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Web Designing Tutorials(Sitemaps)

A sitemap is a list of all the pages on your web site. In addition, a sitemap can list other resources on a page, such as images and videos. You can also add information about how often a page is updated and when it was last changed. A site map can be submitted to search engines, and ensures that all the pages are referenced and crawled.

You can create a sitemap yourself using XML, but this is very complex and time consuming. The easiest way to create one is via free sitemap generators. Here are two such sites:

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp

Once your sitemap is generated you’ll have an XML file that you can upload to your web space. Place it in the same folder as your index.html web page – the root folder, in other words.

Web Designing Tutorials(Pay Per Click Advertising)

If you can’t wait for the search engines to crawl and rank your site, then you can sign up for something called pay-per-click advertising. As its name implies, this is when you pay for somebody clicking on your advert and then coming to your site. The market leader here is Google’s Adwords. When you sign up for an Adwords account, you get to bid on keywords and phrases. You decide how much you are willing to pay per click, say 20 cents. You then write a few words of copy for your ad (“Thousand of Black Widgets on Sale”). Your ad will appear on the right of the search engine results in Google. You can also pay a premium and have your ads appear at the top of the page, inside a coloured background.

Google is not the only game in town, here. Microsoft’s Bing and the Yahoo search engine have teamed up to run a pay-per-click campaign called AdCenter. This is more-or-less the same as Google’s Adwords, except your ad will appear on Bing and Yahoo’s search results.

Web Designing Tutorials(Search Engine Optimisation)

In this section we’ll take a look at what you should do to get your web site recognised by search engines. However, bear in mind that the goal of a good web page is quality. You should not be writing your articles for search engines but for people. If you care about what you’re saying and care about your audience then this will be far superior to someone just trying to make a fast buck.

META tags

A category of HTML tags that you can add to the HEAD section of your web pages are META tags. META is short for METADATA, which means information about the data on your web page. An example is this:

This META tag has the attributes NAME and CONTENT. The NAME attribute can take a lot of values, but it is used in conjunction with the CONTENT attribute. In the example above, the CONTENT is describing what the web page is about. Because the CONTENT is a description of the page, the NAME value is “description”.

Web Designing Tutorials(What to look for when buying Web Space)

The websites of Web Hosting companies can be a minefield of jargon. Here are some of the things to look out for

Disk Space
This is how much space you get on the hosting company’s server. Obviously, the more the merrier, here. But it’s highly unlikely that you’ll need a Gigabyte of disk space, unless your web site contains lots of large images or videos. But the average site won’t even be 50 megabyte in size never mind 500 megabytes. So don’t just base your decision on Disk Space.
Data Transfer
This refers to how much download activity occurs on your site each month. (Data Transfer is also known as Bandwidth.) Say, for example, that each page on your site is 10 kilobytes in size (pretty small, these days). If 1000 visitors come to your site each day they will be downloading 10, 000 kilobytes of data, or 10 megabytes. Multiply that by the number of days in a month and the data transfer will be about 300 megabytes a month. If the Web Hosting company you sign up for only allows 100 megabytes of traffic each month then they will cut you off when that limit is reached. Your site will then be down until next month.

Web Designing Tutorials(Websites and Domain Names)

To get your site on the internet you’re going to need some web space. For most people, and certainly beginners, this means something called Shared Hosting. What you’re basically doing here is renting a folder on somebody else’s server. That “somebody else” will be a Web Hosting company who either own the servers themselves or are acting as a middleman for the company that owns the server (called a reseller).

The size of the folder you get on the server will vary, but is typically between 500 megabytes to a Gigabyte. This is usually more than enough. In fact, 100 megabytes is usually more than enough. If, for example, each web page on your site is 10 kilobytes, a 100 megabytes means that you will have room for about 10, 000 pages.