Category: Create a web site
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Step 4: Configure the Apache server
Oops! This one is certainly more thoroughly complex than the rest of the steps of this “creating a new web site” tutorial. More positively, usually, you do not need to take this step. In my personal case, for the creation of the Lexyk.com dictionary web site, I needed to add a small specific helper. I…
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Step 3: Connect web space and domain name
Essentially, after renting some space from your web hosting company, only this company and you know where your web site is hosted. Nobody else has this key information. Even more important, the company your hired to provide this information to the rest of the Internet (the registrar you hired to provide Domain Name Service –…
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Step 2: Rent web publishing space
After reserving a domain name, your web site does not really move yet. You need to have some space where to put your data (your text, your images, etc.). Usually this is a space rented to a hosting company. Note: It is true that you could buy this space (instead of renting it); You would…
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Milestones in pro blogging
Blog-Republic.com/ has an interesting article by Darren about what should be considered as Realistic milestones of professional blogging success. It’s setting (or asserting) what you, the serious blogger, should expect in order to reach more and more serious levels of blogging. I agree completely with the figures (for example, 1000-5000$ of annual earnings as a…
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Step 1: Get a domain name
If you want to create a new web site, the first step is to get a domain name. For the example I’ll use in the coming tutorial, Lexyk.com is the name of the domain I’ll use for a dictionary web site I am currently creating. Without it, no visitor will ever find your web site…
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WordPress statistics – Follow-up (Google Analytics)
I previously presented here my opinion about several tools to collect statistics for a web site (Alexa.com, Performancing metrics, Webalyzer). Then, I started by writing about the existence of Google Analytics, the still-in-beta-test offer from the American search engine giant. But I could not test it because Google did not provide an invitation to the…
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Search in blogs
I am not sure this is a priority for the normal Internet web user, but blog authors may appreciate the recognition brought by Google with its specialized search engine for blogs: Google Blog Search.
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IE7 is on us, let’s prepare our sites
I need to look into this quickly now that Internet Explorer 7 is seriously ready to reach all of our PCs. There will be news, there will be chanes and uour web sites may suddenly break down because of that. For it, RegDeveloper offer its help with an article on preparing your web site for…
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Web site: 8 mistakes to avoid
It’s not only that when creating a web site you have to make it as easy to use as possible, but these things seem not to change with time. WebMonkey gives us a fine list of these mistakes no web designer should allow himself: Links that don’t change color when visited Breaking the back button…