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How Online Website Builders Work Best.
Let's set aside the CMS apps today, and look a little deeper into the way that Internet based sitebuilding scripts function, so that you can be ready, if you decide to take this route.
If you have the option to choose your own domain name, then, always choose this method over a sub-domain of somebody else's TLD (top level domain) it may cost you 10 bucks a year, but it's yours, and it has a value that can increase over the years.
Many services have pre designed website templates, often called cookie cutter, because they stamp out the same shape over and over again. The template colors can usually be changed, but the whole site seems to change with the header most times.
Layouts are pretty rigid on these, standard types of website, with either top, or side navigation, a clunky, graphical header, and loud, graphical buttons. The background is either a repeated image, or a solid color, but don't be expecting rich fades with luscious curved corners, because you may well be out of luck.
You may be able to choose your website navigation styles and positions, although this is highly unlikely, and your imagined design may need to fit into the restraints of a template.
Play around, and look through all they have to offer, then choose one that blends nicely into your chosen theme. If you are thinking of adding some of your own photos, make sure they fit with your new color scheme. Please note, many sitebuilder applications will allow you to add your own graphics and photo images to your site, but this is not always the case, so be sure to check first.
Your template is chosen, now you need to create your web pages, the first page to build is usually the homepage, this is where you should have done your homework, your page content.
Website content is the number 1 reason for your website, be it video, audio, graphical, or plain old text, content give your page life, and the search engines need your content to survive.
Have your content ready to publish, this way, you are not faced with trying to fill web pages, while you build your site. Instead you can continue with construction in an organized, and efficient manner.
When the search engines do find your brand new website, they also have some logical indication towards the theme, and category of the site, your content dictates this. Thus the robots will take back your sites info, the big machine will crunch the data, and, if your website is worthy of displaying, the index will show your site for certain keywords.
Pictures can always be added at a later date, as can subscriber boxes, if you have access to HTML.
"Hello world" is something of an everyday occurrence on WordPress sites, it is an accepted practice 1st post, which is either left, or edited out, it's alright to leave for a couple of days, but never, ever display the dreaded "under construction" tag.
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From hand coding to full WYSIWYG with Concrete5
The web started out developed by the British engineer, and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners Lee.
Brought about from a task he needed to complete for the Central European Nuclear research group, a website was a simple string of text, with hyperlinks embedded into it.
Shift forward in time to the emergence of the first web design software tools, frontpage, firstpage, and navigator, the intelligent, yet untrained could enter the internet arena.
The next wave of technology saw the emergence of Dreamweaver, heralded as every webmasters dream, although it was a personal nightmare for me. WYSIWYG driven web design suites became easier, and easier to use, until XSitePro launched, and re-wrote the book of easy to use web design software.
As XSitePro gained popularity, CMS started emerging from the underground, and as Mambo became Joomla, WordPress entered the stage.
Although WordPress gained massive popularity quickly, it was certainly not for its ease of use, the SEO abilities became obvious, but my transition from software to CMS was not instant.
Modern, open source content management systems, like WordPress, have made entry to the web world even easier, but could entry become even easier than this?
Well, yes, and no. Concrete5 is another open source CMS that logically directs the user to edit any webpage by clicking on it, what could be easier. Every element can be individually moved, edited, added and deleted, on the fly, in true WYSIWYG style, more likened to desktop publishing than webdesign. It is, what I expected my first copy of Dreamweaver to be, when I bought it all those years ago, when I was massively dissapointed.
So, where does the no come from? C5 is a little difficult to set up, for the untrained, there are many templates around, yet these are difficult to edit, in the eyes of a newbie.
As I glance back in time, to the early CMS projects, each with their own quirky solutions, I see a very bright future for Concrete5, as the setup, and templating becomes easier to use for the general public, we could well be on the forefront of another wave of CMS transitions.
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A Typical Online Website Builder
Most of the online sitebuilding tools work in the same way, to understand the process, I have included a video.
The video explains the procedures that you will need to become familiar with the app. This example is from webstarts.com.