Garry T Stasiuk, Instructor

Clark College

 

 

 

 

 

URL

Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HTML

Hyper Text
Markup Language

CSS

Cascading
Style Sheets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 1 - Determine who will be your Host

The Host is the company and computers (servers) where you place your website with all the associated Web pages, graphics, photos and related files.

Your Internet Provider (IP), some times called Internet Service Provider (ISP), is the company that connects your computer to the internet. Your provider may or may not be your website Host!

Types of Hosts:

Step 2 - Finding a URL Domain Name

Free Domain Names

Your provider "gives" you "free" URL's that advertises "they" are providing your website space... Like:


http://home.comcast.net/~yourname
or
http://yourname.angelfire.com/
or
http://www.users.qwest.net/~username

Purchasing a Domain Name

How to Find & Register Domain Names...
A "custom" domain name provides identity for your site and makes it easier
for people to remember your websites Uniform Resource Locator (URL or internet address).

Cost ranges from $8 to $35 a year.

Step 3 - Planning Your Website

Type of site? - What kind of content do you want on your web pages?

How you navigate your site?


Step 4 - Building Your Website Pages

Building a website requires that you work on one page at a time.

To Create your site you need to know:

  1. Web Design Basics - Elements of good design and and how to use it on websites.
  2. HTML, the basic building blocks of all Web pages. It is the pages content, that contains elements like, the photos, the graphics, headings, bulletins, paragraphs, forms, etc
  3. CSS, is the building blocks of how pages look, it's style. CSS defines the "look and feel" of the pages, it's colors, fonts, size of fonts, the boxes, backgrounds, etc
  4. Web Software...How you put it together
    Web Page Editors - How to find the perfect editor for your needs, a process that will help you learn Web Design, HTML, and CSS.

Step 5 - Publishing Your Website

How to get the pages you created in step 4 on to the hosts servers (computers) you set up in step 1.
Hosting service usually have on-line tools or you can use free software or you can use tools that are part of the function of your web page editing software.

Step 6 - Promoting Your Website

Step 7 - Useability - Maintaining and Improving Your Website