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NEW Check out our Step by Step Tutorial that shows you how to take the free HTML editor, NoteTab Light , and create a 5 page website using one of our free web templates. How do you make a website?HTML is the coding language used to create a website. If you want to be an expert learn to write HTML code. For those who don't want to be experts, there are other methods. Though there are actually several methods that you can use to make your website, we'll break them down into 2 basic categories; online building and off line building. Online Website BuildingOnline website building is accomplished using your browser while logged on to the internet. There are advantages and disadvantages involved with using this method. One advantage is that everything is provided by one company. Website building tool, web storage and even domain name are usually included in one package and at one price. Another advantage is that the website building tool is usually a WYSIWYG type of editor which works like a word processor. These types of tools don't require you to learn any code or have any kind of special skills to create your site. You do have to learn to use the tool!! We have not recommended online website builders in the past for dial up users. Since Yahoo released Site Solution that has changed!! |
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Note: If you don't have the patience to learn to use the tool, you'd probably be better off to pay someone to make a website for you. The main disadvantage of building a website online is that your website is stored in a database and you don't have direct access to the code. This can be a problem if your web host's server goes down and proper precautions like routine back up protection haven't been taken. We prefer a method of website building that allows us to download and store our website in case of such disasters. Another disadvantage of this method is that your design choices are limited to the templates provided by the tool. If you have problems with an online website builder, read ourTroubleshooting Guide. Off Line Website BuildingYou can build a website off line right on your PC. When it is finished and tested, you can then upload it or publish it on the internet. It would of course be up loaded to web storage space that you have acquired from a web host. See What is web hosting? There a several methods and tools that you can use to make a website off line. A web site is built by constructing it with code and then viewing the code in a browser. The simplest and most common code for building websites is HTML or Hyper text Markup Language. See HTML Codes Tutor You can code pages with a simple text editor like Notepad. You can make web pages with a word processor, like WordPerfect or Microsoft Word and then use a built in converter to transform them into HTML. You can use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors that don't require you to learn actual code. These are often called Drag and Drop editors and work like word processors. One of the best is the YAHOO Sitebuilder advertised on our Home Page. You can also make web pages with HTML editors, which are specifically designed for the web page building process. Get a Free Trial of one we recommend for beginners. What do I need?Web Hosting - Domain Name - Website Building Tool First you will need web space or storage space on a server connected to the internet. This storage space is provided by web hosting companies. It can be purchased for a monthly fee or for fun sites it can be gotten for free. See What is web hosting? Pricing for web hosting ranges from $1 a month and upward. The price often determines how much storage space you'll get and how many visitors will be allowed to access your website in a given month. Lower prices can be obtained by purchasing extended subscriptions, rather than paying for hosting by the month. You'll get a lower monthly rate if you purchase 6 months, 1 year or 2 years of hosting and pay up front. Second you will need a domain name. Some common domain names are: microsoft.com, dell.com, hbo.com and netscape.com. Ours is createafreewebsite.net. Yours might be billybob.com or discount-shoes.com. If you are just building a website for fun, you probably can do without a domain name. If your website is for a business or organization, we strongly recommend getting one. Pricing for domain names ranges from $4.99 a year to $70 a year. You may get more services paying $70 for a domain name, but we don't think they offset the extra cost. Many web hosts now provide a free domain name if you use their service. If you accept a free domain name from a hosting provider, be sure you have the option of buying that domain name if you should choose to leave their service. Third you'll need some type of editor or site building tool. If you choose to create your web site online, your editor or site building tool will be provided by your web host. More info... See Building Offline (Top)What is Web HostingA web host is a company that provides a location on a server which can be accessed by anyone on the internet.
