Want to know how to build a website?

Read our guide and find out how!

By Emma Kae - 15th March 2002 - Back to News

As Gippsland grows to become an Internet friendly region, more people are looking to learn how to create their own website and play an active role in the online community.

There are thousands of free online tutorials with step-by-step instructions for how to create a website. We have compiled a mere handful of those on offer to help get you started.

Internet Basics

First and foremost, there may be some of you that are entirely new to the Internet. If so, you may wish to read Dave’s Beginners Guide To The Internet, an introductory lesson for those among us that would like to learn a little more about how the Internet works and what it is capable of. Visit: http://www.davesite.com/webstation/inet101/

For others, it may be a good idea to brush up on the basics of Internet terminology, to help you to understand all of the technical jargon you can encounter online. A great comprehensive A-Z Glossary can be found at: http://www.yahooligans.com/docs/info/glossary1.html
If the term that you are looking for is unlisted, try http://www.whatis.com/ arguably the world’s best online Information Technology dictionary.

Building Your Website

The answer to all of your first-time questions comes in the form of the Internet.com tutorial library. This website has all of the information you will need to get started on creating your website. Refer to the left hand column for further website building tips and how-to’s. Visit: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/basics.html

The 100 Top Web Building Sites page incorporates both tutorials on how to actually create your website, and a huge list of online resources, such as free backgrounds, graphics, tools and more. This website goes beyond merely telling you what you need, and shows you where to find it! Visit: http://www.bcpl.net/~owl/planet/100topwebsites.html#TUTORIALS

Elated's Webmaster Tutorials were created to give you an insight into what makes a great website, from an experienced world-class web development company. The tutorials into 4 sections, which combined cover all the common skills and techniques you will need to build your website. There are tutorials for all kinds of webmasters, from beginner to advanced. Visit: http://www.elated.com/tutorials/

The Beginner’s Guide to Web Page Building is a website created to help direct show a beginner through the basics. As it is written by an amateur webmaster, it offers lots of useful information in terms that you will find easy to understand. Visit: http://members.aol.com/labcallig/instrns1.htm

The Creating Your Own Webpage Guide from the Internet team at Cochran Entertainment and Linda Bertland’s Tutorial Site both cover everything you will need to know. Whatever stage you are at, from rom envisioning and planning your website, to search engine submission and promoting your website to the world, you will find help here. Visit http://www.cochran.com/start/guide/HTML.html or http://www.sldirectory.com/compf/write.html

If you are looking for web-building tutorials that focus on how to use and integrate HTML into your websites, try the Interactive Tutorial by Dave. This wonderful guide takes a hands-on approach to learning how to use HTML. http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/chapX1.shtml

The Easy Way

If you want to build a website without becoming an IT expert, then an Integrated Content Management System is for you. With this sort of system you can completely manage every aspect of your website using a customised user friendly online web application. All that you need to know is how to use a web browser (Internet Explorer). This type of website is perfect for small businesses because of their low cost, and because it means you can keep your website up-to-date without wasting many hours. These websites are so easy to use that the "Web Master" responsibility can be delegated to any employee without having to train them in HTML, CSS, FTP, JavaScript, and DHTML ... just to name a few essential Internet technologies. Larger organisations can make use of the Online Web Applications that incorporate all sorts of e-commerce operations that are required. Messenger Media & IT are a local company that offer these sort of websites. For more information on their services click here.

Be sure to e-mail the Gippsland Portal team and let us know how you went! Send us a link to your website and we will help to promote you on the Portal.

Source: http://gippsland.com/

Published by: news@gippsland.com

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