Building a Web Site

The steps:

• plan the web site
• create a folder to hold the web site and all its graphics
• create a generic page
• save the generic page as each page you plan on creating
• add content to the pages
• add links between the pages

Planning - The Storyboard

Planning a web site first can save you lots of time. Even a simple plan will help. A graphic representation of a web site is called a storyboard. A simple storyboard will tell you:

• how many pages you want to create
• how they are connected to each other
• roughly what goes on each page
• what the filenames of the pages are

If you know WHAT you are trying to build, you will find it easier to build it. In particular, deciding in advance how many pages there will be and what their filenames will be makes creating the blank pages very easy. If you know how many pages and what to call each one, you can create a web site of blank pages in minutes.

A typical storyboard showing the number of pages, how they are linked, and the filenames.

Note the actual planned filename under each page.