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The main ingredient in the "web building" recipe?  
 
TIME

Creating a website is not that difficult these days thanks the large numbers of programs, books, help sites and the like. I believe it's much easer then studying and passing the real estate exam. 

Believe me though, when I tell you that it will take about the same amount of time to build a GOOD web as it took you to take the school and pass the real estate.   It will take many hours of study, seeking out the help you need, writing the copy for the site, searching the net for resources to add content to your site and marketing your site on the net. 

When the site is done, there's the time spent each week maintaining the site (I suggest at least 3 hours a week minimum if you want an effective site). About the only thing that won't take you a lot of time is finding the graphics for the site.  Become a subscriber to this site and you'll have immediate access to over 1150 original real estate graphics! (sorry, had to put in that plug for support).

If you don't have time to build and maintain a website, you might want to consider hiring someone to create it and learn, instead, how to enhance it - load your own listings, change the text and graphics from time to time, add hypertext links to your favorite sites, etc.... That will take a lot less time to learn, then starting your own site from scratch.  It will also be a much more expensive way to go.

I try to offer some tips to get you started in the following pages, and be warned, it will take TIME to read all of these pages.  This is not a "school" and won't teach you all you need to know about web design.  It's a guide to get you started in, hopefully, the right directions. Just visit the links below and keeping telling yourself..this is fun..this is fun...this is fun...


Creating your web
Basics

Putting your site on the internet
about hosts and more

copy/paste instructions
If you use copy/paste and notepad on your computer now, you can skip this page.
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downloading and saving graphics

Microsoft Front Page Help
My choice of programs for building 
your own web

 

Paintshop Pro - 
a nifty graphics program
for resizing, cropping, adding text to or even creating graphics.

Virtual Webmaster's Guide
A site full of tutorials, tips, tricks links, and other valuable help for web designers.

 

   

IF YOU'VE NOT BEEN THERE YET, YOU HAVE TO CHECK OUT THE REALTOR AND WEBDESIGN RESOURCE PAGE!

   

 

WEBSITE TERMS OF USAGE

If you use the free graphics, a link back to this site is requested.

You may not  use these graphics in another collection of 
clipart, either on or off the net, without permission of the copyright owner.

You may resize or recolor the graphics to fit your site but 
other alterations require permission of the webmaster.