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Creating a website

NocturnalNature

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I would like to create a website and link it to this site but I don't have a clue as to how to go about doing this.
Can someone please explain(in laymans terms) the steps involved with creating and maintaining a webpage.
Thanks in advance
Jackie Lapradd
 
There are a few different ways to approach a website project. First determine your budget.

1. Free/Inexpensive

There are a number of places out there that provide you with free or inexpensive systems to built a website without any knowledge of programming. Yahoo has a system for example.

Advantages: Easy on the wallet and the head

Disadvantages: Your usually limited to what you can do.

2. Have a designer do a layout for you.

This is usually fine for a business but can be costly.

Advantages: Custom layout and functionality

Disadvantages: Expensive and time consuming.



Once you have determined your budget, you need to figure out what you want the website to do. Figure out what pages you want and what each page will "do". This will make it easier when you are deciding how to build your site (so you don't choose one method and find out 1/2 way through it won't get the job done).

If your looking to build a simple site to display your pictures, link to favorite sites, and tell the world a little about yourself it can be done easily.

Here's some links for you.
Beginners Overview

AngelFire Free System

HomeStead System (Almost Free)
 
One thing that is often overlooked when considering a web presence is that you can have the most sophisticated, best looking, most user friendly, and absolutely most useful site on the web, but if people can't find you, it will all be for nothing.

Suppose this site you made was located at:

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/~newsites/~directoryA/~~subsiteDNS_locator/part1/partition12/section4/user270.b/MySite.html

You can't even get a business card big enough to hold that URL and anything else on it. Much less when someone you are talking to asks you for your web address, you will be about to the '~newsites' part of it before they hold their hand up and tell you to email it to them.

What is your business name? What are you specializing in? Ask someone what they would key into their browser right off the top of their head in order to find you if they wanted to find you on the web. If I were looking for a company called Bob's Big Boas, the first thing I would try would be www.bobsbigboas.com. Surprisingly enough, these get hits more often then not.

Anyway, there are a lot of people whom design web pages for a small fee. There is at least one advertising on this site right now. Check them out and talk to them about it.
 
something else to consider: sometimes, your ISP (internet service provider, for example, AOL, BellSouth, RoadRunner, etc...) will provide you with free space for a webpage. My ISP, BellSouth, allows for 10MB of storage in the form of an html site and/or a photo gallery, or an FTP site (although you can't do much with a 10MB FTP site). Here's my site I created with Microsoft's FrontPage Click here for my site and here's my photo albums (a bit sparse at the moment) Click here for my photo album
My site is currently on it's second version. The first version took several hours (about 10 b/c it was the first site I ever built) and the second version took about 6 and looks MUCH better. Now that I've got a little free time, I'm going to begin exploring what I can do with Macromedia's DreamWeaverMX, a much more powerful and extensive program to design webpages than FrontPage.

Anyway, just thought I'd throw that option out there in case you were unaware of it.
Best of luck in creating your page. It's a lot of work, but it's FUN! And the feeling of satisfaction is overwhelming when you complete it!
JB
 
O.K.,
I went to Homestead, plopped down my $8.00 a month and started work on my new site.
Well when I click on the link it gives me to access my site it says the address can't be found.
Has anyone else out there tried this site? Hopefully I can get a few pointers from you.
 
In order to view your website. You first gotta have one.
You started work on your site....(you said) But here are a couple things.

When you first log in. It says Download site builder or enter homestead.


Download site builder.
If you downloaded site builder, and you are creating a site. You must make sure that your homepage (first page) is your index. Then You must first save it. Then you must publish it. So after you hit save. Make sure you hit publish. Then it will pop up some kind of screen. Do not worry about it. Just say yes. (I never understood what the pop up screen is for, I just find it useless). Note in order to publish you must be on line.


Enter homestead.
If you entered homestead and are working on your site from on line. All you have to do is hit save and it will automatically save and publish what you were working on.


Tip.
It is easier to download the sitebuilder and make your webpages that way. It saves some space from memory. If you work on your site from the homestead area.....The sitebuilder will be taking up memory. So download and make your site that way.

