Advertising your website can be done with a small classified advertisement, business cards, even in web logs anywhere you get the opportunity to  plug your website address. Joining a web ring is a good idea too, you advertise other peoples web sites on your site and they do the same for you and it works to your mutual benefit.

You can get FrontPage, that's the program I'm using to do this as part of Office, but that's an expensive option. I've seen it advertised and discounted - it was still expensive but may be worth getting. Most times however, many FrontPage extensions won't work on your web space. For example I have counters, but they are hot linked to servers on the other side of the world! The same applies to the guest book. I've tried doing "forms" that's those boxes where you sign in or put in a password or enter comments. I tried it on a site that is supposed to allow FrontPage extensions, but they didn't work. You also have to make your site interesting enough to give your visitors a reason to repeat their visit. The counters on my site count individual IP's that's individual visitors and it counts clicks on the Home Page - and indication of repeat visits.

Once you get the general idea of how to design and manage a site you may want more web space. Try www.3IX.org make sure you select the country you're in so the prices for domains and web space come up in your currency. Another site worth visiting is www.Pando.com . They do a program that allows you to send email attachments up to 1 gigabyte free! You can also put a Pando logo on your website and people can download 1 Gig of files from Pando. Watch out for that in the future on this site!

You could advertise your website locally and use it as a sort of Community magazine. Do pages on local events and advertise you web site address on shop windows. While you are in the shop persuading the shop keeper to advertise for you, offer the shopkeeper free advertising on the Internet.  All you need from them is a card on their window advertising your website. You can give them a full page, full colour advertisement with photographs on your site. Take a laptop into the shop a few weeks later and show them the advertisement and they will soon be parting with their money. Small shop keepers know how expensive it is for a full page advertisement, even in the local community newspaper.

If you need help getting your site working or just want a website or to join my web ring - email me. I can give you a link and get you on the search engines. Many people type TalkTalk web space in to Google and find my site!

If you don't have FrontPage or any web design software and want to do a website and make a little money out of it why not try Google Pages? They let you have 100Mb of web space free and you can put adsense adverts on. You have do it all online though. I'm doing this off-line and then I upload it later; but Google Pages have to be done online. You can get an adsense account by simply clicking the advert on this site. The one that says this site recommends adsense. If you join adsense you get a really good way of monitoring your adsense with channels. Each page on this website is a channel and each page view is a page impression. My blogs on Blogspot and Soulcast are also channels and they can be monitored and so you can see what is successful and what isn't. I have to reformat my old desktop computer that has become unstable - mainly Windows. I have backed everything up. But my FTP program on there was working and it won't work on my laptop. That is probably to do with my wireless network. So I'll check out out and then do a destructive format and hope I can get it working on the network again afterwards! I need that working so I can see what this site looks like on a normal monitor - this laptop is widescreen. To get Google Pages you simply go to http://pages.google.com and log in with your gmail account and password. There is a link on that page now to get a Googlemail account. Google Pages has a forum to help you - although it wouldn't let me log in last time! There are also lots of Google gadgets that you can try on your new website. This site is only 15 Mb - so imagine what you can do with 100 Mb. But adding a background isn't so easy on Google pages or music. I think if you learn some HTML and JavaScript that would help!  Doing a website like this with FrontPage takes a while to learn. You can however learn just by having a go and saving you web and seeing what it looks like and then uploading it to web space when it looks a little decent. Lots of stuff on this site is done with links to other sites. I've added an advertisement to this page on this edit. In edit mode - I can't see the advertisements! I have to click preview to view them and to put them in is difficult positioning them. Getting that one in position took me a while to learn how to do that. On some web design program you can put the HTML in a box and just put the box where you want it. I also have to have FrontPage extensions on the server to use things like forms. that is those boxes where you leave comments. The same goes for counters - I have to link to a counter on a server somewhere. the company is based in New York, I'm in England and I think the server may be in Australia! I hope next year to but some space and start a webmaster community for people like me to share and exchange information and do a community - maybe even chatting to each other using Skype! My Internet connection is too slow for Skype - but I have been promised it will speed up in January! This link is good if you want to learn HTML:   http://www.w3schools.com/html/

This  is advertising that is content sensitive and so a lot is to do with making money. But more importantly I get statistics on which pages are popular and which aren't. I still hope the advertising will reflect something of interest to everyone and most people are interested in FREE stuff and MONEY! I want to find a good Freeware web design program - I've tried NVU and that is about the best so far. I like FrontPage and hope to try Dream weaver again soon. Incidentally, if you've tried Dream weaver like me and couldn't get the hang of it - watch the Google video on Dream weaver - it's very good. They also have a series of videos on economics that are fascinating.

You may have noticed the adverts from adsense slowly changing. It in preparation for video adverts! Incidentally, adsense can be a little complicated so if you're starting a site or blogging - send me an email for some advice before you start. I'm always happy to help - especially if you tell me first and then click my referral button! LOL