| Building a website is not unlike designing the interior | | | | despair. It is not as difficult as it looks - just do a |
| of your home.We can pay interior designers to come | | | | google with keywords like 'learn' 'tutorial' 'html' 'css' |
| out with the interior design ('id') ideas. They can also | | | | and try out some of the examples. The codes are |
| implement the ideas. They have connections with | | | | actually not too cryptic and in fact some are quite |
| material suppliers and contractors and can ultimately | | | | common sense like 'footer' 'sidebar'.A type of popular |
| package a total id design/implemenation concept to | | | | software for building websites is known as content |
| you for $xxxx..How many of us actually can afford | | | | management system software (CMS or web |
| an id or own a home that warrants the services of | | | | publishing systems). This software runs on top of an |
| an id?From young we have been familiar with home | | | | 'underlying' database and thus offers powerful |
| concepts and improvements because we visit each | | | | features for storing, categorizing and retrieving |
| other, we get ideas from the furniture shop, from | | | | information. In fact if you are reading this from some |
| media advertisements, etc. We all have our own | | | | e-magazine, the e-zine itself is running some kind of |
| ideas of how to improve touches to our home | | | | content management software. We have all |
| aestically and/or functionally.Sadly when it comes to | | | | experienced using web publishing applications one |
| website, we have been surfing here and there, yet | | | | time or another when we read the online |
| often do not have a clue about how to create and | | | | newspapers.If you think these systems complete |
| decorate our home in cyberspace. And when we ask | | | | with database, web servers and all must be |
| about the costs of building a website, it range from | | | | expensive - you are right - SOME YEARS AGO cms |
| few hundred to few thousands dollars.This is | | | | cost a bomb for any enterprise to invest. But not |
| bewildering? Sure because we got the guy who | | | | anymore. Today we have open softwares like Linux, |
| thinks you own a huge estate and offers the whole | | | | Apache and MySQL..and there are also open source |
| works complete with services of an id and full | | | | CMS available that glues everything together.Just |
| imported Italian marbles, leathers...On the opposite | | | | google for 'content management system' 'buy 'open |
| end, there are open source web software that can | | | | free' and do your own findings.Start paying more |
| be likened to an ikea-like shop except you need your | | | | attention to the look and feel of websites when you |
| own transport to cart the stuff. There are manual, | | | | visit and you will gradually develop a knack for building |
| wikis and forums to help us to put the stuff | | | | and decorating your web home like you have always |
| together. You learn to decorate and ornament your | | | | done for your brick and mortar home.Ultimately find a |
| web home DIY style of course (it's ikea!).You can | | | | level of comfort that best befits your idea of your |
| dive into the open codes and start tweaking html, | | | | web home.James NK Khoo is the owner of Qwenkay |
| xhtml or css styling files to give the site your | | | | Information a company providing support for content |
| signature - manipulating colors, combination, lining, | | | | management systems software and accounting |
| fonts, display blocks, etc. If you are a novice, do not | | | | software. |