i need to make a website for my mom, i am a 14 yr old with tons on talent in coputer design. she wants my help to make her a website for her cleaning business in thurston county washington. i need to make one by the end of the week! please help me!! i have made a couple of web sites at www.weebly.com it is free but you can order it if you are good with computers it explains it's self... good luck if you need help message me You can use a hosting service, and a domain service, or something that can do both.
Another way is to host your own site. Using HTTP servers like Apache HTTP Server or Abyss Web server, you're able to make your own websites. To set up a website this way, download the HTTP server software, and install it(as a service, when prompted). Afterwards, open up port 80. If you're behind a router, go to the router webpage(usually 192.168.1.1), then enter the name of the service, and enter the number 80 for port number. Save changes, and you're done. In the case if you don't have a router, then you'll need to go to your firewall, and open the ports from there. On Windows Firewall, just open the port 80 and the name of the server app(where you installed it). Afterwards, you can get a domain name(for free or for a fee). I usually get a DNS route, that way, people automatically can enter the domain, and directly access the server on the computer.
Since your website is for a cleaning business, you will need something professional. Easiest way to create a free website is with Microsoft Office Live Small Business - http://rubyurl.com/xTSt . It has a free design tool that allows you to create web pages without coding. It has no ads and has 500mb of web space. This is not just for business websites, works great for other kinds of sites. MS is giving a free domain name for the 1st year. you will need a Commercial web host. freebies won't allow a business set up. so google for that but here are some sample html codes you can play with to get started.here are some SIMPLE/SAMPLE html codes:
always start with:
<html>
enter the name of your webpage/site between the HTML TITLE codes
<head><title>TITLE OF PAGE HERE</title></head>
next you'll need a back ground that can be either a straight color or an image.
color background:
colors can be expressed by using either the name of a color or color code.here I am using color names as that's the easiest to use for beginners
<body bgcolor="COLOR NAME HERE">
so far,we have the following beginning HTML code:
<html><head><title>TILE HERE</title></head><body bgcolor="NAME OF COLOR HERE">
were we to use an image,it'd look like this
<html><head><title>TILE HERE</title></head><body background=img src="URL OF IMAGE HERE">
images used as backgrounds have to be an image that comes from your image hosting site. that is,you have to upload an image to an image web host and use their web url as your background image
font or text size:
<font size="1 (small) to 7(LARGE)">
font SIZE & FONT COLOR
<font size="5"color="COLOR NAME HERE">
center text:
<center>
so far we have:
<html><head><title>TILE HERE</title></head><body bgcolor="NAME OF COLOR HERE"><font size="5"><center>
OR
<html><head><title>TILE HERE</title></head><body bgcolor="NAME OF COLOR HERE"><font size="5"color="NAME OF COLOR"><center>
show image and again,we use an image from your image hosting site
Show Image:
<img src="IMAGE URL HERE">
Aligning Image/s:
align image:
<img src="IMAGE URL HERE"align="left">
<img src="IMAGE URL HERE"align="center">
<img src="IMAGE URL HERE"align="right">
Space or separate text
single space:
<p>
paragraph:
<br>
text link:
<a href="WEBSITE URL HERE">NAME OF WEBSITE HERE</a>
image link:
<a href="WEBSITE LINK HERE"><img src="URL OF IMAGE HERE"></a>
End or closing HTML Codes:
MOST [ but not all,like <p> or <br> or <img src> ] need to have a "closing" HTML code "string"
Close HTML:
</html>
Close Background:
</body>
Close Font:
</font>
Close Text and image links:
unlike HTML or Background [ codes ] text and image links place the closing HTML codes at the immediate end of that command code or HTML "string"
Link close code:
</a>
example:
<a href="WEBSITE URL HERE">NAME OF WEBSITE HERE</a>
use your Notepad to create a temporary web page by clicking save as
title your temp page like
html_practice dot html [ Y.A! won't allow more than 10 links anymore so that's why i wrote out the dot html ]
this way,all links are clickable
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i've made one with synthasite.com and microsoft publisher both which u save then buy a web name and hosting service i suggest searching the web for free names that will bring up a few sites that give u a free name but pay for hosting most are great deals.
p.s im not sure if the site is working or not but try http://.com/ for hosting and names at $80.00 a year for it its pretty cheap my dads friend was paying $300.00
publisher comes on most comps if you don't know about HTML, then try using sites like freewebs or something, it depends on how official you need it to be. if your completely stuck then just try googling 'making websites' and you'll probably get like 2 million results If You want it to be easy then yiou just go 2 google && then type "make a website" then go 4rm there. Good lUCK!!! www.google.com
&& type in:
designawebsite.com
(or just type www.designawebsite.com)
Well, your gonna have to buy a web space...
Carry on from there your good at computing arnt ya ;) http://www.000webhost.com/ ok, this is a hard one. if you want to make a very good one by the end of the week: you have two options: make a really bad looking one after rushing through learning:
-html or xhtml (they're almost the same thing, i would start with html, then xhtml, since html is a simplified xhtml, but xhtml is now the web standard to use)
-css (optional, but really recommended)
-javascript (optional)
-dhtml (optional)
the last two stuff just add simple animations without buying $800 Flash CS3.
or, you can try this (although it won't help you learn web design):
download Nvu (free) or the 30-day trial of Dreamweaver CS3 (not recommended, unless you actually buy it for $500, you can find better deals on the web).
These are called WYSIWYG html editors (what you see is what you get). You basically use these programs like Microsoft Word (or Apple Pages) - you type what you need to put on the website, put the pictures you want, and put background stuff, etc., and it will show up on the html page. You can even edit the underlying xhtml/html code. If you use a Mac, you can use iWeb (it comes with the computer and has really good templates), but if you don't, stick with Nvu. Now, unless you read up on web design a little, the WYSIWYG page will look the same as the hand crafted html page. However, if you read a chapter or two in a web design book about how to place certain elements in your web page, you should be fine.
Also, check out the below websites: it has a bunch of stuff to help make your website (WYSIWYG editors, etc.) and the Nvu website.
Next, after you make a website, you have to get the website to the web server. Now, there are three options.
1. Buy a $3000 server, configure it, and put your website in there
2. Search "web hosting" in google (there will be lots of hosting options - some for free (see below), and some from $1 a month to $500 a month, see which hoster and the hoster's plan is right for your situation)
3. See the third and fourth web links below
You can get a custom web domain (the url - like www.momscleaning.com) at places like GoDaddy, etc. You can get subdomains for free (say the web hoster is www.webhost.com, then your mom will get the subdomain www.webhost.com/momscleaning or www.momscleaning.webhost.com), but they're less effective in the business sense. Now, if you do want to get www.momscleaning.com, you can go to GoDaddy and get one for $9.99 a year, i believe, but if you want a cheaper domain, you can get www.momscleaning.net or momscleaning.biz for a cheaper price (which changes a lot). Instructions on what to do after buying the domain will be on GoDaddy.
I really would recommend Microsoft Live Small Business. From what I've heard, its easy to use and has lots of tools, and to a certain extent, free (some features do cost money). I would check this site out before I do anything else, because I don't know the exact specifics about it (they might have an online page builder and/or upload client, thus getting rid of the need to use a WYSIWYG or FTP or learn html and all that). Now that I think about it, there are web templates on Microsoft Live Small Business, so you probably won't need to do much of the stuff shown above (maybe except for the GoDaddy stuff)
Sorry if it was long, and good luck with the website!
NOTE: I am not responsible to any loss of revenue to your mom's cleaning business. |
