How To Make Your Own Web Site

How to make your own website - Are you in a hurry to create a web site? Ok...no problem just follow these instructions and you can be displaying a web page from your own PC in about 3 minutes.

Just visit: adsense style layout and jump to step 11. But FIRST... take a minute to do the following below...

You'll first need to create a folder on your desktop.

Then, create a blank file in notepad and save in your folder as index.html

Next, create a blank file in notepad and save in your folder as style.css.

Now - go to step 11 and copy and paste the .html and .css codes into the respective files. To display, open the folder, right click on the index.html file and select open with "internet Explorer" or what ever browser you wish. You have successfully completed the basic idea of "how to make your own web site".

Why is it called adsense style layout?

Don't worry, the code works fine even if you are not displaying any adsense code. The template will accomodate adsense ads for those who wish to insert adsense code.

You Don't Need to Be online To Create a Web Page

You can display a web page on your PC or laptop without being online. Internet explorer, Mozilla, Safari all work locally with your PC or laptop. Of course you will want to eventually upload all your web files to a real web server so everyone can access it, but for now, understand that you can develop web pages just using your pc or laptop without an internet connection.

Changing The Template

Of course this template requires you edit the html in order to change the content. You can change text between the paragraph and h1 and h2 tags as well as links. Make sure you go through the lesson on adding content to learn how to add a "title" to your web page - VERY IMPORTANT!

You may also want to vist: add links to understand how to format links.

Great Start But There's More...

This basic tutorial on " how to make your own web page" is a great way to get some basic experience with editing a basic .html template. You can see how easy it is to change text and headers in a basic html structure. If you need a site with more than 5 pages however you'll want a more powerful, flexible platform.

Th problem with this template is the menu is "hard coded into each page". That is if you wanted to create a second page to go with index.html you simply create another file, call it something.html, nd then add the link in the navigation. You may already see the problem brewing...

If your site grows to 50 pages you certainly do not want to manually add links you page one-by-one..that would be madness!

Here's a good overview of how to solve that problem. We'll change our page extensions from .html to .asp. (Don't mess with the .css file however, that doesn't change...) and create a central "include file" that holds the menu links. You add one line of code to each page which references the menu links. Since everything is in one file updating is a breeze. Make sure you go over this lesson: menu using .asp include file

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