How I Created My Own website

These are the steps I followed to create this web site. You may freely use them to create your own website, or as a guide before you try it yourself. If it works for you, send me an email and let me know and I'll add a link to this page pointing to your site.

Buying DNS Entries

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Hosting services:

joker.com
yahoo

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Getting a Hosting Service

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nearlyfreespeech.net

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Setting Up DNS Records to point to your new site

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www subdomain comments

Creating Content

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adding an image to the location bar
embeded images - photoshop elements, save-for-web
page counters - I don't have this working yet
guest books - I'm leaning toward setting a blogger account and linking to comments there

Validating the html on your website:

validator.w3.org

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Adding Google Advertising

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https://www.google.com/adsense

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Promoting Your Site

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tell google
register under the yahoo direcory
siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
submit your site to the ODP Open Directory project

Add a google sitemap:

This is a Makefile snippet that you can use to create a sitemap.xml file

PAGES += $(wildcard *.html)
PAGES += $(wildcard */*.html)
SITEMAP = sitemap.xml
SITEMAPGZ = $(SITEMAP:%=%.gz)

$(SITEMAP) : $(PAGES)
    @-rm -f $@
    @echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' >> $@
    @echo '<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">' >> $@
    @for name in $(PAGES) ; do \
    m=`stat --format="%y" $$name` ;\
    echo "<url><loc>$(URL)/$$name</loc><lastmod>$$m</lastmod></url>" >> $@ ;\
    done
    @echo '</urlset>' >> $@

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Tracking Your Site

raw weblog
cgi web access

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