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Jun
19th

Going in a different Direction and Building a Website without HTML

Author: Editor | Files under General Website Information
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If you are the one who had wanted to have a website of your own for long period of time, but have go scared just because of lack of knowledge of HTML, but you will be able to still have happy home on web. It is very simple. The first and foremost thing that you will need to know is that according to the belief, you will not need to know about HTML to own a site on web. In fact, building a site is pretty easy and it can be even done a by a child.

The first thing that you will need to know about building A Website without HTML is that of the type of the ‘host’ or ‘web host’ that you will need to look out for a site host along with a website editor. These website editors are called as editors, WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”), site builders, template builders or even as site editors. The important thing that you need to know is that you should no go with the free hosters as they will put up their advertisements on your WebPages. Some of the companies do provide with easy sitebuilder but they do not allow you to get the freedom of having your own domain name, add-free webspace or the full control over your website. Several of the paid hosting companies’ offer easy site building and it is available cheaply for as low as $2 pr month or even less.

If you use the non-free site hosting, then you will be able to use your domain name, can use professional email address, can install the different scripts on the site and many more things can be done. Than the sound, it is very much easy to do.

The foremost thing is to purchase your own domain name when you want to own a website. On the internet, there are different registrars. Some of them would recommend some companies but however in the Google search for the domain registration would give lots of options. If you have purchased the first domain then you will have to purchase the website hosting as well. Do check out for the web hosting companies that will provide you reasonable rates with great service. Once you have purchased the web hosting, then you will get the information from the web hosting company that will have your new nameservers. By yourself you will be able to set up your own nameservers by just logging in to your domain account and however it may be pretty easier to call the web hosting company that you have purchased the domain name from and can ask them to modify the nameservers for you.

At once you have set up your domain’s nameservers and then the rest of the work is pretty easy. Go to the control panel in your website and then login into the editor which you would want and then start building the website without HTML. Later publish it into your voila and directory as well. Now you ill have your own domain name and very own website with full control over it.


May
11th

Creating the Web Design Portfolio without Job Experience

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Nobody will get the job if it requires the experience in that field. This is called as catch-22 in most of the industries. Luckily, you need not have any job experience to create the web design portfolio and here you can create your own experience by doing the projects. If you use the projects that you have done, that can itself translate into the paying jobs so that it means into more of the portfolio jobs. So, if you are starting out as a freelancer, you need not say that you do not have any portfolio, instead making use of the suggestions mentioned below; you can create your own portfolio.

Your own Website
So if you have decided to get in to the profession of Web designing, then you need to have a website of your own. This is done because till didn’t have any job that were paying you, so by creating a website, you will not have the problems that are faced by the experienced web designers. When you are spending your time on creating and improving the website, here you are not only improving your business but also you are improving your portfolio as well.

Do remember that you website doesn’t have to be a portfolio piece. Just think of different things that you have built for your website and here make each design a portfolio piece. Do include the details like
Home page, the custom 404 pages, the Contact forms, any of the CMS templates you have built and even the entire portfolio page.

Personal Web Projects
Do build your personal websites. The sites should be very much attractive and this site may be the site for your pet or etc. by seeing the site, you may get the paying web design works where you can earn decent income for you.

Do take the online tutorial or a class
There is no conditions or riles against using your class work as the part of your portfolio. By taking the class, you will learn on how to do or create something new and will help you to improve your portfolio as you will be growing.

Create Pages on you website for some of the Imaginary Clients
Things such as a page to sell the products or the annual report page can be put up on your website. As long as you are able to tell your clients that these are all the samples and are not the live designs, there is nothing wrong in showcasing your skills and will thus improve your portfolio.

Modify Templates in your web design
There are several free web templates that are available that are useful for building the WebPages. Without modifying these templates would not be very good for your portfolio.

The portfolio that you choose should be the best of all
Remember that, you’re creating the portfolio is to showcase your best output. So do not add something that you have created in order to increase the size of your portfolio. So do choose the best portfolio as much as you can.