Welcome

Posted by admin in Fresh on Sep 28th, 2011 | 1 comment

Milkshake Web Design teaches newbies to create and design their own website from scratch to finish. We will start slowly with the basic lessons such as website creation requirements and wrap everything up with basic HTML coding.

To create a website, you need to learn its non-technical and technical aspects. Knowing these things can help you build your website to its full potential. The non-technical aspects will serve as your master plan on building your website while the technical aspects will tell you how you are going to build it. Read on to learn more.

Non-technical aspects

The non technical aspects of your website is basically information on what your website is all about and thus knowing these information will guide you in building your website. This serves basically as your master plan for your website creation.

1. What is it for? – You are creating a website for a reason and not just because you want to. Concentrate on that reason so that you can be guided on what to include to your website.
2. What to include to your website? – If you know what your website is for, you can now decide on the functions and contents that you need to put in it. For instance, if you are a teacher or professor and you want to make a website for your students so that they can access lessons from the internet, then you know that you need to include in your websites the topics that you want to discuss. You may need to include images, videos and the likes to conduct your presentation.
3. What it looks like? – The theme of your website should go with the contents and purpose of your website. This will give the readers a comfortable feeling while reading your contents. A good example is creating a website about love and relationship and putting heart designs, cupid and flower images and the likes. By simply looking at the images, you will know what the website is all about but if Batman and Robin images are there, then you might think it is Batman and Robin’s official website.
4. What skills you need to learn to build it? – Now it’s time to figure out what you need to learn to build your website. The most basic skill that you need to learn is HTML. You may choose not to learn basic HTML and use website creation tools. If you decide to use website creation tools, then the skills of using it is what you need to learn.The problem with using tools is that good tools normally comes with a price tag and some of them still requires basic HTML knowledge.

Non-technical aspects

The technical aspects of your website are basically technical information and skills that you need to know and learn about so that you can your website. To begin with, let’s start with discussion of some technical terms.

3 things that you need to completely set-up your website

• Web pages – Your website is composed of several web pages. Web pages displays data that you want to be seen by your audience. You can include media files, plain text or video files in your web pages. To create web pages requires technical skills such as basic HTML. Click here to learn more about HTML.
• Domain name – Domain name is the address of your website in the internet (yoursite.com). This will tell your audience where your website is located in the internet. There are website domain provider out there that provides free use of domain names while other website domain provider will charge you for a fee.Example: Milkshake.com, Google.com,Yahoo.com are all domain names.

• Web Host – is a company that provides space for your web pages and the files that you need to associate with it. You need to upload your files to the web host so that your website can be accessed through the internet. Without uploading your web pages, your website will not be visible online and thus nobody will be able to access it.Normally, web hosting and domain provider comes in package so this usually comes with a cheaper price. Normally, web hosting and domain provider comes in package so this usually comes with a cheaper price.