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The webblog covers the basic Internet competences and is supposed to serve as a manual for the people with disabilities and their assistants. The purpose of my webblog is to increase the accessibility of the Internet technologies for the people with learning disabilities and to implement the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. There are as well the materials of my participatory camera workshop, aimed at sharing the skills and ideas during the adventurous insight in the shooting techniques. This workshop is for all those who are interested in creating new videos. Fresh ideas are welcome.

Tuesday, 1 February 2011

How to Create a Website or Webblog?

- What is a website?

- Which kinds of websites are there on the Internet?

- How to create a website?

Now, when you learned how to create an e-mail account, how to upload and download files, how to publish images and texts on the Internet, it will be easy for you to make one step further and create your own webpage.

Think about what you will write on your webpage, try to choose a special topic. It could be a webblog or online diary, where you could leave your impressions. Or you could collect links to the articles which seem interesting to you or republish the articles you read somewhere else (it is not so much welcomed). The webpage might not be text-only, pictures, photos and videos will make it more interesting. You could also use the webblog for writing local or private news.

It is easy to create a webpage template. Look up for free HTML tutorials online which will help you to find a way to create your own webpage. A webpage template makes the task of building a website fairly fast and easy. To lay out the website you need to use Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) code, the main computer language of the Internet. It controls everything that you can see on the webpage like colors, boxes, text, and animations. So, it is useful to learn the necessary HTML language tags first, before trying to create a webpage template. It is a simple computer language and you can start working without too much special knowledge.

Here are the steps to create a webpage template:

1. Study how to create HTML tables. This will help you in creating columns for your webpage.

2. Become familiar with HTML color codes. Your colors should be simple and eye-friendly. Coordinate your webpage colors and create a professional look to your viewers.

3. Prepare images and logos to place in your webpage. The files in JPG or GIF format have to be of 800 x 400 pixel size.

4. Configure your webpage width. Set your monitor resolutions to a width of 1024 pixels wide instead of the old fashioned 800 by 600 pixels width setting. It is better to have a fixed width setting.

5. Know the basics parts of the template diagram. Your webpage contents should be split up into different parts or tables to load it faster. Since the webpage is made up of different tables, a template diagram will help you have a better picture of

what your webpage should look like. You could choose a template diagram that will suit your needs. Basically, your template diagram should have tables with the heading, the body and navigation controls, optional navigation tools, and footer.

6. Create sample of the webpages first. Do not settle on just one template. If you create several drafts, you could choose the best afterwards. Consider the layout of your template. It should be user-friendly, and the colors which you use should match to each other. Make sure that the tables do not overlap and webpage loading time does not take too long to irritate your visitors. Once you like what you see, you can move on to creating the content for your webpage.

Used Words:

Website - related web pages, images, and videos with a common address. All publicly accessible websites together are the World Wide Web.

Template - a special Internet tool which helps to create web-sites.

Required Tools:

* Computer with Internet connection.

* Enough understanding of computer security while using online resources.

* Basic knowledge of the HTML.

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