The previous part of this tutorial can be seen here.
If you open up index.html from the last tutorial by double clicking it, you will see nothing but a blank page in your web browser. In this part of the tutorial, we’re going to fill that page with some of our content.
First, we’ll concentrate on the text elements of the page. [Read more →]
If you haven’t read the first part of the ‘Build Your Own Site’ Tutorial, you can read it here.
Every website is built upon a foundation of code that rarely changes from site to site.
So let’s get started. Right-click on your desktop, choose New, then Folder and call it ‘mysite’ (or whatever you like!). Now double-click the Notepad2 icon on your desktop. From the top menu choose File, then New; a blank screen will appear. Again from the top menu, choose File then Save As and in the text box below, type index.html. Navigate to your newly created folder and click Save. You should now have a index.html file inside your new folder. [Read more →]
The purpose of these tutorials is to help people who are curious about the whole aspect of building their own website. I’ll do this by walking you through how I built ‘Ben Hall Garden Services’.
While giving away free tutorials may seem to contradict the whole idea of my business, I find that there are lots of people who contact me for advice on web design/development in general and this is my way of hopefully answering some of the more common questions that I’m asked. [Read more →]
In this article, I’ll run through some fairly standard forms of SEO that will help your site acheive better organic results in the search engines.
<meta> These sit inside the <head> tags at the top of your web page. They aren’t visible to people viewing your site but they are picked up by the search engines. There are lots of meta tags that can be put on your web page but the most important one is Description. [Read more →]