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Creating and Publishing a Webpage cteckpc.com

I. Creating a Web Page

I. Creating A Webpage: There are several different things you need to know in order to build your web page. First you will need to name it, second you will need to build it, third you will need to find a host for it, and fourth you will need to upload it and publish it.

To get started building a webpage you will need software a website host and a modem or DSL connection to the internet to upload your page. You will also need to know a little about HTML coding. Here you will find information to help you get your webpage built listed and published.

A. Naming a Website: Before you begin to build your website, you will need to decide on a name that you will use. Once you have found a name that you like, you will need to see if it has been taken by someone else. Below are a few sites where you can find out if the names have been taken. You can also use these sites to find address and contact information for website owners.

1. Internic Whois¹

2. Network Solutions Whois²

3. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers²

4. Canadian Registry Services Inc.⁴ This one is for Canadian web sites.

B. Webpage Software: Once you have decided on a name and found a suitable webhost you will need software to built it. These links will help you find the right software for you webpage construction.

1. Webmonkey⁵ This website has free information on basic webpage creation and html coding.

2. Macromedia Dreamweaver⁶ is expensive, and takes a while to get the hang of, but it is probably one of the most used web-site production software on the market.

3. Microsoft's Frontpage⁷ Microsoft Front Page, takes a lot of learning, but costs less than Macromedia.

4. Netscape Software Download and Purchase site⁸This website has Netscape software for download or purchasing. Netscape software has a built in web page authoring program, email program, web-browser, and address book. The costs on this program is free if downloaded and about $3.00 if bought on a disk. They also have a manual that you can purchase.

C. Hosting Information: When you have your webpage built you will need to upload it to a webhost. You will also need a way to connect to the internet.

1. ISP Provider: Internet Service Provider. This is who you use to connect to the internet, I.e. AOL, MSN, and many others. Check your yellow pages for local internet service providers.

2. Web Hosting Services: Web hosting services are provided by web hosting companies that have server computers to keep your website up and available for downloading from the internet.

Things to consider when looking for a host are: 1. the size of your sites contents or the amount of space. 2. The amount of traffic you expect your website to generate, i.e. the number pages transferred from the server to the viewer and 3. the amount of downtime they have.

3. There is a complete listing of website hosts available at INTERNlC.⁹

4. Here is a website that has a lot of useful information on website's and hosting plans: Web Hosting Ratings.¹⁰ At this site you can find ratings for hosts under the Host Directory.¹¹ Use this site to determine if a hosting plan fits your needs.

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Submitting a Website: Once you have built your website and found a web-host and have your site up and running, you will need to submit your site to the search engines. You can use any of the following sites.

A. DMOZ¹² Open Directory Project: This site you will need to determine the category and submit your site to that category and wait a month to see if it has been submitted. If a month goes by and it has not been submitted, you can try resubmitting it, or contacting the editor listed at the bottom of the page for that category.

2. ADDPRO¹³

3. ADDME¹⁴

4. WEBSITESUBMISSION¹⁵

5. FREEWEBSUBMISSION¹⁶

B. Meta Tags: Meta Tags help search engines find your website. In order to get an idea of what meta tags you might want to use for your website, you might look at the information on other websites with search engine results that are similar to your desired word search patterns. You will need to decide what search words you would like your site to appear as a search engine result, and then run a search on those words. Once you have found search engine results try reading the meta tag information on the pages found.

You can find the meta tag information that might be helpful on other peoples pages by using the following method:

Right click on a blank area of any webpage and go to view source. At the top of the page you will find the heading for the page. <> <meta> </meta></head> These tags are used for website identification. They help crawlers and spiders find your webpage, and index it.

III.Hardware:You will need to have your computer connected to the World Wide Web before you can upload your computer to a server. In order to do this you will need to know about the hardware on your computer.

A. DSL v. Cable DSL stands for Digital Subscriber Line. This is a connection over your telephone line that allows you to use your phone and be connected to the internet at that same time. It is a pretty fast connection depending on the amount of transfer capabilities that you pay for. Digital Cable is connecting to the internet through your cable TV provider. The download speed of cable depends upon the number of users at any given time. The more users the slower the speed.

B. A 56k V90 and V92 modem are the fastest speed available for use with a direct non DSL phone line. 56K stands for the amount of information that can be transfered, or 56 thousand bits of information per second.

Using the Dial Up Modem interupts your phone service. However the new V92 standard allows you to use call waiting on your phone line, so if you get a call while surfing the internet and pick up a phone call, your computer stays connected to the internet while you are talking.

Both V90 and V92 transfer rates are limited to the quality of your phone line. If you have a low quality phone line, or are far away from the server, your connection will be lower than the 56K.

C. Modem Type: There are three basic types of modmes.

1. Controller Based Modem: A controller based modem has all of the components it uses to do the data transfer on the modem itself. This modem is best for use with poor quality phone lines.

2. Controller Less Modem: A controller less modem uses some of the components of the system it is installed for doing data transfer.

3. Software Modem: A software based modem uses the systems processor and memory and software installed on the system to for its data transfer.

http://www.internic.net/whois.html
http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index.jhtml
http://www.icann.org/
http://www.crsi.ca/who_is.asp
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/teachingtool/mailto.html
http://www.macromedia.com/
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010858021033.aspx
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp
http://www.internic.net/alpha.html
http://www.webhostingratings.com/
http://www.webhostingratings.com/hostdir.html
http://www.dmoz.org/
http://www.addpro.com/
http://www.addme.com/
http://www.website-submission.com/
http://www.freewebsubmission.com/
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