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take time to make one perfect page with appropriate menu, hero, text header, content, footer - then duplicate and add your content
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- Use Squash to reduce image size - sharpness 79 vibrance 34 - jpg quality 60%
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Number 1 do no start in Elements, make a plan on paper what your business/personal objective for website are and what you want to achieve. Have a clear goal and business plan if for business. What is the purpose of website? Commerce/Information/landing page/collections etc. Then list roughly what you need in terms of requirements e.g. resources/external link ups (e commerce) etc.Then sketch out your idea either pencil or paper or wire frame. Ask yourself when done will this meet your objectives? If not redo. If so then youâre ready to plan your site. Are there corporate colours? What colour scheme am I going to use? Collect all your resources in a folder and prep them as necessary/required. Now youâre ready to open Elements and get started - Colour scheme/fonts etc. Import all your resources and put into folders and then do a basic outline from your plan with placeholders and see if this meets your plan. Once happy then you can start to fill it out to make it exactly what you want. A lot of people start with their web package and then try to make something of it, but as I always told is âdonât go down a road unless you know where your goingâ. Remember a business plan is a âlivingâ tool and needs updating regularly - if your website looks great but you get no visitors then think why? A website is just a tool in your box you need to market your product/service etc. to get traffic and in this day and age AI is just as important as SEO, use of social media if required and how all of this links into your plan. A website is not for life but with tools like ELEMENTS its a lot easier to manage. Happy elementing!
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Yes I take for granted your step 
hopefully people have done their research and homework
You must see a lot? Making websites for othersâŚ
I am guilty⌠many of my projects have failedâŚ
Tried, planned, etc⌠still failedâŚ.
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- Use The Templates!!! They dramatically increase your productivity. Use the menu templates, use the hero templates, use the left column-right column templates, use the contact sections and definitely use the footer sections
Customize colors fonts etcâŚ
- Huge timesaver here - double click on a link!!! Brings up the link inspector - and the link option
Then select it to make changes
This one is for ADVANCED Users Only!
5.) Publishing - deleting stranded files
Because elements doesnât delete items from the server - you often have âextrasâ up on your hosting server.
For Example: you publish a version with tons of âlooseâ svg
A week later you publish again but this time you put the svg in a folder under resources
The old ones are still on your server! Same with images, old pages, etcâŚ
What I do: Every Few Months or after a massive folder restructuring - FOR Me - I FTP into server - âIâ delete everything - then upload a fresh new copy of restructured folders
Depending on your situation: THIS MAY NOT WORK FOR YOU!
But for me - keeps my files memory usage down and tidy
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Was hoping to get YOUR tips
- Panels are movable and programmable!!! Set up your best settings then âsave workspaceâ I have two settings: one: âallâ every panel showing full screen and two: âsave spaceâ a shrunken panel version to drag media from the desktop into the resources panel
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We publish a tip every Tuesday in Elements Weekly, new tip tomorrow and itâs not one youâve mentioned yetâŚ
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Sadly I was taught early on in project management stage of my career âfail to plan - plan to failâ however we all fail before we can win! So look at why you think you are failing and itâs most probably a lack of a plan or the interpretation of what is given to you by someone else who most probably doesnât know what they want! Keep trying you will always get there in the end! Best of luck!
Yes -more should be said about your post⌠build it and they will come - Doesnât Work in most cases⌠unless a lucky viral social post directs huge loads of traffic to your site
Planning is key - and creating a business plan is paramount.
I would say that I am âplayingâ around on the internet.
I would like my sites to be successful - I do 13 platforms for social media - 5x a day
I try - but - never took out a small business loan and âdid it rightâ always tried to start the business on my own without proper advertising and etcâŚ
On a complete side issue - using squash at 75% still gives you small files but keeps more of the image - play with the resolution nd look at the resultsâŚ
I learned by experience and now as nearly 70 year old I try to pass on the wisdom of experience. Business is complex I have run my retirement project since 2007 and have built up from scratch my company I work about 1 hour a day maximum and have zero staff and have done everything online from start. I receive only email orders, I have always worked from home and have a very hefty turnover which pays for my lifestyle. I have been asked many times to build sites for friends and I always say NO unless they give me their business plan and more importantly their marketing plan. I will then tell them how much I will charge them! Once just to show a persistent member of my family who asked for a website I did a one pager free for him. After a month he came back and said he had no visitors and no sales. The first hing I asked him was this because of website and he said maybe. I asked him where had he marketed the fact he had a website, he said âhe thought that having a website everyone would come to himâ Then I removed his website and told him to come back with a plan - he never did! So LESSON LEARNED! Build it and they will come - great film by the way - NEVER works especially in this day and age. MARKETING snd ADVERTISING is the key! Good luck however playing without a plan is in my eyes worthless. Be smart target the most important feeds for you and go of it.
As regards Squash I have been using this along with Type/Clear etc. for many years but I also like my Panda - Tinypng which I used for many years before Squash came along.
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- Re- read number 3
Use Templates -adjust existing templates to fit your needs
When the online store opens, I will purchase professionally made templates - where you adjust - and insert content
YOU DONâT NEED Millions - think Quality over quantity
80-90% of your work can be satisfied through Ben and Danâs stock templates - REALLY!!!
Itâs the edge cases where some quality templates for multimedia or other content may be time saversâŚ
- Outside Elements - Website Resources To Consider
A. Use chat gpt ask for high seo rated meta description, webpage title and extensive comma delimited keywords
B. Use HeyGen to create virtual spokespersons for your content and social media - sign up for one month and pay extra fees for aviator IV about $60-$70 will get you 60 8-10 second videos
C. Use chat GPT for banner images and spokesperson content photos in HeyGen
D. Many free open source software packages are available to add more functionality to your website. Example: Flarum - a free open source forum software could be added to your website!
E. Try simple HTML inserts in your website. I use chat GPT to script extra functions - then insert the code into elements. Call to action - pop ups - displayed ONCE a week for example.
F. Consider an auto post company to social media promote your brand. I use Fedica. You make a spreadsheet of 100 posts, upload HeyGen videos and other picture media to the Fedica media library - include call to action phrases in your text section of the spreadsheet. I personally choose to schedule 5 posts a day to 13 different social media platforms. $120 per year. Every 20 days - the 100 posts - for me - start over automatically. 20 days x 5 posts per day = 100 posts
G. Use eZy watermark video app for iPhone to add your brand information to your HeyGen Videos
- if you have multiple sites to the same host - make a bookmark
Then when you start a new site - itâs mostly populated except the pathâŚ
Now itâs time for your contribution