Transcript Building a Basic Website

Building a Basic Website
Fayetteville Free Library
January 4, 2011
Agenda
Planning your website
• blog vs website
• cost
• purpose
• audience
• content
• email
• logo/images
Choosing a site host
• free
o Weebly
• low cost
o Fat Cow
o Go Daddy
o Yahoo!
o joining forces
• domain name?
o necessary?
• packages
o Vista Print
Blog vs. Website
Blog
• free
o Blogger
o Wordpress
• update as needed
• no stagnet pages
• no set domain name
o ex. library demo blog
Website
• can be free or low cost
• can incorporate a blog
• can have a domain name
of your choosing
o cost for domain
o cost for hosting
o consider working
together
Planning your website...Cost
• cost
o is it worth the price?
o do you have the skills?
o drag and drop options
 Weebly
 some services offer drag and drop
 templates are nice but constrain content
Planning your website...Purpose
• purpose
o why do you want a website?
o what do you want it to do for you?
• audience
o who are you wanting to reach with site?
• content
o get it ready
o know what each page will be used for
• email
o does your site come with an address? will you use an
existing one?
• logo/images
o copyright issues
Free Sites
Example:
Weebly
easy to sign up
you choose name, but free site has weebly extention
can use a domain name you purchased
free site:
http://librarydemosite.weebly.com/
also will help purchase a domain name
Free & Low Cost Sites
Weebly...continued
We make it easy for you.
No setup whatsoever 50 email addresses
Visitors are forwarded to your new domain
Blogging
Weebly Site Creator
Hosting Full ownership and DNS control
1 Year $39.95
2 Years $33.95/year (15% discount)
5 Years $29.95/year (25% discount)
10 Years $24.99/year (37% discount) (Compare to $394.63 at GoDaddy)
Other options
Fat Cow
Go Daddy!
Yahoo!
1to1.com
• Depends on how much
work you want to do.
• How much control over the
design to you want?
• Do you want to have Pay
Pal?
Wordpress.org
The best of both blogging &
websites
Can be installed from most
web companies (Fat Cow, Go
Daddy, Blue Host)
Easy to use
Has stagnant pages
WordPress is web software
you can use to create a
beautiful website or blog. We
like to say that WordPress is
both free and priceless at
the same time.
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Basic Web Design Tutorial
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HTML Tips
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