Would you like to create a site with your own hands ? If so, here you can find answers to some questions that might arise during the preparation and implementation of this project.
We do not claim, that we'll cover the topic completely, it is very voluminous and versatile due to the abundance of relevant programming languages and user programs. Nevertheless, we hope this page will prove to be useful to you. The special attention we'll pay to publishing site on the Internet, its promotion and some specific issues pertaining to HTML, DHTML, JavaScript and ActionScript. In addition, we will try to provide you with links to useful (from our point of view) domestic and foreign resources, which correspond with specific topics.
Presumably by using our tutorial any beginner would be able to prepare and publish his / her site on the Internet. But, given to the content of some published and planned for publishing materials this pages may also be of interest to more advanced representatives of the Internet community.
This tutorial was originally written in Russian and for the Russian Internet environment. So you might as well conduct some research concerning particular topics (search engine statistics, etc.).
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1. Necessary preparatory steps.
Now, how can we approach the task before us? What do we need to ensure that
our site will be available for all of its supposed users?
From my point of view, the list of primary questions that need to be solved
should look approximately like this:
a) getting some material ready
for publication;
b) finding and registering a desired domain name;
c) finding a host (an external computer) where our site's files will be disposed;
d) creating a mailbox.
In this chapter we'll be addressing exactly these issues. And I hope that the approach to their solution will not be able to scare even the most inexperienced web developer: o).
2. Publication and popularization of a site:
I believe that now you've got at least one html-file, obtained a decent domain name, defined services of which hosting provider to use, successfully created an account there and registered a mailbox. If something has fallen out from the list (except for the mailbox) and you still do intend to make your site available for the Internet community - go back to the previous chapter, otherwise, if you've decided to keep it for your personal satisfaction only, then skip this chapter and jump directly to Chapter 3 where we begin to examine aspects of the application of various tools for creating more advanced web content in more detail.
So, in this chapter we are dealing with publication and popularization of our site. By the way, if you're thinking, that given to the extremely modest and (no offense meant) not very attractive appearance of our material, it's too early to even think about it, you are likely mistaken. I support the idea that if you have a content, the sooner you place it online the better, and, moreover, nothing will prevent us from changing and improving it afterwards. The point is that the appearance of a site in search engines' results pages, and therefore its availability to a wide range of users won't happen immediately (more specifically, though still pretty approximately: Google ~ 2 weeks under the most favorable circumstances, Aport - up to 1 year!!!). So, as you can guess, we will have time enough.
If I've managed to convince you:
uploading files to a remote server
and optimizing the site for working with search engines:
a) using
a text browser;
b) creating
Sitemap;
c) how
to use robots.txt file;
d) search
engines' popularity statistics;
e) keywords
and stop words;
f) submitting
website to several search engines.