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[@FoxWebSchool]

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[@jennaromano6379]

This is incredible. You just saved me from investing in a monthly WordPress subscription. Now I'm going to add all the right phrases so the YT algorithm picks up this video: Best video ever Great content Great info So helpful Wow, thank you. So detailed. More please!

[@FoxWebSchool]

haha! Thanks Jenna!!

[@Kingsize001100]

Uuhm, you know that WP is Opensource and therefore free, right?

[@richardsanders8815]

Found you through Fastlane...... I am very grateful that I did. Big kudos and a Big Thank you to you sir.

[@nunez2717]

Dude, so good man! Thank you for this! I'm familiar with tweaking HTML templates, but really picked up a lot on your workflow. Thanks for this!

[@arthurjan2482]

probably the simplest video I have ever seen on the topic. ty

[@FoxWebSchool]

Thank you very much

[@samantiqueshop7610]

You have a great presence and flow. Thank you.

[@requisitedesigns]

Fantastic guide Fox! Keep them coming!

[@FoxWebSchool]

Thanks!

[@christopherpiazza5105]

Thanks for the value bomb! Always love your work, Rob! I hope we get the longer and more detailed version next!

[@FoxWebSchool]

Thanks Christopher

[@mustafaahmed4164]

Great video Rob. Just wanted to ask, when dealing with a client do you send the files to them so that they can upload it or do you handle their hosting/domain? Also, how do the licences for theme forest themes work. Thanks!

[@smuggo9130]

You have one license per buy. You can only use it in one project. To make second one... You have to buy another one. You also get the support from team that made the theme for 6 months(can extend). And lifetime updates.

[@FoxWebSchool]

I will always try to be the one who uploads it - just a better service and less chance of someone else breaking things. To do this I will ask for their log in details (or they give me "delegate access") or I will set it up and redirect their domain. With the licenses @smuggo has it - get one for each new project. You could use the same one but it is good to support the theme builders so they keep making great products.

[@wptoys]

This is great Rob!! I love the simple setup! I do everything on Wordpress but I need to start doing some of these HTML/CSS sites too. Thanks for the awesome value and quality content!! 👍🏼

[@FoxWebSchool]

Thanks Rich! I do the odd site in wordpress also but for simple client websites that don't need any special features,HTML themes and templates have worked amazing. Thanks for watching.

[@Pogohontas.]

@@FoxWebSchool On a site like that, what do you tend to use for a contact form?

[@FoxWebSchool]

@@Pogohontas. Something the standard contact form that comes with the theme will work (you will have to adjust the php file quite likely). Other times I switch it out with my own form - there are lots you can use for free online.

[@stangurule1017]

I wish I would have seen this awhile back !! A few years back I started to learn HTML, CSS and pretty much had it in my mind that I had to learn everything to build a site and make money . So I got info over load because I went from knowing nothing to trying to cram in everything. To make a long story short I just kinda threw my hands up and stopped for awhile . With personal stuff going on I kinda threw in the towel. After watching your videos I have the excitement again .... Any advice ? Thank you !!

[@FoxWebSchool]

Just get going again using themes and templates. Find a real business to help and use a simple site but focus on how to use that site to help them get results.

[@ayoubmouzoun5758]

We were waiting for that. Could you please upload more step by step website design tutorials. Thanks

[@FoxWebSchool]

I will try to, thanks for watching Ayoub.

[@danielbarbour6294]

Great video for getting started in web design, thanks!!

[@FoxWebSchool]

Thanks for watching Daniel.

[@tate.c.m]

Great video Rob! This is going to be a huge resource for anyone getting started. 🙏

[@FoxWebSchool]

Thanks Tate - you the man ha!

[@keithwoods7818]

Thanks Rob. I really hope you can also do detailed a video on your design process for building websites. I have a lot of technical experience with this stuff, but I need help with building websites that can SELL.

[@FoxWebSchool]

For sure - starting basic for now but I will get to this in future content. Thanks, Keith.

[@lovelyyano]

Hi Rob. I think this is really cool, I would like to get started but this is a little confusing. And looks hard, plus can I make the websites for a company in a different country? Do I need to know code from scratch?

[@joel_niwamanya]

How do we change the appearance of the website Like the placement of words and images?

[@redfox2oo8]

Great! How about the SEO? Is it harder to rank an HTML website then a Wordpress website?

