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What kind of programs do you need to build a webpage?
Your going to need an image editing program, your going to need an html editor, and your going to need an ftp program. There is some free stuff out there you can use. Some of the free programs are just as good if not better than some of the programs you pay for.
image editing gimp
html editor nvu nvu has an ftp program built in, but I wouldn't use it. I prefer to save my pages on my hard drive then use an ftp program.
Ftp program FileZilla - Client Download Filezilla

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Computers are mechanical, they have a hard drive that spins and they do go bad. Some point in your life you are going to have a hard drive one day that takes a big dump. The information on that drive is your business. You should do a backup of your computers hard drive every couple of days, you should do a server back up every time you add a new site. Big drives are pretty cheap these days. Its nothing to pick up a 500gig drive for $100 you can pick up a external hard drive case for around $30. Its simple to just put the hard drive in the case and have your own back up drive. Over the years I have had many webmasters just about cry because they lost a hard drive. Do yourself a huge favor back your stuff up. You can do it while you sleep, once its done disconnect the external hard drive and there is everything you need incase you loose everything..

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Capture your traffic.. No its not like holding them hostage, its about makeing a site where they want to come back every day that you send your own traffic to. The reason you want to do this is because your building a site that you can build traffic to. This is one of my biggest mistakes I didn't do in my early years.
The easyest way is with a fake tgp. A fake tgp is not exactly fake, it looks like a normal tgp the only difference is you don't take submissions from other webmasters. You use sponsor hosted galleries to feed your tgp website. If you need a tgp script contact me and I will tell you where I have an old version of comus tgp that is text only, its the last free version they gave away before they went pay. It does have a small bug in the script do to there license I can't change it, but I can tell you where the bug is. Its where you tell the script how many charictors to allow the script to post on the tgp page.

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In the post above I mentioned sponsor hosted galleries. These are premade galleries that sponsors have built for webmasters to use. You can not take them and submit them to tgps. You can not rip them and put them on your server as your own work, unless you have the sponsors permission. The reason being is the license for the images from the image provider, may not contain the provision that the sponsor can give the content out to webmasters, but can only use the content on there own domain.
You can use them for links on a blog, or you can use them on a fake tgp or your own tgp as filler. Some do not sell as well as the ones you build yourself. It kind of just one of those nice things sponsors do for webmasters.

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The myth of being a webmaster. Yes there are some webmaster that spend 16 to 18 hours a day working. They are dedicated webmasters that make there living strickly from being a webmaster. If you don't have the time spend being a webmaster then don't. But do spend a couple hours a day learning and working. You won't be makeing a ton of money at it, but you will be learning and once you learn you will find that there will become a time when you will be makeing more money from this biz than your regular job, it may take you a few years, but it is well worth it to learn this biz, it can take you places you never dreamed of.

Before you think I don't have time for this and quit, think of this. 10 years from now is that tv show, that movie, that pint at the pub going to really do you any good, will you even remember it. This business is here to stay in some form or another. The only thing that is more important in this biz is your family and your health. Make time for it, over time it will reward you back. If you give up and quit it will give up on you too.

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Failed sites. Before you think your the only one that has had an idea fail, your not. I have a ton of idea's that just didn't work the way I wanted them to. But working with idea's is not a bad thing. Every large site out there started from nothing. It was someones idea. Some idea's are multimillion dollar winners. Others are total flops, but you don't know if an idea is going to work until you try it. If at first it don't work, don't spend as much time on it as you normally would, cut back on it a bit, but until the idea is a few years old, don't give up on it.

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Burnout..
If your in this biz for a good bit of time your going to suffer from burn out. It can strike at any time. I go thru burnout about once every five or six months, it lasts about three or four days. I get thru it by looking at projects I want to do, talking to other webmasters, and spending a boat load of money shopping on the web. I find working out at the gym helps, but sometimes its just your brain saying dude or dudette take a break.. it happens so just kind of figure on it happening some time or another.. Don't try and kill yourself and work thru it.. It can get so bad you just completly quit. You don't want to do that, you just want to take a bit of time off..

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Eye strain
When I started doing this gig, I had a 15inch crt, then I moved up to a 19inch flat screen crt, then I moved up to a dual 21inch lcd's. I now use a 27 inch lcd. I would go to dual 27inch lcd's but I don't have the room on my desk.
One thing you will find after a few hours of stareing at bright light in your face is your eyes start to bug out, they can burn, itch, or just plain hurt. The best way to combat this is to get a timer and set it for 45 minutes. When it goes off get up walk around and then come back, give your eyes time to ajust to a different light. If you don't and you continue you could really put a hurting on your eyes..

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Staying focused.
I get asked this a bunch.. How do I stay focused on what I am doing, One minute I am building, the next minute I am looking for a script or something and I end up not working but surfing. I am a firm believer in timers. I keep a couple of them on my desk. I buy the little cheap digital ones for like $1 at the dollar store. I set the timer for 15 minutes, when the timer goes off, I am like oops better get back to what I was doing. Or I am like sheesh its been 15 minutes already, reset the timer and go back to what I was working on.. but it does help me stay focused.

