Category: Website management

To have a web presence, you must have a website. To get a professional looking site, you must register for a domain name and pay for a web hosting service. After these have been done, the actual task of building the website can commence. To actually build the website, there are several route to take:

Option 1. Build webpages and upload them

Option 2. Install Content Management System (CMS) on the server.

Option 3. Install Blog on the server

If you choose option 1, you may need to learn HTML and/or use a web editing and designing software.

There are many commercial softwares on the market that can design web pages for you. Some of them are:

1. Microsoft Frontpage

2. Namo Web editor

3. Macromedia Dreamweaver

4. Object Net Fusion

In my opinion Macromedia Dreamweaver is by far the best of the commercial web editors.

If you are cash tight, there are free alternatives as well. These free software are:

1. NVU
NVU is at http://www.nvu.org

2. Mozilla Composer
It is the free, open source, HTML editor and web authoring module of the Mozilla Application Suite

3. Blue Fish
Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
It is at http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html

4. Aptana
Aptana is at http://www.aptana.com

If you choose to build webpage in this manner, you will need to upload the pages to the server. As such you may need a FTP (File Transfer Protocol) software.

Filezilla is a very good free and open source FTP tool. Filezilla site is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla.

Usually the web hosting packages comes with in-built Fantastico. If you choose option 2 or 3, Fantastico usually have options to install various types of CMS or blogs.

Some of the more popular CMS are:

1. XOOP

2. Mambo

A Content Management System (CMS) is a web application used for management of web contents. CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources.

Some of the popular blogs are:

1. Wordpress

2. Nucleus

A Blog is a website application where content entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.

Well these are some of the options for building websites. Hope that it has been useful.

Note: webpage building is only a part of maintaining a successful web presence. You will also need to build up the web traffic. Click here for an article on the Basics Of Web Traffic Generation

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