002 How to Build a Website, Part 1, with Ryan Cleland of W Street Design

To start off Web and BeyondCast, we are beginning with a series.
We’re going to touch on a topic that’s near and dear to my heart
and business--how to build a website. In this episode we will be
discussing principles of good Small Business website design and
development. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app,
please visit http://webandbeyondcast.com/002 for clickable links
and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) In this
episode and further on in the "How to Build a Website" series, we
tackle the following topics: How to approach designing your website
How to choose a great domain name (website address or “URL”) for
your business How to select and set up a Web hosting
account/service for your website/blog How to create and prepare
your content for the website/blog How to develop an Editorial
Calendar for your website/blog How and what to test, and creating a
Tweak-Maintenance Plan (TMP) for your website/blog How to plan out
Analytics, Social Media & Mobile components and syndication How
to set up analytics and security tools. Timeline to Launch a Small
Business Website If you'd like to discuss this episode, please
click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the
bottom of the post), or contact us. Web and BeyondCast is brought
to by the support of W3C Web Services, affordable Managed
WordPress hosting, domain name registration services, SSL
certificates, and more. In this Cast | How to Build a Website, Part
1 Ray Sidney-Smith, Host Ryan Cleland, W Street Design Kenneth Ryan
Cleland is website designer/developer operating his design agency,
W Street Design in Washington DC. He is a graduate from the
Corcoran College of Art and Design and has been creating design
materials professionally since 2005. Show Notes | How to Build a
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Welcome to web and beyond cast were small business comes to learn
about marketing and managing on the web and beyond with your host
re Sydney Smith. Ray Sidney-Smith 0:11 Hello there small business
owners, entrepreneurs and economic development agents. Welcome to
weapons beyond cast, we have an exciting show for you in store to.
So I hope you enjoy the time we'll be spending together a little
bit about what you can expect from this podcast Show. I'm presuming
you're an active small business entrepreneur or owner or you're one
of the economic development agents throughout the United States or
Canada. Welcome. I know that as small business owners and
entrepreneurs, you have limited time and resources to spend on
paying attention to all that you need to to market and manage your
business. And that's why I've started this podcast. I already pay
close attention to the news and notices coming out of big business,
small business and technology including email newsletters, YouTube
channels, Facebook, live videos, webinars, blog posts, magazines,
ebooks, books more from the top business and tech media experts and
technologists. With this show,