I hope it made sense. If it did not let me know I will try to reword it. conveying my point on a computer is always so hard.
 
oh yeah.
Once you hit publish and it is done publishing. That is when you can finally view your webpage. You can always re save and republish as many times as you like.
 
Thanks everyone for the great advice!
I spent most of last night and all of today putting this
thing together.
Will one of you please follow the link and check out
the photo section? I cannot figure out how to resize
the pictures so they don't take forever to load. I would appreciate it greatly if someone
could fill me in on this.
Thanks!
Jackie Lapradd
http://starofindia.homestead.com/
 
everything looks great. and profesional.
Not a lot of BS junk like my site.

Anyway you wanted suggestions or what not.
Yes you were to make it appear that the photos are small. but clicking on properties I could tell that the photos were huge.
The only way to truly make them small is to use some kind of photo editing software. The major drawback you will have is slow page loads. People looking at anyones website does not like a website that is slow. Only reason it was not too bad for me is because I have a cable modem. what you gotta do is think of your dial up customer. You don't want to alienate them. When you are all finished, do not forget to go back to homestead and submit your site to the search engines for free. You did (for every single page) go to page properties and put your page descriptions in there right? What you put on there will determine how easy it is for people to get to your site from the search engines.
 
Thanks Ritchie.
Yeah the picture thing really has me bummed. I tried and tried to figure out how to make them smaller but had no luck. You mentioned photo editing software, I have MGI Photosuite and Printshop. Will either one of those work? If not can you please recommend a good title.
Thanks
Jackie Lapradd
 
I think those would be good.
Just load the pics into the soft ware and tell it to save it "smaller"

Also....on my website
When I was doing links and care sheets and other stuff.
and writing code for html. I was getting tired of typing out everything. In homestead you can't right click while working with the soft ware for your website. Someone reminded me about CTRL C = copy .........and CTRL V = paste
Now I am not typing as much.
 
Thanks again guys!
I went back and resized all of the pictures. They load much faster but the picture quality has suffered somewhat.
If you get a chance please check out my site again and see if they load faster for you.
Thanks
Jackie Lapradd
 
That is much better.
Picture quality is just fine.
In fact it is above average.
I personally like to keep my picture quality at about average.....
saves some space on the "harddrive" or whatever on homestead.
Also when they were still pretty new. I signed up for five other free accounts. I sometimes store my pictures on the other accounts. They are like 8 megabytes of space for each account and 2 gigabytes of bandwidth. Not too bad for something free.
That is a total of 40 megabytes of disk space and 10 gigabytes of bandwidth free. And that is only my free accounts. I also have one I pay for.
 
O.K., Thanks to my fellow BOI members I now have a functional website!
Can anyone now explain how to create a Banner so I can advertise on this site?
Thanks
 
ahaaa !! I really do wish I can help youwith that.
But I can't even help myself.
I once made my banned.
Well I am tired of it....but for some reason I can't make another.
Its as if I do not know how to make one. I lost the tools...I lost the knowledge...etc etc
 
All a banner is, is nothing more than a graphics image. It can be as simple as just some text, or it can incorporate as complex an image as you can import or create. Any graphics program can do this. All it needs to be (in the case of banner ads here) is of the correct dimensions and in either JPG or GIF format. I think every graphics program on the planet can create images in those two formats. Matter of fact, Windows has a resident Paint program that will allow you to make a banner and will save it in the above mentioned formats. Then all you need to do is to send the banner via email along with the URL (link address) of where you want the banner to point to when someone clicks on the image.

It's really not that hard, but having an artistic talent is a big PLUS for something like this. To get best results, it is often best just to have someone else make one up for you.

There are LOTS of people out there whom would create a banner for you for around $25. Lacey Wilson (FeralDesign) created the logo for the FaunaClassifieds site. For my CornSnakes.com Forums, I ran a contest and had about 20 entries or so from which to choose a winner. I had a LOT of real nice entries there, so the talent is definitely available to draw from.
 
You are in luck my friend
I am currently making a banner as we speak.
I found this neato site on the internet.

http://www.crecon.com/banners.html


it lets you make your own.
there is a part where you just type in what you want and it makes it for you.

There is also a part where it is totally customizable.

GOOD LUCK AND ENJOY !!!!!
 
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