Overview

Build a great personal or business website... absolutely no experience needed! Why pay a professional web developer? If you can use a word processor, you can do it yourself! This package contains all the software, templates, and simple step-by-step instructions you need to build a great site in practically no time! Build sites like these using our professional-quality templates: -Family sites -Hobby sites -Community and nonprofit sites -Online storefronts that accept credit card payments via PayPal -Post video on YouTube 8 Easy Projects In this book you'll see just how easy it is to create your own website. The CD included with this book contains professional website templates and a free web page editor. With the web page editor, you can quickly and easily customize the templates into your personal websites. Better still, using the editor is as simple as using a word processor. Use easy web-based services to: -Sell products at your own eBay Store -Create your own personal or professional blog -Display your digital photos on your own Snapfish site -Share your videos on YouTube -Create a MySpace page that'll stand out from the crowd -Build your social network with your own Facebook presence You won't believe how easy it is to build your own site...or how much fun! CD-ROM contains all the tools you need: The complete open source SeaMonkey Suite software toolset for building websites (no restrictions, not a demo!) HTML sample templates

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Author:   Scott Mitchell
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Sams Publishing
Edition:   4th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 23.10cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 18.80cm
Weight:   0.464kg
ISBN:  

9780672330025

ISBN 10:   0672330024
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   28 August 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Welcome to Create Your Own Website! 1 1 Creating Your First Web Page 5 The Components of a Website . . . . . . . . . . 7 Serving Web Pages with a Web Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Understanding Website Domain Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Web Pages, the Building Blocks of a Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Knowing Your Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Building Web Pages Using Web Page Authoring Software Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Installing SeaMonkey . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Starting SeaMonkey's Composer. . 17 Creating a Web Page with SeaMonkey Composer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Changing the Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Making Text Bold, Italic, and Underlined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Changing the Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Positioning Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Saving the Web Page . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 2 Creating a Website 29 Finding a Web Host Provider . . . . . . . . . . 30 Important Web Hosting Metrics. . . 31 Picking a Web Hosting Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Registering a Domain Name . . . . . . . . . . 34 Choosing and Buying a Domain Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Configuring the Domain Name . . 36 Uploading Web Pages from Composer to Your Website . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Building a Website from a Template . . 41 Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 3 Creating a Family/Personal Website 45 Examining the Family/Personal Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Customizing the Template. . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Changing the Upper-Left Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Specifying Image Properties . . . . . 49 Removing the Image Altogether. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Changing the Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Adding and Removing Pages from the Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Customizing the Family Pictures Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Adding New Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Publishing Your Family/Personal Website. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Placing Linked Files in the Same Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Testing the Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 4 Creating an Online Storefront 63 Examining the eCommerce Website Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Customizing the Home Page . . . . . . . . . . 66 Configuring the Add to Cart Buttons. . 67 Creating a PayPal Premier Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Getting the Add to Cart Button HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Adding the Add to Cart Button into the Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Viewing the Shopping Cart. . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Tying It All Together-A True Online Shopping Experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 5 Selling Products with an eBay Store 85 Simplify the Sales Process with eBay Stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Creating and Customizing Your eBay Store. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Managing Your Store . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Adding Products to Your eBay Store . . . 93 Collecting Payments and Order Fulfillment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Taking Advantage of Marketing Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Sales and Traffic Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Inspecting Your Site's Traffic. . . . 100 Tracking Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 6 Creating a Blog with Blogger 103 What Do You Blog About? . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Creating a Blog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Adding Content to Your Blog. . . . . . . . . 109 Customizing Your Blog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Examining the Basic Tab. . . . . . . 116 Altering the Blog's Appearance Through the Formatting Tab . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Managing Comment Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Archiving Old Content . . . . . . . . . 120 Working with Postings via Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Customizing the Blog's Template. . . . . 122 Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 7 Sharing Images Online with Snapfish 127 Choosing an Online Image Sharing Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Creating an Account on SnapFish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Uploading and Managing Your Digital Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Adding Pictures to Your Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Editing and Deleting Your Pictures and Albums. . . . . . . . . . 135 Sharing Your Pictures and Albums with Friends and Family. . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Ordering Prints and Gifts. . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 8 Hanging Out and Making Friends at MySpace 147 Joining MySpace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Expanding Your Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Customizing Your Profile Page's Layout and Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Configuring Your Name Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Creating a Blog and Sharing Your Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Uploading and Sharing Your Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Expressing Yourself with Your Blog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Growing Your Social Network . . . . . . . . 163 Making New Friends . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 9 Posting Your Videos on YouTube 167 Getting Started with YouTube . . . . . . . . 168 Creating an Account . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Uploading Your Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Viewing and Managing Your Videos . 175 Customizing Your Channel . . . . . . . . . . 176 Customizing Your Channel Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Changing Your Channel's Colors and Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Organizing Your Videos . . . . . . . . 179 Sharing Personal and Location Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Embedding YouTube Videos into Your Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Embedding a Video in a Blog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 10 Staying Connected with Facebook 187 Building a Social Network on Facebook. . 188 Finding Friends on Facebook. . . . . . . . . 189 An Overview of Your Facebook Home Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Viewing and Editing Your Profile. . . . . 196 Configuring Your Privacy Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Receiving Notifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Using Facebook's Applications . . . . . . . 202 Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 11 Bonus Material 207 HTML-The Language of Web Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Understanding How the Internet Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Examining How the Postal Service Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 The Internet as a Virtual Postal Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Optimizing Your Digital Pictures. . . . . 218 Resizing Digital Images . . . . . . . . 219 Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

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Create Your Own Website is author Scott Mitchell's eighth book; his others are Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days (Sams); Designing Active Server Pages (O'Reilly); ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code (Sams); ASP.NET Data Web Controls Kick Start (Sams); Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 24 Hours (Sams); Teach Yourself ASP.NET 2.0 in 24 Hours (Sams); and Teach Yourself ASP.NET 3.5 in 24 Hours (Sams). Scott is a regular columnist for Microsoft's MSDN Magazine and has authored more than 1,000 online articles on his website, 4GuysFromRolla.com. Scott's nonwriting accomplishments include speaking at numerous technical user groups and conferences across the country. Scott also teaches web technology classes at the University of California--San Diego University Extension. In addition to teaching and writing, Scott is a software developer. He works as an independent consultant and has authored and sold several commercial software applications.

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