Getting Started: How to Make Your First Website.Information for people who are looking to start their own website. Basics, tutorials and guidelines. |
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1. The basics of starting your own website
- How Much Does it Cost to Make a Website?
- How to Choose and Register a Domain Name
- How to Choose a Hosting Company?
- What Are the Best Hosting Companies?
- What is HTML? Do I Need to Know it To Build a Website?
- Use a Free Text-editor to Make your First Webpage
- Use your Hosting Account File Manager to Upload your Website
- How to Download and Use FTP Client Software to Upload your First Website
- What are Some of the Free FTP Client Programs?
2. Learn about basic HTML tags to build simple web page layouts
- What is the minimum HTML code in order to display a simple web page?
- Learn to use HTML font attributes to master the visual appearance of text on your pages
- How to create an HTML table for displaying tabular information?
- Several ideas that will help you create your website layout using div blocks
- Should I use tables or div blocks to create layout for my website?
- How to apply color to your HTML tables, div blocks and text?
- How to create HTML user input forms?
- Fun with HTML image tag: Code samples for displaying images on your website.
3. Going deeper into the rabbit hole: Adding navigation bar controls to your website
- The goal of good website navigation is to let the user build a mental image of your website content organization
- How to build a simple HTML navigation menu using lists (LI tags)
- Building a sitemap for your website
4. Simple PHP scripts that you can use to enhance your website
- How to create your first simple PHP page?
- Learn how to access MySQL database with PHP in this simple tutorial
- How to send an email using PHP mail() function?
- How to create a simple PHP contact form?
- How to add comments to your website using PHP?
- How to create YouTube-like thumb up and down buttons over the comments on your site?
- A simple example of using PHP with Ajax
- How to create a simple php file upload form for uploading picture or any other type of file
5. Slightly Advanced: Working with the MySQL database
- Create your first MySQL database and learn to access it with MySQL Administrator (a free database administration tool)
- How to use MySQL database to automatically organize content on your website
- How to create a session-based user login system with PHP and MySQL
- How to create a comment system for your site with PHP and MySQL
Copyright 2009 by Greg Sidelnikov. All rights reserved.
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