Seeing your first web site online

Pt. 10 of 10 | 3:36 |

Create Your Own Web Site 101

Friday December 11, 2009

You've got your domain. You've got your host. You've also spent time creating your site. Now your site is online so you'll want to give it a final check to make sure everything looks good. Go through your site as a visitor and note anything that's out of place or just plain broken. Does the navigation work? Are your images slowing down page load? Got any typos? If not, you're online and all is right with the world (wide web)

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- Once your site is "live" go take a look at it.

- Check to see if text is how you want it. Make notes of anything you want to change.

- Make a note of any images you used.

- Are they too large? Too small?

- Do they need to be aligned on the page differently?

- Do you have images missing from your site?

- If so make sure they were uploaded.

- Another thing to check is the case. Websites are case-sensitive.

- That means that babies.GIF is not the same as babies.gif.

- If you find this either change the HTML code to match the file name or vice versa.

- If you wrote your own HTML code and you see problems in the site you can check your code.

Here are a few programs you can use to check or "validate" your HTML coding.

- CSE HTML Validator

- HTML-Optimizer Pro

- Make changes, fix errors, and reupload your site files.

- That's all there is to it!

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