1.Purchase a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) HTML editor such as Adobe GoLive, Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft FrontPage. 2.Make-your-own-web-pages using your editing/word processor program 3.FTP the files to your web-server.
HTML EDITORS
Top HTML editors for beginners:
1. Adobe GoLive 2. Macromedia Dreamweaver 3. Microsoft FrontPage
All of these editing programs allow beginners to make-your-own- web-pages using templates and WYSIWYG. Simply create or select a pre-made template for making-your-own-web-page, type your content into the page on your screen, and hit the save button. All three of these programs come with instructions that are designed to help even the beginner web user to create a relatively professional looking website.
The only thing you need to take into deliberation is to make sure that if you are using Microsoft FrontPage that you go with a website hosting company that supports FrontPage extensions.
MAKE-YOUR-OWN-WEBPAGES
Exactly how you make-your-own-web-page will depend on the specific editor you use, however the process of all editors is remarkably similar.
1. Select or create a template for your site. With graphic design skills, choose to create something from scratch. Beginners just use one of the many pre-developed templates that come with editing programs.
2. Create pages for your site and type the text directly into the pages. The content will appear on the screen similar to the way it will appear in the final website.
3. Insert any graphics you will use for your site. In general, you should keep these to a minimum because each graphic you put into your page increases the download time. Also, you don't want too many animated gifs or flashy stuff on the page - they make the page appear unprofessional.
4. Test the site as you go. All editors contain a preview capability that will let you see the page in a web browser exactly as your visitors will see it. It is also a good idea to test your pages using multiple browsers since there is some variance as to how different browsers interpret HTML code. You should design your site to work effectively with the top three browsers: Microsoft Explorer, Firefox, and Netscape.
The most important thing in making-your-own-web-pages is to start. Amend your site a number of times before you ever actually post it online; but recognize that it does take time to make-your-own-web-page, especially your first time out. Its part of the learning curve and necessary to making sure you have thoroughly thought out each aspect of your site's navigation and content.
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) FILES TO YOUR WEBSITE
When you purchase a web hosting service, the web host will give you FTP credentials consisting of the FTP site, user name and password for your account. Use this information to put the pages you create online.
GoLive, Dreamweaver and FrontPage all come with embedded FTP programs, so you can just enter your FTP credentials into their client and follow your program's instructions to publish your pages.
There are times, however, when you may want to FTP files to your FTP server without using your development environment's embedded FTP functionality. Therefore it's a good idea to go ahead and set up a separate client for uploading things like images, pdfs, or other linked objects. Go online and download a free FTP program. Several free FTP clients you may choose to use:
1. Leach FTP 2. WSFTP 3. Microsoft Explorer.
Type the FTP location into the browser and then enter your credentials into the popup box.
Install the program and then enter your FTP information into the connection screen. Once you have successfully connected to your FTP site, posting your web site is as easy as copying the files from your home computer to your website. That's it and you are on your way to making-your-own-web-page.
Studies have shown that if a web site takes more than 8-10 seconds to load on a 56k modem then you risk losing the visitor. This means that the web page design needs to be less than 30 kilobytes in size. Web surfers hate to wait for slow loading web pages. If your web pages don't load fast enough, many web surfers will go away without taking a look at them. No matter how great your product is: if your web site is not fast enough, web surfers won't see it. Fast loading web pages are crucial if you want to sell something on the Internet. There are several things you can do to speed up your site. Of course, you should make sure that your web host provides fast and reliable servers. In addition to hosting your web site on a fast server, you can do the following to improve the loading time of your web pages:
Reduce the number of graphics: A large number of graphics on your web pages can considerably slow down your page. For each graphic on your web page, the web browser has to make another connection to your server. If you cannot reduce the number of graphics on your web page, then try to combine several graphics to a single bigger one. Use the same graphics on your other web pages so that web browsers can load the graphics from the browser cache.
Optimize all heavy files: As much as possible optimize heavy graphics, Flash files and scripts. In editors like fireworks and flash you can see the various options in the preview panel to reduce the sizes. See how popular web sites like google and yahoo have pages that are very small in size and thus load in seconds.
Specify the dimensions of your graphics: Always make sure to include the height and width dimensions of your graphics in your HTML code. This means that every IMG tag should have the WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes specified. If web browsers don’t have to figure out the dimensions of your graphics, they can already display placeholders and start displaying the text of your web page before loading the graphics from the server.
Spread out your content: In case you find yourself having very long pages of content, break them down into separate sections and thus bring down the sizes of the individual pages.
Make the top of your page interesting: If a web page takes a long time to load, make sure that the top of the page contains something interesting because visitors will see that part first.
Optimize your HTML code: Make sure that your site doesn't have any unwanted tags and that it is optimized.
Divide your tables: Web pages that use a single large layout table take a long time to render in web browsers. Break up huge tables into several smaller ones.
Specify the dimensions of your tables If you specify the WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes for your tables, then web browsers don't have to load the complete table code to calculate the dimensions of the table.
Double check cell widths: Take a moment to check the individual widths of each table cell. If the total is more than the specified table width, then web browsers will have problems displaying your table.
It's important to know the download times of your web pages. In general, your home page should load in 20 seconds on a dial-up connection and the top of your page should be displayed within 5-8 seconds.
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