Sunday, August 9, 2009

Things You Need To Know About How to Create a Website

By Chad DeBolt

Building a website is something that millions of people try every single year. Some of these are successful, and some of them are not, yet the final outcome will be determined on how you set it up. The best thing to do is to make sure that you do extensive research so that you know what you are doing right up front.

Learning to create a website usually involves some heavy reading at first. Then some typing as you figure out the scripting language. After that you mess around in design programs practicing your skills at building them and laying them out. Finally you rent the web space and put your site on the web. Its not a hard as it sounds though.

There are a lot of sites that are out there that will do everything for you, all you have to do is fill in the boxes with the content that you want. The point to doing this is to not only challenge yourself but to give you a very unique set of skills that not everyone can do, and that is writing the code yourself. This means you will be working from scratch laying out everything from texts, to columns, to images, and group boxes, then you will be ready to test them.

There is a lot of money to be made in building a website from scratch, and there are a lot of people out there that will pay top dollar to get a website made for them. This is where you expertise come in, since you now know how to write the code yourself. So go and do the research that is necessary to get a website ready for publishing.

Working and building a website can be addictive. There are many people out there that just do it as a hobby, some do it to make money, and some just do it, just to do it. Hobbies are something that varies from person to person and that is because there are many people out there that work on cars for a hobby, or build RC Cars, or maybe even plant gardens.

Building a website now is somewhat simple but had you tried to build one 10 years ago, you would have had a harder time. This is because there is more technology and easy to use software, and most websites will code most of it for you. You see back then you had to put everything in manually, and it didn't have sites that did it for you.

Then you have to look at how the internet was set up then as well. Back then there were not high speed internet access, you had to use dial up and it made things take a lot longer to accomplish. With dial-up most people were running 28.8 kbps, and if you were extremely lucky you may have gotten up to 56.6 kbps

In closing learning how to create a website is easy, if you have the time and patience to learn. It can yield some fantastic results. Even a career path if you are interested, or if you just want to do it for fun. Regardless you will definitely have a new appreciation for the places you go on the internet.

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