Creating Your Own Website

Written by Dallas Franklin


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Article Title: 'Creating Your Own Website' Author Name: Dallas Franklin Contact Email Address: mailto:dallas@sellwritingonline.com Category: Website/Marketing Word Count: 930 Copyright Date: ©2002 Dallas Franklin

'Creating Your Own Website' By: Dallas Franklin

A lot of thought and care needs to go into your Website before you actually begin construction. First you must decide on a name for it.

Choosing a Website Name

Don't take this task lightly. You want to have a name that people will easily remember. Often people will use their names, which is good if you're well known. But if you aren't famous yet, chances are searchers aren't going to put your name inrepparttar 134475 search bar. That is unless they're specifically looking for you.

Most traffic to your site will come via search engines. Think like someone who's looking for something onrepparttar 134476 Internet. What search words will they use? How can I incorporate this into my Website name?

It's best to choose names that aren't hyphenated or underscored. This wayrepparttar 134477 search engine will pick up allrepparttar 134478 words you've chosen, or any of them. When you break uprepparttar 134479 words it lessensrepparttar 134480 chance of being located.

Registering your Website Name

Probablyrepparttar 134481 most reliable and well known places to register your Website Name is at:

http://www.register.com

You can get a two year registered Website Name for approximately $35 per year. Register.com also has a search box so you can enter any combinations of names you're looking at registering. If it's been taken already, they'll let you know. There are other places online where you can find it cheaper and you just have to use your own good judgment if you choose one of these. They're usually offered to anyone who buys their Web Hosting program.

Choosing a Web Host

This can seem like a daunting chore! There are literally thousands of Web Hosting sites available to you. Some are great, some are bad and some are somewhere in between.

Be careful about joining a Web Host that locks you into a year's lease. Many Web Hosting companies will lure you in by offering you great savings when bought in increments like one year. If you purchase their package then remember if you aren't satisfied with their service you're stuck with them legally.

Luckily my last Web Host, who shall remain nameless, was on a month-to-month basis. Since it was my first paid hosting I didn't know if this wasrepparttar 134482 norm or not in getting bad service and frustrations galore. I began talking to others who were paying for their hosting services and soon learned I was paying a lot of money for little service.

Now I'm with a new Web Host and things couldn't be better! It's even cheaper thanrepparttar 134483 other Web Host! I get prompt replies to any emails I query. And I know my Web site won't haven't countless down time nor will I have to worry about anyone accessingrepparttar 134484 many pages of my site. Here's one I recommend:

How to Test Your Web Site Usability

Written by Herman Drost


How to Test Your Web Site Usability Copyright 2002 by Herman Drost

When designing a web site, you are never sure how it appears to all people. This is because people use different browsers, resolutions, computers and connection speeds torepparttar Internet. Your site may look good with your browser, but absolutely horrendous in other browsers. This is why you should testrepparttar 134474 usability of your site, before you expose it torepparttar 134475 world.

What is usability testing?

This indicatesrepparttar 134476 ease with which folks can use your web site. Let’s look at a few usability factors.

Who is winningrepparttar 134477 browser war?

Here arerepparttar 134478 browser statistics: 39% Internet Explorer 6.0 51% Internet Explorer 5.0 2% Internet Explorer 4.0 3% Netscape 4.0

A few years ago Netscape wasrepparttar 134479 dominant browser, however Internet Explorer now has 80% ofrepparttar 134480 market. Withrepparttar 134481 introduction of Netscape 6.0 and 7.0 (their latest release), this may eat a little into IE’s market.

The latest browsers supportrepparttar 134482 latest designing technologies, such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1, CSS2) and XML.

Installing different browsers

Test your web site in different browsers, so your web site can be seen by as many people as possible.

Internet Explorer Download Internet Explorer 5 and 6. The way to do this is to either have each one installed on a different computer, or to have 2 operating systems on your computer. You can do this with partition magic.

Trying to install IE 5 & 6 onrepparttar 134483 same operating sysytem doesn't work. One overridesrepparttar 134484 other.

Netscape Download NN 4.79 and 6.2. You can install them onrepparttar 134485 same operating system as Internet Explorer.

Other browsers The Opera browser This is often known asrepparttar 134486 “third browser” after Internet Explorer and Netscape. It has received international recognition for being faster, smaller and more standards compliant than other browsers.

Kmeleon This is a simple, efficient, fast browser that loads very quickly. This is because it is an unbloated browser. If your web site looks good in this browser, it will look fine in Netscape.

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