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HTML guides:
Some simple places to find out how to create HTML.
For help on technical matters
Philip Greenspun's:
Jacob Nielsen's
How to reorganise your site's content
Site architecture - how to organise a site's pages
Google search for this topic on Webmaster World
Putting information architecture into practice
Google search for this topic on Webmaster World
Tools to enhance your website (bulletin boards,
polls, email forms, comments pages)
Uptime
monitor servers as a free service, they check every 15mins that they can
retrieve a file from the site.
Dmoz has a category on web
site authoring that includes categories of web
counters, message
boards, guestbooks
and other services.
Yahoo has a category called world
wide web that includes programming,
access
counters and guestbooks
categories.
Free tools: Weblogs
The BBC's take on weblogs (including Blogger.com):
"Even better, wouldn't it be good to get your own web page where you could
publish these comments, plus the links you stumble across every day, and make the whole thing available to the world?"
- BBC.co.uk/webwise/know/weblogs1.shtml
The BBC Webwise site (BBC.co.uk/webwise/know/index.shtml)
has non-partisan links to free tools, creating web pages, hosting, email and
other topics.
Free tools: Message boards (see also Dmoz's guestbooks
category and Yahoo's guestbooks
category)
Coolboard.com
and others (e.g. netbula.com,
www.ezboard.com)
offer free message boards with advertising.
Discus (discusware.com/discus/compare.html)
is a free WWW discussion board software package that can be installed on a
Unix, Windows 95/98, or Windows NT web server. See also Ultraboard
2000.
The BBC's take on creating message boards:
BBC.co.uk/webwise/communities/howto8.shtml
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Philip Greenspun's guide to creating and maintaining a web
site
A great place to start looking at how to create and maintain a web site is photo.net,
a site run by Philip Greenspun, who written an online book called
"Philip and Alex's
Guide to Web Publishing".
Philip started photo.net
because he is an avid photographer, it now has many photographers resources, including
photo galleries (and images that you can download for free), camera reviews
et al.
Web video tutorials
He has streaming web tutorials at:
philip.greenspun.com/teaching/one-day-web.html#streaming
Oracle stores more streaming tutorials here:
oracle.com/pls/ebn/popup.related_show?p_shows_id=501188&p_language=US&p_win_size=L150
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Upload your site to the server using an ftp (file transfer
protocol) client.
For Windows try downloading Leechftp (recommended by Positive
Internet, where I host bluett.com) or ExplorerFtp from Download.com
Or you can use Windows Internet Explorer for ftp, here is an example
of how to use it:
ftp://ftp.site.com works for anonymous ftp. If you need to sign in, then enter the URL and then do
File/Log In As and provide your username/password.
It opens the FTP directory just like it's a local one, except drag and drop only seems to work in one direction, the other direction you have to do right click/save to folder or something, but it's dead easy to use.
Favicon.ico
You can add favicon.ico to your website root to make a bookmark of your
page more memorable for those using Internet Explorer 4 or 5. This is a
Windows image icon (that you can create using Visual C++ or proprietary
software) that is placed beside your URL when someone bookmarks your page in
Internet Explorer 4 or 5. Surfers bookmarking your page will make requests
for this file, so if you have access to your site's logs, you can look for
the numbers of requests for this site and approximate how many people are
bookmarking your site.
Hiring a web designer
vnunet.com/Features/1128390
- key questions to ask your web site developer.
A web design company that specialises in accessible
websites: Bluefire Systems,
based in Godalming, England.
A London-based website, network installation and data
recovery company MicroVector.co.uk.
Vectorcraft.com
- an ecommerce website company.
Web designer directories
