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INTRODUCTION

WELCOME TO HOW TO CREATE A WEB SITE! Web sites have many different purposes, ranging from a small personal web site, to a large e-commerce (shopping) web site, or even a social network web site with billions of users.

So what is a web site, anyway? Many web sites are written in three different programming languages named HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. When you put all three of those languages together, they form a web page. When you put several web pages together under a single domain name, you can create a web site.

ABOUT THIS BOOK

In this book, you learn how to build your very own web site. There are a few items you will need in order to become a junior webmaster:

❯❯ A computer running a modern version of Windows, Mac OS, or Ubuntu operating system
❯❯ A reasonably fast Internet connection
❯❯ A modern web browser, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox
❯❯ A Google (Gmail) account
❯❯ A plain old pencil and paper

As you work through each project, keep in mind the following writing conventions:

Code and web addresses are in monofont. If you're reading this as an e-book, you can click web addresses like http://www.dummies.com/ to visit that web site.

A WORD ABOUT COPYRIGHT

What is copyright? It means that someone has created a “thing” and only that person is allowed to use that “thing” unless the person gives permission to someone else who asked for it.

Luckily there are people and organizations who enjoy sharing their work. Photographs that are allowed to be shared (or redistributed) are usually licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (https://creativecommons.org/).

Some computer and web software is free under a license called “General Public License” (or GPL for short). This software is called “open source,” meaning that anyone can use or manipulate the source code any way he or she wants.

Copyright and intellectual property law is a serious issue and there are legal consequences for using other people's work without their permission. I encourage you to read more about copyright on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright). I also ask that if you use a photo, video, or text from another web site, you list your sources (just be sure you are allowed borrow this content!) either in the footer or on a special page on your web site. If you have any questions about copyright, ask an adult to help you find out more.

ABOUT YOU

Every junior webmaster needs to start somewhere, but this book assumes that you have the ability to

❯❯ Type on a computer, use a mouse, and follow directions.
❯❯ Have an email address and Google account. Several of the projects in this book require you to sign up for a (free) account to access services and tools. Please get an adult’s permission first!
❯❯ Not be afraid to fail. Nobody is perfect, and not a single person became a web professional without first making (lots of) mistakes.

Finally, spelling and formatting is important. Computers are really powerful, but they are actually pretty dumb and very picky about how their instructions are written. If a computer can't understand a command, it won’t know what to do and nothing will happen. You may need to spend some extra time working through spelling and formatting errors.

ABOUT THE ICONS

As you read through the projects in this book, you'll see a few icons. The icons point out different things:

This icon points out tips that can make your projects run more smoothly.
This icon alerts you to information that you'll want to remember.
This icon marks important information that you can use to avoid common pitfalls when coding.