HW#1 How to establish a website? . Do research and find the procedure and techni

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HW#1 How to establish a website? . Do research and find the procedure and technical solutions on how to establish a website by yourself without having your own web server. Make powerpoint slides (NOT a report!) to explain the details. - Make the slides by yourself, not by a team! Submit your slides to the Blackboard only! Warning 1: Technical details are ABSOLUTELY necessary for each step, For example, do not just state like: "Step 4. Get planned domain name registered." How and where to register your planned domain name? Present as much tech detail as possible! 9 - In addition, you MUST list at least TWO commercial companies that - Warning 2: Make the sentences on your slides concise and short! Use provide domain name registration and web hosting services bullet with itemized short sentences! Do NOT write a long paragraph!! - Due Date: TBA 50 Dr. Li EMT2455 2 to search

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To establish a website by our own, we need 9 main things needed.
1.Domain Name
=>A Domain Name is the first thing that comes in mind when we think of a website.
=>Hence this falls on top of the list.
=>It is the digital address that is used to connect to your website.
=>eg : www.google.com is the domain name for the search engine google.
=>There are many domain name providers outthere in the market.
=>Some popular domain name providers are GoDaddy,NameCheap,Bluehost,HostGator,Hover,Gandi,Dreamhost etc.
=>There will be monthly,quarterly and yearly plans which are available in these sites.
=>We can choose any of these providers and check if the domain name we want is available and choose the plan and register the domain name.
=>There are even free domain names available in some of the sites.
2. Business Email Address
=>An email address is very important for a business. And it should be more formal.
=> An email address is very useful in growing the business and attract new customer.

3.Website Building Software
=> Next comes the website building Software.
=>There are many softwares available readily to build a website for free.
=>Without much effort, websites can be created even if we dont know the coding.
=>Wordpress,Wix,Squarespace, Weebly are some of the popular web builders
Wordpress
1.It is the most flexible website builder.
2.We can customize our website however we want.
3. It provides many themes from which we can choose for our website.
4.It provides many widgets which can be customized as well.
Wix
1. It is the best all-round website Builder that provides most of the features in drag and drop.
Weebly:
1. It is the easiest to use of all the web builders.
2.Even a beginner can handle it easily
Squarespace:
1. It is specialised in design and make really good custom designed websites.

4.WebHosting
=>Web hosting means a place where the contents of the website is stored.
=>Hence is the utmost important thing next to domain of a website.
=>Many of the sites which provide domain name also provide free webhosting.
Why hosting is needed?
=>When a user types in your website domain and enters, the web browser fetches the content from the website host.
=>There are 4 types of hosting and we can select it depending on the number of visitors/traffic to the website.
Shared Hosting:
=> In shared hosting a server is shared with other websites.

VPS Hosting:
=>In VPS hosting, the server is shared but more capacity is given to handle more visitors.

Dedicated Hosting:
=>In dedicated hosting , a seperate server is provided and no need to share.

Free Hosting:
=>Free hosting is provided for fully managed drag drop website builders such as wix.
Advanced Hosting(For Wordpress)
=>If the website is large and demands higher loading speed and end to end support then WP-Engine is used.
=>It is a fully managed hosting provider where they handle the security and software installation also.
5.Website Template Design
=> A Website template is a fully readymade website design that creates a professinal looking website.
=>It helps us to create a website quickly and economically.
=>The website builders discussed above, provide the website templates by themselves where we can select depending on our plan.
6.Logo Design
=>A logo is very important for any business/ website.
=> The logo should be attractive and catchy.
=>Logos can be created using logo generator.
Squarespace logo Generator:
=>It is a free logo generator where we can create free logos.
TailorBrands: It is a paid logo generator.

7.High quality images for website
=> Another necessary thing for the success of a website is the images of the website.
=>Images displayed in the website should be crystal clear with high resolution.
=>Some tools are again there to build high quality images.
eg:Unsplash, Bigstock.com,Shutterstock.com,500px.com, GettyImages.com
8.Image Editors
=> Image Editors are used to crop, rotate and resize images for it to look professional.
=>Some of the popular image editors are Photoshop, BeFunky, Pixlr, PicMonkey.
Photoshop:
=>It is very expensive and difficult to use.
=>We need to learn photoshop usage and its time consuming.
9.Google Analytics
Need:Google Analytics is a data analytics tool which gives the details of how users visit your website.
Uses:=> It gives details of how many users visit your website.
=> What is the most visited page in your website.
=> How much time do they stay in each page.
=> What page they might visit next etc...

Conclusion: By the details provided by Google Analytics, we can improve our website and know which page to be imporved. What is their interest in.. etc

Please copy the above in seperate slides to form a powerpoint presentation.

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