I'll talk about the final step to building your own web
site which is to find a good Desktop & Web Publishing
Application, or software. preceding to this step you should have selected
your domain and your web hosting company.
Choosing
a publishing submission:
This is going to be pretty
one-sided. I use one application for all my sites. It's free and has over 25
million users. Here are some of the basic considerations you should make when
you choose your application.
A publishing application is
the software; so to speak, you'll run to publish your website. There are
hundreds, maybe thousands of different application available, some good, some
bad, some cheap or free, and some expensive. Choosing one can be a real pain.
Keep in mind, when you or your web master adopt a publishing application, it
may be difficult to change at a later date. I have a site right now that was
built using another program that I will have the good fortune to completely
take down/remove from the web, and reconstruct using what I use today. And if
your web master is the only one who has the software or application, you may be
stuck without the means to modify your own site. As with the previous decisions
you have made in choosing a domain name and choosing a host, give equivalent thought
to which application you are going to use to publish your web site.
There are plenty of website
companies with free design software. You'll get the basic tools for structure a
website and don't need to know any HTML or codes. You can add pictures and
videos and make a pretty nice site. I would recommend this for those who don't
need to drive a lot of traffic to their site. You might use a website like this
for communicating with the family or friends. Google offers free websites and
blogs, as does WordPress.com. One of the differences in most of the free sites
is that you don't get to use your own domain name. If you are a Mac user, you
can make websites with their included software called iWeb. It is easy to use
and makes stunning pages.
Many web hosts offer free
design software when you use them as your host. You will be able to use your
own domain name with these. The only one that I am familiar with is Homestead,
now an Ituit company. I have one website up on their servers. The design
software is OK, but not exceptional. And it won't work on a Mac, unless you are
using their very basic web-based softwareThen there are paid subscriptions or
desktop software to publish websites. Adobe products, such as Dreamweaver, are
used mainly by serious website design professional. These products take a good
bit of time to learn, but they can do just about anything on the web. Another
simpler product, which I have used, is. It is really easy to use, and has
WYSIWYG design, and yet you have all the code available to you if you want to
edit it. also helps you keep track of the many websites that you may be
publishing and it is very reasonable priced too.
My experience lies with
WordPress.org. WordPress.org is blog publishing application, and much more.
"Word Press is web software you can use to make a beautiful website or
blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same
time", greets you on their front page. Over 25 million people use this
open source application, so it is not likely to ever go away. There are thousands
of sites that support and discuss any and every part of WordPress. WordPress is
web-based and works on any computer, whether it is a Mac or a PC. You can
access your dashboard (where you create, modify and publish your web sites)
from anywhere you have internet access.
Word Press is the largest
self-hosted blogging tool in the world. Word Press pages are seen by tens of
millions of people every day. It is completely customizable, meaning you can
make just about any kind of site with it, if you have the tech know-how. It is
also extremely search engine friendly, meaning your website is more likely to
be seen than it might be using some other application. WordPress began in 2003
as a blogging platform and has since evolved into an application that can do
just about anything you want. Although WordPress works fine
"out-of-the-box", I use a theme which makes my sites look better,
makes it a lot easier to edit my sites, and is coded in such a way that the
search engine find a new site quickly and move it towards the top (page
ranking). There are thousand of themes, and I have looked at a lot of them. I
think you will be hard-pressed to top Dick Pearson's Thesis though. Do a little
research and see why Thesis is a wise decision. The Developer's option of
Thesis will allow you to make an unlimited amount of websites using this theme.
Using WordPress you can literally have a website live on the web in less than an
hour.I wish you lots of luck with your new website. There are many options to
consider. Most of the time you'll make a choice because someone else uses an
app or has a webmaster friend. Even if you don't build and maintain your own
site, you now know a lot more than you used to.
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