Building a Website

I recently designed and built a website as a gift to my sister on her birthday. I have studied HTML, CSS, and XHTML, but the process of actually doing is different then just reading about a topic. So to say the least, it was an experience. An experience in a very good way because this broadened my horizons and my knowledge of the web more than ever before. If you are reading this and you have never built a website, I strongly encourage it especially in the technological world will live in today.

Doesn't it seem that everyone has a website these days? Yes, almost definitely and if you don't you should at least own the domain of your name if you can get a hold of it so that one day you can do something with it.

Anyway, my sister is a hairstylist in Scottsdale, Arizona and I thought that it would not only be a great gift for her birthday but also a great way for her to build up a broader clientele. If your in your own business, I just simply feel that you need your own website for a larger audience to connect to you.

The process of putting it all together to build the site:
Fortunately for me, I had a good friend of mine who is studying to be a graphic designer help me build the template for the site. I then used Dreamweaver and Photoshop to construct the pages of the site. Again, I am not an expect in this field but I do have a very strong interest in web design so the work was fun and challenging in a good way for me. After the site was designed and built within Dreamweaver (not that I will ever stop tinkering with it though), I began researching what company I wanted to host it for me. This process was quite an ordeal but I eventually settled on GoDaddy because it is inexpensive, reliable, and well known. I had bought the domain I wanted to use previously from GoDaddy so the process of setting up a hosting account was fairly easy. Next I uploaded my files of the website to my GoDaddy's hosting site and wham mo! My website is now up!

The overall process in building this website was fun, educational, challenging, and certainly frustrating to say the least but at the end of the day I can now say I'm very happy with the results - plus my sister was ecstatic and overjoyed when she found out :)

Her website is: www.kortnikayharting.com

If you'd like to learn more about this process or your curious about doing it yourself, please feel free to contact me.