Thinking About Signing Up For SBI

chrisinbc · #1 (**permalink**) 11-10-2008, 07:34 PM

Hello everyone,

I am seriously considering signing up for SBI again. I've actually signed up a couple of times before, but both times I took advantage of SBI's 30 day money back guarantee. What turned me away from SBI was the Brainstorming process, finding keywords using Wordtracker. I already have a niche, Internet Security. I also have over 40 pages of content. Wading through hundreds of keywords for my site - internet security, keylogging, keystoke logging, spam, phishing, viruses, etc. seemed like an overwhelming, boring, tedious task. Plus I was afraid I would have to rewrite my content to include different keywords, which to be honest, also seemed like a lot of work. Right now I feel kinda stuck, like I am not moving anywhere. The only thing which I seem to be doing consistently is writing a couple of posts a week in my blog. I almost feel like the time spent writing posts in my blog, is taking away from working on my currently offline Internet Security site. I know HTML quite well, as I have created a few sites over the years using HTML. However, my knowledge of CSS is very minimal. I have found a nice CSS template to use for my site, but I need to learn some CSS to modify my site, such as using the CSS style sheet to have my header banner show up on every page of my site. Right now the way I have my offline layout set up is I have to manually put in my header image on every page. Anyways, learning CSS seems like a daunting task right now and I do not know where to start. I feel like I am just wasting time away right now, with my energy focussed in too many different directions. I need to implement a plan of action, and stick to it. I thought signing up for CSS, and taking time out of every day to work on my site, would be a way to accomplish at least getting my site back online again. Anyways, enough rambling for now. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Chris H.

noelma1117 · #2 (**permalink**) 11-10-2008, 10:31 PM

About learning CSS ...
Try "Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML "
by Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Freeman
I checked it out from my local library and it gives a pretty good handle on the subject.

noelma1117

lisa · #3 (**permalink**) 11-10-2008, 11:14 PM

Have you also tried learning from www.w3schools.com ?

chrisinbc · #4 (**permalink**) 11-11-2008, 03:33 PM

Thank you Lisa and Noelma for takijustng the time to respond to my post.

Lisa, thanks for the link. I just briefly checked them out, and it looks like they have some really good CSS tutorials. I certainly will spend more time on that site. Noelma, next time I go to the library I'll see if they have "Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML." A good book on CSS I'm sure would help me out. Have a great day

Chris H.

James · #5 (**permalink**) 11-11-2008, 03:55 PM

Just a second on the book, Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML. It is one of the best.

It uses a rather unusual, but very effective, presentation method. On most pages you find what looks like hand written notes with arrows pointing out important parts of code, and other similar notations.

Most important, it deals directly with the things you really want to know to build your web pages.

mirage2009 · #6 (**permalink**) 11-12-2008, 03:29 AM

ya James, It sure is a strong book, and an inspiring method of teaching, I have a copy right in front of me now, but unfortunately it's not the whole book any more:S because somebody tried to steal it from my locker, but couldn't get the whole book out so he tore it apart & left chapter 8

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