How to Create / Start Your Own Website
"So it may seem complicated for a beginner creating a website is not impossible that when ambitions are purely educational. In this issue we will present the practical steps that mark a typical creation website on the Internet."
- The foundations of a website: content, design and site structure
- Introduction to HTML: the language of the Web
- Some basic HTML tags
- Choosing your domain name and host site
- Generate traffic on the site (bring visitors)
Create a website
A Web site is rarely an end in itself and the content (information, services ...) that offers the user in is the reason for being.
So you ask the fateful question: What do I want to tell my visitors? You have the choice between a site where you have your vacation photos to be accessible to all your friends, a site to present your business, talk about your passion for classical music ... or any other subject that you like.
Make sure that you can produce a dozen pages on the subject or one of your friends or your family can write for you. Indeed, a site without content consistent and quality do not even bring anything personal satisfaction of a job well done.
The design of a website
After the fund, the shape is more than an element crucial to the success of a website. Because we will say, the visitor is pressed and should be attracted by the shape before discovering the tremendous wealth of information contained in your text. But as is practical guide does not pretend to make you a webmaster high level in a few pages (in fact it is simply impossible) content you are aware of this and made the subsistence minimum in the matter.
Note however that the classic presentation of a website is nowadays consists of three parallel columns including the center contains the text and the other two contain much less extensive links to sections of sites and additional features it is sensible offer.
STRUCTURE A WEBSITE
To enable your visitors to navigate between pages of your site should include a coherent structure for the latter. Up to you to imagine the structure that suits you, note that the traditional structure of a website (used on techarena) is to split the site in sections or sections that contain articles, the topics are accessible via the pages Home.
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HTML
"After the design is the development or simply the creation of the site. To do this we must start by understanding the language of the web, I appointed the basis for HTML to a website."
To be readable on the web, your pages should be written in language understandable to web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape ... that you are currently using to read this page. Unfortunately, these programs are unable to "read" a text that you have written on Word, you have to learn to speak (in fact writing is only useful) HTML say that any of the following is NOT a language but a programming language for formatting and presentation of digital data and text. Indeed HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language in the language of Sheaksper. Without further delay see it in practice.
STRUCTURE A WEB PAGE IN HTML
In HTML, a Web page created by a webmaster and interpretable (thus viewable by a browser) consists of two blocks: the header and the body of the page.
HEADER
This part of the web page is bounded by a tag named HEAD (the English term for header) and written as follows:
<head>
what to write in the header
</ head>
You notice that the contents of the header must be placed between an opening tag (without /) and a closing tag (with /). This tells the browser Coding the beginning and end of the HEAD.
The particularity of this region of the website is that it is not visible to the page that displays on the screen, only the browser can use the data contained therein. We detail the contents thereafter
THE BODY
The body is the visible part of the page. The tag on this part of the page is called BODY must be written directly after the header. It therefore led to a page like this:
<head>
what to write in the header
</ head>
<body>
what to display on the screen reader (your content formatted)
</ body>
You will notice a similarity in the syntax of this tag, please know that it will be the same for all the tags that are part of HTML. This party is richer than its predecessor and offers a multitude of tags to control the display of the content of your page.
FINISHING
Leaves more to finalize it. To do this, this is the first browser to indicate the language used by your page, because if the HTML is the language of web excellence, there are others. You will therefore get a page like this:
<html>
<head>
what to write in the header
</ head>
<body>
what to display on the screen reader
</ body>
</ html>
The next section shows you how to use some HTML tags to present additional content.
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SOME BASIC HTML TAGS
There are countless tags that come take up position between the BODY tags to help you to format your pages. We present here some purely illustrative:
Tag B
This tag allows simply put a piece of text in bold. By placing the following line between the BODY tags
My <b> bold </ b>
We get the following result:
My bold
U tag
This tag allows you to highlight a piece of text. By placing the following line between the BODY tags
<u> Underlined text </ u>
We get the following result:
Underlined text
And so on for other tags. For more details on the various HTML tags you can refer to the many documents that deal with this subject on the Internet.
