The aim of Virtual Training Company's Web Publishing and Publicizing tutorial is to give a thorough understanding of the concepts, tools and processes involved in creating, publishing and publicizing a web site. This tutorial includes DNS hosting with a movie each for US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand audiences. It also includes techniques for getting your site found by search engines. Author Mark Virtue focuses his teaching for those who have the desire to publish a web site of reasonable complexity, but who have little experience in doing so. If this is you, get started now by clicking one of the topics below.
Introduction
About this Course Course Layout Web Concepts and Technologies
The Internet Internet Addresses (URLs) Client-Server Architecture FTP HTML HTML Editors CGI Scripts Forms Java Javascript & VBscript Language Summary ASP Databases CSS Programs and Services Youll Need
HTML Editor FTP Client Graphics Package Site Management Package Other Programs Web Site Hosting Domain Name Registration Domain Name Hosting Search Engines
Page Design Issues
Image Types
Good Image Practices
Whitespace
Page Layout
Fonts
Font Sizes
Screen Resolution & Colour Depth
File Format Issues
Browser Compatibility
Chapter 4 Summary
Site Management Issues
Directory Structure
Links and References
Publishing Your Site
Choosing a Web Host
Information Youll Need
FTP in Web Packages
Standalone FTP
Accessing Your Published Site
Domain Names
Domain Name Overview
Obtaining Domain Names
Domain Name Structure
Registration Services
International Domain Names
Canadian Domain Names
United Kingdom Domain Names
Australian Domain Names
New Zealand Domain Names
Domain Name Hosting Revisited
The Overall Process
Search Engines
Meta tags
Optimising Sites for Searching
Submitting
Other Ranking Possibilities
Free Services
Photos and Clip-Art
HTML and Link Validation
Web Extras
The End