Basic Guides to Start Building your Website

Why you need a Website?

Business and Marketing
No matter how big or small your business is, its a good idea to have a website for a lot of good reasons. If I hear about your company and I want to know more about your products or services, I would go the internet and search for your website, because I assume that every business has a website and so will a lot of people do that, I wouldn't go to YellowPages and search for it cause it will only give me your address, it easier to go to your website and read about all the information... read more.

Static vs. Dynamic vs. Blog websites

The first question you should ask your self before starting to build your website is, "what kind of website do I need?"

If you want to build a small website (few pages) that doesn't need a lot of updating, for example writing about history or if you have a small business and you offer few products and/or services, in this case what you need is a Static website... read more.

Choosing a Domain Name

This is not an easy issue as it seems, because you will be choosing a name that is also your website address.
You can choose your domain name anytime you want before or after building your site, but its better to choose it now and get done with it, this will help stay focused on the content and the spirit of the layout. And besides, there is no real reason why this issue should be delayed to later on in the guide... read more.

Choosing Your Web Hosting Service

When it comes to publishing your website, you need a hard disk on the World Wide Web to save your website files on; these hard disks are called servers or Web Hosts.

When you choose your web host you don't look for the space they provide only, it's a little bit more complicated than that, there are many criterias you should look for depending on the website you are trying to build... read more.

What to do next? (HTML,CSS,FTP)

Now that you have chosen your web site type and doming name and your web host service, its now time to build the your web site, there are some basics that everyone building a website should know; these are HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), FTP (File Transfer Protocol)... read more.

Simple SHTML Tutorial

SHTML is simply a way to combine more than one HTML files into one. But how can that be done? And how is that useful?
SHTML will save you time and will give your site dynamic capabilities, because changing one HTML file will affect all your web site pages that are built using SHTML file. . . read more.