How to Build a Website

Make Your Own DBZ Website

Ever go from site to site looking at each one and wondering, "Chee, I would love to make a site like that," but you didn't know how to do so or where to begin? Your search is over. When I started to build a site, I had no clue at all on what to do. Thanks to a friendly DBZ site owner, I was able to get a site. From there I searched around, and eventually learned how to make my own site. So here is the benefits of what I learned, of which I hope will help you.

FIRST:
Find some place that is some sort of a site builder. I have links down below to some of the better ones. But don't go there quite yet. You need to know the basics of site building.

Starting off/SECOND:
Unless you are a internet expert, skip this. Otherwise listen up. Usually, anywhere you go, you'll be asked about how much HTML you know. HTML, Hypertext markup language or HTML, is the programing for nearly all sites, some use a different type of programming, but when it all boils down, it's all the same. It's best to choose the Beginer section of the page builder you have chosen, until you have a good knowledge of HTML. Otherwise, your site will flop miserably. To give you a start here is some basic HTML.

<html></html>
Creates an HTML document. You put all the information about the webpage, as well as what goes on it here.

<head></head>
You put the title and other information that isn't displayed on the Web page itself here.

<body></body>
You put all the information that you want displayed on the website here.

<title></title>
Puts the name of the document in the title bar. You put this right after the <head> tag.

<body bgcolor=?>
Makes what color the background will be.
example:
<body bgcolor=blue> Putting this down, and the background of the webpage will be blue.

<body text=?>
Makes the color of the texts to whatever color you want.
example: <body text=grey> The text on the page will be gray.

<body link=?>
Makes the color of the links to whatever color you want.

<body vlink=?>
Makes the color of the links already visited whatever you want.


Makes text on your site darker.
example: This is bold text.


This put the text on your site in italics.
example: This is italic text.


This determines how big the text will be.
example:
Font 1 is the smallest sized font.
Font 3 is the normal sized font.
Font 5 is the biggest font.


You can change the color of certain words, letters or numbers to whatever color you want.
example:
See what I mean?

<a href="URL">Link name</a>
This is a hyperlink, it goes to another site or another webpage. Replace the 'URL' with the site's url, and you put the site's name or whatever where the 'Link name' is.

THIRD:
That's just some basic HTML. The HTML above, are the ones that are used the most, so it's enough to get you started. They are just a few of the many HTML codes out there, and if you want to have a good site, you'd better try to learn them as well. If you want to know more HTML I suggest that you visit Lissa Explains It All-HTML Help for Kids because it's extremely good, and plus that where I got most of my HTML knowledge from. Also, another site that has HTML is Webmonkey, which is also pretty good for anyone, even old experts.

FOURTH:
You have to find someone to host your website. There are many things out there that do just that. The better ones will cost money however, but there are some pretty goods ones out there that are free. Here are just a few of those:

50megs This is what I use to build my site on. It had a free trial mode, which is what I use. Now, however you have to pay to get a site.
Freeservers Similar to 50megs, it's basically the same stuff, but slightly better.

Tripod Also similar to 50megs, this is hosted by the same company as Angelfire, and is pretty good.

Angelfire A pretty good place to start building. It can be a little wacky at times (not usually though), but it's basically one of the best. Also, it cost absolutely nothing.

Remember: it's important to regularly change the content on your site and make updates to the information that you display. Doing this will help you to get more people to visit your site. Also, learn as much as you can from other sites (ask before you take!) and continue to build.