Designing your first website
Ok we're going to go through the basics of creating your first website. When I say basic I mean if you can write your name you should
be able to do this without to many issues.
Step 1 - Click start (bottom left) > programs > accessories > notepad
A text box will pop up.
Type the following:-
Hello World
Click File > Save as.
Then go down to 'Save as type' and select all files.
Where it says File Name type
index.htm
Save it somewhere easy to find. Then find it and double click on it. A plain white website should appear with the words hello world at the top.
Voila your very first web page.
How the world wide web works
So you have a web page but no one can see it because it's on your computer. What you need is it to be on a web server, which serves web pages to people
who want to see them 24 hours a day 7 days a week. There's a million and one different web servers or web hosts as they are known I would recommend Webfusion.
Sign up for an internet hosting package, choose a domain name. Follow there instructions for using ftp to upload the file to their web server and you'll
be saying hello world to a potential 3 billion people.
I'll add some slightly more in depth web design techniques at some point. check back.
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