Homestead Webistes Help

Do you need Homestead Websites help? For Site Builder users assistance, we have several online connections for support that we have found to be very useful. In this article we will offer suggestions for help with the Site Builder program. There are various blogs, forums and Youtube videos that can assist in answering your questions. We do hope that you will add this site to your favorites as we are continually updating it with helpful tips for Internet users.

• Homesteads Blog-http://blog.homestead.com The official blog of the company is loaded with great information. At a glance you can find useful information about creating thumbnails for photos, optimizing your pages for search engines, working with forms and many other topics. The blog is loaded with photos giving illustrations from within Site Builder to assist it’s viewers in understanding the tools better.
• Homestead Connection-http://www.homesteadconnection.com This is the BEST site that I have discovered for getting fast, professional and accurate help with site builder. This forum for users will embrace the beginner with gentleness, sharpen the intermediate designer, and prove to be a great asset for professionals. I have had many answers delivered in an expediate manor in the connection forum. Make sure to buy the Seo Building Blocks book, it is a must read. My search engine results went to the top of the charts after I began to apply the suggestions that were in this book about optimization.
• Homestead Website Tips- This is where you currently are descovering all this useful information. Many tips for users will be continually added on a weekly basis to this blog. We link connections all over the internet, to help Site Builder users, within the articles that we post. The ideas that we offer are born onto the web pages through hands on learning about building sites.
• A blog- Homestead Websites Tools- Another great place to find unique ideas that can improve the quality of working with the tools and getting better results with the search engines. Currently there are articles on increasing traffic, adding a site map, and how to be successful with increasing members to a mailing list.
• Youtube Videos About-A Homestead Websites Expert offers help on using many of the site builder functions through the use of videos

Hopefully, finding help for Homestead Websites Site Builder program will be a little easier now that you have found this blog and know were the forum is for assistance. I need to mention this again, get the book called SEO Building Blocks, it is a must read for improving your skills. There are many free internet article that can offer great tips on optimization and design but this book, for Homestead users, gives excellent detailed examples of how to improve your website building and optimizing capabilities.

How To Add A Site Map-Homestead Website

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To add (or adding) a site map to the Homesteads websites site builder program there are a few things that must be accomplished first. This article will provide the “how to” steps needed for creating and uploading one into the file manager configuration of the site builder program. Once this procedure is accomplished successfully the information can be uploaded into a Google Web masters Tools account which will better the chances of getting higher rankings and more pages indexed by the search engines.

Steps For Creating Homestead Sitemap (linked to video tutorials page)

1) Create a file on your computer to download the map into. I usually save the file as what ever the website name is.

2) Go to a website called XML – sitemaps.com. Enter the URL and click the start button.

3) Download the map into the file that you created for it on your computer.

4) Go to your site builder program and open it to the file manager page.

5) For the rest of this lesson you can learn how to add it to your Intuit Homestead account and get it registered with Google by going to this Sitemap Homestead website page.

Adding a site map to a Google Web masters Tools file for a Homestead Website will require that you have a free Google account set up. Within this program you will find a section for web masters.

Make Your Sitemap experience go smother with this tutorial about adding a sitemap to Homestead websites There are many things that will have to be learned,  beyond the information that has been provided in this blog post,  about adding this map to your website. The turorial teaches relative trouble shooting techniques to help you get more pages picked up by the search engines.

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This is a really great video on adding RSS feed:  How To Add RSS Feed Homestead Website

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What Causes Homestead Websites Pages To Load Slowly?

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When I first started using the site builder, I didn’t understand about what causes Homestead websites pages to load slowly. I would load the pages with many of the special effects that the program offers, not realizing that these things were creating very slow loading times. Now, since I have been building sites for a while, I know where the hang-ups occur and how to avoid slow loading pages with my websites designs.

Tips for slow loading Homestead website pages

Either avoid or keep to minimum use:

1) Scrolling text, spinning, bouncing & flashy things

2) Homesteads video feature (uploading Youtube Flash is OK)

3) Insert audio feature keep to a minimum per page

4) Photo shows or photos that are not optimized correctly

5) The rounded corners on the colored back grounds

6) Large areas of or to many colored backgrounds

7) Animated moving characters

Insert text boxes and submit buttons for forms

9) Lots of links on one page

10) Several HTML box inserts from sites like Goolge for advertisements also the type of display that the HTML code renders

11) Form elements such as text boxes, submit buttons, and drop down menus will add extra weight to your pages.

If your Homestead website page loads slowly start with a process of elimination of some of these items that we have listed. I have read that a good rule to follow is to keep Kbs size to less than 35Kbs. This can be determined in your file manager once you have published the page, right next to the title of the page. The size of the page is not reflected when you alter it and just preview the changes, you must publish the page.

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Free Tools For Homestead Websites

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Since I started building websites early in the year of 2006, I have found many various free tools for Homestead Websites. Like everything in computers, each program has it’s own learning curve but the serious Webmaster will achieve great success with a little time invested. Keep in mind the importance of creating a dummy email when applying for the services that these various sites offer. This will keep the spam away from your main email. Email accounts can be set up at Yahoo, or Google in moments, totally free. Some of these free tools for Homestead Websites will help increase your ability of getting traffic to your site as well as cause it to be more appealing.

Gimp This is editing software for images. Although I have never used Photoshop, my understanding is that Gimp is similar to the Photoshop Image editor program. The header of my blogger site for Homestead Websites Tools.

Youtube Video Iam considered to be a Homestead Websites Expert on Youtube. This is one of the fastest ways to get high ranking with the search engines, especially Google’s. If you have a digital camera with video capabilities adding this to your website appeal is really simple.

Open Office This program is similar to Microsoft’s Office Professional. The documents can be converted into many different formates including Adobe and Word. Here is a page where I created an Adobe PDF download for a guide to Website Development.

Homestead Connection Forum This is one of the greatest assets on the Internet for learning how to use Homestead Websites site builder and store Front programs. I recommend purchasing a book that is found on this site called SEO Building Blocks. The book will increase your web site building skills tremendously. Some of the books topics include site design, keywords, meta tags and SEO.

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