[@jennaromano6379]

Following

[@joeyberrios6344]

Adrian, it's no easier or harder. SEO is broken into 2 areas: on-site and off-site. On-site is composed of elements such as your titles, meta descriptions, alt text on images, page load time, image optimization, content length, keyword usage, etc. Off-site are things like citations, back links, paid traffic, social profiles, etc. Regardless of your platform of choice i.e. 100% pure html, webflow, wordpress, etc. you want to make sure that your pages load quickly, have good content, contain relevant keywords, and can be accessed anywhere and everywhere. If you're trying to rank locally for a service, say roofing, then you want to create location pages and optimize those to be relevant for the area you want to rank for. Example, if I live in Atlanta Georgia, then I probably want to have several location pages that cover areas within Atlanta, including Atlanta. Once your site and pages are setup, it's literally a waiting game. You can use Google or Facebook ads to drive traffic to your website but unless there's a reason for someone to visit, you're going to lose them quickly. You want to make sure you offer enough quality content to increase "dwell time" i.e. how long someone stays on your website. The more you educate a user, the more likely they are to reach out and get more information from you. To sum it up, platform isn't as important as good SEO practices.

[@FoxWebSchool]

@@joeyberrios6344great answer. Nothing more to add here.

[@briancain1708]

Great video. With these html templates what’s the best way to format them for mobile?

[@HeadsAndTales]

1) How do you know the client is going to approve the design? If they want something different you just buy a different licence? Or do you show them a live demo before buying the licence, but that seems unprofessional since it probably has creators branding all over before the purchase. 2) if they like the design but want a bigger change how do you react? I'm sorry, idk if you know how to code

[@FoxWebSchool]

1) This will take some practice but you want to see your services based on results - not just "how it looks". When you sell how it looks then that is all people will focus on - and EVERYONE will have a different opinion. When you sell results though then the focus is on if it works/helps. To sell results you got to change how you talk about yourself and you services - you got to positioning yourself around helping their business / getting them value. 2) I would ask them why - if it isn't about better results then they would have to pay. Again this is connected to point #1 but they hire me to help their business - not to design whatever they feel like. Any design changes have to be based on what is going to get the best results for them - but I am open to feedback, as long as it is focused on the right things. Overall this will all come down to experience and also working on how you see/sell yourself.

[@norvertjohnabella9485]

@@FoxWebSchool Very valuable tips. Thanks :)

[@HeadsAndTales]

@@FoxWebSchool i appreciate the tips, but you didn't answer any of my questions. sometimes, the client simply doesn't like the look. my counter can't be this design will bring you results. and that's the stage in the process that my questions came in, i was curious about the tactics not the overarching principles of selling.

[@abdultheoneandonly6503]

hey rob, can I use a theme only once or can I use the same theme multiple times?

[@patrickwaldrich]

Thank you so much for your content! I love your focus on the business process vs design. I found that a lot of clients want a blog for their business for SEO. Wordpress and other builders provide a CMS for clients to do this with a template, but that obviously would not be the case in an HTML template. How do you handle those clients? Do you charge them to accept their post and publish it for them?

[@Kingsize001100]

Hi Rob, Do you ever implement more advanced stuff like booking systems or ecommrece in your websites? If so, what do you use for this type of work, as it can not be done in plain HTML/CSS?

[@beginnercoding918]

Great Content Right there. KZbin.. Why you do dis to him? Channel's so underrated

[@EveseveE]

Only problem is brackets.io got taken down in september, is there anything else I can use?

[@santimerino]

Hi Rob I know that my comment is a bit late, but I got a question: the templates you get on envato Market include functional forms with the PhP or whatever system they use? Or you have to make them functional yourself?

[@santimerino]

Hey Fox! When in the video you upload the Assets Folder to Filezilla you're uploading a lot of unnecessary things that are there for other templates that you are not using, am I right? So, my question is, would you take the time to delete all those files when you're doing a web for a client to save space? Thanks very much.

[@FoxWebSchool]

Santi Merino ya to keep it simple I uploaded it all. There is a lot of things that could be removed or reduced though. The theme will contain everything for every type of project so there is a lot of potential to reduce that down.

[@minbuk7296]

Thanks so much for this tutorial!!

[@luxurybeats1]

This is probably a really rookie question, but I wondered whether I need an extended license or a regular license from themeforest to charge a client for a project.

[@FoxWebSchool]

I asked a theme creator directly and they said normal license is 100% fine. Just buy one PER project if you do a few sites with the same template (it helps them out to make more great themes/templates).

[@3DCA]

I have an HTML Template. I would like to find a solution to be able to change the Header and the Footer just one time instead of changing them in every new page created. Is there any simple way to do it? Many thanks in advance!

[@FoxWebSchool]

There are some things you can use to code that up but the simplest way is to just copy-paste the same code across each page and then make your edits. Once you get over like 10 pages it makes sense to stop using HTML for reasons like this. But if it is just a few pages it isn't too bad.

[@3DCA]

@@FoxWebSchool Thanks for taking time to reply. I hope you'll be able to make a video concerning this problem -Global Header & Footer- Many thanks for your hard work!

