- How
do I create a website ?
- Once
I make my site, how to I put it on the Internet?
- What
should I name my home page ?
- Why
do I get a directory of my site when I go to the
address of my website?
- What
web development software do you recommend?
- Why
do my pages take so long to appear?
- What
is the difference between a gif and jpeg image?
- Can
Acquired Knowledge Systems create a Website for me
?
- Why
do all of my images appear as broken links?
- Are
their any books or tutorials you recommend on designing
websites?
- What
software did you use to develop this website?
- How
do I create a website ?
This questions has many answers depending on what
you want to do. Below are some thoughts on this.
If you want to read our complete tutorial on website
design click here.
If you want to create a simple personal home page,
then you could use a word processor, such as Microsoft
Word 2000 or Corel Word Perfect. The current version
of both programs let you create web pages from normal
documents. You simply save the pages as "html"
and presto, you have a web page. If you already know
how to use these programs, then there is no learning
curve. Unfortunately, web pages created by word processors
are not optimal. They are often large in size (meaning
they take a longtime to download) and will not display
well on older versions of Netscape or Internet Explorer.
The other alternative is to use dedicated website
creation programs. You can read question
5 below for a summary of our recommendations
or read a more complete review on our website
design tutorial.
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- Once
I make my site, how to I put it on the Internet?
You send the files to a special area of our web server
which is dedicated to you. This is done by a method
known as "File Transfer Protocol", or FTP.
Many of the better website design programs have user
friendly file up loading and website management built
in. Alternatively, there are dedicated freeware or
shareware FTP programs available on the web.
You will need to provide the following information.
host
name/
FTP address: |
This
will be assigned to you when you sign-up for
a web-hosting account. If you are creating
a free personal site that comes with an Internet
Access Account, the address is home.aksi.net
or users.aksi.net.
|
| host
type name: |
UNIX
(standard)
|
| user
name: |
Use
the user name that has been assigned to your
web-hosting account.If you are creating a free
personal site that comes with an Internet Access
Account, the user name is the same as your
Internet Access Account user name.
|
| password:
|
Use
the password that has been assigned to your
web-hosting account.If you are creating a free
personal site that comes with an Internet Access
Account, the password is the same as your Internet
Access Account password.
|
| top
directory |
/
(or leave it blank)
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- What
should I name my home page ?
Your home page should be named index.htm or index.html
.
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- Why
do I get a directory of my site when I go to the
address of my website?
This is because you don't have a page named index.htm
or index.html. You need to give your home page one
of these two names.
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- What
web development software do you recommend?
In order to create a website you will need two types
of software, web page creation software and image
editing software. Below you will find a brief review
for a more complete review click
here for website building programs and click
here for image editing programs.
For simple websites, use a program such as Adobe
Page Mill (www.adobe.com)
or Symantic Visual Page (www.symantec.com).
Both Programs are fairly easy to learn and reasonably
priced (under $100 list price). Our recommendation
in this price range is Visual Page. Visual Page sports
a clean user interface, a robust set of features
and has good site management tools.
There are several low cost image editing tools that
can be used with low cost website design programs.
These include Paint Shop Pro (www.paintshoppro.com)
and Adobe PhotoDeluxe. Paint Shop Pro is a "poor
man's Photoshop". It sells for about $100. PhotoDeluxe
usually comes bundled for free with scanners and
printers.
For developing professional websites there are only
two programs that we would recommend, Macromedia
Dreamweaver (www.macromedia.com)
or Adobe Go Live (www.adobe.com).
Both of these are available for either PC or Mac.
Many of the best sites on the web have been developed
using one of these two programs? Why? Because both
programs have the features that professionals demand.
Both create uncorrupted HTML (the language that webpages
are created in), have several editing and creation
modes and are surprisingly easy to use once you understand
how they work.
Both of these programs cost around $250 to $300 each.
Macromedia offers Dreamweaver bundled with its companion
image editing program, Fireworks for under $400.
The one you by depends on personal taste and your
choice of image editing programs. If you are already
using Photoshop (full version 5.5 or later) than
go with Adobe Go Live. If you are not, consider the
Fireworks, Dreamweaver bundle.
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- Why
do my pages take so long to appear?
You pages file size is too large. Your total page
size including images should ideally be under 35KB.
If you have an image intensive site, this is not
practical. Try to keep you total page size, including
images to under 55KB.
The main culprit is usually large images. The most
common mistake is take a large image and resize it
in the website editing program rather than the image
editing program. Don't Do This! An full screen image
squashed down to postage stamp size will still carry
being downloaded at full size. Your Web browser is
reducing this image size as the page loads. The right
way to handle images is to always resize then in
your image editing program which will reduce the
file size.
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- What
is the difference between a gif and jpeg image?
JPEG and GIF are types of image compression. Use
JPEG to compress photographs and images with a lot
of shading. Use GIF to compress images with large
areas of continuous color. Click
Here for More Information on optimizing images.
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- Can
Acquired Knowledge Systems create a Website for me?
Yes. We offer a wide range of web design services
through our two web design affiliates. We can create
static sites (regular web pages), as well as custom
database driven sites. In addition, they can help
you plan an effective site with by doing market and
demographic research. Click
Here for more information.
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- Why
do all of my images appear as broken links?
Most likely, you either did not up load the images
to your web directory or you uploaded them to the
wrong location.
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- Are
their any books or tutorials you recommend on designing
websites?
You can check out some of our tutorials:
website design tutorial
html tutorial
e-commerce tutorial
In addition, you can see our recommended reading
for:
website design
e-commerce and web
business development
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What software did you use to develop this website?
This website was created with Dreamweaver and Fireworks
with some image touch up in Photoshop. In addition,
Homesite was used for editing some of the Server
Side Scripts.
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