Create Your Own Website [With CDROM]

by Scott Mitchell

Book Overview

Finally - creating a website is as easy as using a word processor! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672330024
• ISBN13: 9780672330025
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Create your own website.

I bought this book because of the reviews. Haven't had a chance to read yet.

Create Your Own Website

The product arrived on time and I started reading it right away. I appreciate the full color, it made for an easier read. It was helpful for a beginner as myself.

Great Book

Very easy to understand and it has been very helpful in creating my own website.

Own Website/Online Business

Received both these books within 5 days of ordering -- excellent resources - thanks for the variety of selections to chose from --

Fun to Read, Accurate to the Max.

Reading this book allows someone to create five different styles and types of Websites by walking the reader through accessing Composer and desired templates, altering the text, color, and photos to personalize each Webpage, obtain a host provider, register a domain name, and publish each Webpage to a Web server. * Chapter 1 introduces the basic functions of what a browser and Web page are, while showing the reader how to down load a free software program provided with the book. * Chapter 2 describes the logistics of setting up a public location for viewing Web pages on the Internet by locating a host provider. * Chapter 3 discuses customizing a Family/Personal Website template by using Composer like any other word processor, adding or deleting pages, and saving with a URL to the same folder located on the reader's computer. * Chapter 4 continues with detailed items in "Creating a Hobby Website" by scaling images, changing existing hyperlinks, adding rows, discussing anchors, and the effect they have on sharing information with Website viewers. * Chapter 5 "Creating a Website for an Organization" introduces obtaining a map from the Internet to replace the templates generic sample, offering email access to customers, and providing additional tips. * Chapter 6 "Creating an Informational Website for Your Business" shows how to customize color within cells, add tables for creating coupons, and setting navigational hyperlinks. * Chapter 7 "Creating an Online Storefront" deals with how to implement an e-Commerce Website by merging with "Creating Paypal Merchant Account" Website. With this tool, advanced programming skills that are typically required to create a shopping cart, a means to accept payment, and the functions of using forms for transferring users from one Website to another are eliminated. This lifts those advanced tasks off the reader and transfers them onto Paypal's Website in exchange for a small percentage of the product profit. * The Bonus Chapter goes into more depth covering specific topics, like HTML, Understanding How the Internet Works, Domain names, and Optimizing Your Digital Pictures. Throughout this book, the author highlights topics that have been covered in Shelly Cashman's "Discovering Computers" text book. One is how the Internet works. Scott Mitchell relates the Internet to the U.S. post office and adds a picture that gives a simple analogy for beginners. I appreciated the comparison, and could visualize the delivery process of digital information clearly (Mitchell 130). The second item introduced in chapter 2 explained the concept of bandwidth. Mitchell shares very practical information related to space and cost that should be considered when choosing a host provider. The nominal comparisons made corresponding to bandwidth gave me a better appreciation for this concept. The title "Create Your Own Website Using What You Already Know" very accurately describes what to expect out of the contents and functionality