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Ways To Create Your Own Website

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Making a website has become much more easier than ever before.With a variety of types of webframework and desktop softwares one can easily build a website in less time than ever before.

To run a website you need a server and a domain. Server is the place where you host your website so that the whole world can access your website from anywhere in the world.Your hosting provider will give an IP address whereby one can access your website. However, an IP address is difficult to remember so to make things easier, you use a domain. A domain is just like a wrapper over your IP so that your website address is not hard to remember. For an example, Google a big giant in search engine’s, it has the domain google.com, it’s real address is 209.85.229.147. If you type the IP on your browser instead of the domain, you will see Google.

You can buy a domain at Namecheap, Godady or some other sites. There are lots of cheap domain registration websites if you just look around. Most web owners prefer .com domains. At less than /year you can get your own. So, get a domain name for yourself so you can stand out in the crowd. Next is to get a webhosting package. You should try to compare different packages offered so it matches your budget. Be careful in choosing the right one as there are some who profess to offer cheap hosting but after a few days or weeks you get a server down message when accessing your site. You normally get what you pay for.

Okay, let’s now move on to how to make your own web site. First of all decide what you want. Do you prefer a dynamic website or a static one? Now a days most of the websites are dynamic. They uses databases to store things and use php, asp or jsp to fetch, process and display your site. If you go for a static one, it means that when you create them, you upload those pages on your web-server for display without any server side processing. There are many softwares available for this. From structuring to deployment an all in one solution is Dreamweaver a program from Adobe Corporation (An American computer software company you've probably heard of).  You can do pretty much anything using this software, from website layout to coding. It also supports server side scripting like php etc. Basically if you have some knowledge on html, css, building a static website is not a big feat.

If you choose dynamic pages, then you should get a web hosting package that has a server side scripting language with a database access. If you know server side scripting then you can make a website without any software using web php framework like symfony. If it is tricky using a framework then you might consider CMS as your friend. In this, you don't need to learn anything new. Everything is made for you. Just customize the site to your own taste. Joomla is one example of a php driven CMS. It is more flexible and more customizable. There are hundreds of templates and plugins on the internet. You can give it any look you want. It will be good if you use templates that match your website theme.

So, give a try. If you think it's a little bit complicated, then you can use Wordpress. It is mainly created for blogging  although recently many website owners use wordpress for their business website. It’s not just for web blogging anymore. To understand how things work on wordpress you can create a free account at Wordpress.com and begin exploring.

Making a website is actually less trickier than you think. These days, even young school kids can make their own web sites. So give it a try, I’m sure you’ll have lots of fun exploring and learning new things.

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Some Ways To Make Your Own Website

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

Before you begin to make your own web site, you need a website address (domain / URL) that is memorable so internet users can easily visit your website. Domain is the name of the website, such as yahoo.com, google.com, etc… You initially register the domain that you want, for example yourname.com. After you have registered your domain, then you need a web hosting service. Web hosting is a place to store website files on the internet so the pages will be accessible by all internet users in the world at any time. Just like when we go to someone’s home, the house address is the domain, and the house is the web hosting. Web hosting service provides a place where you put your website. It’s much cheaper to have a web host than to buy your own web server. This way, you do not need to hire engineers for the safeguarding of your servers. The web hosting companies provide the equipment hardware, software, bandwidth, data center and technical services you need.

The next thing to do to make your own web site is to prepare the design that you wish to use for your website. The design that you create can use certain software such as macromedia dreamweaver, fireworks, etc… You also may collect the materials you will fit in the website in the form of text, images or voice . All this file will be accessed by internet users. In addition, if you want your website to be dynamic you have to make the script with the program such as PHP, Javascript, or ASP to run your website. Besides the program, the database will be used is also determined according to the program that you use for example MySQL, Microsoft Access, or such other kinds of database. The dynamic page provide more benefits in long term. It needs more time and effort at the first stage, but, this will be paid off with the ease of updating information, simple development, extensive flexibility, and also your website will appear more intelligent.

The easiest way to develop the site is using a CMS (Content Management System). By using a CMS you do not need to build a site from scratch. You basically configure the CMS to fit with your wishes. You choose the data you want to display in your site. CMS will normally run immediately after you copied the file into the specified folder. With CMS you can effortlessly put in or subtract features, with how to install and activate a specific module, or to uninstall or deactivate it. In general, CMS has been equipped with login facilities and registration of members, sending articles, guest books, statistics, administration site, theme, feedback and various other interesting features. Some of the popular CMS using PHP are Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, PHP-Nuke, etc.

Another way to make your own web site is to use web site builders. Web site builders can be people or softwares. People can be freelancers or professinal web designers. Softwares can be softwares which are built-in with your hosting provider or programs that you can use yourself like the ultimate article site power kit.

After all is finished, you can upload the your file to your web hosting service. Usually they will give you an ftp or cpanel account to upload and maintain your website. So find a good and professional web hosting services who will be ready to help you in case you have a problem with the service.