Now that all our pages are created correctly and layouts, we only have to create links that allow Internet users to switch from one page to another
LINKS
A link is part of the web page, often a piece of text, which if clicked transports us to another page. The tag that is devoted to the links is the tag "a" to be more ownership "href" with the address of the web page for the link. An example:
<a href="http://www.techarena.in"> Go to the site techarena.in </ a>
giving on a web page
Go to the site techarena.in
TOOLS
That is roughly the basics of HTML, but do not worry, you will not have to spend long hours in front of your computer before you know how a web page. Indeed there are now performing software that do the work for you! Among these are the solution software called Microsoft FrontPage, which is provided in some versions of Office but the inevitable Macromedia Dreamweaver. With this software it is as if you write a text word, the software will translate the formatting in HTML tags and links are managed through windows very friendly.
At the end of this part you should have the following:
- A general design for your site
- Some knowledge of HTML
- Some pages on your website
If it does not, it does nothing you can continue reading this article because the key is to get an idea on the process before launching into a serious enterprise as perilous as the creation of a website.
In what follows we discuss hosting and indexing. A program!
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WEB HOSTING
Once created, a site is on your computer and is not accessible to Web surfers who wish to visit. To make it accessible to all should be the host in a web hosting.
A host is a company, for payment, provides maintenance and a web server on which you can put your website so that it can be accessible to Web surfers.
A server is simply a reliable computer (rarely falls down) which unlike a computer as your still on and therefore accessible to your visitors.
For a webmaster, all the technical details (configuration, backup, bandwidth ...) are borne by the host and you can then devote to your site.
For the first site, no need to turn to a host fee. There are a multitude of sites that offer this service free of charge and only in part against display of advertising on your site, which is not serious for a personal site.
DOMAIN NAME
All this does not always! Because your visitors have no way to know the IP address of your server to access.
So how do? Well aware that here too there is a solution but your portfolio will again be used. To identify a site, we use the web address or URL which is based on a domain name for your site. See all this in details: You buy a domain name of the genus http://www.techarena.com, your host matches this address to the IP address of your site and everything is placed on a DNS server dedicated to this purpose. When a visitor types in http://www.techarena.com/ its browser, it queries the DNS server and requests your IP address will find the server and therefore your site.
All this is very complicated but totally invisible to you, you can simply buy a domain name and the rest is done automatically! But again you can show you tightwad containing a subdomain usually provided free with your free hosting. This gives http://www.techarena.in/ if you are staying in India. This solution is particularly suited to our case (that of a site to learn).
Now that your site is hosted and therefore accessible via a web address, as do visitors. You would perhaps not, but this is certainly the most complicated.
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Generate traffic
"A site without visitors is a totally unnecessary death. To find your site, a multitude of techniques are available. They are all grouped in the so-called referral."
WHERE ARE VISITORS
Those who visit your site come from different backgrounds. There are friends who have written the address of your site on a piece of paper, those you met on a forum and to whom you advised your site ... but also and especially those who have found your site by searching on a search engine like Google. They generally represent 80 to 90% of your visitors.
But the question is to ask, by what magic is your site he found on the engine?
INDEXING
To find on Google for example, your site should have been visited by the engine and it contains pages indexed in the database engine with millions of other sites in this country. To be on your site, Google in different ways: first it gives you the opportunity to propose the address of your site to put it on its program of visits, then it can follow a link that you 've put on a forum for discussion and find on your site, this link may also appear on the site of a friend ...
Referencing can be defined as all the techniques that a webmaster begins to know his site with search engines, directories site, partner sites ... through a submission of the address, a link exchange, a partnership monetized or not ... with the aim of the visits generated.
Here is a comprehensive summary of the listing, but you can imagine, competition is helping all that much more difficult than it appears and frustration is the daily lot of beginner webmaster.
We hope that this will help you to get an idea about creating website. We plan to enrich it through articles devoted pointed notemment referencing techniques advanced, choice of positioning, optimization of the site, choosing a suitable accommodation and quality ...
