Building Your Own WEB Site At Little or No Cost
Michiana PC User’s Group 6/28/07
By Joe Vangsness
- World Wide Web is a part of the
Internet
- Web
browsers access web pages on web servers and read and interpret the code
written in html, xhtml, xml, etc.
- Domain names are registered and
assigned Internet addresses
- Domain name
servers translate the domain name, www.amazon.com,
into an IP address so the browser can find the web site
- Build the website yourself using web
design software
- Sign
up for a web hosting account and register a domain name
- Design
and produce the web pages using software on your pc (FrontPage, Composer)
- Transfer
the web pages to your web host's web server
- Test
out your new or changed web site
- Use website builder software at a web
hosting company
-
Use a website builder program at a web host to build your
web site and then publish it to the Internet
-
Domain name registration is optional
-
Example: www.tripod.com
or www.godaddy.com Web Site Tonight
option
- Build a Blog
- Use
a free blog host like www.blogger.com and
build your own blog
- Web hosts with website builder
software:
www. tripod.com
www.godaddy.com
- Obtain the free Mozilla Composer
software at www.mozilla.com
Go to downloads page and download
the Seamonkey suite
- Blog builder: www.blogger.com (owned
by Google)
- Create Your Own Website,
by Scott Mitchell, Sams Publishing
Introductory book shows you how to:
- Build
a family or personal website using Mozilla Composer
- Build
an eBay store
- Build
on online storefront using Paypal
- Share
images on an image-sharing site
- Build
a blog
- Create
a profile on myspace.com
- http://joevangsness.tripod.com
was built using Tripod's software
-
www.vangsness.consulting.com
was built using Godaddy.com “website tonight” option
-
www.chicagotrackclub.blogspot.com was built using
Blogger.com from Google
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approach to building a website |
Software Cost |
Web Host Cost |
Learning Curve |
Control |
Your Time Needed |
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1. Build
the website yourself using: |
|
$90 - 120 per
year |
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|
Many Hours |
|
Dreamweaver |
$400 |
|
High |
High |
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|
MS
FrontPage |
$200 |
|
Moderate |
Moderate |
|
|
Mozilla
Composer |
Free |
|
Less than
Moderate |
Moderate |
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2. Use
Website Builder Software at web hosting company |
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|
www.tripod.com |
Free |
Free |
Low |
Low |
2 to 3 hours |
|
www.godaddy.com |
Free |
9/year |
Low |
Low |
2 to 3 hours |
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3. Create a
Blog with www.blogger.com |
Free |
Free |
Low |
Low |
1 hour |
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Joe
Vangsness
Vangsness
Consulting Inc.
833
W. Chicago Ave. Suite 204
Chicago, IL 60622
(312)455-1126
reg@vangsness.com
www.vangsness.com
© 2007 Vangsness Consulting Inc.