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Everyday hundreds of web sites are launched by people all over
the world .There are millions of reasons which make us launch
new websites.Let me mention three of them in here by supposing .
1 : If you have any kind of business then sooner or later you
will need a web presence in order to boost your business and to
offer your services to people from all over the world .
2: Lets suppose you work for a company and that company asked
you to make a website for them or make one for boosting business
and communicating well with your co-workers.
3: Maybe you go to school and your school asked you to make one
for them or for their journal or maybe you want to make one for
your favorite movies etc .
So like I said there are millions of reasons but those three are
some of the main ones. Today in this article I will try to
explain all you need to build your home on the web today .
Believe it or not within 24-hours you could have a website up
and running .Lets get started then .
What are url , website, servers, intranet, internet, http,www
and domain names, WYSIWYG?
You might already know the basics and the answers of the above
questions but I will still write up a short introduction and
answers to them so if you don't know it can then get you
started.
Url : stands for Uniform Resource Locator and it tells the web
browser what to do and where to go when you type it into the
address bar of your web browser.
Website: is a location on the world wide web(www) and has a
start page or home page which is the first thing you see when
you visit it.It contains many files and owned by an individual
or organization. And today you are going to make one :)
Servers : are like the normal computers but they have a lot of
disk space and are connected to the internet 24-hours a day , 7
days a week, 365 days, a year . Servers serve data such as web
pages , pictures , applications and run many different types of
programs in order to handle many different types of files.
Intranet : is more like the internet but restricted to a certain
organization .Organizations exchange information easily using
intranets. They can do anything that can be done on the internet
like participating in discussion groups, viewing documents and
revising them etc.
Internet :is a global network which is connected to millions of
computers and it is not owned or run by a special company and it
has vast collection of resources, information.
HTTP: stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol and is a set of
standards and tell the servers how to handle web pages , for
example when you type a url into the address bar it then tells
the domain name which you typed to serve(display) a web page .
www: stands for World Wide Web and is a system of internet
servers that support documents formatted in special way.
Documents are formatted in HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
which can link to other documents,audio and multimedia and
graphics.
Domain Name : is the name of the server hosting the website .
There are many different types of domain names such us .com for
commercial , .net for networks and ISPs(Internet Service
Providers) ,.gov for government sites , .edu for educational
institutes and .org for non-profit organizations . The most
widely used one is the .com one.
WYSIWYG: stands for what you see is what you get and
applications which have WYSIWYG enable you to see what is
displayed on the screen exactly when you print the document or
publish it. There are many WYSIWYG editors which enable you to
easily create a website and the best and most popular ones
include Microsoft® FrontPage® and Macromedia® Dreamweaver® MX .
If you know how to use Microsoft® Word® then you can use those
two because they are more alike .
That was a short explanation of some of the things you will need
to know when you want to build your website . But you can search
the internet and get more information and definitions about what
is covered in here and what is not .
Prepare your site files.
Most of the time when I make a website for a client or a friend
they don't bring everything that is needed to get the website up
and running. It is better it prepare all the files which you
will use for your site in a specific folder in your personal
computer. Prepare all the files you need before you start making
your website.
Plan the Concept of your Site
That is right. You need to plan the concept of your site before
you go into designing it. You can make a sketch of how it will
look and then try to implement that .When making the concept
your site it is better to use real text that will appear on the
site so that will help you a lot .
Start Designing Your Site using WYSIWYG editor.
Now that you have prepared and planed the concept of your site
then it is time to start designing it .You can use any WYSIWYG
editor to design it.If you don't want to start designing it but
you want something ready that you can change the text then you
can buy a professional template which will cost you like $10-$30
.
Also there are many free templates which you can use . Just make
a search in Google™ and you will get millions of sites for
downloading free site templates .
Shop for hosting and domain name
Now that you have built your site and it is on your personal
computer then you will need to rent a remote server and get a
domain name so it can be accessible to all people from the
world. Before you start shopping for hosting you have to make a
list of what you want like special features, bandwidth , storage
space etc. If you are building a small personal website then I
guess 50 mb space and 1-5 Gigabyte of data transfer . Of course
you can later upgrade to a bigger plan.
Also hosting companies many other features along with space and
bandwidth such as control panel where you can manage your
website easily .If you don't want to get a professional hosting
or you can afford it then you can get free hosting which some
companies offer and is ad supported and has a lot of
restrictions.
Also you will need to register a domain name for your site .
Domain names cost from $6.00 to $35 yearly . There are many
great domain registrars which you can use to register your
domain name. If you don't to register a domain name then you get
a sub domain but you will have to make sure that your hosting
company can offer you a sub domain which will be like the
following your-site-name.hosting-company-site.com When you
register your domain name you will have to wait 24-48 hours
before it can be fully working . But before that you can still
upload your site files because your hosting company will give
you an IP which you can use for uploading your site files.
Conclusion
There you have it. Just follow them well and You could be
running your own website within 24 hours. Of course this was a
short article but at least it provides you some of the basic
information you need to know. Also you can visit many sites
online which can provide you a more detailed tutorials and
website enhancements. Until next time, try to build your home on
the web today and good luck .
About the author:
Abdillahi Abdillahi is a web designer, founder and president of
http://kooshin.com , a company providing affordable web hosting
and web design solutions to small to medium sized businesses and
individuals. For more information , please visit
http://kooshin.com
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