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Build Your Website in 15 Minutes or Less, Then Make It Work

Derek K. Miller, Communications Manager, Navarik Corp.

EAC/ACR, 9 June 2006
Personal blog: penmachine.com
EAC Conference: editors.ca/cultivate

Easy Ways to Build a Website


These are just some examples:

What is a Website?


(Honestly, it's a bunch of text files on a computer.)


What is a Blog?



What is a Feed?



How can I possibly get that together in 15 minutes?

Let's do it and find out...




Start Your Timers!




Done!




Let's do it again!

Get a Domain


Huh? I thought we were done.

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Now What?

What is a website for?


What is a website for?


What is a website for?


WHO is a website for?

What is a website for?


WHO is a website for?

Visitors!

What is a website for?


What is a website for?


  1. To get information

What is a website for?


  1. To get information
  2. To do something useful

What is a website for?


  1. To get information
  2. To do something useful
  3. To have fun

What is a website for?


  1. To get information
  2. To do something useful
  3. To have fun

(...and to promote yourself)

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Being useful, Being Usable


Being useful, Being Usable


A useful website must be usable.

It's hard for a usable website to be useless.

An unusable website is never useful.

Editing for the Web


One example.

Google Juice, SEO, and Link Love


Google Juice, SEO, and Link Love


Translation: it's all about the words.

Google Juice, SEO, and Link Love


Translation: it's all about the words.

Standards are good. That's good for editors.

So What is My Advice?


  1. Start now.
  2. Build over time.
  3. Write well.
  4. Be useful.
  5. Know what to give away.