A server is a machine much like your PC, with a continuous high speed connection to the internet. Special server software like Apache or Windows controls the flow of traffic to and from the server machine. Websites are stored on the hard drives of these special servers. Web hosts sell space on their servers to store client web sites. The amount of storage space varies from host to host. You can purchase as little as 2mb of storage space or as much as 1TB of storage for your website. A mb or megabyte is 1million bytes. A GB or Gigabyte is 1billion bytes. TB Terabyte is a trillion. See Web Host Guide Web hosts may limit the number of visitors to a website stored on their server. This factor is known as bandwidth or data transfer rate. Common numbers for bandwidth are 50GB per month. Top hosts are now offering bandwidth in Terabytes. Large popular websites can use in excess of 1GB of bandwidth per day. See Bandwidth Some web hosts charge a fee for setting up your account. Others do not. (Top)Can I make a website for FREE?Anyone can make a free website. There are countless free tools on the internet that can be downloaded and used to build a website. There are even some online services that allow you to make a website for free. If you want to make a free website, explore this website. We offer everything you need. The real question, which is answered below, is whether or not to use free web hosting. (Top)Should I use free web hosting?The first question that should be answered when considering free web hosting is:
If a website is for fun or to share photos with family and friends, you can consider free web hosting. If the site is for business of any kind or for sharing information consider paid hosting. Storage and bandwidth allotments for free hosting are very limited. Most free hosting also requires your website to display advertising for the web host's clients. Paid web hosting also provides superior equipment and faster connections to the internet. If you use free web hosting for a business, you will fail! This is not a sales marketing strategy to get you to pay for web hosting. Websites that are created for business on free services rarely if ever enjoy any measure of success on the internet. (Top)How do I put my website on the net?The method you use to make a web site will determine how you put it on the net or Publish it. If you build a website online, putting a page where it can be accessed by the public is accomplished by clicking a button that says Publish to Internet. If you create a website on your PC there are several methods which may be used to Publish. Site editors like FrontPage include a function for putting your pages on the internet. The SiteBuilder which you download from YAHOO also includes a Publish feature. If you build a website with a conventional HTML editor, some will include what is called an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) tool for uploading or publishing your pages.
A typical Web Host provided Control Panel is shown on the left. To access the uploading or publishing tool you would click File Manager. The illustration below shows a typical host provided File Manager. The tool for uploading pages to your web space is usually located on the bottom of the File Manager.
Most web hosts will allow you to use a third party FTP tool for uploading pages. See the top of this page to get a free one. Third party FTP tools are a lot faster because they include drag and drop features and allow you to upload large numbers of web pages and images in a session. (Top) Can I host my site on my own PC?In theory - YES. It would require a lot more work on your part. It would require you to have a continuous high speed connection to the internet. It would require you to add server software to your PC. It would require the purchase of a static IP address or use of a redirection service for dynamic IPs. But, forget any chance of high volume traffic!! For details visit no-ip.com (Top)Building Online StoresOnline stores are websites that sell products on the internet via credit card transactions. We strongly recommend using online website builders specifically designed for credit card transactions for store building. To sell online you'll need a merchant account, shopping cart, gateway software, secure socket layer and digital certificate. There are packages specially designed for selling online which include all of the items mentioned above. They are more costly but will take the work out of coordinating a shopping cart, merchant account and internet gateway software. Beginners who try to build online stores from scratch usually fail. Visit our sister site Ezseller Ecommerce Solutions for one of the Best Online Store Builders. The Yahoo Sitebuilder does have options that can be used for building stores, but you must purchase the Merchant Solutions package to use them. (Top)Membership WebsitesThe most effective way to create a website that requires members to sign up before viewing a website is to use CMS. (Content Management Systems) When you install a CMS, you instantly have a website with features like membership sign up, site search, newsletter software, polling tools and other interactive features. Most web hosts offer CMS with a Script installer like Fantastico or Elefante. Click a button and your website is installed. You just add the words. I recommend using Joomla! Of all the free opensource CMS software out there it is the best documented. More about Joomla... |
Most web hosts provide a tool for uploading or publishing your web pages. In most cases in will be located in the File Manager on your Control Panel.
You would use the Browse buttons to locate the files on your PC. Then click Upload Files. |
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