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The Do-It Yourself Guide
If you want to build your own site, here is a step-by-step guide on how
to do it. Or you can just sign up with MasterFolio. We take the hassle out
of creating a website, so you can spend your valuable time on other important
issues. 20 steps to creating a website:
- Find a company selling domain names
- Select a domain name that fits your needs
- Identify and select a reputable hosting service provider
(what’s a hosting provider?)
- Register the domain name with hosting provider,
choose Admin, Technical, Billing contacts, and choose payment plan
- Set up e-mail account on your new domain
to forward e-mail to your existing inbox
- Choose and purchase web design software
to create your site
- Choose and purchase graphics software
to create logos, icons, and other graphics.
- Create website structure
- Create page designs/layout
- Create all graphical logos, icons, etc. to
match design colors with hexadecimal precision
- Optimize graphics file format
to achieve fastest download speeds
- Decide on font faces, styles, sizes, colors
to use throughout the site
- Create website content using HTML and web design software
with links between pages
- Create meta tags for each page
(what’s a meta tag?) for search engine (what’s a search engine?) and
browser displays
- Using FTP (file transfer protocol) software,
upload your site to the hosting provider
- Check to see that pages display properly in all major versions
of Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Netscape, and AOL browsers
- Register your site with search engines
- Track usage of your site
(visitors, page views, user agents, etc…)
- Learn new programming language
such as Java, Javascript or PHP to make your pages more dynamic
- Use telnet, SSH, and shellscript to manage files on your site
For any changes to your site, repeat steps 10-20 above
As you can see, using our service can save you valuable
time as well as money. All you need to do is to select a name, choose
a design, and send us your content. Much of the content you might already
have, if not, we offer plenty of advice on how to make your content more
effective in the on-line world.
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