You can either select one of the pre-made templates, open an existing website or create a new webpage using the Web Page wizard.

Scroll through the available templates which range from fully developed websites to blank templates. Once you have chosen a template, press the ?Select? button.

WebDesign?s Site Manager will open along with the Site Settings window. From this window you can select a prede?ned FTP account to publish your website to. At this time you can ignore this option if you do not yet have a web host set up. Your purchase of WebDesign comes with four free months of web hosting to get your started. Details on how to take advantage of this offer can be found in your order confirmation email.

Once you have entered your website settings, all of your website ?les will be listed for you in the Site Manager. The index.html ?le is the default page that will load when someone enters your domain name into their web browser. The rest of the pages are sub pages linked from the navigation menu of each page.

The Site Manager provides everything you need to manage your website in WebDesign. You can add new ?les by pressing the plus button underneath the ?le listing. If are using a template, the new pages will be based on your existing template ?le.

The file labeled index.html is your default page. We will double click the index.html to open it up in WebDesign?s editor.

As you can see below, WebDesign provides a text editor and a visual preview of your website which gets updated as you edit your page.

If you have used Apple?s “Pages” software you may notice the similarities between the two applications. WebDesign provides a sub toolbar at the top of the window that provides common tasks like changing fonts, font size, styles, colors, as well as inserting more advanced code such as lists, tables, links, and images.

Just like any word processing application, WebDesign lets you select a block of text and easily apply style changes such as making the text bold, italic or underlined. Just select a block of text and press the B button in the sub toolbar, or press command-B on your keyboard.

Likewise, many of the other styling options can be applied in a similar manner. In addition to what is provided in the sub toolbar, WebDesign also provides over 40 built in wizards which can be inserted into your webpage from the Tools window on the left hand side of your screen or the Insert menu in your menubar at the top of your screen.

With WebDesign you can quickly and easily drag and drop HTML wizards from the Tools window into your document.  Since only content placed within the body tags will be rendered in your browser, all wizards should be placed within these tags.

WebDesign makes it extremely easy to work with your HTML webpage ?les. All of your HTML tags are color coded so you can easily separate HTML markup with regular text content. Syntax coloring also allows you to easily spot basic coding errors in your HTML.

WebDesign also includes auto completion of HTML tags, attributes and attribute values.  As you type, a list of all available HTML tags and attributes will be provided. You can use your keyboard’s arrow keys to select one of the available options. Pressing the tab key on your keyboard will insert the currently selected autocomplete tag.

You will also notice that WebDesign provides HTML attribute suggestions and attribute value suggestions including a built in color picker to easily insert web safe colors into your document.

Lastly, WebDesign also includes an easy to use attribute editor. Open the Attribute editor by clicking the Attributes button in the toolbar. Now, when you click within an HTML Tag, the attributes editor will list all the attributes for the selected HTML tag to easily edit them. If an attribute requires a speci?c value, you can select it from the prede?ned list.

Most of your HTML needs can be handled by WebDesign?s sub toolbar, directly above WebDesign?s text editor. For example, the Font menu provides access to commonly used web safe fonts, while the Color button will let you specify the text color of the currently selected text.

When you are finished editing your website, you can go back to your Site Manager and use the Prepare Site button to check your site for coding errors and broken links. In addition, you can also apply various modifications to your entire site. You can convert your site to XHTML or CSS. You can optimize your HTML code so it loads faster for your visitors or change the case of your HTML tags.

Once we have applied any changes to our site we can Publish our website to our server by clicking the Publish Site button. WebDesign will only publish modified files. We will have to enter our server information, but once we have done this once, WebDesign will remember these details when publishing in the future.

After you’ve downloaded and installed iWeb SEO Tool, open up your web browser to www.statcounter.com. If you don’t have an account with Statcounter, click on the register button on the top left part of the navigation menu. Fill out all the required information and register your account. After you have registered, login with your username and password.

Once you are logged in, you will need to create a new project in order to get your code. Click on the “Add New Project” button.

In the following form, you will need to enter a title for your website followed by  your website’s URL. Then you will need to select a category for your website, and your time zone. You also have the option of having the statcounter not count your visits to the site by blocking your IP. If you don’t care for this feature, just leave it blank.

