Network Designer to create a site

If you are going to make a simple site, the free mass service is quite suitable for you hosting, which provides its customers with not only disk space, but also simple templates and tools that allow you to set up a “workshop” directly on the Web and, as a designer, “build” your own website. The service is provided free of charge, except for the use of the Network during the development process and the fact that someone else’s ad will be displayed on your site. As an example, consider one of the most popular resources in this class, which is located at http://www.narod.yandex.ru/ (Fig. 4.18).

 

 

 

Fig. 4.18. The workshop section offers services for creating, editing and managing a site

 

Briefly dwell on the main stages of the formation of the site. First of all, you will be asked to take a name for a new site, which will look like: your_name.narod.ru. Here your_name is your choice and not taken by another user.

After registration, you can go to the "workshop", where you will be provided with many templates for creating different thematic pages: "My main page", "About me", "My interests", etc.

You can create a home page in just a minute. Such quick work is possible due to the fact that professional designers have already developed typical options for the "cover" of the site. You only need to choose a color and style, write what your site is about, and identify the main links.

If you get tired of the current design over time, click the "change design" button and select a new template - the design will automatically change.

Following the main page, just as quickly, you can make a page with your resume or brief information about yourself. There are a variety of templates for this. If you are not satisfied with the templates that the system offers, you can use a simple set of tools and create your own design. Without leaving the workshop section, you can access the HTML code of your page, however, it is hardly advisable to create your own design using network tools.

Ready-made templates exist not only for creating a primitive site like "Me and my dog" - a convenient designer allows you to create a company website in a matter of minutes using the special templates "Business Page" (a business card of the company) and "Price List".

When the page is ready, it can be placed in the directory, having previously determined the category in which users will search for it. In addition to the site, you are offered free mail with an address that matches the site name. This is convenient enough, because remembering the name of the site, your customers will know how to write to you.

Even in the "workshop" you will be offered access to files using the FTP protocol, the ability to place a guest book and a hit counter on the site, so you can find out how often they visit your page and what they think about it. In addition to templates, the resource www.narod.ru offers a number of services. For example, the "Questionnaire" allows you to collect data from site visitors (applications for participation in the conference, proposals for the development of the site, answers to tests, etc.).

In conclusion, we note that there are a large number of servers on the Web that offer you free hosting, for example www.boom.ru, www.hut.ru and many others.

Website submission quality

Studies show that users read Web pages more fluently than printed materials. Only 16% of users read every word when browsing a web page.

Reading from a computer screen is tiring for the eyes, and the worse the monitor, the more this effect is manifested.

Because Web information is interactive in nature, it makes people no longer able to read text from beginning to end. And this is intuitive, because life is not enough to read all Web pages in full. Therefore, a person not only grabs individual pages from a Web site, but also pulls out individual words from the page.

Instead of reading the pages to the end, a person tries to grasp on each something something most valuable.

Long, unformatted text is that part of the web page that is not noticed.

Thus, Web pages need to be written so that they are easily absorbed by fluent viewing. To do this, use:

• foreseeable volume;

• highlighting keywords;

• expressive subheadings;

• lists with markers;

• one paragraph per idea.

Proper formatting makes the reader trust the information. This is especially important when the reader is initially unaware of who is behind a particular resource.