HOW TO HAVE A WEBSITE -- HOW TO WRITE
FOR IT (EASIER THAN
YOU THINK!)
By Anita
Sands Hernandez, astrology at earthlink
dot net
We may not all want a website but we all NEED ONE! Imagine a place where you can attract publishers
to your essays, short stories, articles, or even chapters of a novel! Your
WEBSITE is like an ONLINE AUDITION or QUERY letter. If you use a server like DRAK.NET it’s 3$ a month. GO DADDY fines
you 200$ if you go leftist, so you can’t do that. NO CRITICIZING GOV at GO
DADDY even if they’re free, stand away as they will take that money right out
of your bank without consulting you. NO FIGHTING RIGHTS on the issue!
GO TO DRAK NET, run by some ladies in
Texas. FREE DOMAIN NAME. I’ll help you do your webpages if it’s on getting a
third party candidate elected.
Now if you want to do your COTTAGE INDUSTRY, my
main theme of writing btw, you can do it free at GO DADDY. Imagine a stream of income coming in daily from some moonlighting
business, either a merchandise or a service. They pay by PAYPAL or sending you
a check in the mail.
Imagine a WEBHOST that costs you less than 5$
a month. FIND OUT who they are …on a LIST of the TOP TWENTY WEB HOSTING SERVICES.
NOWADAYS the WEB DOMAINE NAME IS FREE! The HOST arranges it!
Once your website is up in CYBERSPACE, no
need to pay for readers. Now you think, ‘how are they going to know I’m there?
Well, cuz your articles have META TEXT in the coding, saying what you are talking/writing about.
And with this magical META TEXT you can attract readers for your specific
content. Then, by putting up ads you CONTROL the flow of visitors and attract
audiences & customers to your INTERNET business. So learn to place
simple ads at CRAIGS
LIST.
THE MAGIC OF CRAIGS LIST - It’s INTERNATIONAL! EVERY CITY IN THE WORLD is at CRAIG NEWMARK’s GREAT SITE! I put up READER-ATTRACTING ads for free at CRAIGS LIST in just the top population cities: NYC, L.A. Denver, Seattle, Houston Boston and Philly, London and Paris.
ONE BUSINESS CAN USE MANY of CRAIG’S
“AREAS” YOU TARGET AREA you want. Students? Jobseekers?
CRAIGS
LIST ADS invite
folks to study at your precise pages. Your hand chosen articles. Say you want
to stress your WEBINARS, like me, you’d do an ad for “THE FREE WEALTH 101 ONLINE
SEMINAR” Or I put ad in “TALENT”
section and invite actors /directors/ writer to visit the HOLLYWOOD BOUND
website. Or I put the ad at the SOCIAL
GROUPS section and invite young singles to SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE SOCIETY
TRANSFORMING GROUPS, ONLINE. Invite them, teach them to give PARTIES there in
their town. I also invite young ladies at the TALENT SECTION (beauties all,) to
sidestep show biz and study a free seminar on HOW TO MARRY WELL Then, to do CHARITIES like this VULTURE SANDWICH one,
with hubby’s Money.
Those are my wares. Free Seminars, GUERILLA CAPITALISM. The people who answer those ads and take the
seminars want to meet me and they become astrology clients. (That’s what I do
for a living.)
Imagine that you right now, from your
desk, can leave INFO-tracks on history. You can teach the wisdom that comes
your way. Pass it on. Imagine that you
can leave a personalized record of what you know, learned ---to your kids, or
if as they say, a prophet is never a prophet in his own land, then pass it on
to the KIDS OF THE PLANET, all via one easy to access place: Your 5$ a month
website.
We don't want to take in more than we pass
on or let out. That is called being constipated. We aspire to be veritable sieves.
We want to be collectors of wisdom so we can gift it to the needy or the next
generation or our friends, kids, readers! We want to make it accessible to
publishers, gift an incredible cache of information to Cyberspace! And a
personal website is the way to do it.
