Beginners Guide to Landing Pages on Amazon AWS

Learn to build, host and track landing pages or simple web sites, using Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Created by: Ben Emson
Developer, Software Architect and Technologist

What Will I Learn?

• Use Amazon AWS to host your landing page or simple web sites, reliably and cheaply
• Learn how to register domain names on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Understand how to use AWS Route 53 Domain Name System (DNS)
• Send and receive emails from your new domain name
• Capture email address for marketing
• Manipulate FREE HTML themes to create truly compelling landing pages
• Add social media sharing buttons
• Track visitors with Google Analytics
• Apply goals and filters with Google Analytics
• Visualize and gain insights from visitor behaviours

Requirements

• Absolutely no pre-knowledge required
• Be comfortable using a Text editor to modify a landing page HTML theme
• A Mac or PC
• No special software required

Target audience

• Anyone who wants to set up and manage their own landing page or simple web site
• The course describes step-by-step everything a beginner/intermediate needs in order to host and run services for a landing page or simple web site
• Anyone who would like an introduction to the basics of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Anyone who wishes to intergrate other web services (MailChimp, etc.) into their landing page
• If you want to run a simple static web site, cheaply and reliably
• People who are interested in lead generation but don't know how to build and host their own landing page
• This course is NOT for students that are proficient with Amazon AWS
• This course does NOT is not about learning HTML, but shows how to modify downloaded themes
• This is NOT a course on landing page marketing
• This course does NOT talk about Wordpress or any database driven web site