Webmaster 101 - Part 1 What is a webmaster? Back in the mid 1990's a webmaster was usually a technically minded person who was responsible for the creation, content and design of a web site. Most webmasters were people who either...
Lesson 3 - File Paths and Operating Systems One of the common issues that new webmasters face is when images and links to other pages either disappear or don't work once the website is uploaded to a web server. This is usually for one of three reasons: The...
Zip And FTP Upload In this brief tutorial we're going to zip up some files in a folder, configure an FTP program and then upload the files to a web server. You can use your own ZIP and FTP programs if you like, but for...
Lesson 2 - More Basic HTML In Lesson 1 we looked at the struture of a very basic web page as well as a couple of essentials such as line breaks, paragraphs, coloured and bold text. In this lesson we'll be looking at the rest of...
Lesson 1 - Basic HTML In this first video we use notepad to create a very basic HTML page. You need to crawl before you walk, so if you've never created a HTML page then this is a good starting point. We also look at the...
A privacy policy (or terms of service page) that doesn’t clearly name the individual or company that owns the site is 100% worthless. Think about it for a minute. The purpose of a privacy policy is to provide a statement from the site owner that details the information that the site owner may collect and [...]
WordPress 2.9 is out with a slew of updates enhancements and some really cool new features. Since WordPress made the upgrade process as easy as clicking a link I’ve been in the habit of going through all of my blogs and upgraing them when a new release comes out. New releases almost always have security [...]
What is a webmaster? Back in the mid 1990′s a webmaster was usually a technically minded person who was responsible for the creation, content and design of a web site. Most webmasters were people who either worked in the computer industry or were studying computer courses.
As the community at large became more confident, comfortable and [...]
One of the common issues that new webmasters face is when images and links to other pages either disappear or don’t work once the website is uploaded to a web server. This is usually for one of three reasons:
The image or the page that is linked hasn’t been uploaded
The HTML editor has given the [...]
In this brief tutorial we’re going to zip up some files in a folder, configure an FTP program and then upload the files to a web server.
You can use your own ZIP and FTP programs if you like, but for this demonstration we’ll be using two free programs. If you want to follow along you [...]
In Lesson 1 we looked at the struture of a very basic web page as well as a couple of essentials such as line breaks, paragraphs, coloured and bold text. In this lesson we’ll be looking at the rest of the basics that are essential to your first web page. These are:
Headings
Images
Links
Tables
(video)
Here are the URL’s [...]
In this first video we use notepad to create a very basic HTML page. You need to crawl before you walk, so if you’ve never created a HTML page then this is a good starting point.
We also look at the basic structure of a web page and how easy it is to change the [...]
Hello webmaster! I hope you’re as keen to learn as I am to teach. Over the coming months I’ll be adding lessons in just about everything you need to know in order to plan, build and develop your own website.
We’ll have a look at things like the pros and cons of designing your own website [...]
