This section focuses on getting your site up and running and ready for your viewers to see. This also discusses how to raise popularity and how to make it interesting using advertising and techniques that make your site interesting. This section involves no coding discussion, which is a break from most of the rest of the site...

Quick Links

• Hosting and FTP
• Further Development
• Advertising

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Hosting and FTP - RETURN TO TOP
These are two important things to making a great site. First of all it's necessary to have a domain name, so you can download your files to it. This means everything. Stylesheets, images, website source and anything that people need to access, unless it's already on the internet, so people can download it from the original site.
A domain is simply the address where the viewers can access your website from, for example, this site's domain is www.tvnznetguidewebchallenge.co.nz/conway/.

Putting a site onto the internet is much different than putting them of a computer and it requires a special program to do so. This is a FTP program. FTP means 'File Transfer Protocol', which if you can't understand their either, is stating that the files have been put onto the internet by downloading them to the site. There are a lot of good FTP programs out there, so I won't suggest any. This is because there are different programs that will suit your needs. Download.com could be able to find you a good FTP program. I personally use FileZilla, which works great and is easy to get used to.

There are a lot of sites you can get domain names off. I also won't provide links to any domain name giving sites either, as I haven't bought one off a provider. I got this domain by signing up for the web challenge. My other website domain was kindly offered to me by a friend, therefore I don't need a domain just yet. You need to check out your domain offerer first though. Check to make sure they allow all types of files, for example, some hosters don't allow .php files which are important for a lot of website features. The prices can also differ so it's best to check out what's available before you jump in.

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Further Development - RETURN TO TOP
Now that you have a decent site it's important that you manage and administrate it so it doesn't get out of hand or bore your users. Once it's on the internet doesn't mean you have to stop fixing errors. You can change it and remove problems so your site is better. There's also the choice of making newer website versions, changing the layout, colours and changing the content to make it more interesting for your viewers. You could also try adding new features, which can entertain your audience and make it easier for them to do things at your site.

You could also use the technique used in Getting Started: Understanding your Audience which can easily draw your viewers back to your site.

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Advertising - RETURN TO TOP
Advertising can play a big part if your site's popularity. There are almost countless ways to advertise your site so I won't go into that. I will go into internet advertising slightly though. There are a lot of places you can advertise your site, including search engines. Another good way to do this is to organise an advertising agreement between you and another site owner where you advertise their site and they will advertise yours. This is known as 'affiliating' and can be a simple image that links to another site to a huge banner at the side, depending on your agreement with the site.

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Well done. You should now know enough to get a site up and prepared. This is the end of my tutorial but it definitley isn't the end of learning HTML. There are millions of sites out there for you to continue learning from and I suggest you do if you really love coding as to be honest I don't feel as if I have taught you enough.
Make sure you continue learning and I would love to hear some feedback from you.
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I hope I have helped you get on your feet and good luck in whatever you develop. Thanks for reading!

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