Before we go into the hosting options a webmaster encounters, we thought we would delve a little deeper into the website building opportunities. There are many more options than just Facebook, Myspace, and blogging systems. You can learn a bit of HTML and make a custom webpage all on your own.
Steps to creating a webpage using HTML
1. Obtain a source code editor:
Source code is the "guts" of a webpage. It tells the web browser what to display when a visitor lands on your site.
Some good editors include Notepad, Microsoft Word, Openoffice.org Writer, Coffeecup HTML editor, Microsoft Expression Web 2.
The first three are merely text editors, but the last 2 are HTML editors with special tools that will help a webmaster write HTML.
2. Familiarize yourself with HTML code. This can be done by looking at several websites such as W3Schools.com, htmlcodetutorial.com and htmlgoodies.com. Here is an HTML template to get your started.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title> replace with your document's title </title>
</head>
<body>
replace with your document's content
</body>
</html>
3. Copy and paste the code above into your editor and edit as you like (making sure to leave the code)
4. Save the document (make sure to set the file extension as .html)
Now you're page should be ready to host and you are on your way to having a "website!" To ensure that the page renders correctly, open it with a web browser.
HTML is a great way to create custom webpages and is commonly used throughout most webpages we all visit everyday.
Next we will go over how to get your newly made HTML webpage and website hosted.
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Creating a Website (for free)
There are many ways to create a "website." Here we will focus on the free options. A few popular ways include:
1. Myspace
2. Facebook
3. Blog services (such as blogger.com and wordpress.com)
All of these are perfectly legitimate ways to carve out a hole for yourself on the internet. However, there are a some downsides to using the services mentioned above. This is also not a complete list of popular website creation tools, but it will get your started.
Myspace and Facebook are the easiest, but perhaps the least customizable choices. With Facebook, the user has very little choice over the design and look of their site. The services also require site visitors to register with the service themselves to fully experience your website's potential. If you are looking for a quick way to get established on the web, maybe just to meet friends or to share your photo album with others, these two choices just might be the way to go. They are also free of charge.
But if you're looking for something more, some additional freedom with the way your website looks and functions, then you might look into creating a "blog." Blog services are a plentiful and they all have their good and bad aspects. Wordpress and Blogspot are exceptional, free services. To explore blog services and see which one is right for you try searching google for "blog service reviews". This can help you research the options each service will provide. One downside to the immediately available blogs is the way in which they are hosted. Hosting techniques equate directly to the ability to fully customize your website and an account at Blogger or Wordpress can limit what you can do with your website. This might not be immediately hindering to a greenhorn, or it might not affect you, depending on the level at which you want to edit your site.
Try any of the above options for a quick way to create a website. Next we will look at different hosting options.
1. Myspace
2. Facebook
3. Blog services (such as blogger.com and wordpress.com)
All of these are perfectly legitimate ways to carve out a hole for yourself on the internet. However, there are a some downsides to using the services mentioned above. This is also not a complete list of popular website creation tools, but it will get your started.
Myspace and Facebook are the easiest, but perhaps the least customizable choices. With Facebook, the user has very little choice over the design and look of their site. The services also require site visitors to register with the service themselves to fully experience your website's potential. If you are looking for a quick way to get established on the web, maybe just to meet friends or to share your photo album with others, these two choices just might be the way to go. They are also free of charge.
But if you're looking for something more, some additional freedom with the way your website looks and functions, then you might look into creating a "blog." Blog services are a plentiful and they all have their good and bad aspects. Wordpress and Blogspot are exceptional, free services. To explore blog services and see which one is right for you try searching google for "blog service reviews". This can help you research the options each service will provide. One downside to the immediately available blogs is the way in which they are hosted. Hosting techniques equate directly to the ability to fully customize your website and an account at Blogger or Wordpress can limit what you can do with your website. This might not be immediately hindering to a greenhorn, or it might not affect you, depending on the level at which you want to edit your site.
Try any of the above options for a quick way to create a website. Next we will look at different hosting options.
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