Some
servers (earthlink.net is one,) will give you eleven websites and ten are free, you
pay for the server, meaning I pay to become astrology at earthlink dot net and
the other ten websites are free. I’m talking about ten million bytes each and for free. That's about a thousand pages in each one, and make that
eleven times a thousand! No need to buy a domain name and create MY INFO DOT
COM. And nothing as skuzzy as that MYSPACE concept where all the pervs go to
pick up babies. And even I AFTER 12 years online can’t figure out how to use
YAHOO websites. They’re impossible. Ads galore. Hey, that kinda stuff isn’t
necessary! And you don’t have to hype the site at GOOGLE or other Search
engines because you are going to share the URLS to your pages with potential
readers via CRAIGS LIST ads. CRAIGS LIST will not let you write out an URL with
www.s but when you
create your PORTAL PAGE at the EARTHLINK.NET websites you run,
CRAIGS LETS THEM IN! CANNOT SEE THEM as they do not have WWW’s They’re http://home.earthlink.net/~astrology/
like the first website I ever had, back in l995, which I still have!
CRAIGS
LIST attracts huge traffic. Thousands of
students or buyers or potential import/exporters (one
of the classes that I teach,) will see the ad you write and USE IT AS A PORTAL
to get to your website, become fascinated with your seminars, articles and STAY to buy whatever you’re selling. As you
collect net pals, next step is to create a sendout, called a LIST which is new
articles that you are about to post at the site.
“LIST”
means your browser stores a buncha names so when you send it out, nobody sees
the names at the top. It just seems to be coming from you. You may type in ‘CLIENT LIST” and 15 people get your email instantly!
I
write seminars on HOW TO DO IMPORT/ EXPORT so there’s a LIST ONE,
Import2 list, Import 3 and each list has 15 names, and in a second, and third,
45names go right into the email INVISIBLY as you BCC them all. It’s all
semi-automatic. I can send out an email to a list of forty select political leftists ferinstance, the PTA PARENTS
list, that’s what I call my leftist activism chums. Or my astrology clients are
titled the STARLIST, the FRIEND LIST the PETS/ Cat health list. Beauties who
want to marry Money is LOVE LIST 1 thru 16! Four hundred girls answered my
CRAIGS LIST AD where I told them, “Hollywood is trouble, why don’t you learn to
penetrate BLUE BLOOD HIGH SOCIETY,MARRY a BILLIONAIRE, use his MONEY to DO AN
OPRAH. . I keep a thousand names in about 50 organized lists. At least 50 in each
list. I BCC the list so NO names are visible, and send it to myself. The
recipients are used to seeing neat articles with my name at the top. They open
the thing and read it.
HOW
TO GET THE FRIENDS IN THE LISTS? Making
friends online is easy, write and publish articles all over cyberspace. This
week I’m working on one about KRAKATOA and how it blew in 535 and the
whole planet went dark for years on end. Tree rings show it. The DARK AGES
started. Fascinating theme. Just google search up those two terms, it’s really
wowie stuff. Ties in to an American CALDERA also. READ YELLOWSTONE which is the IDAHO ara caldera already blowing up! ABC
did a show on it. Search on that one as it’s beginning to boil now.
Those
who read this thriller write me saying ‘thank you’, I answer with an email and
another article maybe! That friendship will be lasting. It’s a tie between two
brains that recognize the other has something they want, which enriches. And
once they are on your new liast and they read your website on the subject, or
mine at least: FUTURE
DISASTERS, . You send them every article on that theme that you come
across.
