Web Site Building - Academic Skills and Benefits

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Academic Skills that naturally happen in the Web Site Building process.During the web site building process, a phenomenal amount of learning takes place. I can vouch for that! What a learning curve it has been. It has huge academic benefits:

• Writing skills- spelling, correct use grammar
• Writing to a specific audience - using your personal style of writing;
• Proof-reading
• Writing focussed content - well developed pages (essays)
• Writing catchy titles and phrases
• Reading instructions and putting it into practice
• Researching (keywords, brainstorming)
• Making judgements and decisions based on facts and knowledge
• Computer skills
• Some HTML codes
• Business sense - marketing, supply and demand
• Understanding profitability
• Learning about search engines, spidering (not the eight legged ones), and traffic
• Uploading photos and images
• Composition of page layouts
• Perseverance when it is hard
• Learning that hard work pays off when approaching it with a provenmethod.
• Patience to wait for the results which will come

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Benefits of Web site building:

• Joy of seeing their family page on the web;
• Excitement of the on-line journal to share with others;
• Knowledge that their site will be of use to someone else who enjoys the same hobby or shares the same concern or need. If your goal is to help someone find an answer to a certain question, then the first "Thankyou" email will be your reward and give you immense satisfaction. This always gives me a big buzz!
• Ability to share life with your family all over the world;

For others, the benefit of web site building will be the

• Supplementing of an income;
• Ability to earn a complete wage from home;
• Ability to stay at home with the children;
• Independence of being your own boss;
• No-More-Traffic!! and long hours away from the family;
• Enjoyment of life;
• Results of a profitable web business;
• Finding and pursuing their dream;

"You see the results. Your business builds. You realize that your life is changing in significant ways." You can read some real case studies here.

Where to from here?

Starting a Web Business 

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