Brief Guide To More Advanced Web Design For BeginnersHaving created your basic site you will no doubt wish to expand it's capabilities.The sky's the limit really but we don't have the scope to get very deeply into it here so the best thing to do is research it yourself. However here's a few basic guidelines to help. Adding other pages to your site: You can create other pages in the same way as previously described as long as you give them a different name of course. For eample a Contact page which you might name 'contact.html' You can link your 'index.html' page to the contact page by adding a text link like this to your index.html code: <A href="advanced.html">Contact Us</SPAN> To change how this actually looks on the page you would add some code to the CSS page as previously described. Adding a Contact form: There's many ways to do this and very many free bits of software to choose from so we will leave that up to you although would recommend PHP as it's pretty secure and relatively easy to configure. If you choose that method then you need to remember to save any pages involved as a .php and not a .html (Your host must always be capable of handling PHP but most are anyway.) Shopping Cart? For a secure shopping cart you can find many very involved free software codes for whole sites which may suit you although they are pretty complicated. An easier method to just connect to your existing site is a free shopping cart facility available at www.mals-e.com If you get a PayPal account set up you can then just integrate it with the cart and you are ready to go! Displaying many products: Again there are many freeware products available that will give you the whole thing in a box but to do it yourself we'd recommend the easiest method as PHP linked to MySql. It sounds complex but if you work your way slowly through it you will soon get the hang of it and it's a robust enough system to handle several thousands of products fairly quickly. Beyond: Beyond the above comes much more advanced coding such as ASP etc. Unless you are extremely enthusiastic we'd advise leaving that to the experts but if you want to go for it you'll find everything you need somewhere on the web - no need to attend university, it's all available by googling, good luck! |
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