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Internet Marketing Secret? What is SEO.
I want to be found online!
Who doesn’t? What’s the point to make a web site when its existence is as obscure as a hermit living out in a cave? Just building a website alone doesn’t mean that increase web site traffic will come in automatically and that it will grow by itself. It needs work. It needs smart work. (more…)
When you make your own web site, they consist of two things:
The above two need to work together to create your web site, they are both separate though it may look as though it is one single entity but actually they are not. It is unlike a house and its address though for a physical building the address and the structure is link together and cannot be separated. However for a web site, the domain name and web hosting company can be separated. The domain name is where the people could find your web site while the web hosting company is where you would place your files for the web site to function. You can actually move your web site domain and files to another web hosting company if you have decided to use another web hosting company services.
Introduction
Welcome to how to make your own web site pages. To create a web site is not difficult as there are many tools available to get yourself started to build your first web page. You don’t need to be a high tech programmer to make a beautiful web site, though you may still need to learn some codes just to get the something extra out from your web site. For most people, fancy coding is not really necessary because the use of a web site is to disseminate information to the World Wide Web.
After signing up with your web hosting service company, then what? First thing is to login and get familiarize with their control panel. Different web hosting company will use different style of control panel. It may be confusing initially because you don’t know where to find the feature or what the controls or links to each section represent. The hosting account provides a host of features that you may or may not use to make your own web site.
With your web hosting company set up and domain name registered, it is now time to make your web site. There are several ways to go about building your web site. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. It all depends on what you want to do with your web site. One of the easiest and fastest ways to create your web site is to use open source software. You don’t have to mess around too much with HTML/CSS or other form of coding. You just need to concentrate on churning out your articles or blog.
Tables are useful when you make your own web site. Apart from displaying information in a nice spreadsheet like structure. It can also be used to align your web site layout. However the over use of tables for web site alignment is frowned upon as it mean bad programming practice.
As a lay user, we are not expert programmers. We may end up using programs like Dreamweaver, Frontpage or similar software to build our web sites. However I did notice that Dreamweaver is also not a follower of good programming practices when it comes to aligning the various web page block sections, it overuses tables to create spacing and margins. So if you are part software user, part programmer, you would definitely knock your head on the wall when you try to edit the HTML codes directly after initially using Dreamweaver to create the overall page structure.
Using tables to align sections is a lot easier than using CSS. Though the current web page developer convention is to use CSS to align each block accordingly to each block section of the web page. I’ll leave that kind of coding to the experts. For me, I’ll use a simple table set up to get each block section into exactly where I want them to be and for the rest of the layout and design, I use CSS.
Links are like the flow lines in the internet world. Links are one of the more important aspects when you make your own web site. Without links in your web site, you would consider your web site as dead. No way to move from one page to another page saves if your visitor knows the exact URL address to find the web page.
How you link your pages from your main index page right down to each page is known as your as web site structure. The ideal way is like the shape of a pyramid starting from the main index and from that moving out to each topic and from each topic move out to subtopics and so on and so forth. The pyramid style is best as it helps to order the information into sections for easier navigation of your topics. However in a blog style web site where postings are done chronologically, some structure can be imparted to it by the use of category and tags.
What’s a web site without pictures? A boring web site. So when you make your own web site, you cold spice it up with beautiful photos. This is especially important if you are making travel destinations related web sites, wedding photography web sites, or any web site that requires the motto, “a picture is worth a thousand words”.
Oh, and don’t go overboard by just having a web site that is composed nothing but pictures. Nope. That won’t do. That still makes for a boring web site (unless of course it is the… um, ahem! You know what I mean). What drives people to your web site is good quality content. A good balance and mixture of words and pictures can truly make for an interesting web site. (more…)
Once you have mastered the basics of text formatting. Here some more advance features to make your own web site stand out. It requires tinkering with the attribute of the tags.
Each HTML tag has attributes which you could modify. Let’s take for example the Paragraph tag <P>, you can change the alignment to the right, eg <P align=”right”> or change the font color using the <font> tag, eg <font color=”red” >, etc. (more…)
These are some of the basics of HTML code that you should at least know when you make your own web site. This is useful not only in your own web site, but also when you want to make post and comments (if the option is available to you).
The basic tags that you should at least learn are:
The above tags are pertaining to the formatting of your web site. In addition you may want to learn the font tag to change the font style and size, though nowadays the current convention is to use CSS to control the font properties.
