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Web Site Production by A T Services Are you wishing to have your first Web Page? At A T Services we can take the effort, helping you achieve your first Web Site. We offer two forms of service: We can host a page for you under our exclusive All Together Service (this would be the most cost effective way to have web exposure), or; We can set-up a wholly new site specifically to your needs. If you would like to look at our All Together Service please click here, alternatively if you would prefer a unique web site please read on. (Please note this service is not for sites already running or for corporate level sites requiring secure encrypted utility, i.e. electronic payments and accounts handling.) There are several steps that
have to be undertaken in order to create a new web site: ·
Find
a suitable, unused, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) ·
Obtain
the rights to use the URL ·
Establish
space, called a Domain, on a server for the URL ·
Write
a web page (or several pages) ·
Preview and thoroughly
check the page(s) for technical errors ·
Upload the page(s)
to the server ·
Registering with Search
Engines Clicking on each of the above will move you to additional information. A
T Services can undertake all of the above steps for you at a very reasonable
cost. The main expense is in the design of your web page. For us to provide
the design is an unpredictable time and cost. This cost can be greatly
mitigated if you can establish the design yourself and provide the design on
paper or word processor document. You would need to have available files of
digital photographs and drawings, etc, to be used and files of the text. Our price for the seven steps to a web site is £260 plus
typesetting. The cost of typesetting will be proportional to the size of
the web site. We charge £0.10 per photograph, £0.01 per word and £0.05 per
link. For example this page has 1200 words and 17 links, and would
cost from £273 to establish on the World Wide Web (£13.00 to typeset and
£260.00 for web site administration plus communication costs which are
unpredictable). The ownership of the site (pass-words, etc) would be passed
to you upon receipt of payment. The
cost of designing web pages can vary greatly, please contact us for advice. Please go to AT Services for contact information A URL, Uniform Resource Locator, is the address of pages of text and pictures that form a web site. The URL has several components some of which will be unique to you. The most common form of URL begins http://www. The http stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol; this is the communication method that forms the basis of interlinking the world’s computers forming the World Wide Web (the www in the URL). The next characters are the Domain Name and are to be selected by yourself; it could be your personal name or a business name, or an entirely made-up name. The URL and Domain Name of our site, A T Services, is http://www.a-t-services.org.uk/. As you will see your computer has recognised this string of characters as being a URL and, should you click on the characters, will send your browser to our home page held on the server domain of this name. The .org.uk component in the URL indicates an organisation in the United Kingdom. Finding a suitable Domain Name that is not already owned is the first job of establishing a domain for your web site. Buy the
rights to a Domain Name Once you have found a suitable, and available, Domain Name the next step is to obtain the rights to use it. This is done via licence payment every one or two years. If the payment is not maintained the rights to the URL fall, and it is open to someone else to obtain if they wish. You can transfer the rights to a Domain Name if you wish: you may well have secured the rights to a Domain Name that someone else wants passionately; under these circumstances the right to the Domain Name becomes a tradable commodity. You now have your URL. The next step is to establish a domain on a server that will provide the space for your web site. The World Wide Web is formed from a great many interconnected computers. These computers are called Servers; they provide the service we call the World Wide Web. Servers are very big computers when compared with the average home computer. For an annual fee space is made available on a server for your web site, the amount of space you get is proportional to how much you wish to pay. However even an inexpensive domain will have a great many megabytes available for your web pages. This is the interesting bit. You will have in your mind an idea of how your web site should look; getting this idea transcribed onto your domain can be quite tricky. You can have many pages or just one page if you wish; indeed for some applications one page is preferable to many. The limit on how much you can have on your web site, be it one page or many, is set by the space available on your domain. Lots of photographs at high resolution will take up a lot of space. It is always advisable to limit the file sizes you use to that which is just enough to achieve your goal. People browsing your web site will want to be able to easily navigate your site both within a page and between pages. Good planning during the design will anticipate the interlinking required. Once you have written and checked its “human” elements for errors (spelling, and navigation etc), the web site should be examined thoroughly using a browser; make sure all of the links work, the page set-up is correct, alignments, etc. Only now should the page be put to the server. Transferring, uploading, your web pages to your domain are done using File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is a universally agreed communication protocol for the World Wide Web, your web files will be sent using a FTP program to the server. Once your web files are on the server they (should) be able to be seen by anyone using a browser and looking at your URL. Registering
with Search Engines In the fullness of time the search engine crawlers will find your web site, it however can take a long time; the crawlers have an awful lot of web to crawl! You can offer up your page to the crawlers list; this gives the crawler a head start on where to find new pages. Each search engine does this differently; some are free and others there are charges. You can also pay to have priority positioning on the search engine’s results page, this can be very useful, especially if you are using the web as a part of your business. |
