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 * My semester Break Video **

**There are many different ways to build a webpage, but before you build a webpage, we need to: **
 * 1) Define your objectives (what is your purpose to build this webpage)
 * 2) Design your web pages (brainstorming what your webpage about)
 * 3) Download an HTML editor from the web (There are free HTML editor to download. If we cannot find free editors, there are some editors need to pay and it is around USD 4 per month)

**We need to find a suitable web hosting provider ** · Standard Web hosting · Dedicated hosting · Virtual hosting · Shared hosting · Collocation

**Domain name ** We can choose to put up a site on free hosting or paid for a domain name. The purpose to have domain name on your webpage is to provide extra branding for your site which is kind of advertising, and people will be easier to remember our webpage. The domain name costs around USD 8 – USD 35 per year.

**Plan your webpage ** What content we build, what we are focusing, but we need to have preparation before this step.

**Structure your webpage ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">We can add hyperlinks into our webpage; the purpose to have hyperlinks is to take the visitor to another page or another web site. However, the hyperlinks need to be full address; otherwise, your webpage may crash accidently. Moreover, web page file names should end with ".html".

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Build your website page by page ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">After decide what content are in the website, we can start to build it page by page. There are four sources that we should familiar with: · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Design Basics is the elements of good design and how to use it on websites · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">HTML is the building block of a webpage · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">CSS is to build how the pages look · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Web page editors

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Web Graphics ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">If we want our webpage to have good vision to visitors and being unique, we can go online to search how to make out web graphics

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Test the webpage ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Before you publish to public, we should test the website and confirm everything is in good conditions.

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Publish your website ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">First we need to learn how to upload the webpage; we can upload the file on web browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer. Also, we also can use FTP software to upload as well. We should test our webpage again after uploading to make sure that its functions run properly and all information are correct. We can also try on other computers to ensure the graphic files are being read from the server.

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Promote your website ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">You can promote your website by word of mouth, email and advertising. We can put our email in our webpage in order to let visitors to leave some comments. We can also promote our website through search engine optimization. However, most major search engines need to be charge if we add our URL on the search engines

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Maintain your website ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Website sometimes crash in different situation. So we need to learn how to solve problem, how to use browser cam to review our website, how to not getting unblocked

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The following information is to give an idea how to monitor the web traffic and this is referenced from **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">[] **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Monitor Web Traffic ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">It is very important to statistically track visitors to your website. Web tracking software provides a wealth of information about website visitors that can help you improve your web content, navigational structure and "stickiness". Good information will help you formulate great strategies that will ultimately lower your costs and increase your revenues. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">A good hit tracker provides answers to the following types of questions:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">From which countries did my website visitors come from?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Which search engine did they use to find my site?
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Which words or phrases did they search on?
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Which sites and URLs are sending me traffic?
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">How did my visitors navigate through my site?
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Which of my pages are the most and least popular

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