Building Websites The Online Way
There are many forms of website building, from considerably complicated web authoring tools like Adobe Dreamweaver, and Expression from Microsoft, right down to plain old notepad, creating all your HTML code by hand. The hand written coding may seem archaic, but many swear by this method to generate clean code.
There is another alternative, to web design software, and this is very appealing to the casual web author, or the newbie, your website can be created, without any software, completely online.
The majority of these Internet based site building tools are commercial applications, and are linked to web hosting companies, the hosting providers include these website building tools with the hosting account, but few are worth a mention.
Nowadays there are some outstanding alternatives, these online, CMS apps are free alternatives that do a fantastic job, once you have mastered the way they work.
CMS solutions.
CMS stands for content management systems, and the best known of these apps are WordPress and Joomla.
Both are free to use, and both are available through most hosting companies as an automatic install, through Fantastico, or Installatron. User without these features on your hosting account can download the scripts, and install them yourself, using the install instructions.
WordPress
The most widely used CMS is WordPress, this dynamic, web 2.0 blogging platform has evolved to be the platform of choice for millions of website owners across the globe. WordPress is open source, and as such, it is free to use, and an army of coders are constantly updating the code.
Todays sites are very remote from the early days of blogging, and they can be figured in a multitude of ways, the inclusion of widgets, and plugins make WordPress websites even more powerful, and attractive.
Templates for WordPress are known as themes, and there are thousands to choose from, in every concievable niche under the sun. Specialist web design firms can make your very own unique themes, which always adds that extra sparkle to your websites.
Throughout the WordPress lifespan, they have adhered to the blogging principals, new entries to the site are known as posts, and pages can be added to the site, and navigation bars.
Joomla
Joomla, is also a popular CMS solution, with many features that also belong to WordPress, Joomla is based around a portal framework.
Joomla lends itself toward large sites, secure sites, and is a very solid platform. The websites can be themed, and easily edited, sections can easily be placed around the pages to create the perfect frontpage.
Both systems are extremely robust, and are light years ahead of the old style, site building apps offered by hosting companies. All editing, and updating is performed online, and you never need to install any software on your computer.
The real beauty of CMS is that any site can be updated from anywhere in the world, all you need is an internet connection, and your websites login details.
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