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Anyone Can Build a Web Site! I'd like to think I am quite experienced, but actually, considering the vast knowledge that I have never been trained in, I'd have to consider myself to be just above the beginner level. I know how to navigate, but I am....

Anyone Can Build a Web Site!

Posted on 3rd Jan 2008

There are many levels of computer "savvy". I'd like to think I am quite experienced, but actually, considering the vast knowledge that I have never been trained in, I'd have to consider myself to be just above the beginner level. I know how to navigate, but I am untrained on the technical science of the World Wide Web.

Although I have spent thousands of hours in front of my keyboard and monitor, searching, absorbing and creating, I still have no scholarly knowledge of HTML (hyper text markup language), or things like CGI, Perl, Java script, or other computer programming languages.

All I know is that I love to build and design websites, and I love the idea of all of this vast knowledge, available at my fingertips. My father is curious about computing, but feels utterly overcome by the thought of owning a personal computer. Being one who only types with three fingers, he is convinced that he would become frustrated by the availability of virtually "everything" and his inability to obtain it fast enough. He thinks he is too old to learn "shorthand" for the keyboard. One friend of mine can turn on the computer, get online, get to her email, read and delete it, then becomes instantly lost. If she types anything into her browser window, she has no idea how she got to where she ended up or how to get out of it. Another example is my daughter, thirty years younger than I am, experienced enough to know technical computer terminology, and so fast with the mouse that the computer freezes up within minutes of her signing on. Just when I think I know something that she doesn't, she snickers with delight, and lets out a "Gees Mom, Duh!" that embarrasses me the rest of the day. Progress increases a hundredfold from our standpoint and throughout the computer literate, the certified, trained and the accomplished. My point is, that anyone of us could build an elementary web site after an hour of dialing up, logging on, and getting to a free server or host to begin the building process. Many URLs (web site addresses) offer free space and some offer design-ready templates; all you need to have is a plan. That will be your title? How many pages would you like to have? What are your sub-topics?

I have spent thousands of hours in front of my keyboard and monitor, searching, absorbing and creating knowledge of HTML