Website in a Weekend: The No-Stress, Step-by-Step Website Recipe
Here’s a letter to you from Laura. (She’s the first person who bought the course, and we love her!)
To: Everyone who thinks they can’t build a website
From: Laura Scholes
Re: The awesome program that will change your mind
Dear Tech-Skittish Friend,
A long time ago, I paid someone a lot of money to build my website, and though it’s beautiful, I hadn’t been able to update it in four years because I’m just not that tech-savvy.
So when I decided to start fresh for my new company, I snooped around for ways I could do it myself with WordPress. I quickly found the BeAwesomeOnline dynamic duo and their Website-in-a-Weekend program. A website in 48 hours? I wondered what the trick was; it sounded way too easy. But because it was so inexpensive, I said what the heck and happily clicked on PayPal.
Boy, am I glad I did. Catherine’s no-nonsense, “it’s as easy as that” video tutorials held my hand through the process of linking up my new URL with WordPress. Even more helpfully, she gave me all the tools to make a standard WordPress template look less blog-like and more “I’m a real company doing cool things”-like. I had—literally—nothing when I started; here’s what I had after I was done with the program:
Not bad, right?
So go sign up. Really. Right now. You will be so, so happy you did.
*****
I bet you’re already thinking, “Yeah, right.”
A website without stress? That I can make in a weekend? Pull the other one, it plays Jingle Bells. I’m not good at that technical stuff. I won’t be able to follow a word of it, and it’ll be all, “And of course here you just swibbulate the oscillatorium in the usual manner” and I give up. And why’s it called a recipe, anyway?
Technical people are stupid
I say this with confidence because I am one. There are far, far too many techs who are so smart about every aspect of their work except talking about it. Many of them fall into what the lovely Pace and Kyeli call “the usual error”: they think you’re just like them. And since they love every tiny detail of their work, they assume you will too. But you don’t! You just want the thing to work so you can go pick up the kids from soccer, or get on with the business of doing business, or the ten thousand things more important in your life than listening to some guy in glasses blabbering about doohickeys.
The incredibly bad communication skills of many techs have a worse effect. Have you ever heard a tech talk about a complex subject like it was simple and obvious and only an idiot would fail to understand it? And some small traitor voice inside you says, “Well, I don’t get it. I must be an idiot.” Lots of people have listened to that traitor voice and are now convinced that they’re dumb about technology.
But you’re not! Technology has been dumb about you. What you need is a way to cut through all the jargon and explain it so you can understand. Once you get the ideas figured out, you can do much, much more than you thought you could. Like start a website in a weekend!
What you’ll need (other than the course, of course!)
- A computer with broadband internet
- $100 (on a debit or credit card) to pay for your web hosting
- One weekend
How it works
There are six videos. Each one takes you through the steps of starting a website. Here’s the introduction:
(If you’re wondering why I call this a recipe, I explain in that video.)
The other videos were taken as a screencast, where you can watch me perform all the work you need to do, step by step, in real time (there are no planes going overhead like in the introduction video. I keep planning to reshoot that video with better sound quality, but I have always found something cooler to do. Don’t worry, the actual videos are much easier to hear.) I tell you everything you need to know, in understandable language. And I don’t tell you about anything you don’t need to know, no matter how cool I think it is.
There’s also a worksheet of instructions that you can refer to.
Special bonus!
I don’t want you falling into the same trap of a lot of other people who start a website: they take far, far too long to write any content for the website. In some cases the website remains a beautiful blank slate for a whole year. What a waste!
So I’ve included a fill-in-the-blanks homepage. It won’t take you long to make a decent page that will work until you have the time and inspiration to come up with something better.
Sound good?
I want you to feel the powerful joy of staring at a website and shouting, “I made that!”. I want you to email me with sixteen exclamation marks telling me to have a look at what you did. I want everyone to enjoy the chance to connect and communicate that the ability to start a website gives you.
To make it accessible as possible I’ve made this course cheap. It’s only $27AUD. That’s $25 US. Under 17 euros. Less than 15 pounds! Not too much to invest in yourself and your future!
What are you waiting for?
Click on the Buy Now button and get started!
