Tips for building your first website! One of the best experiences in life is starting your own business. You learn a lot about business, people, finances, and advertising/marketing. When starting up a small business, most of the time there is very little if any budget for web design. Usually this area gets overlooked. Sometimes it makes a difference and other times it doesn’t. In today’s business world everyone has a web site of some sort. The trick is to design your first web site to look professional by following the basic rules and get it to the market quickly. Here are some tips that I have learned after building over 300 websites since 2000. Domain Names You can spend a lot of money on domain names for no return. I believe that you don't need to register other extensions or variations unless you really intend to do something with them. Once you start trying to protecting your brand, you go into a defensive mode which is really the wrong mindset. You want to be in a mindset of...