Befriending
folks online may be slightly more
complicated than having a simple domain name URL and attracting thousands thru
search engines. In the former case, you are doing the relating, the friendship culling
and then the sharing, but when people see that you have info that’s useful,
they love you forever. Put ads on CRAIGS LIST (using many email addies .. read
HOW TO HAVE MULTIPLE
FREE ADDIES,) for interesting pages, I run the HOW TO MAKE IT IN HOLLYWOOD
URL without spending big money, which teaches wannabes HOW TO DO ACTING CLASSES
FOR FREE and how to get HEADSHOTS for free, and how to get a THEATRICAL AGENT,
and teaches screenwriters how to break in....Those are the most intelligent
groups around and I love making friends in that group. THE LUCK IN LOVE PAGE targets beautiful girls and I place the ads at
Craigs list where there is a TALENT, SHOW BUSINESS JOB sections. Craigs is in
l00 cities and bring readers who write to me and become friends. READ THE
MULTIPLE ARTICLE five lines up .. just quickly scan it so you can see how this
is done.
For
instance, my political page (just
one at my site) is http://home.earthlink.net/~astrology/index2.htm
and on it are a dozen political reform oriented leftist liberal activist
type articles. Readers write me, “Anita, how
did you dare say all this? Aren’t you afraid of Bush getting after you for
criticizing him? Or my cat health article, how to avoid using a veterinarian,
how to cure your cat all alone by yourself --- it gets me letters from worried
cat owners with cat problems. They were obviously searching for cure and saw my
article listed on search engines. They try my tips and bingo, I’ve got a friend
for life, a gal on my cat list for the rest of time.
If once a day you read something stirring and switch it into text or html, that's not a lot of time. So let's forget about the TIME you will LOSE (you think) or WASTE doing this. Waste sure isn't the word I'd use. You read a lot of wonderful articles, we're talking about converting them to a file you can share. Just add a half hour to your reading time. Where does WASTE figure in that!?
First, The trick is to have great articles on your website. Sniff down stuff you like, google it, I love the art of writing mysteries. So I created a WRITERS’ website. If you can type, use spell check and write a big, long article on any subject culling research from GOOGLE. Then, POST IT on one's own website, doing the posting part in one minute flat. GET SOME GOOD VERSION OF MICROSOFT OFFICE FROM vendors of "ABANDONWARE." One of these vendors can function as a guru, can teach you stuff about HOW TO USE A GOOD WORDPROCESSOR and maybe you can find the specific, WP SOFTWARE FOR DUMMIES BOOK from 1997 at ABEBOOKS.COM Use this special mode of ordering to save money. BOOK SECRETS
1.) FTP is how one loads his/her website. It means "file transfer protocol." You must move some paper or article from your PC's hard drive c:\newage\my stuff.htm over to cyberspace, right? Cuz C:drive as you will recognize what that PATH is and means, is inside your machine. So like all things that go thru the birth process, we first get it out of the insides into the LIGHT OF DAY! No?
So learn to FTP in order to start writing for your website. Get a teacher to show you how to FTP. DOWNLOAD the software free online then call me on the phone, 818-774-1939, I’ll walk you through it. FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL is something you can learn in seconds. So schedule the mastery of this in an hour lesson where you learn the other website writer's skills. HTML, SAVING NET material to cache to rewrite, Save as text, then format that text, cleaning off all net marks, which is done with A TEXT EDITOR!
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/ is one that you can learn to use, download it free, also. They give it away! Just go to this site, download it. Start using it and get your teacher to show you these skills:
a) Clean up text. Often the material for your best articles are in stuff you write to a pal. This whole article was quilted out of letters to pals talking to them about websites. That’s text, the language of emails. Well, I had to save the letters, then edit them with a text editor. FIND A FREE, SHAREWARE TEXT EDITOR ONLINE. TEST EVERY ONE YOU DOWNLOAD to make certain it has the FIND/ REPLACE feature!!! The >>>s must come off! If someone mailed you an article that you like and it is second hand, your email receives it with>>>s to show it is second hand. b.) Justify each paragraph of the text, ragged right margin. c.) Save by adding. netgleen.txt to the end the usual txt ending or EXTENSION they call it. In net lingo you create a file in ascertain mode and have to add DOC, TXT or HTM to the extension so you'll remember what it is later. No good FTP-ing a txt pc or a doc!
