BUILD A WEBSITE
Intermediate Multimedia Content Google Websites
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A reference portal for students, mentors, and ATL in-charges. Data has been filtered & names have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals.
What is a website?
A website is a page or a collection of pages on the world wide web that are used to communicate information to the visitor. A website may use a combination of text, audio, video, and images to communicate with the visitor.
What’s the purpose of a website?
Different websites have different purposes, but all of them provide information relevant to the topic of the website. A school website may provide information for prospective students and their parents to get to know about the school. A business website may provide information about products & services offered by the business entity, a government website may provide information related to citizen services, a personal website may contain information about a person, his/her education, profession, hobbies, accomplishments, innovations, etc. Social media websites such as Facebook allows users to view content shared by other users, as well as post their own content; an online e-mail website such as Gmail or Yahoo allows users to send and receive e-mail.
How to build a website?
Building a website involves four aspects:
Identifying and organizing the information to be presented on the website including text, photos, videos, audio, etc.
Creating the web pages
Hosting the web-pages on a Web Server, a software that serves web-pages to those who access the website
Running the Web Server on a computer connected to the Internet
There are several website builder tools available today that makes it easy for one to build web-pages, and host the web-pages on a Web Server.
What are the tools that can be used to build a simple website?
There are many tools available to build a website - from simple to complex. Google Sites is one of the simplest web-site builder tools available that anyone can use to build a website in just a matter of minutes. There is no need to learn software programming to build websites using Google Sites website builder tool. It allows you to create web-pages, host the web-pages on Google's own Web Server running on the Internet. Your website will be instantly accessible to anyone on the Internet.
Adobe Spark is another tool that allows you to create beautiful web-pages, but it is not suitable for creating a web-site having multiple web-pages. Wix is another web-site builder tool that is more complex than Google Sites, but provides many features and functionalities that are not available in Google Sites.
One can also build websites by programming in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), a web programming language, hosting their own custom Web Server software on their own computer connected to the Internet. However, there is a lot more involved. In this course, we will learn how to build a simple website using Google Sites website builder tool.
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