creat your own website Description 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. It's just point and click! INTRODUCTION As the popularity of the Internet and the World Wide Web have risen since its beginningsin the early 1990s, virtually all businesses have established an online presence. Many individuals, too, have left their imprints on the web, creating a website for their family, or posting pictures of their vacations. 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!    1.       Family websites—With a family website you can share pictures of you and your family with friends and members of your extended family.    2.       Hobby websites—A hobby website allows you to share your hobbies with others who have similar interests.    3.       Community websites—With a community website your church, club, bowling team, or other group or association can post information, schedules, pictures, and other pertinent information.    4.       Online storefront website—Sell products online by accepting credit card payments with an online storefront site. In addition to showing you how to build your own websites from the ground up, this book also includes four chapters on how to use existing web applications to quickly create common websites. Specifically, you'll see how to:     *       Sell products at eBay Stores—eBay Stores are a quick and easy way to start selling products online. With eBay Stores, your products are listed on eBay.com and payment processing is handled for you by eBay. You simply list your products for sale and ship them when purchased!     *       Publish content online with a blog—A blog is a type of website designed to allow a user to quickly and easily publish content online. Blogs are springing up all over the World Wide Web, used by both individuals and businesses alike.     *       Share your digital pictures—You've just gotten back from your vacation to Tahiti with gobs of digital pictures. How do you easily share these beautiful pictures with your friends and family? Digital picture sharing websites make it easy to upload your pictures, share them with select friends and family, and order prints.     *       Create a Homepage on MySpace—MySpace is one of many "social networking" websites, where visitors can stay in touch with friends, meet their friends' friends, and make new social contacts. In addition to maintaining and growing your network of friends, MySpace makes it easy for you to create your own web pages, post pictures, share music, and host a blog. Whether you want to build your own, unique website or use a pre-existing web application, you'll learn everything you need to know to start building your own website today with this book. Get ready to see just how fun and easy it is to create your very own websites! cd not included

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