Cantankerous, exasperated, frustrated Brit looking for answers

Good evening.

I can be known for not pulling many punches, when it comes to expressing myself with the english language and especially when I get riled up, I am prone I admit to writing some rather unique, explosive content. Originality of words and character I think is one of my strong points. Whether you read it this way or not, or take this the right way or not, is up to you.

For the past several days I've been looking for a mechanism by which I can start to monetise many of my domain names. Some are awful, and some are pretty darn good, if I may say so myself.

Now, I am at the point when my patience has been really pushed to it's extremes. To say I am exasperated is the understatement of the year, but rather than truntering on like some cantankerous old codger, I'll cut straight to the quick, preferring to call a spade a spade and a shovel, a ruddy shovel.

These are the tools I already have, although I have as yet to work out they can can all be used to my advantage. For my hosting I have Site5Host.com, about $8 a month, which gives me I understand an unlimited number of websites, that I can publish with them.

I have FileZilla, an FTP wotsit that I havn't got the foggiest idea how to use, but someone told me I needed it. We'll come to that later.

Now, I'm led to believe that I will also need an HTML editor or WYSIWYG dooberry tool. What the flying hec this is for is anyones guess. All this new fangled technological internet programming language, flies straight off over the top of my poor head.

Therefore, let's get this extraordinarily simple before I self explode / implode. I'm as bald as a coot and have been tearing my hair out figuratively speaking all week, trying to get my head around all of this and just ending up in an absolute muddle of deep despair.

Now, when I buy a new car, I don't need to understand how everything on that new car works, I'm not buying the darn thing to have to learn every single thing about it there is. Too, I don't need to know how every component is made, using what materials, their strengths and weaknesses, the electrical system, wiring etc etc.

All I want to do, is to get in, shut the door, whack on a decent cd, safety belt on, release handbrake, slap it in to first gear, look right, then left, whallop my foot to the floor and I'm off. Easypeasy - You shouldn't need to be a rocket scientist in my book to learn how to get simple websites onto the internet.

So, lets take one of my premium domain names for example: Logement.co.uk (french for housing and/or accomodation)

What I want to do is to create a simple personalised web site. Fresh unique content to go in the middle. Adsense ads on the left hand side. Perhaps Amazon or similar affiliate links on the right hand side. A Google search at the top of the page and maybe a few more affiliate links at the bottom of the page.

Not knowing a darn thing about HTML which looks something akin to the Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham, UK or the Magic Roundabout in Swindon, UK - what I would like is something for now that just keeps everything, as simple as can be. Where the blinkin' dickens can one go to find some templates to put this plan into action?

I havn't got all week to design each site, I want to have them finished as quickly as possible, so that I can be getting on with other work related tasks, in which I have far greater competency.

If you've managed to read this far, thank you very much.

If you are considering replying, just to see me sign up to some sales blurb, you can think again. All these so called marketing gurus trying to sell you something, click this, click that, click over here, click over there, they do my bloomin' head in - absolute waste of time.

The simpler the better.

If you have ideas to help me, let's hear them please?

What proven tools do I need to help me on my way, and why do I need them? How will they prove to help me to accomplish this with more effectiveness? If you simply provide a link with no explanation, I will most likely simply ignore it altogether - I've seriously reached the end of my tether.

In advance, many thanks for any assistance. I guess I better use a couple of emoticons to round my first post off, before you all get the total wrong end of the stick.

Cheers!!

Mark

 

Welcome to DP Mark.

 

Wow, welcome aboard! Try posting your question on another part of the forum, like in Marketing. Good luck!

Kate

 

Much happier today. Found Trellian WYSIWYG, complete with a comprehensive tutorial with click by click instructions and a forum to boot.

Progress at last!!

Thanks for the welcome guys.

Kindest regards.

Mark

 

" If you are considering replying, just to see me sign up to some sales blurb, you can think again. All these so called marketing gurus trying to sell you something, click this, click that, click over here, click over there, they do my bloomin' head in - absolute waste of time."

You learn and you earn my friend. The whole internet marketing game is about click here, click there!

 

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