Internet Basics 101

As the name implies, my objective in this book is to teach you everything that you could ever need to know about how to make yourself „visible‟ on the internet by creating and publishing your very first website. As you are reading this, you are obviously an internet user! That being the case, you know how to surf the internet and have probably visited plenty of websites during your surfing.

So, you know that websites all look different from one another and that they all carry information of some type, either in the form of text (words on the page) or pictures (more commonly known as „graphics‟ in internet-speak), while some sites feature videos or audio soundtracks.

Indeed, most sites feature a combination of all these formats, but no matter how the content (any information that is presented on a webpage) is presented to site visitors; all websites serve essentially the same purpose. That is to present information that the website owner wants the world to know about.

From this point on, I am going to tell and show you everything you need to know about creating and populating your first site, starting from where you are at the moment with little or no knowledge of websites other than the above. I am going to do this in a methodical, step-by-step manner, so that you can see how everything that you are just about to start learning meshes together. By the time you finish reading this book, there will be nothing that remains mysterious about building your first website.

A website is essentially nothing more than a selection of different kinds on informational materials, usually of differing types, that are collected together and then published on the World Wide Web. When this information is collected and published on your site, it becomes website content, similar to the content that you see and read every time you land on someone else‟s website.

The first thing that you therefore need is an idea of what you want your site to be about, a theme around which all of your content pages will be built. It is not enough to simply decide to build a website. You must know what you want it to be about, what you want it to do and who you expect to be interested in your site once it is published. Without knowing these things then nothing you do will have any direction or purpose and that is almost always a sure-fire recipe for getting nowhere.

Let us imagine that, for the purposes of this book, your interest is dogs, and that you therefore want to create a site that focuses on dogs.

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