When you are done filling out the form, click the Next button. Now, you will  need to click on the “Configure and Install Code” button. You have a few options for which type of statcounter you want. Choose whichever option you like best, and then click on the next button.

In the drop down menu that says “default installation guide select iWeb. Then press the “Next” button. We are then given our Statcounter code. We must highlight this code and copy it.

Now open up iWeb SEO Tool. Load your iWeb site by clicking on the “Open Website” button. Your iWeb site must be saved to a folder on your hard drive in order to do this. If you wish, you can also load your site directly from your iDisk.

On the left hand side, all of the files from your site will appear. Under the Site Settings tab, paste the code we just copied into the Analytics code box.

Then press the “Apply to Entire Site” button.

Finally, you must publish the changes so that the Statcounter code can begin tracking visits to your site. The Publish button is located in the top right corner of the application. Here you will have the option of publishing to FTP or to MobileMe. Make sure you have your FTP or MobileMe information handy.

Once you publish your site, you can then go back to statcounter.com and view your site’s statistics as they appear.

I began reading posts on Digital Point’s forums a few years back. For those unfamiliar, this forum is a large community made of aspiring entrepreneurs and skilled individuals looking to make money on the internet. There are countless threads with ignorant questions like “how u maked teh money in the adsense?” or “why is my site not ranked in google?”

Now, English as a second language aside, these are actually very valid questions. Everyone is curious how people make money online. Everyone wants to know why after all that work, their site is still not ranked in search engines.  That is why I really enjoy reading some of the threads on DP. People share some pretty interesting things. Good discussion is stirred up, and people talk about interesting ways to make money online.

This brings me back to the purpose of this post – why you’re not making money online. I wish there was just one reason I could tell you about, but life isn’t that easy. So without further adieu, I present to you the top six reasons why you’re not making money online:

6) OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE – “Hey man, if you have a blog that talks about cancer, AdSense will pay you a very high cost per click (CPC).” While this statement may be true, why on Earth would people with no knowledge or experience with any type of medical condition think they should write about it? Search engines are not stupid. If your content is garbage, search engines will know. People will know. The web is meant to provide people with the highest quality information. The power of search engines natural selection process will always filter these made for AdSense sites out.

If you cannot provide high quality information on something, then it is clear you are out of your league. There is nothing to be ashamed of if you fall in this category. It is time to focus on what you know. Are you a great skateboarder? Do you have strong opinions about minor league baseball players? Even if you are aware that the CPC in these industries are very low, you will be doing yourself, and the internet, a huge favor by sticking to what you know and love.

5) STOP COPYING ME – Since grade school, we’ve hated it when people copy us. I want you to think about that when it comes to how you run your business online. What do copycats have to offer that isn’t already on the table? If you want to have the next big celebrity gossip site, you are going to have to think of ways to differentiate yourself from every other site.  If you’re going to try and sell Amazon’s products, you are going to need to figure out why people should find your site, before they get to Amazon.

Copying will always exist. If you want to succeed while copying, you are going to have to think outside the bun like Taco Bell did with their diet menu.

4) NO HARD WORK - Remember when your third grade teacher wrote on your report card; “Billy would achieve straight A’s if he just put some effort into his work.” I think close to 100% of you just said no to that question but that’s besides the point. If you are really serious about making money, you need to act like it. Every minute you are not distracted by life, you need to be working on your business. It is your baby. You must cherish it. You must feed and burp it. It won’t take care of itself.

What I mean by all this, is that if you really want to succeed, you are going to have to realize that your online business is not much different from a real job. It will require you to put in many hours each day. Whatever you are doing for your business, you must put your blood, sweat, and tears into, in order to make sure its the best it can possibly be. If you work your hardest, and believe in what you are doing, you will be successful – no matter what.

3) NO TUNNEL VISION - After reading posts about Jim Karter on DigitalPoint, people concluded that he makes tens of thousands every month by going big. That is, having many different websites  covering many different niches. While this may work for some people (usually people who have employees or teams working with them) this most likely won’t work well for you. If you are not focusing on a certain area, you will find yourself much too overwhelmed to succeed. If this sounds all too familiar, then it might be a wise decision to take a page out of General Motor’s book and cut back on your “product” lines. Enabling yourself to focus on a specific area will lead you to becoming an expert in your field, and you will thus be able to provide people with much higher quality information.

