Posts Tagged ‘Hello World’
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.