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Most web hosting sites offer you long lists of features, many of which you will not need or are actually part of the process anyhow. The aim of
All of these have something in common—the desire to communicate and share information.
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  It is possible to host a web site on your own computer, but for security and resilience (needs to be up all the time) reasons this is rarely done. So, you choose somewhere like  to host your web site for you. This can be done in text code such as XHTML or more usually with an application such as Adobe Dreamweaver to help work more visually with text and pictures. The more complex things such as animations and calculations are done using Adobe Flash or Javascript. The important thing is to have a clear plan of how things are going to look and work on paper before doing any work on a computer. Only then is it sensible to produce the code and upload it to your web host. It is quite easy to find web page templates on the Internet to adapt to your site if you want to take a short cut. is more than happy to put people on their way to producing a useable simple web site. Feel free to ask. Now how will people find your site? The easiest way to have your site registered in a memorable way is to assign a domain name to it. This is a relatively simple, cheap thing to do using your hosting company. Your site can then be discovered more easily by search engines such as Google™ and Yahoo!™ For home users and clubs it is quite |
possible to produce a presentable website by this "hands on" method. Things get a little trickier, however, if you want to include shared calendars, booking systems, updatable stock lists and so on.  This is where "server side" activity is required. Most commercial web sites are now "dynamic" and driven by databases that present the information the user wants to see. This is how Amazon, e-Bay and shopping comparison sites such a Pricerunner and Dealtime work.If you are a commercial organisation seeking a "dynamic" site or the ability to sell on the web, then can also help. We specialise in database driven web-shared applications and e-commerce. We also have the skills to design with web site you need. If you want the blow by blow technical information about what we do, here it is:
The team hope this helps you better understand the web. Call us if any doubts or further questions. |
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