2) YOU’RE A LONER – Ever hear the saying that it’s not what you know, it’s who you know? Well, when it comes to the internet world, this statement could be the difference between success and failure. Search engines, especially Google, rely on other sites on the web to let them know where the good sites are. Mainly, a link from a highly regarded page to your page, will tell search engines that your site is a good site and will increase your rankings.

Naturally, your site should get links from other pages based off the content on the site. Making friends online can be a great way to speed up this process. If your friends who have trusted sites or blogs learn about your site directly from you, you might be able to convince them to link to you.

Don’t just rely on people being nice for the sake of it. Make sure you always have something to offer. If you provide a service, offer up your services for free. Many webmasters would be more than happy to link to you when you do an arrangement similar to this. Partnerships can go a long way, and can really help you reach your goals much quicker than anticipated.

1) YOU’RE A QUITTER – As Mike Iaconelli said in this hilarious clip, “NEVER GIVE UP!” A good friend of mine was telling me how he came up with this really good idea to make money via affiliate marketing. I was very impressed with his idea and excited to see how he would handle it. He worked on it for a bit and I thought it was looking good. Not too long later, he came up to me and told me about his latest idea of how he is going to make money online. When asked what happened to his affiliate marketing campaign, he told me that he stopped working on it because he wasn’t making much money and he was getting bored of it.

This is, in my opinion, one of the worst things an internet entrepreneur can do. If you were to work on something every 6 months, only to quit on your idea to start up another one, you will never be successful. Once you have come up with your awesome plan, stick to it. There is not much else to say. If you are a quitter, you will set yourself up for the ultimate fail.

Like I have mentioned before, if you are serious about having your own online business, working from home and eventually, from the golf course, then you must take your business serious. Do your best, work real hard, set your goals, and most importantly, NEVER GIVE UP!

What Apple didn’t imagine, was that Sue, the 40 year old entrepreneur, would be using iWeb to display the inventory for Sue’s Jewelry Shop. They also didn’t imagine that Bob would be creating a website to try and gain new customers to come to his horseback riding ranch.

Because of this, SEO for iWeb has become a bit of a challenge for many users. There is no reason to fear just yet. Even though it might be more difficult, it is still quite possible. Here are five must know SEO For iWeb Tips, that anyone with an iWeb site should be well aware of.

5) Content – Wow. Doesn’t this one seem easy? Yet it’s not for some reason. Over and over again, I continue to see iWeb websites loaded with images, and barely any content. Let’s just think about this for one moment. If Bob’s site has a bunch of pictures of his horses, and very little content, how does he expect potential customers to find his site? Having pictures is a great idea. Just make sure that you include as much information in the form of text as possible. You wouldn’t believe what people type into search engines. If you put some writing on your site, users will find it. Try to make sure each of your pages has at least 250 words.

4) Site Speed – Google’s new campaign for making the web faster really lets us know that now is the time we must begin considering the speed of our site. Soon enough, the speed of your site will play a large factor in the ranking of your website. The problem with iWeb, is that we use many images which are relatively large in size. This causes our sites to be a tad slower than we want them to be. So what can we do to fix this problem? Well, to be honest, there really isn’t too much iWeb users can do themselves. If you are desperate to save some loading time, you can take off some images on your site, but then you would be compromising the integrity of your website.

Another option is to use a website optimizer such as RAGE Software’s WebCrusher.  What this application does is reduce the sizes of some of the files on your site so that it does end up loading faster in users browsers.

3) XML Sitemap – If you use the standard navigation menu in iWeb, search engines may have a tough time finding all of your pages. This is because the navigation menu is created in javascript, which search engines are not extremely fond of. To work around this issue, always remember to create an XML Sitemap, and submit it to search engines. You can watch this video that demonstrates how you can create an XML Sitemap and get your site listed in Google.

