Deciding What You Want
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How good are you
at Chess ?
Wow, did that first part peak your interest or
what? I hope so because herein lie the secrets to fun and
success on the internet.
Chess is a strategy game of moving your pieces
around the chess board to capture your opponets King while
at the same time defending against your opponents attempts
to capture your King.
If you play Chess you know there are three kinds
of players, those who enjoy the challenge and play to win,
those just play for the fun of it and those who play because
somebody wants them to but doesn't really enjoy or understand
the game.
Either way, your pitting yourself against your
competition. In order to enjoy everthing there is to owning
a website, an awareness of what kind of player you want
to be is pretty important. Otherwise it could bum you out
and that's not necessary because there's a fun and magic
show just around the corner and a nice program guide has
just been handed to you.
From here in your reading you probably would want
to get a quick heads-up on a couple of key web design concepts
to know about. The tutorial 'The ABCs of Web Design' a good
place to start.
Also, the 3 short tutorials 'Search Engine Optimization',
'Designs That Work' and 'Designs That Don't Work' are especially
written to bring you quickly up to speed.
If your are bored or not interested with the stategy
of web design don't leave yet, because I'll tell you a secret.
Sometimes I just like to balance the Chess pieces on top
of each other and watch them fall down. Or sometimes I pretend
to play Checkers with them. Isn't that dumb?
Here's the point. Being on the internet with a
website can be a thrilling experience and you should enjoy
it in the way you want to. You can be silly or serious.
You can promote your website or just let people stumble
across it. It's your gig.
Publishing your own work and ideas that the world
will see can set you back and make you think a minute, and
when you do, all of a sudden the sun starts shining and
a smogoresboard of ideas are there in plain sight for your
taking. There isn't anything that you can think of that
can't be done.
And let's not forget your clients and friends.
Reading the tutorial ' What
People Don't Like' will help give you some focus
on how to be smart and still be attractive to your web surfing
visitors.
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