How to build your first website (with podcast)

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Class overview
		Websites aren't magic. Planning, designing and implementing a site for yourself, your small business, your family or your model car club is well within the capabilities of any person with a reasonable amount of computer know-how. A broad range of free and low-cost tools are available to assist the novice web publisher. This class shows you how you can let these tools do the technical work while you focus on your vision. Podcast version of this class available. 198 Ratings » Read 38 reviews » Write a review

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What you'll learn

Design an effective website from scratch
Discover tips and tools to help you build a site you can be proud of
Build a website
Get your site published on the World Wide Web
Add audio, video or slide shows to your website
Promote the site and keep visitors coming back again and again

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Lessons

»	Lesson 1: Elements of a website

Building a website should be an enjoyable process. Getting organized first will help. In this lesson, you'll learn what you need to think about and plan for before you begin construction so that your site doesn't overwhelm you or become a burden in the future.

Lesson 2: Web design basics
You don't have to be a graphic design expert to build a site you can be proud of. Web designers have learned a lot over the years that you can apply to your own site design. Learn a few tips, understand some basic rules and find out where you can go for freebies to help make your design job easy.

Lesson 3: Putting it all together
In this lesson, you'll learn the nuts and bolts of website construction. Find out which tools are available for building a website, how to work with graphics, when and how to add links to other pages and how to determine what your audience is going to see and experience.

Lesson 4: Give your website a home
The web consists of an overwhelming array of an almost infinite number of websites. So where will your site go and how will you get to it? In this lesson, learn the ins and outs of publishing your site on the web, including how to find a service provider and how to choose a web address.

Lesson 5: Jazz up your website with multimedia
Often a simple text- and image-based website is all you need. However, there are instances when adding multimedia elements—movies, presentations or music—is appropriate. In this lesson, you'll determine if your site needs these elements and how to add them.

Lesson 6: Promote your website
Now that your site is posted on the web, how do you let people know about it? In this lesson, you'll learn what you can do to make your site more visible, how to make sure your site can be found easily by web surfers and how to keep visitors coming back for more.

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Instructor

Virginia O'Connor Instructor		» Virginia O'Connor 56 Ratings Virginia O'Connor knows that designing and building web pages for websites is not rocket science. An experienced technical writer, she creates web pages primarily for intranet and internal software product usage. She knows what it takes to create compelling, intriguing and useful web pages for personal websites, as well as for business websites and intranets.
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mimimimi

Nov 17, 2009