendly" for a young babe in web design. These diagrams look really confusing. Can't I just write articles on a web page?

Paula

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For starting you might want to check out CMS'ses which will create site's structure automatically. Setting some CMS'ses up might be a bit tricky though, but most well known ones are as simple as installing program to your computer.

I would suggest looking into WordPress. I found it easiest to use and it is very easy to set up as well. But it might not be suitable for some needs.
If you would explain more what you want to do then maybe I could help you more.
But Wordpress allows you to do exactly what you want. "Just write articles". Once you set up your site of course. All you will have to do then is go to administration panel, click "Write", insert title of your article write content for it and press "Publish". That's it.

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Paula,

Don't worry, it's not a silly question. Here is what I would do:

I would create another tab on the left hand-side panel of your navigation and call it "articles" or "information" or "resources" something like that.

In your public_html, I would create a new folder and call it "articles" or "information" or "resources". Then, in that new section, I would add articles. Each article would be in a separate page. If the article is relevant to one of your other existing pages, you can certainly link them together. For example, if you write an article about the proper etiquette of a wedding invitation, then link the article to that section of your website. Does this make sense?

Please let me know if what I am saying is unclear.

Sherif

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Hi SSMorgan!

This is the part I don't understand:

In your public_html, I would create a new folder and call it "articles" or "information" or "resources". Then, in that new section, I would add articles.

I get the part about if the article has something to do with a page in my site, to link back to it. But the "public_html" stuff, I don't understand.

Sorry for being so basic, but I just starting learning about web sites less than a year ago!! This is my first real site.

Thanks for being patient!

Paula

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Paula,

Don't worry about it

Let's start by what's familiar to you... how do you create your pages? What software do you use?

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Paula,

I think you are going to have to do one of two things. Either get someone to help you personally who knows about the page you have or get a good book like Sitepoint's Build Your Own Web Site the Right Way (much cheaper from Amazon), take a couple of weeks to study it and then redo your site from the ground up.

I'm imagining that you just got a template of some kind. From your questions I can only believe that you didn't do it yourself unless it is with a very quirky WYSIWYG program. It does use xhtml code which one would think is good, but it has some very terrible code like its positioning approach.

You can't insert additional links, for instance, as is being recommended without changing a host of positioning codes. Furthermore, if you have poor eyesight and increase the type size even a little, all kinds of things overlap. Frankly, even if you manage to make a few additions you are going to be fighting an unending battle with this setup.

Please don't be discouraged. My first experience was one of wasting a lot of time and money learning html from highly promoted books that were so outdated I had to unlearn before I could learn. I threw away the books and cd's because I wouldn't even give them away. If you are serious about this work you will want to learn.

Good Success!

James

I used Dreamweaver to build my site; no templates. I did use an additional Flash software. The thought of re-building it just to incorporate articles is a nightmare! I think I'll just do some research on this and find a way to do it.

Thanks guys!
Paula

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Paula,

It may not be as hard to fix then as it looks. With that information I checked back and see that it is primarily the Flash stuff that causes your problems. All the flash has absolute positioning which means it doesn't move when other content does.

If you move that picture box to the top of the left column it would not interfere with adding additional links in the left column. Content needs to be able to expand downward to add new links. Adding them will then be quite easy.

The same problem is caused by the big pink bar at the bottom. It is absolutely positioned so that when anyone's browser puts up slightly different size type or if you add a few words above it, etc., the text and bar will overlap. It also overlaps your left column a bit so as it expands you will get overlapping there, too. I would just take that out. You can insert something similar in dreamweaver as a graphic if you want and it will move with other content.

You should be able to change all the flash stuff to relative positioning, too, and that could work but you still would need to make the bar narrower. Getting the flash program to mingle with dreamweaver is something more to learn and I would try to learn one thing at a time.

If you go to w3schools.com and study just a little html you will easily be able to insert additional links on the left column. When you learn what they are (very simple) you can just copy the same format in the code view of dreamweaver or let dreamweaver do it if you know how. It helps to understand the code anyway. Then you just upload any additional pages as you want into your folder with links pointing to them just as the ones you have now do. It really isn't that hard so hang in there.

Good Success!

James

Hey James!

I'm still here.....just been busy doing some reading up on this topic. Thanks for all your input. This is my "bump in the road", but I'll either get over it or drive around it!!!!

Thanks!
Paula

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