1. Website Planning By Alvin Tse

2. How Websites Work

3. How It Really Works

4. First Things First Choose a name Choose a Top Level Domain (TLD) –.com –.net –.org –.info –.biz – other

5. Who is this? Finding out if the domain name is taken – Just type it into the browser – Go to www.whois.net,www.whois.net http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp or http://whois.domaintools.com/http://whois.domaintools.com/

6. Housing In-house hosting – Do it yourself – Have ownership Hosting sites – No guess work (well, maybe some) – Availability

7. DIY Pros – You control the installation – Dedicated Cons – You control the installation – Resources – Availability – Security

8. Out Sourcing Pros – Systems are built for this sort of thing – Availability – Security – Free – Templates Cons – You are limited to what they have available – Costly – Shared

9. Decisions, Decisions What am I looking for this website to do – Just the facts Ma’am – Media – E-Commerce

10. Made Content Management Systems (CMS) – Drupal – Joomla – Wordpress – Dotnetnuke

11. Techies Unite HTML/CSS – http://www.w3schools.com/ Asp.net – http://www.asp.net PHP – http://www.php.net/ FLASH – http://www.adobe.com JAVA – http://www.java.com

12. Where Is Waldo? Search engines – Google http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl – Bing http://www.bing.com/webmaster/submitsitepage.aspx – Yahoo http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

13. Hosting Sites Godaddy – http://www.godaddy.com Yahoo – http://www.yahoo.com Hostway – http://www.hostway.com/ Hosting – http://www.hosting.com/