Kids make a website

Kids make a website

Product Description

Build a great personal or business website… absolutely no experience needed!

Why pay a professional web developer? If you can use a word processor, you can do it yourself! This package contains all the software, templates, and simple step-by-step instructions you need to build a great site in practically no time!

Build sites like these using our professional-quality templates:

-Family sites

-Hobby sites

-Community and nonprofit sites

-Online storefronts that accept credit card payments via PayPal

-Post video on YouTube

8 Easy Projects

In this book you’ll see just how easy it is to create your own website. The CD included with this book contains professional website templates and a free web page editor. With the web page editor, you can quickly and easily customize the templates into your personal websites. Better still, using the editor is as simple as using a word processor.

Use easy web-based services to:

-Sell products at your own eBay Store

-Create your own personal or professional blog

-Display your digital photos on your own Snapfish site

-Share your videos on YouTube

-Create a MySpace page that’ll stand out from the crowd

-Build your social network with your own Facebook presence

You won’t believe how easy it is to build your own site...or how much fun!

CD-ROM contains all the tools you need:

• The complete open source SeaMonkey Suite software toolset for building websites (no restrictions, not a demo!)
• HTML sample templates

About the Author

Create Your Own Website is author Scott Mitchell’s eighth book; his others are Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days(Sams); Designing Active Server Pages (O’Reilly); ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code (Sams); ASP.NET Data Web Controls Kick Start (Sams);Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 24 Hours (Sams); Teach Yourself ASP.NET 2.0 in 24 Hours (Sams); and Teach Yourself ASP.NET 3.5 in 24 Hours(Sams). Scott is a regular columnist for Microsoft’s MSDN Magazine and has authored more than 1,000 online articles on his website, 4GuysFromRolla.com. Scott’s nonwriting accomplishments include speaking at numerous technical user groups and conferences across the country. Scott also teaches web technology classes at the University of California–San Diego University Extension. In addition to teaching and writing, Scott is a software developer. He works as an independent consultant and has authored and sold several commercial software applications.

Reading this book allows someone to create five different styles and types of Websites by walking the reader through accessing Composer and desired templates, altering the text, color, and photos to personalize each Webpage, obtain a host provider, register a domain name, and publish each Webpage to a Web server.
* Chapter 1 introduces the basic functions of what a browser and Web page are, while showing the reader how to down load a free software program provided with the book.
* Chapter 2 describes the logistics of setting up a public location for viewing Web pages on the Internet by locating a host provider.
* Chapter 3 discuses customizing a Family/Personal Website template by using Composer like any other word processor, adding or deleting pages, and saving with a URL to the same folder located on the reader's computer.
* Chapter 4 continues with detailed items in "Creating a Hobby Website" by scaling images, changing existing hyperlinks, adding rows, discussing anchors, and the effect they have on sharing information with Website viewers.
* Chapter 5 "Creating a Website for an Organization" introduces obtaining a map from the Internet to replace the templates generic sample, offering email access to customers, and providing additional tips.
* Chapter 6 "Creating an Informational Website for Your Business" shows how to customize color within cells, add tables for creating coupons, and setting navigational hyperlinks.
* Chapter 7 "Creating an Online Storefront" deals with how to implement an e-Commerce Website by merging with "Creating Paypal Merchant Account" Website. With this tool, advanced programming skills that are typically required to create a shopping cart, a means to accept payment, and the functions of using forms for transferring users from one Website to another are eliminated. This lifts those advanced tasks off the reader and transfers them onto Paypal's Website in exchange for a small percentage of the product profit.
* The Bonus Chapter goes into more depth covering specific topics, like HTML, Understanding How the Internet Works, Domain names, and Optimizing Your Digital Pictures.

Throughout this book, the author highlights topics that have been covered in Shelly Cashman's "Discovering Computers" text book. One is how the Internet works. Scott Mitchell relates the Internet to the U.S. post office and adds a picture that gives a simple analogy for beginners. I appreciated the comparison, and could visualize the delivery process of digital information clearly (Mitchell 130).

The second item introduced in chapter 2 explained the concept of bandwidth. Mitchell shares very practical information related to space and cost that should be considered when choosing a host provider. The nominal comparisons made corresponding to bandwidth gave me a better appreciation for this concept.

The title "Create Your Own Website Using What You Already Know" very accurately describes what to expect out of the contents and functionality this book provides. The reader will be happy to know that the author's voice is very excited to share information in a reassuring way. Scott Mitchell continually keeps the reader in touch with the fact that the process he is laying out will be fun and easy to do, that the reader will not only learn the process but enjoy going through it.

I found the way the information was presented kept the progression of details simple enough for a first timer to feel very comfortable using and exploring all the items introduced.

"Mitchell gives us a breezy, confident approach to making a website. He emphasises that, within reason, you can do it all by yourself. With the aid of this book, naturally.

He walks us through the templates on the CD that comes with the book. The general thrust is to show how if you can read and write, well, then you can make a website. There is certainly more involved than in merely using a browser to peruse the web. But the book gives a total absence of HTML tags, until the last chapter. Instead, Mitchell lists 3 web authoring tools - Microsoft's FrontPage, Macromedia's Dreamweaver and Mozilla's Composer. These handle the grungy details.

You can regard this book as an independent validation of the claims made for the above tools. Indeed, no programming appears to be necessary for a simple website.

Along these lines, the chapter on making an online storefront is well done. The example storefront is actually quite limited. But even so, to have it running without programming is impressive. "

How Can I Make My Own Website

If you want to have an online presence but don't know how to do it, you are more than likely asking yourself that vexing question: "How can I make my own website?" luckily, for internet newbie’s there are a number of simple options to grasp a quick internet presence without spending a great deal of cash, or in fact, any cash at all. The option you go for will in the end come down to your purpose.

Instead of asking "How can I make my own website?" maybe the first question you should ask is "Why do I want my own presence on the net?" Your response to this question will determine what sort of website you will choose and how you will go about creating it.

For instance, if you only want a website to show family news with friends and relatives, a free hosting service who offers an online website creation tool may well be an ideal option. No cost websites can also be a great option if you would like to create a hobby site that

If you simply want a site as a forum for your thoughts, you might want to start with a free blog such as Blogger or Wordpress. They are simple to use, search engine friendly so your new articles can be listed relatively quickly, and a great way to get your feet wet on the World Wide Web.

If you are planning to start an online business, you can begin with a free hosting service if they offer a reasonable site building tool, but you will probably need to quickly upgrade to a chargeable service which offers higher bandwidth and add-ons. Ideally

There are alternative types of chargeable hosting services. Some offer an online site creation tool, others don't. There is also a difference between the quality of website building software so you need to research the quality of the websites it produces before committing yourself. When deciding on a chargeable hosting service, you also need to be careful to compare like for like services. There are so many different website hosting companies that offer this facility now that you couldn't research this in one afternoon. If you decide to go down this route try to use a service that gives you the most flexibility on how you design your website and also how much webspace they let you have. Choosing this option in all honesty still means you do not have total control but worth thinking about anyway.

So the answer to your question "How can I make my own website?" is a simple one! You no longer require programming knowledge or pay big dollars to an experienced professional to design your site. You can make your own site with user-friendly software whether online or off the shelf. If you purchase your own site creating software, you gain more control over your choice of hosting service and you can move your site to another company if you are not happy. Whichever way you choose to do it, modern technology makes site creation easy. You just need to do the research to find the best fit for you.

Chris Elm is sill new to all this website building. Although still learning, what he now knows he feels will be of great value to someone just starting out. If you would like to see videos of others doing just this please visit his site: http://www.HowCanIMakeMyOwnWebsite.com