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Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition
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Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition

by Matthew MacDonald
May 2011
Beginner content levelBeginner
584 pages
17h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The Ingredients of a Website

Now that you know what sort of website you want to build, it’s time to get practical. Building a website isn’t just about picking a good design and writing solid content. You also need to coordinate with other companies to get your website onto the World Wide Web (and give it a catchy address, like www.StylinViolins.com).

This quick shopping list maps out what every website needs—and tells you where you’ll learn about it in the rest of this book:

  • Web pages. Every website is made up of individual pages. To create a basic web page, you need to understand HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the language of the Web. You’ll create your first web page in the next chapter.

  • Web space. Creating web pages is fun, but for other people to see them, you need to put them on a web server. In Chapter 3, you’ll consider your options for getting your first web page online, either through a fee-based service or a free alternative.

  • A domain name. There’s a world of difference between the website address www.inetConnections.com/Users/~jMallone012/web and www.JackieMallone.com. You can get your own personalized domain name, if it’s available. It’s not free, but it’s not expensive, either—about $10 or $15 a year. If you want to put your website address on a business card or a brochure for a small business, your own domain name is really the best choice. In Chapter 3, you’ll learn how to buy one.

    Note

    The domain name is the first part of a web address, which identifies the web server ...

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