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I get asked all the time, I have decided to start with building galleries, where do I start. I know I am contradicting myself, here but get two cheap hosts, unless you have the money for your own box. Buy 6 domains. Look at the bottom of netpond and choose 4 sponsors that supply images. Never start with movies, you will get nailed before you even start. Buy a copy of chameleonsubmitter and buy a copy of confirmer too.
Then build and submit 3 galleries per day. Each gallery should contain 20 to 25 images, make sure when you link to your image, remembering that tgp doesn't allow images in html.. After you run it a few times, you going to figure out who is sending you traffic, and who is not. If your get listed on some of the larger tgp's either your building things wrong, or your building things that are just to good. You don't want slammed with the kind of traffic they are going to send at first. You want smaller tgp traffic.. You have to learn how to sell to tgp, its not the easyest thing in the world.

When you have 10 galleries that you have used then go back thru confirmers emails, for one day. Your going to find some of the sites offering free partner acounts, apply for them.. this will help you get listed in the long run, make sure when you email them to include a link to the 10 galleries that you have made.

Once your makeing money, don't spend all of it, Bank roll it. Once you have enough money go searching out paid partner acounts, or if you want buy Chameleon Partner Account Requester. This is where the 2nd host will come in, once you start using paid partner acounts your going to need a backup cheap host. Because chances are your going to start sucking some resources. They are going to do the nasty things we talked about earlyer. Upload a copy of your stuff on your secondary host, just in case you get nailed for the resources thing, its kind of a backup just in case. If host a goes belly up for you, switch to the secondary. Yes you can wait a while before getting the second backup hosting, I just prefer to warn everyone, your prob going to need it. Because once your galleries are down, you got to get them back up asap, email your paid partner acounts, and tell them your hosting went south, but your galleries should resolve within 6 to 12 hours. because you have already done your homework and everything is backed up all you have to do is change the dns on your domains..
Remember cover your butt when it comes to cheap hosting.. If you cant afford good hosting. Once you can afford it, get off the cheap crap, because it will bit you sooner or later..

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Part II
When submitting to tpg's always use the same name, and the same email address. This way the tgp's will get to know you, as long as you stay on the up and up with them, they will stay on the up and up with you..

Tgp rules, I have seen and heard every story in the book when it comes to rules of tgp, the best rule of thumb is follow the rules. If you don't like the rules of a tgp, don't submit to them.
If you get banned by a tgp, send them an email, humble yourself, hey mr sitename, I am a newbie and I am really sorry that I broke your rules, I will make sure that not to submit to your tgp anymore anything that would violate your rules. This may or may not get you unbanned. If it don't then owell.
Some tgp owners understand newbies some don't. The key thing to remember its there site and they can run it however they wish.

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I am going to make millions, keep it quiet now don't want everyone doing it.. You know kind of a secret. You know how cows have cow hide, or leather? minks are for like mink coats.. well I am going to get me some nauga's I will make millions selling nauga hide, its in tons of cars.. Ok you can quit lauging now, there is a great lesson here.. actually two lessons.

First don't believe everything you hear, There is tons of get rich quick crap on a lot boards out there, we do are best to kill it before it gets stupid here on netpond. A lot of posts you see here on the newbie board, believe or not I have told or written about a lot of them. When I see someone say what I have said, I leave it, when I see something I haven't said, I investigate it. If your around very long I am sure you will repeat to someone what I have told you.. At first I was like "Hey they stoled my words" Now I am like honored that they remembered what I taught them..

Second thing to learn is don't go chaseing everything that comes down the pike. Every concept out there has made money for someone, even how to sell in an ebook be it good or bad has made people money. Stick with what your doing, give it a chance to work. Jumping from one thing to another only ties up your time and you don't have time to do everything...

If the joke didn't make sence to you, naugahyde is a man made material it doesn't come from an animal..

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Keep your pc running at its peak performance. When I first wrote the original thread, windows xp was just comming out, with windows 98 it was scan disk and defrag every week and dumping temp files and temp internet files. Now days its dump temp files and temp internet files and running defrag every week. Here is a real killer, when you got your pc it prob had a decent size hard drive. 120 gigs or more, the bad news as you work you fill up that big drive. It takes more time to seek out information. If you change the drive, or get a new one, split it up with sectoring it, like if its 500 gig drive, sector it to 4 125 gig drives, or come pretty close, you dont get a pure 500 gigs out of a 500 gig drive, but you will get close. this way your drive will look for things in a smaller space..

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I know sometimes you guys are insane with what why who and every question you can think of is running thru your mind, what color, what layout, what sponsor, what banner what sales txt, what what what what.. How do I know, because you ask and ask and ask.. the bad thing is, there is no majic layout, no majic color, no majic sponsor, no majic banner.. What there is experiance, each and ever niche is different, each page layout is different.. Kiss.. keep it simple stupid applies to everything, the easyer you make it for your surfer to get what they want, will be the golden rule. Don't try and be a perfectionist, if the links work, banners and images pull page loads nice and quick, you have half the battle done. Quit trying to build the ultimate website there isnt one.

