Build a Website for Free
Mark Bell
Language: English
Pages: 353
ISBN: 0789750236
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Build yourself a state-of-the-art website.
It’s incredibly easy...and it won’t cost you a dime!
You need a website. But you don’t need the hassles that usually go with building one or the expense of hiring someone else to do it. Here’s your solution: Build a Website for Free! You’ll learn how you can use new Web 2.0 technologies to create a site that’s impressive and effective. And here’s the best part: You’ll do it all with software and tools that won’t cost you a dime!
- Plan, organize, and design a site that really works, using tools you can find for free
- Discover the simple secrets of writing pages people want to read
- Adapt your site for easy viewing on mobile devices
- Use video on your site--and get someone else to pay for hosting it
- Add an easy-to-update blog and start building your own web community
- Quickly and easily handle “nuts and bolts” tasks, from getting your site name to uploading your content
- Get your site picked up by Google, Yahoo!, and other search engines
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Managing Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 Modules, Plug-Ins, and Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Keep an Eye on Things . . . . . . . . . . . .
an email. This purpose sometimes causes you to overlook the structure and purpose of the sites you are viewing. Take another look at some of your favorite websites, and pay close attention to the structure and purpose of these sites. You’ll be surprised by what you learn. 3 Types of Sites New types of websites show up every day and are limited only by the imagination of the people creating them. Listed here are a few high-level types. If your website fits into one of these categories, read the
reallylongconfusingfilename.html to really_long_confusing_file_name.html. The filename is easier to read, and with no spaces you don’t run the risk of a bad HTML address. Keep All Your Web Files in One Place This might seem like a simple thing, but storing your files in one place on your hard drive is often overlooked. Keeping your HTML files, images, and scripts straight on your computer is going to make your life much easier in the long run. This is especially true if you are working on more
vspace=”2” /> CHAPTER 11 Working with Images 141 Look at the images on different websites (by viewing the source of the website) and see how they use the image tag. As an example, this image tag came off a news site: Background Images You can use an image as the background of an entire page. Background images use the BODY tag and the background attribute. Although that was all the rage when
14 174 PA R T I I I Website Building Basics FIGURE 14.3 A nice feature of the Web Developer add-on is highlighting all the headings on a web page. ■ Page Validator (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ 2250)—This add-on validates your web page according to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards. ■ Firebug (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843)— Firebug integrates a script viewer into your Firefox window (see Figure 14.4). This enables you to view the source