Microsoft expressions website correction

© 2010, Diana L Williams

Easy Steps to Creating a Website

Planning your website prior to beginning the actual creation of a website is critical.

The more planning you do prior to creating the site, the easier it is to create your site.

1. Brainstorm and decide what you need to have on your website

2. Create a ‘structure’ for your site

a. We will use Inspiration for this

b. This step may need to be repeated if you discover that restructuring is

necessary

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3. Create a folder for your site on your disk

4. Create your homepage

5. Create your folders and files for your site (based on the plan you have previously

created)

a. Note: I would have a folder for templates, style sheets, and images

i. Inside images, you may want to have a folder for backgrounds or

whatever categories you need

b. You will need to create additional folders based on your structure.

i. For example, you might want to create a folder for students, parents,

homework, etc… any area that is large enough to contain multiple files

6. Add content and links to your Homepage

7. Create Templates

a. Make sure you have your edited regions created and in place before

proceeding

b. Link Templates to subsequent pages

c. You can make whatever changes you need to EXCEPT to adding or

subtracting edited regions

8. Create Style Sheets

a. From the template, attach the style sheets

b. Note: you can change your style sheet from the template, or directly from the

individual pages

9. Add Content to pages

a. You have already attached the templates, so, the page structure should

appear on the page already

b. Add tables, info, etc….

c. Use styles

10. Edit Site as needed