Making The Website

Before you start Making a website you should at least know some Html, for the time being - great places to learn html are www.w3schools.com, you do not need to know absolutely everything but at least having a go at the basics is a good idea and will help you! If you already know it then you do not need to worry.

Making the site can be rather easy if you know how but if you are starting from scratch there is a couple of things that could go wrong which in here some would be explained.

Note: This may not apply to all web hosts especially if you are using a free host.

Now that you have your web host and Template you are ready to make your website!

If your website will take a while to be finished or you will have lots of web pages then you might want to do a couple of things before starting out.

(this will hopefully disable search engines from indexing unfinished webpages until your website is ready to be indexed properly, if you don't care or you want your website to be indexed as fast as possible, skip this step)

First add this code to all your webpages (that you create) between the first <head> and </head> before the <body> section. 

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

- here's an example of how it should look: 

<html> 
 <head> 
 <title>your page's title</title> 
 <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> 
 </head>  
 <body>

Also you should password protect your webpages for extra security since some SE (search engines) will not really follow these rules, a guide to how to do that will be made soon.

Now that that's gone, you can begin making your website, add your slogans, pictures and content.

you should also have a meta tag, meta tags are not that important but will make your website look better in SE (search engines) when you website is ready to be indexed. (That is if you want to be indexed if not just keep the: <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> code)

Meta tags are the description that search engines show about your website to the public, it also tells search engines what keywords need to be looked for so that your website comes up in a search. (if you misuse keywords that have nothing to do with your website, you will most likely be punished or banned from SE) you should not use more than 20 keywords or phrases in a meta tag and your description should be 1-3 lines long.

Here's an example of a Meta tag:

<html> 
 <head> 
 <title>your title</title> 
 <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Your keywords and 
phrases here, seperated by a comma, do not write 
the same keyword more than once, you can use it 
in another phrase thought, eg, website, 
creating a website, is fine">

<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="your description goes 
in here, do not make it too long.  ">
 </head>  
 <body>

You should also have a title(titles are extremly important when it comes to search engines indexing your website and getting search results higher, a good title can make a big difference to how your website developts), as you can see on the examples above the title also goes in between the first <head> tags, the title is very important and also it looks better in SE (search engines) to have one then to not have one.

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<title>Your title</title> this is the code you must add in between the first head tags of your website.

Almost everything else is up to your website's content and template and your imagination, more things will be added here soon.

Good software for making banners, editing pictures and so on are photoshop (not free) and GIMP (free).