Tutorial

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Introduction

Your First Page

Inserting Graphics

Adding Text

Extra Formatting
 
Saving Your Page
 
Your Second Page
 
Publishing
 
Uploading
 
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Introduction

Building a website for the first time can be a considerably daunting experience. HTML, Javascript and CSS can all be very alien concepts to someone who has never experienced the world of websites before. Thankfully, 350pages makes creating a website very easy, with its unique approach to site creation. Everything on your pages can be edited, customized and manipulated with just a few clicks from your mouse button – and absolutely no knowledge of code is needed.

This tutorial is designed to help you get the best out of 350pages by taking you through the steps of building the first few pages of a new site, including the planning of your website, managing your content, customizing your graphics, linking your pages together and publishing your site so that it is visible on the web.

Planning The Site

Before you begin to create your website, you should first make a brief outline of your website. For our tutorial site, we will be creating a 2 page baseball club site; the home page will give some basic information and history about the club, and the second page will be a fixtures and results page for the club’s season so far. If we were to be creating a bigger site about the club, we might wish to include another full page detailing more of the club’s history and past season results, and a roster page for the club’s current players. Basically, the more you have prepared in terms of structure and content, the easier the creation of your website will be.

Another thing to consider is how your pages will link together. With a bigger website, you won’t want everything to link from the home page. Say, for example, you wanted to run a shop section on the baseball site, retailing the baseball club’s merchandise. You wouldn’t want to have all of the items available for sale linked from the home page – it would be cleaner and more appropriate to have a single shop button that would take you to the shop page, where you could catalogue and index all of the items for sale there.

Don’t worry about planning your site right now; the baseball site that we are going to create won’t require you to think of your own concept now. However, as you are creating the tutorial site, try to keep in mind what you see about the use of colors, consistency of the pages and the way the pages are linked together.