If you want to learn the secrets of a well-made website, let me give them to you 1. Plan ahead of time. Plan. Conceptualize. Think of an idea that will make your site standout. Think of strategies that will keep the people from visiting. That way you can secure a good traffic for your web [...]
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 [...]
To create professional websites is not an easy task by any means. There are many things that you got to take into consideration like easy navigation, strategic links, clean coding, professional layout, easy downloading, scanability, usability and so on. These are the elements that differentiate a professional website from a mediocre one. So in a [...]
I don’t know about you, but when I built my first web site three years back I don’t know anything about the webloggers. One day when I checking the features of my web host control panel (after two months of uploading my first home page) I saw the link ‘Webstats’. That was the first time [...]
An “include” file is a piece of code that can be put into a seperate file — for example — your navigation bar — and then “included” in a number of other pages. This has the very useful advantage of allowing you to retain consistency over a very large number of pages, and then make [...]
Once you’ve created your website, you’re going to need to upload it to your web server. The easiest and fastest way of doing this is using FTP. What’s FTP? FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It’s a standard for transferring files quickly and easily between computers, intended to allow computers with different operating systems to [...]
There are a lot of web servers out there. Whenever you go to a website, you’re downloading it from a web server. When you pay money to a web host, what you’re really doing is renting a space on their web server. The Internet consists of millions of computers networked together, but it’s the servers [...]
When you’re developing a website, you need to see it in action on a real server, to see how it will work. While you could upload your pages to your web host every time you make a change, this quickly gets time-consuming and tiresome. Wouldn’t it be great if you could have a little test [...]
If you are trying to sell a product or service on your website, then it is important to make your site as professional as possible. You might think designing that your own website to look like a professional did so is a rather difficult proposition, however there are many tools online that will help you [...]
In brief, this is how to make a website: 1) Select a domain name. Visit http://www.nameboy.com/ to find out if your name is available, and what other options exist. 2) You need to purchase the domain name. Probably the easiest way to do this is to go to a web host like http://www.ipowerweb.com/ or http://www.hostrocket.com/ [...]
