Posts Tagged ‘making a website’

Web Designing Pros and Cons

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

In every aspect of everything there is the good and the bad side. In some cases, we are trying to find some ways to make life better. However, every action goes with a positive and a negative result. Same with a company’s web, we decided to build a business website so we can gain potentials. All we have to do is just to consider the pros and cons of web designing.

In this article, I will lay down the pros and cons of web designing to build your business website or simply just to make your own web site. In that way, awareness will be notified and necessary action will be performed. The good thing is that, we were able to maximize the full potential of the web and just minimized the least consequence making a bit helpful to develop the areas of improvement to an asset.

If we just choose the right design of our website, we were able to do businesses even if customers won’t go to a local office. Secured payments thru online processes are well protected. And even if the local office won’t work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, customers still have the access to log in to your web site making it easier for them to check your services and products. Membership and subscription will be self-guided. This is to avoid hassle in the local office getting in a long and jammed line. There are some webs that are designed to leave a customer comment, thus making it an advertisement to the consumers end as the word of mouth based on other customer’s experience. This will make savings to do marketing strategies and advertisements. The most advantage of this online thing is the possibility to expand worldwide. If the website is designed to give full access to people all over the world, then some memberships might come from overseas, which is a potential of expanding abroad.

The disadvantage of web design in building your web presence is very minimal. And most of the time, this is a thing that we give less attention to. The pros and cons on this web design is just a small percent that we can consider if we talk about the negative part. One most common problem is about the customer’s comment. A lot of websites give the customer an access to put and publish anything that they wish to. So if they are not satisfied or misguided by your website’s tool, then it could be something to consider as a heavy burden. There is a big possibility that the customer will leave something negative on the website making it visible for everybody, thus loosing the potentials.

The pros and cons of web design is a factor that we should consider but it doesn’t give any heavy burdens at all. The negative side is manageable and most of the time, it’s minimal. The key is if you follow the right technique and strategy, there isn’t a need to be worried about. If you are confident that your products and services are good enough to handle the benefactor’s end, it would then be a full blast of expectation for a good investment and profitable line to hire a professional website builder.

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.

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.

Ways To Create Your Own Website

Friday, November 6th, 2009

These days there are more number of websites than the vast human population itself and this number is increasing faster than ever before. This can be mainly attributed to the fact that these days thousands of options are available for building a website. Earlier building websites needed the users to have the knowledge of html which was very complicated. But these have changed. These days online sites are giving away ready made sites for your use. You just need to pick a web address for your web site, add its contents and there you have it.

In this article, I am going to explain how to make your own website, something which I have dome for myself and for my friends. First of all run a search on major search engines with keywords such as free website builder, build your own website for free, website making, make your own website free, etc. If you want a casual site, just for a simple web presence, you can choose a free site builder. I came upon webs.com and it turned out to a really excellent site indeed. First they get you registered with their website which is a really hassle free process. You just need to enter your name, email address, etc. Then they take you to the main site building page where you get to customize every possible aspect of the website.

Let’s first look at how to edit your homepage. Here you can put the basic elements like an introduction about yourself, your likes and dislikes, etc. This site automatically sets up pages for you under different headings such as blog, pictures, videos, forums, videos, members, etc. Let us look at different options one by one.

After selecting and deciding what contents to put on your home page let us make it more attractive. You can select from a number of widgets to put on your page including Paypal donations, website hits meter, etc. You can select what updates to show on the webpage about your site. For example you can display on the sidebar stuff such as the newest member to your web site, newest photos, videos, etc.

Now lets add some more pages to the site. How about some pictures? It’s really simple to add photos. You can either upload photos from your computer or link photos from other sites. You can create custom folders for separating photos. Also you can add music to your photo view page to play as a tune along with the photos slide show.

Videos are the next best thing to be added. Just upload your custom made videos or link them from sites such as Youtube. Here, you can also separate videos based on criteria you choose. Also you can select options such as who can view these videos and who can post comments. The same applies for photos as well. you can make it compulsory for someone to sign up at your web site before they can look at these private pages of yours.

You can select which members to accept into your website and whom not to. You can manage every aspect of your website as I said earlier.

There you go, I hope you learned something about free website builders and start trying it out today. I’m pretty sure you will be better than me at these things in no time at all.

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.