2) Incoming Links – I know you’ve heard this one before, but it’s on this list because it’s extremely accurate. Search engines really enjoy it when other sites recommend a site. It can’t just be any site making this recommendation, it has to be sites already considered to be of higher quality. There are many ways of getting incoming links. Way too many for me to even discuss right now. Just know that this is a serious thing when it comes to SEO and iWeb users need to be made aware of this.

1) Title Tags – iWeb makes it very difficult for iWeb users to change their title tags. Most don’t even know what title tags are. Luckily, there is a free tool, called iWeb SEO Tool, that helps iWeb users to update their title tags in a very easy way. Yotu can watch my video tutorial o learn how to use title tags effectively for search engine optimization.

There are dozens upon dozens of things that we must do to ensure that our website is seen as a reliable source of information to users so that search engines will rank us highly. These are just a few things that every iWeb user must know when they are creating their sites. In just a short time, I will be releasing a 60+ minute long video dedicated to SEO For iWeb, which will be available to purchase for your optimizing needs. Be sure to check back soon for more information.

So, what are the implications for you as a webmaster? Well, you must now keep in mind that the speed of your website, may be a large factor in your search engine rankings. This can be really unfortunate for iWeb users for two reasons. The first reason is that many iWeb made sites are naturally slow loading. The other reason is that many iWeb webmasters are not aware of how to make their sites load quicker.

In the SEO For iWeb video, not only will you learn many different ways of making your site more search engine friendly, but you will also be taught how to combat this speed issue in an extremely simple way, using just one application.  Get a copy today because your business is worth it.

GarageBuy makes it easy and efficient for bidding on items. First, type in your search in the search box located in the top left corner of the application. When the popup window appears, you can narrow your search down by selecting a more targetted category. You can also set a limit to how many results you want to be shown.

After the auction listings have loaded, click on an item that you wish to purchase. Then hit the Place Bid button. In the bid placing window, you will be provided with reliable information such as the name of the seller, and their feedback percentage, You will also be shown the current bid price, along with how many bids are placed. 

To place your bid, type in your bid in the text box that says My Bid. If you look below the text box, you will be shown what the minimum amount is that you must bid. When you have type in your bid, press the place bid button and your bid will be placed.

Pay attention to where it shows how much time is left in the auction, as well as where it says that the page updates automatically every 60 seconds.

If we go to place a bid on an item that has less than one hour remaining in the auction, the time left will show up in red, and we will be able to see the time counting down by the second.

If we go to place a bid on an item with less than 5 minutes remaining, the price will automatically update after 20 seconds as opposed to 60. Automatic updates will continue to become more frequent as the auction comes closer and closer to its final seconds. This saves you time from having to constantly refresh as an auction is coming to a completion. You can still, however, press the Update Now button as often as you’d like.

So that is how you place bids on eBay items using GarageBuy. For more GarageBuy and other Mac software video tutorials, visit www.apptorial.com

First, we’ll make our search by typing in our query in the search box located in the top left corner of the application. A popup window will appear with different categories related to your search. You can narrow your search by selecting a subcategory that closely matches your search. You can also select up to how many results you want to be shown.

After just a few seconds, your results will appear. The first view option, the gallery list view,  shows the auction information with some of the auction images, as well as the current bid, the shipping costs, the sellers feedback, and more.

The second option shows the auction in a list format. This view gives you an easy look into several different auctions at once. You are able to neatly see the current bid price for each auction, the Buy It Now price, if it exists, the time left in the auction, the number of bids and more.

The third view mode will show you each items image, with the item title and its current price.

You can see more information for each auction in all three of the views in the bottom half of the window. The information is brought up by clicking on an individual auction. When you click on the auction, you will be given all of the auction information such as the Sellers username, total cost based on current price and shipping cost, as well as the location of the seller. You can also view all images contained in the auction by clicking on the images tab. The description tab will show you the actual description section from the eBay auction. The specifics tab will show the specific information for the product. This information might include the brand name, the condition of the item, the size of the item, or whatever other specific information that may have been inputted by the seller.

The other option for seeing the details, is to choose the full listing option. This will bring up the actual eBay listing shown within the application. You can easily switch between different auctions by just clicking on each listing your are interested in viewing.

You can also control the size of the auction listing in the first and third list views by using the scroll located in the top right corner of the window.

