Step
2: Using a Web Tool
Create Site Content - Advertise your
Wares.
To generate
content, you'll need web authoring software or
application.
A web authoring tool
is software that lets
you generate content such as text and add
images to your Website,
just like you would when
using a word processor.
In the background these
programs then generate the necessary
code Internet Browsers read and
display on the visitors screen.
There are hundreds of
different tools to do this. Some website
authoring tools are software you install in
your computer, others are tools that are web
based.
Usually there is some type of
tool included with your hosting
plan.
The advantage of a
software based system is to be
able to do your work off-line
(without being connected to the internet), and
you have better control over
the appearance of your website.
The advantage of an
online based web
tool is, that usually they are pretty
simple to use, but they may be
a bit slow to accept the
changes you are trying to save. Also, there may
be only a set number of ways possible
to influence the look of your
pages.
Included
in either system, there may be a
range of ready to edit
templates to work with. Using
these would perhaps be the way to go when you
are starting off for the first
time.
Whatever web
tool you use, make sure you name
your entry page (that is the
page your visitors will get to when they type
in your domain name into their browser)
correctly. The file name you
give that page will need to contain the word
"index".
So, it could be
"index.html" for
example.
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