Thank you for the interesting book. I am busy learning how to design a business website and I would like to collect info on the people ordering on my website. How would I do so, bearing in mind that I am a beginner to websites and computers in general?

Many thanks,
Shamen

Hi Shamen,

Thank you for buying my book. Collecting information on customers is not an easy thing for beginners to do on their own. My best advice is that you consider using an established service that has worked things out for you.

Here are two options you might consider:

1.    Business Catalyst – Adobe acquired this company and integrated their services into Dreamweaver. Customer Relationship Management is one of their strengths, but you may find that this is a somewhat complex solution for a beginner, and they do charge a monthly fee.

2.    Yahoo Store – This is one of the most popular eCommerce solutions. You can set up your online store through their service and take advantage of their wide range of options, but you will have to pay a monthly fee for their service.

I hope that helps and I wish you all the best,
Janine

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I am a new secretary at a new church and currently we do not have an office, so we are not connected to the Internet. I am looking at Dreamweaver so we are able to create our own web page but I am not sure how to then get the page up on the net? Do we need a web host? Can you recommend any? I would greatly appreciate any information you can share with me on this matter!!!!

My sincere thanks!!!
Terri

Hi, Terri,

You will need a host to publish your site online. You’ll find a couple of hosts listed in the tutorial about domain names on my site. Both companies I mention are well respected and provide reasonably priced hosting as well as domain registration.

You’ll find the article at www.digitalfamily.com/dreamweaver/domain-names.html.

I hope that helps and I wish you all the best,
Janine

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You were so helpful before and now I have the church Web site almost complete, but I’m stuck in another corner. I added a hit counter on the front page. It took a number of tries to get it to appear correctly but that’s all it does. I opened the Web site from different computers and went back several times to see if the numbers would increase but it did nothing.

How do I activate the counter?

Anne

Hi Anne,

If you want to keep track of visitors to your site, my best recommendation is www.statcounter.com. They have free and paid levels of service and I know lots of professional designers who are using them.

In general, I don’t recommend counters that show the world how much traffic you have on the main page of your site. For one thing the numbers can be misleading to site visitors. More importantly, a service such as StatCounter will give you lots more than just the total number of visitors so you can learn a lot about where visitors come from and what they do on your site.

All the best,
Janine

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