How To Produce Your website For Yourself

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and was the standard language when the graphical user interface (GUI) was applied into the windows in use system. You can use other languages that can be utilized to make a website, such as Flash, xml, dhtml and a few others. In my view, the most flexible language and the most easy to master is html.

Lets discuss the fundamental layout of your first page of the web site.

If this is going to be a personal site? Will it be a website showcasing products that you will sell? If this is a personal website, You can begin by having all your links on the left side of the page, your text content is usually in the middle with images if you decide you like it that way. On the right side of your page might be more links and images. You will have to divide the page into 3 sections to accomplish this. It could be done with table commands or with the division command.

Now, lets say you want to make a site for your small business that your starting. For example, your going to be selling computer games. You will want people to know about your site and this entails submitting your web site to the major search engines and directories, such as google, yahoo, msn, altavista and others. Here is a couple of directories, DirectoryShare and DirectoryAce are excellent.

It is most advantageous for new online business's to register a domain name. This is important for two reasons. Firstly, with a .com domain your business will look professional. Secondly, from a search engine prospective, a domain name with a .com suffix is more prudent. You need to pick a domain name that is the most relevant to your business.

You want your small business site to be informative, to the point and to keep your viewers interested at all times they are on your website. Nothing turns off a site visitor more than the link to a page they click on (yours) to be slow loading into there web browser. There are ways to speed up the loading process of a webpage into the web browser. If you have a lot of images on your website, you should always denote the height and width of the image in the link.

An Example: after the second quotation mark in the word alt. The opening tag is < This goes right by the letter i in the word image. If I do that in this article, I will receive an error becuase there is no such file, its just an example to show you. Doing this will make your web pages load very quickly into the site visitors web browser. Have a question about the alt""? Ok, I will explain this to you. Lets say your image is of a computer game. If you would type inside of your quotes of the alt command: alt="This is the best computer game" Now when the page loads and someone puts there mouse over the image, what you typed in the alt command will be displayed as text. You can type whatever you want in the alt command, but if your looking for search engine relevancy, I would type in one of your keywords thats relative to the product that displays as the image. To keep the viewer staying on your website, you need to make sure all your links are operational and not dead links. Meaning, there is a page not found error (404) that displays when someone clicks on one of your links from your main page.

This doesn't cover everything involved when you are creating your own website, but hopefully I have given you an insight in to what is involved. There are plenty of ebooks and such stuff that you can find on the internet. I always go to a company called IT support london. They don't just repair computers they are always helpfull if you get stuck on anything as well.