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Did you know that all five letter or under English names or English words now have a dot com associated with them. Hi, I'm Dan Afonso of Afonso Consulting and in full IT. This is how to create a website. In this tutorial what I'm going to do is just cover broad topics and the different ways to create a website. The specifics require a lot of patience and effort on your part. You must make your website able to work for you and you have to know the technology that is required in order to get what you need. Now, there's three basic way's to handle a website. The first one and the oldest one, is to hand code HTML. Now HTML is a mark up language that drives the Internet. It defines more or less what a website will look like. It defines elements like text, where pictures go, how they should relate to each other, how they should be positioned, sizes relative to each other. HTML is often thought of as a way to create the entire website and make it look exactly. That's not quite true. Different browsers render different websites differently because they interpret what's on the page differently. Now while I find this to be a great academic exercise and useful if you want to tweak your website to its fullest, it's really not very practical if you have to put up more than a few pages. For that, we're going to go to our next option. Our next option is to have a program that creates the website for you. Now what you get out of this is the fact that your website gets created a lot faster. You can see your results as your typing and you can create visually. The downside to this is they still produce web code that is not quite as perfect as it could be. Sometimes it's bloated an especially in the case of a program like Microsoft Word, it's really not standard compliance at all, but it will render most of the time. If you want to use this, this is a great way to create a template. From this template you could use option three which is a content management system. Now a CMS, as their called, will manage content. You take a template or some sort of framework for it to work in and you define the basic look of it. but in the back end, you'll use something to define what goes where. So you'll have your template that shoes your header, your footer, your side bars and what not. The content management system handles menus, it will handle article creation, it will handle creating the RSS feed if you need that. It will create a lot of the ancillary stuff for you. So go out pick one that is best for you and go for it. If you are looking for some links, there is some accompanying this article that I feel are really good products for this sort of thing. I'm Dan Afonso and this is a bit short guide on how to start you website.
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