Building a web page and uploading it to your website is actually a very simple thing to learn. Have confidence - you will be able to build a web page within the hour.

To create a web page open a text editor such as notepad. Never use Microsoft word to build a web page. You may use a web page editor which is like using word but where's the fun in that. It's like having someone drive your hot rod for you.

Once you have a new file open. Type the following...

In all examples below you must remove the red asterisk from the code --> *'s.

They are needed for me to demonstrate the code to you without having this web page actually use it. If you don't understand what I just said don't worry about it and just trust me - remove the asterisks.


<*html>
<*head>
<*title>Title of the document<*/title>
<*/head>

<*body>
The content of the document......
<*/body>

<*/html>
The above is the minimum of required tags for a HTML document to "work" and by that I mean it needs to be saved as a .html file (not .txt). You do this the first time you save the file you just created in notepad by choosing save as type..."other" and typing something like..."name.html" (without the quotes).

That will create a html out of a text file (pretty easy wasn't it?). Now that you have your web page you will need to edit it. This is as simple as right clicking the html file you just created and selecting "edit" from the menu with your left mouse button.

You will need to add text between the "body" tags. They look like this...



<*body>

Type stuff in here that you want the world to see.

<*/body>


Later you can get all excellent and add stuff like this to your web page before uploading it to the web server that will allow the world to see your cool file.

<*html>
<*head>

<*TITLE>< ------- Web Page Title in no more than 65 Characters -------- ><*/TITLE>
<*META NAME="description" CONTENT="< ---------------------------------------------- Web Page Description in no more than 150 Characters ----------------------------------------------- >">
<*META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Keyword, Keyword Phrase (It is suggested you use no more than 1 or 2 keywords or phrases per page).">
<*META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,follow">
<*META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="30 days">
<*META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="www.yourdomain.com © 2009 All rights reserved">
<*META NAME="author" CONTENT="The Authors Name">

<*/head>
<*body>
This text sits at the left by default
<*center>This text is aligned to the middle<*/center>
<*b>This text is in bold<*/b>
<*i>This text is in italics<*/i>
<*b><*i>This text is both bold and italic<*/i><*/b>
<*center><*b><*i>This text is both bold and italic<*/i><*/b><*/center>

<*font face="arial">This text is in arial<*/font>
<*font face="arial">This text is in verdana<*/font>

This text is a long sentence which has a line break at this<*br>point so that you can wrap and control the text and when it breaks to a new line.


<*/body>
<*html>

I found a really good basic explanation of some html writing skills you will need to proceed beyond this point at eBay (of all places) just now (or just type "html basics" into google).

http://help.ebay.com.au/Help/Selling/Tools/HTML_basics

Eventually I want to teach all my ODW members how to build, upload, modify and maintain a website. I use http://www.totalchoicehosting.com and am a web host and can sell domain space (which I just hog for my own use mostly) but you might be surprised to find out that all my websites including this one cost me less than $75 a month (http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/web-hosting-dedicated.html)to run and I get my own semi-dedicated server.

I wrote http://www.buickstreet.com mostly by hand (with some copy and paste of code snippets which I then modify and play with) as a labour of love. You can build a web page, add some great content, place some Advertising code and start making a little fun money (which can turn out to be quite a lot if you attract a lot of people). It's not hard but you'll need to put your fear of computer's aside and treat the internet as a treasure trove of information on the subject.

It's now possible for me to...


Think of a domain name
Check to see if it's available
Buy it
Point it to my servers
Create an account on my server
Have it resolve the domain name to my server
Write a basic web page
Upload it
And have it visible to the world...
...in about 10 minutes.

That's a handy skill to know and I'd be glad to demonstrate it in a webinar or short movie if there's enough interest.


But be warned: HTML coding by hand is addictive! It's free fun.

But be warned: HTML coding by hand is addictive!

I was going to call you a nerd, but I am equally so! Thanks Bill! That's certainly alot easier than all the other websites & information I've read about building a web page.

You're just full of it aren't ya! lol :biggrin:

You're just full of it aren't ya! lol

Many would agree.

Hi Bill
I've just started playing around building websites.I have found a great tool called DevHub.You can build your website online and they'll host it for you.Obviously nothing is free but I believe they take some ad revenue off you.Otherwise it is really easy to build a website to get started.Ive tried the HTML thing and I struggle to learn it.Main fact is I need to focus on the daytrading at this stage.

Just another idea for you all

Thanks Bill :odwrocks:

More valuable information, I love this place :1tu:

Hi Bill
Cool stuff and I'd be very interested in a webinar or short movie to learn :reading: more
please keep me informed if there's enough interest to take it to the webinar or movie stage.
Can't see why there wouldn't be!
Thanks for all the effort you put in, for us ODW's :drink-toast::fr:

seems I've replied twice

I would be keen to learn this skill Bill...:1tu:

Yes, a few others have also expressed an interest. It's not covered under my financial license so I can talk you about it all day. I'll set up a webinar and give everyone a few days notice. If we do it on a weekend in the afternoon then the US members can join in too.

This is just a cover-up for your comedy routine isn't it?? :scratchchin::applause::rofl:

I hope so, we miss you humour in the chats :clapping:

Looking forward to it Bill

Cheers :odwrocks:

:2tu: Thanks Bill, look forward to it

Thanks so much for that, we will be looking forward to seeing and being involved.
Do you still have the sandpaper? haven't forgotten and still keen, will let you know when I'm coming down to Adelaide
Hope all is well, and your enjoying yourself :drink-toast:

Bill your the man with trading and technology, a webinar on website building stuff would be awesome. Mywife and I need to know how to do this stuff as we have no idea. There is so much info out but we just dont know how to work it all out.

You are all going to trip out when you find out how simple and easy it is to build a web page. The big problem is not how to build...it's "what to build".

I also want to teach you all how to make you're own "How To Videos". They can be sold for up to $100 (unless you are showing people how to make a lot of money of course) and can be anything from "how to programme your VCR" type of videos to "How to tune your car" to "how I garden with extreme success"...etc

Nothing like waking up in the morning to more dough in your account. It's a hard slog but definitely possible and always worth it.