Welcome to the SiteMaker Guides page. Here you'll find useful documents to download which will give you detailed information on how to perform certain tasks using SiteMaker. We hope to add new sections to this in the months to come.
Beginners guide
The SiteMaker Beginners Guide provides a quick summary of some of the core features of SiteMaker. It is designed to show you how to perform some key tasks that will get you started with creating your own website. Each section contains screenshots and step by step instructions which are easy to follow. The guide covers:
- Navigation and menus (adding and removing pages)
- How to upload an image
- How to input and edit text
- How to upload audio and video files
- How to create a contact me link
- How to create a link to a webpage
The beginners guide is 5.4Mb and should take less than a minute to download on a fast connection.
Right click on the above link and choose 'Save Target As...', if you're not using Internet Explorer and are unsure of how to save a file to disk please refer to your browsers help menu.
Search Engine Optimisation tips
If getting your site listed with the search engines or improving your site's rankings is important to you then our guide, Search Engine Optimisation using SiteMaker, will be essential reading. Using a case study of an existing website, we explain core elements of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and demonstrate how you can achieve good results using simple step by step tasks.
We explain the critical guidelines of SEO, how to create or define your keywords and site description, how you go about getting your site listed or indexed by the search engines, the importance of linking and much more. Each section of our guide gives real examples and includes some screenshots to make this a very readable and useful guide.
The SEO guide is 750Kb and should only take a few seconds to download on a fast connection.