I was looking at stats from old site the other day, I have seen sites that back in 2000 had 200,000 hits the other day they had 20,000 hits, no real ryme or reason, it just happened that way. I seen old sites that grew from 30,000 hits in 2000 to 50,000 the other day, no real reason they just didn't expand. Todays hotness is tomorrows waste land. The net moves with inovations and new things, its like a new car, no one wants the one they bought last year, they want this years model, it may be the same car but it still new and improved. Don't burry yourself in yesterday, build for today, because next year it may be something else.

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Images video cams... I built a lot of sites that graduate from one to the other. I like to run my image surfers to video sites, and my video sites to live. or my image sites to live. With sales text like images are nice but if you really want the best the net has to offer see a girl do this for you live. I will then send them off to cams.com
The thing with cams is that it takes a while to build up your membership base. Its a slow process until you get a few whales in the mix, I have one surfer that will spend $500 at the first week of the month, like clock work, I see the same $500 sale this surfer has been doing this a very long time. Cams sites are for the long haul webmaster, there not for a quick money scheme busness model. When it comes to video I send a lot of my traffic to aebn sending surfers from image to video is easy. With sales txt something like. Isn't this babe hot, wouldn't you like to see a babe doing it on high quality video? Your upselling from one to the other. When adult check a now out of business adult verification system, or avs, I made thousands of sales from images to video, until adult check started giving away video, then my sales went down, but there was still money to be made pushing images to video.

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Free password in the email programs. I have always made a good chunk of change with passwords by email Like the ones cecash has, with a program like cemags paying $1.50 per double opt in email it makes for some easy made money in your pocket. But just telling you this won't help you out a lot, you need to know a little trick thats been around for ages and still works today. I have pages with free passwords in the url, be it domain names or just a page name. I use the matrix builder and build whole pages or sites based on the matrix builder. I explain to surfers on the page whats involved, they put in there email address on the page I link to, and they will get an email asking them if they truely would like a free password. This is a good way to make money. But be warned some tgp's and link lists will not link to site or pages that promote email programs. But if you do blogs its a good thing to have on them..

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Cell phones, Ipods, Psp's, smart phones. I am kind of new to this concept myself. But I will tell you what I have learned. Most cell phones use a video format of 3gp, Ipods are Mp4, Psp's and Smart phones use wmv. To build for one kind of handheld is kind of like useing a sling shot to shoot a moose. Sure you can hit it but to keep from pissing it off you might as well take it out for dinner. The sites I am looking at building are multi formated under the niche of handhelds. This is sort of a thriving business in other countries, but not in the Usa. What has hurt the usa market, is this dick companies that advertise ringtones, backgrounds, and crap for phones, saying there free, then turning around and charging the customer a membership fee, and sending unasked for stuff, then charging the customer for them. From reports of this writting usa is a 23million dollar industry, where other countries are around 1billion dollar industry. Is it wise to build for handhelds, right now is the best time to get started on a project, but I wouldn't dedicate a lot of my time to it, maybe an hour every couple of days, to build the traffic, once the tap turns on full stream then you will have a bit of an edge over someone just starting. It will happen it is just a matter of when.
One thing about ring tones, images, and video, unless you own the rights to it, it is very much stealing or bootlegging, so be careful what you upload, make sure you own it.
Also some content producers require an aditional license to use the content you have for the web, to be used on handhelds, so be sure to check before you just use the content.

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Search Engines: I have to say over the years I am rusty, I havent done anything major with seo in a long time. One of the main things I do to be up in the top is buy the domain for the keywords I want. It seems to help a lot if you domain name is the keywords. To be good at seo you have to be analistic. You have to be able to look at se listings and figure out why they are where they are. Do enough searches and you will see some what of a pattern. Its kind of hit or miss, because you may get lucky right out of the box or you may fail, but you have to treat seo as a you would a video game, make it quest. Thats how I leaned seo, I made it a quest to be number one. From 1995 to 2000 99% of my traffic was from se's. I had over 2,000 listings in search aol alone in the the top 20. How I learned how to get listed in dmoz and back then dmoz was aol's search engine of choice, and if hadn't been for asshole editors aol would still be useing dmoz. In 1997 if you wanted the top listing at altavista you put up a header in H1 font, with a single image and a link under the image with the link going to a page of the same name as the keyword.
From 1997 to 1998 you wanted a top listing at yahoo you third tiered the domain to be yahoo.yourdomain.com Yahoo seen it as one of there own sites.. Can't do that now they have lawyers and get pissy when you do that.
Google is its own puppy, I look at google as a bunch of monkeys with hats, they put listings into the hats and the monkeys pull out the paper and thats what gets listed. Your site goes up and down as they change monkeys.

There are many places to read about search engines, some good some not so good, the best way to learn is take the time, and study the se's listing figure out what in those pages the site lists makes it so high in the listings.

Dont think there is just one se there is more se's in the world than you can shake a stick at. Want to see 99.99% of them, then this site will show you Search engines from across the world with Search Engine Colossus don't think that google and yahoo are the only ones, there is tons and tons..