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Build Website Online

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Are you amazed at the many colorful, striking, money-making websites you see every time you surf the web? Wish you had one yourself to put up your personal stuff or even promote your small business? In this article I will teach you the fastest, most convenient way of how to make your own website without spending a penny. Yes, absolutely free.

Today some website hosting companies offer free hosting plans for individuals wanting to have their own website. The great thing about this is besides the free hosting, most of these companies also offer web site builders where you can design and build your website using innovative tools. So basically you can create your website and show it to people within just 30 minutes.

One such company that offers this service is Google. Bought in 2002 by Google, Blogger is a blog publishing system which you can use for almost everything from updating your friends and family about your life, giving your own advice column, discussing your political views, or relating your experience in any topic of interest. The best thing about Blogger, and I say one of the most excellent service I have experienced, is that you can actually customize the layout of your design by actually modifying the hard-coded html of your provided website. That is, you can remove the customary design templates offered by Blogger.com and change it with your own code.

Since Blogger is a web-log service, you can actually convert your web-log into a working website without any restrictions. Which means, you can have a professional-looking website with all the text, images and videos arranged according to your will, add to that, it’s ad-free.

So here is how to make your own web site.

First things first, you need to have a Google account. If you have one, sign in to Blogger. You will notice that there are only 4 main menus - Edit Posts, Settings, Layout, and Monetize. For now, we will focus on the over-all design and interface of your website so we will start on the Layout page. Here is the trick and where everyone else fails, we don’t want the basic, traditional Blogger templates so you might want to have one of your own. There are hundreds of free Blogger templates which can be downloaded for free. Just Google for “free blogger templates” and you can select from the simple to complex designs that will suit your need.

If you have chosen one, remove the code from your Blogger designer under Layout -> Edit Html menu and put the provided code of your chosen template. By now you ought to have totally altered the over-all appearance of your website. You can further apply changes like changing your website’s language, hiding dates, etc. by going to the Settings page. Next is to arrange the page elements of your website. Go to Layout -> Page Elements and from there you can modify the title, heading, link bar, side bar, and other elements of your website. Doing this is actually pretty easy with the on-board WYSIWYG editor where you can add gadgets like navigation bars, links and pictures to the sides of your website.

You can even upload your own designed image as your heading. Next thing to do and I consider the final step, is to put the main contents of your website. Do this by going to the Post page. You can create and put several pages to your website by creating posts and opting to display only 1 post on each page. This will make each of your posts to be assigned to each of your pages. When done with your first post, publish the page and see how it looks. Be a little ingenious and make your web-log not look like a web-log but a full-featured website by playing around with Layout and Settings pages. You will be amazed at how much you can do with Blogger.com’s free blog service.

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Building Your Own Small Business Website

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Would you like to know how to make your own website? Are you unemployed and would like to have a small business of your own? Are you a small business owner and would love to promote your merchandise but you don’t know how to create your web page highly ranked so you can bring lots of visitors and translate it to sales? In this article I will explain some important steps on how to design, build, publish and promote a website.

If you are thinking that building a website is so hard or something that you can’t do as you know nothing about it, don’t be surprised if I tell you that all of those things will turn out to be untrue. You will see that building your own website is very easy. Although it would be convenient to use web development companies, as a business owner it is a great edge if you also know the basics of making a website.

First of all you should make a list of what you need:

Basic computer skills

1- Access to a personal computer
2- Access to the Internet
3- A free HTML Editor
4- A place on the World Wide Web to publish your page (Web hosting - Domain name)

The Process:

1) Planning: You should define your objectives, the reason why you are going to build a website. You should think thoroughly about the content that you will put in the webpage. Your virtual real estate should be competitive and analytical. Think of something you like and love to do every day, a topic that you have a very good knowledge of. Write every thing and every post in your own words. Don’t limit yourself. Be open minded. You should know that when people search for information they use different keywords to get various results.

2) Design your webpage: This is the next action after you have brainstormed of what your website should be. Now you should think how your website will look like? Think about something different to attract visitors. Don’t forget that the textual content is the most important factor and it should be valuable.

3) Optimizing for the search engines: there are some steps to optimize your webpage for certain keywords:

a) Title tag: It should be 5-10 words and the keyword should be the first word in the title.
b) Meta Description tag: It is a short description of the page. It must also contain your chosen keyword.
c) The regular text of the page: Put not less than three hundred words on the page. And be to the point.

4) Domain name and hosting: You need a domain name as it will give your site credibility. Don’t make it too long and make sure that it contains the main keyword that is relevant to your website. If you are on a low budget, you can go for free hosting but a paid small business web hosting is a hundred times much better for your business.

5) Promotion: It is the most important step in your online business’ existence. You should submit your website to the search engines to bring traffic to your website and to rank well, hence, attract advertisers. Article marketing is one of the best methods but there are myriad of other techniques.

I hope that this article has helped you in a way to know the basics of making a website for your business.

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