How to Easily Design Your Own Webpage
You can design a webpage that's attractive and functional using readily available tools and resources. Just follow some simple steps to create a webpage that presents your talents to an online audience. Whether you're featuring original writing, showcasing a video production, sharing a podcast or offering an online magazine, be creative and unleash your imagination in the limitless online universe.
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Things You'll Need
- Broadband Internet access
- Hosting provider or online website service
- Web design software (optional)
Instructions
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Choose the Best Webpage Design Tool
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Hand code your web page.
Use a text editor or word processing program to design a webpage if you're skilled in HTML and are creating a relatively simple layout. You can view it in a web browser and upload it to your web hosting server when it's complete. Visit tutorial sites, such as W3schools, if you want to learn more about HTML and other webpage design protocols. -
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Use simple, free software.
Choose a basic free webpage design program such as Wordpress if you have some web design knowledge and you want to work offline on your project. You gain flexibility and design options with webpage design software, but you'll need to learn the individual functions and user interface for the particular program you choose.
Be sure your software is well supported and you can get resources and assistance when you need them. -
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Use an online webpage service.
Sign up for a free website or blog provider and use their online design tools and hosting to create your webpages and quickly get them online. A few popular free ones are Google's Blogger, Wordpress.com or Web.com. Most feature a simple webpage design interface and are a good way to get your webpage online with minimal web design skills.
Develop Your Webpage
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Create a visual representation of your webpage.
Sketch your webpage concepts on paper or use a graphics program to create a picture of your web page before developing it in a program. Try different arrangements of text and images to get the most attractive and readable layout.
Look at other webpages online for visual ideas and to see what designs are used on highly ranked websites. Planning your design in the beginning will save time and trouble later. -
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Choose a pre-made look for your webpage.
Review the many templates available online. They make it easy to quickly create a complex webpage design, aving you time and frustration. Download templates specifically tailored for your webpage software. They come with instructions for installing and customizing them. Use one of the available templates offered with your online webpage program to get the look and functions you want. It's usually a point and click procedure to implement it and add features. -
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Consider your content.
Plan your content, whether text, pictures or media, after you've decided on your webpage layout. Design your preliminary content the same way you design webpages. Keep the visitor to your webpage in mind. Give them interesting, useful and relevant content that's accessible and easily understood. Keep the content fresh by rotating information such as "Current Trends" or "Tip of the Week." This will keep visitors coming back. Use a keyword program, such as Wordtracker, to find words and phrases that will help people find your webpage online. -
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Put it together offline.
Lay out your webpage in your offline web design program using your preliminary mockup as a reference. Pay attention to ease of navigation, smallest file size for your images, and good HTML standards if you're hand-coding the web page.
Add your images, text and other content from your initial planning. Use an FTP program, such as CoreFTP, to upload the completed webpage to your hosting provider's web server. -
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Create your webpage online.
Sign up for your chosen online webpage program. Learn the design interface and tools, as well as available support resources. There's usually a support forum or blog where you can find solutions for problems using the design interface. Decide on one of the templates or pre-made layouts available online.. Incorporate your content and any additional graphics to create your online webpage. Put your webpage online using the "publish" function when you're finished.
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Tips & Warnings
Your hosting provider may offer simple webpage design tools that you can use to get started. Add multimedia content, such as video or music to your webpage, once you have the basic design. You'll attract more visitors and give them more value. Use social networking to promote your webpage after you have it online. You can share its content across a variety of platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, to reach more potential visitors.
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