Outlining
the Type of Website
Let us begin with the purpose of your intended website. The reason this
must be thought out at the beginning is to enable you to plan for development.
Depending on the purpose, it may also mean you have to do a lot more
research!
For simplicity, let's assume there are three basic types of web site:
the hobby site (this includes family sites, genealogy, etc.),
the information site, and the sales site.
The
Absolute Minimum Required
The absolute minimum
requirement on a domain is an index page and a text editor such as notepad.
This will have the url:
www.anydomain.com/index.html
When a browser locates
a domain, it automatically searches for a page called, index.html. If
it cannot find index.html, it searches for index.htm.
If index.htm is unavailable, the browser will display the contents
of the folder in tree form as a set of hyperlinks to whatever is contained
within it.
Index.html is therefore,
your most important page. It can be a short or as long as you like.
There are no limits or restrictions so long as it contains the basic
html elements which tell the browser how to display it.
To give you an idea of just how simple HTML is, I have created
a page called
the-most-basic-webpage.htm (opens a new window). To create the page,
I used:
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