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by Hassan Bawab, Has

A company's website has more than one purpose. Primarily it's used to strengthen and build the company's brand. The other valuable functions of a website include extra revenue earning though advertisements and increasing your company's global audience. The concept of target marketing has been redefined in an online marketing world. Previously companies tried to reach regional or national audience, today people aim for global target audience.

Another result of a company's successful website is that it increases the authenticity and reputation of the brand. Allowing user interaction such as providing a section on your site for customer feedback helps garner company confidence among the target audience.

A small company with a functional website has better reputation than a medium sized enterprise without a website. In fact experts have found that if a customer searches for your company online and search results show no findings for your website or you have a broken link; this creates a negative impression in the mind of the consumer.

Websites can also reduce the burdens placed on a company's HR department. Most companies accept resumes of prospective employees sent to their email address through the website. This is beneficial for both the company and the job hunter. The job hunter saves time and can apply to more jobs. The company profits because it receives resumes and candidates without spending money on the recruitment process.

Magic Logix, Inc. is a web company capable of addressing all your online media needs. Based in Dallas, Texas, we cater to clients across the United States and have tapped into the global market. They follow a ?grassroots? level approach from the start to finish. The design team involve themselves with the complete online marketing requirements of the client. They go beyond providing a great website by making sure that all the online marketing strategies are in place and working for the client. Even after the launch of the new website, they continue maintaining the site. Companies require site updating to increase the potential of attracting customers. Magic Logix Inc. charges the lowest fee to do these additional services for the client. They have the most competitive rates in the industry and their quality is unmatched in the whole of USA.

They believe in building long-term relationships with their clients and maintaining customer satisfaction. Choosing a web development and digital marketing firm is one of the most significant decisions a business owner will make. Fortunately business owners have Magic Logix Inc. to take care of every detail of the web development process. They understand the technology required to give your branding and marketing that extra push. Many companies can create a static web page; but very few can effectively assess your business and develop marketing strategies, branding and communication channels that are essential to the success of your business model.

Apart from HTML, PHP is another language that is commonly used to build the websites. Your web site may just be a one page HTML site or interactive site with lots of content in it. While HTML perfectly suits the former, PHP comes handy in building the latter. You may also like to use databases in case of large websites.

However, for the beginners, HTML is the easiest and quickest option. As I said above now a days you do not need to learn HTML completely. (But it would always be a great help in tweaking your web pages and would save you a lot of headaches if you know the basics.)

These resources would be a great help if you wish to learn HTML basics and advanced.

Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi - jalfrezi.com/

HTML - An Interactive Tutorial For Beginners -davesite.com/webstation/html/

You can find more resources by searching on Google.

But you can create a web page without knowing HTML. This has been made possible with arrival of WYSIWYG editors. Pronounced "whizzy whig", these programs allow beginners to build complex pages by simply "dragging and dropping" onto the work area. WYSIWYG stands for "What you see is what you get". These editors allow you to work on an interface that is simple and almost represents the final appearance of your website. All the HTML and other coding go behind the scenes.

There are many WYSIWYG editors available but most common are

* Dreamweavor- macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/

* FrontPage- microsoft.com/frontpage/

* Adobe GoLive- adobe.com/

All of these come at a good price. Arachnophilia is a free software and you might like to test your skills on it.

* Arachnophilia- arachnoid.com/

* Nvu (pronounced N-view)is another WYSIWYG editor which is open source and does not charge anything. It is good and you can download it here-http://nvu.com

PHP is more complex than HTML and if you wish to make a website in PHP it is better to find an expert.

Website builders are WYSIWYG editors which are web based rather than running on you computers. Most of the hosts are now offering website builder access in their packages. Check if your host has got one.

Host Gator, my recommended host does. You can check them here.

Another option is to use Content Management System. If you do not wish to go through the hassles of building webpages and uploading them, you can use content management systems. They are mostly free, also come with the package of web hosting and mostly can be installed with one click. All you need after that is to choose a suitable theme and add pages. Layout and categorization is handled by CMS itself. Mambo, Joomla and Drupal are commonly used CMSs.

Similarly, you can also choose to use blogs for this purpose. Most recommended blog platform is Wordpress.

However you would have to play a little with CMS and blogs before you can fully master them.

Most of beginning websites are of few pages at the most. It is better to build them in WYSIWYG editors. Simultaneously you can learn other things and finally improve upon your site.

Article Source : Human Resource And Skill Development Canada

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