So that is how you perform a search, and browse through the listings with the different view modes in GarageBuy. To view more GarageBuy, and other mac software video tutorials, visit www.apptorial.com

GarageBuy makes syncing auctions very easy to do. Simple select the auction you want, and then press the Generate iCal Event button. You can do this for as many auctions as you want. To view these auctions in iCal, just open up iCal and you will see that the auctions that were just selected to generate the event, are in fact included here in iCal. 

When you place an auction in your watch list, you are also given the option of placing that auction in your iCal. To place an auction in your watch list, highlight the auction, and then select the Watch Auction button. When you click on the item in your watch list, you will then be able to check off if you want to generate iCal event in calendar. You will also be given the opportunity to select when you the alarm to notify you of when the auction is approaching completion. If you prefer to have alarm with sound, you can also choose that option.

To add a price threshold, Simply check off Price Threshold, enter your maximum price, and check off Remove Watched Items When over Threshold to let the application know that you want the item removed from your watch list.

The options for syncing with iCal can be altered by clicking on the GarageBuy button in the menubar, then selecting preferences, and then the iCal Events tab.

Here you will be given the option to choose the default action for the auctions as iCal events. You can select how far in advance you want to be notified, as well as the sound that you want the notification to make. Lastly, you can choose to have the application automatically create an iCal event for all eBay auctions that you place in your watch list.

So that is how you sync eBay auctions with iCal using GarageBuy. For more GarageBuy and other mac software video tutorials, visit www.apptorial.com

There are three different ways you can access the OpenMenu X menu. Before I show you them, I first want to make a note that the second method works even on Snow Leopard Finder and 64-bit applications that are not compatible with the contextual menu plugins”. The first way is to right click on your mouse. This will bring up the contextual menu, from which you can have easy access to the OpenMenu X menu,

The second option is to tap twice on the command key. Doing so will bring up the menu at the current location of the mouse cursor. 

The third and final option of accessing the menu is by clicking on the OpenMenu X icon in the top right corner of the menubar. 

All of these methods will bring you to the OpenMenu X menu. Once there, you are able to easily access its many features. You can see which applications you are currently running, as well as your recent items such as applications and documents. 

OpenMenu X makes opening applications very quick and easy. Simply go to the Applications tab, and select the application that you want to open.

You can also open up websites from OpenMenu X. Under the URL tab, select the site that you want to visit, and the site will open up in your default browser.

You can also use the scripts section to perform actions such as a Google Site search. When you click on this feature, a search box will popup. Here is where you type in your search query. What this does, is it will do a google site search for the web site you are currently on.

The scripts section also allows you to perform a YouTube video search. Simply click on the Search in YouTube option, and another search search box will popup prompting you to type in your search. Another browser window will open taking you to YouTube with your search completed. 

When doing a Google, or YouTube search, you can also simplify the process by not having to type in your search query. Instead, you can highlight the text you want to search, go up to the OpenMenu X icon, and select Google Site Search in the scripts section. This will perform a Google site search, with the text highlighted as the key words. The same thing goes if you want to search in YouTube. This is just another one of the many features making OpenMenu X a very powerful tool.

Now let’s take a look at how you can add items to the features listed in the OpenMenu X menu. 

Let’s say you want to add a website to the URL section of the menu, simply open up your browser to that website, highlight the address and drag it into the URL section. You can do this for many different websites. I’m going to add three different websites for to give you a good example of the process for adding sites. When I’m finished, you can now see that these three sites have been added to the URL section of the menu.

If you wanted to add an application, you can click the plus sign in the bottom left corner or the window, and then select the application, and once again drag it into the desired location, which would, in this case, be applications. You can now see that this application has been added to the applications section.

OpenMenu X also makes it extremely easy to toggle through different applications as you are working. If you have many applications open at once, you can click on the OpenMenu X icon in the top right corner of the menubar, mouseover the running applications tab, and easily select the different applications. The applications shown are are the applications that you currently have open. When you select an application, the menu will bring that application to the front of your screen. This gives you a very simple and easy way to quickly change between applications without having to move windows around.

So that is how you use OpenMenu X. For more support, be sure to read the help manual, or visit www.artman21.com