Welcome to Create Your Own Website! 1
1 Creating Your First Web Page 5
The Components of a Website . . . . . . . . . . 7
Serving Web Pages with a Web Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Understanding Website Domain Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Web Pages, the Building Blocks of a Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Knowing Your Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Building Web Pages Using Web Page
Authoring Software Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Installing SeaMonkey . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Starting SeaMonkey's Composer. . 17
Creating a Web Page with SeaMonkey Composer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Changing the Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Making Text Bold, Italic, and Underlined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Changing the Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Positioning Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Saving the Web Page . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2 Creating a Website 29
Finding a Web Host Provider . . . . . . . . . . 30
Important Web Hosting Metrics. . . 31
Picking a Web Hosting Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Registering a Domain Name . . . . . . . . . . 34
Choosing and Buying a Domain Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Configuring the Domain Name . . 36
Uploading Web Pages from Composer to Your Website . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Building a Website from a Template . . 41
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
3 Creating a Family/Personal Website 45
Examining the Family/Personal Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Customizing the Template. . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Changing the Upper-Left Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Specifying Image Properties . . . . . 49
Removing the Image Altogether. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Changing the Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Adding and Removing Pages from the Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Customizing the Family Pictures Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Adding New Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Publishing Your Family/Personal Website. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Placing Linked Files in the Same Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Testing the Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4 Creating an Online Storefront 63
Examining the eCommerce Website Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Customizing the Home Page . . . . . . . . . . 66
Configuring the Add to Cart Buttons. . 67
Creating a PayPal Premier Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Getting the Add to Cart Button HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Adding the Add to Cart Button into the Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Viewing the Shopping Cart. . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Tying It All Together-A True Online Shopping Experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
5 Selling Products with an eBay Store 85
Simplify the Sales Process with eBay Stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Creating and Customizing Your eBay Store. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Managing Your Store . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Adding Products to Your eBay Store . . . 93
Collecting Payments and Order Fulfillment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Taking Advantage of Marketing Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Sales and Traffic Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Inspecting Your Site's Traffic. . . . 100
Tracking Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
6 Creating a Blog with Blogger 103
What Do You Blog About? . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Creating a Blog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Adding Content to Your Blog. . . . . . . . . 109
Customizing Your Blog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Examining the Basic Tab. . . . . . . 116
Altering the Blog's Appearance Through the Formatting Tab . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Managing Comment Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Archiving Old Content . . . . . . . . . 120
Working with Postings via Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Customizing the Blog's Template. . . . . 122
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
7 Sharing Images Online with Snapfish 127
Choosing an Online Image Sharing Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Creating an Account on SnapFish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Uploading and Managing Your Digital Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Adding Pictures to Your Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Editing and Deleting Your Pictures and Albums. . . . . . . . . . 135
Sharing Your Pictures and Albums with Friends and Family. . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Ordering Prints and Gifts. . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
8 Hanging Out and Making Friends at
MySpace 147
Joining MySpace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Expanding Your Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Customizing Your Profile Page's Layout and Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Configuring Your Name Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Creating a Blog and Sharing Your Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Uploading and Sharing Your Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Expressing Yourself with Your Blog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Growing Your Social Network . . . . . . . . 163
Making New Friends . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
9 Posting Your Videos on YouTube 167
Getting Started with YouTube . . . . . . . . 168
Creating an Account . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Uploading Your Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Viewing and Managing Your Videos . 175
Customizing Your Channel . . . . . . . . . . 176
Customizing Your Channel Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Changing Your Channel's
Colors and Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Organizing Your Videos . . . . . . . . 179
Sharing Personal and Location Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Embedding YouTube Videos into Your Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Embedding a Video in a Blog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
10 Staying Connected with Facebook 187
Building a Social Network on Facebook. . 188
Finding Friends on Facebook. . . . . . . . . 189
An Overview of Your Facebook Home Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Viewing and Editing Your Profile. . . . . 196
Configuring Your Privacy Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Receiving Notifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Using Facebook's Applications . . . . . . . 202
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
11 Bonus Material 207
HTML-The Language of Web Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Understanding How the Internet Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Examining How the Postal Service Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
The Internet as a Virtual Postal Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Optimizing Your Digital Pictures. . . . . 218
Resizing Digital Images . . . . . . . . 219
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222