Then in a text editor you can work on meaning, amplifying, adding. Maybe it's something another writer thought up. Today Todd Gitlin, dean of activists in the 60's was on the tube on CSPAN book channel. I watched in horror as I had no pen on me to take notes! I can go to CSPAN radio and maybe find the show on my PC and listen to it. But his ideas were engraved in my head. Activists came out against wars, in Nam, in the Gulf, they were moved to huge activity for OTHER PEOPLE to benefit. Their souls are so pure. They forget to demonstrate against the things that destroy OUR LIVES. Poor people cannot pay taxes, cannot pay huge licensing fees for 15 yr old cars needed to go to work, and cannot pay the huge insurance fees, a thousand a year, and old people who are unemployed and must walk to markets a mile away and carry l0 lbs of groceries need those cars and yet nobody demonstrates for the punitive nature of the state in relation to taxes and licensing. STUDENTS shouldn’t pay at parking meters around schools. No college has enuf parking. Etc. etc.
Now I would like to rewrite Goblin’s ideas and that might be done in WORD PROCESSING software making it a doc at least (which Word Perfect for Windows calls it, and Microsoft Word, found in OFFICE software, probably the most used word processor. That software turns the text into HTM, which is what Internet, runs on. BUT if I had found his text online, I'd save it in text, not HTML as I DO NOT WANT THEIR ARTWORK, their formatting, etc. You know, how most WebPages are all shaped like a magazine page? IDO NOT WANT THAT. I just want the words, so I always highlight, cut paste, saving in text. I may mail it to myself once, in order to get it as plain text. THEN I may edit it in text before I turn that saved text into a doc or web ready html.
2.)
LISTEN to your people. Keep your
finger on their pulse. I have frequent correspondence with email clients. Folks
who tell you "I JUST GOT FIRED" as was the case with a client
yesterday. She was bereft.
When I actually write such people my thoughts, ideas get born, in the talking, in the composing, or in the phone call. I don't take notes but promptly when I finish I write those ideas down. Or if it's an email, I always keep a copy by MAILING THE EMAIL TO client in the TO: space on top of email but below change another TO: to BCC: for your own name and send copy to yourself.
3.)
LET readers phone you. Make your phone # available. Often a phone consultation is something that makes you
really hone in on that PERSON then you will come up with brilliant ideas. I
FEEL the concept of a ZERO door where you stick pain is a good one.
Yesterday my pain was so intense that I wrote four articles on how to LOSE THE
BLUES and made one edition of my DAILY DISSENT newspaper all in the space
between breakfast and lunch. I do best writing right after coffee/toast and
before the whammy come down of lunch. After that, I am more mentally blurred
cuz I eat meat for lunch. Starches in morn are for that athletic race. That
energy burst. One pays for the up later I guess. NOTE: I heard a
holistic say we should eat protein for breakfast and lunch and grains/veggies
rest of time fruit between meals.
4.) Learn to take writing in any software program, --- whether word perfect for DOS, which I adore for astrology work as it collates many files fast or Microsoft WORD, and turn it to text or html at the flick of a finger. FOR WRITING originals I like word perfect for DOS vers 6.0, available for l0$ from Dan the Man who collects vintage software. You can pull in other docs saved files, (venvirg. or ven aquar) from a massive index that has quick scroll features the other software programs do not, and with twenty or thirty bricks build a fifty page document and do it in two minutes flat! But I always have to switch it into Word Perfect for Windows next, and finally into Microsoft word, which I use, in office l997, in one PC Microsoft Office 2000 in another pc .....and turn it into HTM as the last stop on the road. That is the final shape of my article. HTML is hypertext mode and is indicated by the file ending written as “htm”. You can then ftp it to your website. Free FTP software (file transfer protocol) is available all over the Internet. Do a google search in these keywords with a Plus between them. Free, Download, FTP.
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