Lab Rats - #166 - Build your own website!

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#166 / April 6, 2009 / 25:40 min.

Build your own website!

A personal web site can be a place to update friends and family on your exploits or can be a virtual meeting place for peers and colleagues. It can host your writing, music, photos and videos, it can be a place you list your professional achievements. In short, it can be anything you want it to be. The Lab Rats run us through the basics of marking our online territory, from registering a domain to posting our first content page.
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Get gDoc Creator free at:


http://globalgraphics.com/labrats



Offer: Get 25% off domain names at Hover.com. Visit http://hover.com/labrats



Domain name: The web address that points to your site i.e. butterscotch.com, tucows.com, yoursitename.com.

Domain registrar: The company that allows you to choose and register a domain name. Hover, GoDaddy, and DomainDiscover are examples of domain registrars.

- DNS: Domain Name Service or Domain Name Server or Domain Name System.

- Web hosting: A company that stores your web site so it's accessible on the Internet. Examples include Verio, PowWeb, GoDaddy, to name a few.
- HTML: Hypertext Markup Language: The code that tells a web browser how a page is supposed to be displayed.

- Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 - $399 US (US$199 upgrade).

- Page Breeze Free HTML Editor: Free Ad-Supported.

- Head First HTML with CSS and HTML is a valuable resource for beginners.

- WebMonkey: an excellent resource.

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