Ok, so you finally pulled the trigger and signed up with a webhost, got a domain name and now you’re ready to get your fancy new website up and running… So what platform are you going to use? Did you just look at me like I fed you a spoonful of worms?
Well lets start with what a platform is. Just like the word implies, it is what your website will sit on. There are many platforms out there ranging from plain old vanilla HTML web pages to using WordPress blogging software to fancy Content Management Systems (CMS) like Joomla. Here, we’ll discuss each of these platforms and briefly explain what they are and how they work.
HTML FILES:
HTML files are the great grand daddy’s of the internet. HTML is short for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the original idea that gave us the ability to click on words (links) and have them take us to other pages and to make a page appear on the internet.
With HTML files, you manually write each page using either a plain text editor like notepad if you know HTML code or you can use a program like Expression Web which allows you to create a web page like a Word document by simply typing and dragging and dropping. Whichever way you use to create the page, when you’re done you save the page as a .html file and then you upload it to your website.
If you have a site that isn’t going to change often and isn’t going to be very large, HTML can be a simple solution, especially if you are using a program like Expression Web, which does all of the coding for you. You simply type the content you want, drag and drop pictures and files onto the page and then program generates the HTML code for you.
HTML can also be nice since you don’t need any other software or special configurations to make it work. You can literally save a copy of your website and Continue reading ‘Choosing a platform for your website’
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