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Are you ready to get started? Here’s a quick recap
on how to get your very own webpage/website up and running:
1. Register (buy)
a domain name at a site like
www.register.com.
2. Sign up for a website
hosting account, at www.lunarpages.com
for instance.
3. Buy a webpage-making
program, like Dreamweaver.
4. Go back to the
place where you registered your domain name (www.register.com)
and change the domain name’s DNS numbers to match those
given you by your website hosting company.
5. On your personal
computer, make a website folder that will hold all of the
website files you’re going to make. This folder should
contain “images” and “pages” subfolders.
6. Follow the steps
to “make a new site” on Dreamweaver
in order to connect Dreamweaver
to your web hosting account.
7. Upload (put) your
website folder’s subfolders (subfolders only) to your
space on your website hosting account.
8. Create and upload
a home page—a web page saved with the name “index”
(index.htm). On your index (home) page, make links so people
can get to the other pages you've created.
9. Go to town learning
Dreamweaver—and
don’t forget to especially focus on how to use tables
to organize your website.
10. Stay organized!
Especially be sure to do the following things:
A. save all pages (except the index page)
in the “pages” folder
B. before using images and graphics, save
them to the “images” folder
C. use folders and subfolders liberally—if
you have different types of pages, make subfolders in your
“pages” folder; if you have different types
of images, make subfolders in your “images”
folder, etc.
Welcome to the journey of
website design…
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