Amt Webpage Building

Advanced Marketing Techniques

Web Page Building
Part 1 Basics

Last week we looked at getting a domain name, and the hosting you will need to put your own website out on the web. This week we are going to be looking at building your website using a free tool that is available in your Vortex back office. That tool is a webpage builder called Nvu (N-view). You do NOT need any knowledge of website building or HTML (the language websites are built in).

Create Your Web Site

The next step is to actually build your web site using Nvu. Your web site can be basic or complicated and it all depends on what your goals are. We recommend that you start off simple while you are learning how to use Nvu. As your knowledge and skills increase you can start to build more sophisticated web sites. Nvu makes it as easy to build your web site as to use a word processing program. The more complicated your web site, the more knowledge and understanding of HTML and the Web you will need to have, but don't worry about that at the moment as you will find that you pick things up as you go along.

We recommend the following guidelines when building your web site:

   • Store all of your web pages and images in the same directory
   • Only images in the format: .gif, .jpg, and .png are usable on the web
   • Do not use spaces in your file names
   • Do not use capital letters in your file names
   • Your web pages can have the extension .htm or .html but you should pick only one
   • Learn how to create basic sites before you try more advanced things

There are many great tutorials on the Web that will explain some of the basics of creating web pages. If you are serious about creating a web site we recommend that you spend some time learning the "tricks of the trade" to get a better understanding of how to create great sites.

Step 1. you must download the software

Download Site for NVU http://www.download.com/Nvu/3000-2048_4-10412422.html

Step 2. create a folder on your desktop name it my sites. To create a new folder on your desktop right click any where on your desktop and you will see the word new go there and you will see the word folder click folder. When the folder comes up type in the words my sites. Open now open your new folder click on file again the word new and folder. So now you have a folder within your my web sites folder. Name this folder My web sites, you will need two or three more folders within your my sites desktop folder. In fact you may create as many folders as you need to keep all your information organized and easy to find. Once you start building your web pages you will always save them on your desktop in the my sites folder.

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