Step 2: Using a Website Editor
Create Site Content - Advertise your Wares.
To generate content, you'll need website editing software or
application.
A website editor is software that lets you generate content
such as text and add images or videos to your Website, just like you
would when using a word processor.
In the background these programs then generate the necessary
code Internet Browsers read and display on the visitors screen.
There are hundreds of different tools to do this. Some website authoring tools
are software you install in your computer, others are tools that are web based.
Usually there is some type of tool included with your hosting plan.
The advantage of a software based system is to be able to do
your work off-line (without being connected to the internet), and you have
better control over the appearance of your website.
The advantage of an online based web tool is, that
usually they are pretty simple to use, but they may be a bit slow
to accept the changes you are trying to save. Also, there may be only a set number of ways
possible to influence the look of your pages.
Included in either system, there may be a range of
ready to edit templates to work with. Using these would perhaps be the way to go
when you are starting off for the first time.
Whatever web tool you use, make sure you name your entry
page (that is the page your visitors will get to when they type in your domain name into
their browser) correctly. The file name you give that page will need to contain
the word "index".
So, it could be "index.html" for example.
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Recommended Steps forward:
Download a free program form the internet (Nvu) - A Great Program, but it could be a bit complex to learn quickly.
(This is an open source web tool, where developers contribute free of charge to
benefit the community)
Get a tool such as XSitePro that is easy to use; anyone can quickly and easily generate great
functioning websites
(This website was created using XSitePro)
(links above open in a new window)
Other well known web editors are Dreamweaver (from Macromedia, now Adobe) and
Frontpage (Microsoft), but they cost quite a bit and are more complex than any web
tool suggested above.
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