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    My Website At Last! The Essential Guidebook To Basic Web Design Unleashing Your Creativity At No Costs
    My Website At Last! The Essential Guidebook To Basic Web Design Unleashing Your Creativity At No Costs
    My Website At Last! The Essential Guidebook To Basic Web Design Unleashing Your Creativity At No Costs
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    My Website At Last! The Essential Guidebook To Basic Web Design Unleashing Your Creativity At No Costs

    By Michele Sanvico

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    «I wish to set up my own website, my own way. I'd like to invest no money at all. Where can I start from? And how can I do that?»
    This ebook provides an answer to all these questions.
    We are not going to use neither Office Word nor WordPress, not even specialised sites such as "1and1": our website shall be precisely as we imagine it, without using "templates" and with no locked graphical solutions. Text blocks and images shall be placed just where we wish them to be, not courtesy of the tool we make use of. Because this is our site and we want to create it the way we like it.
    In addition, we wish to introduce changes in our website, when and where we want to. We want to be given a full "hand-on" capability, in total freedom and without asking for permission to anybody.
    We want our site to be properly rendered on a PC, on a smartphone, and on any other handheld device like a tablet. And we want to be in full control as to what to render, and how.
    Finally, we want to spend no money. In fact our site is just the very beginning of a personal journey across the web: if revealing itself a success, then - and then only - we will invest our money in it.
    «Yet I definitely am not a computer nerd! How can I achieve all that?»
    Sure you can! We will achieve that together with a step-by-step approach, keeping the tech jargon to a minimum and sticking to the essential, with extensive use of "cut and paste" operations from this guidebook.
    So, no programming classes: by cutting and pasting code chunks, everybody will be able to build up their own site, right now and with no need for further insight, by simply learning how to place text blocks and pictures where it is required within the web page.
    From a technical standpoint, we will design a very simple website, including no HTML tricks, advanced CSS formatting and complex Javascript coding. And yet, our site will be ideal for showcasing and spreading our views or selling a product or service, without turning to expensive business services for web development and management.
    All the examples and methods presented in this ebook are easily replicated at will: you will be able to customise all the available code chunks to create your own site, with your graphical settings, your preferred images and your edited text: you will just have to change the instance code provided in the ebook, pasting it where you wish, and you will achieve all your goals!
    So let's start creating together our own website!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichele Sanvico
    Release dateOct 22, 2016
    ISBN9781370969845
    My Website At Last! The Essential Guidebook To Basic Web Design Unleashing Your Creativity At No Costs
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    Michele Sanvico

    Michele Sanvico was born in Perugia (Italy) in 1967. After completion of his degree in Physics, he participated in an astrophysical research programme using some of the world's largest telescopes. He is married and has two children. He lives in Rome since 1992. He worked for many international companies including Finmeccanica, Marconi, Alcatel-Lucent. He writes novels and nonfiction, both featuring an elegant, refined writing style.

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      My Website At Last! The Essential Guidebook To Basic Web Design Unleashing Your Creativity At No Costs - Michele Sanvico

      FOREWORD

      «I wish to set up my own website, my own way. I'd like to invest no money at all. Where can I start from? And how can I do that?»

      This ebook provides an answer to all these questions.

      We are not going to use neither Office Word nor WordPress, not even specialised sites such as 1and1: our website shall be precisely as we imagine it, without using templates and with no locked graphical solutions. Text blocks and images shall be placed just where we wish them to be, not courtesy of the tool we make use of. Because this is our site and we want to create it the way we like it.

      In addition, we wish to introduce changes in our website, when and where we want to. We want to be given a full hand-on capability, in total freedom and without asking for permission to anybody.

      We want our site to be properly rendered on a PC, on a smartphone, and on any other handheld device like a tablet. And we want to be in full control as to what to render, and how.

      Finally, we want to spend no money. In fact our site is just the very beginning of a personal journey across the web: if revealing itself a success, then - and then only - we will invest our money in it.

      «Yet I definitely am not a computer nerd! How can I achieve all that?»

      Sure you can! We will achieve that together with a step-by-step approach, keeping the tech jargon to a minimum and sticking to the essential, with extensive use of cut and paste operations from this guidebook.

      So, no programming classes: by cutting and pasting code chunks, everybody will be able to build up their own site, right now and with no need for further insight, by simply learning how to place text blocks and pictures where it is required within the web page.

      From a technical standpoint, we will design a very simple website, including no HTML tricks, advanced CSS formatting and complex Javascript coding. And yet, our site will be ideal for showcasing and spreading our views or selling a product or service, without turning to expensive business services for web development and management.

      All the examples and methods presented in this ebook are easily replicated at will: you will be able to customise all the available code chunks to create your own site, with your graphical settings, your preferred images and your edited text: you will just have to change the instance code provided in the ebook, pasting it where you wish, and you will achieve all your goals!

      So let's start creating together our own website!

      1. WHERE TO PLACE YOUR SITE IN THE WEB

      To begin with, we must select a place in the web where to store our site.

      A simple and easy solution is Freewha (Free Web Hosting Area), a web space that provides free hosting services featuring no compulsory advertisement. In the future, we may decide to easily move our site to more advanced web hosting services, such as HostGator or 1and1.

      To register our new website, for instance with the name www.mywebsite-atlast.orgfree.com, perform the following steps:

      in your browser, go to the site www.freewha.com

      in the Free subdomain hosting box, insert your desired name, for instance 'mywebsite-atlast' (with no quotes), then select the subdomain name 'orgfree.com' and press the PROCEED button

      in the next screenshot, insert a valid email address and choose a password

      tick the service agreement terms checkbox and press the CREATE button

      A welcome page will be displayed with all the information you need for use in the next chapter (important notice: copy the info shown under the Your Personal FTP Information headline, we are going to use it very soon!)

      Now the web space for the new site www.mywebsite-atlast.orgfree.com is already up and running. Try and insert the name of your new site in your browser: a standard page will appear with the message New Account, upload your files!

      We are not going to use the tools provided by Freewha in their panel. We will work with a set of tools of our choice. So for the time being let's leave the Freewha site and proceed right to the next step: how to communicate with our new site.

      2. HOW TO SEND FILES TO YOUR WEBSITE

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