Building a web site involves uploading several files to the server computer.
One of these files must be called index.html and this will be your web site home page.
Other files will have names like:
logo.gif for an image of your logo, using
cartoon style solid colours
products.htm for a page file listing and
describing your products
widget.jpg for a photographic type image of a
widget.
htm and html type files may be created with a text editor such as notepad.exe There are many more complex programs, rather like word processors, to produce html files. A text book on html will be useful. Graphics may be produced using paint.exe or more complex graphics programs.
As an introduction experiment start by downloading http://www.satsig.net/stevedov.htm. Save it to your hard disk directory and then try editing it with notepad.exe and printing it out for study. You can always see what the page will look like by accessing it directly with your browser off line. This page calls up two jpg type pictures.
You can learn a lot by reading the HTML source of pages from other sites, but note that all are copyright. Just do "View" "Source" from time to time, as you browse the web.
Your site will almost certainly contain graphics such as logos (gif files) and photographic pictures (jpg files). Please learn to use graphics editors so as to reduce graphics file sizes to preferably 10k bytes per image, perhaps 20k bytes maximum, otherwise your potential customers will be very annoyed by slow downloads and will simply give up and leave your site. Fast sites with small file sizes keep customers happy.
Think about every word your customers might type into the Google search engine, when you hope they will find your site. Make a full list, including local expressions. Make sure these words all appear on your pages.
Send us you draft web pages as email attachments and we will upload them to the server. If you feel competent enough to do so and have been given a user name and password for ftp access, you may use an ftp program to upload your files yourself. Take great care. You need to check all links first and be able to read and identify problems in the html source code of your pages. If in doubt send us the pages by email.
Domain names are held by registrars and you need to pay them. Once you have a name you need to tell them the IP address you want it to point to. This will normally involve an exchange of emails to verify your identity. After you have done this it will take about 36 hours for all the worlds DNS servers to update. From then on anyone keying in your domain name gets it translated to your IP address. They then access the IP address and domain name and find your web site.
The log files record every access to your website. Each line shows the origin of the request (IP address), the file name requested and other details. The log files build up, close and restart every 12 hours. We will delete them once they become excessive after several months.
We can download log files, join them end to end and then run an analysis one per month. We can do this for you at £10 per monthly analysis if you want.
Finally good luck and may your web site be a success.
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