Building Your First Web Site – Domain Name
Building Your First Web Site
Tim Querrey
Creating your own site can be a satisfying experience. Here are some tips to help get you up and running.
Before doing anything on the technical side, you need some kind of basic idea to work with. I suggest first getting some paper and a pencil. Start by sketching a layout of how you would like your web page to appear. For example, a simple title at the top, the area in which you would like any content, pictures and so on. Now its time to do some programing!
Dont let the word programing scare you. Anyone can learn and there are several sites that offer free tutorials. One such site is http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp. Although it is not necessary to be a top notch programer to build and operate your web site, you should learn the basics of html. I recommend that you thoroughly learn about tables. They are widely used and with them, you can create a professional looking layout even as a beginner.
You can use any basic text editor, like notepad, to write, edit, and save your code html. When saving your work for the first time, choose Text Document for type of file, then save with the extension htm for example index.htm. Your home page the first page people usually see is normally saved as index.htm. To see how your page looks, double click on the file and it should automatically open up in your browser.
Now that youve got your web page ready to go, its time to find a host a place for your web page to live. Since this is your first site, I suggest you use Free Web Hosting. Some host will put advertising, such as a banner, on your site as the cost of free hosting. Others will only charge you to register your Domain Name www.YourSite.com. Be careful not to accidentally sign up for extras such as url protection, spam control, etc. unless you feel you need them as they will add to your cost. These sites will have a limit on bandwidth how much data that can be transmitted per month, email accounts, and maybe a few other things, but are still great for first timers. If later on you feel you need more, then you usually can upgrade. To find a host, just use any search engine and the keyword phrase Free Web Hosting.
Ok! Youve sketched a layout for your web page, learned some basic html, coded your web page, found your host with the most couldnt resist, and registered your URL www.YourSite.com. Now its time to upload transfer your file web page to your host. To do this you need a FTP program. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. When using this application, there are usually two windows. The left window shows your computer files, and the right window shows the files stored on your host. For a good tutorial and to download a freeware FTP program, FTP Commander, go to http://www.nexcess.net/hosting/support/tutorials/ftp/ftpcommindex.php.
Now you should be up and running. But dont stop there. Continue to tweak, add pages, learn to link to other pages and sites, and frequently add new content. Who knows, you could eventually learn to profit from your creation.
About The Author
Tim Querrey is the owner of http://www.homerunbusinesses.com
web page building for beginners 2 – Diet
web page building for beginners 2
Ted Dupuie
A search engine robot actually reads the wording on your web pages and places a certain amount of importance on what the content says, but not quite like a human does. A human will place the words together in their head and try to decipher the relevancy to them personally and decide within a few seconds whether they will continue reading or click to another site, whereas a robot counts words and places all relevancy in the numbers it finds. It also gives extra credit to the size of the type and title of each page. What a webmaster should consider, is every word connecting to a keyword and not wasting words, for the public and the robots. This can be difficult to do when writing about certain subjects, but not impossible. Take diets for instance. Saquoyah Publishing writes diets and uses www.free-diet.biz to promote them, but nobody wants to read pages full of the word diet just bandied around with no oomph in the article that should teach the reader about diets. So a happy medium must be reached to get the website placed high in the search engines database, yet allow the articles to inform the reader of the subject written. Remember, the information super highway is called that for a good reason. Most people just want to learn something about a subject, not necessarily buy something. So if you are selling, the first thing you will want is to get the reader to find the pages you have written, and that means search engine optimization, or SEO as it is called.
SEO should be a major consideration as the page is written, and a concentration on keywords should be the main concern of the page writer. Take diets as an example of page writing. The word Diet or Diets should be placed in the title of each page on the website if at all reasonable, and each page should utilize those words as many times as possible without deterring hopeful customers. The title of the page is the most noticeable attraction to your website from the searcher
Building Your Fan Base – Marketing
Building Your Fan Base
Alicia Forest
Want to build your fan base Meaning, do you want to attract more clients or customers to you and your product or service Then build a platform. A platform is media lingo for having a solid base from which to pitch your work. It