[@madetotry]

Do you remove all the unnecessary styles, scripts etc from the files before uploading, if so do you use software/plug-in to do that ? if you don't remove it does it not slow down the page loading and affect the seo? Thanks for the video

[@FoxWebSchool]

Ya this is a basic video but as you get more advanced you will want to clear out all the files you aren't using. There will be a lot of unneeded styling and images for example. Here is a useful article that should help with where to start: www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/how-to-minify-your-websites-css-html-javascript

[@JamesMooreMarketing]

Is it easy to set up more pages? Also if you edit anything on the site does it affect the SEO?

[@jasonodine]

Did you end up figuring out how to set up more pages? I followed his FileZilla steps with no success.

[@dopekills5202]

can you make a video on how to optimize for mobile phones looks very different from desktop version

[@creativecalm231]

Thank you so much, really clear.

[@richowens5254]

is there something we should do to secure those files? put them in a framework or cms or custom cms? (NOT Wordpress)

[@smuggo9130]

So setting up website is quite easy. Basically everyone can do that. So what's the difference? What is the special sauce that bring result? If I've missed that in video then I'm sorry.

[@woutertt]

The way it solves a business problem (lead generation, sales, recruiting, ...)

[@FoxWebSchool]

Ya super easy - the value is going to come from using it as a tool to help a business. That could be from helping with sales, to better messaging, to finding more ideal customers, to reducing time or stress for the business owners. Ill do more videos on this during the year.

[@smuggo9130]

So it comes from like Copywriting mostly?

[@FoxWebSchool]

@@smuggo9130 Ya that is one area to add a lot of value but it is just a part of it also. What helps the most is studying their sales system and seeing how the website connects to that... - how can the website help better? - how can the website help sell better to the right people? - how it save the business owner time/stress/extra work? - how can the website open up new business/markets for them? You basically want to be building a business system that does amazing work for your clients. Copywriting is a great place to start but it is still just a tool - you need to always be thinking overall strategy too.

[@smuggo9130]

@@FoxWebSchool I see. Thank you

[@ishopfast3475]

greattt best! you are bestttttt

[@FoxWebSchool]

You’re welcome

[@keithhunt8]

Appreciate you sharing this.

[@FoxWebSchool]

Thanks Keith.

[@AwesomeAndXtreme]

Great video Rob! Do you also create contact and review pages to the HTML? Trying to add pages in the theme you linked but finding it really difficult to change alignments.

[@terrykeyes1642]

Very helpful. Thanks

[@SteaksandSauces]

thank you for the video

[@samdeinum5725]

Super helpful!

[@FoxWebSchool]

Thank you

[@humengineerhaijholalekarni8408]

Thank you so much Mr Fox :)

[@FoxWebSchool]

Thank you!

[@taepro7115]

Is Wix not a good web design site to design websites to sell to local businesses?

[@FoxWebSchool]

No there are better options that make you look more professional.

[@alvaros5156]

having trouble changing the logo on the top

[@VaraPrasad0004]

Bro can I know what are u using to create a website

[@FoxWebSchool]

Check the links in the description.

[@gianguyen847]

Thank you!

[@FoxWebSchool]

Youre welcome

[@jorgegomez4112]

How do you add the pluggins?

[@halokittythings]

What he's showing is a simple HTML/CSS site, so there are no options for plugins. I think you're thinking about a Wordpress site, which does offer plugins, but is a completely different process. For simple sites like this, any additional functionality that you need (which you could get from plugins in Wordpress) would need to be coded in, usually by a developer, though you can find some snippets online if you're trying to DIY.

[@jorgegomez4112]

@@halokittythings thank you very much for your response

[@FoxWebSchool]

@@halokittythings Thanks Jessie

[@its.kevinhuang]

Why would you install the theme offline and edit it through html rather than just installing the theme on wordpress and editing it through the wordpress settings. It would be much more faster no?

[@FoxWebSchool]

No then just buy a wordpress theme - I use html cause it’s super simple and requires hardly any maintenance though.

[@trustedemploymentcompany]

thanks bro

[@zwmarketingltd4784]

Great video! Can you please cover more videos on redirecting the clients DNS to a website you have built on your desktop? I would love to know the process and also how to do it correctly without breaking their emails etc. thanks!

[@dannybe1906]

Great tutorial! Thank you- By the way, can you make a tutorial about how to make free SSL certificate- Much appreciated:)

[@dannybe1906]

Letsencrypt

[@MrEnklave]

Wait, so you just buy a html template and change just the text and images? I woudln't call myself a web designer in that case

[@FoxWebSchool]

What businesses care about is not what you call yourself but how you use the design/website to get them results.

[@MrEnklave]

@@FoxWebSchool I understand that. I guess you choose a template according to business requirements. Do they demand more changes to design itself after you customize a template for them? Or are they mostly satisfied with the "base" design of a template you picked