Product Description

A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 0672330024 ISBN-13: 9780672330025

6 Easy Projects in full color

Family or Personal Website, eBay Store to Sell Products, Online Storefronts, Websites to Share Images, Blogging Websites, Creating a Profile on MySpace

Get ready to see just how fun and easy it is to create your own websites!

As the popularity of the Internet and World Wide Web have risen over the past decade, virtually all businesses have established an online presence. Many individuals, too, have left their imprint on the web, creating a family website or posting vacation pictures. If you want to join the millions of people who have created websites, but fear you lack the background or expertise for such an endeavor, this book is for you!

Understand how to:

• Create websites that can be as easy as using a word processor
• Share your family pictures with friends and relatives
• Start blogging with Blogger
• Sell products and services online by creating your own web storefront
• Create an eBay store
• Make new friends on MySpace

6 Easy Projects

In this book you’ll see just how easy it is to create your own website. The CD included with this book contains professional website templates and a free web page editor. With the web page editor you can quickly and easily customize the templates into your very own personal websites. Better still, using the editor is as simple as using a word processor

It’s just point and click!

CD-ROM includes:

• HTML templates for quickly creating your website
• Mozilla Composer, a free HTML editing program

Introduction

1 Creating Your First Web Page

2 Creating a Website

3 Creating a Family/Personal Website

4 Creating an Online Storefront

5 Selling Products with an eBay Store

6 Creating a Blog with Blogger

7 Sharing Images Online with Snapfish

8 Hanging Out and Making Friends at MySpace

9 Bonus Material

Index

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #244638 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover

6 Easy Projects in full color

Family or Personal Website, eBay Store to Sell Products, Online Storefronts, Websites to Share Images, Blogging Websites, Creating a Profile on MySpace

Get ready to see just how fun and easy it is to create your own websites!

As the popularity of the Internet and World Wide Web have risen over the past decade, virtually all businesses have established an online presence. Many individuals, too, have left their imprint on the web, creating a family website or posting vacation pictures. If you want to join the millions of people who have created websites, but fear you lack the background or expertise for such an endeavor, this book is for you!

Understand how to:

• Create websites that can be as easy as using a word processor
• Share your family pictures with friends and relatives
• Start blogging with Blogger
• Sell products and services online by creating your own web storefront
• Create an eBay store
• Make new friends on MySpace

6 Easy Projects

In this book you’ll see just how easy it is to create your own website. The CD included with this book contains professional website templates and a free web page editor. With the web page editor you can quickly and easily customize the templates into your very own personal websites. Better still, using the editor is as simple as using a word processor

It’s just point and click!

CD-ROM includes:

• HTML templates for quickly creating your website
• Mozilla Composer, a free HTML editing program

About the Author

Create Your Own Website is author Scott Mitchell’s seventh book, his others being: Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days (Sams); Designing Active Server Pages (O’Reilly); ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code (Sams); ASP.NET Data Web Controls Kick Start (Sams); Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 24 Hours (Sams); and Teach Youself ASP.NET 2.0 in 24 Hours (Sams). Scott has also written dozens of magazine articles, as well as over one thousand online articles on his website, 4GuysFromRolla.com.

Scott’s non-writing accomplishments include speaking at numerous technical user groups and conferences across the country. Scott has also taught numerous web technology classes at the University of California–San Diego University Extension. In addition to teaching and writing, Scott also is a software developer. He works as an independent consultant and has authored and sold a number of commercial software applications.

Scott lives in San Diego, California with his wife, Jisun, and dog, Sam. You can learn more about Scott at http://www.4GuysFromRolla.com/ScottMitchell or at his blog, http://www.ScottOnWriting.net.

Customer Reviews

Not very useful - in fact, quite misleading
What you can learn from buying this book is that being lazy and buying books like this won't make you a web site.
The only useful thing from this book is that it hints about the existence of a free Web design program called SeaMonkey. Now, if I had bothered myself to search Google with the words "free web design program" I could have learned this fact for free.
Anyway, the book starts promising - you type some text and then change some words to italic and bold, and also you learn how to change the colour of the text. Wow! Divine knowledge.
Then, for some reason, the author assumes that one page of boring text on white background (just like a MS Word page) with some words made italic and some bold, is fine enough for a web page and proceeds with the publish lesson. Or maybe he got bored and decided to skip a rather large portion of information.
In the next chapter you learn that the there exist things like web-hosting companies, (which may come as a total shock to you) and these companies will host your site for a small amount of money. Seriously, at some point I expected to see entire chapter explaining that there exist such thing called Internet.
So, the publish lesson ends quite quickly on page 43 and the author is now free from the burden of explaining how to create your own web site - something I think he also hasn't quite mastered. But he still has 205 pages to fill. So what does he do? He goes on explaining how to register in the most popular Web sites, like MySpace, YouTube and Facebook and how to use free services like blogs, photo libraries and EBay stores. Yes, you heard right - he made a book about creating an account at and using these sites. I didn't know whether I should laugh or get angry.
Nice job, Scott Mitchell, I bet you're laughing all the way to the bank - after all even I, who consider myself smart enough not to fall into such traps, bought your book.
In conclusion - this book maybe very useful to you, if you are someone who compares signing up at a popular web sites to quantum physics, or if you are the sort of person who needs a book on how to use a fork and a spoon when you eat.
One star, for hinting about the SeaMonkey program.

A great start!
This book was what got me into website design and development about five years ago. Its easy to use and read and the free software is a great start to building - although the software is free anyway from Mozilla. Some people, like me when I bought this book, don't want to mess about learning to code in order to create a cheap and cheerful website and its great for that. Only for REAL beginners but detailed enough to lead me onto coding as a career ironically enough. Also has a good chapter on Paypal Intergration which means this book has the potential to give anyone the tools to create their own on-line business. It would get four stars but gets five for nostalgic value.

Create Your Own Website
The computer really has changed our lives. It seems like everyone is hooked up to the Internet. Today, most businesses have websites and a growing number of people are joining social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook.

Getting your own website, setting up a blog, or sharing your pictures on Snapfish might sound rather overwhelming if you aren't very computer savvy. Fortunately, Create Your Own Website can take you through the options, help you select something that suits your needs, and then help you build a website, register with Ebay, or get a Facebook account.

Of course, there are plenty of beginner create a website books on the market. However, most assume that you'll want to build a website from scratch using html. Not everyone wants or needs to do so. Create Your Own Website provides options, and a CD with the simple to use SeaMonkey's web building software.