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Building Your Web Presence with Our Site Building Software

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Last Updated: October 26, 2009 3:16 PM

Here's the Lowdown: You want a website. No, a Web presence. But you're not Internet-savvy. Don't worry, we've got your back.

Here are a few tips:

Consider who your site is for
Maybe your site is for your dental practice. Then you want to provide answers to questions that people have about your practice. What your hours are, what the process for making an appointment is, what kinds of services you offer. Do you do root canals? Why would someone choose your dental practice over another? Give them a compelling reason to go to you.
Consider what you want to accomplish with your site
If you want a loyal readership and lots of traffic, you have to give something that those people are interested in. If you want to sell products, you'll need to consider how to get people to visit your site. If you want to make money, you will need to research affiliate programs, ad programs, and search engine optimization.
Consider Go Daddy's Site Building software suite
We've combined our site building products into one convenient interface. Create your perfect Web presence without having to juggle different log ins, difficult navigation, and changing templates. Using the Dashboard, you can create a seamless look-and-feel across your website, blog, and store.

Let's find out how Go Daddy meets your needs with our site building suite:

Building Your Web Presence is Easier with the Dashboard

We created the dashboad so all the tools to create your Internet presence are at your fingers. Just assign your site, store, and blog to get started!

You can click the green tabs at the top of the screen to seamlessly work on your site, store, or blog.

Starting Your Web Presence with WebSite Tonight

Everyone knows you need a website these days. websites help you communicate your value and increase your sales.

WebSite Tonight is a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor. That means you don't have to know any specialized code—you just need to be able to sit at your keyboard and type. It's much like a word processor. You can format your text, insert pictures, and change layouts.

Then we throw in some great Web functionality like adding scripts, widgets, video, music, flash, and other great options to your pages. You don't need to be a designer, either.

With over 800 templates, you just need to be able to find the one that works for you.

Whenever you're ready with all your content, click the Publish button to make your your site live on the Internet. Send out an email and tell your family and friends!

  Getting Started With WebSite Tonight.

Selling Stuff with Quick Shopping Cart

Quick Shopping Cart lets you manage all your products and inventory, set up different payment and shipping options, and can match the look and feel of your WebSite Tonight and Quick Blogcast site. If you're going to sell a lot of products,and don't want to mess with a lot of setup, Quick Shopping Cart's wizard can help you enter all the information you need to get started and set up quickly.

Just because it's quick, doesn't mean it's light when it comes to features:

  • Bundle products together.
  • Specify options for products like size, color, and weight—or create your own options based on your unique products.
  • Sync your store with Intuit's QuickBooks to take care of your accounting needs.
  • Sell downloadable products.

  Getting Started with Quick Shopping Cart.

Attracting an Audience with Quick Blogcast

Blogging is a way to keep an online journal. You can blog about anything. If you hit on a subject that interests a lot of people, you can gather a loyal following on your blog and increase traffic to your site.

Blogs are the ticket for many people's Internet success. Blogs also allow you to capture comments so you know what people are thinking about the things you say, the products you create, or the services you provide.

In our site building suite, we offer Quick Blogcast as a way to help you communicate with your site's visitors and get more traffic. Quick Blogcast, like WebSite Tonight, let's you create a blog using a similar skill set as you would with a word processor.

Create new entries, track and manage your comments, choose from professionally designed templates, and watch the traffic that comes to your blog using Quick Blocast's statistics feature.

By the way, if writing isn't your thing, that's fine, you can record video and audio and post that on your blog instead.

Give it a shot and see if you like it—Quick Blogcast is free with the domain. If you like it, you can upgrade it to remove the ads.

PDF   Quick Blogcast Getting Started Guide.

Welcome to Go Daddy! We wish you luck and remember, we're here for you 24/7.