Let's face it, listing the web page URL line by line manually in the sitemap file is really tedious and a pain in the a**! What a way to build up your web site list for the robots to crawl your web pages! There must be a better way to do it, right? After all, what is the purpose of programming but to automate the process, yes?

The Yahoo Site Explorer is a tool for you to view and manage your website web pages, to find out which pages were indexed by Yahoo and to control which pages should or should not be indexed by Yahoo.

Once you have created your sitemap.xml file, you will need to submit it to Google for their indexing of your site with their robots, spiders and crawlers.

The sitemap.xml is to assist the search engines to index your web site.
Search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN Live, and etc constantly sends out robots, spiders, crawlers (or whatever term they wish to call these automated indexing software) to index websites to put into their search database.

Create tables is one of the more difficult HTML code to master when making your own website. It is well worth the effort to learn it as it can help you to align each section of your website. You need to think a little bit more abstractly and imagine how the table will look like after you have done the HTML coding.

I've come across several website where they have integrated Joomla with SMF (Simple Machine Forum). I thought it would be nice to have the two programs together thereby having a same overall look and feel theme when you make your own website. It turns out to be not so difficult to do though initially I had to scratch my head pretty hard to get it working.

Making your own website that works? Here is some tips from web design experts. I came across this while reading the Entrepreuner.com April 2007 magazine about designing a good website titled "The Right Stuff" by Melissa Campanelli.

The article provided ten tips about creating a good website. They are:

1. Descriptive tag lines
2. Excellent content - yes, content is still king!
   

You may want to make a list for easier presentation of information on your website. There are two types of list, unordered bulleted list and ordered numbered list.

The default text alignment for content in a paragraph is left side. Sometimes you may want to make the text align to the right or in the center. To make the text align to the left or right you include the align attribute to the paragraph tag.

Example, align to left:

When writing your content for your website, you may want to format your text to emphasize a point and make it stand out from the rest of the content. This is easily done by using the bold tag, italics tag and underline tag.