On
Making
a Web Site..
Lot of people have asked me this question, "Hey,
how
to
make a cool website like yours?". I always answered, "
Its
easy, all you need is a little time, that's all!". But I
think that answer was not sufficient. Don't you?
Well, that's why I decided writing this article, because some
things just cant be lectured (In fact, many things can't
be..). To make a simple site like this one, you really won't
need to know much coding these days, however, if you do know
some, it will be a great help.
Now, if you really want to make your own website,
whatever may be your motive behind it, (i.e., the reason why you
want to make a website: just a personal site, a business site,
informative, educative, or simply for time pass.. whatever) the
first thing you should do is to think. Think about, "What
resources are required for the particular purpose?". The answer
is , "A software, a platform on which I will build my website."
Now, if you are using Windows OS, The
Microsoft® FrontPage®
is very handy, Macromedia(now, Adobe
®) Dreamweaver
® is one more
handy tool, if you can afford it. If you have some little experience in handling
Word documents, it will be very easy. (If you know java, html, css etc., then what are you waiting for?!). If you want to do more
graphics & cool things, use
Flash &
Adobe®
Photoshop®.
There are plenty other similar software which are available, its
your choice.
Although my
website design has been made entirely by
me, (of course, excluding the services provided by the web
service provider, I will come to this shortly) I would not
recommend you to enter into such a venture, as you see, my
site has evolved since a long time and will keep evolving. It
didn't take me days, but years in putting all this together (just used to do little
by little whenever I found some free time). It will be foolish
for a person new to html to do things on his/her own, as it
will take a very long time to make everything by yourself. The
easier, and smart way is, find a good service provider to do
most of the job for you. There are many such service providers
you can find on the net, who offer free of cost services.
Suppose you have all your web pages
you want to display on the internet ready, now, how will you
publish your website? (i.e.,
how will your site appear on the internet?). for that, you
must either have a web server, or find a web hosting service, i.e., there are
many websites you can register with, which provides you of web
space, through their servers, i.e., let you host a website by giving
you space in their servers, and also, some also provide you with
free templates or
ready made designs which makes
your work much less, saving a lot of time & money. If you
can run your own server, there are many software like Apache.
You can even turn your own computer into a server if you can
keep it on all time and if it is capable of handling the
traffic coming its way. I won't get into lot of details, there
are already many sites on the net providing them.
If you know some html, css, java or
other scripting languages, and want to design yourself, you
can search for sites providing free designs & web contents
(like, for example,
DynamicDrive), and you can find them all on the net.
I could not
make everything by myself, so I searched for a good service
provider & found one! Of course, which provided me
great web tools
like e-card service, guestbook, blog,
daily cartoons, web polls, counters, headline news & much
more,
for free (there are paid services too, if you
want really much more). Also
interactive services like e-mail forms, which allowed
me to get your feedbacks.
You too can easily search for
a suitable service provider yourself, to siut your needs.
If you think this article
was insufficient, or you want to know more, do give your
feedback.
All of your
comments are welcome.
PRADEEP,
Wednesday April 02, 2008
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