How to Create My Web Home Page for Free
Web design is a field that encompasses many areas. The visual and graphic structure of a Web page is organized by HTML and custom images. The entire site is hosted by a licensed Web server connected to a 24-hour network. Certain Web page features, including any forms where users submit information, require additional server-side programming in other computer languages. It used to be that having a website required programming and graphic design skill or the hiring of an experienced developer. The popularity of Web pages has instead prompted some companies to provide services for the novice, and do so for free.
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Create your Web home page with Google Sites. This free service is available to anyone with a free Google account. The Google Sites system is an all-in-one solution. The service provides a Web design interface where anyone can easily build the layout for the Web home page. The completed site sits on the Google Sites servers without the need to transfer the Web design files to a hosting provider. You choose from dozens of pre-designed HTML templates, and then customize the color schemes and content of each Web page. The entire process is quick so quick, anyone could have a website up and running in a few minutes. Additional Web pages are added individually, and you create links between them for a seamless navigational experience by your visitors.
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Customize free HTML templates and upload them to a free Web server with Free Layouts. This two-part process is similar to conventional Web development, but services exist to make this easy and free for the novice. HTML templates are widely available. These files contain all the programming and images to create a rich Web page. Any HTML file can be opened in a simple text editor, such as the free Windows Notepad software, and edited with your own content. You erase existing paragraphs with your own text while leaving the programming code in-tact. Then, subscribe to a free Web hosting service and use free FTP software to transfer the files to the server. This entire process is not as straightforward for a novice as an all-in-one solution but it does offer greater control over the final website. Free Web hosting providers are available but their disk quotas may be limited.
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Create a Blogger account and build your Web home page using their interactive platform. Blogger make websites that emphasize periodical content. As many people update their websites frequently with new information, pictures, stories, commentaries and other content, the blog format can be the best way to organize these websites. Ordinarily, when you create new Web content, each page must be manually created or edited and linked to other pages. Blogger obviates this chore by providing automated programming to handle all the link structures of the pages so you just have to concentrate on the new content. You can still customize the appearance of your website by using pre-designed themes, and ambitious designers can edit the HTML if they wish. But it is possible to create fresh content regularly with Blogger without any programming.
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